JBA
@allingj.bsky.social
I have a library card. I loved Twitter. I tolerated Threads. I could never get the hang of Instagram.
At the fish store today, purchasing bread, I handed over my phone to the sales clerk to use Apple Pay. They apologized for invading my privacy by checking out what was playing on my phone, and then applauded my taste in music. #lifeofashowgirl #taylorswift
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
At the fish store today, purchasing bread, I handed over my phone to the sales clerk to use Apple Pay. They apologized for invading my privacy by checking out what was playing on my phone, and then applauded my taste in music. #lifeofashowgirl #taylorswift
Pharmaceutical companies need to stop spending money on tv advertising and start bribing insurance executives. Because insurance denies the medications that are advertised it seems like they could take out the middleman and save money. #insurance
August 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Pharmaceutical companies need to stop spending money on tv advertising and start bribing insurance executives. Because insurance denies the medications that are advertised it seems like they could take out the middleman and save money. #insurance
Health Insurance companies are setting us against each other. A simple trip to the pharmacy becomes a battlefield because insurance denies a medication that a doctor has prescribed. The frustration on both sides is palpable. #singlepayer
August 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Health Insurance companies are setting us against each other. A simple trip to the pharmacy becomes a battlefield because insurance denies a medication that a doctor has prescribed. The frustration on both sides is palpable. #singlepayer
Yesterday I brought my 17 year old to GP for annual back to school form signing. I’ve been managing school forms for 25 years. Yesterday was the last time. I thought I was disproportionally happy and then I realized how much mental energy they required and I accept being joyful. #mentalload
August 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yesterday I brought my 17 year old to GP for annual back to school form signing. I’ve been managing school forms for 25 years. Yesterday was the last time. I thought I was disproportionally happy and then I realized how much mental energy they required and I accept being joyful. #mentalload
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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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I don't want to hear "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CARE ABOUT KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES" from any Democratic politicians again until they ACTUALLY TELL EVERYONE WHAT THE PLAN IS.
Universal healthcare? Universal childcare? WHAT AND HOW?
Universal healthcare? Universal childcare? WHAT AND HOW?
July 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I don't want to hear "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CARE ABOUT KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES" from any Democratic politicians again until they ACTUALLY TELL EVERYONE WHAT THE PLAN IS.
Universal healthcare? Universal childcare? WHAT AND HOW?
Universal healthcare? Universal childcare? WHAT AND HOW?
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social Just finished Abundance and I highly recommend to all of us lefties.
June 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social Just finished Abundance and I highly recommend to all of us lefties.
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Your country needs you to fight back—now more than ever.
And you can do it by telling 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 story here: ofthebrave.org
Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.
And you can do it by telling 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 story here: ofthebrave.org
Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.
June 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Your country needs you to fight back—now more than ever.
And you can do it by telling 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 story here: ofthebrave.org
Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.
And you can do it by telling 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 story here: ofthebrave.org
Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.
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Pretty impressive work by the Republican House to pass a budget bill that both takes health insurance away from 10.9 million people AND increases the national debt by 2.4 trillion dollars. Today’s GOP: less health and more debt!
June 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Pretty impressive work by the Republican House to pass a budget bill that both takes health insurance away from 10.9 million people AND increases the national debt by 2.4 trillion dollars. Today’s GOP: less health and more debt!
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That would be awful. Don’t share this.
May 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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Taylor Swift officially owns her entire body of art.
I’m absolutely elated for her.
I’m absolutely elated for her.
May 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Taylor Swift officially owns her entire body of art.
I’m absolutely elated for her.
I’m absolutely elated for her.
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Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.
The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...
May 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.
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Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
🤦🏼For the past month I’ve described a former colleague as a twisted version of Dickens’ Bartleby the Scrivener. Though the allusion works, the attribution is wrong. Bartleby is Herman Melville’s creation. Thus I have undercut my attempt at seeming erudite. #booktok
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🤦🏼For the past month I’ve described a former colleague as a twisted version of Dickens’ Bartleby the Scrivener. Though the allusion works, the attribution is wrong. Bartleby is Herman Melville’s creation. Thus I have undercut my attempt at seeming erudite. #booktok
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someday we are all going to feel bad that it was the stupid that killed us all . . .
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
someday we are all going to feel bad that it was the stupid that killed us all . . .
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It’s not just incorrect, but the opposite—the antithesis—of habeas corpus for the president to have the unfettered, unreviewable “right” to cast people into exile in the torture chambers of foreign autocrats.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s not just incorrect, but the opposite—the antithesis—of habeas corpus for the president to have the unfettered, unreviewable “right” to cast people into exile in the torture chambers of foreign autocrats.
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They are so dumb. So very, very dumb.
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
They are so dumb. So very, very dumb.
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This is horrid. Either she doesn’t know or she knows and this is a vicious lie. Neither is good. 👀⚖️👇🏾
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is horrid. Either she doesn’t know or she knows and this is a vicious lie. Neither is good. 👀⚖️👇🏾
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This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?
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It seems like the head of the Department of Homeland Security should know what habeas corpus is. Especially since it is a pillar of the Constitution, the WH Policy Director has said publicly that they may suspend it, and DHS will have to enforce that. bsky.app/profile/atru...
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It seems like the head of the Department of Homeland Security should know what habeas corpus is. Especially since it is a pillar of the Constitution, the WH Policy Director has said publicly that they may suspend it, and DHS will have to enforce that. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
-Hannah Arendt
-Hannah Arendt
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
-Hannah Arendt
-Hannah Arendt