Bob Schlesinger
@bobschlesinger.bsky.social
Three interests -- and my wife would say my only three -- baseball (SF Giants), politics, and film. My heroes: FDR, Willie Mays, and Groucho Marx! Lifetime New Yorker.
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Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
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Serious question. Bondi said the other day that there were "disgusting" tapes of children being abused. Has anyone questioned her further? If there are recordings, it seems to me that a client list could be culled by identifying the rapists.
July 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Serious question. Bondi said the other day that there were "disgusting" tapes of children being abused. Has anyone questioned her further? If there are recordings, it seems to me that a client list could be culled by identifying the rapists.
The best!
The Breslin book really cracks me up.
July 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The best!
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Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate
Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate
Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
June 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate
Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate
Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?
For all of the maintenance that comes with bamboo, you can't beat it for a hot summer day.
June 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
For all of the maintenance that comes with bamboo, you can't beat it for a hot summer day.
Yes, but the problem is the number of Trump's unconstitutional/illegal acts. It's virtually impossible to focus on just one for any length of time.
Wrote about how successful the far right has been with one weird trick: Repeating things.
badfaithtimes.com/politics-is-...
badfaithtimes.com/politics-is-...
Politics Is The Art Of Repeating Things
“Assertion pure and simple, disconnected from all reasoning and all proof, represents a sure means for instilling an idea in the popular mind."
badfaithtimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yes, but the problem is the number of Trump's unconstitutional/illegal acts. It's virtually impossible to focus on just one for any length of time.
God.
For ten points, and without looking it up, who started the, “BEAT LA” chant?
June 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
God.
Nice...
Just saying, I called the matchup when he said he wouldn’t play first. #sfgiants
Devers to SF for
LWJ, a young starter (Whisenhunt?) and giants take the money
Then he just stays at DH permanently.
LWJ, a young starter (Whisenhunt?) and giants take the money
Then he just stays at DH permanently.
June 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Nice...
From ChatGPT: crowd analysts (e.g., Reddit) Likely 35,000–60,000 actual attendance
200,000 people were dressed as empty aluminum benches.
June 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
From ChatGPT: crowd analysts (e.g., Reddit) Likely 35,000–60,000 actual attendance
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Theodore Roosevelt would get his Big Stick out.
Other quotes,
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political Party you're halfway to Dictatorship.
Clement Attlee.
A good Party man puts his Party above himself and his country above his Party.
Be perfect change often.
Churchill.
🦄
Other quotes,
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political Party you're halfway to Dictatorship.
Clement Attlee.
A good Party man puts his Party above himself and his country above his Party.
Be perfect change often.
Churchill.
🦄
Quotations from the speeches and other works of Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt Association
www.theodoreroosevelt.org
June 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Theodore Roosevelt would get his Big Stick out.
Other quotes,
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political Party you're halfway to Dictatorship.
Clement Attlee.
A good Party man puts his Party above himself and his country above his Party.
Be perfect change often.
Churchill.
🦄
Other quotes,
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political Party you're halfway to Dictatorship.
Clement Attlee.
A good Party man puts his Party above himself and his country above his Party.
Be perfect change often.
Churchill.
🦄
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I read Klein and Thompson's book and I really don't understand where these takes come from.
what sucks about "Abundance" discourse is that the movement is a trojan horse - a way to smuggle bad ideas about tech, anti-labor, crypto etc into Dem politics by wrapping them inside normal and fine ideas about housing, green energy, transit etc.
June 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I read Klein and Thompson's book and I really don't understand where these takes come from.
Also, when they viewed the poor and middle class by their economic status first and their identities secondary.
There are many complicated explanations for why Dems have spent 50 yrs losing lots of elections, but theres also a simple one:
Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy
Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy
June 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Also, when they viewed the poor and middle class by their economic status first and their identities secondary.
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There are many complicated explanations for why Dems have spent 50 yrs losing lots of elections, but theres also a simple one:
Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy
Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy
June 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
There are many complicated explanations for why Dems have spent 50 yrs losing lots of elections, but theres also a simple one:
Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy
Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy
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"The other party is run by toddlers. Our party wants your toddlers to have free health care. We are not the same."
Mr. Jeffries, cut this ad immediately.
Mr. Jeffries, cut this ad immediately.
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"The other party is run by toddlers. Our party wants your toddlers to have free health care. We are not the same."
Mr. Jeffries, cut this ad immediately.
Mr. Jeffries, cut this ad immediately.
And not AI!
June 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
And not AI!
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Now you understand the pain in Dan bonginos eyes
June 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Now you understand the pain in Dan bonginos eyes
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June 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Miles Taylor is a patriot who risked his career and reputation to do what was right for his country. Revenge is not a legitimate end of government.
I Criticized President Trump. He is Accusing Me of Treason
"This is about whether we will allow the President—any president, of any political party—to criminalize criticism."
time.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Miles Taylor is a patriot who risked his career and reputation to do what was right for his country. Revenge is not a legitimate end of government.
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PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
June 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions.
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
0 were on the gang member list.
130 had no criminal history.
32 had minor offenses.
All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...
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📣 #PENNSYLVANIA has 3 Dem State Supreme Court Justices up for retention this fall. Help keep them on the bench!
There's also seats up in #WISCONSIN & #NORTHCAROLINA next year.
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May 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📣 #PENNSYLVANIA has 3 Dem State Supreme Court Justices up for retention this fall. Help keep them on the bench!
There's also seats up in #WISCONSIN & #NORTHCAROLINA next year.
secure.actblue.com/donate/state...
There's also seats up in #WISCONSIN & #NORTHCAROLINA next year.
secure.actblue.com/donate/state...
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A rogue president with a loyal DOJ isn’t unstoppable, unless we act like peasants. Courts can stop him. States can sue him. Whistleblowers can expose him. But it takes all of us, loud, sharp, fed up. Power bends to pressure. So push. Hard. Clean House with your votes, or get steamrolled. Our call.
May 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
A rogue president with a loyal DOJ isn’t unstoppable, unless we act like peasants. Courts can stop him. States can sue him. Whistleblowers can expose him. But it takes all of us, loud, sharp, fed up. Power bends to pressure. So push. Hard. Clean House with your votes, or get steamrolled. Our call.
Nah, but it was an elephant. youtu.be/NfN_gcjGoJo?...
May 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Nah, but it was an elephant. youtu.be/NfN_gcjGoJo?...