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Chase Woodruff
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ezralevin.bsky.social
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
mattortega.com Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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tcarmody.bsky.social
Members fly and the donors and people close to them fly a LOT. My first thought when I’d heard they were caving
joshuaerlich.bsky.social Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Denver finally going Lambert Mode
THE MADNESS of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen. The sun low in the sky, a minor light, a cooling star. Gust after gust of disorder. Trees restless, temperatures falling, the whole northern religion of things coming to an end. No children in the yards here. Shadows lengthened on yellowing zoysia. Red oaks and pin oaks and swamp white oaks rained acorns on houses with no mortgage. Storm windows shuddered in the empty bedrooms. And the drone and hiccup of a clothes dryer, the nasal contention of a leaf blower, the ripening of local apples in a paper bag, the smell of the gasoline with which Alfred Lambert had cleaned the paintbrush from his morning painting of the wicker love seat.
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Ganz W
The Corleones are pitted against modernity: "It is a principal thesis of The Godfather that American society is a Gesellschaft at war with the Gemeinschaft inherent in the extended families of organized crime, and it is the claim of the novel and even more intensely of the films that the truly natural, legitimate, normal, and healthy type of society is that of the gangs." But not all the gangs. For Francis, the Jewish mobsters Moe Greene and Hyman Roth are particularly representative of Gesellschaft: they are "motivated mainly by avarice, and the cash bond is the only one they understand." For Francis, the tragedy of The Godfather is that Michael Cor-leone cannot preserve the Gemeinschaft of the family in the midst of the American Gesellschaft: his attempts to wield power to protect the family are self-undermining, and he destroys his family: "That was his tragedy, as it is the tragedy of human society. Power is not only necessary to the functioning of society, as Machiavelli taught; it also possesses a relentless logic that eventually eats up itself as it irresistibly converts Gemeinshaft into Gesellschaft and turns the consensual and deferential social bonds of the former into the coercive commands and cash relationships of modernity." But the exercise of power is unavoia-able and necessary, even if it is self-destructive, and Francis celebrates The Godfather's "slap in the face" of "the favorite American myth that through assimilation into the institutional environment offered by the democratic capitalism of the American Gesellshaft, human beings can be perfected and force and fraud as enduring and omnipresent elements of social existence can be escaped." The regime of force and fraud had to be accepted, embraced even, albeit without the hypocrisy of liber-alism: "Evil, as Machiavelli taught, is a necessary part of social and political organization, though it is to le recognized as such and not. disguised through the illusory cant of modernist ideology.?" When Go… our lives. Because America was born as a kind of revolt against author-ity, we elevate notions of individual liberty very high-and should, right? But then we have a hard time dealing with how were going to relate to authority. We're not mature about the balance between authority and individual rights... We haven't figured out how internalizing the rule of law doesn't oppress you—it makes you free." He might have learned something from the author Robert Lacey's take, just below his own: "Gotti's a satanic sort of authority figure." When New York turned its lonely eyes to John Gotti, it was longing for another kind of authority than the type Giuliani had represented up to that point. It didn't really want the law, universalism, meritocracy, rationality, bu-reaucracy, good government, reform, blind justice, and all that bullshit. The institutions had failed, the welfare state had failed, the markets had failed, there was no justice, just rackets and mobs: the crowd didn't want the G-man dutifully following the rules, and it didn't want to be part of the "gorgeous mosaic"; it wanted protection, a godfather, a boss, just like the undertaker at the beginning of The Godfather. Gotti was not really a figure of revolt and anarchy at all, he was a symbol of order, the old order that many longed for still, an order more real and deeper than the law, upheld by brute power. The papers made much of Giuliani's use of "obscenity" in his speech. Giuliani understood that the voice of real authority was obscene. Maybe all the city's fractious parts came together to make a mosaic, but it was in the form of an icon of John Gotti, a negative spirit of the city as a warren of rackets, mobs, and grasping, fighting individuals. And if Giuliani wanted to be mayor, he'd have to light a candle at the altar.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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newyorker.com
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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rincewind.run
the speed at which RFK books it out of there is incredible
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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coloradonewsline.com
NEW: Far-right Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a onetime ally in the national election conspiracy theory movement, alleging Lindell breached the terms of $3 million loan agreement.
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Far-right Colorado podcaster sues Mike Lindell, MyPillow over unpaid $3 million loan | Colorado Newsline
The suit alleges that Lindell secured a loan of $3 million from the plaintiffs in 2023 and has failed to make any payments since then.
coloradonewsline.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Appears that Colorado's off-year turnout, after a strong start early on, slackened in the runup to Election Day. On pace now for turnout to dip relative to 2023 (though still an increase over 2021).
A chart from the Colorado secretary of state's office showing 1,648,631 ballots returned in the 2025 election
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
I don’t think there’s a single fact about the functioning of our political system that is more relevant while being less popularly understood than the fact that the day-to-day job of a congressperson involves spending like 30 hours a week calling rich people to ask for $5,000 checks.
fleerultra.bsky.social Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 5d
I really think sustained contact with donors is a big driver of shitty party leadership, it's cooking their brains just as much as being on twitter would.
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Plenty of vote outstanding, but the most eye-catching early CO election results may be in Aurora, where two D-affiliated candidates lead their R-affiliated opponents, including Danielle "Complete Gang Takeover" Jurinsky.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Is it too much to ask for a contemporary dramatization of nuclear apocalypse that neither is anchored by a calamitously bad Idris Elba performance nor rests a somewhat crucial piece of internal plot logic on a citation of a Joe Rogan podcast appearance
The cover of Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario”
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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uhactually.bsky.social
I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 7d
Abigail Spanberger takes a swipe at Mamdani, saying "maybe he should be a Democrat" and that his campaign promises are dishonest.
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Bari Weiss gets the Trump endorsement, the logical endpoint of her fearless independent journalism at the Free Press
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8d
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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latimes.com
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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volts.wtf
Adopting this warmed-over BTI perspective is kind of goofy at any time, but doing it today, in the year of our lord 2025 -- while clean energy represents the *only* way to accelerate economic growth without breaking the bank -- is so sad. Not just hackery but moldy, past-its-expiration-date hackery.
mattyglesias.bsky.social Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 8d
I actually think the *core* of Democrats’ unwise leftward move was on climate because it creates direct tensions with a classic kitchen table pitch.

All the other stuff (crime, immigration, guns, gender) matters too but the post-2012 pivot off of “all of the above” energy is the most important.
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d
“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things.

There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument.

And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.
November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.
You Should Blame Merrick Garland
Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free
stringinamaze.net
November 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Smith is retiring next year despite being an entire 6-year Senate term younger than John Hickenlooper, who is running for reelection.
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11d
Sen. Tina Smith: It’s critical for leaders in the Democratic party not to view themselves as indispensable and instead provide both mentorship and space for the party’s next generation. trib.al/vqIYsX6

Right Now With @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Me and a bunch of Niskanen Center guys are going to build a massive NGO advocacy network in the middle of the desert to either immediately realize that upzoning/density/urbanism are left ideas or prove a very important point
lowrhoufo.bsky.social LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12d
We love left YIMBYism, don't we folks?
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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andyknny.bsky.social
Surveillance in action:

"You know we have cameras in that jurisdiction and you can’t get a breath of fresh air, in or out of that place, without us knowing, correct?”

denverite.com/2025/10/27/b...
Police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of package theft. She had her own evidence
"Like I said, nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing."
denverite.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both. Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year. I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table." It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
A real lost opportunity, I truly believe the Sheridanverse With Bari Weiss Characteristics would have produced seasons of television so bad they’d rip open portals into an eldritch horror dimension
Taylor Sheridan Is Leaving Paramount
TV’s top creator has just closed a massive deal with a rival for when his commitments with Paramount are up. It’s a major move for the ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Landman’ creator, but perhaps an even bigger c...
puck.news
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
I liked a lot about this movie but the big dilemma it ends up focusing on did not seem like a remotely close call to me, and it’s somewhat reassuring that even the pro-proliferation ex-STRATCOM guy agrees
'House of Dynamite' Is About the Zoom Call that Ends the World
The general who advised Netflix’s nuclear Armageddon movie doesn’t believe in abolishing nuclear weapons.
www.404media.co
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
chasewoodruff.bsky.social
This is really worth listening to in full. Very rude of Paul and Bree to ask straightforward questions about specific and concrete actions Bennet would take as governor.
October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM