Collin Rhys Thrower
@crthrower.bsky.social
Public Servant | WA 27th LD | Policy Analyst | Aspiring Democracy Scholar | MA in Political Science | Writer | Eagle Scout | Policy Wonk and All Around Nerd
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Then you have nothing.
Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Then you have nothing.
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People are saying there's no upside to this deal. Wait a second. Isn't the end of Chuck Schumer's political career an upside?
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
People are saying there's no upside to this deal. Wait a second. Isn't the end of Chuck Schumer's political career an upside?
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Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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If you take one glimpse at Jeffries this should be obvious, but Nancy Pelosi is one of the most effective Democrats of the last few decades and she was one of the very, very few to understood that the purpose of gaining political power was to actually use it.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you take one glimpse at Jeffries this should be obvious, but Nancy Pelosi is one of the most effective Democrats of the last few decades and she was one of the very, very few to understood that the purpose of gaining political power was to actually use it.
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I’ve seen a lot of coverage over a poll saying Dems are “too focused” on climate change and LGBTQ issue. But voters say the Republican Party is not focused enough on jobs and affordability — issues much more predictive of voting — and far too much on immigration.
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Are Democrats "talking too much" about left-wing issues?
The data mostly do not justify the conclusions people are drawing
open.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’ve seen a lot of coverage over a poll saying Dems are “too focused” on climate change and LGBTQ issue. But voters say the Republican Party is not focused enough on jobs and affordability — issues much more predictive of voting — and far too much on immigration.
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Looking at grad degrees again - considering research proposals and how to achieve answers (and apply and see where I could get in and what's possible). Wanting to make good on my desire to be a democracy scholar. Any advice #AcademicSky?
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Looking at grad degrees again - considering research proposals and how to achieve answers (and apply and see where I could get in and what's possible). Wanting to make good on my desire to be a democracy scholar. Any advice #AcademicSky?
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what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
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this quote, if we take Ezra's defense of his previous column seriously, reduces to "Donald Trump is doing politics the right way."
bsky.app/profile/ezra...
bsky.app/profile/ezra...
"Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President of the United States...we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree."
September 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
this quote, if we take Ezra's defense of his previous column seriously, reduces to "Donald Trump is doing politics the right way."
bsky.app/profile/ezra...
bsky.app/profile/ezra...
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Today in the Chicago area ICE shot & killed someone and threw Kat Abughazaleh candidate for Congress, on the ground.
We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do?
Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
September 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today in the Chicago area ICE shot & killed someone and threw Kat Abughazaleh candidate for Congress, on the ground.
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[clenches preemptively]
Seattle's long in-person public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan has officially kicked off.
First comments were from @ceceliablack.bsky.social: "As you're going through this Comp Plan, I would really hope you ask yourself what you would do if you were disabled tomorrow and you couldn't drive."
First comments were from @ceceliablack.bsky.social: "As you're going through this Comp Plan, I would really hope you ask yourself what you would do if you were disabled tomorrow and you couldn't drive."
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
[clenches preemptively]
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My latest newsletter is a response to @jerusalem.bsky.social on the politics of immigration, and why ticky-tack policy solutions won't save Democrats.
Policy Can't Solve a Propaganda Problem
On immigration and everything else, pundits are missing the point
stringinamaze.net
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My latest newsletter is a response to @jerusalem.bsky.social on the politics of immigration, and why ticky-tack policy solutions won't save Democrats.
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.
September 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after Supreme Court panel convicts him of attempting coup.
Social media has long since been the problem, and the tech-bro-ification of the economy certainly adds to that. Since being politically conscious, Silicon Valley way it went from the new fad of, ostensibly, liberal democrats, to the biggest grifters of all.
THE PROBLEM IS SOCIAL MEDIA.
Social media rewards violent, hate-filled, even genocidal rhetoric.
This is how Charlie Kirk became a national political figure.
In the wake of his death, social media has become a place for tens of thousands of far-right extremists to call for mass violence.
Social media rewards violent, hate-filled, even genocidal rhetoric.
This is how Charlie Kirk became a national political figure.
In the wake of his death, social media has become a place for tens of thousands of far-right extremists to call for mass violence.
September 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Social media has long since been the problem, and the tech-bro-ification of the economy certainly adds to that. Since being politically conscious, Silicon Valley way it went from the new fad of, ostensibly, liberal democrats, to the biggest grifters of all.
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Also, if Ezra Klein believed in politics defined by vigorous debate with your opponents, he could come here on Bluesky and confront critics who engage with his ideas.
But he won’t do that, because what he actually believes in is a politics where everyone worships Ezra Klein for his profundity.
But he won’t do that, because what he actually believes in is a politics where everyone worships Ezra Klein for his profundity.
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Also, if Ezra Klein believed in politics defined by vigorous debate with your opponents, he could come here on Bluesky and confront critics who engage with his ideas.
But he won’t do that, because what he actually believes in is a politics where everyone worships Ezra Klein for his profundity.
But he won’t do that, because what he actually believes in is a politics where everyone worships Ezra Klein for his profundity.
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Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.
September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.
As evidenced by the elections Kirk and TPUSA had direct influence in (AZ 2022 gubernatorial), they didn't succeed in bringing youth to the right or really expand their base. But it did do what CPAC did years ago - pushed a more extreme Repub. narrative and incubate a more extremist base.
I think Charlie Kirk and TPUSA mainly reflected rather than shaped the broader right-wing movement in the U.S., as I also argued in this piece from last year, comparing his 2024 to his 2018 visit to the campus of my university.
What I learned when Turning Point USA came to my campus | Cas Mudde
The far right is looking very different to how it did a few years ago. They’re less tied to traditional conservative organizations
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As evidenced by the elections Kirk and TPUSA had direct influence in (AZ 2022 gubernatorial), they didn't succeed in bringing youth to the right or really expand their base. But it did do what CPAC did years ago - pushed a more extreme Repub. narrative and incubate a more extremist base.
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Absolutely shameful hagiographies of Charlie Kirk by “liberals” like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newson. It’s like Fortuyn all over again.
It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.
It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.
September 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Absolutely shameful hagiographies of Charlie Kirk by “liberals” like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newson. It’s like Fortuyn all over again.
It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.
It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.
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This guy couldn’t be bothered to say a single word when one of his political allies assassinated the Speaker of the Minnesota House.
"My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country."
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This guy couldn’t be bothered to say a single word when one of his political allies assassinated the Speaker of the Minnesota House.
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"If that affronts the strategic sense and ideological faiths to which these leaders and pundits cling, they should at least ponder the question of how many political parties stay in business when they reject the politics of their base." prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
What the Polls Are Screaming to ‘Mainstream’ Democrats
Today on TAP: The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem.
prospect.org
September 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"If that affronts the strategic sense and ideological faiths to which these leaders and pundits cling, they should at least ponder the question of how many political parties stay in business when they reject the politics of their base." prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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Trump's #BigUglyBill:
🎓Slashes Grad PLUS loans & affordable loan repayment options
🎓Jeopardizes programs for would-be teachers, early childhood workers & social workers
🎓Strips student loan relief
🎓Takes away guardrails to protect Pell recipients www.aft.org/news/how-big...
🎓Slashes Grad PLUS loans & affordable loan repayment options
🎓Jeopardizes programs for would-be teachers, early childhood workers & social workers
🎓Strips student loan relief
🎓Takes away guardrails to protect Pell recipients www.aft.org/news/how-big...
How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ harms higher education
The “big, beautiful bill”—also known as the “big, ugly betrayal”—that Republicans in Congress passed and President Donald Trump recently signed into law, devastates so many programs that benefit worki...
www.aft.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Trump's #BigUglyBill:
🎓Slashes Grad PLUS loans & affordable loan repayment options
🎓Jeopardizes programs for would-be teachers, early childhood workers & social workers
🎓Strips student loan relief
🎓Takes away guardrails to protect Pell recipients www.aft.org/news/how-big...
🎓Slashes Grad PLUS loans & affordable loan repayment options
🎓Jeopardizes programs for would-be teachers, early childhood workers & social workers
🎓Strips student loan relief
🎓Takes away guardrails to protect Pell recipients www.aft.org/news/how-big...