Chris Ford
@ctford.bsky.social
Tennis + cycling. Also politics and other things. From Virginia. Wake Forest grad. Worried about our precious planet.
*Posts obv belong to the sea-witch Ursula with whom I signed a contract.
*Posts obv belong to the sea-witch Ursula with whom I signed a contract.
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NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll out this AM. We find cuts to Medicaid deeply unpopular (58% oppose to 14%), Trump underwater on most issues (-16 net approval), Democrats ahead on the generic ballot by 6 points, and Harris leading a 2024 rematch
Full results in this thread
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New poll: Americans oppose cuts to Medicaid, want Democrats to control the U.S. House
...and Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch. Results from the inaugural Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll
www.gelliottmorris.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll out this AM. We find cuts to Medicaid deeply unpopular (58% oppose to 14%), Trump underwater on most issues (-16 net approval), Democrats ahead on the generic ballot by 6 points, and Harris leading a 2024 rematch
Full results in this thread
Full results in this thread
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What was weird about that argument from DS is that it assumed that disaffected Democrats who stayed home would vote for Trump if they voted rather than disaffectedly voting for Democrats (likely far more common).
March 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
What was weird about that argument from DS is that it assumed that disaffected Democrats who stayed home would vote for Trump if they voted rather than disaffectedly voting for Democrats (likely far more common).
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Just saw some voter file stuff and I think the argument that the popular vote would’ve been more pro-Trump if everyone had voted is wrong. I’m gonna keep looking at this, but I’m sad that media ran it uncritically—it’s a really tough thing to estimate.
March 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Just saw some voter file stuff and I think the argument that the popular vote would’ve been more pro-Trump if everyone had voted is wrong. I’m gonna keep looking at this, but I’m sad that media ran it uncritically—it’s a really tough thing to estimate.
I’m glad someone pointed this out…
the non-voter whose counterfactual voting behavior could be modeled based on the voting behavior of voters…would probably have voted
March 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’m glad someone pointed this out…
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There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.
Do republicans want to set up a situation where every red state gets funding withdrawn because abortion is illegal in the state. That’s where we’re heading here. The explicit coercion is something conservatives once supposedly cared about!
Duffy on the New York City subway: "It's dangerous. It's dirty ... they don't want you to drive your car. They want you to take a train. If you want me to take a train, make the train safe, make it clean. But if you won't do that, we're gonna pull money."
March 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.
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Are there any elected officials talking about the morality of carrying innocent people off captive to a brutal slave labor camp in a country they’ve probably never been to before?
Does Hew Hewitt, the author of several works on Christianity, have anything to say about that?
Does Hew Hewitt, the author of several works on Christianity, have anything to say about that?
On Hugh Hewitt’s show, Marco Rubio says El Salvador is “housing” people sent by the US. But he never says on what possible legal authority? These people haven’t committed any crime in El Salvador and by their own admission “many” have never committed a crime in the US. It all seems entirely lawless.
March 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Are there any elected officials talking about the morality of carrying innocent people off captive to a brutal slave labor camp in a country they’ve probably never been to before?
Does Hew Hewitt, the author of several works on Christianity, have anything to say about that?
Does Hew Hewitt, the author of several works on Christianity, have anything to say about that?
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Many conservatives who fought against cancel culture on college campuses and championed free speech are now behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.
Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.
President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Many conservatives who fought against cancel culture on college campuses and championed free speech are now behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.
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South Africa’s ambassador to the US has angered the Trump administration because he said this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
March 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
South Africa’s ambassador to the US has angered the Trump administration because he said this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Terrible news for so many in Iowa (and from Iowa). If Reynolds signs, it would be the first state to remove a group of people from status as a protected class.
Eighteen years after Democrats adopted civil rights protections for trans people in Iowa, GOP lawmakers there today passed a bill repealing those protections: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
If signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Republican-backed measure would eliminate state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Terrible news for so many in Iowa (and from Iowa). If Reynolds signs, it would be the first state to remove a group of people from status as a protected class.
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@wmata.com ridership continues to grow. Yesterday 02/24 was the highest 🚇Monday in ~5 years. Thx for choosing America’s🇺🇸 Metro System! Let’s go for it again on Tuesday! #wmata
February 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
@wmata.com ridership continues to grow. Yesterday 02/24 was the highest 🚇Monday in ~5 years. Thx for choosing America’s🇺🇸 Metro System! Let’s go for it again on Tuesday! #wmata
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All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast
February 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast
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Something I've now heard from federal worker constituents at several agencies: Musk and Trump's mass firings are clearing out all personnel from FOIA offices and leaving them completely empty, it sounds obviously intentional.
February 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Something I've now heard from federal worker constituents at several agencies: Musk and Trump's mass firings are clearing out all personnel from FOIA offices and leaving them completely empty, it sounds obviously intentional.
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above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Lord, I see what you do for others www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup (Gift Article)
Brazil’s attorney general charged the former president Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the 2022 elections.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Lord, I see what you do for others www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.
February 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.
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DOGE Nazis have illegally fired 600 workers from Bonneville Power Authority, a hugely important federal utility in the Northwest www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
At least 600 workers to leave BPA, spurring concerns about transmission grid
The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, will lose at least 600 workers under President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to reduce the federal workforce.
www.oregonlive.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
DOGE Nazis have illegally fired 600 workers from Bonneville Power Authority, a hugely important federal utility in the Northwest www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
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The proposed partnership with Russia is not only a disaster for the values we’ve for 80 years sought to engender around the world, it’s a disaster for American power itself.
February 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The proposed partnership with Russia is not only a disaster for the values we’ve for 80 years sought to engender around the world, it’s a disaster for American power itself.
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OK now they're just trying to make me go mad.
You don't have to search payment systems for Medicare fraud, you could turn to the latest published report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission which helpfully lists $83 billion in annual fraud payments!
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
You don't have to search payment systems for Medicare fraud, you could turn to the latest published report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission which helpfully lists $83 billion in annual fraud payments!
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
Exclusive | DOGE Aides Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems for Fraud
Elon Musk’s allies have been on site at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offices this week.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
OK now they're just trying to make me go mad.
You don't have to search payment systems for Medicare fraud, you could turn to the latest published report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission which helpfully lists $83 billion in annual fraud payments!
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
You don't have to search payment systems for Medicare fraud, you could turn to the latest published report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission which helpfully lists $83 billion in annual fraud payments!
www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
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Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
February 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
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new reporting that Elon is instructing GSA, the agency that manages government worksites, to terminate the leases for all (!) federal offices nationwide: apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration
One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the countr...
apnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
new reporting that Elon is instructing GSA, the agency that manages government worksites, to terminate the leases for all (!) federal offices nationwide: apnews.com/article/trum...
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Under the banner of “government efficiency,” U.S.-grown food and lifesaving medicine meant to help the world’s most vulnerable is instead rotting on cargo ships and in warehouses across the globe.
@suzykhimm.bsky.social has the details: www.nbcnews.com/news/politic...
@suzykhimm.bsky.social has the details: www.nbcnews.com/news/politic...
USAID upheaval is paralyzing delivery of food and medicine around the globe
Though humanitarian aid was supposed to be exempt from the Trump-ordered disruption, shipments of lifesaving food and drugs are held up in ports and warehouses.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Under the banner of “government efficiency,” U.S.-grown food and lifesaving medicine meant to help the world’s most vulnerable is instead rotting on cargo ships and in warehouses across the globe.
@suzykhimm.bsky.social has the details: www.nbcnews.com/news/politic...
@suzykhimm.bsky.social has the details: www.nbcnews.com/news/politic...
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This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn
U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal
The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.
wapo.st
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn
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We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
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HAPPENING NOW: members of Congress led by @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are attempting to enter the Treasury Building to demand answers re: Musk’s unconstitutional money grab
February 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
HAPPENING NOW: members of Congress led by @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are attempting to enter the Treasury Building to demand answers re: Musk’s unconstitutional money grab