Jeff Skidmore
@doublejskid.bsky.social
I am a blind husband and Zoe the frenchie daddy. I enjoy listening to podcasts and learning about assistive technology for the blind and low-vision. Trying to stay positive after the idiocy of November 5, 2024.
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Russell Vought is a scourge, not only for federal workers, but for the country, and, indeed, the entire world. Here's a @us.theguardian.com story via @climatedesk.org on how he's now unapologetically killing the "crown jewel" of US climate research.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Gov. Jared Polis warns that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR puts "public safety at risk."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Russell Vought is a scourge, not only for federal workers, but for the country, and, indeed, the entire world. Here's a @us.theguardian.com story via @climatedesk.org on how he's now unapologetically killing the "crown jewel" of US climate research.
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218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
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As congressional hearings go on in public today and can be watched live online by everyone, Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors despite his written request to appear in public because Republicans don’t want the American people (again) to hear him destroy their lies.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
As congressional hearings go on in public today and can be watched live online by everyone, Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors despite his written request to appear in public because Republicans don’t want the American people (again) to hear him destroy their lies.
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Democrats need to do whatever it takes to give Jack Smith the opportunity to say this & everything else publicly to the entire country. This Republican behind closed doors hearing is a disgrace.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Democrats need to do whatever it takes to give Jack Smith the opportunity to say this & everything else publicly to the entire country. This Republican behind closed doors hearing is a disgrace.
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BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
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October 2025 saw fifty more cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes committed by Trump and his administration. They're up 580 since he was sworn in last January.
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: November 2025: Atrocities 530-580
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
buff.ly
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
October 2025 saw fifty more cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes committed by Trump and his administration. They're up 580 since he was sworn in last January.
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Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
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BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
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Phang: Wiles says she doesn’t think Trump is on a retribution tour, but that he’s going after people who did bad things in coming after him… That sounds like retribution to me. I’m not quite sure what her definition of retribution is, but she might want to look it up in the fucking dictionary.
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Phang: Wiles says she doesn’t think Trump is on a retribution tour, but that he’s going after people who did bad things in coming after him… That sounds like retribution to me. I’m not quite sure what her definition of retribution is, but she might want to look it up in the fucking dictionary.
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Trump: “…an alcoholic’s personality”
Vance: “…a conspiracy theorist for a decade”
Vought: “…right wing absolute zealot”
Musk: “…an avowed ketamine user”
These aren’t the wild opinions of a Twitter troll.
It’s coming from the White House Chief of Staff.
They are who we think they are.
Vance: “…a conspiracy theorist for a decade”
Vought: “…right wing absolute zealot”
Musk: “…an avowed ketamine user”
These aren’t the wild opinions of a Twitter troll.
It’s coming from the White House Chief of Staff.
They are who we think they are.
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Trump: “…an alcoholic’s personality”
Vance: “…a conspiracy theorist for a decade”
Vought: “…right wing absolute zealot”
Musk: “…an avowed ketamine user”
These aren’t the wild opinions of a Twitter troll.
It’s coming from the White House Chief of Staff.
They are who we think they are.
Vance: “…a conspiracy theorist for a decade”
Vought: “…right wing absolute zealot”
Musk: “…an avowed ketamine user”
These aren’t the wild opinions of a Twitter troll.
It’s coming from the White House Chief of Staff.
They are who we think they are.
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP Conference of Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, the Nevada Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Institute for a Progressive Nevada my law firm has filed to intervene in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Nevada’s complete, unredacted voter registration list.
🚨 United States of America v. Aguilar
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP Conference of Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, the Nevada Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Institute for a Progressive Nevada my law firm has filed to intervene in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Nevada’s complete, unredacted voter registration list.
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Black Voters Matter Fund, CWA Local 3204, and CWA Local 3204 Retired Members Council my law firm has filed to intervene to oppose DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to 2020 election records from Fulton County, GA. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
🚨 United States of America v. Alexander
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Black Voters Matter Fund, CWA Local 3204, and CWA Local 3204 Retired Members Council my law firm has filed to intervene to oppose DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to 2020 election records from Fulton County, GA. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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📣 COLORADO, MINNESOTA & TENNESSEE‼️
✊ Come out on Saturday and PROTEST against Key Lime Air & Denver Air Connection for participating in ICE Air flights!
👉 Events in Denver, Centennial, Pueblo, Alamosa & Cortez CO
PLUS: Jackson TN and TWO events in Minneapolis 👀
✊ Come out on Saturday and PROTEST against Key Lime Air & Denver Air Connection for participating in ICE Air flights!
👉 Events in Denver, Centennial, Pueblo, Alamosa & Cortez CO
PLUS: Jackson TN and TWO events in Minneapolis 👀
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
📣 COLORADO, MINNESOTA & TENNESSEE‼️
✊ Come out on Saturday and PROTEST against Key Lime Air & Denver Air Connection for participating in ICE Air flights!
👉 Events in Denver, Centennial, Pueblo, Alamosa & Cortez CO
PLUS: Jackson TN and TWO events in Minneapolis 👀
✊ Come out on Saturday and PROTEST against Key Lime Air & Denver Air Connection for participating in ICE Air flights!
👉 Events in Denver, Centennial, Pueblo, Alamosa & Cortez CO
PLUS: Jackson TN and TWO events in Minneapolis 👀
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A week ago, I wrote that Democrats flipped 21% of all state legislative seats held by the GOP that were in play this year.
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......
boltsmag.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A week ago, I wrote that Democrats flipped 21% of all state legislative seats held by the GOP that were in play this year.
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
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Next November, there will be no confusion about who raised healthcare premiums.
None.
None.
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Next November, there will be no confusion about who raised healthcare premiums.
None.
None.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Far Right Escalates Calls For Violence to Free Tina Peters After Trump’s ‘Pardon’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Despite the fact that a significant number of swing-district Republicans want to join Dems to vote for a clean bill to extend ACA subsidies which would easily pass the House, Mike Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor. NBC:
December 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Despite the fact that a significant number of swing-district Republicans want to join Dems to vote for a clean bill to extend ACA subsidies which would easily pass the House, Mike Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor. NBC:
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.@pabloreports.bsky.social : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
.@pabloreports.bsky.social : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
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The Republican propaganda that Trump “inherited” a bad economy from Biden and is making it better is the exact opposite of true. The numbers don’t lie and people know what they are experiencing.
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Republican propaganda that Trump “inherited” a bad economy from Biden and is making it better is the exact opposite of true. The numbers don’t lie and people know what they are experiencing.
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Munson: In Oklahoma, Republicans have been in charge of state government for two decades, and nothing has improved. In fact, everything has gotten worse. On every good list, we’re at the bottom, and on every bad list, we’re at the very top.
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Munson: In Oklahoma, Republicans have been in charge of state government for two decades, and nothing has improved. In fact, everything has gotten worse. On every good list, we’re at the bottom, and on every bad list, we’re at the very top.
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Secretive Rapid Response Networks Are Operating in Communities ‘Terrorized’ By ICE Raids talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/secr...
Secretive Rapid Response Networks Are Operating in Communities ‘Terrorized’ By ICE Raids
The school was on lockdown. Nov. 12 was supposed to be an...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Secretive Rapid Response Networks Are Operating in Communities ‘Terrorized’ By ICE Raids talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/secr...
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
BREAKING: Mike Johnson just said he won't call a vote this year to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
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The cover-ups continue. They want to hide what they are doing from the American people and the world.
December 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The cover-ups continue. They want to hide what they are doing from the American people and the world.
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Grim economic news. Blame Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Grim economic news. Blame Trump.