Dylan Gibson
@dylangibson.bsky.social
Becoming a high school history teacher. Then: Digital for Speaker Pelosi and progressive/labor causes. Militantly Midwestern.
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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
October 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
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The asymmetry in our politics is really jaw-dropping. If a Democrat legislature did this to a Republican it would be the absolute lead story absolutely everywhere with everyone falling all over themselves to condemn it
Texas State Rep. Collier says she's forced by police to abruptly hang up a press call:
"I have to leave. They said it's a felony for me to do this. Apparently I can't be on the floor or in the bathroom."
"I have to leave. They said it's a felony for me to do this. Apparently I can't be on the floor or in the bathroom."
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The asymmetry in our politics is really jaw-dropping. If a Democrat legislature did this to a Republican it would be the absolute lead story absolutely everywhere with everyone falling all over themselves to condemn it
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For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
August 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
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This is excellent.
August 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This is excellent.
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Axios, particularly its social posts and emails, continues to be an administration mouthpiece. (Beware taking their social posts at face value.)
There certainly was room in this one to include the words "purports to" or "claims she can." Because she has no such authority.
There certainly was room in this one to include the words "purports to" or "claims she can." Because she has no such authority.
NEW: Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered an end to D.C. sanctuary policies, office announced today.
White House: Bondi has "officially ENDED" D.C. sanctuary policies
The announcement was made in a wider directive Bondi issued that saw DEA chief Terry Cole appointed "emergency police commissioner."
www.axios.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Axios, particularly its social posts and emails, continues to be an administration mouthpiece. (Beware taking their social posts at face value.)
There certainly was room in this one to include the words "purports to" or "claims she can." Because she has no such authority.
There certainly was room in this one to include the words "purports to" or "claims she can." Because she has no such authority.
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It’s gone completely under the radar but Trump is set to start kicking out Ukrainians who came here legally under Biden as part of a program for people fleeing the war.
Ukrainians Who Fled War Are Losing Their Legal Status to Stay in the U.S.-wsj
August 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s gone completely under the radar but Trump is set to start kicking out Ukrainians who came here legally under Biden as part of a program for people fleeing the war.
Apparently every time a kid gets into a food fight, they are committing a felony now.
What the actual fuck.
What the actual fuck.
August 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Apparently every time a kid gets into a food fight, they are committing a felony now.
What the actual fuck.
What the actual fuck.
This is blatantly illegal. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi names DEA head as DC's "emergency police commissioner," granting him powers of police chief.
Attorney General Bondi names DEA head as DC's 'emergency police commissioner'
Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid the federal takeover.
bit.ly
August 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is blatantly illegal. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
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On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.
April 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.
Given the admin is claiming a man with zero criminal charges or convictions is a “terrorist,” people need to start talking about how Trump is designing a path for him to send anyone to his what amounts to concentration camps for political undesirables.
Quote from @axios.com
Quote from @axios.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Given the admin is claiming a man with zero criminal charges or convictions is a “terrorist,” people need to start talking about how Trump is designing a path for him to send anyone to his what amounts to concentration camps for political undesirables.
Quote from @axios.com
Quote from @axios.com
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Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
The Trump Admin is using a texting app available to anyone with a cell phone to discuss highly secret war planning… and they’re doing it with all the attention of my friend who recently invited a “same name, wrong person” to a Discord chat ahead of a conference. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Trump Admin is using a texting app available to anyone with a cell phone to discuss highly secret war planning… and they’re doing it with all the attention of my friend who recently invited a “same name, wrong person” to a Discord chat ahead of a conference. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@tommalinowski.bsky.social is right on the money here. There’s no reason to help Johnson out. Any Democrats lured to support his stance are just co-signing his efforts to abandon the Congress’s role as an equal and separate power to the President under our Constitution.
@tommalinowski.bsky.social is completely correct here. If Democrats provide the decisive votes to sanction Trump’s criminal government, it’ll be a historic failure of both principle and politics. newrepublic.com/article/1925...
March 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
@tommalinowski.bsky.social is right on the money here. There’s no reason to help Johnson out. Any Democrats lured to support his stance are just co-signing his efforts to abandon the Congress’s role as an equal and separate power to the President under our Constitution.
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even if your argument is that zelensky should take whatever deal is offered to end the war, you should still be mad at trump because it's clear he wants the war to continue. like what am I missing here? he's clearly blowing up the deal, probably to get something even better for putin down the line
Doocy: "I have been told by a senior official here that nothing is gonna happen with this minerals deal until Zelenskyy goes in front of cameras and makes an explicit public apology for the way he behaved in the Oval Office with that meeting."
March 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
even if your argument is that zelensky should take whatever deal is offered to end the war, you should still be mad at trump because it's clear he wants the war to continue. like what am I missing here? he's clearly blowing up the deal, probably to get something even better for putin down the line
Just a reminder: whenever a chucklefuck from the Midwest starts talking about the destruction of “Western Civilization” outside of a classroom environment, they are almost certainly pushing white supremacy.
JD Vance claims that efforts to suppress misinformation and hate speech "are going to destroy Western Civilization. They're gonna destroy Europe, and they would destroy the United States of America if we allowed them to fester. Thank God we have a president now who believes in free speech."
March 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Just a reminder: whenever a chucklefuck from the Midwest starts talking about the destruction of “Western Civilization” outside of a classroom environment, they are almost certainly pushing white supremacy.
Ah yes, this is the *exact* kind of thing you want the ATTORNEY GENERAL focused on…
Pam Bondi says she personally took portraits of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris off the walls of government buildings
March 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Ah yes, this is the *exact* kind of thing you want the ATTORNEY GENERAL focused on…
Something you don’t often see so perfectly: when people buy into the myth of strong men, they by their very nature assume that negative outcomes are the result of weak wills.
COLLINS: Who do you blame for the war?
CHIP ROY: It began on Joe Biden's watch
COLLINS: Wait, you blame Joe Biden for the war?
ROY: This all started under Joe Biden
COLLINS: Putin started this war
CHIP ROY: It began on Joe Biden's watch
COLLINS: Wait, you blame Joe Biden for the war?
ROY: This all started under Joe Biden
COLLINS: Putin started this war
March 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Something you don’t often see so perfectly: when people buy into the myth of strong men, they by their very nature assume that negative outcomes are the result of weak wills.
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This has distinct echoes of media coverage of Bush in 2002-2003, when lots of journos conspired to pretend that the stuff Bush was saying was based in real things, even though any 5 year old could see that there wasn't a shred of legitimacy to any of it
Pretty amazing to read news accounts implying that Trump's claim that he wants to "determine" if Zelensky is serious about peace before resuming aid to Ukraine is an actual intention on his part.
March 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This has distinct echoes of media coverage of Bush in 2002-2003, when lots of journos conspired to pretend that the stuff Bush was saying was based in real things, even though any 5 year old could see that there wasn't a shred of legitimacy to any of it
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Cowards. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Republicans hit the brakes on town halls after blowback over Trump's cuts
A number of Republican lawmakers faced significant pushback in their home districts over Trump and Elon Musk's slashing of the federal government.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Cowards. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Here's something Dems can consider doing right now: Band together and tell Trump and the GOP that they will not get *a single vote* for any legislation or nominee until he ends Elon Musk's illegal mission to gut our government.
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
February 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Here's something Dems can consider doing right now: Band together and tell Trump and the GOP that they will not get *a single vote* for any legislation or nominee until he ends Elon Musk's illegal mission to gut our government.
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
My exchange w/Rep Don Beyer on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
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tapping the "Elon Musk's actual area of expertise isn't engineering, business or technology but bad faith abuse of the legal system" sign
this agreement says the employee waives any claim he might have stemming from his employment OR the deferred resignation offer itself, which to me reads like they're saying that if you sign it, you waive your ability to sue them if they breach it
Federal employees have received a copy of the deferred resignation agreement.
Contains a lot of brow-raising lines such as, "Employee waives any claim that could be brought on Employee’s behalf by another entity, including Employee’s labor union."
Full text shared with me:
Contains a lot of brow-raising lines such as, "Employee waives any claim that could be brought on Employee’s behalf by another entity, including Employee’s labor union."
Full text shared with me:
February 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
tapping the "Elon Musk's actual area of expertise isn't engineering, business or technology but bad faith abuse of the legal system" sign
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More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.
February 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.
If you had “Trump’s anti-trans executive order ends up defining almost everyone as women,” no you didn’t.
January 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you had “Trump’s anti-trans executive order ends up defining almost everyone as women,” no you didn’t.