Eric Masten
@ericmasten.bsky.social
Another Twitter refugee.
Lobbyist/policy wonk and communications professionally, LGBTQ activist, transportation and planning buff, once and future local activist.
All views are my own. Posts and shares are not (necessarily) endorsements.
Lobbyist/policy wonk and communications professionally, LGBTQ activist, transportation and planning buff, once and future local activist.
All views are my own. Posts and shares are not (necessarily) endorsements.
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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
October 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
September 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.
Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
100% of this is true. This is improving on his summer of 2020 efforts and boundary checking in advance of his next autocoup.
Fuck.
This.
Nazi.
Regime.
Fuck.
This.
Nazi.
Regime.
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
100% of this is true. This is improving on his summer of 2020 efforts and boundary checking in advance of his next autocoup.
Fuck.
This.
Nazi.
Regime.
Fuck.
This.
Nazi.
Regime.
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164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
The last two months have been one hell of a decade.
March 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The last two months have been one hell of a decade.
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DHS searched his ☎️.
"the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.
...US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages.”
The article: is.gd/tFS44h
"the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.
...US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages.”
The article: is.gd/tFS44h
March 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
DHS searched his ☎️.
"the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.
...US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages.”
The article: is.gd/tFS44h
"the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.
...US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages.”
The article: is.gd/tFS44h
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Amtrak's CEO is resigning and the Board of Directors has the chance to do something pretty funny imho
March 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Amtrak's CEO is resigning and the Board of Directors has the chance to do something pretty funny imho
Heard from a colleague: the Gen Z randos (I'd say weirdos) are now to be known as "the Muskrats".
🔴: I voted for Trump because the American people deserve transparency in their government
🔵: Elon Musk and his merry band of Gen-Z randos have unlimited access to classified information and are basically ransacking the government
🔴: Whatever
(4/9)
🔵: Elon Musk and his merry band of Gen-Z randos have unlimited access to classified information and are basically ransacking the government
🔴: Whatever
(4/9)
February 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Heard from a colleague: the Gen Z randos (I'd say weirdos) are now to be known as "the Muskrats".
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🚨 READ. This dark playbook and vision from Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin of a Felon/fElon admin is already in motion, folks...
"The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments..."
"The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments..."
February 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🚨 READ. This dark playbook and vision from Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin of a Felon/fElon admin is already in motion, folks...
"The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments..."
"The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments..."
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Even if you don’t like the wording in that NYT post, you should still read the excellent @charliesavage.bsky.social piece on Trump “bulldozing legal constraints” to which that is a sidebar.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
February 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Even if you don’t like the wording in that NYT post, you should still read the excellent @charliesavage.bsky.social piece on Trump “bulldozing legal constraints” to which that is a sidebar.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
Shout-out to the DoL employee who had the cajones to be quoted with his full name while protesting the Muskrats' efforts to invade the department.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems
Associates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the federal government in recent days, alarming some career employees.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Shout-out to the DoL employee who had the cajones to be quoted with his full name while protesting the Muskrats' efforts to invade the department.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NEW with: @boldprogressives.org PCI:
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
January 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW with: @boldprogressives.org PCI:
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
Messaging that DOGE will "steal from you" to fund billionaire tax breaks makes Independents significantly less favorable of DOGE than messaging on benefit cuts alone.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/...
So now we know where the first concentration camp will be.
President Trump says he's ordering the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay to house tens of thousands of migrants.
Read more: cnn.it/3PUwMly
Read more: cnn.it/3PUwMly
January 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So now we know where the first concentration camp will be.
A tragic loss that certainly puts a fine point on today's place in history.
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
Former head of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards has died
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A tragic loss that certainly puts a fine point on today's place in history.
I've blocked nearly 50 porn sock puppet accounts today.
Unless it's somehow platform-wide, I can only assume it's a direct result of using @sky-follower-bridge.dev to try to match and follow many of the accounts from Twitter that I follow.
Unless it's somehow platform-wide, I can only assume it's a direct result of using @sky-follower-bridge.dev to try to match and follow many of the accounts from Twitter that I follow.
January 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I've blocked nearly 50 porn sock puppet accounts today.
Unless it's somehow platform-wide, I can only assume it's a direct result of using @sky-follower-bridge.dev to try to match and follow many of the accounts from Twitter that I follow.
Unless it's somehow platform-wide, I can only assume it's a direct result of using @sky-follower-bridge.dev to try to match and follow many of the accounts from Twitter that I follow.
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Welp... Here we go with another social media app. 🤷♂️
August 5, 2023 at 10:58 PM
Welp... Here we go with another social media app. 🤷♂️