Guillermo Mena
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I develop disparity-reducing legislation, messaging and electoral strategy in 42 states and Puerto Rico. Now @NHCSL
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Staffed winning and losing campaigns. Been political appointee. Somehow still litigate a case over a decade old🙄
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Staffed winning and losing campaigns. Been political appointee. Somehow still litigate a case over a decade old🙄
Single|Geek|Gay|DC🏢🐕
Reposted by Guillermo Mena
I’m all for dunking on him but that’s not really true. St Edward’s Crown, for example, has depressed arches. So does the crown of Denmark. And several others. Plus several queens’ crowns have rising arches.
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I’m all for dunking on him but that’s not really true. St Edward’s Crown, for example, has depressed arches. So does the crown of Denmark. And several others. Plus several queens’ crowns have rising arches.
On Platner’s tipping comment, he was so objectively correct in his observation that Cornell University published a study to answer his same question a year after he asked it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
On Platner’s tipping comment, he was so objectively correct in his observation that Cornell University published a study to answer his same question a year after he asked it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
On Platner’s tipping comment, he was so objectively correct in his observation that Cornell University published a study to answer his same question a year after he asked it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
On Platner’s tipping comment, he was so objectively correct in his observation that Cornell University published a study to answer his same question a year after he asked it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
WTF
(Sometimes I’m surprised I can still be surprised.)
(Sometimes I’m surprised I can still be surprised.)
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
WTF
(Sometimes I’m surprised I can still be surprised.)
(Sometimes I’m surprised I can still be surprised.)
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.
September 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Please spare us. There are enough Smotrich and Ben Gvir and Netanyahu videos out there. There’s testimony. There’s video of the press being killed. Catholic churches attacked. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s genocide.
September 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Please spare us. There are enough Smotrich and Ben Gvir and Netanyahu videos out there. There’s testimony. There’s video of the press being killed. Catholic churches attacked. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s genocide.
Right. That’s why I said no rescissions. (Sorry for the earlier typo.)
But we could and should substantively demand so much more because there are other imperatives beyond ACA.
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But we could and should substantively demand so much more because there are other imperatives beyond ACA.
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I care. But I agree I don’t get the sole focus on ACA subsidies with no rescissions.
Why not also restore fired workers? And due process guardrails for ICE? And get the Medicare/Medicaid funding back? And end the tariffs and get a Fed seat?
Justify the shutdown by laying out a contrasting vision.
Why not also restore fired workers? And due process guardrails for ICE? And get the Medicare/Medicaid funding back? And end the tariffs and get a Fed seat?
Justify the shutdown by laying out a contrasting vision.
I honestly do not care who is blamed for this shutdown.
They all should be blamed because they are all part of the government and they are negotiating over what, ACA subsidies is it?, while the entire country burns.
They all should be blamed because they are all part of the government and they are negotiating over what, ACA subsidies is it?, while the entire country burns.
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Right. That’s why I said no rescissions. (Sorry for the earlier typo.)
But we could and should substantively demand so much more because there are other imperatives beyond ACA.
bsky.app/profile/gmen...
But we could and should substantively demand so much more because there are other imperatives beyond ACA.
bsky.app/profile/gmen...
We must stop Trump’s priorities:
💰Corruption. Genocide so Kushner can redevelop Gaza. Arab crypto deals.
💰Denying healthcare to Americans so the very rich get richer.
🥷Unleashing masked assailants on our streets breaking windows and bones because people look Latino.
📚Gutting “liberal” education.
💰Corruption. Genocide so Kushner can redevelop Gaza. Arab crypto deals.
💰Denying healthcare to Americans so the very rich get richer.
🥷Unleashing masked assailants on our streets breaking windows and bones because people look Latino.
📚Gutting “liberal” education.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We must stop Trump’s priorities:
💰Corruption. Genocide so Kushner can redevelop Gaza. Arab crypto deals.
💰Denying healthcare to Americans so the very rich get richer.
🥷Unleashing masked assailants on our streets breaking windows and bones because people look Latino.
📚Gutting “liberal” education.
💰Corruption. Genocide so Kushner can redevelop Gaza. Arab crypto deals.
💰Denying healthcare to Americans so the very rich get richer.
🥷Unleashing masked assailants on our streets breaking windows and bones because people look Latino.
📚Gutting “liberal” education.
So the CR is Republicans demanding that Democrats bail them out on their inability to pass their own budget and proceed on an appropriations bill. (That’s the 2nd step they could have proceeded on without Dem votes.)
But Democrats should not do this for next to nothing.
But Democrats should not do this for next to nothing.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
So the CR is Republicans demanding that Democrats bail them out on their inability to pass their own budget and proceed on an appropriations bill. (That’s the 2nd step they could have proceeded on without Dem votes.)
But Democrats should not do this for next to nothing.
But Democrats should not do this for next to nothing.
Creating division is the one thing congressional Republicans agree on.
Yes Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva because she’ll release the Epstein files. But also because if he can’t pass a budget now, imagine if his margin were even thinner.
Dems shouldn’t deal until she’s sworn in.
Yes Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva because she’ll release the Epstein files. But also because if he can’t pass a budget now, imagine if his margin were even thinner.
Dems shouldn’t deal until she’s sworn in.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Creating division is the one thing congressional Republicans agree on.
Yes Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva because she’ll release the Epstein files. But also because if he can’t pass a budget now, imagine if his margin were even thinner.
Dems shouldn’t deal until she’s sworn in.
Yes Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva because she’ll release the Epstein files. But also because if he can’t pass a budget now, imagine if his margin were even thinner.
Dems shouldn’t deal until she’s sworn in.
Republicans can’t govern. Funding the government is a 3-step process and Democrats can only stop the 3rd step. Yet Republicans can’t even approve the first, a budget, which they could have without needing Dem votes.
And that’s because Republicans can’t agree among themselves on a plan for America.
And that’s because Republicans can’t agree among themselves on a plan for America.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Republicans can’t govern. Funding the government is a 3-step process and Democrats can only stop the 3rd step. Yet Republicans can’t even approve the first, a budget, which they could have without needing Dem votes.
And that’s because Republicans can’t agree among themselves on a plan for America.
And that’s because Republicans can’t agree among themselves on a plan for America.