Greg Greene (he/him/his)
@greene.haus
Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
The sidewalks of Michigan Avenue were, as ever, crowded as hell when I stayed in a hotel there with my family this summer. Probably the most touch-and-go moment was when I had to stifle a laugh behind this portly gent:
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The sidewalks of Michigan Avenue were, as ever, crowded as hell when I stayed in a hotel there with my family this summer. Probably the most touch-and-go moment was when I had to stifle a laugh behind this portly gent:
Either he’s a terrible leader because he can’t hold his caucus, a terrible leader because he’s incapable of communicating in a way that reflects tensions within the caucus, or a terrible leader because he insists on feeding the public fairy tales.
Those are the options. None flatter him.
Those are the options. None flatter him.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Either he’s a terrible leader because he can’t hold his caucus, a terrible leader because he’s incapable of communicating in a way that reflects tensions within the caucus, or a terrible leader because he insists on feeding the public fairy tales.
Those are the options. None flatter him.
Those are the options. None flatter him.
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Shout-out to Chuckle Schuckle for reinforcing the President's core belief
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
For Trump, Nothing Was Off-Limits During the Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Shout-out to Chuckle Schuckle for reinforcing the President's core belief
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
that the most direct path to what he wants is unlimited cruelty inflicted on those he despises www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
I’m … sorry, but _how_?
A mobile lounge carrying passengers crashed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday, injuring more than a dozen people and causing some damage to the terminal.
Mobile Lounge Crashes at Dulles Airport, Causing Injuries and Damage
More than a dozen people were hurt and will be evaluated at a hospital. Air travel has been hampered in recent days by the government shutdown.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’m … sorry, but _how_?
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Jeebus. Just look at this shit:
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Jeebus. Just look at this shit:
Insane Clown Posse: this, heroes, is your time to shine.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Insane Clown Posse: this, heroes, is your time to shine.
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*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
On one hand, I want to shake all these people by the shoulders, look them in the eye, and say "you deserve better" — but on the other hand … do they? Do they, really?
They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real
Three people on the joys and anxieties of A.I. romances.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
On one hand, I want to shake all these people by the shoulders, look them in the eye, and say "you deserve better" — but on the other hand … do they? Do they, really?
Citizens are brawling and putting their bodies in the streets of Chicago, while their senator imagines that he can start to fix this all with gentlemen's agreements. Rubbish.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Citizens are brawling and putting their bodies in the streets of Chicago, while their senator imagines that he can start to fix this all with gentlemen's agreements. Rubbish.
Now: imagine the same problem as outlined below … but transposed to the progressive nonprofit-industrial complex, or to the Democratic officeholding class. Would that look much different than what one sees today?
Conflation of "the audience" with "the funders" is, alas, pretty common.
Conflation of "the audience" with "the funders" is, alas, pretty common.
The decision-makers in public media... rarely looked at concrete audience data or thought about the need to diversify the audience to boost listenership...
Instead, their notions about the public radio audience seemed to reflect donor event attendees and the social circles of (often white) editors.
Instead, their notions about the public radio audience seemed to reflect donor event attendees and the social circles of (often white) editors.
“I know that I was hired to help us diversify our airwaves, help us diversify our audience. But I literally had a news director tell me — I made a pitch — and they literally asked me, ‘Why do white people care?’”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Now: imagine the same problem as outlined below … but transposed to the progressive nonprofit-industrial complex, or to the Democratic officeholding class. Would that look much different than what one sees today?
Conflation of "the audience" with "the funders" is, alas, pretty common.
Conflation of "the audience" with "the funders" is, alas, pretty common.
“The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.”
Presidential drone-murder spree.
Presidential drone-murder spree.
“But in neither case did Mr. Hegseth provide evidence for his claim that the three men aboard each of the two boats were smuggling narcotics. He said the attacks took place in international waters.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.”
Presidential drone-murder spree.
Presidential drone-murder spree.
Ah, yes: the Republican Party still has an armed wing.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
...
He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ah, yes: the Republican Party still has an armed wing.
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Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct
“Now we’ll see if they’re really gonna work with us”: ah, right. And if they don’t, senator, then … ?
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“Now we’ll see if they’re really gonna work with us”: ah, right. And if they don’t, senator, then … ?
“… it actually gave him more power”: oh, awesome. Just co-sign the Russ Vought argument that shutdowns grant presidents carte blanche to shift spending and RIF workers while you bravely give up, why don’t you.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“… it actually gave him more power”: oh, awesome. Just co-sign the Russ Vought argument that shutdowns grant presidents carte blanche to shift spending and RIF workers while you bravely give up, why don’t you.
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can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals
🎯: “We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party … that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. So … keep purging all the folks who can’t get with the new program.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🎯: “We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party … that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. So … keep purging all the folks who can’t get with the new program.”
Ah well, nevertheless.
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Ah well, nevertheless.
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"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
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This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
I think Tom Perriello, although he’s a mensch, is out of the game — but former Rep. Elaine Luria, you up? Virginia could use another senator from the U.S. Navy.
Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I think Tom Perriello, although he’s a mensch, is out of the game — but former Rep. Elaine Luria, you up? Virginia could use another senator from the U.S. Navy.
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And yet.
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
And yet.
“Do not help your opposition”: ah, though — what if we’re not opponents, but instead colleagues who all want what’s best for the American people?
If that made sense to you, congrats; you’ve taken a first step toward becoming a Senate Democrat.
If that made sense to you, congrats; you’ve taken a first step toward becoming a Senate Democrat.
Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“Do not help your opposition”: ah, though — what if we’re not opponents, but instead colleagues who all want what’s best for the American people?
If that made sense to you, congrats; you’ve taken a first step toward becoming a Senate Democrat.
If that made sense to you, congrats; you’ve taken a first step toward becoming a Senate Democrat.