Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦
@heyjarnold.bsky.social
“a man of a different era”
Here for politics, faith, LGBT issues, and sometimes just for fun 🙃
Opinions expressed are my own
📍KCMO
Here for politics, faith, LGBT issues, and sometimes just for fun 🙃
Opinions expressed are my own
📍KCMO
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“The philosophical underpinning of the [Trump administration’s] approach is about treating people badly because they’re different.” - a friend on Facebook this morning
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My representative, Emanuel Cleaver, is 3 years OLDER than Jerry Nadler 👀
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that…[a younger successor] “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that…[a younger successor] “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
Breaking News: Representative Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election, ending a 34-year career as one of Congress’s leading liberal voices.
Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year
Representative Jerrold Nadler, the ex-House Judiciary chairman who helped lead President Trump’s impeachments, will not seek re-election in New York.
nyti.ms
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My representative, Emanuel Cleaver, is 3 years OLDER than Jerry Nadler 👀
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that…[a younger successor] “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that…[a younger successor] “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
Not a drill 😠
August 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not a drill 😠
I know this is a hot take for a Kansas Citian, but…Taylor could do so much better than that guy
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I know this is a hot take for a Kansas Citian, but…Taylor could do so much better than that guy
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Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social
Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data
Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30.
n.pr
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social
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I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.
June 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.
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can't say I care for the NKJV translation
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
can't say I care for the NKJV translation
Way to go, Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Breaking News: Canada’s Liberal Party is projected to win, electing Mark Carney, who ran on an anti-Trump platform, as prime minister. nyti.ms/4308UmS
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Way to go, Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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on Jan 20, 2025 the Conservatives were *23 points* ahead in the polls
The last three months of this becoming first possible and then likely should not obscure how *obscene* a bag fumble it has been from the Conservatives. Genuinely one of the all time great implosions? Absolutely generational, it’s hard to remember one like it
CTV HAS DECLARED A LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
on Jan 20, 2025 the Conservatives were *23 points* ahead in the polls
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Literally speedrunning the path to authoritarianism. Straight out of the textbooks.
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
www.cnn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Literally speedrunning the path to authoritarianism. Straight out of the textbooks.
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Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.
Trump now saying — contrary to his previous statements and those of federal officials — that people removed from the U.S. to El Salvador are in the “sole custody” of El Salvador
April 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.
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Republicans in Congress can join Democrats right now to turn off the bogus emergency Trump has declared to impose worldwide tariffs.
Or they can continue to bend the knee to Trump.
Or they can continue to bend the knee to Trump.
April 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Republicans in Congress can join Democrats right now to turn off the bogus emergency Trump has declared to impose worldwide tariffs.
Or they can continue to bend the knee to Trump.
Or they can continue to bend the knee to Trump.
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NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business.
Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business.
Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
@booker.senate.gov and @coons.senate.gov are speaking the language of Christian voters better than any Democrat since Jimmy Carter. I hope the @democrats.org are paying attention!
April 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
@booker.senate.gov and @coons.senate.gov are speaking the language of Christian voters better than any Democrat since Jimmy Carter. I hope the @democrats.org are paying attention!
Who could have guessed
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Who could have guessed
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The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these:
1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
theatln.tc
April 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The government’s statement is a flex, not a confession of error. The important elements of the flex are these:
1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
/1
1. We send enemies to brutal foreign labor camps.
2. We decide who enemies are.
3. We may decide you are an enemy based on a secret informant, or our view of your tattoos.
/1
As bad as I expected it to be, it’s actually worse than I thought in many ways
How far we've come in 69 days:
-Huge swaths of government illegally shut down
-President is refusing to promise to leave office
-Growing impunity for regime allies, targeted prosecutions at opponents
-Regime using funding and legal threats to subvert universities and law firms
-Corruption endemic
-Huge swaths of government illegally shut down
-President is refusing to promise to leave office
-Growing impunity for regime allies, targeted prosecutions at opponents
-Regime using funding and legal threats to subvert universities and law firms
-Corruption endemic
March 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
As bad as I expected it to be, it’s actually worse than I thought in many ways
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The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
President Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
nbcnews.to
March 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The “methods for doing so” are (1) getting two thirds of Congress and three fourths of the states to repeal the 22nd Amendment and (2) declaring himself king.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
That’s it.
Stop treating this despotic bullshit as if it’s some worthwhile thought experiment we have to consider as legitimate.
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Just another Sunday. 🇺🇸
March 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just another Sunday. 🇺🇸
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Empathy is killing western civilization. It is a sign of cultural rot. Unless it is empathy for me, the richest man in the world, losing money
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
March 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Empathy is killing western civilization. It is a sign of cultural rot. Unless it is empathy for me, the richest man in the world, losing money
This is very, very bad
Speaker Mike Johnson floats the possibility of Congress eliminating federal courts.
This comes as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration, along with Trump and his allies calling for the impeachment of certain district court judges.
More: nbcnews.to/42fjve9
This comes as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration, along with Trump and his allies calling for the impeachment of certain district court judges.
More: nbcnews.to/42fjve9
March 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is very, very bad
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By this reasoning, the instant someone is accused of murder, we can do what we want to them because the murder victim didn't have due process. Or if someone is accused of theft, because the victim didn't get due process.
This is beyond just wrong. It's evil.
This is beyond just wrong. It's evil.
KARL: Do they have any due process at all?
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
March 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
By this reasoning, the instant someone is accused of murder, we can do what we want to them because the murder victim didn't have due process. Or if someone is accused of theft, because the victim didn't get due process.
This is beyond just wrong. It's evil.
This is beyond just wrong. It's evil.
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I hope people realize that Trump is trying to make it illegal to criticize his regime.
They are trying to give themselves the ability to spy on, target, and arrest anyone who criticizes them. They want to end freedom of speech in America.
Let’s be clear about what they’re doing.
They are trying to give themselves the ability to spy on, target, and arrest anyone who criticizes them. They want to end freedom of speech in America.
Let’s be clear about what they’re doing.
March 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I hope people realize that Trump is trying to make it illegal to criticize his regime.
They are trying to give themselves the ability to spy on, target, and arrest anyone who criticizes them. They want to end freedom of speech in America.
Let’s be clear about what they’re doing.
They are trying to give themselves the ability to spy on, target, and arrest anyone who criticizes them. They want to end freedom of speech in America.
Let’s be clear about what they’re doing.
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Do you get it yet, law firms?
What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie.
It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie.
It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
March 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Do you get it yet, law firms?
What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie.
It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.
What’s happening isn’t an isolated threat to Paul Weiss or Covington or Perkins Coie.
It’s an existential threat to the independence of the legal profession.
You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next.
Say something. Do something.