Jamie Jordan
@jamiejordanatl.bsky.social
Native Atlantan | Strategy Consultant | Government & History Wonk | Urban Planning Enthusiast | Transit Advocate | Anti-Fascist
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
If Democrats are smart, they’d demand the full, unredacted Epstein files—every day. If it implicates prominent Dems, so be it. The country’s future matters more. It’s the only issue that’s managed to crack Trump’s hold on his base since 2016. Run with it; fast and hard.
July 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If Democrats are smart, they’d demand the full, unredacted Epstein files—every day. If it implicates prominent Dems, so be it. The country’s future matters more. It’s the only issue that’s managed to crack Trump’s hold on his base since 2016. Run with it; fast and hard.
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Wow — New Gallup poll:
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
July 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Wow — New Gallup poll:
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
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And WHY, you ask, is this Trump Administration incompetence ( and criminality ) not being punished ?
Well, here is a screenshot of the top topics on the Fox News website just now.
Incompetence and criminality don’t exist if the GOP News Outlet of record doesn’t report it…
Well, here is a screenshot of the top topics on the Fox News website just now.
Incompetence and criminality don’t exist if the GOP News Outlet of record doesn’t report it…
July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And WHY, you ask, is this Trump Administration incompetence ( and criminality ) not being punished ?
Well, here is a screenshot of the top topics on the Fox News website just now.
Incompetence and criminality don’t exist if the GOP News Outlet of record doesn’t report it…
Well, here is a screenshot of the top topics on the Fox News website just now.
Incompetence and criminality don’t exist if the GOP News Outlet of record doesn’t report it…
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"if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
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A Georgia judge was found dead in his chambers on New Year's eve from an apparent suicide. Information about his requests to nullify an election he had lost have brought renewed scrutiny into a loophole in state law.
boltsmag.org/georgia...
boltsmag.org/georgia...
After a Judge’s Death, Renewed Scrutiny for a Georgia Loophole That Can Nullify Elections
A judge’s attempt to resign after his election loss last year could have effectively canceled the will of voters. Critics are demanding an end to the loophole.
boltsmag.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A Georgia judge was found dead in his chambers on New Year's eve from an apparent suicide. Information about his requests to nullify an election he had lost have brought renewed scrutiny into a loophole in state law.
boltsmag.org/georgia...
boltsmag.org/georgia...
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Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
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An astonishing figure in this piece:
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
newrepublic.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
An astonishing figure in this piece:
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
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Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
July 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.
July 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.
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"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
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Seems noteworthy to me that they're admitting that they're sending in the military because of the state government's ideology!!!
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Seems noteworthy to me that they're admitting that they're sending in the military because of the state government's ideology!!!
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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
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I was chief of staff to a Cabinet secretary and vice president. I have a high opinion of the various federal protective services and personnel with whom I worked.
But the fish rots from the head down.
Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.
But the fish rots from the head down.
Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.
June 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I was chief of staff to a Cabinet secretary and vice president. I have a high opinion of the various federal protective services and personnel with whom I worked.
But the fish rots from the head down.
Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.
But the fish rots from the head down.
Today’s thuggish behavior in LA is just one of the many corrupting effects of Trump and Trumpism.
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Kristi Noem should resign in disgrace.
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Kristi Noem should resign in disgrace.
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According to acting DOD Comptroller Bryn McDonnell it'll cost $134M for the deployment of the Guard to Los Angeles.
June 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
According to acting DOD Comptroller Bryn McDonnell it'll cost $134M for the deployment of the Guard to Los Angeles.
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Imagine if President Biden, from the White House, had publicly threatened to level “very serious consequences” against the richest man alive if he *dared* to give any money to the Republican Party.
It would be a scandal that would last years.
That is what Trump just did with respect to Elon Musk.
It would be a scandal that would last years.
That is what Trump just did with respect to Elon Musk.
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Imagine if President Biden, from the White House, had publicly threatened to level “very serious consequences” against the richest man alive if he *dared* to give any money to the Republican Party.
It would be a scandal that would last years.
That is what Trump just did with respect to Elon Musk.
It would be a scandal that would last years.
That is what Trump just did with respect to Elon Musk.
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For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
jamanetwork.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.
New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
www.404media.co
May 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
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When do we start all the winning? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
May 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
When do we start all the winning? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Thanks to Trump's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.
The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump finds more convicted congressional Republicans to reward with pardons
Thanks to the president's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.
www.msnbc.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thanks to Trump's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.
The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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This is a real bill
May 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is a real bill