Jeannie Berg
@jeannierb.bsky.social
Rural progressive, serious organic apple growing aficionado, fan of cats and outdoor art. Forging a path through scleromyositis, ILD and PAH.
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People need to go to prison for allowing this, especially Trump. If we don't get accountability, selling-our-government to the highest bidder will never stop.
An Emirati investment fund used a Trump-family cryptocurrency in a $2 billion deal. The cryptocurrency had been on the market for five weeks. The Emiratis tell 60 Minutes they chose World Liberty crypto for “business suitability.” cbsn.ws/4r3epvX
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
People need to go to prison for allowing this, especially Trump. If we don't get accountability, selling-our-government to the highest bidder will never stop.
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Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
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👇🎯 Today in "The reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from Trump to GWB/torture to Iran-Contra to Watergate, all the way back to Appomattox - is because there are never any legal or personal consequences for all of awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics.
There is no way to fix our politics that doesn't involve a lot of powerful people going to prison.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
👇🎯 Today in "The reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from Trump to GWB/torture to Iran-Contra to Watergate, all the way back to Appomattox - is because there are never any legal or personal consequences for all of awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics.
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PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE DONALD TRUMP AND THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR AN OUTLET TO EXPRESS THAT
GIVE IT TO THEM
GIVE IT TO THEM
Holy shit, the Prop 50 turnout was massive! NYT projecting 10.6 million votes, CA GOV 2022 was 10.9M votes.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE DONALD TRUMP AND THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR AN OUTLET TO EXPRESS THAT
GIVE IT TO THEM
GIVE IT TO THEM
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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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Statement from all Democratic governors.
June 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Statement from all Democratic governors.
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One side is an unlawfully masked, unbadged secret police rounding and arresting law-abiding essential workers to prop up a fascist regime
The other side is citizens resisting an unjust government, just as MLK taught us to do.
I am 100% on the side of the American people against ICE. Who's with me?
The other side is citizens resisting an unjust government, just as MLK taught us to do.
I am 100% on the side of the American people against ICE. Who's with me?
June 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One side is an unlawfully masked, unbadged secret police rounding and arresting law-abiding essential workers to prop up a fascist regime
The other side is citizens resisting an unjust government, just as MLK taught us to do.
I am 100% on the side of the American people against ICE. Who's with me?
The other side is citizens resisting an unjust government, just as MLK taught us to do.
I am 100% on the side of the American people against ICE. Who's with me?
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As Trump and Musk are mad at each other, let's remember this doesn't mean they and their supporters - the MAGA ethno-nationalists vs the far-right tech anarcho-libertarians - aren't exactly who we thought they were: Exactly as dangerous, as ridiculous, as rabidly opposed to egalitarian democracy.
June 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
As Trump and Musk are mad at each other, let's remember this doesn't mean they and their supporters - the MAGA ethno-nationalists vs the far-right tech anarcho-libertarians - aren't exactly who we thought they were: Exactly as dangerous, as ridiculous, as rabidly opposed to egalitarian democracy.
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Dear Democrats,
Some of y’all are sitting at tables, that we sent you to flip.
Some of y’all are sitting at tables, that we sent you to flip.
May 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Dear Democrats,
Some of y’all are sitting at tables, that we sent you to flip.
Some of y’all are sitting at tables, that we sent you to flip.
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I find myself getting sincerely emotional about this. That he’s, under the circumstances, okay. That his wife and kids know this after an agonizing month without him. That a Democratic politician cared enough to go and see him, even after getting told no at first. Trying matters. Fighting works.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I find myself getting sincerely emotional about this. That he’s, under the circumstances, okay. That his wife and kids know this after an agonizing month without him. That a Democratic politician cared enough to go and see him, even after getting told no at first. Trying matters. Fighting works.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕
(from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕
April 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕
(from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕
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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
Extortion being one of those crimes. We coined a term in our house for people like these lawyers who cave to Trump - extortable. Seems the richer and more powerful you are the more extortable.
One way you can grasp the massive, unprecedented magnitude of his crimes & misdemeanors is that one would not pursue such a massive legal protection racket unless one had committed massive, unprecedented crimes & misdemeanors.
Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes.
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
April 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Extortion being one of those crimes. We coined a term in our house for people like these lawyers who cave to Trump - extortable. Seems the richer and more powerful you are the more extortable.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
April 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸
March 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸
Yes. They are evil. I'm so glad Nick Kristof is able to bring back these accounts of the impact of Trump and Musk. Their overt desire to increase the suffering and death all over the world should terrify us.
We are used to talking about Trump and Musk as autocratic and fascistic; we say a lot about how they are trampling on the Constitution, undermining American democracy, kissing up to dictators, and making the world more dangerous.
But we should also say much more often and openly that they are evil.
But we should also say much more often and openly that they are evil.
"You never forget the sight of children starving to death."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Yes. They are evil. I'm so glad Nick Kristof is able to bring back these accounts of the impact of Trump and Musk. Their overt desire to increase the suffering and death all over the world should terrify us.
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If this is how you fight, step the hell aside. Democrats couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.
Big Uvalde cop energy by your Vichy caucus here.
Big Uvalde cop energy by your Vichy caucus here.
March 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If this is how you fight, step the hell aside. Democrats couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.
Big Uvalde cop energy by your Vichy caucus here.
Big Uvalde cop energy by your Vichy caucus here.
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“I’m a normie mainstream lib and I want to burn the United States free of MAGA by any means necessary”
March 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“I’m a normie mainstream lib and I want to burn the United States free of MAGA by any means necessary”
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Senate Democrats were offered nothing in exchange for voting for a GOP budget and decided it was a deal that was too good to pass up
March 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Senate Democrats were offered nothing in exchange for voting for a GOP budget and decided it was a deal that was too good to pass up
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I'm so proud to have him as my senator.
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Wyden’s “over my dead body” attitude toward the privatization of social security on the senate finance committee is bracing, but I also think he just made a really impactful smart point about how Medicaid cuts mean nursing homes will close in Oregon. that might be a useful data point for some folks
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I'm so proud to have him as my senator.
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It is time for more Democrats to get themselves thrown out of this room
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It is time for more Democrats to get themselves thrown out of this room