Jeff Noricks
@jeffnoricks.bsky.social
Detroiter. Ally and progressive UMC member. 30+ year fantasy football player and sports fan. Disney and theme park aficionado - especially theme park music. Digital Marketing Pro.
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This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.*
*Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy
*Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is a core element of conservative philosophy: If a single "undeserving" person is getting a government benefit, the answer is to take it away from millions.*
*Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy
*Offer does not apply to tax loopholes or any other benefit enjoyed by the wealthy
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So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
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the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.
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Important lesson
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Important lesson
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
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Most capitalists are just sad insecure men who need to learn what so many trans people learned - power and hierarchy will never validate you for being you, only how you benefit the system - and that no matter how much you win at the system's game, it'll still make you feel like you're not enough.
October 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Most capitalists are just sad insecure men who need to learn what so many trans people learned - power and hierarchy will never validate you for being you, only how you benefit the system - and that no matter how much you win at the system's game, it'll still make you feel like you're not enough.
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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This book could help save democracy: Allan Lichtman’s Conservative at the Core shows that Trump isn’t an aberration but the culmination of 100 years of conservatism — built on privilege & a version of Christianity far from Jesus’s teachings. Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Conservative...
Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism
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September 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This book could help save democracy: Allan Lichtman’s Conservative at the Core shows that Trump isn’t an aberration but the culmination of 100 years of conservatism — built on privilege & a version of Christianity far from Jesus’s teachings. Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Conservative...
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Legacy media keep referring to the Epstein cover-up as a “scandal,” when they should be calling it a crime.
July 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Legacy media keep referring to the Epstein cover-up as a “scandal,” when they should be calling it a crime.
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Now you can work full-time, year-round, and still drown in student loans. And the Trump administration just made it harder to pay them off.
They wonder why young folks are so pissed.
They wonder why young folks are so pissed.
July 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Now you can work full-time, year-round, and still drown in student loans. And the Trump administration just made it harder to pay them off.
They wonder why young folks are so pissed.
They wonder why young folks are so pissed.
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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
June 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
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My newsletter today contains my thoughts about the Pete Rose reinstatement. Short version: www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
May 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My newsletter today contains my thoughts about the Pete Rose reinstatement. Short version: www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
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Happy Dave Brubeck Day!
(Take Five is written in 5/4 time.)
(Take Five is written in 5/4 time.)
May 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Happy Dave Brubeck Day!
(Take Five is written in 5/4 time.)
(Take Five is written in 5/4 time.)
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
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i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.
JD Vance claims the Maryland father the Trump administration mistakenly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador wasn't "father of the year" bc he had "traffic violations," and says "we do not ask permission from far left Democrats before we deport illegal immigrants."
(He's talking about judges)
(He's talking about judges)
April 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.
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the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
March 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart
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Sports isn't really about winning.
A long meditation on in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/fairness-i...
A long meditation on in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/fairness-i...
Fairness Is Overrated
A meditation on winning, losing, and kids' sports.
www.thebulwark.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sports isn't really about winning.
A long meditation on in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/fairness-i...
A long meditation on in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/fairness-i...
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Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
I've been randomly working through older classic films to fill holes in my "list" while also working to complete artists like Spielberg which led me to watch The Post from 2017 this week for the first time. What a powerful movie and I recommend. Very timely especially in these days.
March 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I've been randomly working through older classic films to fill holes in my "list" while also working to complete artists like Spielberg which led me to watch The Post from 2017 this week for the first time. What a powerful movie and I recommend. Very timely especially in these days.
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tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
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I think this was my favorite photo from Vermont this weekend.
March 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I think this was my favorite photo from Vermont this weekend.