Jeff Witter
@jeffstateofmind.bsky.social
"Have your haters become your waiters when you sit down at the table of success." - Mayor Eric Adams
Progressive politics, marketing, Bay Area sports, and redwood forest enthusiast.
📍Humboldt County, CA 🌊🌲🏔️
Progressive politics, marketing, Bay Area sports, and redwood forest enthusiast.
📍Humboldt County, CA 🌊🌲🏔️
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
I see Syria's President is going for late-aughts Rick Ross album cover vibes with his WaPo photoshoot
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I see Syria's President is going for late-aughts Rick Ross album cover vibes with his WaPo photoshoot
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It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
Among the many reasons the Dodgers deserve to lose this World Series, having a pitching coach who resembles a henchman in one of the Indiana Jones movies should be on the list.
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Among the many reasons the Dodgers deserve to lose this World Series, having a pitching coach who resembles a henchman in one of the Indiana Jones movies should be on the list.
In the end, maybe the popular knapsack with many different locations was really the friends we made along the way.
September 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In the end, maybe the popular knapsack with many different locations was really the friends we made along the way.
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For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
September 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
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“We’re fine with corruption if comes with terrorizing brown people.”
Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.
Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.
September 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“We’re fine with corruption if comes with terrorizing brown people.”
Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.
Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.
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This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
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The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it
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This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
September 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
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The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
August 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
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(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man
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Parks & Recreation and Hamilton are like the apotheosis of Obama era pop culture. They’re like Pompei mosaics completed the week before Vesuvius blew
July 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Parks & Recreation and Hamilton are like the apotheosis of Obama era pop culture. They’re like Pompei mosaics completed the week before Vesuvius blew
Qanon has become fully integrated into the right-wing movement. Violent retribution as a core tenet of their belief system.
BOLLING: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Comey, Clapper -- send 'em all to Guantanamo Bay. Lock 'em all up.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: It's been referred and let's hope they prosecute
SEN. RON JOHNSON: It's been referred and let's hope they prosecute
July 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Qanon has become fully integrated into the right-wing movement. Violent retribution as a core tenet of their belief system.
The closed Costco food court is a canary in the coal mine for the Era of American Empire
July 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The closed Costco food court is a canary in the coal mine for the Era of American Empire
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People still don't get it.
People vote for Trump because they want to see the people they hate - liberals, Dems, gay people, trans folks, immigrants, etc - disenfranchised, imprisoned, tortured, & killed, & they think (rightly) that Trump is the person mostly likely to deliver that glorious vision.
People vote for Trump because they want to see the people they hate - liberals, Dems, gay people, trans folks, immigrants, etc - disenfranchised, imprisoned, tortured, & killed, & they think (rightly) that Trump is the person mostly likely to deliver that glorious vision.
July 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
People still don't get it.
People vote for Trump because they want to see the people they hate - liberals, Dems, gay people, trans folks, immigrants, etc - disenfranchised, imprisoned, tortured, & killed, & they think (rightly) that Trump is the person mostly likely to deliver that glorious vision.
People vote for Trump because they want to see the people they hate - liberals, Dems, gay people, trans folks, immigrants, etc - disenfranchised, imprisoned, tortured, & killed, & they think (rightly) that Trump is the person mostly likely to deliver that glorious vision.
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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every labubu is a policy failure
July 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
every labubu is a policy failure
Nothing beats a jet 2 holiday
July 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Nothing beats a jet 2 holiday
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July 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Richardton, ND
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
June 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
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yeah man maybe you shouldn't have orchestrated your retirement so that your fascist beer clerk could take the bench
Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that hostile political discourse and threats to judges are damaging the ability of the US to serve as an example of democracy worldwide.
“Democracy is at risk. Freedom is at risk, ” said Kennedy.
“Democracy is at risk. Freedom is at risk, ” said Kennedy.
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’
The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.
www.politico.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
yeah man maybe you shouldn't have orchestrated your retirement so that your fascist beer clerk could take the bench