@jkavanagh.bsky.social
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Editor at New York magazine and Condé Nast in a previous life.
Also at Shakespeare on Politics on that other platform.
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Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming?
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
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"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
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Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies
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TONIGHT: Lori Mullins, Director of Operations at Rogers & Brown Custom Brokers and President of Houston Custom Brokers association, talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
Opinion | Trump’s $2K tariff checks are not in the mail
Tariff “dividends” are a foolish promise.
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Spanberger, Sherrill & Mamdani all saw Trump’s contempt for his own voters.
My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Now We Know Trump’s Kryptonite
www.nytimes.com
Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...
Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
Reposted
Trump is now claiming "affordability" issue that caused epic GOP losses is a "con." Repubs aren't allowed to contradict the despot, so that's become GOP gospel. Meanwhile MAGA coalition is fracturing.
On the pod, Bulwark's Joe Perticone is so good in explaining this:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
On the pod, Bulwark's Joe Perticone is so good in explaining this:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
Angry Trump Snaps at Media as Brutal New Data Shows Size of GOP Losses
As Trump seethes at journalists amid the release of striking new analyses of the election, a reporter who covers Congress details how Republicans are barred from acknowledging Trump’s unpopularity—a d...
newrepublic.com
Forty days of shutdown, eight Dems cave, and Trump celebrates by pardoning the architects of his own coup. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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The Longest Shutdown Ends Where It Began
Eight Democrats cross the aisle, Trump redeems his disciples, and America mistakes exhaustion for governance.
open.substack.com
Weeks after Trump publicly smeared George Stephanopoulos, MAGA devotee Scott Bessent was out for a fight with the ABC host.
Bessent Erupts in Shouting Match With Trump’s Nemesis Anchor
Weeks after Trump publicly smeared George Stephanopoulos, MAGA devotee Scott Bessent was out for a fight with the ABC host.
trib.al
Court denies Trump administration’s request to block order to fully fund SNAP as states begin issuing benefits
Appeals court says it won't block order to fully fund SNAP as states begin issuing benefits
A court has denied the administration's request to lift a judge's order that it fully fund SNAP for November, as several states have already begun issuing benefits.
abcnews.go.com
Today officially makes this the longest government shutdown IN HISTORY.
Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. This is their shutdown.
STOP THE REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN.
Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. This is their shutdown.
STOP THE REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN.
