John Hardy
@johnhardy.bsky.social
Liberal. Democrat. Tall. Celt. Husband. Wonk. On-My-Way-To-Oaktown! French Harp. Cancer/Cancer, now in remission! Passion. East Bay. Change. Show Up.
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As they ramp up enforcement in Oregon, federal immigration authorities may be planning to expand their presence on the central coast.
Newport officials raise alarm about possible new ICE facility
Rumors have spread since last week that the Trump administration is planning an outpost on Oregon's central coast.
www.opb.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
As they ramp up enforcement in Oregon, federal immigration authorities may be planning to expand their presence on the central coast.
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
NEW Democratic SENATE LEADERSHIP now !!!
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NEW Democratic SENATE LEADERSHIP now !!!
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Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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This is a civil war.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is a civil war.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
Lincoln had McClellan, Hooker and Pope.
He junked them for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
We have Schumer, Durbin and Cortez Masto in our leadership.
Act Blue, lose my fucking number until we're clean of generals who can't fight or discipline the troops. No cash for this shit.
I’m a-screaming!!!! I’m almost 70 freaking 5, and this collapse of our democratic status quo is unnerving & radical-izing…!! Aaaiiyyeee!!!
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I’m a-screaming!!!! I’m almost 70 freaking 5, and this collapse of our democratic status quo is unnerving & radical-izing…!! Aaaiiyyeee!!!
Exactly.
Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Exactly.
Maybe there’ll have to be a splinter of “New Democrats”, organized & funded, going forward?
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Maybe there’ll have to be a splinter of “New Democrats”, organized & funded, going forward?
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Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
Capitulation to rank cowardly corrupt PREDATORY greedy fascist losers?? Why? It makes NO SENSE…?
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Capitulation to rank cowardly corrupt PREDATORY greedy fascist losers?? Why? It makes NO SENSE…?
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I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
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@mendoza4az.bsky.social is the Marine veteran who will unseat Juan Ciscomani in AZ-06!
JoAnna’s story of lifting herself from humble beginnings in rural AZ to Marine Drill Sergeant to 2 Masters degrees is one of the most compelling I’ve ever heard.
Project 2026-Flip the House!
JoAnna’s story of lifting herself from humble beginnings in rural AZ to Marine Drill Sergeant to 2 Masters degrees is one of the most compelling I’ve ever heard.
Project 2026-Flip the House!
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@mendoza4az.bsky.social is the Marine veteran who will unseat Juan Ciscomani in AZ-06!
JoAnna’s story of lifting herself from humble beginnings in rural AZ to Marine Drill Sergeant to 2 Masters degrees is one of the most compelling I’ve ever heard.
Project 2026-Flip the House!
JoAnna’s story of lifting herself from humble beginnings in rural AZ to Marine Drill Sergeant to 2 Masters degrees is one of the most compelling I’ve ever heard.
Project 2026-Flip the House!
SWEAR IN ADELITA!
Release the Epstein Files!!
(They’re worse than you imagine.)
Release the Epstein Files!!
(They’re worse than you imagine.)
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
SWEAR IN ADELITA!
Release the Epstein Files!!
(They’re worse than you imagine.)
Release the Epstein Files!!
(They’re worse than you imagine.)
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Stefanik only has a seat in Congress because of her gerrymandered red district. The idea that she could win a statewide race in New York is pure fantasy.
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Stefanik only has a seat in Congress because of her gerrymandered red district. The idea that she could win a statewide race in New York is pure fantasy.
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Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...
Amen, Senator!
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Amen, Senator!
Pennsylvania!!! you better be letting Fetterman know about how he’s expected to VOTE on this shutdown BS…
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Pennsylvania!!! you better be letting Fetterman know about how he’s expected to VOTE on this shutdown BS…
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Trump’s lies about gas prices dovetail with his lies about grocery prices:
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Trump’s lies about gas prices dovetail with his lies about grocery prices:
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
Consumers already know his claims are false through their own life experiences, making the whole pitch oddly self-defeating: tinyurl.com/5e9w9fsb
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Simply put, none of this is true. In tomorrow's column I note the average price of gas is more than $3/gallon, not close to $2, but whatever. And the Walmart Thanksgiving thing has already been repeatedly debunked. This is a rambling loon living in a made-up world where others tell him fake things.
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Simply put, none of this is true. In tomorrow's column I note the average price of gas is more than $3/gallon, not close to $2, but whatever. And the Walmart Thanksgiving thing has already been repeatedly debunked. This is a rambling loon living in a made-up world where others tell him fake things.
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Trump/GOP air chaos coming.
Brand it now.
Brand it now.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Trump/GOP air chaos coming.
Brand it now.
Brand it now.
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Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reports across the Middle East that Syria has given the US an airbase outside of Damascus and has given the Trump organization exclusive rights to build a new hotel there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.
Please.
Please.
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.
Please.
Please.
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