Josh Shiffrin
@jshiffrin.bsky.social
Union-side labor lawyer, Bills fan, dad. All views are my own.
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Bibi was able to take the tactical defeat of 10/7, which, for a brief moment, engendered an almost unprecedented international support for Israel, and turn it into the most consequential strategic defeat (by his own standards) in Israel's history.
September 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Bibi was able to take the tactical defeat of 10/7, which, for a brief moment, engendered an almost unprecedented international support for Israel, and turn it into the most consequential strategic defeat (by his own standards) in Israel's history.
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At this point, I don’t think journalism is going to save us. You had the chance and you chose the show over democracy. May God bless the United States of America.
September 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
At this point, I don’t think journalism is going to save us. You had the chance and you chose the show over democracy. May God bless the United States of America.
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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This is the biggest story in America right now.
Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year
Steaks up 16.6%
Apples up 9.6%
Bananas, 6.6%.
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year
Steaks up 16.6%
Apples up 9.6%
Bananas, 6.6%.
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
Grocery prices rise at the fastest pace since 2022 as Trump tariffs bite
On the campaign trail, Trump promised lower grocery prices.
www.axios.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the biggest story in America right now.
Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year
Steaks up 16.6%
Apples up 9.6%
Bananas, 6.6%.
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year
Steaks up 16.6%
Apples up 9.6%
Bananas, 6.6%.
www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
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Oh he's had a stroke
September 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Oh he's had a stroke
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And this happened after widespread elite applause for a party-line Supreme Court decision holding that Biden exceeded his constitutional authority by modifying student loan payments based on a statute authorizing the Secretary of Education to "waive or modify student loan payments"
The implicit elite consensus is that the second election of Donald Trump was also a constitutional convention that established a royal prerogative, reclassified all exclusive congressional powers as exclusive prerogative powers, and nullified all existing law of the land at Trump's sole discretion.
Trump says tariffs on South Korea will go up to 15%, plus gives some more made up numbers
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
And this happened after widespread elite applause for a party-line Supreme Court decision holding that Biden exceeded his constitutional authority by modifying student loan payments based on a statute authorizing the Secretary of Education to "waive or modify student loan payments"
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@cortezmasto.senate.gov & @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us, do you regret voting with Republicans to spike the highly qualified judicial nominee Judge Mangi, a Muslim American nominated by Biden who was subjected to a racist smear campaign?
Let us all know, please. This is why we have Emil Bove.
Let us all know, please. This is why we have Emil Bove.
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
@cortezmasto.senate.gov & @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us, do you regret voting with Republicans to spike the highly qualified judicial nominee Judge Mangi, a Muslim American nominated by Biden who was subjected to a racist smear campaign?
Let us all know, please. This is why we have Emil Bove.
Let us all know, please. This is why we have Emil Bove.
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The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
July 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
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Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
Garland v. Texas Top Cop Shop
www.scotusblog.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
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The antisemites in the White House—who talk of Good Jews and Bad Jews, do Nazi salutes, push white nationalist conspiracy theories, and dine with open Jew haters—are not fighting antisemitism.
That is merely the bad faith BS they’re using as cover for trying to crush higher education.
Not subtle.
That is merely the bad faith BS they’re using as cover for trying to crush higher education.
Not subtle.
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
www.npr.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The antisemites in the White House—who talk of Good Jews and Bad Jews, do Nazi salutes, push white nationalist conspiracy theories, and dine with open Jew haters—are not fighting antisemitism.
That is merely the bad faith BS they’re using as cover for trying to crush higher education.
Not subtle.
That is merely the bad faith BS they’re using as cover for trying to crush higher education.
Not subtle.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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No national parks, no museums, no public schools, no affordable healthcare, no public television/radio, no suicide hotlines, no protections for water, food, or air, no early education or nutrition help for needy small children, no science research, no public health, no history or secular literature.
May 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
No national parks, no museums, no public schools, no affordable healthcare, no public television/radio, no suicide hotlines, no protections for water, food, or air, no early education or nutrition help for needy small children, no science research, no public health, no history or secular literature.
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My big takeaway from tonight’s DC Bar president candidates Q&A is that Pam Bondi’s brother is exactly who you think he is, and it’s very important that DC lawyers cast our votes for @whatajlp.bsky.social by the 6/4 deadline. Search your email for “Vote Today in the D.C. Bar Election” and do it now.
May 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My big takeaway from tonight’s DC Bar president candidates Q&A is that Pam Bondi’s brother is exactly who you think he is, and it’s very important that DC lawyers cast our votes for @whatajlp.bsky.social by the 6/4 deadline. Search your email for “Vote Today in the D.C. Bar Election” and do it now.
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Full story with new details about RFK Jr’s mass firing of the remaining NIOSH workers, including confirmation that the HHS is lying about retaining its program for firefighters with cancer. www.progressreport.news/p/rfk-jr-mas...
RFK Jr. massacre paves way to Give Americans Black Lung Again
The final blow to the agency protecting workers from deadly disease
www.progressreport.news
May 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Full story with new details about RFK Jr’s mass firing of the remaining NIOSH workers, including confirmation that the HHS is lying about retaining its program for firefighters with cancer. www.progressreport.news/p/rfk-jr-mas...
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The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr.
NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.
NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.
May 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr.
NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.
NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.
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Come on @cbsnews.com.
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
May 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Come on @cbsnews.com.
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How can something "first be reported by the Washington Post" if the Post "cited work by an independent journalist" who reported it first?
How hard is it to just give credit to @marisakabas.bsky.social?
How hard is it to just give credit to @marisakabas.bsky.social?
May 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
How can something "first be reported by the Washington Post" if the Post "cited work by an independent journalist" who reported it first?
How hard is it to just give credit to @marisakabas.bsky.social?
How hard is it to just give credit to @marisakabas.bsky.social?
Fiddler on the— oof.
ILL BILL
May 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fiddler on the— oof.
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Biden, 52%: “low end approval”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
At a hundred days into his presidency, Joe Biden had a 52% approval rating.
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
As we near the hundred days mark in his second term, Donald Trump has a 39% approval rating.
Here's how those numbers were framed by the media:
April 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Biden, 52%: “low end approval”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”
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America: where having an autism awareness tattoo means you're an MS-13 gang member, but having a swastika tattoo just means you're a German history buff
April 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
America: where having an autism awareness tattoo means you're an MS-13 gang member, but having a swastika tattoo just means you're a German history buff