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Dad, husband, recovering NYC lawyer, Gen-X, born in Midwest, raised in Mid-South, humanist ✡ #Dystonia #CripTheVote #ProgressiveDem #BidenHarris2024 #lgm #GoBlue #HTTC
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This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I will say this. If Mike Johnson keeps the House in recess to prevent the release of the Epstein files, this compromise gambit may pay off in the short term, since it makes crystal clear who is responsible for the continuing shutdown. But I’m deeply skeptical that happens.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I will say this. If Mike Johnson keeps the House in recess to prevent the release of the Epstein files, this compromise gambit may pay off in the short term, since it makes crystal clear who is responsible for the continuing shutdown. But I’m deeply skeptical that happens.
This is important. This is happening in a great American city. This is why we fight. #NoKings
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is important. This is happening in a great American city. This is why we fight. #NoKings
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Bleak, important piece by a federal judge about how Trump is destroying the rule of law
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Bleak, important piece by a federal judge about how Trump is destroying the rule of law
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
@schumer.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov this is what you just rewarded with your betrayal of the American people. Impunity for the autocrat. You bent the knee and showed you are on the side of the King. You disgust me. And I am not alone. #NoKings
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
@schumer.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov this is what you just rewarded with your betrayal of the American people. Impunity for the autocrat. You bent the knee and showed you are on the side of the King. You disgust me. And I am not alone. #NoKings
Betrayed. That’s what we’re getting. A knife in the back.
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Betrayed. That’s what we’re getting. A knife in the back.
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Warehouses are not designed to house people. Neither are office buildings.
'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants
The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immi...
www.nbcnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Warehouses are not designed to house people. Neither are office buildings.
@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social get your colleagues to fight for us! Stop this terrible deal!
Should be pretty clear that without House commitment on a vote on ACA extensions, it is purely symbolic as part of the Senate deal
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social get your colleagues to fight for us! Stop this terrible deal!
I don’t think the Senators contemplating this deal grasp how furious Democratic voters are at the possibility of Democrats rolling over. I hope they are tarred and feathered and driven from town on the back of a mule, as is the custom.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I don’t think the Senators contemplating this deal grasp how furious Democratic voters are at the possibility of Democrats rolling over. I hope they are tarred and feathered and driven from town on the back of a mule, as is the custom.
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social if you are not caving to Trump and leaving millions without insurance, I want to hear it. As your constituent I need to know you are working your colleagues to prevent a terrible deal. If you don’t, we (your voters) will make sure you never serve in Congress again.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social if you are not caving to Trump and leaving millions without insurance, I want to hear it. As your constituent I need to know you are working your colleagues to prevent a terrible deal. If you don’t, we (your voters) will make sure you never serve in Congress again.
I’m sure my furious emails and voicemails to Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand opposing a terrible compromise appropriations bill will break through all the noise . . .
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November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I’m sure my furious emails and voicemails to Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand opposing a terrible compromise appropriations bill will break through all the noise . . .
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I didn’t catch the game tonight, but I heard Trump did color commentary and if the @nflbluesky.bsky.social thinks that’s ok then I may need to start calling soccer football and cheering a new sport. Keep Trump out of my sports.
If we got rid of Dan Snyder only to have this jackass insert himself into Washington football . . . well at least we got rid of Dan Snyder. We’ll get rid of Donny soon enough. #HTTC
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I didn’t catch the game tonight, but I heard Trump did color commentary and if the @nflbluesky.bsky.social thinks that’s ok then I may need to start calling soccer football and cheering a new sport. Keep Trump out of my sports.
Yes. If ICE/DHS won’t take off their masks voluntarily, we need to make them. And if they are ashamed or afraid of being identified, they can find a job that doesn’t involve tearing apart families. Or they could have found new jobs if they hadn’t voted for a president intent on tanking the economy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Yes. If ICE/DHS won’t take off their masks voluntarily, we need to make them. And if they are ashamed or afraid of being identified, they can find a job that doesn’t involve tearing apart families. Or they could have found new jobs if they hadn’t voted for a president intent on tanking the economy.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
I am deeply ashamed of what our government is doing in our name. The only thing that keeps me from despairing is righteous fury. And I am so proud of the Americans in heavily impacted areas who are pushing back with non-violent protest and mutual aid. No justice, no peace.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I am deeply ashamed of what our government is doing in our name. The only thing that keeps me from despairing is righteous fury. And I am so proud of the Americans in heavily impacted areas who are pushing back with non-violent protest and mutual aid. No justice, no peace.
Yikes. Trump take Christmas.
UPS and FedEx grounding their fleets of MD-11 cargo planes "out of an abundance of caution" following the deadly crash in Kentucky. www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky...
UPS and FedEx ground MD-11 planes after deadly Kentucky crash
UPS and FedEx are grounding their MD-11 fleets "out of an abundance of caution" after a deadly crash at a UPS hub in Kentucky.
www.cbsnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yikes. Trump take Christmas.
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"you must support Israel for your future safety even as it imperils your current safety by supporting American fascism" is a shit argument anyway. but I guess it's what Zionists have now.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"you must support Israel for your future safety even as it imperils your current safety by supporting American fascism" is a shit argument anyway. but I guess it's what Zionists have now.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Brilliant. I’m so glad this case is before Judge Ellis.
Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Brilliant. I’m so glad this case is before Judge Ellis.
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LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
To any Jewish New Yorkers who choose to make Aliyah to Israel because they’re afraid of this guy, I say good riddance to Islamophobes.
Sincerely, a Jewish New Yorker.
Sincerely, a Jewish New Yorker.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
To any Jewish New Yorkers who choose to make Aliyah to Israel because they’re afraid of this guy, I say good riddance to Islamophobes.
Sincerely, a Jewish New Yorker.
Sincerely, a Jewish New Yorker.
@financialtimes.com Chief Features Writer can, and I mean this with all my heart, go fuck himself.
Chief features writer for the Financial Times thinks Americans are silly for celebrating last night’s victories.
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@financialtimes.com Chief Features Writer can, and I mean this with all my heart, go fuck himself.