Mike Sacks
@mikesacks.bsky.social
NY-17 Congressional Candidate. Democracy advocate. Former political-legal journalist. Retired competitive air guitarist. Second-Best dad ever.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Might I instead suggest a direct contribution to flip the House, fight the fascists, and unfuck our country?
I’m running for Congress.
I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
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I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
Join us: secure.actblue.com/donate/mbs-e...
Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U5...
Unf*ck Our Country
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Might I instead suggest a direct contribution to flip the House, fight the fascists, and unfuck our country?
Tried it myself several years prior and
Checks out
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Tried it myself several years prior and
And to be completist:
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
And to be completist:
(I spent my pandemic commute listening to the classics I “read” in high school and all the massive history tomes I collected as an adult but never got around to reading)
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
(I spent my pandemic commute listening to the classics I “read” in high school and all the massive history tomes I collected as an adult but never got around to reading)
I know you know but for those who don’t
Death by Lightning rules.
It makes Roscoe Conkling out to be a real scumbag, but did you know he also helped establish corporate personhood based on a lie he peddled to SCOTUS in 1882 leveraging his unrefutable authority as the 14A’s sole surviving framer?
From Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations:
It makes Roscoe Conkling out to be a real scumbag, but did you know he also helped establish corporate personhood based on a lie he peddled to SCOTUS in 1882 leveraging his unrefutable authority as the 14A’s sole surviving framer?
From Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations:
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I know you know but for those who don’t
Meanwhile federal agents are out here kidnapping people and terrorizing preschool teachers and pepperspraying babies without fear of those people ever holding them accountable
Get yourself a Congressperson who will codify Bivens.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Meanwhile federal agents are out here kidnapping people and terrorizing preschool teachers and pepperspraying babies without fear of those people ever holding them accountable
Anyone have the actual bill language?
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Anyone have the actual bill language?
I’ve used that gif many times for situations that approximate ICP’s sentiment, but this is the first time dude actually 1:1’d it.
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
a man with a clown face painted on his face drinking a bottle of soda
ALT: a man with a clown face painted on his face drinking a bottle of soda
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November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’ve used that gif many times for situations that approximate ICP’s sentiment, but this is the first time dude actually 1:1’d it.
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
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Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.
I imagine what actually scared them into caving was the threat of Trump getting Republicans to actually eliminate the filibuster
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.
Trump DOJ tells KBJ it will still seek a stay from Judge McConnell’s SNAP funding order, but also notes that this case will moot out should Congress pass and the President sign the CR. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Trump DOJ tells KBJ it will still seek a stay from Judge McConnell’s SNAP funding order, but also notes that this case will moot out should Congress pass and the President sign the CR. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
(Also, Judge Talwani this morning blocked Trump admin from clawing back full SNAP funds some states already sent to people)
![Judge Indira Talwani: ELECTRONIC ORDER: granting in part Plaintiffs' Further Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Emergency
Virtual Hearing Request [ 80 ]. Good cause shown, the USDA Memorandum issued on Saturday, November 8, 2025, directing that "It]o the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025," they "must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025" and shall
"advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum[,l" see Attachment to Defendants' Third Notice to Court 4 [ 79 -1], is STAYED pending further court order. The clerk shall reset the hearing scheduled for November 13, 2025, to a remote hearing today at 3:30 p.m.(SEC) (Entered: 11/10/2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreibmikhlciew25c5k3ygkrf3uvlke6lykjcwl6pvznqbpswduvyu34@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
(Also, Judge Talwani this morning blocked Trump admin from clawing back full SNAP funds some states already sent to people)
KBJ’s back asking “are you sure you want to keep doing this?” to Trump’s DOJ and sets a briefing schedule for her 48-hour window if they do. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
KBJ’s back asking “are you sure you want to keep doing this?” to Trump’s DOJ and sets a briefing schedule for her 48-hour window if they do. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
CA5 went for it and Trump 2.0 ran with it…but I think SCOTUS is gonna reject it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
CA5 went for it and Trump 2.0 ran with it…but I think SCOTUS is gonna reject it.