@nfemia.bsky.social
Veteran Washington DC union-side labor lawyer; Congressional Campaign Treasurer; President of Non-Profit promoting youth baseball and softball; still just a boy from New Jersey.
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Brown: In a state of 12 million people, half a million are going to lose their insurance.
People didn’t vote for that. They didn’t vote for higher grocery bills. They didn’t vote for veterans’ benefits being slashed. They didn’t vote for any of this.
People didn’t vote for that. They didn’t vote for higher grocery bills. They didn’t vote for veterans’ benefits being slashed. They didn’t vote for any of this.
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Brown: In a state of 12 million people, half a million are going to lose their insurance.
People didn’t vote for that. They didn’t vote for higher grocery bills. They didn’t vote for veterans’ benefits being slashed. They didn’t vote for any of this.
People didn’t vote for that. They didn’t vote for higher grocery bills. They didn’t vote for veterans’ benefits being slashed. They didn’t vote for any of this.
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Who actually runs universities isn't who a lot of commentators say runs universities. As @himself.bsky.social writes, that helps explain why Columbia appeased Trump administration extortion, rather than fight it.
This Simple Chart Explains Why Columbia Caved To Trump
Which Muppets Actually Run the University
www.programmablemutter.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Who actually runs universities isn't who a lot of commentators say runs universities. As @himself.bsky.social writes, that helps explain why Columbia appeased Trump administration extortion, rather than fight it.
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Captures the times:
-The White House is actively upset about a South Park episode
-The president is so upset he's having a spokesperson comment on it
-The spokesperson's best idea is to call the show irrelevant (then why are you commenting on it?) and say it's hypocritical for "The Left" to like it
-The White House is actively upset about a South Park episode
-The president is so upset he's having a spokesperson comment on it
-The spokesperson's best idea is to call the show irrelevant (then why are you commenting on it?) and say it's hypocritical for "The Left" to like it
Donald Trump’s White House is melting down over Wednesday night’s South Park premiere, which just so happened to attack the president’s “teeny tiny” manhood.
Trump White House Rages Over 'South Park' Episode, Calls Show 'Fourth-Rate'
The White House is furious at "South Park" after the show's premiere lampooned Donald Trump, depicting him in bed with Satan.
www.rollingstone.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Captures the times:
-The White House is actively upset about a South Park episode
-The president is so upset he's having a spokesperson comment on it
-The spokesperson's best idea is to call the show irrelevant (then why are you commenting on it?) and say it's hypocritical for "The Left" to like it
-The White House is actively upset about a South Park episode
-The president is so upset he's having a spokesperson comment on it
-The spokesperson's best idea is to call the show irrelevant (then why are you commenting on it?) and say it's hypocritical for "The Left" to like it
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Is it possible that Josh Hawley does not share your values, nor have your best interests at heart, and therefore giving advice that's in line with advancing his interests, rather than advancing your interests or values?
NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of attacking abortion rights, to a lifetime federal judgeship.
“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social
“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social
Oops! Pro-Choice Senator Admits Vote For Anti-Abortion Judge Was ‘A Mistake’
The Maine senator says he was "not fully” aware of Josh Divine’s record, but "took Josh Hawley’s advice” to confirm him to a lifetime federal judgeship.
www.huffpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Is it possible that Josh Hawley does not share your values, nor have your best interests at heart, and therefore giving advice that's in line with advancing his interests, rather than advancing your interests or values?
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CHRIS MURPHY AND KATIE BRITT'S HEATED EXCHANGE ON THE SENATE FLOOR
July 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
CHRIS MURPHY AND KATIE BRITT'S HEATED EXCHANGE ON THE SENATE FLOOR
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"We're literally conducting an amazing science experiment, which is if you replaced the top of the government of the world's big hyperpower with a gang of chimpanzees from a local circus, how bad could it go?" Mike Murphy talks the long-term costs of incompetence with @timmiller.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"We're literally conducting an amazing science experiment, which is if you replaced the top of the government of the world's big hyperpower with a gang of chimpanzees from a local circus, how bad could it go?" Mike Murphy talks the long-term costs of incompetence with @timmiller.bsky.social
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Powell called out Trump for making stuff up to smear him
"I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."
"I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."
July 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Powell called out Trump for making stuff up to smear him
"I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."
"I'm not aware of that, Mr President. I haven't heard that from anybody at the Fed. You just added in a third building is what that is. No, it was built five years ago. We finished it five years ago. It's not new."
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Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
www.inquirer.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Growing up after WWII, I always hoped concentration camps were history, not current events. But here we are, with thousands of migrants in squalid conditions, no due process, and $45B in new camps to come
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
Coming to terms with an American nightmare. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK:
- It's a framework not a deal
- They're our 11th largest trading partner
- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)
- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)
It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.
- It's a framework not a deal
- They're our 11th largest trading partner
- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)
- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)
It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK:
- It's a framework not a deal
- They're our 11th largest trading partner
- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)
- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)
It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.
- It's a framework not a deal
- They're our 11th largest trading partner
- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)
- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)
It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
Anti-Trump demonstrators outside the entrance to the Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, April 19. (The VP lives on the grounds of the Observatory). #handsoff
April 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Anti-Trump demonstrators outside the entrance to the Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, April 19. (The VP lives on the grounds of the Observatory). #handsoff
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AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it
April 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it
April 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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Must be a lot of waste, fraud and abuse in there.
I think we should send in a bunch of middle-aged civil servants from the federal government and give them the power to unplug or destroy whatever looks funny to them until Twitter is finally working efficiently.
I think we should send in a bunch of middle-aged civil servants from the federal government and give them the power to unplug or destroy whatever looks funny to them until Twitter is finally working efficiently.
X down: Twitter not working amid major outage
X down: Twitter not working amid major outage
X has gone down in what appears to be a major and global outage.
www.independent.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Must be a lot of waste, fraud and abuse in there.
I think we should send in a bunch of middle-aged civil servants from the federal government and give them the power to unplug or destroy whatever looks funny to them until Twitter is finally working efficiently.
I think we should send in a bunch of middle-aged civil servants from the federal government and give them the power to unplug or destroy whatever looks funny to them until Twitter is finally working efficiently.
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This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.
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The question now--Who else will follow Ruth and who will stay?
Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis
March 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The question now--Who else will follow Ruth and who will stay?
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Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are *unpopular*
That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.
That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are *unpopular*
That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.
That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.
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Wear MAGA hats, beat up police officers, try to assassinate elected officials, & join a mob to overturn a free and fair election? All good! You get pardoned!
Exercise your free speech to protest Israel's war? You get called a supporter of terrorism, detained, and deported.
Freedom!
Exercise your free speech to protest Israel's war? You get called a supporter of terrorism, detained, and deported.
Freedom!
March 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wear MAGA hats, beat up police officers, try to assassinate elected officials, & join a mob to overturn a free and fair election? All good! You get pardoned!
Exercise your free speech to protest Israel's war? You get called a supporter of terrorism, detained, and deported.
Freedom!
Exercise your free speech to protest Israel's war? You get called a supporter of terrorism, detained, and deported.
Freedom!
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They disappeared a green card holder and threatened to arrest a citizen.
We are in some serious trouble in ‘democratic’ America.
We are in some serious trouble in ‘democratic’ America.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
They disappeared a green card holder and threatened to arrest a citizen.
We are in some serious trouble in ‘democratic’ America.
We are in some serious trouble in ‘democratic’ America.
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.
March 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.
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There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.