Jen Hines
@ohaihines.bsky.social
Just a citizen who cares about democracy and responsible governance
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
- “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell
#COP30 #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell
#COP30 #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
- “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell
#COP30 #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell
#COP30 #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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2. “Jews are running society, women need to shut the fuck up, Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part, and we would live in paradise,” Fuentes said on the March 28 edition of his podcast.
These companies are sponsoring Tucker Carlson while he mainstreams white supremacy
Carlson recently conducted a softball interview of Nick Fuentes, who advocates for racial segregation, praises Hitler, and argues that women should not be allowed to vote.
popular.info
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
2. “Jews are running society, women need to shut the fuck up, Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part, and we would live in paradise,” Fuentes said on the March 28 edition of his podcast.
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A baby was pepper-sprayed by CPB here in Chicago this weekend. A BABY. DHS says it never happened but here's the video evidence. It shows: "a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car."
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal ‘blitz’
YouTube video by Chicago Tribune
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A baby was pepper-sprayed by CPB here in Chicago this weekend. A BABY. DHS says it never happened but here's the video evidence. It shows: "a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car."
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...
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How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.
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“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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Jim Comey's appendix of Trump attacks was 60 pages (tho it did not claim to be comprehensive).
Tish James' is 113 pages.
Tish James' is 113 pages.
![Appendix of Public Statements of President Donald J. Trump About or Concerning AG James or this Case 1
No. Date/Time
(ET)
Location Speaker Comment / Post Link
2019–20212
1 3/13/2019
10:26 AM
X (formerly
Twitter)
Trump All part of the Witch Hunt Hoax. Started by little Eric Schneiderman &
Cuomo. So many leaving New York! [Replying to @GOP statement: The
NY Attorney General called President Trump an “illegitimate president.”
She has proven to have a vendetta against @realDonaldTrump & is using
her position of power to baselessly smear the President & the work he’s done
for the American people.]
https://perma.c
c/4NS6-UGEV
2 3/13/2019
10:26 AM
X (formerly
Twitter)
Trump RT @DiamondandSilk: AG Letitia James of New York is abusing her power
by targeting the POTUS. Using the Attorney General office as a weapon to
deliberately target the President because of Political Bias should be against
the Law and a violation of the Hatch Act!
https://perma.c
c/553N-C2GE
3 4/29/2019
8:18 AM
X (formerly
Twitter)
Trump The NRA is under siege by Cuomo and the New York State A.G., who are
illegally using the State’s legal apparatus to take down and destroy this very
important organization, & others. It must get its act together quickly, stop the
internal fighting, & get back to GREATNESS - FAST!
https://perma.c
c/6RA9-DE98
4 7/1/2019
12:10 PM
X (formerly
Twitter)
Trump It is very hard and expensive to live in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo
uses his Attorney General as a bludgeoning tool for his own purposes. They
sue on everything, always in search of a crime. I even got sued on a
Foundation which took Zero rent & expenses & gave away...
https://perma.c
c/Q477-7HSN
5 7/1/2019
12:10 PM
X (formerly
Twitter)
Trump ....more money than it had. Going on for years, originally brought by
Crooked Hillary’s Campaign Chair, A.G. Eric Schneiderman, until forced to
https://perma.c
c/89EZ-UP7B
1 This appendix reflects the best efforts of counsel to compile all of the President’s statements relevant to…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreifytqdmsve5ggk4sft62qf7l55rkqv5wjq7zrjumzb4a3p4w73r5u@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Jim Comey's appendix of Trump attacks was 60 pages (tho it did not claim to be comprehensive).
Tish James' is 113 pages.
Tish James' is 113 pages.
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Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
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SCOOP: Trump has raised about $1.9 billion from an array of corporate donors.
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
Scoop: Trump's $2 billion fundraising binge
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
www.axios.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
SCOOP: Trump has raised about $1.9 billion from an array of corporate donors.
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
No president has raised so much money, so quickly, for so many different reasons.
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I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out
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"Principled conservatives" spending decades pretending as if the conservative movement wasnt actively recruiting and cultivating theocratic fascists in mega churches across the country to power their imperialist project.
What the Tucker/Nick Fuentes fiasco really reveals is that the "white nationalist wing of the GOP" is "a major force within internal GOP politics," says @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social.
On the pod, David is so good on the GOP's 50-year refusal to police its extremists:
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
On the pod, David is so good on the GOP's 50-year refusal to police its extremists:
newrepublic.com/article/2026...
MAGA Rages at Tucker Carlson after “Nazi” Shocker Reveals Too Much
As Tucker faces criticism for hosting white nationalist Nick Fuentes, an expert on conservatism decodes how this tells the bigger story of the American right’s refusal to police its extremists for the...
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Principled conservatives" spending decades pretending as if the conservative movement wasnt actively recruiting and cultivating theocratic fascists in mega churches across the country to power their imperialist project.
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rest in piss www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Cheney’s policies as VP caused immense human suffering on a global scale
Framing him as a 'defender of democracy' simply because he endorsed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump is a moral failure.
www.aljazeera.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
rest in piss www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Page One in Austin:
“James Comey and Letitia James are good examples,” Kendall said. “There’s no reason to think they won’t do the same to retired generals ..”
“James Comey and Letitia James are good examples,” Kendall said. “There’s no reason to think they won’t do the same to retired generals ..”
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Page One in Austin:
“James Comey and Letitia James are good examples,” Kendall said. “There’s no reason to think they won’t do the same to retired generals ..”
“James Comey and Letitia James are good examples,” Kendall said. “There’s no reason to think they won’t do the same to retired generals ..”
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Wow. Former vice president Dick Cheney has died at 84-years-old.
Cheney was an instrumental proponent of the Iraq war, the expansion of executive powers, the use of torture, and the expansion of domestic surveillance in the US.
Cheney was an instrumental proponent of the Iraq war, the expansion of executive powers, the use of torture, and the expansion of domestic surveillance in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Wow. Former vice president Dick Cheney has died at 84-years-old.
Cheney was an instrumental proponent of the Iraq war, the expansion of executive powers, the use of torture, and the expansion of domestic surveillance in the US.
Cheney was an instrumental proponent of the Iraq war, the expansion of executive powers, the use of torture, and the expansion of domestic surveillance in the US.
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‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.msnbc.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
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Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracist, is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon.
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon
The far-right activist has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracist, is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon.
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Legitimate news organizations out.
Crazy social media conspiracy theorists in.
That’s the result of Trump’s decades-long attack on “fake news” - now it really is fake.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The most immediate and important thing Congress can do is to call Adm Holsey, Lt Gen McGee and other cashiered officers to testify about their experience since Trump took office. Unless, that is, the GOP majority can’t handle the truth about what Trump is doing to the armed forces. wapo.st/4nEItvh
Opinion | Why is Trump politicizing the military? Ask the fired generals.
Why are so many generals getting fired? Congress should summon them to find out.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The most immediate and important thing Congress can do is to call Adm Holsey, Lt Gen McGee and other cashiered officers to testify about their experience since Trump took office. Unless, that is, the GOP majority can’t handle the truth about what Trump is doing to the armed forces. wapo.st/4nEItvh
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Just as a reminder: New York is a donor state and massively so.
Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just as a reminder: New York is a donor state and massively so.
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"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder
The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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In the latest chapter of Too Many Journalists Are Not Standing Up For Each Other or Even For Themselves:
A highly paid CBS News person sat there and listened to Trump lie about his lawsuit against her own network, and she just let it slide.
www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
A highly paid CBS News person sat there and listened to Trump lie about his lawsuit against her own network, and she just let it slide.
www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In the latest chapter of Too Many Journalists Are Not Standing Up For Each Other or Even For Themselves:
A highly paid CBS News person sat there and listened to Trump lie about his lawsuit against her own network, and she just let it slide.
www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
A highly paid CBS News person sat there and listened to Trump lie about his lawsuit against her own network, and she just let it slide.
www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Who knows less -- Speaker Mike Johnson or Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes? Roll the clips...
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Who knows less -- Speaker Mike Johnson or Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes? Roll the clips...
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Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.