@politicalarchivist.bsky.social
Here's the place where I watch (and grump about) politics. Oh, and I'm also an archivist, so there will be plenty of archives and libraries content. Oh, and also genealogy, because I'm one of those, too. And probably some history, too.
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The MAGA right aren’t too bright, deep in the heart of Texas.
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The MAGA right aren’t too bright, deep in the heart of Texas.
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BOOM! Three Judge Panel bars Texas from using new gerrymandered map! I told you Republicans were awful and cheaters, but, more importantly they are completely incompetent!!
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026
The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.
www.texastribune.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
BOOM! Three Judge Panel bars Texas from using new gerrymandered map! I told you Republicans were awful and cheaters, but, more importantly they are completely incompetent!!
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...
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MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.
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Put the Epstein Survivors in front of the House and Senate Committees, under Oath and let the name names. This way we know who were there with him.
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Put the Epstein Survivors in front of the House and Senate Committees, under Oath and let the name names. This way we know who were there with him.
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A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
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You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
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Quality Community Note on Troy Nehls.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Quality Community Note on Troy Nehls.
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Occasional reminder that some levels of subscription to my newsletter get a free signed book from me, and that there's a new book in the works.
www.the-reframe.com/bookish-news/
www.the-reframe.com/bookish-news/
Bookish News
Information about the new book and the state of The Reframe over the remainder of 2025.
www.the-reframe.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Occasional reminder that some levels of subscription to my newsletter get a free signed book from me, and that there's a new book in the works.
www.the-reframe.com/bookish-news/
www.the-reframe.com/bookish-news/
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We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
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I predicted Trump would do this this last Monday on Maddow.
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I predicted Trump would do this this last Monday on Maddow.
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Can’t wait for the corporate media to call sweeping dem election results a “problem for the left.”
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Can’t wait for the corporate media to call sweeping dem election results a “problem for the left.”
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Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Extraordinary how many establishment Democrats really wish they didn't have a talented rising new star who connects to people by talking to them and understanding what their interests are, then speaking to those interests. Like a job where the new guy makes everyone look bad simply by doing the job.
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“In this shameful careless age, we can and should and must choose to not be careless people.”
Moxon’s writing, especially lately, has an essential clarity that slices right through the bullshit and equivocation and hand wringing of mainstream political discourse.
Moxon’s writing, especially lately, has an essential clarity that slices right through the bullshit and equivocation and hand wringing of mainstream political discourse.
I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Shame
Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.
www.the-reframe.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“In this shameful careless age, we can and should and must choose to not be careless people.”
Moxon’s writing, especially lately, has an essential clarity that slices right through the bullshit and equivocation and hand wringing of mainstream political discourse.
Moxon’s writing, especially lately, has an essential clarity that slices right through the bullshit and equivocation and hand wringing of mainstream political discourse.
I qualified for Medicaid today!
It's been a ridiculously hard year. Dad passed, Mom came to live with me. I cut my hours to care for her, and then I got sepsis and nearly died. Medical bills galore.
So I will NOT be shamed for getting needed help. It's what I'VE PAID TAXES FOR for 30+ working yrs!
It's been a ridiculously hard year. Dad passed, Mom came to live with me. I cut my hours to care for her, and then I got sepsis and nearly died. Medical bills galore.
So I will NOT be shamed for getting needed help. It's what I'VE PAID TAXES FOR for 30+ working yrs!
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I qualified for Medicaid today!
It's been a ridiculously hard year. Dad passed, Mom came to live with me. I cut my hours to care for her, and then I got sepsis and nearly died. Medical bills galore.
So I will NOT be shamed for getting needed help. It's what I'VE PAID TAXES FOR for 30+ working yrs!
It's been a ridiculously hard year. Dad passed, Mom came to live with me. I cut my hours to care for her, and then I got sepsis and nearly died. Medical bills galore.
So I will NOT be shamed for getting needed help. It's what I'VE PAID TAXES FOR for 30+ working yrs!
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worth noting that Mamdani did *not* take the bait
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
worth noting that Mamdani did *not* take the bait
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🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Tuesday that it is drafting a new executive order aiming to further restrict voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New Trump Anti-Voting Order Coming, White House Confirms
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Tuesday that it is drafting a new executive order aiming to further restrict voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump's default response to things which he instinctually is aware are bad is to deny knowing about them or to blame someone else.
He can't blame someone else for a pardon.
So, he says he doesn't know about this pardon… which is worse, but he doesn't think that far ahead.
He can't blame someone else for a pardon.
So, he says he doesn't know about this pardon… which is worse, but he doesn't think that far ahead.
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump's default response to things which he instinctually is aware are bad is to deny knowing about them or to blame someone else.
He can't blame someone else for a pardon.
So, he says he doesn't know about this pardon… which is worse, but he doesn't think that far ahead.
He can't blame someone else for a pardon.
So, he says he doesn't know about this pardon… which is worse, but he doesn't think that far ahead.
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This is where I make a minor note that Jewish religious court commentaries have held that the actual "sin of Sodom" (that pushed the Most High to decide to smite it) *wasn't* gay sex, or even angel rape, but a girl subjected to death by scaphism for feeding the poor www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.10...
![The relevant text of Sanhedrin 109b from the Talmud (the world's oldest law library in existence, on matters of Jewish religious law and, historically, civil law as well).
The doom of Sodom, per this particular chapter (which details many, many other instances of Sodom and Gomorrah's general policies of "fuck the poor and we will screw visitors in EVERY way possible"):
"There was a young woman who would take bread out to the poor people in a pitcher so the people of Sodom would not see it. The matter was revealed, and they smeared her with honey and positioned her on the wall of the city, and the hornets came and consumed her. And that is the meaning of that which is written: “And the Lord said: Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great [rabba]” (Genesis 18:20). And Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: Rabba is an allusion to the matter of the young woman [riva] who was killed for her act of kindness. It is due to that sin that the fate of the people of Sodom was sealed."
In other words: Young girl was running an illegal soup kitchen (feeding the poor was actually prohibited by law). Her illegal soup kitchen was discovered, a mob dragged her into the streets, smeared honey on her, and tied her outside the city wall to be eaten alive by insects (in what amounted to an ancient Levantine version of the infamous Persian punishment of "the boats"/scaphism).
Forcing a girl to die by scaphism for the "unforgiveable crime" of *feeding the poor so they wouldn't starve* is what doomed Sodom, and by extension its continuing violations of customs and laws requiring the poor and the visitor and the refugee to be protected.
Hmmm, kind of sounds a lot like the present Dysadministration and Christian Nationalists, no?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ypwzxphp2vrumidtfscckz6l/bafkreicb3tflfwyrn6jrhsikomanqkg4u777n62yqofktd4uvvrwwodqua@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is where I make a minor note that Jewish religious court commentaries have held that the actual "sin of Sodom" (that pushed the Most High to decide to smite it) *wasn't* gay sex, or even angel rape, but a girl subjected to death by scaphism for feeding the poor www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.10...
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Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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