sasha
@sashax.bsky.social
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sasha
@sashax.bsky.social
· Feb 13
Gov't Digital Service progression:
year 1: "Why y'all talk about procurement so much? How boring."
yr 2: "Man, procurement's a pain."
yr 3: "We should really consider doing something about procurement"
yr 4: "Holy crap there's nothing more important than solving procurement!"
year 1: "Why y'all talk about procurement so much? How boring."
yr 2: "Man, procurement's a pain."
yr 3: "We should really consider doing something about procurement"
yr 4: "Holy crap there's nothing more important than solving procurement!"
On the scale of indignities the internet inflicts on us it's pretty low but I still harbor a hatred for the retargeting nonsense where a company sends you an ad and you click on it and then they send you like three emails a day for a week asking "do you still want it? did you forget about it?" etc.
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
On the scale of indignities the internet inflicts on us it's pretty low but I still harbor a hatred for the retargeting nonsense where a company sends you an ad and you click on it and then they send you like three emails a day for a week asking "do you still want it? did you forget about it?" etc.
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Democrats Relent on Shutdown. Sadly this was so predictable. Cowards.
(gift article) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
(gift article) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Moves to Vote as Democratic Defectors Relent on Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Democrats Relent on Shutdown. Sadly this was so predictable. Cowards.
(gift article) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
(gift article) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Abundance fans, come get your boy
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is very right that Ezra Klein is very wrong, both morally and strategically, with this argument that throwing half the population under the bus (the half that already leans more Democratic).
Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion
Abortion *is* a big tent issue
jessica.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Abundance fans, come get your boy
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We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.
Oh look Malcolm Gladwell is even more wrong about trans women than he is about everything else. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/icon...
Iconic writer Malcolm Gladwell says he's "100%" against trans women in sports: "This is nuts." - LGBTQ Nation
Gladwell said he is "ashamed" he once supported trans inclusion: "It was a particular moment, which has passed."
www.lgbtqnation.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Oh look Malcolm Gladwell is even more wrong about trans women than he is about everything else. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/icon...
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”
July 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”
Once you have a lemon tree that "when life gives you lemons" saying starts to make sense
July 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Once you have a lemon tree that "when life gives you lemons" saying starts to make sense
In a museum a couple days ago I noticed they referred to dates as B.C.E and C.E. instead of B.C. and A.D. I'm surprised Trump hasn't complained about this. I mean I realize museums are not his turf, but it seems like the kind of thing that he'd denounce as Too Woke.
July 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In a museum a couple days ago I noticed they referred to dates as B.C.E and C.E. instead of B.C. and A.D. I'm surprised Trump hasn't complained about this. I mean I realize museums are not his turf, but it seems like the kind of thing that he'd denounce as Too Woke.
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As I always say, as a Jewish person, I am mortified at what is being done under the guise of "fighting antisemitism."
July 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
As I always say, as a Jewish person, I am mortified at what is being done under the guise of "fighting antisemitism."
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Why are they they fighting Zohran harder than they’re fighting Trump
Hakeem Jeffries has reportedly told allies that if Zohran Mamdani wins, he can't become Speaker of the House.
Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...
Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...
Party Control Is Dead
From Mamdani to Trump’s Epstein fiasco, Americans are turning on their leaders
www.kenklippenstein.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Why are they they fighting Zohran harder than they’re fighting Trump
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Whereas a lot of Jews are like “as a normal person, Mamdani thinks what’s happening in Gaza is outrageous”
Kind of weirded out by all of these non-Jewish politicians claiming to speak on behalf of the Jews, I have to say.
July 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Whereas a lot of Jews are like “as a normal person, Mamdani thinks what’s happening in Gaza is outrageous”
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If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.
July 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.
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stop running away from trans people and fight back
Democrat Billie Butler has won a special election for the NH House by a 55-45 margin, very close to Harris' 55-44 margin in 2024.
Butler, a trans woman, was the target of vicious anti-trans attacks by Republicans.
Background on the race: www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/p...
Butler, a trans woman, was the target of vicious anti-trans attacks by Republicans.
Background on the race: www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/p...
June 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
stop running away from trans people and fight back
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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sorry I can't get over how cynical this is. dude *just* voted for a bill that was pushed by the crypto lobby and left out any protections against Trump's corruption. *now* he's claiming to address the issue with a bill that will never pass? this is galling even by modern Dem standards
Donald Trump and other senior administration officials have made a fortune off of crypto schemes.
Today, I'm introducing the COIN Act to put a stop to this corruption in plain sight.
youtu.be/4zOtklEunwE
Today, I'm introducing the COIN Act to put a stop to this corruption in plain sight.
youtu.be/4zOtklEunwE
We Can Stop Trump's Crypto Corruption – Today I'm Introducing a Bill to Do It
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
sorry I can't get over how cynical this is. dude *just* voted for a bill that was pushed by the crypto lobby and left out any protections against Trump's corruption. *now* he's claiming to address the issue with a bill that will never pass? this is galling even by modern Dem standards
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The Bubonic Plague has a higher approval rating than war with Iran.
June 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The Bubonic Plague has a higher approval rating than war with Iran.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that the continued existence of human civilization is a partisan issue.
At GSA, in the Biden administration, we were determined to build as much federal EV infrastructure as quickly as possible: buy vehicles, run greater power capacity to facilities, install chargers. Because a Republican administration wouldn’t undo all of *that*.
Yet here we are:
Yet here we are:
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that the continued existence of human civilization is a partisan issue.
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If there's one legacy of the War in Iraq that Democrats should have internalized, it's the fact that those who lined up behind the war drums all came to regret that decision while those who wisely refused to go along were soon vindicated.
One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!
One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!
UPDATE — At least *37* members of Congress have now signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran.
+5 since yesterday.
A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60
+5 since yesterday.
A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans strongly disapprove of US involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran: 16-60
June 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If there's one legacy of the War in Iraq that Democrats should have internalized, it's the fact that those who lined up behind the war drums all came to regret that decision while those who wisely refused to go along were soon vindicated.
One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!
One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!
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There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
June 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
A clipart comic called Get Your War On.
Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...
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When DOGE loses, working people across the country win.
Another DOGE flip-flop
www.politico.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
When DOGE loses, working people across the country win.
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Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
June 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.