Steve Henley
@steveoly.bsky.social
Curator of local foods. New College of Florida econ grad, FSU Law, abd PhD Criminal Justice. Retired court analyst. Collector of stories, Anthony Bourdain of dive bars.
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Nancy Pelosi was an historically successful Speaker because she would never have let her most vulnerable members come within eyesight of a dumpster fire bill like this. She protected them - Johnson is making his members walk the plank.
July 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Nancy Pelosi was an historically successful Speaker because she would never have let her most vulnerable members come within eyesight of a dumpster fire bill like this. She protected them - Johnson is making his members walk the plank.
Nancy Pelosi was an historically successful Speaker because she would never let her most vulnerable members get within eyesight of a dumpster fire of a bill like this.
HOUSE UPDATE: The procedural vote to advance the Senate-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act is stuck at 204-212 and is being kept open.
16 Republicans haven't voted.
Democrats have full attendance (something they've struggled with all year) and are unanimously voting no.
16 Republicans haven't voted.
Democrats have full attendance (something they've struggled with all year) and are unanimously voting no.
July 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Nancy Pelosi was an historically successful Speaker because she would never let her most vulnerable members get within eyesight of a dumpster fire of a bill like this.
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Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would have never allowed her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
July 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would have never allowed her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would have never allowed her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
CNN: Are you confident Democrats can convince Americans that the impacts of this bill are Republicans' fault? That is a messaging challenge
RASKIN: Look, it's a party-line vote
RASKIN: Look, it's a party-line vote
July 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would have never allowed her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
The good people of Utah need to rid themselves of this embarrassment. Even if with another Republican. Someone with actual values and humanity.
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The good people of Utah need to rid themselves of this embarrassment. Even if with another Republican. Someone with actual values and humanity.
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
4 Republican votes in the House.
That's it.
That's what's needed to kill this horrific, sinful, and murderous GOP Billionaire Bill.
Do 4 Republicans have the moral courage to do it?
That's it.
That's what's needed to kill this horrific, sinful, and murderous GOP Billionaire Bill.
Do 4 Republicans have the moral courage to do it?
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
Enraging. Murkowski voted for a measure she acknowledges is harmful for "the rest of our nation"—and she had to know the odds are that the Trump-pressured GOP House will accept this version. What a brazen display of moral cowardice and selfishness. She is complicit in the wrongdoing she decries.
Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-AK): "This has been an awful process—a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution. While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation—and we all know it"
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
It’s tempting to think the Senate passing the One Big Beautiful Bill makes this thing a done deal.
It may have been the easy part.
House hardliners have already called this a “nonstarter.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
It may have been the easy part.
House hardliners have already called this a “nonstarter.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
July 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Nancy Pelosi was a historically successful Speaker for lots of reasons, very high among them is because she would never allow her vulnerable members come within miles of a vote as disastrous as this one will be for purple district Republicans.
Best thing for him to do is vote "no" on this bill tomorrow then resign.
Mr. Fetterman, it's really this simple: you're receiving $174,000 a year for a position to which you were elected after asking people to trust that you'd be an unwavering champion for working class families.
I don't give a fuck that you missed your beach trip. Stop whining and get back to work.
I don't give a fuck that you missed your beach trip. Stop whining and get back to work.
July 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Best thing for him to do is vote "no" on this bill tomorrow then resign.
Ohhh SNAP!! (Pass the popcorn!)
July 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Ohhh SNAP!! (Pass the popcorn!)
They wear masks for the same reason bank robbers and KKK terrorists wore masks: to avoid identification and thereby to escape culpability for their wrongful acts.
We really need to start asking why the ICE agents are such snowflakes that they need to hide their identities when they arrest gardeners and taco truck drivers? Hundreds of thousands of state and local cops don't feel the need to hide their faces and identities.
Yeah I bet especially the ones in swing districts who are going to be clobbered over this
July 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
They wear masks for the same reason bank robbers and KKK terrorists wore masks: to avoid identification and thereby to escape culpability for their wrongful acts.
That'll work.
July 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
That'll work.
It's always TACO time for the deficit hawks. They use debt to justify budget cuts, but only want tax cuts. Same old song and dance for decades.
Freedom Caucus is the biggest bunch of frauds in Congress. They talk a big game about debt on social media and Fox, then always vote to explode it followed by lame excuses.
June 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's always TACO time for the deficit hawks. They use debt to justify budget cuts, but only want tax cuts. Same old song and dance for decades.
Unfortunate that a eight months after MAGAs had a meltdown and were demanding she be tarred and feathered the event is long forgotten and the collapse of this frivolous lawsuit will be completely unknown to them.
Trump folds in his absurd lawsuit against Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register
June 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Unfortunate that a eight months after MAGAs had a meltdown and were demanding she be tarred and feathered the event is long forgotten and the collapse of this frivolous lawsuit will be completely unknown to them.
Well stated. Very succinct.
Wow. The Senate was just interrupted by someone screaming: "You people are awful."
This is so needed.
This is so needed.
June 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Well stated. Very succinct.
They are not tired of all the whining yet.
I think it’s a great idea for Republicans to nominate Lara Trump for the open NC senate seat. Just like it was a great idea to nominate Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz, Kelly Loeffler, Kari Lake, Joe Kent, Scott Brown, Mark Robinson, Doug Mastriano, Winsome Sears, Tudor Dixon, on and on.
June 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
They are not tired of all the whining yet.
Stephen Miller is - stay with me here - lying. The cost of extending the tax cuts is a cost that would not be incurred without this bill. The bill will add trillion to the deficit and debt.
They didn’t make the tax cuts permanent when they passed them. They gave them an expiration date, which is here. Now they are living with the consequences of that decision/compromise. These are new tax cuts to replace the ones that are expiring, but they don’t want them to count.
June 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Stephen Miller is - stay with me here - lying. The cost of extending the tax cuts is a cost that would not be incurred without this bill. The bill will add trillion to the deficit and debt.
@deanbaker13.bsky.social I was just a lowly Econ undergrad (New College of FL) but here is something I've never understood about the tickle-down case: Lower corp taxes would incentervive profit-taking, not reinvestment for growth. Higher tax rate would incentervive plowing money back in. Am I wrong?
May 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@deanbaker13.bsky.social I was just a lowly Econ undergrad (New College of FL) but here is something I've never understood about the tickle-down case: Lower corp taxes would incentervive profit-taking, not reinvestment for growth. Higher tax rate would incentervive plowing money back in. Am I wrong?
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The media need to do some serious soul-searching. Do they focus on a former president who clearly experienced cognitive decline or a current president, claiming unprecedented powers, who is suffering from dementia?
May 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The media need to do some serious soul-searching. Do they focus on a former president who clearly experienced cognitive decline or a current president, claiming unprecedented powers, who is suffering from dementia?
A good example of what an incredible place New College was before DeSantis and his vulgarian thugs stormed it's Spanish Colonial balustrades and destroyed the institution.
“She adopted us, and we adopted her.” Over 50 years of teaching art history at New College of Florida, one professor carved out an influential but complex legacy. Her 31 favorite students inherited her intensity, her quirks and her life savings.
A Professor’s Final Gift to Her Students: Her Life Savings
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A good example of what an incredible place New College was before DeSantis and his vulgarian thugs stormed it's Spanish Colonial balustrades and destroyed the institution.
It's very difficult to parody the absurd.
I really thought this was SNL
a MAGA influencer in today's White House briefing suggests joe Biden was responsible for rising suicide rates
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's very difficult to parody the absurd.
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Sharing for obvious reasons
April 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Sharing for obvious reasons
I believe Canadians are Florida's largest tourist market. Many are snowbirds who stay all winter. They spend billions. They have other options, Cuba among them.
April 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I believe Canadians are Florida's largest tourist market. Many are snowbirds who stay all winter. They spend billions. They have other options, Cuba among them.