@tehubbard.bsky.social
Massachusetts born and bred- hoping this platform will help us all organize to rescue the democracy that was born in my backyard
Lifelong Dem
Feared we would sleepwalk into fascism.
Then we did
Lifelong Dem
Feared we would sleepwalk into fascism.
Then we did
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One of the key disagreements in a budget deal to reopen the government is whether the president can unilaterally ignore it — and what recompense there will be if he does.
The GOP position is that he should have unlimited ability to ignore the deal, with no consequence.
Wish I were exaggerating!
The GOP position is that he should have unlimited ability to ignore the deal, with no consequence.
Wish I were exaggerating!
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One of the key disagreements in a budget deal to reopen the government is whether the president can unilaterally ignore it — and what recompense there will be if he does.
The GOP position is that he should have unlimited ability to ignore the deal, with no consequence.
Wish I were exaggerating!
The GOP position is that he should have unlimited ability to ignore the deal, with no consequence.
Wish I were exaggerating!
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Republicans need to stop talking about bathrooms and junior high volleyball teams and start focusing on issues people actually care about
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Republicans need to stop talking about bathrooms and junior high volleyball teams and start focusing on issues people actually care about
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A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China
A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China
Demands of absolute loyalty and attacks on institutions have raise memories of Mao-style chaos from US watchers in China
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A cultural revolution? Trump’s America feels oddly familiar to those watching from China
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🧑🌾 KENTUCKY’S @govandybeshear.bsky.social : “Farmers are getting HAMMERED. Trump may be the worst president I’ve seen towards farmers in my lifetime.”
Full @thebulwark.com pod with @timmiller.bsky.social : youtu.be/m1Dd36WwkQA?...
Full @thebulwark.com pod with @timmiller.bsky.social : youtu.be/m1Dd36WwkQA?...
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🧑🌾 KENTUCKY’S @govandybeshear.bsky.social : “Farmers are getting HAMMERED. Trump may be the worst president I’ve seen towards farmers in my lifetime.”
Full @thebulwark.com pod with @timmiller.bsky.social : youtu.be/m1Dd36WwkQA?...
Full @thebulwark.com pod with @timmiller.bsky.social : youtu.be/m1Dd36WwkQA?...
They say culture eats strategy for lunch. Wish it weren't so but dominance politics beats messaging politics for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Dem base understands this and is starting to lead on the street. Dem elected generally doing a better job -- but be like Swalwell: bare your teeth, folks
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
They say culture eats strategy for lunch. Wish it weren't so but dominance politics beats messaging politics for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Dem base understands this and is starting to lead on the street. Dem elected generally doing a better job -- but be like Swalwell: bare your teeth, folks
(2) "As usual, their critique seems to be aimed at a right-wing caricature of the party rather than actually existing Democrats"
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
(2) "As usual, their critique seems to be aimed at a right-wing caricature of the party rather than actually existing Democrats"
(1) Paul Krugman today: "The obscenity in Florida (Trump's Mar-a-Lago Great Gatsby party)took place at a time when a number of centrist pundits were engaging in their favorite sport berating Democrats for being out of touch with ordinary Americans."
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
(1) Paul Krugman today: "The obscenity in Florida (Trump's Mar-a-Lago Great Gatsby party)took place at a time when a number of centrist pundits were engaging in their favorite sport berating Democrats for being out of touch with ordinary Americans."
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Between what came before and what happened tonight, Dems ought to treat encounters with CBS reporters as presumptively hostile and untrustworthy. A small thing, but there’s no way out of this disaster if the party continues helplessly submitting to unequal treatment from ~all mediating institutions.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Between what came before and what happened tonight, Dems ought to treat encounters with CBS reporters as presumptively hostile and untrustworthy. A small thing, but there’s no way out of this disaster if the party continues helplessly submitting to unequal treatment from ~all mediating institutions.
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One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.
The Dems have won the popular vote in presidential elections six times since 1992 by roughly 5.5%(1992), 8.5%,(1996) .5%(2000), 7.3%(2008), 4%(2012), 2%(2016),and 4.5%(2020).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).
Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.
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Actually, it's even worse. You're also constantly told that the Democrats have veered too far left & adopted policy positions that are unpopular with the median voter, when in fact the median voter's policy positions - inasmuch as she actually even has those - are basically the Democrats' platform.
👇🎯💯
Your regular reminder that the median voter holds policy positions closer to Bernie Sanders' than Nikki Haley's, on just about every policy issue, & that our society would reflect those if we were anything remotely close to being an actual, functioning republic/democracy.
Your regular reminder that the median voter holds policy positions closer to Bernie Sanders' than Nikki Haley's, on just about every policy issue, & that our society would reflect those if we were anything remotely close to being an actual, functioning republic/democracy.
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Actually, it's even worse. You're also constantly told that the Democrats have veered too far left & adopted policy positions that are unpopular with the median voter, when in fact the median voter's policy positions - inasmuch as she actually even has those - are basically the Democrats' platform.
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If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.
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Having slept on it, it’s really set in that the Blue Jays loss last night was one of the most gutting pro sports losses I can remember. Absolutely brutal. My heart goes out to 🇨🇦
November 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Having slept on it, it’s really set in that the Blue Jays loss last night was one of the most gutting pro sports losses I can remember. Absolutely brutal. My heart goes out to 🇨🇦
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Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'
I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...
Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!
I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...
Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani
Anatomy of a credibility crisis
harpers.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'
I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...
Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!
I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...
Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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If Fox Propaganda had existed in 1974, Richard Nixon would never have had to resign.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If Fox Propaganda had existed in 1974, Richard Nixon would never have had to resign.
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I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.
Good on the NYT ed board for documenting America's rapid descent into dictatorship. Now it's up to NYT political editors to cease the gauzy,airy, both-sidesy framing of political coverage that gives news editors throughout the U.S. license to sanitize Trump coverage www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Good on the NYT ed board for documenting America's rapid descent into dictatorship. Now it's up to NYT political editors to cease the gauzy,airy, both-sidesy framing of political coverage that gives news editors throughout the U.S. license to sanitize Trump coverage www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Office of Naval Research (for historical and other reasons) has been an important supporter of innovative research (including for me early in my career).
This is deeply worrisome and incredibly stupid.
File under "Shocking but not surprising"
This is deeply worrisome and incredibly stupid.
File under "Shocking but not surprising"
SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Office of Naval Research (for historical and other reasons) has been an important supporter of innovative research (including for me early in my career).
This is deeply worrisome and incredibly stupid.
File under "Shocking but not surprising"
This is deeply worrisome and incredibly stupid.
File under "Shocking but not surprising"
Bravo, absolutely dead on.
OK, I wrote about the "how Democrats can win" report. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...
Politics is more than temperature-taking
Political campaigns, the axiom has it, are nothing more than a math problem. Get 50 percent of the vote, plus one, and you win. Doesn't matter the race; that holds. So all a candidate needs to do, how...
www.pbump.net
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Bravo, absolutely dead on.
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OK, I wrote about the "how Democrats can win" report. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...
Politics is more than temperature-taking
Political campaigns, the axiom has it, are nothing more than a math problem. Get 50 percent of the vote, plus one, and you win. Doesn't matter the race; that holds. So all a candidate needs to do, how...
www.pbump.net
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
OK, I wrote about the "how Democrats can win" report. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...
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You’re a hedge fund manager who rents farmland to soybean farmers. You’re profiting off their hard work while sipping champagne with billionaire elites & kissing Donald Trump’s boots.
You haven’t earned the title of “farmer” you hack.
You haven’t earned the title of “farmer” you hack.
Trump Treasury Sec. Bessent says he's felt 'pain' from China because he's a 'soybean farmer'
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's estimated hundreds and millions of dollars in wealth includes soybean and corn farmland in North Dakota.
www.cnbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You’re a hedge fund manager who rents farmland to soybean farmers. You’re profiting off their hard work while sipping champagne with billionaire elites & kissing Donald Trump’s boots.
You haven’t earned the title of “farmer” you hack.
You haven’t earned the title of “farmer” you hack.
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"In July, three analysts who worked in INR’s Russia-Eurasia group were fired. Another analyst resigned."
In my experience, State Department's INR is the best of US intelligence. Therefore, Trump had them sacked.
Trump is an enemy of the US.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
In my experience, State Department's INR is the best of US intelligence. Therefore, Trump had them sacked.
Trump is an enemy of the US.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin’s Appetite for Peace
The Central Intelligence Agency had a more positive assessment of the Russian leader’s willingness to talk.
www.wsj.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"In July, three analysts who worked in INR’s Russia-Eurasia group were fired. Another analyst resigned."
In my experience, State Department's INR is the best of US intelligence. Therefore, Trump had them sacked.
Trump is an enemy of the US.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
In my experience, State Department's INR is the best of US intelligence. Therefore, Trump had them sacked.
Trump is an enemy of the US.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy