Tom Moore
@thmoore.bsky.social
Senior Fellow for Democracy Policy at the Center for American Progress—@americanprogress.bsky.social.
My job is to fight so hard for democracy that if I fail, I'll be among the first to be lined up & shot. (he/him)
My job is to fight so hard for democracy that if I fail, I'll be among the first to be lined up & shot. (he/him)
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
Great writeup on The Montana Plan by Outside Magazine columnist and adventure travel writer Wes Siler (@wessiler.bsky.social)!
Citizens United Broke American Politics. This New Plan From Montana Aims To Fix That
By removing dark money from politics, The Montana Plan could restore American democracy
wessiler.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Great writeup on The Montana Plan by Outside Magazine columnist and adventure travel writer Wes Siler (@wessiler.bsky.social)!
"Interesting things are happening around the country" on campaign finance, says @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, and The Montana Plan tops his list. Pretty cool.
Details here: transparentelection.org
Details here: transparentelection.org
One on One with Pete Buttigieg
YouTube video by The Texas Tribune
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Interesting things are happening around the country" on campaign finance, says @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, and The Montana Plan tops his list. Pretty cool.
Details here: transparentelection.org
Details here: transparentelection.org
Odd soft-pedaling by the NYT here. That Epstein wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with an Epstein victim does *not* *suggest* that Epstein thought Trump “knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.”
It *suggests* that Trump committed statutory rape against an Epstein-Trump victim.
It *suggests* that Trump committed statutory rape against an Epstein-Trump victim.
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Odd soft-pedaling by the NYT here. That Epstein wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with an Epstein victim does *not* *suggest* that Epstein thought Trump “knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.”
It *suggests* that Trump committed statutory rape against an Epstein-Trump victim.
It *suggests* that Trump committed statutory rape against an Epstein-Trump victim.
Begala is being willfully blind here. Mamdani won a *three-way race* against a former Dem governor and a Republican—and still cleared 50%. Remarkably, his margin over the GOP candidate (43.3%) compares just fine with Adams's (39.2%) and de Blasio's (48.8% and 38.4%). That is *not* a 'weak win.'
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Begala is being willfully blind here. Mamdani won a *three-way race* against a former Dem governor and a Republican—and still cleared 50%. Remarkably, his margin over the GOP candidate (43.3%) compares just fine with Adams's (39.2%) and de Blasio's (48.8% and 38.4%). That is *not* a 'weak win.'
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you achieved the establishment of a structured process for getting nothing
Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
you achieved the establishment of a structured process for getting nothing
Every Republican in Congress needs to be asked: Can the president pardon state offenses?
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Every Republican in Congress needs to be asked: Can the president pardon state offenses?
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get in bitch we're destroying the west
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
get in bitch we're destroying the west
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I'd forgotten how North Carolinians are.
I had only been wandering around Duke Law for a few minutes this morning before I was accosted, questioned, and then taken to a room where I was pointed to the free coffee and a nice, sunny place to sit.
@dukelaw.bsky.social
I had only been wandering around Duke Law for a few minutes this morning before I was accosted, questioned, and then taken to a room where I was pointed to the free coffee and a nice, sunny place to sit.
@dukelaw.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'd forgotten how North Carolinians are.
I had only been wandering around Duke Law for a few minutes this morning before I was accosted, questioned, and then taken to a room where I was pointed to the free coffee and a nice, sunny place to sit.
@dukelaw.bsky.social
I had only been wandering around Duke Law for a few minutes this morning before I was accosted, questioned, and then taken to a room where I was pointed to the free coffee and a nice, sunny place to sit.
@dukelaw.bsky.social
This is just about one of my least favorite days of the year. Everything was going great until I walked out of the office and it’s pitch black with the moon high in the sky. The first working day after the fall time change sucks.
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is just about one of my least favorite days of the year. Everything was going great until I walked out of the office and it’s pitch black with the moon high in the sky. The first working day after the fall time change sucks.
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Our democracy should be owned by voters, not bought by the wealthy few. In our new poll, Montanans are sending a clear message that echoes around the country. https://tinyurl.com/yktb5ju3
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Our democracy should be owned by voters, not bought by the wealthy few. In our new poll, Montanans are sending a clear message that echoes around the country. https://tinyurl.com/yktb5ju3
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"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
--Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Millions of people go hungry while the Trump family rakes in over a billion dollars. See the real-time numbers: https://www.americanprogress.org/feature/trumps-take/
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Millions of people go hungry while the Trump family rakes in over a billion dollars. See the real-time numbers: https://www.americanprogress.org/feature/trumps-take/
THIS is too bad. Teen Vogue has done some terrific political coverage over the past ten years.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
THIS is too bad. Teen Vogue has done some terrific political coverage over the past ten years.
A lot of things are going to hell in handbasket these days, but not everything: The battery life on my new iPhone 17 Pro Max is amazing.
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A lot of things are going to hell in handbasket these days, but not everything: The battery life on my new iPhone 17 Pro Max is amazing.
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This is a beautiful paragraph:
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is a beautiful paragraph:
Sounds like it is about time for the Republicans who control Congress and the White House to extend an offer that will secure the votes they need to reopen the government.
Vance and Duffy warn Thanksgiving travel ‘could be a disaster’ if shutdown barrels on | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Thursday that Americans could face a travel “disaster” as Thanksgiving approaches next month without an end in sight to the go...
www.cnn.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Sounds like it is about time for the Republicans who control Congress and the White House to extend an offer that will secure the votes they need to reopen the government.
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I always see some surprised libs and lefties when @walterolson.bsky.social's stuff goes around, but Cato is consistent on police issues. If you're noticing their stuff more and more, it's because the state of things is bad.
If ICE agents believe they have blanket immunity or that citizens have no right to record them, it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error.
A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
www.cato.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I always see some surprised libs and lefties when @walterolson.bsky.social's stuff goes around, but Cato is consistent on police issues. If you're noticing their stuff more and more, it's because the state of things is bad.
This is fascinating -- and disappointing to see.
This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is fascinating -- and disappointing to see.
This is just about my favorite story of this whole wretched year. I'm sure a non-mayoral guy named Bill DeBlasio has been waiting for years to get a call like this. He handled it nicely.
oh God, this is like that scene in all the presidents men when woodstein spent a couple hours asking a random lady’s opinions abt watergate in her apt and then finally realize she’s not the woman who works at CREEP.
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is just about my favorite story of this whole wretched year. I'm sure a non-mayoral guy named Bill DeBlasio has been waiting for years to get a call like this. He handled it nicely.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
NEW POLL: "The vast majority of Americans — no matter their partisan identification — say unlimited political spending weakens democracy and wealthy donors have too much power in elections," writes Dave Levinthal for OpenSecrets. "And they’d like the government to do something about it."
Most Americans see unlimited election spending as a threat to democracy: poll - OpenSecrets News
The vast majority of Americans — no matter their partisan identification — say unlimited political spending weakens democracy and wealthy…
www.opensecrets.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
NEW POLL: "The vast majority of Americans — no matter their partisan identification — say unlimited political spending weakens democracy and wealthy donors have too much power in elections," writes Dave Levinthal for OpenSecrets. "And they’d like the government to do something about it."
NEW POLL: Americans across the political spectrum hate Citizens United and the world it has wrought, and support measures to undo it. This should shock no one, but it is good to see this data gathered with solid methodology.
Kudos to @issueonereform.bsky.social for commissioning this YouGov poll.
Kudos to @issueonereform.bsky.social for commissioning this YouGov poll.
Most Americans see unlimited election spending as a threat to democracy: poll - OpenSecrets News
The vast majority of Americans — no matter their partisan identification — say unlimited political spending weakens democracy and wealthy…
www.opensecrets.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
NEW POLL: Americans across the political spectrum hate Citizens United and the world it has wrought, and support measures to undo it. This should shock no one, but it is good to see this data gathered with solid methodology.
Kudos to @issueonereform.bsky.social for commissioning this YouGov poll.
Kudos to @issueonereform.bsky.social for commissioning this YouGov poll.
NEW: My CAP colleague Ben Olinsky has written a sobering examination of the surge in antisemitism in America and delivers seven solid nonpartisan policy recommendations for fighting it.
@americanprogress.bsky.social
@americanprogress.bsky.social
7 Policy Recommendations for Combating Antisemitism in the United States
The surge in antisemitism seen in America today threatens the Jewish community and the nation’s democracy as a whole, and it necessitates a nonpartisan, whole-of-society effort to eradicate hate.
www.americanprogress.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
NEW: My CAP colleague Ben Olinsky has written a sobering examination of the surge in antisemitism in America and delivers seven solid nonpartisan policy recommendations for fighting it.
@americanprogress.bsky.social
@americanprogress.bsky.social