TJ Helmstetter
@tjhelm.bsky.social
Professional comms consultant. Semi-professional florist. Amateur movie critic.
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This is interesting. You know how, on the right, there are all these groups that create "model legislation" conservatives in state legislatures can simply lift off the shelf & adopt? ALEC and so forth?
Here's an effort to do that for good climate laws:
Here's an effort to do that for good climate laws:
Columbia University plans to steal a page from the conservative playbook
Columbia University and New York activists are launching the “Model Climate Laws Initiative” to draft state laws countering Trump administration rollbacks.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is interesting. You know how, on the right, there are all these groups that create "model legislation" conservatives in state legislatures can simply lift off the shelf & adopt? ALEC and so forth?
Here's an effort to do that for good climate laws:
Here's an effort to do that for good climate laws:
the horror of being shamed into doing your job
Fetterman tells the NYT that doing committee work and casting floor votes is “performative” and that he is resentful to have been “shamed” into returning to the Senate to do these things after routinely skipping them all year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
Fetterman, Often Absent From Senate, Says He Has Been Shamed Into Returning
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
the horror of being shamed into doing your job
are we sure John Stamos is a Trumper and wasnt just supporting the charity that held an event there
i need to know, please report back
i need to know, please report back
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
are we sure John Stamos is a Trumper and wasnt just supporting the charity that held an event there
i need to know, please report back
i need to know, please report back
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I'm thrilled to finally be able to go public: I've joined a longtime friend and colleague in launching Propulsion Strategies, a pragmatic, on-the-ground, digital-first communications, content, and campaign agency. We have progressive roots, and we get things done.
April 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm thrilled to finally be able to go public: I've joined a longtime friend and colleague in launching Propulsion Strategies, a pragmatic, on-the-ground, digital-first communications, content, and campaign agency. We have progressive roots, and we get things done.
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For a while now I've been working with @tjhelm.bsky.social, but today it's official as he hard launches Propulsion Strategies:
www.propulsionstrategies.com
www.propulsionstrategies.com
Propulsion Strategies
A results-driven progressive campaign and communications agency.
www.propulsionstrategies.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
For a while now I've been working with @tjhelm.bsky.social, but today it's official as he hard launches Propulsion Strategies:
www.propulsionstrategies.com
www.propulsionstrategies.com
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Lingerie $13,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Data $150
Rent $800
Lingerie $13,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Lingerie $13,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Data $150
Rent $800
Lingerie $13,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Obviously the human rights issues are a bigger deal, but it’s embarrassing that Mark Zuckerberg makes his employees let him win at board games
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Obviously the human rights issues are a bigger deal, but it’s embarrassing that Mark Zuckerberg makes his employees let him win at board games
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Zeldin says the mission of EPA is to "lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business." That is false, not as a matter of ideology or political preference, but as a matter of law.
This is pure authoritarian "up is down" stuff.
This is pure authoritarian "up is down" stuff.
E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Zeldin says the mission of EPA is to "lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business." That is false, not as a matter of ideology or political preference, but as a matter of law.
This is pure authoritarian "up is down" stuff.
This is pure authoritarian "up is down" stuff.
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Pointing out the obvious: the objective of this effort is to degrade the capacity of USPS, and thereby degrade its performance, and thereby bolster arguments for privatization.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.
apnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pointing out the obvious: the objective of this effort is to degrade the capacity of USPS, and thereby degrade its performance, and thereby bolster arguments for privatization.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
They want to kill public institutions, public goods, public spaces, the very notion of a public.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego tells me his NO on the House funding bill means he will also vote NO to advance it procedurally.
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
March 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sen. Ruben Gallego tells me his NO on the House funding bill means he will also vote NO to advance it procedurally.
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
“Yeah, I don’t get cute with this shit.”
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oh the superbowl? that’s bread and circuses. oscars? bread and circuses. that show you like? sorry that’s bread and circuses. the circus? you know it. do not even get me started on that bread you made dude
February 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
oh the superbowl? that’s bread and circuses. oscars? bread and circuses. that show you like? sorry that’s bread and circuses. the circus? you know it. do not even get me started on that bread you made dude
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NEW statement from our @jeffhauser.bsky.social calling for the impeachment of Scott Bessent:
"Bessent's decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people."
"Bessent's decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people."
RELEASE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Support for Elon Musk Warrants Impeachment | Revolving Door Project
Bessent’s decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
NEW statement from our @jeffhauser.bsky.social calling for the impeachment of Scott Bessent:
"Bessent's decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people."
"Bessent's decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people."
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Saying that Merrick Garland is a disgrace and a major disappointment is an understatement, he’s one of the biggest failures to democracy in the modern era. A treasonous convicted felon is going to have full power of the US govt because he refused to hold him accountable.
December 24, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Saying that Merrick Garland is a disgrace and a major disappointment is an understatement, he’s one of the biggest failures to democracy in the modern era. A treasonous convicted felon is going to have full power of the US govt because he refused to hold him accountable.
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Merrick Garland one of the worst political figures in American history. Directly responsible for an incalculable amount of harm
December 23, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Merrick Garland one of the worst political figures in American history. Directly responsible for an incalculable amount of harm
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Merrick Garland has failed this country.
December 23, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Merrick Garland has failed this country.
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Should we wake up Merrick Garland or nah
December 23, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Should we wake up Merrick Garland or nah
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“Should Biden make the call, experts predict it would face significant legal challenges.”
Okay, who fucking cares. Do it anyway, Joe. Everything gets challenged in court. Try it. It might work. Dare to fucking dream, Joe Brandon.
Okay, who fucking cares. Do it anyway, Joe. Everything gets challenged in court. Try it. It might work. Dare to fucking dream, Joe Brandon.
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making an all-out push in the waning days of the Biden administration that she believes could bolster reproductive rights, calling on the president to certify the Equal Rights Amendment and enshrine its protections into the Constitution.
Gillibrand makes a last-minute White House push for women’s rights constitutional amendment | CNN Politics
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making an all-out push in the waning days of the Biden administration that she believes could bolster reproductive rights, calling on President Joe Biden to certi...
cnn.it
December 17, 2024 at 2:56 AM
“Should Biden make the call, experts predict it would face significant legal challenges.”
Okay, who fucking cares. Do it anyway, Joe. Everything gets challenged in court. Try it. It might work. Dare to fucking dream, Joe Brandon.
Okay, who fucking cares. Do it anyway, Joe. Everything gets challenged in court. Try it. It might work. Dare to fucking dream, Joe Brandon.
some people are really still doing Merrick Garland's PR huh.
Trump should give him the Medal of Freedom (because thanks to Garland, Trump is free)
Trump should give him the Medal of Freedom (because thanks to Garland, Trump is free)
BREAKING: Merrick Garland began investigating Trump and the coup the week he got to the DoJ. It was actually Trump holdovers in the FBI that were reluctant to investigate.
Actually it’s not breaking. It came out in March. But cable news decided not to tell you. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...
Actually it’s not breaking. It came out in March. But cable news decided not to tell you. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...
Inside Garland’s Effort to Prosecute Trump
In trying to avoid even the smallest mistakes, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland might have made one big one: ending up in a race against the clock.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 AM
some people are really still doing Merrick Garland's PR huh.
Trump should give him the Medal of Freedom (because thanks to Garland, Trump is free)
Trump should give him the Medal of Freedom (because thanks to Garland, Trump is free)
this is very good, but also means we're long past due for committee term limits ... now would be a great time to pass them
I'm jealous that this isn't my story, bc Jeffries allowing the Dems to ditch their zombie chairmen is really significant.
David Scott had no business seeking re-election, and it's big that the CBC, incredibly loyal, is not stopping competition for his Ag role.
David Scott had no business seeking re-election, and it's big that the CBC, incredibly loyal, is not stopping competition for his Ag role.
Have they… learned something?
December 5, 2024 at 2:42 AM
this is very good, but also means we're long past due for committee term limits ... now would be a great time to pass them
republicans stop trying to make Lara Trump happen challenge
December 4, 2024 at 5:59 PM
republicans stop trying to make Lara Trump happen challenge
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This is why I get so frustrated with “nonpartisan” redistricting. It’s never actually nonpartisan, and it only ever seems to be done places that disadvantage Democrats.
Dems likely would’ve won the House 218-217 if the GOP hadn’t gained 3 seats by re-gerrymandering North Carolina.
GOP gerrymandered 3x more districts than Dems did nationally.
GOP in Congress unanimously blocked efforts to end gerrymandering in 2019 & 2021. GOP Supreme Court justices did so in 2019
GOP gerrymandered 3x more districts than Dems did nationally.
GOP in Congress unanimously blocked efforts to end gerrymandering in 2019 & 2021. GOP Supreme Court justices did so in 2019
December 4, 2024 at 1:40 PM
This is why I get so frustrated with “nonpartisan” redistricting. It’s never actually nonpartisan, and it only ever seems to be done places that disadvantage Democrats.
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trump is now saying "oh i didnt know all this about hegseth, he should have told me" -- dummy, you're putting this guy in charge of ALL FOUR BRANCHES OF THE US MILITARY! its your job to check him out BEFORE you nominate him. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
Trump is reportedly ready to dump Hegseth after failure to vet him
Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be secretary of defense appears to be in trouble following the disclosure of more damaging information about the candidate. The New York Times reports that Trump is consid...
www.dailykos.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:59 PM
trump is now saying "oh i didnt know all this about hegseth, he should have told me" -- dummy, you're putting this guy in charge of ALL FOUR BRANCHES OF THE US MILITARY! its your job to check him out BEFORE you nominate him. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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“Ermagerd this means Trump is gonna do bad stuff because norms…”
I’m sorry but where the fuck have you been for the last 8 years? Trump was gonna do exactly what he was gonna do regardless of whether Biden pardoned his son who was unfairly prosecuted.
Come. The fuck. On.
I’m sorry but where the fuck have you been for the last 8 years? Trump was gonna do exactly what he was gonna do regardless of whether Biden pardoned his son who was unfairly prosecuted.
Come. The fuck. On.
December 2, 2024 at 12:55 AM
“Ermagerd this means Trump is gonna do bad stuff because norms…”
I’m sorry but where the fuck have you been for the last 8 years? Trump was gonna do exactly what he was gonna do regardless of whether Biden pardoned his son who was unfairly prosecuted.
Come. The fuck. On.
I’m sorry but where the fuck have you been for the last 8 years? Trump was gonna do exactly what he was gonna do regardless of whether Biden pardoned his son who was unfairly prosecuted.
Come. The fuck. On.
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Yep. Biden, wanting to Uphold the Norms, agreed to keep on a Trump-appointed prosecutor who was probing his son. Created a special counsel to probe his own post-VP document retention. Kept on Durham so he could finish a Trump-ordered probe of 2016.
What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.
What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.
December 2, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Yep. Biden, wanting to Uphold the Norms, agreed to keep on a Trump-appointed prosecutor who was probing his son. Created a special counsel to probe his own post-VP document retention. Kept on Durham so he could finish a Trump-ordered probe of 2016.
What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.
What did he get? Nothing. So here he goes.