Steve Ross
@vibinc.bsky.social
Father and Husband. Former blogger turned cranky old man.
This was always the play McConnell wanted.
Stack the courts.
That's why he blocked the Garland nomination in 2016, and rushed the Coney-Barrett nomination in 2020.
He wanted a christo-fascist court in place to rubber stamp whatever his oligarch friends wanted.
Stack the courts.
That's why he blocked the Garland nomination in 2016, and rushed the Coney-Barrett nomination in 2020.
He wanted a christo-fascist court in place to rubber stamp whatever his oligarch friends wanted.
Yes, the Supreme Court has failed to protect us from Trump. But it’s worse than that: The Supreme Court is imposing its own fascism. It invented presidential immunity. It has gutted the Voting Rights Act, passed by a bipartisan Congress. It’s as bad as Trump, and moving in the same direction.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This was always the play McConnell wanted.
Stack the courts.
That's why he blocked the Garland nomination in 2016, and rushed the Coney-Barrett nomination in 2020.
He wanted a christo-fascist court in place to rubber stamp whatever his oligarch friends wanted.
Stack the courts.
That's why he blocked the Garland nomination in 2016, and rushed the Coney-Barrett nomination in 2020.
He wanted a christo-fascist court in place to rubber stamp whatever his oligarch friends wanted.
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Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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🦠What happens when you say you will only protect babies of infected moms, but you are bad at detecting infected moms❓
🚫You miss a lot of babies who needed protection.
This is exactly why in 1991 we went from only vaccinating babies of Hepatitis B positive moms to vaccinating all babies.
🚫You miss a lot of babies who needed protection.
This is exactly why in 1991 we went from only vaccinating babies of Hepatitis B positive moms to vaccinating all babies.
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🦠What happens when you say you will only protect babies of infected moms, but you are bad at detecting infected moms❓
🚫You miss a lot of babies who needed protection.
This is exactly why in 1991 we went from only vaccinating babies of Hepatitis B positive moms to vaccinating all babies.
🚫You miss a lot of babies who needed protection.
This is exactly why in 1991 we went from only vaccinating babies of Hepatitis B positive moms to vaccinating all babies.
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NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.”
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.”
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
100%
Between the actual party/candidate asks, and the scam PAC asks run by consultants to pad their pockets, I get upwards of 10 asks a day.
Every day. And that only counts my phone. Not email.
All the while, we have Democrats voting to confirm unqualified morons.
Completely unacceptable.
Between the actual party/candidate asks, and the scam PAC asks run by consultants to pad their pockets, I get upwards of 10 asks a day.
Every day. And that only counts my phone. Not email.
All the while, we have Democrats voting to confirm unqualified morons.
Completely unacceptable.
the democrats have done more donation soliciting based on the admin going after mark kelly than they have done actual messaging, and that kind of gives the jig up about the party's priorities. they have the high ground and a winning message and all they can think about is squeezing donors for bucks
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
100%
Between the actual party/candidate asks, and the scam PAC asks run by consultants to pad their pockets, I get upwards of 10 asks a day.
Every day. And that only counts my phone. Not email.
All the while, we have Democrats voting to confirm unqualified morons.
Completely unacceptable.
Between the actual party/candidate asks, and the scam PAC asks run by consultants to pad their pockets, I get upwards of 10 asks a day.
Every day. And that only counts my phone. Not email.
All the while, we have Democrats voting to confirm unqualified morons.
Completely unacceptable.
Every last word of this.
Its never been about purity, its been about courage.
And when Democrats deflect to "purity" they're showing they have no courage...or any compass.
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Its never been about purity, its been about courage.
And when Democrats deflect to "purity" they're showing they have no courage...or any compass.
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Every last word of this.
Its never been about purity, its been about courage.
And when Democrats deflect to "purity" they're showing they have no courage...or any compass.
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Its never been about purity, its been about courage.
And when Democrats deflect to "purity" they're showing they have no courage...or any compass.
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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I think everyone can stop debating if the U.S. government is controlled by fascists.
It was apparent a while ago, but there’s should be no doubt now.
It was apparent a while ago, but there’s should be no doubt now.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I think everyone can stop debating if the U.S. government is controlled by fascists.
It was apparent a while ago, but there’s should be no doubt now.
It was apparent a while ago, but there’s should be no doubt now.
All of this...
It was the Neville Chamberlain Dept. of Justice.
It was the Neville Chamberlain Dept. of Justice.
The pipe bomb suspect getting arrested by this dumbshit iteration of the FBI after 5 years just proves even more that the people in power over the last few years cared so little about getting to the bottom of the attempted coup of January 6th and just wanted to move on and hope things worked out.
December 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
All of this...
It was the Neville Chamberlain Dept. of Justice.
It was the Neville Chamberlain Dept. of Justice.
Tom Cotton is an opportunist with no moral compass.
He sees this as a "stand by your man" moment. He doesn't want to get primaried.
He's got a 6th generation farmer running against him for what he's NOT done to support Arkansas' farming families.
Last thing he needs is to piss off MAGA Arkansans.
He sees this as a "stand by your man" moment. He doesn't want to get primaried.
He's got a 6th generation farmer running against him for what he's NOT done to support Arkansas' farming families.
Last thing he needs is to piss off MAGA Arkansans.
Cotton actually chuckled when asked to describe the footage he had just seen of the second strike that killed the survivors of the first strike.
“I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat ― loaded with drugs, bound for the United States ― back over, so they could stay in the fight."
“I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat ― loaded with drugs, bound for the United States ― back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tom Cotton is an opportunist with no moral compass.
He sees this as a "stand by your man" moment. He doesn't want to get primaried.
He's got a 6th generation farmer running against him for what he's NOT done to support Arkansas' farming families.
Last thing he needs is to piss off MAGA Arkansans.
He sees this as a "stand by your man" moment. He doesn't want to get primaried.
He's got a 6th generation farmer running against him for what he's NOT done to support Arkansas' farming families.
Last thing he needs is to piss off MAGA Arkansans.
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"Dems must pivot to energy affordability and also embrace nuclear power" is a take I've read several times just today, and not a single time did the author pause to contemplate the dissonance.
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Dems must pivot to energy affordability and also embrace nuclear power" is a take I've read several times just today, and not a single time did the author pause to contemplate the dissonance.
I mean, I guess that's the next dumb thing this man could say.
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I mean, I guess that's the next dumb thing this man could say.
I don't love the way this is framed, but agree with the overall point.
The US Justice system is an unequal system. If you lack resources, you are more likely to have a harsher sentence.
A transparent process for clemency would help legitimize the pardon, and keep it from being bought and sold.
The US Justice system is an unequal system. If you lack resources, you are more likely to have a harsher sentence.
A transparent process for clemency would help legitimize the pardon, and keep it from being bought and sold.
A lot of people do not want to hear that there is an intense pro-police and pro-prison turn among the left. E.g. the drive to limit the pardon power, which is the only way some people get any relief from excessive sentencing on the state and federal level.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...
What Trump gets right and wrong about pardons
Pardons aren’t about helping political allies – they’re about bringing a measure of justice to an unjust system.
www.prisonpolicy.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I don't love the way this is framed, but agree with the overall point.
The US Justice system is an unequal system. If you lack resources, you are more likely to have a harsher sentence.
A transparent process for clemency would help legitimize the pardon, and keep it from being bought and sold.
The US Justice system is an unequal system. If you lack resources, you are more likely to have a harsher sentence.
A transparent process for clemency would help legitimize the pardon, and keep it from being bought and sold.
@democrats.senate.gov make it make sense!
Why would any Dem support this clown?
Why is any Dem supporting any judicial appointee this corrupt administration puts forward?
Did we learn nothing from the fun times with Judge Canon down in Florida?
Why would any Dem support this clown?
Why is any Dem supporting any judicial appointee this corrupt administration puts forward?
Did we learn nothing from the fun times with Judge Canon down in Florida?
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
@democrats.senate.gov make it make sense!
Why would any Dem support this clown?
Why is any Dem supporting any judicial appointee this corrupt administration puts forward?
Did we learn nothing from the fun times with Judge Canon down in Florida?
Why would any Dem support this clown?
Why is any Dem supporting any judicial appointee this corrupt administration puts forward?
Did we learn nothing from the fun times with Judge Canon down in Florida?
I really detest Rand Paul.
But in this case, I think he's right on the money.
But in this case, I think he's right on the money.
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I really detest Rand Paul.
But in this case, I think he's right on the money.
But in this case, I think he's right on the money.
Ditto
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Ditto
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
Remember, no matter what they tell you, the Federal Reserve estimates wage growth didn't contribute much to overall inflation.
If anything wages haven't kept pace with inflation.
www.bostonfed.org/publications...
If anything wages haven't kept pace with inflation.
www.bostonfed.org/publications...
Is Post-pandemic Wage Growth Fueling Inflation?
www.bostonfed.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Remember, no matter what they tell you, the Federal Reserve estimates wage growth didn't contribute much to overall inflation.
If anything wages haven't kept pace with inflation.
www.bostonfed.org/publications...
If anything wages haven't kept pace with inflation.
www.bostonfed.org/publications...
100%
the media went on and on about the price of eggs and milk under biden, meanwhile trump is conducting an illegal war in south america that he says he doesnt know anything about and the media's big concern is their invite to the white house christmas party
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Huh... Isn't that interesting?
Also, most of the folks they're arresting don't have no criminal record at all.
Also, staying in the US past your VISA is a civil offense, not a criminal one...no matter what Cosplay Kristi says.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0D7...
Also, most of the folks they're arresting don't have no criminal record at all.
Also, staying in the US past your VISA is a civil offense, not a criminal one...no matter what Cosplay Kristi says.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0D7...
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Huh... Isn't that interesting?
Also, most of the folks they're arresting don't have no criminal record at all.
Also, staying in the US past your VISA is a civil offense, not a criminal one...no matter what Cosplay Kristi says.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0D7...
Also, most of the folks they're arresting don't have no criminal record at all.
Also, staying in the US past your VISA is a civil offense, not a criminal one...no matter what Cosplay Kristi says.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0D7...
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They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago.
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
It’s wild how the press is ok with the president abusing the pardon power. That used to be one of the most scrutinized things about a presidency.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago.
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
They just choose not to for trump because they like him
Bernie, AOC and Elizabeth Warren have been saying this for 10 years.
But Schumer, Pelosi and now Jeffries have been playing to the imaginary middle.
But Schumer, Pelosi and now Jeffries have been playing to the imaginary middle.
If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money.
They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America.
There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.
They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America.
There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Bernie, AOC and Elizabeth Warren have been saying this for 10 years.
But Schumer, Pelosi and now Jeffries have been playing to the imaginary middle.
But Schumer, Pelosi and now Jeffries have been playing to the imaginary middle.
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To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
This is the weirdest Thanksgiving Turkey pardon EVER!
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is the weirdest Thanksgiving Turkey pardon EVER!
Of all the fake unnecessary wars we've either started or instigated in my 53 years, this one will be the dumbest. Its also the one that likely ends the Age of American dominance in international affairs.
Congress should express their disapproval immediately, but they're lapdogs not watchdogs.
Congress should express their disapproval immediately, but they're lapdogs not watchdogs.
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Of all the fake unnecessary wars we've either started or instigated in my 53 years, this one will be the dumbest. Its also the one that likely ends the Age of American dominance in international affairs.
Congress should express their disapproval immediately, but they're lapdogs not watchdogs.
Congress should express their disapproval immediately, but they're lapdogs not watchdogs.
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Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Weather it’s Joe Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Donald Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.