John Appleby
@jap10.bsky.social
Politics; Economics; Climate Change; Gerrymandering. Current youth soccer coach. The latter brings endless joy, the former pain and suffering.
What comes first - the Epstein Files being released, or the GOP health care plan? Or neither?
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What comes first - the Epstein Files being released, or the GOP health care plan? Or neither?
Received our ACA renewal today….up 37% per month. Americans will vote for anyone who will fix the healthcare system. Only one side as a plan. The other side has nadda. Zip. Zilch. This is just insanity.
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Received our ACA renewal today….up 37% per month. Americans will vote for anyone who will fix the healthcare system. Only one side as a plan. The other side has nadda. Zip. Zilch. This is just insanity.
The GOP never talk about the millions of able bodied Americans working jobs that don’t offer health insurance. It is all one big beautiful lie.
July 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The GOP never talk about the millions of able bodied Americans working jobs that don’t offer health insurance. It is all one big beautiful lie.
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Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.
April 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.
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There's still some legal battles ongoing, but @ncdemocrats.bsky.social are recruiting a rapid response team to reach out to these 60,000 people to get them to cure their ballots and make sure their votes count.
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April 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
There's still some legal battles ongoing, but @ncdemocrats.bsky.social are recruiting a rapid response team to reach out to these 60,000 people to get them to cure their ballots and make sure their votes count.
Sign up here:
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Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social
“There is nothing curative in this essay, but diagnosis is a first step. And our symptoms are many.” www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social
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This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.
Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
April 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.
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This link is more user friendly to check if your ballot is at risk: terrymah.github.io/challenge/
Vote Query
terrymah.github.io
April 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This link is more user friendly to check if your ballot is at risk: terrymah.github.io/challenge/
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🚨 🚨 🚨 the North Carolina state court is going along with Jefferson Griffins request to disenfranchise tens of thousands of NC voters by throwing out their votes. And thereby hand the seat on the NC SCT to Griffin when Justice Allison Riggs won the election. This is a HUGE deal.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: the Republican-majority on the N.C. Court of Appeals rules to overturn the decision of the Wake County Superior Court (and the voters in the state) in a 2-1 decision to disenfranchise more than 65,000 voters from LAST year’s election. ⬇️
appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&…
appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&…
N.C. Appellate Courts
https://appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&…
April 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨 🚨 🚨 the North Carolina state court is going along with Jefferson Griffins request to disenfranchise tens of thousands of NC voters by throwing out their votes. And thereby hand the seat on the NC SCT to Griffin when Justice Allison Riggs won the election. This is a HUGE deal.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Instead of writing your thoughtful posts, hold some rallies. If you’re worried about crowd sizes invite @aoc.bsky.social If you want to be president….lead from in front. You (both) have the right message for these dark times.
April 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social Instead of writing your thoughtful posts, hold some rallies. If you’re worried about crowd sizes invite @aoc.bsky.social If you want to be president….lead from in front. You (both) have the right message for these dark times.
Once again Thom Tillis threatens to buck the MAGA crowd - this time on Canadian tariffs. Then sees his shadow and votes in lockstep with MAGA. Why does the MSM keep falling for this act?
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Once again Thom Tillis threatens to buck the MAGA crowd - this time on Canadian tariffs. Then sees his shadow and votes in lockstep with MAGA. Why does the MSM keep falling for this act?
RTI lays off 340 employees in response the the DOGE cuts. Assume these will not show up in the DOGE ‘savings’ ledger? We are going to discover this whole exercise has cost us enormously. Financially and morally.
March 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
RTI lays off 340 employees in response the the DOGE cuts. Assume these will not show up in the DOGE ‘savings’ ledger? We are going to discover this whole exercise has cost us enormously. Financially and morally.
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TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold *1.46 million* Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely *zero*
www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
March 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TIL that Tesla insiders (executives, board members, etc) have sold *1.46 million* Tesla shares over the past 12 months, and bought precisely *zero*
www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
Schumer should take a look at what is happening to Allison Riggs in NC before he caves. There is simply not politics as normal.
March 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Schumer should take a look at what is happening to Allison Riggs in NC before he caves. There is simply not politics as normal.
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My question is whether Wall Street understands that an important segment of the EV market customer base will not buy a Tesla at any price. It could teleport me places and I would not buy it. I would not drive one if you gave it to me for free.
“.. Tesla is on track for its worst day since July 24, 2024, when it fell 12.33%. Tesla has erased nearly $800 billion in market value since its record close on December 17, 2024.”
@cnbc.com $TSLA
@cnbc.com $TSLA
March 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My question is whether Wall Street understands that an important segment of the EV market customer base will not buy a Tesla at any price. It could teleport me places and I would not buy it. I would not drive one if you gave it to me for free.
Wish @aoc.bsky.social or @petebuttigieg.bsky.social would just start running for president. The Dem strategy of waiting is failure personified. Fill some stadiums. Get on TV. Suck up some oxygen. And they just might beat the do nothing establishment figures - assuming we still run elections.
March 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Wish @aoc.bsky.social or @petebuttigieg.bsky.social would just start running for president. The Dem strategy of waiting is failure personified. Fill some stadiums. Get on TV. Suck up some oxygen. And they just might beat the do nothing establishment figures - assuming we still run elections.
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A sitting judge in NC is STILL trying to change election rules after he lost, toss ballots from 65,000+ eligible voters, & grab a seat on the Tar Heel state’s highest court? Scary, but true. Bob Crawford, Ben Sawyer, and I talked about why we all should be paying attention to this story.
*The Road to Now* podcast, co-hosted by Bob Crawford and Ben Sawyer, talked with counsel and North Carolinian @anne-tindall.bsky.social about Jefferson Griffin’s efforts to overturn the results of the election for the N.C. Supreme Court—and what it could mean for the nation.
The Road to Now | A History Podcast by Bob Crawford & Ben Sawyer
A history podcast that looks to the past to understand the present. Hosted by Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Ben Sawyer (MTSU)
theroadtonow.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A sitting judge in NC is STILL trying to change election rules after he lost, toss ballots from 65,000+ eligible voters, & grab a seat on the Tar Heel state’s highest court? Scary, but true. Bob Crawford, Ben Sawyer, and I talked about why we all should be paying attention to this story.
It is astounding to see ‘experts’ shocked, shocked I say, that Trump, JD and the Muskrats are wrecking American standing in the world and destroying its economy. It was all so utterly predictable to anyone half following along. Dems will have nothing left to fight for unless they get in the ring.
March 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It is astounding to see ‘experts’ shocked, shocked I say, that Trump, JD and the Muskrats are wrecking American standing in the world and destroying its economy. It was all so utterly predictable to anyone half following along. Dems will have nothing left to fight for unless they get in the ring.
If only AOC, Mayor Pete or Jamie Raskin would declare they’re running for President in 2028 it would drive the narrative to counter the blizzard of lies coming from the red hat brigade. He/She who dares. Wins.
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If only AOC, Mayor Pete or Jamie Raskin would declare they’re running for President in 2028 it would drive the narrative to counter the blizzard of lies coming from the red hat brigade. He/She who dares. Wins.
A text from my daughter after just one month of this farce: My friend ‘X’ got into the university of ‘Y’ for her PhD. They just emailed her and said because of funding complications they ended up only being able to take 1 person into the lab instead of the previously planned 7.
February 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A text from my daughter after just one month of this farce: My friend ‘X’ got into the university of ‘Y’ for her PhD. They just emailed her and said because of funding complications they ended up only being able to take 1 person into the lab instead of the previously planned 7.
@alicetalksfootball.bsky.social Maybe Ashworth was right? He was certainly right about the squad fit and the manager. No wonder he had a falling out.
December 30, 2024 at 9:58 PM
@alicetalksfootball.bsky.social Maybe Ashworth was right? He was certainly right about the squad fit and the manager. No wonder he had a falling out.
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Every election matters.
November 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Every election matters.
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If you voted Trump to lower costs, the next four years are going to be a real kick in the pants.
Luckily, you won't be able to afford pants.
Luckily, you won't be able to afford pants.
November 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM
If you voted Trump to lower costs, the next four years are going to be a real kick in the pants.
Luckily, you won't be able to afford pants.
Luckily, you won't be able to afford pants.