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Hello Bluesky friends. A big welcome again to new folks including my new followers. Thought I set up a thread with my starter-packs which will give you a sense of content of politics/sports coming from my TL. Starting w/ smart reads: good humans I pay close attention to: go.bsky.app/SM6cvmB 🧵(1/14)
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NEW: Fortunately, the U.S. escaped the 2025 hurricane season mostly unscathed.
But a major storm will almost certainly hit in the next few years. When it does, the lethal effects of Trump's FEMA assault will be fully exposed.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social surveys the damage in @prospect.org. 🧵⬇️
But a major storm will almost certainly hit in the next few years. When it does, the lethal effects of Trump's FEMA assault will be fully exposed.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social surveys the damage in @prospect.org. 🧵⬇️
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming - The American Prospect
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
prospect.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
NEW: Fortunately, the U.S. escaped the 2025 hurricane season mostly unscathed.
But a major storm will almost certainly hit in the next few years. When it does, the lethal effects of Trump's FEMA assault will be fully exposed.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social surveys the damage in @prospect.org. 🧵⬇️
But a major storm will almost certainly hit in the next few years. When it does, the lethal effects of Trump's FEMA assault will be fully exposed.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social surveys the damage in @prospect.org. 🧵⬇️
VA Democrats are on top of it.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
VA Democrats are on top of it.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
The bottom line for any Democrat who is running for federal offices in 2026 and in 2028 - have a concrete plan to reform and rebalance this MAGA #SCOTUS.
If you want to be POTUS commit to acting on reforming/rebalnacing SCOTUS on Day 1.
If you don't - gtfoh - and don't ask for my money.
If you want to be POTUS commit to acting on reforming/rebalnacing SCOTUS on Day 1.
If you don't - gtfoh - and don't ask for my money.
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The bottom line for any Democrat who is running for federal offices in 2026 and in 2028 - have a concrete plan to reform and rebalance this MAGA #SCOTUS.
If you want to be POTUS commit to acting on reforming/rebalnacing SCOTUS on Day 1.
If you don't - gtfoh - and don't ask for my money.
If you want to be POTUS commit to acting on reforming/rebalnacing SCOTUS on Day 1.
If you don't - gtfoh - and don't ask for my money.
John Roberts calling balls and strikes ... for his team.
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
John Roberts calling balls and strikes ... for his team.
My gut tells me INEOS just wants to ride through this season w/ Amorim and bring in Tuchel when he is done with England.
What we are watching now is not sustainable. The data points are piling up fast against Amorim. #mufc
What we are watching now is not sustainable. The data points are piling up fast against Amorim. #mufc
This is just another game where I’m struggling to believe in Amorim succeeding sorry.
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My gut tells me INEOS just wants to ride through this season w/ Amorim and bring in Tuchel when he is done with England.
What we are watching now is not sustainable. The data points are piling up fast against Amorim. #mufc
What we are watching now is not sustainable. The data points are piling up fast against Amorim. #mufc
Up 1-0 against a relegation level West Ham team at OT, #MUFC shouldn’t need three CB's, extra full back and two defensive midfielders. Bringing on Ugarte instead of Mainoo. 😔
That goal from the Hammers felt inevitable.
That goal from the Hammers felt inevitable.
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Up 1-0 against a relegation level West Ham team at OT, #MUFC shouldn’t need three CB's, extra full back and two defensive midfielders. Bringing on Ugarte instead of Mainoo. 😔
That goal from the Hammers felt inevitable.
That goal from the Hammers felt inevitable.
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Fuck Kavanaugh stops all my homies hate Kavanaugh stops
(for purposes of this post I'm including a federal district judge who just rightly concluded that the Supreme Court's racial profiling order is *not* controlling precedent under the umbrella of 'my homies')
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/beryl...
(for purposes of this post I'm including a federal district judge who just rightly concluded that the Supreme Court's racial profiling order is *not* controlling precedent under the umbrella of 'my homies')
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/beryl...
Federal Judge Has No Interest In Taking Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Seriously
The Trump administration cited Kavanaugh’s infamous concurrence to justify its immigration arrests. Judge Beryl Howell was having none of it.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Fuck Kavanaugh stops all my homies hate Kavanaugh stops
(for purposes of this post I'm including a federal district judge who just rightly concluded that the Supreme Court's racial profiling order is *not* controlling precedent under the umbrella of 'my homies')
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/beryl...
(for purposes of this post I'm including a federal district judge who just rightly concluded that the Supreme Court's racial profiling order is *not* controlling precedent under the umbrella of 'my homies')
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/beryl...
Release the tapes.
Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Release the tapes.
John Roberts - “the chief justice who helped wreck numerous institutions vital to our democracy – they include fair, non-gerrymandered elections, a sane campaign finance system, the Voting Rights Act’s protections of minority voters, and the bedrock notion that presidents are not above the law.”
John Roberts has badly weakened our democracy. Will he ever stand up to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
Under the chief justice, the US supreme court has bolstered authoritarian agendas while undercutting the voice of voters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
John Roberts - “the chief justice who helped wreck numerous institutions vital to our democracy – they include fair, non-gerrymandered elections, a sane campaign finance system, the Voting Rights Act’s protections of minority voters, and the bedrock notion that presidents are not above the law.”
In other words despite all the talk about their incompetent leader, Senate Democrats like @booker.senate.gov has no desire to change the status quo and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social won’t offer anything more than strong words in his social media content. www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In other words despite all the talk about their incompetent leader, Senate Democrats like @booker.senate.gov has no desire to change the status quo and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social won’t offer anything more than strong words in his social media content. www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
Thought there would be couple of others on this list but … it is what it is. 🎶
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Thought there would be couple of others on this list but … it is what it is. 🎶
a #UCLA recruit in glasses and tux - I dig this. Bruins lost few today bc of coaching staff in transition but I don't mind. Really believe better days are ahead for us. Welcome to Westwood and our Bruin family CJ! #GoBruins
WATCH: New UCLA signee CJ Lavender, a 2026 three-star safety at Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei, reflected on his decision to flip from Washington, and more.
Full interview 🎥 (courtesy of Scott Schrader): www.on3.com/sites/bruin-...
Full interview 🎥 (courtesy of Scott Schrader): www.on3.com/sites/bruin-...
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
gotta enjoy the good stuff when you see them 🍿🍿🍿 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
gotta enjoy the good stuff when you see them 🍿🍿🍿 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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State and National Republicans have gone absolutely berserk over this ballot measure to block their gerrymander. It's been one lie and attack after another
To get one more GOP seat for Trump
Republicans really hate it when voters can block their shenanigans
To get one more GOP seat for Trump
Republicans really hate it when voters can block their shenanigans
The campaign to repeal Missouri’s newly gerrymandered congressional map says it will turn in signatures to put the issue on the statewide ballot next week. #moleg #mogov
Missouri campaign to repeal gerrymandered map plans to submit signatures next week • Missouri Independent
The campaign to repeal Missouri gerrymandered congressional map says it will turn in signatures to put the issue on the ballot next week.
missouriindependent.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
State and National Republicans have gone absolutely berserk over this ballot measure to block their gerrymander. It's been one lie and attack after another
To get one more GOP seat for Trump
Republicans really hate it when voters can block their shenanigans
To get one more GOP seat for Trump
Republicans really hate it when voters can block their shenanigans
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Behold this absolutely *artistic* bit of water-carrying for corruption in POLITICO's nightly newsletter. It's "misaligned" to expose an AI investor using his government perch to enrich AI investors!
![Their reaction illustrates the vast, and ever-widening, gap between how the tech world understands the role of government and how Washington does. Sacks serves as what's known as a special government employee in the Trump White House, with a mandate to address questions of tech regulation. The specific details of Sacks' job, though, have become something of a Rorschach test. When you read that a top government official who is an adviser in the AI space is clearing the path for his friends in the industry to profit, do you see a visionary or a compromised leader who is engaged in a base form of
crony capitalism? Many in the tech industry, even those who are not particularly fans of Sacks, understand his role in government as breaking down guardrails and preventing onerous regulation that could hamstring the growth of AI. If his friends who run the country's biggest AI companies — and the venture firms that invest in them - are benefiting as a result,
that's just par for the course. "This is exactly what is expected when you hire an Al investor as an AI advisor to the government. You're betting on his taste," said Aishwarya Khanduja, the founder of Analogue Group, a venture fund focused on
the research and development sector. Khanduja, herself an O-1 visa holder potentially threatened by some Trump administration policies, is far from reflexively pro-Silicon Valley. But in her view, the idea that a pro-AI investor would try to influence government policy to the benefit of fellow pro-Al investors (and his own fund) is obvious. "The piece feels misaligned: it's presenting absolutely normal [special government employee]
dynamics as if they're some big reveal."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ig5djks6d6e6kyet32abh5zs/bafkreie3w5mgfpmbyfsg56oblwja3ruivjjkhfdtioftzzrpxflembdrsy@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Behold this absolutely *artistic* bit of water-carrying for corruption in POLITICO's nightly newsletter. It's "misaligned" to expose an AI investor using his government perch to enrich AI investors!
Democrats just need to show up more to "engage" the Fox audience. Surely that will mitigate the damages from the propaganda from that toxic political platform.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Democrats just need to show up more to "engage" the Fox audience. Surely that will mitigate the damages from the propaganda from that toxic political platform.
In retrospect - this from AOC looks like a bad idea. There was no reason for her to discourage a primary run against Jeffries.
Don't forget AOC was one of the last hold out to keep Biden in last year's election.
Her political decisions/instincts raises questions about her strategic acumen.
Don't forget AOC was one of the last hold out to keep Biden in last year's election.
Her political decisions/instincts raises questions about her strategic acumen.
Exclusive: AOC says Chi Ossé primary challenge against Jeffries not a "good idea"
Ocasio-Cortez is one of several prominent progressives breaking with the 27-year-old DSA member.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In retrospect - this from AOC looks like a bad idea. There was no reason for her to discourage a primary run against Jeffries.
Don't forget AOC was one of the last hold out to keep Biden in last year's election.
Her political decisions/instincts raises questions about her strategic acumen.
Don't forget AOC was one of the last hold out to keep Biden in last year's election.
Her political decisions/instincts raises questions about her strategic acumen.
this is not ok.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this is not ok.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
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SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
SCOOP: Sources tell me Donald Trump's name was added to the exterior of the US Institute of Peace building ahead of Thursday's peace agreement signing between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which will be held inside the building. Confirming if it's been officially renamed.
"The entire boat-strike operation is a murder conspiracy being carried out by the US government. Each one of these deaths is an execution without trial. You don’t need to go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to hold Hegseth accountable." 🔥 @elienyc.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"The entire boat-strike operation is a murder conspiracy being carried out by the US government. Each one of these deaths is an execution without trial. You don’t need to go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to hold Hegseth accountable." 🔥 @elienyc.bsky.social
in 2006 Democrats swept into majorities in both the House and the Senate by tenaciously and relentlessly targeting the Tom DeLay Republicans w a narrative of "Republican culture of corruption."
This won't help.
This won't help.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
in 2006 Democrats swept into majorities in both the House and the Senate by tenaciously and relentlessly targeting the Tom DeLay Republicans w a narrative of "Republican culture of corruption."
This won't help.
This won't help.
"National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict."
Good piece from
@toddzwillich.bsky.social on why its good for Dems to stay on offense.
Good piece from
@toddzwillich.bsky.social on why its good for Dems to stay on offense.
Mark Kelly's Double Tap
National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict. Or maybe they did.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict."
Good piece from
@toddzwillich.bsky.social on why its good for Dems to stay on offense.
Good piece from
@toddzwillich.bsky.social on why its good for Dems to stay on offense.
"Kushner is continuing to collect these fees as he serves in a top foreign policy role for the Trump administration. This is precisely the kind of behavior the Foreign Emoluments Clause was designed to prevent."
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Kushner is continuing to collect these fees as he serves in a top foreign policy role for the Trump administration. This is precisely the kind of behavior the Foreign Emoluments Clause was designed to prevent."
JICYMI - John Roberts led MAGA #SCOTUS is getting ready to launch new attacks on abortion rights (they have already been gutting)
US Supreme Court poised to side with anti-abortion pregnancy centers in New Jersey case
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared poised on Tuesday to side with the operator of Christian faith-based anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" in New Jersey in a dispute stemming from the state at...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
JICYMI - John Roberts led MAGA #SCOTUS is getting ready to launch new attacks on abortion rights (they have already been gutting)