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Ryan Kearney
@ryankearney.bsky.social
· Jan 3
a summertime retrospective in honor of Feelin’ Chill Friday 😎…..
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given how unpopular Trump is, it’s insane that civil society/universities/law firms are still asking themselves “how do I stay on Trump’s good side” rather than “how do I avoid facing consequences for complying with Trump’s illegal demands”
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
given how unpopular Trump is, it’s insane that civil society/universities/law firms are still asking themselves “how do I stay on Trump’s good side” rather than “how do I avoid facing consequences for complying with Trump’s illegal demands”
FEET FRIDAY: SCOTTSDALE
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
FEET FRIDAY: SCOTTSDALE
apropos of apropos of nothing,
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
apropos of apropos of nothing,
apropos of nothing,
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
apropos of nothing,
i think it makes sense for the Congressional Progressive Caucus to endorse the solidly progressive, experienced mayor and state legislator over the 26 year-old YouTuber who does not live in the district
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
i think it makes sense for the Congressional Progressive Caucus to endorse the solidly progressive, experienced mayor and state legislator over the 26 year-old YouTuber who does not live in the district
new roof view did, in fact, “gag” me a bit, as the saying goes!
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
new roof view did, in fact, “gag” me a bit, as the saying goes!
(the Zohran Oval Office meeting/performance was objectively incredible but a looooot of you are *thisclose* to relapsing back into the same 2021-2024 retcon of Donald Trump as a goofy but largely harmless + HILARIOUS insult comedy figure that helped allow him to regain power in the first place…..)
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
(the Zohran Oval Office meeting/performance was objectively incredible but a looooot of you are *thisclose* to relapsing back into the same 2021-2024 retcon of Donald Trump as a goofy but largely harmless + HILARIOUS insult comedy figure that helped allow him to regain power in the first place…..)
texting from the Oval Office?!!!?
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
texting from the Oval Office?!!!?
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the political careers of Andrew Cuomo, Winsome Earle-Sears, and Jack Ciattarelli are DEAD and the weekly holiday commonly known as “Feet Friday” is ALIVE! 😤
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
the political careers of Andrew Cuomo, Winsome Earle-Sears, and Jack Ciattarelli are DEAD and the weekly holiday commonly known as “Feet Friday” is ALIVE! 😤
three episodes in to I LOVE LA and like…the thing with making a show about the most repellent, vapid, dead-behind-the-eyes characters i think i’ve ever seen is that you need to balance that out with compelling motivations, interesting (or any!) inner lives, and/or actual jokes to make it work?
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
three episodes in to I LOVE LA and like…the thing with making a show about the most repellent, vapid, dead-behind-the-eyes characters i think i’ve ever seen is that you need to balance that out with compelling motivations, interesting (or any!) inner lives, and/or actual jokes to make it work?
had a front-row seat in NV to this guy’s grotesque campaign finance experiment of drowning overworked low-info voters in $100 million of ads, sucking up oxygen for most non-billionaire candidates, winning a ton of votes, then immediately telling them all to fuck off for the last 6 years, so 🍅🍅🍅
Breaking News: Tom Steyer, the San Francisco billionaire, announced that he was entering the crowded race to become the next governor of California.
Tom Steyer Will Run for California Governor in 2026 Race
Tom Steyer, who ran for president in 2020 and funded an effort to impeach President Trump, will join the crowded field trying to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
had a front-row seat in NV to this guy’s grotesque campaign finance experiment of drowning overworked low-info voters in $100 million of ads, sucking up oxygen for most non-billionaire candidates, winning a ton of votes, then immediately telling them all to fuck off for the last 6 years, so 🍅🍅🍅
a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
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agreed bsky.app/profile/jame...
i can feel myself slowly morphing into a social democratic george will. complaining about the lack of manners, consideration and due regard for others but from the left
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
agreed bsky.app/profile/jame...
idk i just think that, say, the Zohran campaign offers us a very compelling and issue-specific road map forward that doesn’t rely on making the political process actively crueler and dumber and more childishly vulgar to galvanize people!!!
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
idk i just think that, say, the Zohran campaign offers us a very compelling and issue-specific road map forward that doesn’t rely on making the political process actively crueler and dumber and more childishly vulgar to galvanize people!!!
guy who didn’t see WICKED onstage until late 2021 so the strongest emotional connection he has with the material is seeing the first film in a catatonic post-election depressive fugue state circa November 2024……
(i’m guy)
(i’m guy)
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
guy who didn’t see WICKED onstage until late 2021 so the strongest emotional connection he has with the material is seeing the first film in a catatonic post-election depressive fugue state circa November 2024……
(i’m guy)
(i’m guy)
the SPARKS that started flying off of my stationary bike when i hit the twist ending……
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
the SPARKS that started flying off of my stationary bike when i hit the twist ending……
Saturday night strobe shots that 2:02 am Ryan wished to share with the world 👇
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Saturday night strobe shots that 2:02 am Ryan wished to share with the world 👇
2024 was the FIFTH consecutive election in which the party in power (GOP in 2008/2020, Dems in 2012/2016/2024) did worse than it had four years prior, one of many reasons i was so maddened by the poli sci dweebs who insisted that we keep Biden because of “incumbency advantage”!
I think this finding from our Oct. Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll was overlooked, and should shift some of the conventional wisdom about why Harris lost in 2024 and what the Dem. Party needs to do to win in 2026/2028. Anti-incumbent bias on the economy is underrated substack.com/@gelliottmor...
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
2024 was the FIFTH consecutive election in which the party in power (GOP in 2008/2020, Dems in 2012/2016/2024) did worse than it had four years prior, one of many reasons i was so maddened by the poli sci dweebs who insisted that we keep Biden because of “incumbency advantage”!
not necessarily my place to chime in on for obvious reasons but it is hard to imagine anything more guaranteed to prevent a woman President from ever being elected than for this insanely self-defeating attitude to become widely accepted as a fact!!!
Michelle Obama says “don’t even look at me about running” because the United States isn’t ready for a woman President:
“We ain’t ready. That’s why I’m like ‘don’t even look at me about running’ cause you all are lying. You ain’t ready for a woman. So don’t waste my time.”
“We ain’t ready. That’s why I’m like ‘don’t even look at me about running’ cause you all are lying. You ain’t ready for a woman. So don’t waste my time.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
not necessarily my place to chime in on for obvious reasons but it is hard to imagine anything more guaranteed to prevent a woman President from ever being elected than for this insanely self-defeating attitude to become widely accepted as a fact!!!
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Many of his comments this year suggests he consumes a ton of popularist content and very little pointing out the many flaws in that thinking. I assume his peer group is the audience that consumes popularist content, so he would need real intentionality to get other perspectives.
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Many of his comments this year suggests he consumes a ton of popularist content and very little pointing out the many flaws in that thinking. I assume his peer group is the audience that consumes popularist content, so he would need real intentionality to get other perspectives.
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(the instagram story prompt *actually* led me back to rediscovering this even more gratuitous option, if you care….)
January 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
(the instagram story prompt *actually* led me back to rediscovering this even more gratuitous option, if you care….)
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framing social issues as a Democrat led initiative instead of a weird Republican obsession, is frankly irresponsible and Pete does it a lot.
also progressives (like Mamdani and others) have been running on the issues Pete talks about here but the party (and Pete) will barely support them.
also progressives (like Mamdani and others) have been running on the issues Pete talks about here but the party (and Pete) will barely support them.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
framing social issues as a Democrat led initiative instead of a weird Republican obsession, is frankly irresponsible and Pete does it a lot.
also progressives (like Mamdani and others) have been running on the issues Pete talks about here but the party (and Pete) will barely support them.
also progressives (like Mamdani and others) have been running on the issues Pete talks about here but the party (and Pete) will barely support them.
at this point the ratio of pundit-brained hacks like this one loudly whining about the hopelessly woke, identity-obsessed Democratic Party to any actual living figures in the Democratic Party being hopelessly woke and identity-obsessed is like….100 to 1? 1000 to 1? more?!
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
at this point the ratio of pundit-brained hacks like this one loudly whining about the hopelessly woke, identity-obsessed Democratic Party to any actual living figures in the Democratic Party being hopelessly woke and identity-obsessed is like….100 to 1? 1000 to 1? more?!
i know it can be a bit played out to fixate on this particular outlet but like….i really do not remember this tenor of coverage when the now-oldest President in history picked a 39 year-old two years removed from being Peter Thiel’s intern to serve as Vice President of the United States!!!
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
i know it can be a bit played out to fixate on this particular outlet but like….i really do not remember this tenor of coverage when the now-oldest President in history picked a 39 year-old two years removed from being Peter Thiel’s intern to serve as Vice President of the United States!!!