Upstate Dem
@upstatedem.bsky.social
“Good Government” Democrat. Proud FDR-LBJ liberal. Former Hill staffer, writer, public affairs pro, JD. Francophile. Dog lover. History buff (WW I, medieval, France, US). Deeply, madly in love.
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First, Ron Johnson’s premiums would be astronomical if a free market existed in health care, that is, if an insurance company would be willing to cover him.
Second, members of Congress enjoy some of the best health coverage in America. Doctors at the ready. Military hospitals minutes away.
Second, members of Congress enjoy some of the best health coverage in America. Doctors at the ready. Military hospitals minutes away.
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
I propose calling it the Yelling Crazy Uncle Center for the Performing Farts
Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him
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December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I propose calling it the Yelling Crazy Uncle Center for the Performing Farts
Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
“Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?”
David Remnick asks the rhetorical question of the decade: "Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?" No. Never. Ever. I'd be surprised if anyone ever has. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Donald Trump’s Remarks on the Death of Rob Reiner Are Next-Level Degradation
On a weekend of terrible violent events, you would not expect a President of the United States to make matters even worse. But, of course, he did.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?”
What a fucked up country.
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Eight Others Shot at Brown University www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Eight Others Shot at Brown University www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Multiple Others Shot at Brown University
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
What a fucked up country.
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Eight Others Shot at Brown University www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: 2 Killed and Eight Others Shot at Brown University www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
#BidenDerangementSyndrome
Always on My Mind: Trump’s Enduring Focus on Joe Biden www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Always on My Mind: Trump’s Enduring Focus on Joe Biden www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Always on My Mind: Trump’s Enduring Focus on Joe Biden
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December 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#BidenDerangementSyndrome
Always on My Mind: Trump’s Enduring Focus on Joe Biden www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Always on My Mind: Trump’s Enduring Focus on Joe Biden www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Trump did it too. Did it first, in fact.
OMG: totally unsurprising and also needs to be the subject of national attention:
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump did it too. Did it first, in fact.
CBS News has no integrity.
@raskin.house.gov: "President Trump directed CBS to edit his own interview after suing the network for editing his opponent’s interview, and CBS complied with his requests and omitted its anchor’s questions about President Trump’s pardons." @poynterinstitute.bsky.social mailchi.mp/poynter/top-...
Top Democrat files complaint over '60 Minutes' interview with President Trump
Jamie Raskin wrote to CBS's ombudsman, a role created in an agreement with FCC during Paramount merger to address 'media bias'.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
CBS News has no integrity.
In MAGA world, the only place they’ll ever read about Climate change is in insurance company letters that explain premium increases.
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In MAGA world, the only place they’ll ever read about Climate change is in insurance company letters that explain premium increases.
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Boom.
this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Boom.
And, yet, not a single resignation by an FBI agent being asked to conduct an unconstitutional investigation!!
That there aren’t tells you whose side these agents are on. And it ain’t ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
That there aren’t tells you whose side these agents are on. And it ain’t ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | Mark Kelly Is Being Investigated for Telling the Truth
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
And, yet, not a single resignation by an FBI agent being asked to conduct an unconstitutional investigation!!
That there aren’t tells you whose side these agents are on. And it ain’t ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
That there aren’t tells you whose side these agents are on. And it ain’t ours.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Hey, FBI agents, you too have sworn an oath to the Constitution and have a duty to disobey unlawful orders.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Say F.B.I. Wants to Talk to Them About Illegal Orders Video www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Say F.B.I. Wants to Talk to Them About Illegal Orders Video www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Say F.B.I. Wants to Talk to Them About Illegal Orders Video
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hey, FBI agents, you too have sworn an oath to the Constitution and have a duty to disobey unlawful orders.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Say F.B.I. Wants to Talk to Them About Illegal Orders Video www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Democrats Say F.B.I. Wants to Talk to Them About Illegal Orders Video www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Abuse of power. Pentagon Opens Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly Over What Hegseth Calls ‘Seditious’ Video www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Pentagon Opens Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly Over What Hegseth Calls ‘Seditious’ Video
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November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Abuse of power. Pentagon Opens Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly Over What Hegseth Calls ‘Seditious’ Video www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wind turbines are a blight on seascapes.
Oil rigs and tankers aren’t.
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Oil rigs and tankers aren’t.
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Wind turbines are a blight on seascapes.
Oil rigs and tankers aren’t.
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Oil rigs and tankers aren’t.
Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
It’s immigrants that are their problem. They don’t want ‘em.
Citizenship ceremonies are one of the most joyous celebrations of America that you can find. 100% patriotism vibes from people who believe in the American dream. So no surprise that these ghouls would cancel them.
Leaning in to “Let’s just be assholes” ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s immigrants that are their problem. They don’t want ‘em.
that’s a crime.
Shame on Rep. Clay Higgins & shame on anyone who thinks this is acceptable.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.
This man didn’t just cast the lone “no” vote on exposing a global sex-trafficking network… he also grabbed a citizen for daring to ask a question he didn’t like. I hope this young man presses charges.
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
that’s a crime.
They don’t want immigrants of kind, except White South Africans.
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Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
They don’t want immigrants of kind, except White South Africans.
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Is this happening elsewhere?
MAGA is anti-immigration, legal and illegal. Period. End of story.
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
MAGA is anti-immigration, legal and illegal. Period. End of story.
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
ithacavoice.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Is this happening elsewhere?
MAGA is anti-immigration, legal and illegal. Period. End of story.
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
MAGA is anti-immigration, legal and illegal. Period. End of story.
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
Cleveland Clinic? So we’re about to sell our NIH-driven medical technology and care to SA just as we shut down the very same NIH research apnews.com/live/donald-...
Live updates: Trump expected to give Saudi crown prince a warm embrace during White House visit
President Donald Trump will fête Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia. Trump announced a deal to sell the kingdom F-35 fighter jets.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-18-2025#0000019a-9723-d2a5-a7fa-ffef99600000?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Prince
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Cleveland Clinic? So we’re about to sell our NIH-driven medical technology and care to SA just as we shut down the very same NIH research apnews.com/live/donald-...
@pkrugman.bsky.social Please address Hassett’s contention that real wage growth is more than compensating for increased prices.
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social Please address Hassett’s contention that real wage growth is more than compensating for increased prices.
Trump must think his MAGA base is stupid the likes of which the stupid have never been stupider.
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Trump must think his MAGA base is stupid the likes of which the stupid have never been stupider.
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If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Can you imagine such inhumanity?
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Can you imagine such inhumanity?
His own social media said he was raised abroad. ‘merica not good enough for you?
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers
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November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
His own social media said he was raised abroad. ‘merica not good enough for you?
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...