Chris Winters
@chriswinters.bsky.social
Real human writer of novels and news, player of guitars, teacher of history, servant of cats, dweller of Seattle. Nerd of Many Subjects. I mute trolls and block abusers. I use em-dashes and semicolons. I am not on the Xcretory Fascist Emporium.
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Chris Winters
@chriswinters.bsky.social
· Sep 26
It's no longer about restoring what was before. It's about building what comes after.
Will someone please challenge these pardons in court so we can at least get a case going? Trump's abuse of presidential pardon power *demands* a court to state what the limits are. It's a dare for SCOTUS too, because we know how they'll rule, but they gotta take the mask off to make that ruling.
President Trump issued pardons to two people convicted of crimes stemming from the events of Jan. 6, 2021, but not directly tied to the attack on the Capitol, expanding the scope of the broad clemency he had already granted to those caught up in the prosecutions related to the riot.
Trump Pardons Two for Crimes Related to Jan. 6
Daniel Edwin Wilson and Suzanne Kaye had been convicted of crimes indirectly connected to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
nyti.ms
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Will someone please challenge these pardons in court so we can at least get a case going? Trump's abuse of presidential pardon power *demands* a court to state what the limits are. It's a dare for SCOTUS too, because we know how they'll rule, but they gotta take the mask off to make that ruling.
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The fact that he thinks the test can be "aced" tells me he does not have "very advanced mental acuity". Nor does he know what that means.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The fact that he thinks the test can be "aced" tells me he does not have "very advanced mental acuity". Nor does he know what that means.
“Dehumanizing individuals striving for a better life in the Land of the Free has never been — and never will be — consistent with the ideals of our organization and the principles of the great Republican party,” the statement reads.”
Ummm…
dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...
Ummm…
dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...
BUCR women send statement disaffiliating after president’s X post
After a recent X post by Boston University College Republicans President Zac Segal supporting the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s arrests of nine car wash employees in Allston, the women of...
dailyfreepress.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“Dehumanizing individuals striving for a better life in the Land of the Free has never been — and never will be — consistent with the ideals of our organization and the principles of the great Republican party,” the statement reads.”
Ummm…
dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...
Ummm…
dailyfreepress.com/11/15/19/216...
Strong Louis XVI vibes here.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Strong Louis XVI vibes here.
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made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
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We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Right when thousands of flights have been canceled too, no less. Granted, this time around it’s less the airlines’ fault than Trump’s and Mike Johnson’s.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is officially withdrawing a Biden-era plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when flight disruptions are caused by the airlines.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Right when thousands of flights have been canceled too, no less. Granted, this time around it’s less the airlines’ fault than Trump’s and Mike Johnson’s.
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Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
I think it's pretty telling that the Republicans thought that, in order to take the pressure off to release all the files, they needed to release a MINIMUM of 23,000 emails! Some of which implicate Trump already!
Let's be clear about this: This is the Republicans trying to get in front of the inevitable blowout scandal by releasing just enough #Epsteinfiles documents to remove the pressure for a discharge petition to release ALL of them, now that Grjalva has been sworn in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I think it's pretty telling that the Republicans thought that, in order to take the pressure off to release all the files, they needed to release a MINIMUM of 23,000 emails! Some of which implicate Trump already!
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However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
However MAGA chooses to explain this away will be one of the most extreme examples of cognitive dissonance theory in the history of ever.
Saw this skeet without any context whatsoever and had an image of Władysław the Elbow-High wandering across the Great Plains, searching for his lost kingdom.
Monarchs can still figure out how to migrate South even if they're moved laterally (eg going from Colorado to Virginia, they will reorient after a couple days)
A vast spider city was just discovered in a cave with over a hundred thousand living communally and "farming" grubs
A vast spider city was just discovered in a cave with over a hundred thousand living communally and "farming" grubs
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Saw this skeet without any context whatsoever and had an image of Władysław the Elbow-High wandering across the Great Plains, searching for his lost kingdom.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Once again it's worth noting that we don't really know if Vladimir Putin has any dirt he's blackmailing Donald Trump with. But if he did, Trump would be doing exactly what he has been doing all along: dismantling the United States as a global power.
BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories).
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Once again it's worth noting that we don't really know if Vladimir Putin has any dirt he's blackmailing Donald Trump with. But if he did, Trump would be doing exactly what he has been doing all along: dismantling the United States as a global power.
And why would Epstein know about this, I wonder?
Larry Summers, overnight to Epstein after this — www.bbc.com/news/world-e... — happened:
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And why would Epstein know about this, I wonder?
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WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
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One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Let's be clear about this: This is the Republicans trying to get in front of the inevitable blowout scandal by releasing just enough #Epsteinfiles documents to remove the pressure for a discharge petition to release ALL of them, now that Grjalva has been sworn in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Let's be clear about this: This is the Republicans trying to get in front of the inevitable blowout scandal by releasing just enough #Epsteinfiles documents to remove the pressure for a discharge petition to release ALL of them, now that Grjalva has been sworn in.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
So, so many. One I'll pick from my youth: Watership Down, by Richard Adams. It was the first time I had the experience of reaching the end of the book and being crestfallen that this was the end of the story. I wanted it to go on forever. That book was real magic.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So, so many. One I'll pick from my youth: Watership Down, by Richard Adams. It was the first time I had the experience of reaching the end of the book and being crestfallen that this was the end of the story. I wanted it to go on forever. That book was real magic.
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So this morning I get an urgent email for a same day cardiology appointment at my local treatment centre.
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
So this morning I get an urgent email for a same day cardiology appointment at my local treatment centre.
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
I was surprised (and alarmed) but fine. I moved things around and went there a few minutes ago.
Only there was no real appointment. The receptionist said I wasn't supposed to receive any 1/
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
Who could have seen that coming? 🙄
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Who could have seen that coming? 🙄
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Johnson's House recess is permanent. #fascism
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
Earlier this week it seemed certain the Democrats were going to roll over the Republicans in the midterms.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Dems have just decided to surrender and let Trump starve poor people, and drive up medical costs for ACA enrollees to get...
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Earlier this week it seemed certain the Democrats were going to roll over the Republicans in the midterms.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Now it looks like they've agreed to not even have midterms, and to permanently become the Republicans' patsy.
Such terrible politics. We get nothing, they get everything. It's over.
Dems have just decided to surrender and let Trump starve poor people, and drive up medical costs for ACA enrollees to get...
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Dems have just decided to surrender and let Trump starve poor people, and drive up medical costs for ACA enrollees to get...
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.
... a promise to hold a vote
... filibusterable, in the Senate
... when nothing compels the GOP to honor it
...it won't pass anyway
...and the House won't even take it up.