Compassion Reigns Supreme
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Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
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MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military.
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
MAJOR UPDATE: Speaker Mike Johnson is working behind closed doors to strip IVF coverage for all active duty members of the military.
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
Will the self-proclaimed "Father of IVF" Donald Trump swoop in to save it?
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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Sending this out to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sending this out to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
Sending this out to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sending this out to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
“If being wrong’s a crime you’re serving forever,
When being strong is what we need you seek Chuck’s help with a feather’
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And that's why Amy keeps voting for Trump's nominees.
Affordability isn't a con job. It's the American people's top priority.
Trump: "I think affordability is the greatest con job."
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
And that's why Amy keeps voting for Trump's nominees.
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Genuinely curious how any WaPo editor justifies using "despite" in this headline?
Doesn't a "growing toll of Palestinian casualties" provide pretty clear evidence of one party *violating* the ceasefire?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Doesn't a "growing toll of Palestinian casualties" provide pretty clear evidence of one party *violating* the ceasefire?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Genuinely curious how any WaPo editor justifies using "despite" in this headline?
Doesn't a "growing toll of Palestinian casualties" provide pretty clear evidence of one party *violating* the ceasefire?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Doesn't a "growing toll of Palestinian casualties" provide pretty clear evidence of one party *violating* the ceasefire?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Is anyone who follows me based in Calgary, by chance? If so, I'd be grateful if you would send me a DM. I have a question/favor to ask.
December 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Is anyone who follows me based in Calgary, by chance? If so, I'd be grateful if you would send me a DM. I have a question/favor to ask.
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Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Again, the most parsimonious explanation here is that economic sentiment is in many respects EXACTLY like perceptions of crime: driven entirely by media and cultural narratives, rather than linked to people's real observations of the world around them.
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Again, the most parsimonious explanation here is that economic sentiment is in many respects EXACTLY like perceptions of crime: driven entirely by media and cultural narratives, rather than linked to people's real observations of the world around them.
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I am shadow-banned and was also banned-banned over Johnny Cash lyrics. If you like this new article, please share it before Bluesky nukes me for including a cross stitch I made of the movie "Die Hard". Thanks!
The answers to my reader Q & A are up! Topics covered include GOP crimes, Dem complicity, Ukraine, Epstein, the best Christmas movies, and much more! Read here:
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Welcome to Leaving the Party, Pal!
Your questions answered on Dem party failures, GOP crimes, Die Hard, and more!
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December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am shadow-banned and was also banned-banned over Johnny Cash lyrics. If you like this new article, please share it before Bluesky nukes me for including a cross stitch I made of the movie "Die Hard". Thanks!
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this is why I think campaigning on "affordability" is fools' gold-- people will always say it is worse even if not, so what happens two years after the next election?
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
this is why I think campaigning on "affordability" is fools' gold-- people will always say it is worse even if not, so what happens two years after the next election?
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See also: university presidents/administrators, editors/journalists at the papers/networks of record, CEOs, etc. etc. The skills that secured peak elite status in every societal institution pre-2025 are precisely those least suited for countering a far right authoritarian threat to the Republic.
Personnel is policy is politics: the skills needed to become a senior Democrat, and the life experiences associated with being one, furnish neither the tools to respond to an authoritarian takeover nor a sufficiently visceral understanding of the stakes.
via @jmberger.com
via @jmberger.com
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
See also: university presidents/administrators, editors/journalists at the papers/networks of record, CEOs, etc. etc. The skills that secured peak elite status in every societal institution pre-2025 are precisely those least suited for countering a far right authoritarian threat to the Republic.
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access.
Here's what to know 👇
Here's what to know 👇
Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill
The speaker is working behind closed-doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.
www.ms.now
December 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access.
Here's what to know 👇
Here's what to know 👇
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NEW: From Costco to Bumble Bee to Ray-Ban, companies are lining up early in the hopes of scoring refunds on tariffs, anticipating the Supreme Court will declare Trump's duties illegal. Some businesses say they're hurting and need to money to stay afloat. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
Ahead of Tariff Ruling, Businesses Race to Secure Refunds
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
NEW: From Costco to Bumble Bee to Ray-Ban, companies are lining up early in the hopes of scoring refunds on tariffs, anticipating the Supreme Court will declare Trump's duties illegal. Some businesses say they're hurting and need to money to stay afloat. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/b...
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Wasn't going to put this up until Bandcamp Friday but not sure the full LP will be finished (still mixing) then so here are the first couple tracks. The Old Man guitar recently acquired isn't on this, but will be in the final LP:
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Exit The Rainmaker, by Esquire Joe
2 track album
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November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Wasn't going to put this up until Bandcamp Friday but not sure the full LP will be finished (still mixing) then so here are the first couple tracks. The Old Man guitar recently acquired isn't on this, but will be in the final LP:
esquirejoe.bandcamp.com/album/exit-t...
esquirejoe.bandcamp.com/album/exit-t...
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I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time.
But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?
But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time.
But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?
But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?
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He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.
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does someone have kompromat on Jeffries? Just fucking stop talking, man.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
does someone have kompromat on Jeffries? Just fucking stop talking, man.