Heather Reid
@hkreid.bsky.social
Managing Director, 💻Digital at @climatepower.bsky.social | Jack and Annabel’s mom. Ruthless pragmatist. Always looking for a silly little drink.
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UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
Energy costs are rising at twice the rate of inflation, AI data centers are eating up our electricity bandwidth, people are losing their jobs because he's canceled billions in clean energy projects, AND he just denied $33m flood relief money for western Maryland -- and THIS is the priority?
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Energy costs are rising at twice the rate of inflation, AI data centers are eating up our electricity bandwidth, people are losing their jobs because he's canceled billions in clean energy projects, AND he just denied $33m flood relief money for western Maryland -- and THIS is the priority?
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Don’t forget that we are in this redistricting battle because the ideological Supreme Court held (5-4) that partisan gerrymandering cases couldn’t be heard in federal courts
Remember: This was a SC that that was configured that way after Republicans stole a SC seat. No stolen seat=different result.
Remember: This was a SC that that was configured that way after Republicans stole a SC seat. No stolen seat=different result.
August 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Don’t forget that we are in this redistricting battle because the ideological Supreme Court held (5-4) that partisan gerrymandering cases couldn’t be heard in federal courts
Remember: This was a SC that that was configured that way after Republicans stole a SC seat. No stolen seat=different result.
Remember: This was a SC that that was configured that way after Republicans stole a SC seat. No stolen seat=different result.
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Tremendous crossover move right here:
August 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tremendous crossover move right here:
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I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
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Opinion | Jeanine Pirro is plenty sober enough to serve as the US Attorney for DC.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
August 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Opinion | Jeanine Pirro is plenty sober enough to serve as the US Attorney for DC.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
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Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives began to flee the state on Sunday. It's a last-ditch attempt to stop President Trump and Texas Republicans from adopting a redrawn congressional map that could help lock in a Republican majority in next year’s elections. Listen to "The Daily."
Trump’s Texas Power Grab
Why dozens of Democratic politicians just fled their own state.
nyti.ms
August 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives began to flee the state on Sunday. It's a last-ditch attempt to stop President Trump and Texas Republicans from adopting a redrawn congressional map that could help lock in a Republican majority in next year’s elections. Listen to "The Daily."
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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
Texas GOP: how far can we possibly debase ourselves? Could we be low enough to slither under Trump’s boots?
Texas Dems: bet
Texas Dems: bet
Breaking News: Democrats in the Texas House planned to leave the state in a last-ditch attempt to stop Republicans from adopting an aggressively redrawn congressional map. Their absence would prevent the House from reaching the quorum needed to hold a vote this week.
Texas Democrats to Leave State to Block G.O.P. From Redrawing Political Map
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Texas GOP: how far can we possibly debase ourselves? Could we be low enough to slither under Trump’s boots?
Texas Dems: bet
Texas Dems: bet
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No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.
In a new statement, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says he's done supporting any aid to Israel amid Gaza's nutrition and humanitarian crisis.
"My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
"My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
July 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.
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One of Sen. Ernst's constituents points out that people are going to die if Republicans' cuts to Medicaid go through. Ernst's response?
"Well, we all are going to die."
Republicans know exactly what they are doing—all so billionaires can get another tax cut.
"Well, we all are going to die."
Republicans know exactly what they are doing—all so billionaires can get another tax cut.
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One of Sen. Ernst's constituents points out that people are going to die if Republicans' cuts to Medicaid go through. Ernst's response?
"Well, we all are going to die."
Republicans know exactly what they are doing—all so billionaires can get another tax cut.
"Well, we all are going to die."
Republicans know exactly what they are doing—all so billionaires can get another tax cut.
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
bit.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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In old enough to remember the campaign to “find the liberal Rush Limbaugh.” This will work as well.
The GOP didn’t build Rogan, and Democrats sure won’t be able to build a liberal one.
They should focus on funding existing liberal outlets and local newspapers and Spanish language radio and TV.
The GOP didn’t build Rogan, and Democrats sure won’t be able to build a liberal one.
They should focus on funding existing liberal outlets and local newspapers and Spanish language radio and TV.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
In old enough to remember the campaign to “find the liberal Rush Limbaugh.” This will work as well.
The GOP didn’t build Rogan, and Democrats sure won’t be able to build a liberal one.
They should focus on funding existing liberal outlets and local newspapers and Spanish language radio and TV.
The GOP didn’t build Rogan, and Democrats sure won’t be able to build a liberal one.
They should focus on funding existing liberal outlets and local newspapers and Spanish language radio and TV.
He’s not technically a Chicago pope until you drag him through the garden
May 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
He’s not technically a Chicago pope until you drag him through the garden
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American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten
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SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.
May 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.
I’ve been thinking, and what I really want for Mother’s Day is for every Republican who doesn’t support universal paid family leave and universal child care to shut the fuck up.
May 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’ve been thinking, and what I really want for Mother’s Day is for every Republican who doesn’t support universal paid family leave and universal child care to shut the fuck up.
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So from 2 trillion promised to a net 25 billion, and it was never shown to be fraud and abuse, and no one can tell us if they were useful savings (i.e., firing people that are effective, efficient, critical...).
DOGE's $160 billion in savings have cost $135 billion, analysis finds
The push by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal funding will cost taxpayers money, nonpartisan group finds. Here's why.
www.yahoo.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So from 2 trillion promised to a net 25 billion, and it was never shown to be fraud and abuse, and no one can tell us if they were useful savings (i.e., firing people that are effective, efficient, critical...).
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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NEW: Judge Xinis largely rejects DOJ's opposition to discovery requests in the Abrego Garcia case, accusing the Trump admin of "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations," citing their continued denial to acknowledge what the Supreme Court ordered.
April 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
NEW: Judge Xinis largely rejects DOJ's opposition to discovery requests in the Abrego Garcia case, accusing the Trump admin of "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations," citing their continued denial to acknowledge what the Supreme Court ordered.
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WOW. After the Trump admin refused to name individuals involved in sending Mr. Abrego to CECOT, Judge Xinis says DOJ is engaged in "a deliberate evasion of their fundamental discovery obligations," which she says "can only be viewed as willful and intentional noncompliance."
April 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
WOW. After the Trump admin refused to name individuals involved in sending Mr. Abrego to CECOT, Judge Xinis says DOJ is engaged in "a deliberate evasion of their fundamental discovery obligations," which she says "can only be viewed as willful and intentional noncompliance."
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Seeing this chart just as Isee a quote from Musk saying fully autonomous self-driving will be ready this year.
April 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Seeing this chart just as Isee a quote from Musk saying fully autonomous self-driving will be ready this year.
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
“Why aren’t people having kids”
Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches.
A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f
A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f
Opinion | Donald Trump’s war on children
The administration is divesting from future generations. It will cost America dearly.
wapo.st
April 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“Why aren’t people having kids”