Jamie R Bedford
@jamierbedford.social
...when you know better, do better! –Maya Angelou (paraphrased)
Optimist struggling with realist-ism. Barbershop harmony geek.
#COVIDisAirborne (and so are colds and flu). Masking is community care.
he/they
Optimist struggling with realist-ism. Barbershop harmony geek.
#COVIDisAirborne (and so are colds and flu). Masking is community care.
he/they
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A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”
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As all politicians left and right talk "affordability", GOP commits to raising insurance premiums 200% or 300% for millions of Americans. See you in November, guys.
NEW: Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Billions of dollars in tax credits under the Affordable Care Act are poised to expire at the end of the year. Lawmakers in both parties say they're nowhere close to a deal to renew them.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
As all politicians left and right talk "affordability", GOP commits to raising insurance premiums 200% or 300% for millions of Americans. See you in November, guys.
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It is widely observed that extensions of the welfare state tend to be very difficult to reverse because anyone attempting it gets electorally punished. Anticipating this, parties/candidates don't even propose it. Let's see how a massive rollback goes for one of the few parties dumb enough to try it
As all politicians left and right talk "affordability", GOP commits to raising insurance premiums 200% or 300% for millions of Americans. See you in November, guys.
NEW: Hopes fade in Congress for a health care deal before premiums soar in January
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Two weeks before recess, they're nowhere close.
Senate to vote on a bill of Dems' choosing; expected to fail.
Enhanced ACA funds set to expire, as many Republicans want.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It is widely observed that extensions of the welfare state tend to be very difficult to reverse because anyone attempting it gets electorally punished. Anticipating this, parties/candidates don't even propose it. Let's see how a massive rollback goes for one of the few parties dumb enough to try it
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Trump's eyes are closing and he's dozing off. But he still has enough in the tank to jerk awake every few seconds.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump's eyes are closing and he's dozing off. But he still has enough in the tank to jerk awake every few seconds.
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Trump is claiming most of the presidential pardons which Biden issued are not legitimate.
That’s an awfully interesting stance for a guy who is counting on pardoning lots of his cronies for crimes they commit together. If I was one of said cronies, I’d be thinking about this precedent!
That’s an awfully interesting stance for a guy who is counting on pardoning lots of his cronies for crimes they commit together. If I was one of said cronies, I’d be thinking about this precedent!
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Trump is claiming most of the presidential pardons which Biden issued are not legitimate.
That’s an awfully interesting stance for a guy who is counting on pardoning lots of his cronies for crimes they commit together. If I was one of said cronies, I’d be thinking about this precedent!
That’s an awfully interesting stance for a guy who is counting on pardoning lots of his cronies for crimes they commit together. If I was one of said cronies, I’d be thinking about this precedent!
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If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
Donate to Support Individualized Shirt Workers United, organized by Gabor Ptacek
Since this summer, worker leaders at Individualized Shirts have been organizi… Gabor Ptacek needs your support for Support Individualized Shirt Workers United
www.gofundme.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you can, please consider donating to their GoFundMe. The money is going to union members this holiday so they can buy groceries and pay rent while they fight for a fair contract.
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
If MiUSA means anything at all, it must mean good paying jobs for workers.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-in...
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So, what Trump is saying here is the next president can cancel all the pardons he issued.
I’m also gonna start posting stuff I don’t have the authority to order.
Andrew Garfield shall be my husband.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Andrew Garfield shall be my husband.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
So, what Trump is saying here is the next president can cancel all the pardons he issued.
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It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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The list of people I blame for RFK Jr. destroying US public health.
1. Trump. You are likely familiar with this shitbird so I don’t need to elaborate.
2. RFK Jr. Stunning arrogance. His eugenic beliefs are spreading.
3. Bill Cassidy. A doctor who eschews his training to please a tyrant.
1. Trump. You are likely familiar with this shitbird so I don’t need to elaborate.
2. RFK Jr. Stunning arrogance. His eugenic beliefs are spreading.
3. Bill Cassidy. A doctor who eschews his training to please a tyrant.
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The list of people I blame for RFK Jr. destroying US public health.
1. Trump. You are likely familiar with this shitbird so I don’t need to elaborate.
2. RFK Jr. Stunning arrogance. His eugenic beliefs are spreading.
3. Bill Cassidy. A doctor who eschews his training to please a tyrant.
1. Trump. You are likely familiar with this shitbird so I don’t need to elaborate.
2. RFK Jr. Stunning arrogance. His eugenic beliefs are spreading.
3. Bill Cassidy. A doctor who eschews his training to please a tyrant.
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NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled.
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change
NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.
www.gravityisgone.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled.
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the old saw that we get more conservative as we age and wondering whether what that really means is not so much that you go backward, but that you refuse to evolve as the world moves forward without you. Hillary is who she always was, but we have WILDLY outgrown her
God, same. I was a white, progressive, democratic person who identified as a woman when she was big in the era of Our Next Hope for exactly my demographic. But good God has it not aged well. She is the worst. Part of it is my evolution and her lack of evolving.
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’ve been thinking a lot about the old saw that we get more conservative as we age and wondering whether what that really means is not so much that you go backward, but that you refuse to evolve as the world moves forward without you. Hillary is who she always was, but we have WILDLY outgrown her
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From here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
From here: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
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BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
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A core problem for American liberalism is a constitutional inability to tell people who were important to the movement decades ago to go away because they're not relevant anymore.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A core problem for American liberalism is a constitutional inability to tell people who were important to the movement decades ago to go away because they're not relevant anymore.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
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Our first project is a Litigant Portal, a people-first platform built to support self-represented litigants with guidance, forms, and e-filing tools.
Other areas we are looking at are tools for public defenders and the incarcerated.
Other areas we are looking at are tools for public defenders and the incarcerated.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our first project is a Litigant Portal, a people-first platform built to support self-represented litigants with guidance, forms, and e-filing tools.
Other areas we are looking at are tools for public defenders and the incarcerated.
Other areas we are looking at are tools for public defenders and the incarcerated.
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We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact.
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
Announcing Free Law Project's Justice Initiatives Division
Free Law Project is launching a new division—Justice Initiatives—to bring together our advocacy, partnerships, and technology development under one mission: transforming how people experience the lega...
free.law
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact.
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
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This is a massive step forward for us and a big expansion of our goals and mission. We’ve been studying these issues for years and now it’s time to execute. We’ve hired a team and built partnerships.
It’s go time.
It’s go time.
We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact.
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
Announcing Free Law Project's Justice Initiatives Division
Free Law Project is launching a new division—Justice Initiatives—to bring together our advocacy, partnerships, and technology development under one mission: transforming how people experience the lega...
free.law
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is a massive step forward for us and a big expansion of our goals and mission. We’ve been studying these issues for years and now it’s time to execute. We’ve hired a team and built partnerships.
It’s go time.
It’s go time.
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Sunlight is scattered by gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it has a shorter wavelength. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
Am I in favor of, or opposed to, the sky being blue?
Am I in favor of, or opposed to, the sky being blue?
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sunlight is scattered by gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it has a shorter wavelength. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
Am I in favor of, or opposed to, the sky being blue?
Am I in favor of, or opposed to, the sky being blue?
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Our tax dollars pay for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to have a staff of dozens of people who keep him informed of current events around the clock, often even before they make the news.
It is offensive that our mainstream media never pushes back or even questions such an obvious lie.
It is offensive that our mainstream media never pushes back or even questions such an obvious lie.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Our tax dollars pay for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to have a staff of dozens of people who keep him informed of current events around the clock, often even before they make the news.
It is offensive that our mainstream media never pushes back or even questions such an obvious lie.
It is offensive that our mainstream media never pushes back or even questions such an obvious lie.
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This question came up. While somewhat coy, it isn’t actually that simple to answer.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
How exactly does one become an "aerosol scientist", inquiring minds want to know.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This question came up. While somewhat coy, it isn’t actually that simple to answer.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
Given that I’m an “aerosol scientist”, I figured I take a crack at answering it.
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Maurene Comey's push for discovery in her lawsuit (initially, to figure out whether Trump personally fired her or delegated his Article II authority to someone else to do so), describes a bunch of shenanigans at MSPB I had missed.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Maurene Comey's push for discovery in her lawsuit (initially, to figure out whether Trump personally fired her or delegated his Article II authority to someone else to do so), describes a bunch of shenanigans at MSPB I had missed.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Everyone in the military chain of command just got a loud notice that if they do, in fact, commit an illegal order, the admin will immediately drop them like a hot rock. All of the sudden they flipped the incentives from compliance to refusal.
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Everyone in the military chain of command just got a loud notice that if they do, in fact, commit an illegal order, the admin will immediately drop them like a hot rock. All of the sudden they flipped the incentives from compliance to refusal.
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It doesn't get you off the command responsibility hook to say you were too stupid and incompetent to realize you were flippantly ordering a crime.
OK, This NYT Hegseth PR piece is unbelievable, but I want to point out two specific ways why.
1. "As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him."
This sentence says nothing new, and only raises further questions about WHY NOT; it does not clear him.
1. "As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him."
This sentence says nothing new, and only raises further questions about WHY NOT; it does not clear him.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It doesn't get you off the command responsibility hook to say you were too stupid and incompetent to realize you were flippantly ordering a crime.