Wendy Thurm
@wendythurm.bsky.social
Writer. Former lawyer. Progressive rabble rouser. Baseball guru. Travel junkie. San Francisco apologist.
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Wendy Thurm
@wendythurm.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Chris Cillizza, Andrew Cuomo, and Rahm Emauel walk into a bar . . . .
and the rest of us slam the door shut and barricade it with fortified steel.
and the rest of us slam the door shut and barricade it with fortified steel.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
As if there was ever any doubt what MAGA meant -- returning the US to Jim Crow
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As if there was ever any doubt what MAGA meant -- returning the US to Jim Crow
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
This Warriors-Heat game is like watching a Vanatu-Lichtenstein Olympic qualifier. What is even happening?
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This Warriors-Heat game is like watching a Vanatu-Lichtenstein Olympic qualifier. What is even happening?
This week has conclusively proved that every moment of imposter syndrome that I ever felt as a practicing lawyer and/or a published writer was utter nonsense.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This week has conclusively proved that every moment of imposter syndrome that I ever felt as a practicing lawyer and/or a published writer was utter nonsense.
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There's just no way that the House and Senate GOP would vote to release the full, unabridged, undoctored Epstein files. Given all the efforts Trump has taken to keep the files from being released, we have to assume DOJ/FBI are fucking around with them or have done so already bsky.app/profile/burg...
News: Thune says President Trump sounds ready to sign the Epstein resolution after it passed the House so Senate will likely take it up “fairly quickly.” Says Speaker Johnson wants changes but after a 427-1 House vote those changes might not happen
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There's just no way that the House and Senate GOP would vote to release the full, unabridged, undoctored Epstein files. Given all the efforts Trump has taken to keep the files from being released, we have to assume DOJ/FBI are fucking around with them or have done so already bsky.app/profile/burg...
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Let's all hope that one decent person at DOJ and one at the FBI has made a copy of the full Epstein files for safe keeping, because we all know that Bondi and Patel have ordered the destruction of any evidence implicating Trump.
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Let's all hope that one decent person at DOJ and one at the FBI has made a copy of the full Epstein files for safe keeping, because we all know that Bondi and Patel have ordered the destruction of any evidence implicating Trump.
Let's all hope that one decent person at DOJ and one at the FBI has made a copy of the full Epstein files for safe keeping, because we all know that Bondi and Patel have ordered the destruction of any evidence implicating Trump.
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Let's all hope that one decent person at DOJ and one at the FBI has made a copy of the full Epstein files for safe keeping, because we all know that Bondi and Patel have ordered the destruction of any evidence implicating Trump.
The HOF is well aware of the changing electorate. When BBWAA changed its rules to allow non-beat writers to qualify for membership, the HOF reduced a player's years of eligibility on the ballot from 15 to 10 because they feared that the "younger, blogger types" would vote in Bonds and Clemens.
One thing I think people haven't quite realized yet about the HOF is how different the electorate could be, not just the players. Guessing a few dozen new voters come online this year, and some are aging out. That alone changes perspectives and voting totals considerably.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The HOF is well aware of the changing electorate. When BBWAA changed its rules to allow non-beat writers to qualify for membership, the HOF reduced a player's years of eligibility on the ballot from 15 to 10 because they feared that the "younger, blogger types" would vote in Bonds and Clemens.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is trash. She's always been trash. She spoke at Nick Fuentes's conference and hasn't renounced him. She is a white nationalist.
I'm glad a lot of Democrats want to embrace her and absolve her, but what about the rest of us whom she continues to attack?
I'm glad a lot of Democrats want to embrace her and absolve her, but what about the rest of us whom she continues to attack?
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is trash. She's always been trash. She spoke at Nick Fuentes's conference and hasn't renounced him. She is a white nationalist.
I'm glad a lot of Democrats want to embrace her and absolve her, but what about the rest of us whom she continues to attack?
I'm glad a lot of Democrats want to embrace her and absolve her, but what about the rest of us whom she continues to attack?
The screenshot snippets of the vile lady’s book have had one positive effect: eviscerating my imposter syndrome.
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The screenshot snippets of the vile lady’s book have had one positive effect: eviscerating my imposter syndrome.
C’mon Eagles. Have an easy game so you don’t ruin my birthday dinner for my boys. 🦅🦅🦅
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
C’mon Eagles. Have an easy game so you don’t ruin my birthday dinner for my boys. 🦅🦅🦅
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
I look forward to watching the political career of this vapid, unctuous, little fascist explode & die after Trump is gone.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I look forward to watching the political career of this vapid, unctuous, little fascist explode & die after Trump is gone.
Please understand this. A House vote to “release the Epstein files” will not result in their release. A lot of other steps—including Trump’s signature or a veto override—would need to occur. The House Dems goal is to every GOP Rep & Senator on the record voting against disclosure.
Here’s the underlying Epstein bill. For this to have legal force — as opposed to just messaging value:
1. House must pass it. (Discharge petition can only to force a vote.)
2. Senate must pass it.
3. Either Trump signs it or Congress overrides his veto.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
1. House must pass it. (Discharge petition can only to force a vote.)
2. Senate must pass it.
3. Either Trump signs it or Congress overrides his veto.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Grijalva just signed the Epstein discharge petition.
It now has the 218 signatures necessary to start the clock that will, in a few weeks, trigger floor votes on the underlying bill to require release of the full Epstein files.
It now has the 218 signatures necessary to start the clock that will, in a few weeks, trigger floor votes on the underlying bill to require release of the full Epstein files.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Please understand this. A House vote to “release the Epstein files” will not result in their release. A lot of other steps—including Trump’s signature or a veto override—would need to occur. The House Dems goal is to every GOP Rep & Senator on the record voting against disclosure.
Get them ALL. Every single person who participated in, facilitated, or knew about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile ring. I don't care if they are GOP, DEM, DSA, Green Party, Workers Party, etc. They are deeply sick people who need to be exposed and held to account.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Get them ALL. Every single person who participated in, facilitated, or knew about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile ring. I don't care if they are GOP, DEM, DSA, Green Party, Workers Party, etc. They are deeply sick people who need to be exposed and held to account.
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I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.
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So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
How does this part of the Warriors schedule — a back to back against OKC & San Antonio & the San Antonio again after an off day— not violate the Geneva Convention?
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
How does this part of the Warriors schedule — a back to back against OKC & San Antonio & the San Antonio again after an off day— not violate the Geneva Convention?
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Let us be incredibly, abundantly clear:
We are demanding that Chuck Schumer resign for his continued betrayal of the American people.
If he does not willingly step aside, we are calling on the Senators in the Dem caucus to remove him and Dick Durbin from Senate leadership.
We are demanding that Chuck Schumer resign for his continued betrayal of the American people.
If he does not willingly step aside, we are calling on the Senators in the Dem caucus to remove him and Dick Durbin from Senate leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let us be incredibly, abundantly clear:
We are demanding that Chuck Schumer resign for his continued betrayal of the American people.
If he does not willingly step aside, we are calling on the Senators in the Dem caucus to remove him and Dick Durbin from Senate leadership.
We are demanding that Chuck Schumer resign for his continued betrayal of the American people.
If he does not willingly step aside, we are calling on the Senators in the Dem caucus to remove him and Dick Durbin from Senate leadership.
Someone tell Jalen Hurts that his receivers are wearing white tonight
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Someone tell Jalen Hurts that his receivers are wearing white tonight
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org