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A policy and governance nerd specializing in the United States Federal Government. All posts, comments, and viewpoints expressed are reflections of my own personal point of view and not of any employer or agency. #independent #ceasefire ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง

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I only have a second rn but: For the uninitiated, Zeteo is a new media company, a startup from former msnbc host Mehdi Hasan. One of my rolling stone editors and I came over to help scale up the political reporting / scoops operations. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most exciting newsโ€ฆ

04.10.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1292    ๐Ÿ” 197    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

I swear, if Dems retake the house anytime this decade and donโ€™t replace Jeffries, I am going to lose my mind.

29.09.2025 05:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.

Statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.

What a pathetic and disgraceful statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.

28.09.2025 22:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2524    ๐Ÿ” 351    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 209    ๐Ÿ“Œ 131

I honestly think this was my least favorite Big Brother season and I think Iโ€™m done with the show. Itโ€™s boring and ran its course.

26.09.2025 04:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yโ€™all. He was already becoming unhinged but Klein has really lost it.

12.09.2025 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stop capturing these animals and making them live in captivity.
I hate Aquariums.

12.09.2025 06:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

25.06.2025 02:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16498    ๐Ÿ” 4015    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 159    ๐Ÿ“Œ 670
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is on track to become Dems' candidate for NYC mayor โ€” toppling Andrew Cuomo's comeback dreams and putting incumbent Eric Adams on notice.

Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.

ow.ly/SHE050WfR0C

25.06.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1326    ๐Ÿ” 247    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69

Co-sign.

21.04.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1782    ๐Ÿ” 204    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This... And just more broadly. Y'all better start being actively and relentlessly engaged with the United States Congress.

04.04.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah this is rich coming from ADL... ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿคข

04.04.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now thatโ€™s a screenshot.

> @atrupar.com

03.04.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18941    ๐Ÿ” 4662    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 925    ๐Ÿ“Œ 362

This gave me chills...

03.04.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.

28.03.2025 04:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13264    ๐Ÿ” 1282    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 358    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59
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I'm a historian, and I studied the fall of Rome. Here's what life is like in a dying empire. It's the little things.

The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. But the reality is far less exciting.

It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.

28.03.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 729    ๐Ÿ” 265    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles The huge growth in charging ports indicates the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on California roads. But the milestone also comes as the Trump administration has moved to deprioritize shifting away from gasoline-powered cars.

The huge growth in charging ports indicates the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on California roads. But the milestone also comes as the Trump administration has moved to deprioritize shifting away from gasoline-powered cars.

27.03.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I don't always agree with AOC, but I believe she is spot on here.

15.03.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wish I could believe this but any person that objectively looks at it would determine it has not been a good party or had good leadership in decades and will never. It is fundamentally flawed. You need to build a new party.

14.03.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi Scott! Glad to see you standing up against this and I'm curious if you have any reflections and thoughts on your contributions to the conflation of protesting and resisting a govt's actions and claims of antisemitism?

13.03.2025 04:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest.

Thatโ€™s whatโ€™s being destroyed and thatโ€™s what risks the *entire economy.

Saying that out loud shouldnโ€™t (and canโ€™t) be a risk

12.03.2025 03:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4076    ๐Ÿ” 1132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
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How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.

Just updated our guide to using Signal. If you aren't already on Signal, this will get you up to speed. Also, you should be using Signalโ€”there's no time like this very second! www.wired.com/story/signal...

12.03.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 704    ๐Ÿ” 312    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
Bluesky

gregporterwx.bsky.social What's going on with the weather room at Chronicle - haven't seen a normal update article like the one last posted on March 6. I've really come to rely on these and the snow pack in the Sierras is interesting but not as important as the daily weather article from you & team!

12.03.2025 00:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of the Grimmest Days in American Diplomacy At an Oval Office meeting, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.

โ€œFriday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,โ€ writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.

Now โ€œPutin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of usโ€: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

28.02.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4085    ๐Ÿ” 1095    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 161    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64

Just a random reminder that all of this got started when Hilary Clinton and the Democratic Party thought the fringe Republican candidate Donald Trump would be easier to beat so they pumped his initial campaign with money and legitimacy. Remember that. The Dems are not your savior.

26.02.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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$19,000,000,000,000.00

25.02.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23131    ๐Ÿ” 9323    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1555    ๐Ÿ“Œ 881
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Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.

25.02.2025 05:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34896    ๐Ÿ” 7390    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1019    ๐Ÿ“Œ 598
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โ€˜Itโ€™s a Psyopโ€™: Inside Elon Muskโ€™s Empty Ultimatum Trumpโ€™s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselvesโ€”or else. Then the administration changed its mind.

"A psyop."

"A form of harassment."

"A fucking train wreck."

Federal employees describe Musk's bungled attempt to thin their ranks. New from Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

25.02.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This.

20.02.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right.

They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department.

Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

07.01.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1757    ๐Ÿ” 687    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70

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