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DavidElfin

@davidelfin.bsky.social

Longtime journalist & author. Devoted son & dad. Dog person. Lifelong friend, good neighbor & citizen. Proud D.C. native, Bethesda resident, alum of BCC HS, Penn & Syracuse. Fan of sports, history, classic rock, movies & TV, & biographies.

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CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

CBS news just gutted its climate team.

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Jacob Frey’s experience and steady leadership are more vital than ever to Minneapolis. Congratulations on your victory!

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TDS

TDS

TY @jules1212.bsky.social πŸ’™πŸŠπŸΈπŸ¦‹

@8647-frogs.bsky.social
@terenceknott1.bsky.social
@anfifapoppa.bsky.social
@boldsea.bsky.social
@simplycommonsense.bsky.social
@firehawkjw.bsky.social
@douglukauskas.bsky.social
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@warriorinblue.bsky.social
@6j1.bsky.social

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Trump is now going against his own administration's plan to partially fund SNAP.

He's demanding Democrats end the shutdown and let health insurance costs skyrocket for millions of people, otherwise food assistance won't be released for millions of hungry people ahead of the holidays.

Hello?

04.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1641    πŸ” 543    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 47
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#GVerse #FuckTrump

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Bill Kristol and JVL on Dick Cheney’s Legacy
YouTube video by The Bulwark Bill Kristol and JVL on Dick Cheney’s Legacy

This morning @jvl.bsky.social and I discussed Dick Cheney’s extraordinary and admirable public life, from Ford’s COS to House minority whip to Sec Def to VPβ€”and then to being one of the few leaders of his generation to see the threat of Trump clearly, and to act on it.

youtu.be/gZVx2qdX9L4?...

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If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

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🎯🎯

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Judge Rejects Another Attempt to Block Virginia Redistricting Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A Virginia judge Monday denied an effort to block a Democratic-led plan to redraw the state’s congressional map in response to President Donald Trump’s nationwide GOP gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind The quiet relief of no longer having to think.

β€œJean-Paul Sartre once wrote that bad faith is not ignorance but refusal, the conscious act of pretending not to know what one knows, a form of spiritual cowardice disguised as moral surety. The absurdity is the point, it liberates him from the burden of coherence…”
open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

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β€œI don't know if the people who attended the Gatsby party had this exact theme in mindβ€”to be honest fascists generally don't strike me as being very good at appreciating themes in artβ€”but they sure did embody it: Careless people, who believe carelessness is their right…”

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I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on β€œBut what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.

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Trump says he doesn’t think the ICE raids have gone enough.

That they’ve been β€œheld back” by judges and the judicial system.

The idea that he thinks they need to go harder is truly terrifying.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025 Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.

Don’t take it from me, listen to Snopes! Speaker Johnson signed a bill to cut $186 billion from SNAP. And again, it’s HIS party that won’t help millions of Americans put food on the table this month.

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The next Dem president, if we’re lucky enough to have another election, will face a hostile media desperate to show everyone that they know how to hold leadership accountable.

Until then, expect nothing more than false equivalency and complicity.

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🚨 Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: β€œThe President of the United States is using hunger as a political tool; in our city, food is not a bargaining chip, it’s a human right.”

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Kamala Harris ~ β€œWe refuse to kneel at the foot of a tyrant…We believe in the Constitution. We believe in the power of the vote. And we are prepared, when necessary, to fight fire with fire.”

β€œAnd part of what I’m here to say today is other states need to step up too.”
#YesOnProp50

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Such horrible people.

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#FDT
DEMAND the entire #EpsteinFiles
#PedoPresident
#ChildRAPIST

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Obama, campaigning for Abigail Spanbergerβ€” prosecutes the case against Trump and MAGA.

β€œThe Republicans…they’re not even pretending to solve the problem. They have not even been showing up to work.”

β€œAs for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the Rose Garden…”

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Expert Backgrounder on War Powers Resolution 60-Day Clock for Boat Strikes Expiring Monday Expert backgrounder on how War Powers Resolution works in application to U.S. military operations against suspected drug cartels.

β€œUnder past administrations, lawyers and policymakers inside the Executive have exercised oversight over the use of force. It is possible members of Congress have grown to rely on those internal constraints and lost their muscle memory to check the President.”

www.justsecurity.org/123717/war-p...

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ICE is deporting US citizens

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🀬🀬🀬🀬🀬

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QUEENS

pls adopt this sweet dog

01.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truce is not Nancy Mace- why isn’t someone saving him?

He’s so worried he will be killed! Pls keep reposting him n email newhopeprogram@nycacc.org for his notes!

Pls keep reposting him!

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