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Jerry Shaver

@jerryshaver.bsky.social

Writer. Editor. Layabout. I mostly talk politics, baseball, and movies/TV, particularly Star Trek, Marvel, and related geeky stuff. Unless I actually know you, don't DM me. I have a real quick blocking finger.

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Opinion | Red v. blue is too simplistic — America is mostly made up of purplish states Philip Bump: Election results in Texas and North Carolina have Democrats dreaming big about “turning” red states blue.

Talarico winning won’t “turn Texas blue.” But that sort of fixed designation doesn’t really make sense for a lot of states anyway. Allow me to demonstrate. www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

06.03.2026 03:48 — 👍 130    🔁 15    💬 11    📌 2

A bad faith delivery of a bad faith argument.

06.03.2026 02:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Negligent war crime.

06.03.2026 02:36 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The fuck kind of answer is this

06.03.2026 02:37 — 👍 8307    🔁 2859    💬 1300    📌 425
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Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

06.03.2026 02:45 — 👍 7492    🔁 1671    💬 441    📌 120

I mean Marco Rubio got confirmed 99-0 and he’s got a good argument as the single most evil cabinet member other than RFK

you cannot vote for a guy because he’s polite to you in the senate cafeteria

06.03.2026 02:46 — 👍 319    🔁 28    💬 7    📌 0

Tim Miller and Jon Favreau will dismiss this as youthful indiscretion and say we need to do more to bring these conservative students into the Democratic party.

05.03.2026 04:58 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

This is only slightly dumber than originalism

05.03.2026 04:37 — 👍 208    🔁 28    💬 13    📌 2

I guaranfuckingtee that given who Matt Yglesias rolls with, his using the term “canceled” regarding Platner means they’re trying to get ahead of a sex-abuse shoe dropping

05.03.2026 04:51 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Uh, no @huffpost.com.

The REPUBLICANS and JOHN FETTERMAN were spineless:

05.03.2026 02:25 — 👍 32    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Matt Yglesias and Ruben Gallego are both Graham Platner supporter? It’s like you can actually hear the clatter of Bitcoin.

05.03.2026 02:32 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Admitting to war crimes to sound cool to 5 cretins in their moms’ basements.

05.03.2026 02:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

it doesn’t take a whole lot to recognize that this is a vote that’s going to be hung around your neck for the rest of your careers

you can just not do it, it’s pretty easy actually

05.03.2026 02:42 — 👍 676    🔁 148    💬 35    📌 8
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‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

We already went through this shit in Iraq. You don’t fund the GOPs dumb as fuck wars. Period. This isn’t hard. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

05.03.2026 02:43 — 👍 1982    🔁 429    💬 157    📌 60

Not sure how many people have noticed but Senate Republicans are on the defensive not just in Maine & North Carolina, & not even just Ohio & Iowa too. Republicans are on the defensive in Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and, as of tonight, Montana.

05.03.2026 02:44 — 👍 114    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 1

We’re in such a wildly openly racist era. Harvard alum are increasingly frustrated by how constrained they are in writing about the candidates they are interviewing because they are barred from mentioning race. It’s absolutely absurd. But this is how Harvard has chosen to react to the Trump Admin.

05.03.2026 02:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Trump and Elon Musk did this, cutting ALL of our aid to African nations, letting people starve to death and die without basic medical care. Curses on DOGE!

05.03.2026 02:48 — 👍 41    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1

This is the Republican Party now.

05.03.2026 03:29 — 👍 1665    🔁 444    💬 51    📌 9

We’re a backwards shithole.

05.03.2026 03:31 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

He certainly looks the part.

05.03.2026 00:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s white for “don’t center Black voters”

And to that and you I say, with all love and respect: stfu you racist piece of shit

04.03.2026 06:12 — 👍 170    🔁 27    💬 7    📌 0

Texas Republicans purposely targeted Dallas county to disenfranchise black voters.

04.03.2026 05:04 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Texas is close to not being a functioning democracy

It’s the hardest place to vote because Republicans have put impediments in place based on totally bogus vote fraud concerns - that they just make up

The courts have become complicit in this effort

What we’re seeing in Texas now is a disgrace

04.03.2026 04:35 — 👍 2415    🔁 803    💬 82    📌 28

This is nuts and I don't understand why it isn't the top story in every news source. The lights are blinking red, you guys.

04.03.2026 04:38 — 👍 1188    🔁 549    💬 101    📌 27

It might just be the case that thinking and planning are things you want from a president

04.03.2026 04:25 — 👍 70    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

We need to stop giving white men endless political cred just because they have "worked for Obama" on their resume.

04.03.2026 04:02 — 👍 57    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

Go Gina, go Gina...

04.03.2026 04:09 — 👍 39    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

SAY NO, DAMMIT

04.03.2026 03:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Wow.

We're watching whiteness work. Again.

04.03.2026 03:26 — 👍 58    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0
Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict
I've seen enough: Susan Crawford defeats Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, preserving liberals' 4-3 majority.

Dave Wasserman @Redistrict I've seen enough: Susan Crawford defeats Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, preserving liberals' 4-3 majority.

IT'S OVER, WE WON, FUCK YOU PHONY STARK

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