Nick Kocharhook 🇺🇦💪🏼

“.. the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion .. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”

@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Interesting! "Weiser’s lawsuit, his 41st against the administration since it took power in January, is based on President Donald Trump’s declaration in September when he announced the relocation that Colorado’s use of mail-in voting was a “big factor” in his decision."

I'm not going to amplify the fucking things, but these anti-Mamdani slop ads Cuomo is putting out there use his likeness and put words in his mouth. If it's not actionable, it should be. It's not illegal it seems, but it should be so illegal. It should be *the most* illegal.

Political Violence Is Distorting American Lawmaking The threat of attacks can influence elected officials’ votes, policy choices, and public engagement.

From Congress to city halls, violence and intimidation are shaping who serves, what policies pass, and how democracy functions. bit.ly/3JA9cuG

Screenshot showing the iOS Wikipedia app with Edit context menu visible.

TIL you can select some text in the iOS Wikipedia app and press Edit in the context menu. That will bring up the edit sheet and jump to the selected text. Makes editing on the go much easier! @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

I looked it up...over 48,000 of those SNAP households are in Clay Higgins' district.

That's around 126,000 of his constituents, or 16% of the entire population of LA-03.

Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan’s Tariff Criticism

Out: Voice of America broadcasts the words of Ronald Reagan to puncture the propaganda of foreign authoritarians.

In: A neighboring democracy apologizes to America’s authoritarian president for puncturing his propaganda by broadcasting the words of Ronald Reagan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...

1. Congress has allocated money to do this work; if you fire the people doing the work it is a de facto impoundment.
2. Many people in govt do weird jobs that require specific expertise and are hard to understand. Trump admin just assumes they have no value. But closing wells in National Parks?

DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.

A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say.

By @jenafifield.bsky.social

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

It bugs me that only women are dressed in costume

We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.

A sensible autocrat never lets this be seen. Ever. And above all, *never* when about to immiserate one in nine of your population.

It’s not just bad politics (and already picked up as such), it makes people have to see - and that’s not something you want them to do.

Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

I would simply not start a war with a country of workaholic engineers.

So not only does the massive transit package passed last night fill the funding gap, it *boosts* ops funding by roughly the size of the gap, eliminates parking minimums within a half mile of rail stations, and gives the new regional transit board sweeping powers to do public development

Opinion | Presidential power and the Supreme Court’s own stature ride on this case The momentous tariffs case will undermine or buttress the Constitution’s separation of powers.

"Emergencies are sudden, acute, unforeseen, extraordinary, dangerous and require instant action," says George Will, citing Brennan Center's amicus brief. Trade relationships aren't that. Scotus should strike down Trump's use of emergency powers for tariffs.

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"

This is the country we’ve become under the Trump administration.

The 5 things I will miss most about New York when I move back to the suburbs next week.

by Andrew Cuomo

This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest scientific achievements.

The fact that members of one political party in the US wants to destroy vaccines signals how unserious they are and how they should not be allowed to govern.

my god, what a paragraph

(from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a

And this is why I canceled my suscription.