Jack Hardcastle

35th Street and Keswick in Baltimore.

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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.

I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.

Full statement:

TIL "gull" is a word outside of "gullible." Thanks!

New. Leadership. Yesterday.

Gee, I wonder why the times has an article on newpaper headlines out today?

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VICTORY! Federal district court dismisses class-action suit against pollster J. Ann Selzer Federal district court tosses ‘fake news’ lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, affirming First Amendment protections for election commentary.

VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights”

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Brand new data:

Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).

These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.

Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

Adam Liptak: Justice Gorsuch warns of “a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives” in Congress.

Gee, I wonder where this ratchet has come from, recently?

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I'm in this post, and I don't like it.

"Follow up question, what do you say to those who ask whether you're the least well informed speaker in recent memory?"

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Man, this freaking guy.

"I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

If for no other reason, listen for Feynman’s delightful NYC accent.

Mike Davis racist smear

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

Thanks for making this observation.

I wonder if it's because, as Muslims, they've experienced 25 years of potent Islamophobia, and so it's easier to understand the oppression someone else might be feeling just for being who they are. Empathy instead of bigotry.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Florida paints Pulse crosswalk black again after protesters colored it rainbow Protesters have used multicolored chalk to fill in the crosswalk repeatedly since the state Transportation Department initially painted over the rainbow colors last week.

No, that's in Orlando, but was similarly removed a few months ago only to be put back with chalk by residents the next day.

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Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

So, it's a rebuilding year, then?

Because after 25 years of Orioles' rebuilding years, at least we're used to it.

Ravens can't collapse in the playoffs if they don't make the playoffs

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."

No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.

Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Please please please please please....

Not that Rudy deserves it, but a (maybe charitable?) rationale for why the first half of the story might be relevant, without assuming any shenanigans (which are perhaps more likely, given the source).

Without evidence, one guess: he pulled over to help, and once the police arrived, he was merging back into traffic moving at highway speeds and he didn't see someone in the lane, forcing them to hit him. He might be at fault in that scenario, hence his team highlighting his good deed first.

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

Actor James Austin Johnson, playing Donald Trump, with a red necktie as a bandanna and ridiculously overdeveloped arm muscles, in a screen grab from an episode of SNL.

It's giving SNL cold open vibes.

Anyone near Baltimore want a free upright piano? You'd have to pick it up. Unfortunately I fear it's headed to a sad fate.