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Jim Manley

@jamespmanley.bsky.social

I got lucky and ended up working in the Senate for 21 years, including 2 majority leaders and one of the greatest legislators in the history of that body. So called “democratic strategist”

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Congress can pass a new VRA...tomorrow.

It can abolish IEEPA/Section 232 & end Trump's tariff power...tomorrow.

It can eliminate SCOTUS clerk funding, add seats, make justices ride the circuit, & end the shadow docket...tomorrow.

It can end DOGE & restore all the jobs/funding...tomorrow.

Etc.

03.08.2025 22:19 — 👍 222    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 1

Do I dare ask who this loser is?

04.08.2025 03:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.

wel yes, they are taxes

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

04.08.2025 03:23 — 👍 75    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 4

Hell yeah

04.08.2025 03:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"I'm the captain now" meme from the movie "Captain Phillips" with Laura Loomer's head photoshopped onto the Somali pirate's body, with the text "I'm the First Lady now."

"I'm the captain now" meme from the movie "Captain Phillips" with Laura Loomer's head photoshopped onto the Somali pirate's body, with the text "I'm the First Lady now."

04.08.2025 02:39 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Hope he doesn’t call himself a businessman

04.08.2025 03:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

04.08.2025 01:11 — 👍 5665    🔁 1678    💬 479    📌 125

Thankfully, Sean Duffy has plenty of free time and will be able to handle these new assignments.

04.08.2025 02:45 — 👍 133    🔁 10    💬 14    📌 1

The word gaslighting gets thrown around a lot these days, but I gotta say that the neo-Nazi party claiming to be so concerned about antisemitism that they have to destroy American higher education is a profoundly weird experience.

04.08.2025 02:31 — 👍 671    🔁 112    💬 12    📌 4

Jeezus

04.08.2025 03:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I love that he's tripling down on this. Someone should ask him a specific question about it, like what will a $200 prescription cost if you lower it by 1,500%?

04.08.2025 00:13 — 👍 208    🔁 23    💬 13    📌 0

So no one on his staff has the standing to tell him that this is not possible

04.08.2025 03:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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“The embodiment of good trouble.”

04.08.2025 02:58 — 👍 115    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 1

Trump engineered a recession for no good reason at all.

04.08.2025 01:09 — 👍 120    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 0

I look forward to reaping the rich reward of drug companies paying me exorbitant sums to use their products!

04.08.2025 01:32 — 👍 927    🔁 103    💬 54    📌 11

Is she doing the horizontal mambo with trump?

04.08.2025 03:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Yep

04.08.2025 03:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having “forfeited” their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...

04.08.2025 03:10 — 👍 1039    🔁 505    💬 242    📌 165

Their fealty to Trump and abetting his corruption knows no bounds

It's not like they give a fuck about the choices voters made or democracy

04.08.2025 03:14 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s a 2019 story about the “model”, explains how she was pulled into Epsteins orbit, eventually raped, taken to the private islands, etc. This seems around the same time she was passed on to Trump. just say mid-90s. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

03.08.2025 20:59 — 👍 826    🔁 406    💬 29    📌 43

Well, well. Well. Look at what independent journalist @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social uncovered. This scandal is so far from over

Subscribe. Seriously. He breaks news all the time

03.08.2025 20:44 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My god

03.08.2025 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump admin doing everything possible to destroy what’s left of our hospital system, up to and including dissuading foreign students from learning or practicing medicine here. The suicidal presidency.

03.08.2025 18:52 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

NEW. U Mass Poll.

Trump approve/disapprove: 38%/58% (cf. April, 44/53).

How much have you read, seen, or heard about Jeffrey Epstein?
A lot 36%
Some 41%
Not much 19%
Nothing 4%.

Trump administration hiding important information on Epstein? Agree 63%. Disagree 15%.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zgf7d...

03.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 639    🔁 185    💬 25    📌 12
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Texas researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport A legal permanent resident with a green card who flew back to the U.S. after visiting family in South Korea was detained by immigration authorities and held for more than a week at the San Francisco I...

apnews.com/article/texa... researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport

03.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 68    🔁 63    💬 1    📌 5
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Commentary: In America's hardest-fought congressional district, voters agree: Release the Epstein files Democrats and Republicans alike call for transparency in the case of the convicted sex offender, even if it hurts President Trump. It's a rare show of political unity in California's Central Valley.

Barabak: In America's hardest-fought congressional district, voters agree: Release the Epstein files

03.08.2025 10:15 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

I though stephen Moore was the biggest hack around but hassett maybe worse

03.08.2025 18:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey Ice is power in the lucrative world of youth hockey. In North Texas, the Dallas Stars hold almost all of it.

The NHL's Dallas Stars bought up all the ice rinks in the Dallas metro area, in several cases got taxpayer money to build the rinks, and now control ice time for youth hockey, jacking up club fees and forcing leagues to play by their rules. Wild story.

03.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 361    🔁 162    💬 25    📌 58

To this day, the roster of prominent economists who urged Senate confirmation of Hassett in 2017 owe the country an acknowledgment of error. medium.com/@hassett.eco...

03.08.2025 16:34 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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