@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”
News on Trump boat bombings --> Rep Adam Smith, top Dem on Armed Services, tells me GOPers are failing to press for testimony from the top Pentagon official who recently resigned, potentially over the strikes.
Appallingly, we may never hear from him.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Same day. 🇺🇸
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Man installing cheap bathtub refit
Bathfitter visiting the White House last week
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Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition
www.vox.com/politics/466...
“This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln”: man, what? Somebody thinks he was dealing with draft riots in New York _and_ coating his bathroom with marble?
31.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 134 🔁 22 💬 18 📌 0The fact that he is fronting for “Christianity” is LOL.
On the other hand, it’s terrifying that he’s itching for a Holy War.
On Project 2025’s Recommendation, Trump Admin Targets New Census Initiative To Accurately Count Non-White Voters talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-r...
31.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1It gets worse. So, so much worse
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I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
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“Indeed, the federal government seems to be going out of its way to arrest and charge protesters — and women in particular — on what appear to be trumped-up charges aimed at chilling dissent,” writes @timdickinson.bsky.social in his latest.
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database, turning it into a national “voter verification” tool that appears to sidestep federal privacy protections and will make it easier to remove large numbers of voters from the rolls.
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Defend NYC, a pro-Cuomo super PAC operated by Trump adviser Jason Meister, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending out this text message to NYC voters, hoping it'll convince them to vote Cuomo for mayor, new filings show.
31.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 404 🔁 88 💬 55 📌 129Which so called Christian group paid him to say this
31.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is interesting that this is the one thing he asks Congress to look into instead of just acting unilaterally like he usually does.
31.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Trump has a state department and multiple intelligence agencies, but wants to emphasize that Congress works for him.
31.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 130 🔁 25 💬 18 📌 2(AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
31.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 347 🔁 109 💬 10 📌 13Two separate judges have issued rulings agreeing with me since I posted this
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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“.. for those of us who, in our younger years, revered America as a shining city upon a hill, .. this is quite a painful period.
“..’America has lost its moral bearings; as a result, it has also lost its moral standing in the world.”
@peter-wehner.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
New war threatened.
31.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 48 🔁 9 💬 18 📌 4BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
31.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 2299 🔁 745 💬 46 📌 87Noem’s pledge to continue terrorizing America’s children during their trick-or-treating “comes just days after a 76-year-old U.S. citizen was pinned to the road by Border Patrol agents during a children's Halloween parade in Chicago's Old Irving Park neighborhood last weekend.”
31.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0no, that's just Brett Favre.
31.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 56 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 0
“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.”
--Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.
"This is a very strange situation, where the FBI director is tweeting about a potential terror attack and then no information is forthcoming.
This is not how it's supposed to work. And the sense I'm getting is that Patel may have tweeted before the FBI was ready to discuss this."
If you care about this lost opportunity then share. @froomkin.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
31.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 178 🔁 64 💬 6 📌 2Brooke Rollins: "My message to America is your government is failing you right now ... we have failed you."
31.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 2669 🔁 771 💬 407 📌 262Lol
31.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What do you need to know going into Medicare and Medicare Advantage open enrollment? A new resource by the Miami Herald has the answers. ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/busines...
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