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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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Any time this guy runs his mouth I think about the time he claimed that being drunk on the job is no big deal for a senator.

03.03.2026 03:36 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Who said anything about a multi year operation

03.03.2026 04:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like father like son.

03.03.2026 03:39 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

hahahahahah we're so fucked

03.03.2026 03:35 — 👍 149    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 0
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Tuberville: "This is not your Democrat war. This is President Trump's war. And he's not going in to be politically correct."

03.03.2026 03:29 — 👍 908    🔁 211    💬 255    📌 117

Vance comes across as having all the backbone of a chocolate eclair.

Which means the report is accurate.

03.03.2026 03:47 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

I am passing these on without comment. 1/

03.03.2026 02:13 — 👍 368    🔁 92    💬 8    📌 2

I mean, this can’t have been in the plan, can it? I hope there’s a thorough investigation into what Rubio did to protect embassies alongside the investigation into the failure to defend the Kuwait operations center. There won’t be, of course.

03.03.2026 00:39 — 👍 294    🔁 68    💬 24    📌 2

so as a scholar of eschatology this is fucking terrifying

03.03.2026 03:28 — 👍 60    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1

JD has no actual principles. He's just trying to predict where public opinion is eventually going to come down so he can get out in front and act like he's leading the parade.

03.03.2026 03:50 — 👍 106    🔁 17    💬 7    📌 0

“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”

03.03.2026 03:09 — 👍 439    🔁 212    💬 29    📌 36

Trump officials saying Israel somehow forced their hand could easily be Team Trump's instinct for BS excuses when things go badly, another manifestation of the "good czar, bad boyars" defense.

But whatever the reason, it's crazy that they're saying it at all, and thinking it makes them look better.

03.03.2026 03:21 — 👍 194    🔁 54    💬 15    📌 5

Are they honoring him - he says he is being honored

03.03.2026 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many.

"I don’t get bored,"Trump insisted. "Forty-six seconds later," @sbg1.bsky.social writes, "he began waxing about the 'very, very beautiful' new White House ballroom he’s building, which he thinks will be 'the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

03.03.2026 03:54 — 👍 242    🔁 55    💬 13    📌 4
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it's surreal how Witkoff's talking points about Iran are just warmed-over Bush talking points on Iraq ...

03.03.2026 02:41 — 👍 1284    🔁 325    💬 90    📌 20
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Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

03.03.2026 02:17 — 👍 10846    🔁 3532    💬 338    📌 125

I don’t care how many reporters Trump called up today. This is just plain weird

03.03.2026 03:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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They went to the boss.

03.03.2026 02:44 — 👍 5096    🔁 1205    💬 203    📌 46
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Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

02.03.2026 22:54 — 👍 3219    🔁 474    💬 69    📌 70

This can’t be real. My god

03.03.2026 03:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Christofascism is a far-right ideology merging fascist, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political doctrines with Christian theology, aimed at imposing a specific religious, cultural, and political order.

03.03.2026 03:10 — 👍 277    🔁 108    💬 9    📌 3
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Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

03.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 9239    🔁 3020    💬 255    📌 104
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Measuring the economic damage of Minnesota’s ICE surge is hard • Minnesota Reformer Emerging statistics on the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota — $203.1 million in damage in Minneapolis, $106 million in lost wages in the Twin Cities — are based on limited data an...

Measuring the economic damage of Minnesota’s ICE surge is hard minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/02/m...

03.03.2026 00:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White House addresses 'redness' on the side of Trump's neck Trump, who is the oldest person to be elected president, has faced questions about his health over the last year.

"Barbabella did not specify the cream Trump is using and didn't explain the purpose of the preventative treatment."

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

02.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 47    🔁 14    💬 18    📌 3

In North Korea, the leader has to shoot antiaircraft guns through people to get reporters to talk like this. Here the truckling just came so much easier.

02.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This is pretty hilarious. Retaliation *against* your attack really can't be the imminent threat that justifies your attack. I think the concept of linear time pretty much settles this question without the need for additional argument.

02.03.2026 21:59 — 👍 735    🔁 177    💬 39    📌 9

We wanted to understand Trump's end game in Iran. So we talked to three unvaccinated Jake Paul fans at a Jack-in-the-Box in Fresno.

02.03.2026 19:24 — 👍 1014    🔁 119    💬 23    📌 5

he's a robot

02.03.2026 22:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"That's the way it is"

02.03.2026 21:44 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0