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jlafp.bsky.social
Dog lover, annoying punster, political anorak.
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We absolutely must not forget what this administration did to Senator Padilla, because it tells us what they are willing to do to us.

submitted 4 days ago • 281 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

submitted 5 days ago • 436 comments

i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 550 comments

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

submitted 17 days ago • 513 comments

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 20 days ago • 187 comments

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 96 days ago • 1835 comments

Twitter is down. Tesla stock is plummeting. SpaceX’s rocket imploded. All owned by the same guy who’s now in charge of our federal government.

submitted 102 days ago • 821 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 123 days ago • 2237 comments

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

submitted 130 days ago • 2325 comments

I wonder how one possibly justifies any of these actions

submitted 129 days ago • 954 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 129 days ago • 1154 comments

Yeats said it best ..Turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world .. and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 140 days ago • 275 comments

Let Denmark cook.

submitted 143 days ago • 1669 comments

Another reminder that you’d be better informed about politics by listening to literally anyone but @politico.com

submitted 152 days ago • 42 comments

WASHINGTON POST: Making presidential endorsements erodes the trust of our readers ALSO WASHINGTON POST:

submitted 156 days ago • 216 comments

I'm with them.

submitted 165 days ago • 678 comments

This stream of Kash Patel’s baseless conspiracy theories about FBI on Jan 6 should disqualify him from leading the agency. Thanks to @normeisen.bsky.social and @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social for their work to compile it. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 165 days ago • 829 comments

Chief Justice Roberts has the nerve to whine about detractors suggesting “political bias in the judge’s adverse rulings without a credible basis for such allegations.” The gaslighting is real. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

submitted 170 days ago • 1638 comments

When you cover violent U.S. imperialism like it’s the WNBA awarding new franchises

submitted 178 days ago • 86 comments

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.

submitted 189 days ago • 311 comments