Unreconstructed Curmudgeon
@ems1944.bsky.social
Husband, father and, really, nothing else matters. Retired publisher & consultant.
If this is so, Schumer should resign immediately, along with any other member of Dem senate leadership.
How is it possible such a proviso slipped by Dem staffers (not to mention senators)? God Lord, Dem senators aren't just political cowards, they're incompetents on top of it all.
How is it possible such a proviso slipped by Dem staffers (not to mention senators)? God Lord, Dem senators aren't just political cowards, they're incompetents on top of it all.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If this is so, Schumer should resign immediately, along with any other member of Dem senate leadership.
How is it possible such a proviso slipped by Dem staffers (not to mention senators)? God Lord, Dem senators aren't just political cowards, they're incompetents on top of it all.
How is it possible such a proviso slipped by Dem staffers (not to mention senators)? God Lord, Dem senators aren't just political cowards, they're incompetents on top of it all.
1) Marshall, who's as good as anyone in the game, sees this as a diagnostic the way a major league team analyzes its problems, and then decides who has to go and who stays.
He's correct, as far as that goes. This is the sort of vote
He's correct, as far as that goes. This is the sort of vote
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
1) Marshall, who's as good as anyone in the game, sees this as a diagnostic the way a major league team analyzes its problems, and then decides who has to go and who stays.
He's correct, as far as that goes. This is the sort of vote
He's correct, as far as that goes. This is the sort of vote
1) I'm bewildered. Where's the political gain in allowing cloture? Someone explain it to me as if I were three. I understand Fetterman. He's not in his right mind, so anything's possible. He's a bad West Side Story character, neither Jet nor Shark, so he's trying to get by as a dentured
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
1) I'm bewildered. Where's the political gain in allowing cloture? Someone explain it to me as if I were three. I understand Fetterman. He's not in his right mind, so anything's possible. He's a bad West Side Story character, neither Jet nor Shark, so he's trying to get by as a dentured
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
1) To be clear, this signifies something many of us have suspected for years. If the party can't hold the line when it holds all the cards, it won't hold it, either, when things get rougher. Should this deal go down, it'll be a contemptible, disgusting surrender.
Cave bill text is out
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
1) To be clear, this signifies something many of us have suspected for years. If the party can't hold the line when it holds all the cards, it won't hold it, either, when things get rougher. Should this deal go down, it'll be a contemptible, disgusting surrender.
1) I do NOT follow people who restrict replies. I'm sure people have their reasons. Mine is: "fine. I'll quote reply"....which, of course, I did, and then you just did, instead of replying directly to me. I'm sure you think this is giving me a dose of my own medicine, while I'm equally
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
1) I do NOT follow people who restrict replies. I'm sure people have their reasons. Mine is: "fine. I'll quote reply"....which, of course, I did, and then you just did, instead of replying directly to me. I'm sure you think this is giving me a dose of my own medicine, while I'm equally
!!!!!!!!!
Breaking news per Jeff Passan: “Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted by prosecutors in Brooklyn on a host of charges related to a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown in MLB games. Ortiz was arrested in Boston earlier today. Clase is not currently in custody”
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
!!!!!!!!!
1) I would have replied, but Pagliuca has restricted replies.
This is even a worse look.
If one doesn't want others to judge one's work, don't submit it for public consumption. That's always been the deal. I'm not cavalier about public response. I owned a publishing
This is even a worse look.
If one doesn't want others to judge one's work, don't submit it for public consumption. That's always been the deal. I'm not cavalier about public response. I owned a publishing
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
1) I would have replied, but Pagliuca has restricted replies.
This is even a worse look.
If one doesn't want others to judge one's work, don't submit it for public consumption. That's always been the deal. I'm not cavalier about public response. I owned a publishing
This is even a worse look.
If one doesn't want others to judge one's work, don't submit it for public consumption. That's always been the deal. I'm not cavalier about public response. I owned a publishing
Just extraordinary.
Makes one wonder if the government has put itself in peril by using funds it shouldn't have, and now finds itself in a liquidity crunch it doesn't want to rectify by printing more money (which would be public, and highly visible)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Makes one wonder if the government has put itself in peril by using funds it shouldn't have, and now finds itself in a liquidity crunch it doesn't want to rectify by printing more money (which would be public, and highly visible)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Just extraordinary.
Makes one wonder if the government has put itself in peril by using funds it shouldn't have, and now finds itself in a liquidity crunch it doesn't want to rectify by printing more money (which would be public, and highly visible)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Makes one wonder if the government has put itself in peril by using funds it shouldn't have, and now finds itself in a liquidity crunch it doesn't want to rectify by printing more money (which would be public, and highly visible)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Those officials are there because they understand their own plans put them in peril.
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Those officials are there because they understand their own plans put them in peril.
Down is up and up is down. Bill Kristol is turning into a Social Democrat. The Grand Old Party has morphed into The Know Nothings, and Democrats are doing a fair-to-middling approximation of Rockefeller Republicans.
“The current state of American capitalism isn’t sustainable. It doesn’t deserve to be sustained. And the best way to avoid an American version of “eat the rich” is to fix the current “let them eat cake” distortion of capitalism into which we’ve fallen.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e...
www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e...
Let Them Eat AI-Generated Cake
Elon Musk and the coming twilight of the elites.
www.thebulwark.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Down is up and up is down. Bill Kristol is turning into a Social Democrat. The Grand Old Party has morphed into The Know Nothings, and Democrats are doing a fair-to-middling approximation of Rockefeller Republicans.
I got 1! I never owned a boombox, much less carried one on my shoulder.
(i got a zero lolz)
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I got 1! I never owned a boombox, much less carried one on my shoulder.
It just struck me this isn't about policy at all. It's just a guy who thinks it all belongs to him, he's the only one who gets to use it, and he doesn't want to share it with anyone. It's all of a piece with a guy who stiffs his vendors.
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It just struck me this isn't about policy at all. It's just a guy who thinks it all belongs to him, he's the only one who gets to use it, and he doesn't want to share it with anyone. It's all of a piece with a guy who stiffs his vendors.
Bizarrely, this is about feeding American citizens. What's next? A "Feed The Children" charity movement within Ukraine to feed starving American babies?
Every man, woman, & child jack of us should be glad Justice Jackson is as smart as she is.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
Every man, woman, & child jack of us should be glad Justice Jackson is as smart as she is.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Bizarrely, this is about feeding American citizens. What's next? A "Feed The Children" charity movement within Ukraine to feed starving American babies?
Every man, woman, & child jack of us should be glad Justice Jackson is as smart as she is.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
Every man, woman, & child jack of us should be glad Justice Jackson is as smart as she is.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
I don't buy any of the semantic arguments. Dunn's another example of jury nullification. This Trump DofJ is seriously despised.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I don't buy any of the semantic arguments. Dunn's another example of jury nullification. This Trump DofJ is seriously despised.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Courtesy of @hilzoy.bsky.social . I've no earthly clue how she found it, but this sings to me.....
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Courtesy of @hilzoy.bsky.social . I've no earthly clue how she found it, but this sings to me.....
I've no clue what's going on. My knowledge of Texas politics extends to Gov. Abbott doing oily, despicable things from his wheelchair while AG Paxton breaks the law in new and interesting ways every day. Anything more than that, and I'm merely another ashen faced gob muttering..."they did what?"
WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I've no clue what's going on. My knowledge of Texas politics extends to Gov. Abbott doing oily, despicable things from his wheelchair while AG Paxton breaks the law in new and interesting ways every day. Anything more than that, and I'm merely another ashen faced gob muttering..."they did what?"
:: leases crane to run over and pick up jaw, which has dropped solidly to the floor ::
JUST IN: Unusual filing in Tish James case. DOJ says it isn't complying with judge's order to turn over discovery on selective prosecution issue. Usual procedure would be move to reconsider the order but prosecutors file 'notice' telling judge no. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#46 in United States v. James (E.D. Va., 2:25-cr-00122) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE Of Reasons for Not Providing Pre-Vindictive/Selective Prosecution Motion Related Discovery by USA as to Letitia A. James (Keller, Roger) (Entered: 11/04/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
:: leases crane to run over and pick up jaw, which has dropped solidly to the floor ::
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New: A federal appeals court found "undue delay" by US District Judge Aileen Cannon in resolving months-old requests to lift her order blocking full disclosure of ex-special counsel Jack Smith's report on the criminal investigations into President Trump — and gave her 60 days to act
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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New: A federal appeals court found "undue delay" by US District Judge Aileen Cannon in resolving months-old requests to lift her order blocking full disclosure of ex-special counsel Jack Smith's report on the criminal investigations into President Trump — and gave her 60 days to act
buff.ly/V07o9OT
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1) Just to point out what's wrong with this (besides "everything"):
No NYer worth anything is going to flee without selling their apt. Should they actually do that, state law requires they pay taxes here regardless of where they may move to.
No NYer worth anything is going to flee without selling their apt. Should they actually do that, state law requires they pay taxes here regardless of where they may move to.
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
1) Just to point out what's wrong with this (besides "everything"):
No NYer worth anything is going to flee without selling their apt. Should they actually do that, state law requires they pay taxes here regardless of where they may move to.
No NYer worth anything is going to flee without selling their apt. Should they actually do that, state law requires they pay taxes here regardless of where they may move to.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
1) Jeebus! I wasn't sure whether my old schoolmate was alive or dead. H/T to him for canvassing. Wally's 82 or so now (Maybe 81? I have a dim memory he might have skipped a year), so kudos to him for having the legs to go and do this.
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
1) Jeebus! I wasn't sure whether my old schoolmate was alive or dead. H/T to him for canvassing. Wally's 82 or so now (Maybe 81? I have a dim memory he might have skipped a year), so kudos to him for having the legs to go and do this.
1) Big, but not surprising. As @pgourevitch.bsky.social writes in the thread below, Satmars have been steadfastly anti-zionist., which, in itself, isn't that extraordinary. A surprising number of ultra religious Jews aren't zionists because of religious reasons.
🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed.
Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.
Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.
Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
Why Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
The Satmar Hasidic community’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor shows the broad coalition built by the democratic socialist and Muslim.
forward.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
1) Big, but not surprising. As @pgourevitch.bsky.social writes in the thread below, Satmars have been steadfastly anti-zionist., which, in itself, isn't that extraordinary. A surprising number of ultra religious Jews aren't zionists because of religious reasons.
1) Calling Thune and Johnson "spineless," is right up there with calling suicide bombers "cowardly." At this moment, The Right is showing a lot more determination and ruthlessness than the rest of us put together.
They're staying on plan, demonstrating considerable
They're staying on plan, demonstrating considerable
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
1) Calling Thune and Johnson "spineless," is right up there with calling suicide bombers "cowardly." At this moment, The Right is showing a lot more determination and ruthlessness than the rest of us put together.
They're staying on plan, demonstrating considerable
They're staying on plan, demonstrating considerable
Abso-fucking-lutely!
Let him cook!!
Let him cook!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Abso-fucking-lutely!
Let him cook!!
Let him cook!!