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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 6h

New track (and album announcement!) from Monster Rally really kicking a sleepy Thursday into gear.

monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/incred...

Incredibly Blind (feat. TV Girl & X-Cetra), by Monster Rally

1 track album

monsterrally.bandcamp.com

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 7h

On a personal note, Nancy Pelosi's office granted me the opportunity to serve as a school year House Page in 2002 after I served the summer terms and didn't want to leave.

So I kind of owe her one of the most formative experiences of my life.

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 7h

A great read from the Washington Post archives about how she first got into house leadership in a hot race for Minority Whip back in 2001. Even then, maybe especially then, she was a ruthlessly efficient political operator.

www.washingtonpost.com/archive/life...

The Making of Madam Whip

www.washingtonpost.com

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 7h

I think many of the criticisms of her are valid, but damned if she wasn't the sharpest and most effective political operator of her generation from either party. What a career.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House.

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 1d

I know a South Carolina native son who is going to be looking for a job come next year. Big national profile, earnest Catholic boy. Might have some juice.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit, how'd I miss this surprise new project drop from the Crutchfield sisters dropping last week, made alongside NC luminaries MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook no less?!?

Naturally, it absolutely rules and you should listen to it immediately.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Snocaps - Snocaps (Full Album Stream) - YouTube

New album from Snocaps out now via ANTI- Records. Pre-order, stream & download at https://snocaps.ffm.to/snocaps

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 2d

That's the kind of threat you only get one bite to make good on, everyone knows the rules.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d

now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’

Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of "Dick Cheney shot a guy" this morning, not near enough "Dick Cheney told Pat Leahy to fuck himself on the Senate floor". But good work overall, gang! Keep those posts coming.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 2d

Right? The guy held on for *so* long running on essentially a rechargable battery. He had to be plugged in at night!

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 2d

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor!

Dick?

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 2d

Anyhow, it's far less than he deserved, but it is at least kind of funny that he spent his final months watching his wildest dreams of unitary executive power come true for a boorish pig man who openly dreams of putting his daughter behind bars.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 2d

I was an intern for Presidential Classroom during college, and Dick Cheney was a guest speaker one week.

I'll never forget how ... normal he was. A gruff grandpa, telling kids about being President of the Senate. There was, dare I say, warmth to him?

Made his evil all the more chilling to me.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight is a few less wires (I think?) but adding in a CPAP mask to titrate the machine to the right levels. Taking a melatonin before getting hooked up in hopes I'll just conk out this time 🙏

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 3d

Getting ready for round two of sleep study, trying not to think about feeling like this all night.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 5d

The closest anyone had to having this kind of juice last year was Tim Walz, and for some reason we just stopped him from talking like this? Will baffle me forever.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 5d

I love that we have a Pope who, due to his time at Villanova, could go toe to toe with Philly Boy Roy.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 5d

I had this question for the entire run of Detroiters.

(also, as the parent of a very selective eater, I absolutely love this pitch and will remember it in working through food issues with him!)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7d

Kat Abugazeh’s campaign has crossed a threshold where the risk she’s taking is significant enough and the actions admirable enough I sorta am past caring if it’s a publicity stunt/brand building exercise or not, it’s still brave and worthy of respect.

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 9d

Literally just talked to my cousin's kids last night on the phone, and they called me Uncle Jeff.

Hope those kids don't ever intend on running for office now!

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9d

lmao

My Post headline

Mamdani didn’t tell the whole truth about his hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ who feared for safety post-9/11

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 was actually his dad’s cousin.

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, if Dickerson is out, CBS News is cooked.

Prayers up for CBS Sunday Morning as always, and Anthony Mason in particular.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners

John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.

deadline.com

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 11d

Truly underrated byline here too.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11d

close the law schools

I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 13d

MY DUDE 🐂
(just setting a good example for my son to not be nervous, y'know)

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I'm just Jeff, your friend who cares @leffjakin.bsky.social · 13d

Fall Festival at daycare, and OH SHIT LOOK WHO'S HERE.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15d

the through line of "got an accidental nazi tattoo while drunk" to "regularly takes shirt off at the bar" to "starts a senate campaign with no experience and no plan to address any of this" to "gets a terrible coverup overnight" is "total lack of judgment and impulse control"

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 15d

speaking for myself, being an ironic hipster is really symptomatic of the big problems in the world. "Oh that Nazi tattoo? That's a joke, I was in Croatia, a former Nazi puppet state, and I was drunk, I honestly didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo anyway, nothing means anything"

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