Jess
@mmebahorel.bsky.social
I have opinions on things, especially DC theatre, especially ones that got a major critic to block me on that other hellsite. They are mine, but you can borrow them.
The politics ones are extremely mine, especially the ones with my name on them.
The politics ones are extremely mine, especially the ones with my name on them.
Who wants to bet this was actually provoked by finally converting everything over to Microsoft 365 and someone asked "so - Aptos - what are we doing with that?"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Who wants to bet this was actually provoked by finally converting everything over to Microsoft 365 and someone asked "so - Aptos - what are we doing with that?"
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Trump's best friends in the world are Saudi Arabia and Russia -- the nation where most of the 9/11 terrorists came from and the nation that wants to replicate that act of terrorism against the United States.
Meanwhile, he's angrily attacking NATO, an alliance that came to our aid after 9/11/
Meanwhile, he's angrily attacking NATO, an alliance that came to our aid after 9/11/
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trump's best friends in the world are Saudi Arabia and Russia -- the nation where most of the 9/11 terrorists came from and the nation that wants to replicate that act of terrorism against the United States.
Meanwhile, he's angrily attacking NATO, an alliance that came to our aid after 9/11/
Meanwhile, he's angrily attacking NATO, an alliance that came to our aid after 9/11/
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i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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administrative and institutional democracy is a complex process. the dream of the unitary executive theorists/presidentialism-pilled media, punditry, and political class is that politics is just One Event rather than an ongoing and roiling series of actions, measures, and countermeasures
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
administrative and institutional democracy is a complex process. the dream of the unitary executive theorists/presidentialism-pilled media, punditry, and political class is that politics is just One Event rather than an ongoing and roiling series of actions, measures, and countermeasures
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
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The U.S. *was* feeding poor people then Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance illegally killed off USAID.
Seeing a leader of the United States adopt this line is revolting. While the US remains imperfect, it is also the global leader in FDI as well as the world’s leading destination for inbound investment. China would love to have an economy like America’s.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The U.S. *was* feeding poor people then Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance illegally killed off USAID.
Not entirely unconnected to this demolition request, Weaver was Black.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Not entirely unconnected to this demolition request, Weaver was Black.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
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Corruption is the story. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Is Trying to Legalize Corruption by Abusing His Pardon Power
Donald Trump is abusing the Constitution and the president's pardon power to try to legalize corruption, letting a string of loyalists off the hook.
www.rollingstone.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Corruption is the story. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Are we talking a Walmart parking space or a Trader Joe's parking space?
I'm jealous either way; I just want the appropriate mental picture to enjoy this more.
I'm jealous either way; I just want the appropriate mental picture to enjoy this more.
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Are we talking a Walmart parking space or a Trader Joe's parking space?
I'm jealous either way; I just want the appropriate mental picture to enjoy this more.
I'm jealous either way; I just want the appropriate mental picture to enjoy this more.
I am binging Scandinavian Tidings just for this, and I don't even work there.
if i worked at CMS i would eat every cookie just to spite him
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don’t have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I am binging Scandinavian Tidings just for this, and I don't even work there.
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Speaking of chilling and leading the disabled and infirm to their deaths, here's @leftliblucy.bsky.social on RFK Jr. and the gutting of American medical research www.liberalcurrents.com/medical-rese...
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Speaking of chilling and leading the disabled and infirm to their deaths, here's @leftliblucy.bsky.social on RFK Jr. and the gutting of American medical research www.liberalcurrents.com/medical-rese...
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They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.
Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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There's a subset of GOPer that seems to have entered politics almost entirely for the potential to be adjacent to killing people and well imo that sort of person probably shouldn't be in office
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There's a subset of GOPer that seems to have entered politics almost entirely for the potential to be adjacent to killing people and well imo that sort of person probably shouldn't be in office
I appreciate how the Post is staying on this story from the financial angle.
A portrait of the Kennedy Center, ten months after Trump's takeover. The latest from @janaykingsberry.bsky.social and me.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center is showier, emptier and more political
In 10 months, President Donald Trump has transformed the Kennedy Center. Now comes his biggest night yet: the Kennedy Center Honors.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I appreciate how the Post is staying on this story from the financial angle.
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
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Notably, the judge rules that the government likely violated Richman's Fourth Amendment rights by digging around through his data as part of the effort to build a case against Comey
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Notably, the judge rules that the government likely violated Richman's Fourth Amendment rights by digging around through his data as part of the effort to build a case against Comey
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RFK Jr wants these children dead and is fine with it being a terrible way to go because he is a bad person and is honest about what he considered fit to live.
Cassidy is a coward willing to see happen what he knows happens, which makes him a bad person who is dishonest about it.
Both should pay.
Cassidy is a coward willing to see happen what he knows happens, which makes him a bad person who is dishonest about it.
Both should pay.
Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection.
Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.
They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.
One we can avoid w/ vaccination.
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Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE.
They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves.
One we can avoid w/ vaccination.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
RFK Jr wants these children dead and is fine with it being a terrible way to go because he is a bad person and is honest about what he considered fit to live.
Cassidy is a coward willing to see happen what he knows happens, which makes him a bad person who is dishonest about it.
Both should pay.
Cassidy is a coward willing to see happen what he knows happens, which makes him a bad person who is dishonest about it.
Both should pay.
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I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
Investigators say former coach Sean Gardner created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers last year while investigating reports of sexual abuse.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
Ok, this looks good. We need some better news in the feed amidst the horrors. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Woolly Mammoth Theatre names a new artistic director
The appointment of Reggie D. White, whose resume spans acting, directing and playwriting in addition to in-office leadership, comes amid uncertainty about the road ahead for regional theater.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ok, this looks good. We need some better news in the feed amidst the horrors. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
The more I think about this, the more I think they like the Fox Hunt model. Corruption is fine for everyone, until they don't like for some reason (maybe personal, maybe professional, maybe actual dissent), and then they have a mechanism to hunt you down and destroy you.
This is, straightforwardly, the threat of disparate treatment to stifle dissent. The DOJ's Deputy Attorney General is telling lawyers critical of administration policies that their clients will be singled out for harsher treatment.
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The more I think about this, the more I think they like the Fox Hunt model. Corruption is fine for everyone, until they don't like for some reason (maybe personal, maybe professional, maybe actual dissent), and then they have a mechanism to hunt you down and destroy you.
That's not an inconsistency, bucko. That's the evidence you are doing vindictive prosecutions. Which we know you are. Because you keep saying it.
This is, straightforwardly, the threat of disparate treatment to stifle dissent. The DOJ's Deputy Attorney General is telling lawyers critical of administration policies that their clients will be singled out for harsher treatment.
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Rule by law, not rule of law. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
That's not an inconsistency, bucko. That's the evidence you are doing vindictive prosecutions. Which we know you are. Because you keep saying it.