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rebecca wilova
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I embrace the je ne sais wtf. Artist, poet, knitter. Queer, Deaf, Disabled, Jewish. A family with 6 cats. Progressive Democrat. With fear for our democracy, I dissent. They/them.
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rebecca wilova @rebeccawilova.bsky.social · Jul 20
Wow.

I’m a progressive Democrat, in the vein of AOC and Mamdani.

These are all genuine questions that require real thought. A different path going forward.

Otherwise what’s the point?

Now I understand the Ken Martin-David Hogg DNC brouhaha.

Grassroots Democrats need to take the wheel. Now.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Jul 19
A tale told by an idiot signifying nothing
The Democratic National Committee's examination of what went wrong in the 2024 election is expected to mostly steer clear of the decisions made by the Biden-turned-Harris campaign and will focus more heavily instead on actions taken by allied groups, according to interviews with six people briefed on the report's progress. The audit, which the committee is calling an "after-action review," is expected to avoid the questions of whether former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. should have run for re- election in the first place, whether he should have exited the race earlier than he did and whether former Vice President Kamala Harris was the right choice to replace him, according to the people briefed on the process so far.
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marcelias.bsky.social
In a surprising twist, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for the 2026 midterm elections may end up strengthening California’s defense of its voter-approved map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS Ruling on Texas Gerrymander Could Be Good News for California’s New Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mdibo324.bsky.social
I NEVER want to hear anyone complain about participation medals ever again. 🤮
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time.

The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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justinlevitt.bsky.social
"The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active
primary campaign."

It must be refreshing to wake up with each day a tabula rasa, with no awareness of anything that happened in between 238 years ago and 7am.

electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...
The goose chase meme, suggesting that perhaps, just perhaps, Texas might have brought this problem on itself.
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
rebeccawilova.bsky.social
Federalism is good for USA democracy in the age of Trump. Agree.

I have doubts about this argument for the electoral college.

DC and Puerto Rico need to be states, and the House needs to be expanded. Agree.

But robbing Gore and HRC of their popular vote victories has never sat right with me.
radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19d
People who advocate for electing the president by popular really are saying that federalism shouldn't matter - largely because they like the way that big cities would control elections. (For now.) This is dumb, especially now, when federalism has been a godsend.
A thread.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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theatlantic.com
Republicans should increase the pressure on Donald Trump "to fire the most unqualified secretary of defense in U.S. history," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
rebeccawilova.bsky.social
I’m genuinely curious what your ideas for an electoral college fix would be within this context.
radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19d
I do, but I'm not going to waste my time on that treadmill.
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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zacharyburkert.bsky.social
Who is advocating for the removal of federalism by asking for the president to be elected by popular vote?

You can have 50 states administer and tally votes for 50 elections and sum up the votes for each candidate to determine the winner. Or just do the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board. On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional” because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup. Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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muellershewrote.com
New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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cosmosblue772.bsky.social
Whoops my finger slipped. Here is the supposed upsetting graphic she used...
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."

www.wfyi.org/news/article...
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
www.wfyi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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ryanlcooper.com
great point. Dems have a lot more wiggle room on this stuff than the “popularist” people say
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29d
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.

New piece laying this out:

newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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meredithshiner.com
I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.

for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...
Most of the hearing was routine. At one point, however, Straw's attorney, Christopher Parente, lodged a largely symbolic objection over his client having to turn in his passport, calling him a "boring suburban dad" and saying his whole reason for going to the protest in the first place included objecting to the government checking people's passports and papers. Parente said it wasn't fair for Straw "to sit here now and ask him to turn his passport over to the government for no reason other than they think they can," adding that "landscapers arrested by ICE cannot stand up to the government." "Mr. Straw can, and your Honor can, too," Parente said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg said the passport was about bond conditions, not about what ICE is doing on the streets, and that defendants have turned in their passports "in every case I've had for 19 years." After McShain decided Straw did not have to turn in his passport, Mecklenburg said she'd drop the requirement for all defendants to ensure Straw was not receiving special treatment.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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thedlcc.bsky.social
BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate!

In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
christ almighty what is this guy doing

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Via @klasfeldreports.com, George Santos may not be done with the criminal justice system.
A statement from Nassau, NY DA Anne Donnelly: Since first learning of George Santos' actions, I have been at the forefront of bringing him to justice. I am proud of the work my office has done, and the conviction achieved in partnership with the US Attorney's office, While the office cannot comment on ongoing investigations, suffice it to say that I remain focused on prosecuting political corruption whereever it exists regardless of political affiliation.
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Where are all the supposed pro-free speech, anti-cancel culture Conservative comedians right now? Performative frauds…
September 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM