Jason D. Salvagni
@salvagni.org
Co-founder LabEight Ventures. Founding Partner @AugustaFund. Hokie. Daje Roma. Guardian of Nala & Moose. Immersed in water. Moving through with @courts112.
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Alito and others think the offense is in pointing out the government is lying, rather than the government lying bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
This is the same playbook the Trump administration ran in Portland, where DHS officials falsely accused local police of failing to help them (or not arriving quickly enough). Strikes me as a problem that the government lies so freely to the Supreme Court now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Alito and others think the offense is in pointing out the government is lying, rather than the government lying bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
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As you're making the BIG grocery list this weekend, consider buying union-made. When you buy union, you're supporting:
✨ Good jobs in U.S. communities
💵 Living wages
🩺 Good benefits
🦺 Safe working conditions
🫶 Dignity and respect for workers
These quality products are produced by union members 🧵
✨ Good jobs in U.S. communities
💵 Living wages
🩺 Good benefits
🦺 Safe working conditions
🫶 Dignity and respect for workers
These quality products are produced by union members 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Just thinking about this post again today for all the usual reasons.
Tennessee- lower life expectancy by 2 years than the natl average, obesity rate is 1 of the worst in country, racial disparity in healthcare access also one of the worst, highest rates of sexually transmitted infection, 42nd out of 50 states in healthcare & education quality
Maybe worry about that
Maybe worry about that
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just thinking about this post again today for all the usual reasons.
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It's important to also note that DOGE and everything it did was also in service to p2025 and its explicit mandate to dismantle USAID, the IRS, the SSA, enact schedule F, destroy the administrative state as a whole via SCOTUS, and force social change according to their christian dominionist goals.
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's important to also note that DOGE and everything it did was also in service to p2025 and its explicit mandate to dismantle USAID, the IRS, the SSA, enact schedule F, destroy the administrative state as a whole via SCOTUS, and force social change according to their christian dominionist goals.
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
Any Democratic candidate unwilling to preach this loudly on the campaign trail should be ignored and/or chastised.
Also unrelenting phone calls from constituents to earnestly follow through with all of this.
Also unrelenting phone calls from constituents to earnestly follow through with all of this.
When the moment comes, be ready to *loudly and unrelentingly* demand:
Investigations.
Charges.
Prosecutions.
Sentences.
Legislation.
Regulation.
Enforcement.
Until there is justice.
Investigations.
Charges.
Prosecutions.
Sentences.
Legislation.
Regulation.
Enforcement.
Until there is justice.
The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Any Democratic candidate unwilling to preach this loudly on the campaign trail should be ignored and/or chastised.
Also unrelenting phone calls from constituents to earnestly follow through with all of this.
Also unrelenting phone calls from constituents to earnestly follow through with all of this.
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The fewer consequences there are for MBS’s abuses of human rights, the more Saudi dissidents will suffer. If the president sets clear standards for allies, then a country wanting to do business with the U.S. will have no choice but to improve internally.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-le...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-le...
Don’t Let Them Erase Jamal Khashoggi
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The fewer consequences there are for MBS’s abuses of human rights, the more Saudi dissidents will suffer. If the president sets clear standards for allies, then a country wanting to do business with the U.S. will have no choice but to improve internally.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-le...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-le...
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oh it's over
OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
oh it's over
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Pharmaceutical companies gonna tell you it goes against their TOS to get any of the eleventeen quazrillion side effects listed here, so just stop it.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Pharmaceutical companies gonna tell you it goes against their TOS to get any of the eleventeen quazrillion side effects listed here, so just stop it.
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Yeah, see... thatttttt's not how this is supposed to work. Like, at all.
Chicago Public Schools is helping the struggling Aspira charter school network make its immediate payroll, but the privately run, publicly financed operator still needs more cash to remain open through the school year.
CPS to help Aspira make payroll, but charter operator’s financial woes remain
chicago.suntimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Yeah, see... thatttttt's not how this is supposed to work. Like, at all.
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How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way
robertreich.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
How to get rid of Citizens United?
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.
There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
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A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Pharmaceutical companies gonna tell you it goes against their TOS to get any of the eleventeen quazrillion side effects listed here, so just stop it.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Pharmaceutical companies gonna tell you it goes against their TOS to get any of the eleventeen quazrillion side effects listed here, so just stop it.
oh it's over
OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
oh it's over
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#tdih 1968 HS students in Cleveland walked out to protest poor cafeteria food, unsanitary bathrooms, inadequate science labs, powerless student councils, & abuse by security guards.
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Nov. 25, 1968: John Hay HS Walkout
With a long list of grievances, more than 1,200 students at John Hay High School in Cleveland, Ohio, walked out of school and held an unauthorized assembly.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
#tdih 1968 HS students in Cleveland walked out to protest poor cafeteria food, unsanitary bathrooms, inadequate science labs, powerless student councils, & abuse by security guards.
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
Demands not met, so they protested again, with even more demands.
From new book by @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social ⬇️
"You will be visited by three Spirits"
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"You will be visited by three Spirits"
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The Trump admin is sinking fast into backstabbing chaos. After the absurd argument about whether the 28 point plan was authored or given to the admin by Ru, now someone leaked Witkoff's soft treason word for word-- coaching Pu's aide how to sweet talk Trump.
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The Trump admin is sinking fast into backstabbing chaos. After the absurd argument about whether the 28 point plan was authored or given to the admin by Ru, now someone leaked Witkoff's soft treason word for word-- coaching Pu's aide how to sweet talk Trump.
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If you are a DC ANC Commissioner please join DCLC on December 7 for our ANC Town Hall!! We are excited to have you join us!
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you are a DC ANC Commissioner please join DCLC on December 7 for our ANC Town Hall!! We are excited to have you join us!
Yeah, see... thatttttt's not how this is supposed to work. Like, at all.
Chicago Public Schools is helping the struggling Aspira charter school network make its immediate payroll, but the privately run, publicly financed operator still needs more cash to remain open through the school year.
CPS to help Aspira make payroll, but charter operator’s financial woes remain
chicago.suntimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Yeah, see... thatttttt's not how this is supposed to work. Like, at all.
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We’re rejecting complicit companies like Amazon, Whole Foods, Target, and Home Depot and redirecting our support and dollars to our DC small businesses instead!
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We’re rejecting complicit companies like Amazon, Whole Foods, Target, and Home Depot and redirecting our support and dollars to our DC small businesses instead!
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
Check out our local holiday guide here:
www.instagram.com/p/DRfXFVjgZO...
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"A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow."
It’s nice to finally have proof of what we all assumed. www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-...
It’s nice to finally have proof of what we all assumed. www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-...
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice
A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.
www.counteroffensive.news
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked — and it shows the American envoy effectively acting as a strategist for Moscow."
It’s nice to finally have proof of what we all assumed. www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-...
It’s nice to finally have proof of what we all assumed. www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-...