@tehubbard.bsky.social
Massachusetts born and bred- hoping this platform will help us all organize to rescue the democracy that was born in my backyard
Lifelong Dem
Feared we would sleepwalk into fascism.
Then we did
Lifelong Dem
Feared we would sleepwalk into fascism.
Then we did
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My diagnosis of why elite institutions fail at resistance.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My diagnosis of why elite institutions fail at resistance.
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This is so true.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is so true.
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I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
Anybody else old enough to remember the story about Michael Deaver (Reagan Administration) and not caring about what the press actually reported as long as the White House got the visuals it wanted? No mystery what the Trump minions are doing here
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
Trump Welcomes A.P.’s Photographers. Its Reporters? Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Anybody else old enough to remember the story about Michael Deaver (Reagan Administration) and not caring about what the press actually reported as long as the White House got the visuals it wanted? No mystery what the Trump minions are doing here
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Except, of course, it’s *not* all he can say.
Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.
Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Except, of course, it’s *not* all he can say.
Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.
Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
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I’ve seen so many posts claiming that the Burns documentary said the founding generation got the idea of union from the Iroquois confederacy. I didn’t see that at all. But just mentioning the IC in the same breadth as Union made some people go ballistic.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I’ve seen so many posts claiming that the Burns documentary said the founding generation got the idea of union from the Iroquois confederacy. I didn’t see that at all. But just mentioning the IC in the same breadth as Union made some people go ballistic.
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A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
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I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
Really hoping Dem congressional leadership doesn't waste any time in uniting around a demand that Witkoff and Rubio be fired immediately. Trump "Administration" performance on Ukraine would be hilarious if not so truly dangerpus and hostile to American interests.
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Really hoping Dem congressional leadership doesn't waste any time in uniting around a demand that Witkoff and Rubio be fired immediately. Trump "Administration" performance on Ukraine would be hilarious if not so truly dangerpus and hostile to American interests.
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Maybe Marco Rubio should give up his Secretary of State post and focus on his first love: Acting Archivist of the United States
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Maybe Marco Rubio should give up his Secretary of State post and focus on his first love: Acting Archivist of the United States
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
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Russia rejected their own peace plan?
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Russia rejected their own peace plan?
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Now that MTG is feeling all soft, and free, and easy, it might be a good time to ask her why before even being sworn-in she was one of the 10 members of the House who met with Trump in December 2020 to discuss “Stop the Steal” plans, and the details of the convo….
www.axios.com/2022/07/12/h...
www.axios.com/2022/07/12/h...
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Now that MTG is feeling all soft, and free, and easy, it might be a good time to ask her why before even being sworn-in she was one of the 10 members of the House who met with Trump in December 2020 to discuss “Stop the Steal” plans, and the details of the convo….
www.axios.com/2022/07/12/h...
www.axios.com/2022/07/12/h...
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My husband @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity.
The President called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans need to stand up and say so.
The President called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans need to stand up and say so.
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My husband @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity.
The President called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans need to stand up and say so.
The President called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans need to stand up and say so.
Couldn't resist. I asked Elon Musk's Grok whether the American people are worthy of Musk.
Surprise! The answer is no. "We (the American people) are still on probation. He (Musk) is carrying the country harder than it deserves, but maybe-just maybe- we're starting to wake up."
WOKE IS BACK,BABY!!!
Surprise! The answer is no. "We (the American people) are still on probation. He (Musk) is carrying the country harder than it deserves, but maybe-just maybe- we're starting to wake up."
WOKE IS BACK,BABY!!!
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Couldn't resist. I asked Elon Musk's Grok whether the American people are worthy of Musk.
Surprise! The answer is no. "We (the American people) are still on probation. He (Musk) is carrying the country harder than it deserves, but maybe-just maybe- we're starting to wake up."
WOKE IS BACK,BABY!!!
Surprise! The answer is no. "We (the American people) are still on probation. He (Musk) is carrying the country harder than it deserves, but maybe-just maybe- we're starting to wake up."
WOKE IS BACK,BABY!!!
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I won't mince words—today, Donald Trump made a death threat against his political opponents.
Here's my full statement on the President calling for the execution of Democratic Members of Congress:
Here's my full statement on the President calling for the execution of Democratic Members of Congress:
Press Releases | Congressman Jim McGovern
mcgovern.house.gov
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I won't mince words—today, Donald Trump made a death threat against his political opponents.
Here's my full statement on the President calling for the execution of Democratic Members of Congress:
Here's my full statement on the President calling for the execution of Democratic Members of Congress:
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i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
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Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Page One in Iowa.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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Are we winning yet?
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Are we winning yet?
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The Biden administration had an open investigation into Epstein’s coconspirators. This past January, Trump killed it, fired the prosecutors, and stole the files.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The Biden administration had an open investigation into Epstein’s coconspirators. This past January, Trump killed it, fired the prosecutors, and stole the files.
I understand the outrage at Trump's illegal elimination of the Department of Education, but let's not overlook one modest silver lining: we'd no longer have to put up with the execrable Secretary, Linda McMahon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I understand the outrage at Trump's illegal elimination of the Department of Education, but let's not overlook one modest silver lining: we'd no longer have to put up with the execrable Secretary, Linda McMahon.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...