Chad Rector
@chadrector.bsky.social
Political Science, Marymount University. International organizations, Asia. Occasional hobbies: pro-housing activism in Silver Spring MD, playing the Pontian lyra, making Alsatian tarts. Johnny-come-lately Bluesky's 2.2 millionth user. www.chadrector.net
Anyway I really think under other circumstances Ds would freeze out Cuellar (and Rs Mills) but if there's even a chance of a 1-seat margin next year...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Anyway I really think under other circumstances Ds would freeze out Cuellar (and Rs Mills) but if there's even a chance of a 1-seat margin next year...
My best guess about Jeffries's thinking is that in the event that Mace and whoever else resign in January, Jeffries only gets the gavel if Cuellar doesn't switch parties at the same time.
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My best guess about Jeffries's thinking is that in the event that Mace and whoever else resign in January, Jeffries only gets the gavel if Cuellar doesn't switch parties at the same time.
If Gavin Newsom gets some of the newly-gerrymandered GOPers to retire early for sinecures on some sort of state beautification commission, I will be seriously impressed.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If Gavin Newsom gets some of the newly-gerrymandered GOPers to retire early for sinecures on some sort of state beautification commission, I will be seriously impressed.
I am genuinely curious how Maxwell thinks Epstein died.
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I am genuinely curious how Maxwell thinks Epstein died.
Outside the train station in Seoul is a statue of a guy who threw a grenade at the Japanese Governor in 1919.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Outside the train station in Seoul is a statue of a guy who threw a grenade at the Japanese Governor in 1919.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
Our statue outside Union Station in a few years is going to be way cooler.
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Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Show us on the doll where the sandwich hit you.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
It's annoying that we call the shutdown hostage-taking *by Democrats* - it is *Republicans* in the Senate that are refusing to reopen the government unless 7 Democrats vote for their budget. They could easily reopen the government with 51 votes! They just choose not to.
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It's annoying that we call the shutdown hostage-taking *by Democrats* - it is *Republicans* in the Senate that are refusing to reopen the government unless 7 Democrats vote for their budget. They could easily reopen the government with 51 votes! They just choose not to.
Honestly strange that he spent 9 whole months of goofing around with opaque crypto schemes before he finally got down to business and ordered the Treasury to write him a quarter billion dollar check.
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Honestly strange that he spent 9 whole months of goofing around with opaque crypto schemes before he finally got down to business and ordered the Treasury to write him a quarter billion dollar check.
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It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's dangerous to say, but since it is true, it's more dangerous to not say: The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body. It's been deliberately and systematically captured by ideologues on behalf of an anti-Constitutional project, and its extremist members have been bribed.
I love that they have started competing with each other for space in the history books, swinging for the fences with the founding-father-invoking-barn-burners.
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I love that they have started competing with each other for space in the history books, swinging for the fences with the founding-father-invoking-barn-burners.