Ell E. Mac
@genxjadzia.bsky.social
“I’m pretty laid back, but I can lean forward real fast.”
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1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
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Efficiency ftw
Spend more do less
Spend more do less
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Efficiency ftw
Spend more do less
Spend more do less
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"What is the Trump-Vance admin hiding? Things aren’t adding up, and the American people are watching. We’ll keep pushing back in court to force transparency." - CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social just now with BBC News discussing the latest release on the Epstein Files.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"What is the Trump-Vance admin hiding? Things aren’t adding up, and the American people are watching. We’ll keep pushing back in court to force transparency." - CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social just now with BBC News discussing the latest release on the Epstein Files.
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Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Kavanaugh tries to put the "Kavanaugh Stops" genie back in the bottle
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
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Bari Weiss doing what she was put there to do, ensure that CBS News is a friendly outlet to the regime and the oligarchs.
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Bari Weiss doing what she was put there to do, ensure that CBS News is a friendly outlet to the regime and the oligarchs.
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DNC's unreleased report says Dems need to take on immigration more directly, a DNC official tells me. But it's unclear what this means in practice. By failing to release the report, the DNC is effectively evading the public debate over how to address the issue at a time when Trump is tanking on it:
The DNC's failure to release the report also seems to evade taking a public stand on some of the biggest questions in the party right now, such as how to talk about immigration:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
DNC's unreleased report says Dems need to take on immigration more directly, a DNC official tells me. But it's unclear what this means in practice. By failing to release the report, the DNC is effectively evading the public debate over how to address the issue at a time when Trump is tanking on it:
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"This man is going to fellate himself to the ends of the earth about all of these accomplishments that he's going to will into existence, because he has to sell himself to compensate for the fact that when it comes to actual accomplishments, he's far underperforming."
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"This man is going to fellate himself to the ends of the earth about all of these accomplishments that he's going to will into existence, because he has to sell himself to compensate for the fact that when it comes to actual accomplishments, he's far underperforming."
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December 17, 2025
December 17, 2025
This morning, four vulnerable Republicans signed onto the discharge petition all House Democrats have signed to force Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring a bill to extend the premium tax credits for ...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
December 17, 2025
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My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
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Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on GOPers letting ACA tax credits expire:
"We live in the richest country in the history of the world. We have a trillionaire.... And yet we're being told millions of people need to lose their health care because we can't afford it? That's obscene."
"We live in the richest country in the history of the world. We have a trillionaire.... And yet we're being told millions of people need to lose their health care because we can't afford it? That's obscene."
December 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on GOPers letting ACA tax credits expire:
"We live in the richest country in the history of the world. We have a trillionaire.... And yet we're being told millions of people need to lose their health care because we can't afford it? That's obscene."
"We live in the richest country in the history of the world. We have a trillionaire.... And yet we're being told millions of people need to lose their health care because we can't afford it? That's obscene."
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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please join me tomorrow at 3 pm in a Substack Live conversation with Heather Cox Richardson. we'll discuss Trump's attempt to impose a white nationalist vision on America, and take your questions.
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LIVE SOON: talking with Heather Cox Richardson about the continuing struggle to defend America from white nationalism
Starting Dec 17 at 3:00 PM EST
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December 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
please join me tomorrow at 3 pm in a Substack Live conversation with Heather Cox Richardson. we'll discuss Trump's attempt to impose a white nationalist vision on America, and take your questions.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025
While President Donald J.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
December 16, 2025
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September 3, 2025
September 3, 2025
[Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.]
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September 4, 2025 at 4:49 AM
September 3, 2025
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Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
September 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
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The Republican Senate is to blame for this. Donald Trump wanted only yes men. It was their job to confirm and consent. They knew Hegseth wasn’t up to the job, but put him in charge anyway. They risked our country’s security to please the mad king and should be punished for it at the ballot box.
Hegseth has been a proven failure as a secretary of defense. If the president still refuses to fire him, he should resign.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Pete Hegseth’s Patriotic Duty Is to Resign
His incompetence is putting America’s security at risk.
www.theatlantic.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Republican Senate is to blame for this. Donald Trump wanted only yes men. It was their job to confirm and consent. They knew Hegseth wasn’t up to the job, but put him in charge anyway. They risked our country’s security to please the mad king and should be punished for it at the ballot box.
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The national attention on the Jacksons’ case two years ago put a spotlight on two systemic realities in the United States: the policing of Black families by child welfare systems and the disregard of midwifery expertise by many doctors.
Texas CPS took their newborn for three weeks. Now they're suing.
The legal complaint, filed Tuesday by the Jackson family alongside the ACLU, focuses on how the family was treated after their baby, Mila, was returned from foster care.
19thnews.org
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The national attention on the Jacksons’ case two years ago put a spotlight on two systemic realities in the United States: the policing of Black families by child welfare systems and the disregard of midwifery expertise by many doctors.