@lseverett.bsky.social
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In the past 24 hours, Joe Biden secured a ceasefire deal in Lebanon and deal that brought three wrongfully detained Americans home in advance of Thanksgiving.
That’s leadership.
That’s leadership.
November 28, 2024 at 12:54 AM
In the past 24 hours, Joe Biden secured a ceasefire deal in Lebanon and deal that brought three wrongfully detained Americans home in advance of Thanksgiving.
That’s leadership.
That’s leadership.
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Biden's "Investing in America" agenda helped attract over $1T (trillion) in announced private-sector investments in the U.S. since he took office, ensuring a future made in America, by American workers.
He doesn't call it America First because he's not an isolationist talking to entranced cultists.
He doesn't call it America First because he's not an isolationist talking to entranced cultists.
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Biden's "Investing in America" agenda helped attract over $1T (trillion) in announced private-sector investments in the U.S. since he took office, ensuring a future made in America, by American workers.
He doesn't call it America First because he's not an isolationist talking to entranced cultists.
He doesn't call it America First because he's not an isolationist talking to entranced cultists.
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Politico calls Trump's "puny plurality" win a "JV Caliber success."
Winning "less than half the vote .. used to be considered pretty weak sauce."
Trump won to be sure, but inaccurately seeing a landslide may lead both parties to miscalculate.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Winning "less than half the vote .. used to be considered pretty weak sauce."
Trump won to be sure, but inaccurately seeing a landslide may lead both parties to miscalculate.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide?
Right and left have bought the narrative of a crushing triumph. They’re wrong.
www.politico.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Politico calls Trump's "puny plurality" win a "JV Caliber success."
Winning "less than half the vote .. used to be considered pretty weak sauce."
Trump won to be sure, but inaccurately seeing a landslide may lead both parties to miscalculate.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Winning "less than half the vote .. used to be considered pretty weak sauce."
Trump won to be sure, but inaccurately seeing a landslide may lead both parties to miscalculate.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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I don't care what RFK Jr. says or thinks about chronic disease or whatever. Nothing could outweigh the damage this guy could do to national health. @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has dug up a slew of new outrages. There's no end to the dangers he poses.
New: Recordings from private autism conferences show Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vilifying & conspiracy theorizing about agencies he's set to lead. Videos show RFK Jr comparing CDC vaccine programs to "Nazi death camps" & calling for researchers to be jailed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
RFK Jr. attacked the CDC’s ‘fascism’ and likened vaccinating children to abuse by the Catholic Church
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, also argued for jailing vaccine scientists in previously unreported comments at autism conferences.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I don't care what RFK Jr. says or thinks about chronic disease or whatever. Nothing could outweigh the damage this guy could do to national health. @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has dug up a slew of new outrages. There's no end to the dangers he poses.
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This is incredibly disturbing and goes against every rule of war, international law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the very ethic of the military. A disciplined military goes to every length to prevent civilian deaths and having a SecDef who doesn't care is unacceptable.
Trump Defense Nominee Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Want Soldiers Held Accountable for Killing Civilians
Pete Hegseth’s comments on civilian casualties reveal alarming disregard for human life
Pete Hegseth’s comments on civilian casualties reveal alarming disregard for human life
Trump Defense Nominee Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Want Soldiers Held Accountable for Killing Civilians
Pete Hegseth’s comments on civilian casualties reveal alarming disregard for human life
meidasnews.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:42 PM
This is incredibly disturbing and goes against every rule of war, international law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the very ethic of the military. A disciplined military goes to every length to prevent civilian deaths and having a SecDef who doesn't care is unacceptable.
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This story from the Idaho Capital Sun seems significant: "Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church that aims to turn America into a theocracy."
Trump’s Defense secretary nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian nationalists • Idaho Capital Sun
Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church.
idahocapitalsun.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:52 PM
This story from the Idaho Capital Sun seems significant: "Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church that aims to turn America into a theocracy."
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This is outrageous, dangerous, callous, violates balance of power, violates common sense, and is a bipartisan affront to America's safety. It should be objected to in the most strenuous terms by Dems and the GOP alike.
NEW — Trump’s transition team is planning for all cabinet picks to receive sweeping security clearances from the president-elect and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau @guardian exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting
Exclusive: president-elect’s team planning for background checks to occur only after administration takes over bureau
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
This is outrageous, dangerous, callous, violates balance of power, violates common sense, and is a bipartisan affront to America's safety. It should be objected to in the most strenuous terms by Dems and the GOP alike.
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What Trump says, what he means, and what he ultimately does are three separate things. HE doesn't even know how they do or don't connect in real time. He's a pathological mess. Our betterment, and that of America is secondary to his impulses, and cravings for narcissistic energy and grandiosity.
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
What Trump says, what he means, and what he ultimately does are three separate things. HE doesn't even know how they do or don't connect in real time. He's a pathological mess. Our betterment, and that of America is secondary to his impulses, and cravings for narcissistic energy and grandiosity.
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Trump’s first big bold thing is to slap tariffs on our three biggest trading partners. We import oil and lumber from Canada, fresh produce from Mexico, consumer goods from China. Prices will soar as the import tax is passed on to U.S. consumers. This is madness.
November 26, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Trump’s first big bold thing is to slap tariffs on our three biggest trading partners. We import oil and lumber from Canada, fresh produce from Mexico, consumer goods from China. Prices will soar as the import tax is passed on to U.S. consumers. This is madness.
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American men are killing women.
Out of 2,410 women killed by men, 87.5% knew their killers, and 66% were shot. Misogynistic rhetoric, extremist cabinet picks, and Project 2025's patriarchal agenda threaten to escalate violence against women. We must stand united and resist this dangerous regression.
#Resist
#Resist
November 26, 2024 at 7:01 PM
American men are killing women.
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Hello Bluesky. Been here for a minute, but only now is it my primary platform. I’d like to recreate my pre-Musk Twitter community as best I can. So if I followed you or you followed me there, I hope we find each other here, if we haven’t already.
November 21, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Hello Bluesky. Been here for a minute, but only now is it my primary platform. I’d like to recreate my pre-Musk Twitter community as best I can. So if I followed you or you followed me there, I hope we find each other here, if we haven’t already.
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UPDATE — 🇲🇽 president Claudia Sheinbaum writes to Trump saying:
-border crossings are down 75%
-🇺🇸 should spend more on peace, less on war
-70% of illegal guns in 🇲🇽 come from 🇺🇸
-🇲🇽 will respond with more tariffs which hurt everyone
FULL LETTER: www.threads.net/@thetnholler...
-border crossings are down 75%
-🇺🇸 should spend more on peace, less on war
-70% of illegal guns in 🇲🇽 come from 🇺🇸
-🇲🇽 will respond with more tariffs which hurt everyone
FULL LETTER: www.threads.net/@thetnholler...
November 26, 2024 at 6:44 PM
UPDATE — 🇲🇽 president Claudia Sheinbaum writes to Trump saying:
-border crossings are down 75%
-🇺🇸 should spend more on peace, less on war
-70% of illegal guns in 🇲🇽 come from 🇺🇸
-🇲🇽 will respond with more tariffs which hurt everyone
FULL LETTER: www.threads.net/@thetnholler...
-border crossings are down 75%
-🇺🇸 should spend more on peace, less on war
-70% of illegal guns in 🇲🇽 come from 🇺🇸
-🇲🇽 will respond with more tariffs which hurt everyone
FULL LETTER: www.threads.net/@thetnholler...
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What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
November 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
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Anger over Smith’s dismissals of the Trump cases is understandable, but it’s the only move he had. By filing preemptively, he keeps the cases alive for 2029. My thoughts in MSNBC Daily.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Jack Smith didn't really have a choice
Smith's move could be an effort to keep the cases alive in the long term.
www.msnbc.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Anger over Smith’s dismissals of the Trump cases is understandable, but it’s the only move he had. By filing preemptively, he keeps the cases alive for 2029. My thoughts in MSNBC Daily.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Also this excellent observation (because sometimes people think it's all up to the federal government).
The path to avoiding the worst of climate change runs through state senates and city councils, public utilities commissions and planning bodies, co-op boards and HOAs and PTAs and neighborhood associations. Remember the physics definition of power: it’s work over time.
November 26, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Also this excellent observation (because sometimes people think it's all up to the federal government).
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Holy moly. MAGA is losing their mind over an uncovered video from 2016 where Donald Trump says people should use the bathroom they feel is inappropriate and speaks out against trans bathroom bills. Feel free to share this so MAGA implodes.
November 25, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Holy moly. MAGA is losing their mind over an uncovered video from 2016 where Donald Trump says people should use the bathroom they feel is inappropriate and speaks out against trans bathroom bills. Feel free to share this so MAGA implodes.
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Beautiful essay by climate scientist @petergleick.bsky.social on the difference between dismayed and defeated. With a list of what's still unstoppable....
time.com/7178677/clim...
time.com/7178677/clim...
November 26, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Beautiful essay by climate scientist @petergleick.bsky.social on the difference between dismayed and defeated. With a list of what's still unstoppable....
time.com/7178677/clim...
time.com/7178677/clim...
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The media folks who think he’ll never come for them are for a shock
The party of "FrEeDom oF SpEECh" is lead by a man who most certainly is against it and a free press.
November 25, 2024 at 10:21 PM
The media folks who think he’ll never come for them are for a shock
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Trump alone didn't beat the justice system.
He had help.
It took Oligarchs relentlessly amplifying his lies on their media platforms.
Ethically compromised members of the Supreme Court.
70+ million willing to vote for a convicted felon.
There's a lot to fix. But it can be fixed. It must.
He had help.
It took Oligarchs relentlessly amplifying his lies on their media platforms.
Ethically compromised members of the Supreme Court.
70+ million willing to vote for a convicted felon.
There's a lot to fix. But it can be fixed. It must.
November 25, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Trump alone didn't beat the justice system.
He had help.
It took Oligarchs relentlessly amplifying his lies on their media platforms.
Ethically compromised members of the Supreme Court.
70+ million willing to vote for a convicted felon.
There's a lot to fix. But it can be fixed. It must.
He had help.
It took Oligarchs relentlessly amplifying his lies on their media platforms.
Ethically compromised members of the Supreme Court.
70+ million willing to vote for a convicted felon.
There's a lot to fix. But it can be fixed. It must.
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NEW: Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the charges against Trump in the DC election subversion case without prejudice. This allows the Justice Department to refile charges once Trump is out of office.
BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to dismiss the charges brought against Donald Trump in the DC election subversion case. Smith asks for the case to be dismissed without prejudice and leave open the possibility for charges to be filed again in the future.
November 25, 2024 at 9:53 PM
NEW: Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the charges against Trump in the DC election subversion case without prejudice. This allows the Justice Department to refile charges once Trump is out of office.
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Pete Hegseth must step aside.
Pete Hegseth
The man Trump picked to be SecDef
Said “The military and police..will be forced to make a choice”
Because “there will be some form of civil war”
So MAGA should start “an AMERICAN CRUSADE”
To “mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents”
HE MUST NOT BE CONFIRMED
The man Trump picked to be SecDef
Said “The military and police..will be forced to make a choice”
Because “there will be some form of civil war”
So MAGA should start “an AMERICAN CRUSADE”
To “mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents”
HE MUST NOT BE CONFIRMED
November 23, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Pete Hegseth must step aside.
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.