Jordan
@right2jorts.bsky.social
DC Based. Housing advocate. 🏳️⚧️ Thoughts are my own.
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okay so you're no longer the news, got it
CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.
CBS News Agrees Not to Edit ‘Face The Nation’ Interviews Following Homeland Security Backlash
CBS News said it would cede its power to hold "Face the Nation" interviewees to account after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem complained
variety.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
okay so you're no longer the news, got it
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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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I mean people are struggling to stay cool, stay fed, stay safe, stay baseline maintained, and *This* is the shit we're pouring money down? Because you think that it'll what, suddenly and somehow fix everything??
On what basis? By what means?
This is all so fucked.
On what basis? By what means?
This is all so fucked.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I mean people are struggling to stay cool, stay fed, stay safe, stay baseline maintained, and *This* is the shit we're pouring money down? Because you think that it'll what, suddenly and somehow fix everything??
On what basis? By what means?
This is all so fucked.
On what basis? By what means?
This is all so fucked.
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US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked
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The Trump regime wants to make it illegal to oppose them politically. They want to end freedom of speech and stop having competitive elections in which they can lose power.
This is what fascism looks like.
This is what fascism looks like.
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference.
This is what rising fascism looks like.
This is what rising fascism looks like.
August 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Trump regime wants to make it illegal to oppose them politically. They want to end freedom of speech and stop having competitive elections in which they can lose power.
This is what fascism looks like.
This is what fascism looks like.
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An interesting subtext here. We do indeed spend vast sums on our military. So the idea here appears to be that without "forever wars" we need to occupy our own cities.
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
An interesting subtext here. We do indeed spend vast sums on our military. So the idea here appears to be that without "forever wars" we need to occupy our own cities.
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Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?
![ArtI.S8.C12.1 Overview of the Army Clause
Article I, Section 8, Clause 12:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; . . .
The Army Clause1 provides Congress with authority to raise and support armies—an essential element of the federal government’s suite of war powers.2 The Clause’s structure reflects the Framers’ efforts to balance two competing concerns in the Founding era: a widespread mistrust of peacetime standing armies and the new nation’s desire to ensure security through military protection.3 The Framers sought to address both issues by authorizing Congress to raise and maintain armies, while requiring renewal of appropriations for that purpose every two years to ensure democratically elected representatives continued to support the army.4 Although congressional power to raise and support armies has sometimes come into tension with other constitutional rights and principles,5 the Supreme Court has described this power as broad and sweeping,6 and it has rejected some claimed limits on Congress’s authority under the Army Clause.7](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreicixd3f7kjyqpqfpdq5dqvkwbypf5l2prdpiist2px7rreyva65y4@jpeg)
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?
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Kaitlyn Greenidge on D.C., white reconstruction, and how you really can and should be able to believe multiple things are true at one time.
kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Kaitlyn Greenidge on D.C., white reconstruction, and how you really can and should be able to believe multiple things are true at one time.
kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...
kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...
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Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society.
The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
Costco Won’t Sell Abortion Pill as Religious Investors Declare Win
A coalition of faith-based activists had pressured the retailer to not offer the abortion pill mifepristone in its pharmacy locations. The group now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens.
www.bloomberg.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society.
The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
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maybe one way thru this is to keep asking ourselves, when the admin does something fucked up that seems new, "who have they done this to before?"
August 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
maybe one way thru this is to keep asking ourselves, when the admin does something fucked up that seems new, "who have they done this to before?"
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I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
NIH Director Battacharya on mRNA technology: "We should not be using as a platform for mass vaccination"
August 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
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I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
August 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
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August 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
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We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
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Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
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Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
June 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
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RealPage and over a dozen of DC's largest landlords acted as a housing cartel.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
DC attorney general inks first settlement in RealPage price-fixing lawsuit
The District of Columbia attorney general's office has secured its first settlement in a lawsuit accusing landlords and technology company RealPage of conspiring to inflate rental prices.
www.reuters.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
RealPage and over a dozen of DC's largest landlords acted as a housing cartel.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
They used RealPage pricing software to illegally collude and push rents even higher.
This settlement is the first step in unraveling a scheme that inflated housing costs for thousands of DC renters.
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if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.
June 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.
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Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
December 14, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.
Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
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I can't even say anything. Banning abortion for poor people was the first step toward banning abortion altogether. Banning transition for poor people is the first step toward banning transition altogether. It's monstrous now, as it is, and we're all standing directly downwind.
"The bill is passed. USA! USA!" - theocrat Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA, no relation)
May 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I can't even say anything. Banning abortion for poor people was the first step toward banning abortion altogether. Banning transition for poor people is the first step toward banning transition altogether. It's monstrous now, as it is, and we're all standing directly downwind.
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The people of DC have voted twice to give tipped workers a living wage. Relitigating popular policies while workers face rising costs and economic uncertainty is undemocratic and harms our workforce.
Tipped workers keep DC strong, and we won't turn our backs on their right to earn a living wage.
May 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The people of DC have voted twice to give tipped workers a living wage. Relitigating popular policies while workers face rising costs and economic uncertainty is undemocratic and harms our workforce.
Tipped workers keep DC strong, and we won't turn our backs on their right to earn a living wage.
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Mike Bost from IL is the Chair of the House Veteran affairs Committee and based on media reports he appears to be lying to a disabled US Army Veteran. apnews.com/article/vete...
As usual shameless and craven stuff from House Republicans.
As usual shameless and craven stuff from House Republicans.
May 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Mike Bost from IL is the Chair of the House Veteran affairs Committee and based on media reports he appears to be lying to a disabled US Army Veteran. apnews.com/article/vete...
As usual shameless and craven stuff from House Republicans.
As usual shameless and craven stuff from House Republicans.
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Requiring a medical note to wear a mask is a violation of the ADA. Apparently the Kennedy Center OGC missed their anti-discrimination law training.
“Masks should not be worn in public spaces in the Center. This is especially important for our public-facing and front-of-house employees”
The Kennedy Center is violating the rights of employees AND patrons.
People in public facing roles have the greatest risk & should not be fired for masking 🧵
The Kennedy Center is violating the rights of employees AND patrons.
People in public facing roles have the greatest risk & should not be fired for masking 🧵
If you’re wondering what happens if Kennedy Center employees don’t comply with the new no-mask policy, here’s their latest email:
May 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Requiring a medical note to wear a mask is a violation of the ADA. Apparently the Kennedy Center OGC missed their anti-discrimination law training.
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They're also racist, and another way to incarcerate Black people for wearing facial coverings. It's why so many of the mask bans are in Black cities: Washington, D.C., criminalized face coverings for people over the age of 16.
We must call mask bans what they are:
Pro infection ugly laws.
They promote the spread of disease. They encourage cosplaying 2019 “normal” even though the threat of Covid hasn’t passed & we have measles spreading too.
If you can wear a mask, mask up now. We need visible solidarity to fight bans.
Pro infection ugly laws.
They promote the spread of disease. They encourage cosplaying 2019 “normal” even though the threat of Covid hasn’t passed & we have measles spreading too.
If you can wear a mask, mask up now. We need visible solidarity to fight bans.
May 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
They're also racist, and another way to incarcerate Black people for wearing facial coverings. It's why so many of the mask bans are in Black cities: Washington, D.C., criminalized face coverings for people over the age of 16.
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"The proposed cuts could present an existential threat to community health centers that serve the city’s low-income residents. Black residents, who make up the vast majority of D.C.’s Medicaid enrollees, are likely to be hit the hardest." - James Jarvis for @51st.news
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Federal Medicaid cuts threaten health care for thousands in D.C.
The proposed cuts could present an existential threat to community health centers that serve the city’s low-income residents. Black residents, who make up the vast majority of D.C.’s Medicaid enrollee...
51st.news
April 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"The proposed cuts could present an existential threat to community health centers that serve the city’s low-income residents. Black residents, who make up the vast majority of D.C.’s Medicaid enrollees, are likely to be hit the hardest." - James Jarvis for @51st.news
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