Rob Robinson
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Getting too old for this shit
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Endless bickering over this stuff. But you might say the proof of the pudding is in the not eating shit. Newsom. Prop 50. The shutdown fight. That’s the path to restored credibility. www.offmessage.net/p/the-scourg...
The Scourge Of Wimpiness
Terminal insecurity has damaged the Democratic Party's credibility more than any local policy choice or rhetorical trope.
www.offmessage.net
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Endless bickering over this stuff. But you might say the proof of the pudding is in the not eating shit. Newsom. Prop 50. The shutdown fight. That’s the path to restored credibility. www.offmessage.net/p/the-scourg...
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Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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Trump's harassment of immigrant communities is doing what it is intended to do: empowering local bad actors to exploit people for profit even more. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Latino tenants sued their landlord. A lawyer told them they would be 'picked up by ICE.'
When a Latino tenant filed a lawsuit against a landlord and real estate agent for selling the home she was evicted from, an opposing lawyer suggested she'll likely be deported by ICE before trial.
www.latimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Trump's harassment of immigrant communities is doing what it is intended to do: empowering local bad actors to exploit people for profit even more. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”
FDA panel promotes misinformation on antidepressants during pregnancy, psychiatrists say
Nearly all of the 10 panelists emphasized what they said were risks of the drugs. Some claimed, without evidence, that antidepressants don't work at all.
www.nbcnews.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”
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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
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2/ Sungida Rashid went to a Steward hospital in Boston hospital to have her first baby. The company was so in debt that it didn't pay its bills—and the life-saving device Sungida needed had been repossessed by the vendor. She died shortly after this picture bit.ly/455xC7O
May 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
2/ Sungida Rashid went to a Steward hospital in Boston hospital to have her first baby. The company was so in debt that it didn't pay its bills—and the life-saving device Sungida needed had been repossessed by the vendor. She died shortly after this picture bit.ly/455xC7O
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This is so obviously correct that I'm embarrassed for the firms that caved.
JUS TIN: Susman Godfrey becomes the latest firm to sue over Trump's retaliatory executive orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This is so obviously correct that I'm embarrassed for the firms that caved.
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uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…
March 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
uhhhh it looks like Dems just flipped a R+17 Pennsylvania State Senate seat in Amish country…
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Honestly I hope Judge Van Dyke never picks up an appeal of a sodomy case
BREAKING: 9th Circuit en banc court upholds California's ban on large gun magazines, 7-4. Judge Van Dyke's highly unusual video dissent, showing him handling handguns, sparks sharp response from Judge Berzon. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMC7... Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Dissent video in 23-55805 Duncan v. Bonta
YouTube video by United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Honestly I hope Judge Van Dyke never picks up an appeal of a sodomy case
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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this is very, very bad news for the most promising new cancer cure research. to that this deranged degenerate is making these decisions
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,” one researcher said.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
this is very, very bad news for the most promising new cancer cure research. to that this deranged degenerate is making these decisions
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"elite rhetoric about Trump’s prosecution has strikingly limited effects on public opinion, as pretreatment favorability toward Trump powerfully shapes whether or not citizens are receptive to rhetoric about legal accountability" osf.io/preprints/os...
March 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"elite rhetoric about Trump’s prosecution has strikingly limited effects on public opinion, as pretreatment favorability toward Trump powerfully shapes whether or not citizens are receptive to rhetoric about legal accountability" osf.io/preprints/os...
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It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
March 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
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The embodiment of Democratic Party resistance. “They’re throwing out the Constitution. I’m not sure how I’ll vote on it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The embodiment of Democratic Party resistance. “They’re throwing out the Constitution. I’m not sure how I’ll vote on it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
February 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.
UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed
A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...
cdapress.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.
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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again
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A woman was forcibly removed from a town hall in Idaho after talking by three unidentified men dressed in black.
The sheriff was there and told her to leave.
And the emcee of the event called her “the little girl” as she was dragged out. www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...
The sheriff was there and told her to leave.
And the emcee of the event called her “the little girl” as she was dragged out. www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...
Chaos erupts at Idaho legislative town hall, woman pulled from seat and dragged out
The woman refused to leave the meeting after speaking out against the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.
www.idahostatesman.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A woman was forcibly removed from a town hall in Idaho after talking by three unidentified men dressed in black.
The sheriff was there and told her to leave.
And the emcee of the event called her “the little girl” as she was dragged out. www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...
The sheriff was there and told her to leave.
And the emcee of the event called her “the little girl” as she was dragged out. www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...
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Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.
February 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.
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And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?
February 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
And here’s the copy. Please disseminate these images widely. Who needs to place ads in a newspaper that few people actually read anymore?