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It's election day. (Also, hi again!)
I've been very busy at my day job, but tonight we get our first sense of if Cleveland City Council will become more responsive and policy-focused. Plus, some contentious suburban races too.
Join me back here at ~7:30 for my usual live-screaming of the results.
I've been very busy at my day job, but tonight we get our first sense of if Cleveland City Council will become more responsive and policy-focused. Plus, some contentious suburban races too.
Join me back here at ~7:30 for my usual live-screaming of the results.
September 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's election day. (Also, hi again!)
I've been very busy at my day job, but tonight we get our first sense of if Cleveland City Council will become more responsive and policy-focused. Plus, some contentious suburban races too.
Join me back here at ~7:30 for my usual live-screaming of the results.
I've been very busy at my day job, but tonight we get our first sense of if Cleveland City Council will become more responsive and policy-focused. Plus, some contentious suburban races too.
Join me back here at ~7:30 for my usual live-screaming of the results.
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The Department of Education, among other things, is what funds special education for children with disabilities.
Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.
Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.
March 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The Department of Education, among other things, is what funds special education for children with disabilities.
Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.
Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.
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This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.
March 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.
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Depart, men of Education!
Musk just posted a meme of Donald Trump burying the Department of Education with the word department misspelled as “departmen”
March 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Depart, men of Education!
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Gutting the Department of Education would deliver a terrible blow to public schools, and have an immediate and tangible impact on students with disabilities.
What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities
The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste.
www.newyorker.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Gutting the Department of Education would deliver a terrible blow to public schools, and have an immediate and tangible impact on students with disabilities.
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It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.
March 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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Listen - it is nuts to be this much of an idiot
Listen – it’s not nuts to ask federal employees to report what they’re working on. My staff has to do weekly reports too.
But the WAY Musk is doing this? What’s he gonna do, read 2 million emails? This is just not serious stuff.
But the WAY Musk is doing this? What’s he gonna do, read 2 million emails? This is just not serious stuff.
February 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Listen - it is nuts to be this much of an idiot
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This is some of the craziest shit an American politician has ever said.
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is some of the craziest shit an American politician has ever said.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here
Those Who Say (X) Agency Should Be Eliminated:
DOGE: 25%
USAID: 21%
DOE: 17%
IRS: 13%
FEMA: 11%
EPA: 8%
CDC: 7%
CFPB: 7%
ICE: 5%
FBI: 4%
NWS: 2%
DOD: 1%
YouGov / Feb 18, 2025 / n=1603
DOGE: 25%
USAID: 21%
DOE: 17%
IRS: 13%
FEMA: 11%
EPA: 8%
CDC: 7%
CFPB: 7%
ICE: 5%
FBI: 4%
NWS: 2%
DOD: 1%
YouGov / Feb 18, 2025 / n=1603
February 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here
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Here's the script I'm using to holler at my red-state reps about Elon Musk's FAA takeover.
Red State Scripts Vol. 2: Don’t Turn the FAA Over to Elon Musk
I don’t care about the price of eggs if I’m not alive to cook them.
homewiththearmadillo.blog
February 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Here's the script I'm using to holler at my red-state reps about Elon Musk's FAA takeover.
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This legal fiction is to shield Musk from any meaningful accountability. He is operating his own organization within the federal government, loyal to him not Trump, and has amassed unprecedented control of federal data. But just an advisor!
NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it.
He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This legal fiction is to shield Musk from any meaningful accountability. He is operating his own organization within the federal government, loyal to him not Trump, and has amassed unprecedented control of federal data. But just an advisor!
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MAGA Farmer wants us to “come together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote.
“I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆
youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...
“I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆
youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...
MAGA Farmer wants us to “come together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote
YouTube video by Franchesca Ramsey
youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
MAGA Farmer wants us to “come together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote.
“I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆
youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...
“I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆
youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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alright let's do this: call-your-reps scripts for people whose reps dgaf
Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1
The fascists will fash, but I can’t let them believe they’re doing it with my implied consent.
homewiththearmadillo.blog
February 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
alright let's do this: call-your-reps scripts for people whose reps dgaf
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People will be like “I’m incredibly well read” and the books will be things like RICH BOSS, POOR BOSS and TEN MARKETING SECRETS OF THE ILLUMINATI.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
People will be like “I’m incredibly well read” and the books will be things like RICH BOSS, POOR BOSS and TEN MARKETING SECRETS OF THE ILLUMINATI.
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“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.”
— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.
— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.
February 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.”
— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.
— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession