@sjgelman.bsky.social
A palate cleanser for your timeline
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A palate cleanser for your timeline
Reposted
As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Reposted
This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
Reposted
The 60 Minutes interview, in which Nora O’Donnell let Trump blather on with lie after lie without fact-checking him or pushing back, is a reminder of why we need journalists who will hold him accountable rather than just giving him a platform to spread lies.
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The 60 Minutes interview, in which Nora O’Donnell let Trump blather on with lie after lie without fact-checking him or pushing back, is a reminder of why we need journalists who will hold him accountable rather than just giving him a platform to spread lies.
Reposted
DC residents know that the only common language that matters is staying on the right if you're standing still on a Metro escalator.
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
DC residents know that the only common language that matters is staying on the right if you're standing still on a Metro escalator.
A public service request:
Please stop saying variations of “I didn’t have [thing] on my bingo card.”
You don’t (expletive) play (expletive) bingo!
Please stop saying variations of “I didn’t have [thing] on my bingo card.”
You don’t (expletive) play (expletive) bingo!
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A public service request:
Please stop saying variations of “I didn’t have [thing] on my bingo card.”
You don’t (expletive) play (expletive) bingo!
Please stop saying variations of “I didn’t have [thing] on my bingo card.”
You don’t (expletive) play (expletive) bingo!
Reposted
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
Reposted
Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.
October 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.
Reposted
Undocumented immigrants aren’t even *allowed* to access Medicare, Medicaid or ACA credits.
Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.
Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Undocumented immigrants aren’t even *allowed* to access Medicare, Medicaid or ACA credits.
Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.
Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.
Reposted
Good time to release the Epstein files
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Good time to release the Epstein files
Reposted
Since the very first assholes appeared in the assholiverse, throughout the lengthy, destructive history of assholery, we have achieved the apex, the apogee, a government almost exclusively by, of and for assholes, the first truly pure assholocracy the U.S. has ever seen.
WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon"
September 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Since the very first assholes appeared in the assholiverse, throughout the lengthy, destructive history of assholery, we have achieved the apex, the apogee, a government almost exclusively by, of and for assholes, the first truly pure assholocracy the U.S. has ever seen.
Reposted
Reposted
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats.
/1
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
/1
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Prosecuting Burning of The American Flag
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
August 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats.
/1
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
/1
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted
Spotted around DC 🔥
August 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Spotted around DC 🔥
Looks like #NPS finally painted over my favorite graffiti in #RockCreekPark. This was along Beach Drive, under the Military Road bridge. It’s now covered in gray paint. (That’s the 12 Monkeys logo if it’s not clear in the picture.) #12Monkeys
August 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Looks like #NPS finally painted over my favorite graffiti in #RockCreekPark. This was along Beach Drive, under the Military Road bridge. It’s now covered in gray paint. (That’s the 12 Monkeys logo if it’s not clear in the picture.) #12Monkeys
Reposted
Trump is mobilizing the National Guard against Americans in DC to distract you his administration's massive Epstein Files cover-up.
August 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump is mobilizing the National Guard against Americans in DC to distract you his administration's massive Epstein Files cover-up.
Reposted
@booker.senate.gov and I just tried to force a vote to allow the prosecutor who blew the whistle on Emil Bove to appear before the Judiciary Committee.
Republicans ignored the rules – and rammed Bove through.
All that matters to them is power and appeasing their Dear Leader.
Republicans ignored the rules – and rammed Bove through.
All that matters to them is power and appeasing their Dear Leader.
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@booker.senate.gov and I just tried to force a vote to allow the prosecutor who blew the whistle on Emil Bove to appear before the Judiciary Committee.
Republicans ignored the rules – and rammed Bove through.
All that matters to them is power and appeasing their Dear Leader.
Republicans ignored the rules – and rammed Bove through.
All that matters to them is power and appeasing their Dear Leader.
Reposted
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Reposted
They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
March 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Reposted
In a nutshell:
— The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence.
— The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information.
Arrest them. Immediately.
— The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence.
— The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information.
Arrest them. Immediately.
March 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In a nutshell:
— The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence.
— The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information.
Arrest them. Immediately.
— The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence.
— The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information.
Arrest them. Immediately.
From the “I don’t believe this either” department: assuming Maryland wins their game, I will have correctly picked 23 of the first 24 #NCAATournament games! In 35+ years of doing this, that has NEVER happened! 😃
March 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
From the “I don’t believe this either” department: assuming Maryland wins their game, I will have correctly picked 23 of the first 24 #NCAATournament games! In 35+ years of doing this, that has NEVER happened! 😃
Reposted
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
Reposted
People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.