Phillip Vander Klay
@vanderklay.bsky.social
Legislative affairs, working on environmental and water issues. Board of Directors for the National Diaper Bank Network. Sacramento-raised Angeleno. Light the Beam
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This brilliant. I've experimented with making similar simulators before, but this from Giving What We Can is so well executed and needed right now... some perspective, and just how lucky we (some of us) are. #charity #wealth #redistribution #fairness #equity #equality
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“You have a lot of power in the discretion that you use to be kind to people”
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“You have a lot of power in the discretion that you use to be kind to people”
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A Washington Post investigation found U.S. Forest Service trails are deteriorating due to staff cuts under the Trump administration. https://wapo.st/3YxlZC4
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
A Washington Post investigation found U.S. Forest Service trails are deteriorating due to staff cuts under the Trump administration. https://wapo.st/3YxlZC4
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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NEW | Electric vehicles (EVs) make up OVER A QUARTER of new car sales in 2025 – with many emerging economies moving fast in transport electrification.
EVs enable countries to:
🛢️ Cut fossil imports
⛑️ Create new industries and jobs
🍃 Improve air quality
https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8
EVs enable countries to:
🛢️ Cut fossil imports
⛑️ Create new industries and jobs
🍃 Improve air quality
https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8
December 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
NEW | Electric vehicles (EVs) make up OVER A QUARTER of new car sales in 2025 – with many emerging economies moving fast in transport electrification.
EVs enable countries to:
🛢️ Cut fossil imports
⛑️ Create new industries and jobs
🍃 Improve air quality
https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8
EVs enable countries to:
🛢️ Cut fossil imports
⛑️ Create new industries and jobs
🍃 Improve air quality
https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8
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I regret to inform you that this goes damn hard
December 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I regret to inform you that this goes damn hard
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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"Part of Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, a newly restored version of the classic Star Wars (1977) theatrical release — later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope — will play in theaters for a limited time." www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
I AM SAT
I AM SAT
December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Part of Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, a newly restored version of the classic Star Wars (1977) theatrical release — later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope — will play in theaters for a limited time." www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...
I AM SAT
I AM SAT
The second greatest public health advancement in human history saves hundreds of millions of lives
Antivaxxers:
Antivaxxers:
two men are sitting in a car with the words not for me written on the bottom
ALT: two men are sitting in a car with the words not for me written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The second greatest public health advancement in human history saves hundreds of millions of lives
Antivaxxers:
Antivaxxers:
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The first rule of low-turnout special elections is you do NOT talk about low-turnout special elections.
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The first rule of low-turnout special elections is you do NOT talk about low-turnout special elections.
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Republicans worried that steep Medicaid cuts in their big tax bill would shutter rural hospitals. To pass it, they included a $50B rural health care fund.
But a very different group of hospitals will bear the brunt of the law: large urban safety-net hospitals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
But a very different group of hospitals will bear the brunt of the law: large urban safety-net hospitals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Republicans worried that steep Medicaid cuts in their big tax bill would shutter rural hospitals. To pass it, they included a $50B rural health care fund.
But a very different group of hospitals will bear the brunt of the law: large urban safety-net hospitals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
But a very different group of hospitals will bear the brunt of the law: large urban safety-net hospitals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
My friends, I understand the angst and disappointment with the deal. But the messaging attacking Dems isn’t really going to help our goals
The key here is to amplify the healthcare vote for all it’s worth. Make it incredibly painful on the GOP
Then we look to the end of the CR. Step by step
The key here is to amplify the healthcare vote for all it’s worth. Make it incredibly painful on the GOP
Then we look to the end of the CR. Step by step
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My friends, I understand the angst and disappointment with the deal. But the messaging attacking Dems isn’t really going to help our goals
The key here is to amplify the healthcare vote for all it’s worth. Make it incredibly painful on the GOP
Then we look to the end of the CR. Step by step
The key here is to amplify the healthcare vote for all it’s worth. Make it incredibly painful on the GOP
Then we look to the end of the CR. Step by step
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"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
Flight disruptions are hitting. I flew Wednesday no problem. Had a flight cancelled already today
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Flight disruptions are hitting. I flew Wednesday no problem. Had a flight cancelled already today
Is free affordable? Seems affordable. Probably cheaper than gas if I had to guess
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Is free affordable? Seems affordable. Probably cheaper than gas if I had to guess
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What we know so far, 9:30pm
—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins
—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
What we know so far, 9:30pm
—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins
—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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New Yorkers have spoken and voted for change. Congrats Mayor-elect
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
New Yorkers have spoken and voted for change. Congrats Mayor-elect
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
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BREAKING: @padilla.senate.gov will *not* run for California governor in 2026.
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
BREAKING: @padilla.senate.gov will *not* run for California governor in 2026.
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after months of focus on Biden’s autopen pardons:
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
after months of focus on Biden’s autopen pardons:
Good lord. The President is throwing a Great Hatsby party instead of negotiating to end the government shutdown. Troops and TSA aren’t getting paid. People will lose their health insurance
Cut the ads. Get it everywhere
Cut the ads. Get it everywhere
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Good lord. The President is throwing a Great Hatsby party instead of negotiating to end the government shutdown. Troops and TSA aren’t getting paid. People will lose their health insurance
Cut the ads. Get it everywhere
Cut the ads. Get it everywhere
Yikes. Rural areas will get absolutely crushed by healthcare rate increases. I imagine the rural hospital and health systems also take it on the chin with declining enrollment. Bad stuff
Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country
The new prices make it official: Americans will need to pay more for insurance next year if extra subsidies are allowed to expire.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yikes. Rural areas will get absolutely crushed by healthcare rate increases. I imagine the rural hospital and health systems also take it on the chin with declining enrollment. Bad stuff
Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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USDA is legally required to use the contingency funds on SNAP benefits for November.
In July, President Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history.
The reason they aren't planning on providing SNAP benefits is that they don't want to.
In July, President Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history.
The reason they aren't planning on providing SNAP benefits is that they don't want to.
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
USDA is legally required to use the contingency funds on SNAP benefits for November.
In July, President Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history.
The reason they aren't planning on providing SNAP benefits is that they don't want to.
In July, President Trump and Congressional Republicans enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history.
The reason they aren't planning on providing SNAP benefits is that they don't want to.