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Jason
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@bjason.bsky.social
• Pro-democracy • Thinks everything is interesting! • Uses `•` a lot. Coming into my replies like an all-or-nothing malcontent gets you blocked — nobody sane has time for that bullshit.
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Burning leadership down, in the *hope* that someone better will magically emerge, is asinine. • Labour voters have the best PM they can get at the moment, in that Starmer is chastened & *eager* to win over voters. • Contact your MP; convey what you want of Starmer in exchange for his career.
As I wrote this morning, Catherine West freelancing, coupled with the thumping defeats Labour suffered last week, shifted a quite a lot of MPs from 'if we wait, maybe a better alternative to Keir Starmer will emerge' to 'the only way for something better to emerge is to seize the moment':
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Naw… WH *economic advisors* are giving Pentagon timelines? From the article: "Kevin Hassett, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, offered the timeline along with a caveat that the ultimate decision on when the war will conclude lies with Trump." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
WH toadies tasked with saving Trump's face made this "Sasquatch is in over his head & needs everyone else to bail him out" masterpiece. • "100% defeated/decapitated," & simultaneously a persistent threat • "Artificial," and authentic. • Doesn't know how to make it happen, but it'll happen "soon".
* TRUMP: HOPEFULLY CHINA, FRANCE, JAPAN, S.KOREA, WILL SEND SHIPS @bloomberg.com
WH toadies tasked with saving Trump's face made this "Sasquatch is in over his head & needs everyone else to bail him out" masterpiece. • "100% defeated/decapitated," but still a persistent threat • "Artificial" & yet really real. • Doesn't know how it'll happen, but it'll happen "soon". 🤦♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏾♂️
* TRUMP: HOPEFULLY CHINA, FRANCE, JAPAN, S.KOREA, WILL SEND SHIPS @bloomberg.com
As kids it was: "screenshots or it didn't happen;" now it's "video from multiple angles or you're a `domestic terrorist’."
BBC New's BBC Verify with Ros Atkins Prove that President Trump and Kristi Noem lied When they both claimed that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist As the video evidence which they present, shows otherwise
"Informing Congress would've screwed with our plans," is not a state-of-affairs that US citizens ought to tolerate between their (ostensibly) co-equal executive & legislative branches of federal government. • Check/Update your Voter Registration • Vote Early this October!
RUBIO: "It's just not the kind of mission that you can pre-notify because it endangers the mission." TRUMP: "If I can add one thing to that. Congress has a tendency to leak. This would not be good."
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Greg Stanton Edited on Saturday, Jan 03, 2026 at 18:18 EST #GregStanton #Congress #Wikipedia
Ontario to Pause Anti-Tariff Ad Campaign After Trump’s Ire www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Does anyone know who is *actually* giving direction at the Executive Branch these days? I know it's not this nutbag — he's just there for the cameras, and the nearby sycophants don't have the chops. Who's really giving the orders?
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus? TRUMP: Suspending who? Q: Habeas corpus TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
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JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
@democrats.org Please consider framing the latest GOP bs in the following manner: "Instead of restoring the healthcare guarantees that their Big Beautiful Betrayal law took away, Republicans shut-down government and *now suddenly* want also to get rid of the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act‼️
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Trump's Environmental Protection Agency political appointees have instructed its Office of Water to stop informing the public of its findings. 🎁 Gift article: wapo.st/3VrOcca
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Universities must teach students how to listen across lines of difference, Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock argues. Otherwise, "young people risk becoming more isolated, more easily manipulated, and less prepared to lead in a pluralistic democracy."
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Re: hyper consolidation — it would be in Disney's best interests to spin-off each of its subsidiaries (ABC, FOX, Marvel, ESPN + Hulu) into their own entities in exchange for shares with no power over operations & a binding veto on mergers/buy-outs. A corporate footprint is an attack surface now.
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Important: Gavin Newsom just announced that California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington State released unified west coast vaccine recommendations expressly designed to counterprogram Trump/RFK's destruction of our public health system. This will gain momentum in blue states (see thread below).
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
🎁 Gift Link: Tesla Engineer Says He’s Quitting Over Musk’s Leadership www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"All your content are belong to AI" www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Answer: Defense Undersecretary Elbridge Colby (overtly anti-Ukraine) urged Hegseth to withhold weapons shipments toward mitigating (alleged) US supply shortages. Hegseth authorized that move (allegedly) without running it by the White House.
COLLINS: Did you approve of the pause of weapons shipments to Ukraine? TRUMP: We want to put defensive weapons because Putin is not treating human beings right COLLINS: So who ordered the pause? TRUMP: I don't know. Why don't you tell me?
Lo-Fi artists/copyright-holders maybe oughta check if the White House is abusing their IP… again. www.youtube.com/live/F8KNyQK...
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Replying to @stevenmazie.bsky.social
Unless the lower courts can effectively get an alternative approach together in the next 30 days, which is not at all out of the question. Deciding that "complete relief" for the state plaintiffs means blocking the EO nationwide would be a pathway to avoid the patchwork in the interim.
Trump said farmers have told him that some employees, while not citizens, “turned out to be, you know, great, and we’re gonna have to do something about that.” 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Vows to Shield Farmers From Deportations That Are Depleting Workforce www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump said farmers have told him that some employees, while not citizens, “turned out to be, you know, great, and we’re gonna have to do something about that.” 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Vows to Shield Farmers From Deportations That Are Depleting Workforce www.bloomberg.com/news/article...