Franklin Digito Robovelt 🇺🇸

Franklin Digito Robovelt 🇺🇸

@fdrobovelt.bsky.social

Tried and true classic liberal Democrat. Believe in America. Believe in science. Believe we can disagree and still coexist.

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GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

This is hilarious. I love @timmiller.bsky.social move toward shock jock status... 😆 🤟Trio Bitches!

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

"'She put her finger right between my booty crack, so I grabbed her wrist quick and said, Hold up, slut, ain't nobody sticking nothing in my butt.' You think that's Kid Rock or Bad Bunny?" "Why are you doing this to me?" @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod:

Maybe we beed some kind of political campaign finance laws that separate the president from the congress? Some way of enforcing some kind of independence at the congressional level. IDK, but we need something.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social

Again, it would be good if someone in DC (and at the NYT) demanded to know the legal justification for bombing Iran right now, instead of just treating this as something to be decided by the will of the god emperor,

Let's see AI do *that* 😆

Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

It takes a certain type of person who can effectively take on the mantle of decision making (called leading)...and we Dems largely don't reward that kind of person. We want rule by consensus and buy-in and everyone to "feel seen" and not to hurt feelings. All good, unless you want to get sh*t done

There should be no wrangling. Congress are the People's representatives. They should know.

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

Congress needs to pass a law that no federal employee is allowed to sign an NDA related to the government. We have clearances and classifications if we need information safeguarded.

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Cash flow is stronger than blood flow. Green is the only color the care about.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

I feel like this would be as bad for GOP as Dems? Texas and Florida have plenty of these folks...and that would harm them.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: In a case that could have profound nationwide consequences for elections, the state of Missouri has sued to block the federal government from including undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders in the country’s once-a-decade census count. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

So I really really hate to type this...but I think it matters when these allegations were made. Pretty 2015 and I think they are on more solid ground. Post 2016 and definitely post Epstein becoming an issue these could easily be cranks. Mentioning just the popular suspects (Musk, etc)?

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.

Remember folks, we have a criminal president who has crimed his whole life...so he feels he's been (unfairly) "targeted" by the law his whole life...so he's just doing to his enemies what he's felt has been done to him. Because he can't understand he's a criminal.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.

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finally a good dating app

David Brauer@dbrauer.net

TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”

Bet he did nazi that coming... 😉

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Looks like Greg Bovino is the chosen fall guy as the Trump admin scrambles to navigate the anti-ICE backlash. Reportedly being "forced into retirement" and denied access to his social media accounts. Don't accept it for a second. Keep pushing for full accountability.

Wow

Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Now they should do Kyle Rittenhouse. 😆 I believe they were extolling the virtues of the heroic man coming into the city with an assault weapon to keep the peace.

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have the right to break the law and incite violence."

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Mamdani made a 90 sec. video discussing when and how the roads would be plowed, crediting the workforce that makes it possible, reminding owners they must shovel, reminding trash may be delayed, saying there’d be a decision about school by noon, and telling kids it’s fine to hit him with snowballs.

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One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.

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The regime and many of its supporters are surprised to see so many people in America define "Us" as "my neighbors, my city, my state, my country," rather than as "my race and gender." And they seem to have real trouble processing the idea of taking risks to help others and stand on principle.

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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

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"Just like the killing of Renée Good, Saturday morning’s shooting once again raises the question of why it is so damned difficult to hold federal officers—and the federal government itself—accountable if and when they violate our rights." Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:

stevevladeck.com204. Accountability After MinneapolisA short post explaining (1) why it's so hard to hold federal officers and/or the federal government liable for violating our rights; and (2) how a one-sentence statute could (and *SHOULD*) fix it.

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One thing I’m thinking about today is the hollowness of all the “Don’t Tread on Me” extremists, who turn out to be just far-right extremists. Dems should retake the Gadsden flag. Is there a good blue maker of Gadsden flags that doesn’t support far-right causes?

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having seen it, I found it shocking they shot him while agents were still in contact with him, I'm sure we will get a frame by frame break down but I think they shot him while ICE agents were in the way, these people are out of control and insane.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social

This is the sort of disprovable and fantastical statement that the state produces in a society where the trust relationship between it and the public has been totally shattered. It’s just an attempt to brute force reality

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Replying to @margaret.bsky.social

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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US Senate candidate Michele Tafoya: "If local law enforcement could have assisted in this mission from the beginning, I think we would have a lot more calm, cooperating, and a lot more safe of an environment that what we're seeing right now"

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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

If a liberal government had said this, the media would be flocking to every western diner to talk to the "don't tread on me" dudes and to see every sovereign citizen arm themselves to the teeth...and they'd nod sagely as it being necessary and right.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

DHS (once again) announces conclusion (within 3 hours) without any investigation. - Conclusion about federal agent's intent - Conclusion about individual's intent - Implicit conclusion about timing of disarming the individual and shooting him

I thought everyone flying this flag was proclaiming some principle about freedom and America. ...but I guess not because I haven't heard sh*t from these guys and the federal gov has killed a man for HAVING A GUN. Yo 2A bros where you at!?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

I have a theory that like the fact that most things are empty space yet at our scale we experience solid objects... ...individual experiences and decisions can be nuanced and morally-gray...at a large enough scale there is still good and evil.

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A new survey shows 40%+ of execs say AI saves them 8+ hrs/week while ~2/3 of non-managers say it saves <2 hrs or nothing. This is the second time I’ve seen this split, and it explains the CEO hype vs rank-and-file worker ambivalence. LLMs excel at summaries and email drafts, aka exec busywork.

wsj.comCEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

Respectfully, I wish they would stop with the "grandpa", "insane", etc stuff. Just say "he is unfit to hold the office and needs to be removed." No, "take the keys" stuff.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.

I believe the next President (hopefully a Dem) needs to speak similar to this. They need to help the American people traverse the changes that trump and technology have done to the world. There is no "going back"...so what do we want the future to look like?

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