Jeffrey Roy

Jeffrey Roy

@jeffroy4.bsky.social

Basketball, Democracy Reform, & Empathy

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I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done. We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. So we asked, Could reporters do it?

propublica.orgAlmost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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Todd Blanche doesn't believe in the rule of law. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don't care. www.lawdork.com/p/blanche-co...

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: The nomination of Trump's former personal lawyer to be Attorney General just advanced to the full Senate. Judiciary Republicans caved: All 12 Republicans voted in favor of Todd Blanche. All 10 Democrats voted against.

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The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Constitution Is On Life SupportFour justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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He’s describing what US vehicles are doing right now. Congress refuses to ban it because the US government is actively buying that data. Americans don’t give a shit about the Chinese tracking their cars.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Bernie Moreno: "Our bill completely hermetically seals the United States from any Chinese automobiles. I call it taking anti-cancer medication. That's what these Chinese cars are."

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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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My big news: I've left The Athletic because they wanted me to stop covering the Twins. I refused to give up my dream, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots. I need your support to make it work. Join me and let's do this together: www.aarongleeman.com/welcome-to-t...

aarongleeman.comWelcome to the new AaronGleeman.com (and why I left The Athletic)I refuse to stop covering the Twins, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots. Let's do this together.

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We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Virginia supreme court's inexplicable ruling against the will of voters on redistricting dramatically raises the urgency for Dems to redistrict in other states before 2028. The stakes in state legislative races this cycle just got more urgent. My piece on that here: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

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Hello from Minneapolis.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rubio: "You've got friends who have been shot in the head because they're out protesting, and it's heartbreaking to him to see these people are abused in this way and have no measures to take against their own government as a result of it. This is a vicious regime."

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They are breaking the law and overturning the Constitution in an attempt to protect their power, with the overarching goal of ending democracy and enslaving us

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

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Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

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My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

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Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social

Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"

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“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

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no one in a position of power, in or out of government, really wants to deal with the fact that we have a demented chief executive, because if they acknowledged that, they'd feel obligated to do something about it and they don't want to risk their own careers or status doing something about it

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Every day, Donald Trump, John Roberts, John Thune, and Mike Johnson prove themselves again as having failed our nation — and the world.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

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NEW VIDEO: Every sports fan has heard it. "Sources say..." But what does that actually mean? I talked to Jeff Passan -- one of the most trusted insiders in sports -- to break down how reporting really works -- and why it can be so confusing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_EX...

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Tyranny. Intolerable. Theft of our own tax dollars in order to force us to pay more for energy.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president's administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge -- using tax dollars to punish people who didn't vote for his party.

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Wind bouncing back?

Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social

☀️ Solar capacity deployment reached a record 647 GW, up 11% year-on-year 🍃 Wind capacity additions jumped 47%, to 167 GW in 2025 Yes, we are in yet ANOTHER fossil energy crisis, but this time we have the tools and the scale to escape the fossil fuel reliance for good.

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ICE is trafficking people who aren’t from there to a tiny landlocked absolute monarchy on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique.

ICE Flight Monitor@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social

An ICE air deportation flight on a small jet landed last night in Eswatini around 11pm ET. This marks the third deportation flight to Eswatini carrying third country nationals. It originated in Phoenix, AZ

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

reuters.comU.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zoneA U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

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It would be nice if statements by members of Congress on the U.S. attack on Iran started with something like: “This attack is an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s war powers.”

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Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

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if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

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When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Karen Benjamin Guzzo@karenguzzo.bsky.social

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

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Seems bad that it's about 1000x easier to impersonate law enforcement, without local police batting an eye, than it was last year when a guy using the tactic went on an assassination spree.