Just Jay Ess

Just Jay Ess

@justjayess.bsky.social

PA Tar Heel & lawyer. Here for politics, comedy, travel, cats, Carolina Basketball, and feminism. “Just do your best; it’s the only way to keep that last bit of sanity” - The Avett Bros

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Replying to @donmoyn.bsky.social

If Kennedy’s larger point is that some political cultures are associated with an unfriendly attitude to knowledge that might be slightly more persuasive if he was not a MAGA anti-vax ideologue who is undermining the largest US research center (NIH) as part of a broader assault on higher education

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He'll be fine. His personal hero was also thrown in jail, and used the time to get some writing done.

Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social

Miller deserves everything that's coming. He's afraid of state prosecutors because a presidential pardon only covers federal offenses; and beyond prison, there's also future congressional investigations and civil lawsuits. www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

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Replying to @synyster63.bsky.social

Reporting indicates Biden issued less than a dozen (family, Fauci and six other senior targets of DJT). I see a little difference between pardoning an entire government of hundreds anonymously and a dozen identified political targets.

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Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine just slammed Vivek Ramaswamy for the disgusting ad they're running weaponizing Amy Acton's sexual assault: "The ad is deeply troubling. But when you know the rest of the story, it just makes it more wrong. It's wrong to run this."

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Replying to @atrupar.com

That charmless JD Vance is more bothered with Republicans who noticed that an ad using a lying pedophile-supporter to besmirch the reputuation of Vivek Ramaswamy's opponent is wildly inappropriate than the ad itself tells you that JD Vance is morally bankrupt.

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Deplorable.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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Replying to @ndrew.bsky.social

the whole goddam argument against green energy the last 30 years is that we cant fund it because its not profitable so instead we’re just feeding money into a wood chipper because a couple dumb assholes who got rich by being lucky told us to

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I think if Ohio voters *really* think about what that ad means, they'll conclude that it means Republicans trust the people who defend pedophiles more than they trust the victims of pedophiles.

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Regarding the whole issue of who ordered the slowdown of Starlink in Ukraine: Fuck em both - Trump & Musk. Fuck em both. The bottom line is that both Elon Musk and Donald Trump are actively helping Putin kill Ukrainian civilians. Both Musk and Trump have blood on their hands. Fuck em both.

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Replying to @justinbaragona.bsky.social

Amy Acton's brother blasts Vivek Ramaswamy for using their estranged mother to attack Acton: "This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."

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Elon Musk has spent at least $366 million since July to boost Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. That’s just 0.0385% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

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When the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 came before the Rules Committee, I offered Rep. Meeks’s amendment to block President Trump from waiving Russian sanctions. My Republican colleagues voted against it.

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Donald Trump set another record. There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry. Until now.

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Democrats don’t just need to win, they need to win by margins that make Republican ratfucking ineffective and pundits‘ efforts to downplay a mandate laughable. Pour it on. Do not let up.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Folks, I know it’s easy to get excited about all the polls showing Democrats ahead and feel like this election is a done deal. But we can’t take anything for granted. That’s why I’m urging you to take part in a No Kings early voting event today where you live. https://www.nokings.org/

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America has never had a king. All it’s had was us. Still, some will tell you that showing up on No Kings Day means you hate this country, but they have it exactly backwards. Nobody gets up to march on a Saturday for a country they’ve given up on. You do that for a country you love. (link below)

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Latest: ​Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely.

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Today A tale of two Americas. Millions of Americans gather at local No Kings events to defend democracy. Trump speaks to a few thousand die-hards in KY, then holds court at a "Candlelight Dinner" at Mar-a-Lago with MAGA fat cats seeking favor and favors from the wannabe King.

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Replying to @kristennorthrup.bsky.social

I'd like to see a single ethical or authoritative legal source cited for this proposition. You being an attorney doesnt mean you're not wrong, it juat makes it less acceptable that you are.

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Replying to @gpmiami.bsky.social

If you graduated law school, you're a law school graduate. "Lawyer" and "attorney" are synonyms in the US, and both require admission to the practice of law, whether by passing the bar or via some other path.

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I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

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The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Susan Collins: "I think what happened is far too many ICE officers were hired and deployed without adequate vetting and training"

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Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

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Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Annie Andrews: "The real difference between me and Senator Graham is that I stand up to my own party and I will always put South Carolina first. She seems to believe the job she has right now is to be the White House's ambassador to South Carolina."

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Annie Andrews: "I am deeply sorry for what the Graham family has been through over the past several months…But now we're talking about a full term in the U.S. Senate, and it's nothing personal, but she has shown time and time again that she is not up for the job."

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LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

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Guy who sued his OBGYN patients for unpaid bills as low as $101, charged 18% annual interest and had 81 of his patients arrested for falling behind has a hefty 7-year-old unpaid bakery bill. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

when your campaign is going awesomely

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when you’re too dumb to know you’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"

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Replying to @slotkin.senate.gov

Just as terrorist groups used on-camera executions as propaganda for their cause, this video will be used in recruitment videos by America's enemies for decades to come. It also gives Hasan exactly what he likely wanted when he walked onto Ft. Hood and started shooting.

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Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald Trump.