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Jonathan Dean

@dean4il.bsky.social
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Survivor, solar entrepreneur, activist, adventurer, lawyer, and very concerned father. Former US Senate candidate (Illinois) in Democratic primary. Democratic leaders need to be effective. lnk.bio/jonathandean

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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 11h
If Sam Alito retires before 2029, the Senate must not confirm a replacement. Period.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reminder that SCOTUS is directly responsible for the political extremism and instability of the past two years because it could have stopped Republican gerrymanders, it refused, and those gerrymanders resulted in Republicans barely winning the House in 2024. SCOTUS must be reformed.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have no idea why it took MLB a whole 4 days to decide that building a baseball stadium in sacred wilderness was a bad idea.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Echoing the recent words of AOC: So many elite institutions have proven themselves to be incubators for sexual predators: - Catholic Church; - Fraternities; - Religious organizations; - Private Schools; - Boy Scouts; and - Collegiate athletic departments.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Predators and perpetrators will always gaslight their victims that there “was nothing wrong” with what happened. They prey upon the victim’s shock and trauma to try to disorient the victim’s memory of the traumatic experience. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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How a Cornell Student Went From Shame to Action
The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s insane that so many US Senators — some of the most powerful people in our country — are so morally weak that all they do is grovel to the worst POTUS in history.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
History will remember Jack Smith standing in the breach to uphold the rule of law, saying “I will not be silenced.”
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What’s going to happen when one of these AiAgents goes rogue and actually causes significant damage to the economy or people’s lives? These Tech bros can’t just be like “oh, sorry, yea, we’ll work on that.” No — this is why we have a government and regulations.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want a country where every Congressional Republican has this look on their face for the next 14 years.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing to remember about Eric Schmitt and Katie Britt is that they planned this out in advance. This plot was hatched, passed several layers of internal review, was approved by Schmitt and Britt and no one caught the obvious mistake. These people are making decisions about our future.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt shouldn’t even be mopping the floors in the Senate.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excusing elected officials who spout outrageous lies as “just politics” is immoral and must end. This attitude keeps clowns in office who don’t take the job seriously and don’t care about our children’s futures. Today, I’m talking about Eric Schmitt.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is a huge POS and doesn’t get nearly as much attention for it as he should.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m excited for Jack Smith to once again give the country a lesson in civics, law, public integrity, decency, and courage under fire this morning. Everything this current government lacks.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Tompkins County DA would not have reopened the criminal investigation without (1) Jane Doe filing her civil case and (2) the resulting public outcry. abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2005, Bush + Cheney were such a threat to American values (eg, torture, breaking laws, ignoring Congress and the courts) that former VP Walter Mondale started teaching about it at University of Minnesota. I took his class.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John D Rockefeller Jr. purposefully bought all of Jackson Hole, just below the Tetons, and donated it to the people so that it would never be developed and always set aside as a National Park. That was back when billionaires were worth a damn. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Real men protect women and children.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What kind of business does Major League Baseball have actively proposing to spoil a sacred national park by building a baseball stadium in it? What is wrong with these people?! Why are so many elites so pathetically desperate for the fleeting attention of a madman?
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Local prosecutors need to toughen up and take difficult sexual assault cases to trial. It’s well known in the legal community that prosecutors will make any excuse to not bring charges against a credibly accused rapist.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Cornell administrators that covered-up this brutal crime should be in jail right next to the rapist-students. The Tompkins County District Attorney needs to reopen the investigation and include the university administrators.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Missouri’s anti-election Republicans are now 0 for 3 — in front of the most extreme SCOTUS ever — in trying to cheat in this election. Can they please now just stfu and move on?
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Woody Woodpecker's Wild Baseball Swing
ALT: Woody Woodpecker's Wild Baseball Swing
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alito, Roberts, and Thomas have all been personally enriched from oil companies. So they should recuse themselves from Suncor v. Boulder County, where they will decide if oil companies can be held liable for climate change. They all have a massive conflict of interest.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Throughout our history, there have been figures that we look back on as heroes of their time. In 2026, that person is Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republican Justices have repeatedly cited to the “Purcell principle” to prevent judicial rulings that make changes to elections too close to elections. Turns out, the Republican justices only apply Purcell to election law changes that would benefit Democrats. They are political hacks.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Palantir’s AI program Maven was responsible for the Pentagon targeting the girls school in Iran and the deaths of 123 children. Humans did not intervene in its targeting analysis because Pete Hegseth had fired or reassigned most the experts responsible for verifying the program’s targeting data.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
SCOTUS reform should have happened after Bush v. Gore. It’s 26 years overdue.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At this point, there is probable cause to investigate whether Jill Stein is a Russian asset.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nobody should be in Washington for as long as Susan Collins has been.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 Last Chance to Comment on the Forest Service’s Travel Proposal. 🚨 This proposal is a pretext to further carve up our sacred spaces with more roads that can be used to build oil wells, data centers, and development that Teddy Roosevelt created these Forests to prevent.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Being “offended” about real journalism right before an election is autocratic and unAmerican. If she doesn’t like accountability, she should just resign.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congress is so broken because every attempt they have made to fix themselves (ie campaign finance reform, Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering ban, etc) has been struck down by SCOTUS. Reforming SCOTUS has to be first on the agenda in 2029. Or else nothing else will survive.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Citizens United is a roadmap for how to do corruption. Just ask Susan Collins. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins’s corruption was made possible by Citizens United. In that opinion, the Republican Court went out of its way to say that pay-to-play political contributions don’t even raise the “appearance of corruption.” So she thought she could get away with this, courtesy of SCOTUS.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sad fact is that we not only have six rogue judges on SCOTUS, but dozens of Trump-loving, rule-of-law-hating judges on the lower courts who continually beclown themselves before lady justice to try to get the attention of Trump and his Republican minions.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica dropped a story this morning about how Susan Collins accepted illegal campaign contributions in exchange for steering defense contracts. It’s their first in a series about corruption in Congress. And I am making another donation — the only folks doing real investigative journalism.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Note to Democrats, Legacy Media, and pretty much all elites: Trump praises and respects Mamdani because Mamdani stands up to him, goes toe-to-toe, and isn’t afraid to tell him he is wrong to his face. It shouldn’t be this hard for you, especially now with Zohran showing you how it’s done.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are shopping local, cancelling subscriptions, refusing to patronize mega corporations, and making sure as much of our money as possible goes to our local small businesses, i.e...our neighbors. I'm sick of being ripped off and sick of my neighbors getting sucked dry by oligarchs.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The most pathetic kind of hookups are when a boss hooks up with a subordinate. It’s like the boss basically saying they just have no self-worth or game or personality or rizz, so they need to abuse their power over their own employees to get sex. www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebe...
rawstory.com
Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment
An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office, in a car and in campaig...
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The two main things you can do tonight to protect public lands: (1) Comment on Proposed Rules and (2) Donate to our environmental NGOs. The lawsuits against the attacks on public lands are flying and that is great news. For example:
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember Monday when the EPA said polluters could pollute as much as they want? Seems like a lifetime ago.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A “Data Center Moratorium” policy is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Democrats to reconnect and reestablish trust with rural voters. Data centers strike against the heart of why people live in the country. No rural voter wants them.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am not going to forget how these psychos tried to blame his death on me and half the country without even taking ***a single day*** to experience real human grief (i.e., feelings) for the loss their friend.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Only loser candidates decline debates.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Joe Rogan slowly realizing how big of a F*** Up he is. It’s not fast enough.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Paramount moving out of California so it doesn’t have to follow California law is peak oligarchy. deadline.com/2026/09/para...
deadline.com
Paramount To Leave California Amid Antitrust Battle & Stalled Warner Bros Merger
Leaks out of David Ellison's inner circle said the CEO wold take his Paramount ball & leave California if state AGs didn't back off on their antitrust suit
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Once they finally add “crash out” to the dictionary, these are going to be the examples. The guy has defined crashing out.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When an agent of a hostile foreign government pays a US citizen hundreds of thousands of dollars, that citizen is an intelligence asset, ie, a spy. This is the situation Don Jr is in. And that is treason.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Department of Justice has traditionally been independent and the attorney general has not, for example “tagged-in” as White House Press Secretary, because Americans need to have faith in the rule of law. But then these clowns came along.
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Jonathan Dean @dean4il.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PSA to all elected Democrats: You don’t need to attack potential supporters of you who identify as Democratic Socialists or Leftists. You can instead just focus on attacking Republicans, only, and grow a spine and fight back when Republicans will inevitably call you as a socialist anyways.
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