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Jim Manley

@jamespmanley.bsky.social
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I got lucky and ended up working in the Senate for 21 years, including 2 majority leaders and one of the greatest legislators in the history of that body. So called “democratic strategist”

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 18m
Hegseth gives U.S. troops a day off to vote, citing a gap in military turnout as Republicans fight to hold Congress on.wsj.com/4dRqzDf
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Hegseth gives U.S. troops a day off to vote, citing a gap in military turnout as Republicans fight to hold Congress
Commanders told to grant a one-day ‘stand down’ so their personnel can vote no later than Oct. 15
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 10m
Not sure what exactly is going on here/ but all I know is that I gave up reading his stuff several years ago. Just awful
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h
FLAG AJC: Georgia's Republican-led State Election Board has sent a letter to top Trump officials (Blanche, Dhillon, Mullin) asking the admin to (1) force changes to the state's voting system before November and (2) investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Georgia board asks Trump administration to investigate voting machines
The State Election Board's executive director, in a letter, asked the Trump administration to examine Georgia's voting machines and prohibit QR-code vote counting.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 20m
Just don’t let leader Jeffries get in your way
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 27m
This corruption must be investigated.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 22m
So of course Ben smith hired him
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1h
Jared Kushner has had it with all you lying liars lying about him having conflicts of interest
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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h
An analysis of voting equipment in Puerto Rico grew into a US federal effort spanning multiple agencies to find proof voting machines were manipulated to flip votes in the 2020 election, Reuters found. The probe ultimately found found no evidence votes were manipulated reut.rs/4hHBkcA
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 1h
Meanwhile, the French school protests have apparently brought the country to its worst days since the French Revolution. Police are being lynched, with their bodies hung from lampposts; 100s of schools destroyed, and white people are being ethnically cleansed. None of this is true.
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France is fighting for its life and has officially entered a Civil War that will soon eclipse the French revolution.
Police officers are being lynched in the streets and hung from light poles.
Any white person who dares to show their face on the street is viciously attacked.
The official death toll is being suppressed, but dead bodies are everywhere.
Thank God for the second amendment in the United States.@TaxwriteoffNft
France is fighting for its life and has officially entered a Civil War that will soon eclipse the French revolution.
Police officers are being lynched in the streets and hung from light poles.
Any white person who dares to show their face on the street is viciously attackedNOW: Mass calls for MARTIAL LAW in France as the nation is being overrun by SAVAGES and migrants who are going so far as to BURN PEOPLE'S FACES in the street, riots breaking out
France is in desperate need of remigration and law and order!
Right-wing MARINE LE PEN must be elected. She is France's last hope!@Geiger_Capital
Incase you don't know, because the mainstream media is ignoring it...
The "new French" have been rioting and looting for days across the country. 100+ schools have been burned down or vandalized. When the firefighters and police show up, they attack them.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 30m
They seized Dublin?
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 50m
“We must assume racist discrimination is not that”
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 46m
They should update his profile picture
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 3h
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 1h
This is the mpls star tribune. It really would be nice if the NYTimes etc write clear, truthful headlines like this
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 1h
Another trip to the grocery store, where I am just amazed that trump republicans can say with a straight face that groceries are going down
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 2h
Tough- but fair
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3h
Russell Vought: Ignoring Congress on Appropriations “ultimately leads to a partisan coalition rather than a bipartisan coalition.” It is not a coalition: an unelected bureaucrat is ignoring Congressional directive on appropriations. That’s all: no legitimacy or democratic coalition involved.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 2h
Bunch of freaking weirdos
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Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 3h
Just to be clear: If this was Joe Biden, Alex Thompson would've already had 18 different stories on Axios, posted 50+ times on X, and done at least 5 hits on CNN.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 2h
Interesting
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 2h
Lock him up
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 3h
I cannot stress enough how important it is to rip his name and every single piece of shitty faux-gold that that racist game show host super-glued to the walls off everything on day one. No fake hand-wringing about it either. Simply ‘This is the peoples’s house not a low-rent gift shop.’
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 2h
🖕🏿
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 6h
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
New in PN: The mendaciousness of the latest DOJ attack on judges "What 'canons' did all but one of MN's district court judges violate? Well, they spoke to the Times and made Trump sad. You won't be surprised to learn this is not in fact a violation, but that isn’t going to stop Blanche, now is it?"
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The mendaciousness of the latest DOJ attack on judges
Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 6h
“The growth of the Premier League’s edge over its rivals from $300 million to almost $3 billion is perhaps the biggest story in global soccer between 2009 and the present. It’s also a story that can’t be told without the biggest fraud in the history of the sport.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
LOL -- Ainsley Earhardt is in disbelief about Fox News polling showing Talarico leading Paxton by 7
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 6h
After having suffered massive voter registration losses in the wake of the last presidential election, Democrats have stemmed the bleeding in several key states heading into this year’s midterms, according to an NBC News Decision Desk analysis.
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Democrats regain ground on voter registration in key states after steep post-2024 drops
An NBC News Decision Desk analysis of voter file data in seven states found that Democrats managed to reverse or slow their registration decline over the past year.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 6h
I repeat bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6h
Really important post by @datahistorian.bsky.social about the Trump Administration's threat (once again) to the census. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-2030-c...
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble
Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 6h
The new Supreme Court term opens with Trump raging at his own appointees while desperately needing their votes in upcoming cases crucial to his agenda, especially on immigration. Looking ahead: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Trump clashes ahead as new Supreme Court term begins
The president has lost major cases and openly criticized the justices, but he still has a winning record at the court, which will consider his immigration policies and more this term.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6h
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Support
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Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 16h
BTW there’s a whole thing today at X where Grok is basically affirming that Jesus is a God, and people celebrating that Grok is based.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h
A room dominated by weirdos and freaks
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16h
How many cases broke bad for Trump in court today? I count a number of them today in this piece, which I hope you’ll take a moment to read. joycevance.substack.com/p/another-ba...
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Another Bad Day in Court for Trump
Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h
Donald Trump is hosting a dinner just for the top buyers of his meme coin. trib.al/11sbHjb
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Trump to Host Dinner Just for Top Buyers of His Crypto Coin
Donald Trump is rewarding people who helped make him rich.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
😳 Trump's hand as photographed moments ago (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)
close up pic of Trump's hand showing disgusting discoloration and skin ailments from his fingers to his wrist
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h
What an arrogant idea
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
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MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h
Just took the lovely Maeve out for an afternoon. She gets agitated by other dogs, but is otherwise the biggest sweetheart you will ever meet. If you’re in the DC area you can adopt her here: bvspca.org/dc
Adorable Rottweiler Maeve
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h
Wonder how much the department of defense spends on pr for this weirdo
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17h
“Medicare Advantage insurers are raising out-of-pocket costs for enrollees, drastically cutting money for dental work & other benefits, & eliminating plans that have broad networks of hospitals and doctors, according to federal data released this week & analyzed by STAT and several investment firms”
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Medicare Advantage plans shift more costs onto seniors in 2027
Premiums are stable, but Medicare Advantage plans are making big changes that could make care more expensive for patients.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h
Medicare Advantage plans shift more costs onto seniors in 2027 www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/m... via @statnews.com
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Medicare Advantage plans shift more costs onto seniors in 2027
Premiums are stable, but Medicare Advantage plans are making big changes that could make care more expensive for patients.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h
My beagle is having a really bad day with this as well. Will have to see the vet tomorrow
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h
He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand
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