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Jim Whitney

@jimwhitney.bsky.social
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Fan of our national parks, baseball, dogs, good journalism, West Coast IPAs. Father, husband, biker. Ex JEC, Dem politics. A bit uncertain about the future.

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 15h
Weird play for guy who wants to be Dem nominee for president
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
As FT's reporting makes clear, the sole role played by Kushner and Witkoff throughout this process has been to advocate whatever Putin seeks, while helping themselves to lucrative private commercial deals he offers up. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...
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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Trump suggests Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be replaced after Ukraine’s leader criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 16h
Feels like an investigation of Supreme Court is next
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 16h
Wtf
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump does an incoherent ramble as a confused audience listens in complete silence: "And you know what they're doing? They go straight down, you know, you can make those drill bits talk. You can make 'em sing, you can make them go, they go down."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
Trump is simply mentally ill. And at this point, it's getting extremely dangerous for the entire world. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/d...
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Angry Trump attacks Norway in new tantrum over Nobel Peace Prize: ‘It’s disgraceful’
Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was awarded the prize this year
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21h
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.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 22h
Indeed
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
Trump: “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
“.. Administration officials are discussing whether she should be removed, and a decision is expected by President Trump soon, aides said.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10/10/2026
"I really struggle with calling them 'officers' because they have less training than my nail tech" @cmgreer.bsky.social reacts to the ICE shooting of a man with his child in his car in New York City.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I just feel good knowing that the MSM will cover this in full.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Weird how that works
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
propublica.org
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One in five American families fell behind on a loan or mortgage payment in the past year — up from one in eight in 2022 and the highest since 2007.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
Column by Philip Kennicott: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise to live-stream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will implicate the U.S. military in a spectacle degrading to its reputation worldwide.
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Column | This 1814 painting captures the moral gravity of public executions
As most countries know, dramatizing the absolute power of the state almost always humanizes the condemned.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/10/2026
Today’s GOP has significantly narrowed its definition of its preferred kind of immigrant to one “defined not by people’s education, potential, or ties to the country, but simply by whether they are white and Christian,” @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
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The GOP’s Message to Immigrants
Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One of the greatest outrages. Hard to look forward to Saturday
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Next decade maybe?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
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Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Pretty damning pile of evidence here that GOP Sen. Roger Marshall’s office seems to have been systematically — and illegally, and quite smugly — using taxpayer money to subsidize his campaign www.ms.now/news/roger-m...
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Roger Marshall’s complicated history of blurring the line between taxpayer dollars and campaign cash
In a joint investigation, Kansas Reflector and MS NOW obtained records from Marshall's first Senate run that raise concerns about his use of office resources.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Very good at ending wars is he....
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This week *Trump thx Putin for agreeing to send diesel to US *Chief of staff's daughter pictured with a European official of govt allied w/Putin; her lobbying firm $$$ *Top Trump political operatives reported to have visited/worked for same Putin allied govt/paid $$$ (Just like Manafort in Ukraine.)
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s not a misprint - more Latino voters have cast a ballot already than did at the same point in the 2024 presidential election.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Will you look at that.
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
SCOOP: The top super PAC for Senate Democrats, @majoritypac.bsky.social, is reserving $5 million in ads in the #KSSEN race. This is the group's first foray into the race and shows the party sees a serious chance of winning a red state that once seemed out of reach. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Top Democratic Group Pumps Millions Into Kansas Senate Race (Gift Article)
The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense. After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six of Kansas’ eight living governors are backing Adam Hamilton over Roger Marshall. Two are lifelong Republicans.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy smokes. What on earth is going on here? This is not fact-checking! At best it's poorly-informed nonsense but it feels very much like calculated misinformation. #MEpolitics
PolitiFact tweet: Troy Jackson said that Susan Collins “put people like Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court that took away Roe v. Wade.”

Collins did vote for Kavanaugh but it’s misleading to draw a direct line between Collins and Roe v. Wade’s end.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt just days before unveiling a new space-travel policy. The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by the Trump admin's actions — and led by Elon Musk.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: President Trump has cast doubt on U.S. elections at least once on 440 days of his second term, nearly three-quarters of his days in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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All the Ways Trump Has Attacked Elections In His Second Term (Gift Article)
President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making false claims. Here’s how he does it.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He has really gone all in in Trump 2
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth is at work stirring up ideological divisions in order to deflect from his failures in the Iran War. It's obvious, and we aren't falling for it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bill Kristol on Hegseth's fascist spectacle of violence: “It’s about degrading the people. It’s about desensitizing the public. The military is far better than this. Senior officials should protest, and if necessary resign, rather than being complicit in the voyeuristic degradation of our democracy”
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins voted for a massive increase in ICE funding and now says they need reform. Why didn't she demand that before giving them more $ ? And why is she defending the agency instead of, like Troy Jackson, backing dismantling it and parceling out its legit actions to other agencies? #mepolitics
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do we need daily updates on his wealth status?
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Dave Wasserman (unofficial bot) @redistrict.bluesky.bot · 09/10/2026
A decent way to think about 2026: many of the places that swung the most towards Republicans during the Trump era (Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, south TX, north country of NY) are the places we could see some of the biggest anti-Trump swings.
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Nathaniel Reed (@ReedReports)
👀 NEW Siena poll in NY-21 (Retiring Rep. Elise Stefanik's district): Blake Gendebien (D) 46% Anthony Constantino (R) 42% Undecided 8% Sponsored by local news outlets NBC5 (WPTZ), Times-Union & WAMC, conducted by Siena from Sept 30-Oct 6 among 496 Likely Voters, MOE +/- 4.6%.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026
Crooked Susan Collins took thousands of dollars from a medical company before giving them a $4.5 million contract. This is now her 3rd alleged pay-to-play story in the last 2 weeks. bit.ly/47LYauM
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NEW: Collins Took Campaign Cash From Pharma Executive's Family in Potential Straw Donor Scheme - Maine Democratic Party
Zeteo: Collins <3 Contractor Cash
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Donor claims Kimberly Guilfoyle asked for $100,000 wire in exchange for access to Trump www.cbsnews.com/video/donor-...
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Donor claims Kimberly Guilfoyle asked for $100,000 wire in exchange for access to Trump
A donor is claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle pushed him to wire her $100,000 to cover her American Express bill in exchange for access to the Trump administration. CBS News' Nana-Séntuo Bonsu has more.
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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters Ahead of the Midterms
Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another ICE shooting, in NYC abc7ny.com/post/person-...
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Person shot during interaction with ICE agents in Marble Hill
A person was shot during an interaction with ICE agents in Manhattan on Thursday.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Gas Prices - October 8, 2026: 🚗Regular: Today: $4.36 Month Ago: $4.15 Year Ago: $3.11 🚚Diesel: Today: $6.28 Month Ago: $5.90 Year Ago: $3.68
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