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Jim Miani

@jjmiani.bsky.social
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Villanova '95, UPenn '98. Computer scientist, dad, outdoorsman, dog lover. Any outdoor sports available. Black Lives Matter.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 9h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 21h
You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know he’s not terribly Quiet but David French is gonna be the template for this type. Even at this late date his distaste for Trump is well outweighed by the idea of not retaining just about everything Trump managed to do, especially via capture of the judiciary.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great piece from @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social on the Redemption-Era evils the Roberts Court has resurrected www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
investigating Elon Musk, subpoenaing him, making him testify under oath, and working toward significant prosecutions should be one of the leading Democrat campaign promises right now not just for DOGE, for a decade of self-driving fraud that has killed more than 60 Americans, and many other crimes
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is maddening that "Russiagate was a BlueAnon feverdream" has become conventional wisdom across much of the political spectrum when the public record all but confirms the maximalist interpretation of Russiagate.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked Florida GOP & Republican National Committee for comment, detailing how Rawson: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist flag -had dozens of white supremacist donors -once wrote "public lynchings worked" They did not respond. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10/09/2026
Sounds familiar. The blue states in the US are safer, pay more in federal taxes than they receive back, have better education, healthcare, jobs, and overall satisfaction than the Republican areas. These are things that Democrats should say more often!
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How is ICE making record arrests? I found the answer in Pa. coal country, where cops lured by a promise of federal $$$ have embraced ICE's 287(g) and are throwing up checkpoints, raiding job sites, arresting 100s, and terrorizing their communities My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Pa.'s Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump's mass deportation, as local cops lured by federal cash bust scores of migrants.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
I would vote for the Democratic candidate in 2028 even if they were running specifically on a platform of persecuting & imprisoning men with the surname Roberts, for utilitarian moral reasons that strike me as both obvious and inarguable.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New midweek update out (first part free). The US might be running out of Patriot interceptors quicker than people realize--and that will matter more than Iran being deprived money. People have their heads in the sand about the real state of US power. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...
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Midweek Update #27: When Will The US Run Out Of Patriot Interceptors?
More And More This Looks Like The End Of An Era; China And Russia Must Be Loving This
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The strategic position of the USA would’ve been immeasurably better if it had not started this ludicrous war with Iran and instead given the Patriot interceptors its wasted to Ukraine, to defend Ukr against Russia. What the USA has done, insanely, is strengthen China and Russia.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
18% interest. 700 lawsuits. 81 arrests. Medical bills should not ruin lives. We must do better than this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
"this republican politician is a total piece of shit" is like a dog bites man story at this point www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good stuff here on how media has been using Sister Souljah gotcha moments against Dems for over 20 years as a "rite of passage" that just isn't applied equivalently to Republicans, no matter how loudly media figures deny it. Dems: Choose not to play.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The challenge as I see it: 1) making sure the election isn’t stolen; 2) cementing this unpopularity not as a unique Trump feature, but as an intrinsic part of the Republican brand. Republicans must be made equal to failure, corruption, incompetence, cruelty, and authoritarianism in the public mind.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Both of my kids have benefited immensely from CHOP — my daughter had surgery for thyroid cancer there, for instance — so I would like to take this moment to tell Senator John Fetterman to go fuck himself
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.
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Denouncing Extremists
One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/09/2026
this pisses me off so much. imagine being a literal child in another country and having the US secretary of defense make fun of you for some fucking reason
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We all feel this but the answer is simple. Article I of the US constitution has completely failed, & the imperial presidency absent a functioning legislature makes us a de facto personalist authoritarian regime on foreign policy. It's the domestic institutions & the oath-swearing cowards in Congress
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest: Kennedy is undermining the #measles response in Pennsylvania by suggesting recent deaths were "fabricated," and his years of lies about vaccines have made it much more difficult to end our ongoing measles outbreaks throughout the country and prevent new ones from happening.
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Opinion | America beat measles once. RFK Jr. is making it harder to do so again.
The U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The synthesis of This Week In Democratic Infighting tells us something important about failures in the art of persuasion. The Democratic leadership is too timid; the insurgent left is too heedless; and the failures widen the trust gap. We need to find a middle way. www.offmessage.net/p/hard-truth...
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The Case For Hard Truths Told Well
The Democratic establishment wants to avoid conflict with the people it’s trying to persuade; the insurgent left wants to beat them over the head with hard truths. We need a path between.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"We have tiptoed around Trump, and antivaxers, and various other false prophets, for fear of offending the sensibilities of their followers. And in all that time, their malign influence on society has only deepened." www.offmessage.net/p/hard-truth...
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The Case For Hard Truths Told Well
The Democratic establishment wants to avoid conflict with the people it’s trying to persuade; the insurgent left wants to beat them over the head with hard truths. We need a path between.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
My whole life, the GOP has been testing the limits of this principle, pushing & pushing, getting shittier & shittier, and nothing breaks the "both sides" model. Nothing. Now we have literal brute fascism being both-sided with ... campaigning with a controversial streamer. Or using pronouns.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Because the behavior of the parties is not symmetrical. If we genuinely brought back shaming of shitty, cruel, deceptive behavior, the shame would overwhelmingly fall on the right, and the whole elite political & media system has shown again & again that it values symmetry over decency.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
for over 3 decades republicans have—*as stated policy*—done everything they can to strangle positive policies & slow the economy under dem presidents, then gone straight to stimulus when they're back in it's just not sustainable for us to always be the party that takes responsibility
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That was me, it was March of 2020, and it’s only gotten more accurate in the last six years
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