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Jon Kelly

@jonkellyyyy.bsky.social
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Tired Suburban Dad / Government Affairs Director / Afghanistan Veteran / Views are my own.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026
it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
“We don’t talk about that out of respect for those officers,” he said. Instead, he spoke broadly of the need to correct for years of “gender and demographic engineering” that he asserted had blunted the effectiveness of U.S. troops on the battlefield.

In a break with protocol, Mr. Hegseth also urged senior Navy officials to include Capt. William Francis Jr., a Navy SEAL who serves as Mr. Hegseth’s special assistant, on the one-star list, current and former Navy officials said. Captain Francis’ lack of command experience made him ineligible for promotion under the board’s rules and he was not selected, officials said.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026
@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran
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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents. Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz. Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91. Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider. Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/10/2025
always worth pointing out that all this fucking bullshit straightforwardly violates the 15th Amendment, which grants sweeping authority to prevent abridging voting rights based on race
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Monster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
it's the hope that kills you
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Live: Pohlad family will not sell Minnesota Twins
Two minority partners will come on but the family, which has owned the team since 1984, has reversed course on its plan to sell.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
brad lander primary chuck schumer
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Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
on top of just being purely blissfully happy there's the incredible spite bonus that every soulless little ghoul who decided to pretend they hadn't ever denounced cuomo is getting absolutely nothing in return
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
They caught that piece of shit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025
On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Dems carry a mental composite in their heads, drawn from stereotype, of the cross-pressured swing-voter, then try not to offend that person. It is a poor method, and sometimes it’s disastrous." Read @brianbeutler.bsky.social on Ds playing footsie w/ Trump tariffs www.offmessage.net/p/how-politi...
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How Politicians Get Their Bad Ideas
It's almost always from people who think they're savvier than the rubes who vote.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/04/2025
Funny how not one of them ran on "making everything at the dollar store twenty bucks - for your future"
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 03/04/2025
Win prob chart from that one Vikings-Colts comeback
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Crawford: I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
What the fuck
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Mannnnn
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025
Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous."
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Tracy Flick be lying
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/03/2025
The US economy will lose out because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Multi-billion-dollar industries like soybean production and research in Illinois have now been effectively cut off thanks to those who know nothing about agriculture.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/03/2025
my most conservative-coded trait these days is that i honestly think that the worst possible thing that can happen for young men is for the entire society to coddle them. what they need to hear is that they have one life to live and they have to take responsibility for it.
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Dear comms staffer who runs @schumer.senate.gov, here’s an easy template for not getting ratio’ed: 1. State the problem. 2. Say why it’s the administration’s fault. 3. Tell us what the Democrats are going to do about it Sen Schumer is a Senator. He shouldn’t be posting like my dad.
Chuck Schumer bsky account quote posting the Atlantic story, captioned: These people are clearly not up for the job.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/03/2025
Well I guess we have to worry less about Elon Musk giving China our war plans when the SecDef will just text them to some guy on Signal
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I cannot listen to people who were born after the millennium talk shit about the Affordable Care Act I really cannot
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands
"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Due process is the very complicated idea that your rights are not determined by the whims of guys like this
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Jim Prosser @jimprosser.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
You know, I'm just a lowly tech comms flack, but there seems to be one faction of Dems being screamed at/in hiding, and one faction pulling crowds like this. Maybe the latter should be in charge?
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
democrats will fight trump in every way except voting against the continuing resolution to fund the government or using unanimous consent objections and other nonsense objections to slow down the senate and delay trump's nominees, their two most powerful tools.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The executive order:
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Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose.
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Man was I ever wrong about this guy.
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
What a joke
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/03/2025
yeah makes sense, he’s the president www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I am a common sense Democrat.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 19/03/2025
Honestly wasn’t prepared for how lost and out of his depth Chuck Schumer is this interview. Doesn’t seem like he’s absorbed any new information since 2007. I don’t know who Senate Democrats’ best option is, but hard for me to imagine it’s this.
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Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
He didn’t screw up, he ran in the other direction.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The woman who only revealed $200K in illicit campaign donations after she started working at the White House says she knows better than the DC Chief Judge who was confirmed unanimously.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Alright fuck it. Who’s launching the democratic version of the Tea Party? I’m in.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’ve long believed that every politician from New York could be replaced by the Wu Tang Clan and nothing tonight has dissuaded me from that viewpoint
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If Schumer votes for cloture and there’s not a leadership challenge the Dems are genuinely cooked. They’re never going to raise another dime from people who understand that this is an emergency.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
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