Reposted by Jon Kellyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026it 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... 553402701
Reposted by Jon KellyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep 134119691748
Reposted by Jon KellyAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran 287111331682
Reposted by Jon KellyMonster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026How 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. 84863179
Reposted by Jon Kellyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/10/2025always 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 315846
Reposted by Jon KellyMonster Mash (10 Minute Version) @randballsstu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025it's the hope that kills youstartribune.comLive: Pohlad family will not sell Minnesota TwinsTwo minority partners will come on but the family, which has owned the team since 1984, has reversed course on its plan to sell. 913022
Reposted by Jon KellyDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years 5746871143
Reposted by Jon Kellymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025brad lander primary chuck schumer 11093471595
Reposted by Jon KellyAshley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025on 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 223503428
Reposted by Jon KellyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025On 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. 673135173442
Reposted by Jon KellyGreg 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...offmessage.netHow Politicians Get Their Bad IdeasIt's almost always from people who think they're savvier than the rubes who vote. 1728378
Reposted by Jon KellyHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/04/2025Funny how not one of them ran on "making everything at the dollar store twenty bucks - for your future" 69312
Reposted by Jon KellyRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We 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 146232197077
Reposted by Jon KellyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want. 301107492601
Reposted by Jon KellyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Crawford: I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won. 126110621868
Reposted by Jon KellyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025Booker: "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.'" 13567442915438
Reposted by Jon KellyKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE 4371341637
Reposted by Jon KellyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025Castro: "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." 629270446527
Reposted by Jon KellyKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Tracy Flick be lying 1418121381655
Reposted by Jon KellyGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/03/2025The 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. 241504282
Reposted by Jon Kellyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/03/2025my 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. 264101181422
Reposted by Jon KellyRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Dear 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. 314421
Reposted by Jon KellyBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/03/2025Well 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 324640
Reposted by Jon KellyAmber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I cannot listen to people who were born after the millennium talk shit about the Affordable Care Act I really cannot 872360234
Reposted by Jon KellyTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands 11164701271
Reposted by Jon KellyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Due process is the very complicated idea that your rights are not determined by the whims of guys like this 1093539543
Reposted by Jon KellyJim Prosser @jimprosser.bsky.social · 23/03/2025You 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? 9783791320
Reposted by Jon KellyMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/03/2025democrats 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. 2558265
Reposted by Jon KellyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The executive order:whitehouse.govStopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information SilosBy 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. 8302121
Reposted by Jon Kellyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/03/2025yeah makes sense, he’s the president www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...nytimes.comMusk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With ChinaGiving 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. 2024422630
Reposted by Jon KellyJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 19/03/2025Honestly 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. 2053903591
Jon Kelly @jonkellyyyy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025He didn’t screw up, he ran in the other direction. 010
Reposted by Jon Kellyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025The 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. 1251896466
Reposted by Jon KellyDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Alright fuck it. Who’s launching the democratic version of the Tea Party? I’m in. 3004599638
Reposted by Jon KellyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I’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 3387399
Reposted by Jon KellyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/03/2025If 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. 391572278
Reposted by Jon KellyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you. 22099437116521
Reposted by Jon KellyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I 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. 491413099224232
Reposted by Jon KellyBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire. 442399697