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Jon Pessah

@jyp52.bsky.social
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Author of NYT best-seller "The GAME" and "YOGI: The Man Behind the Mask," ESPN Magazine alum, journalist, husband to the love of my life, grandfather, member of Indivisible, firm believer in leaving America better than we found it.

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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
As long as this administration is allowed to run unchecked—mostly, but not only, by Republican politicians and voters—we will continue to have a secret police force in America. Is this what The Greatest Generation and others who battled fascism gave their lives to protect?
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A few WNBA players, NBA coach Steve Kerr, one NFL player and a few others have stood up and used their platform to decry the killings and brutality of ICE in Minneapolis and other American cities. What a pathetic response from the world of sports.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Why are we trusting Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Theil and other billionaire with our collective future? Have we learned nothing from the first year of Trump 2.0?
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Good answer anywhere in America.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 15/12/2025
In a world where fewer and fewer people concern themselves with the plight of others, the loss of Rob Reiner, who cared deeply about humanitarian causes, feels that much more devastating. RIP: 1947-1925. [Selfie: July 2022, NYC]
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Habba had one qualification: fealty to Donald Trump. Good riddance. Sadly, I don't think we should expect someone any better qualified.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Habba had one qualification: fealty to Donald Trump. Good riddance. Sadly, I don't think we should expect someone any better qualified.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/12/2025
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too? A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The NYT: "A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme" We're now in double digits in the number of people Trump has pardoned who are heading back to prison for committing new crimes. Who could have predicted that?
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
What is the over/under for the number of days until Ms. Bondi is disbarred?
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Thanks for refusing to back down and to keep on speaking out about corruption, unlawful acts, and Trump's transparent attempt to be come a dictator. But leaders can't do it alone—this will take all of us speaking out to save our country. #Resist #TheResistance #Trump
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/11/2025
Name them.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Shaheen is completely out of touch with politics in the Era of Trump. Just as Democrats finally seemed to be getting off the matt, she and the other seven Senators who voted to end the shutdown without getting anything in return cut the legs right from under her party. Congratulations, Senator.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Arrogance = Ignorance. She has been working on this since at least the second week of the shutdown.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is how Trump celebrating Democrats caving on the budget deal: x.com/kyledcheney/...
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Kyle Cheney on X: "BREAKING: President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and dozens of false GOP electors and other key figures involved in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, per pardon attorney Ed Martin >>>" / X
BREAKING: President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and dozens of false GOP electors and other key figures involved in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, per pardon attorney Ed Martin >>>
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Simply, no.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thye are disgraceful
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Can't we all finally agreed that Republicans will never offer a healthcare plan that helps anyone but their donors? Come on, this is just common sense, isn't it?
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Feels like we passed this point months ago.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
While the Trump DOJ fights to stop paying SNAP benefit and end health insurance for millions, the super rich are getting even more tax breaks that we knew. Are all those who voted for Trump and Republican winning yet? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Just freaking it do, don't muse about it! Take some action! We've all been holding our breath—for a long time—for you to actually do something instead of compromising away our future. #Resist #Resistance #Lockout #TrumpShutdown #Senate #Trump
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What he said: 💯 🎯
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
anyone surprised?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We all know Johnson takes his marching orders from Trump. Does Trump have ANY incentive to cut a deal with Democrats to re-open the government? Hell, since opening the government will inevitably lead to a vote on releasing the Epstein Files, Trump must be pulling for Senate Dems to hold fast.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Can't wait for my wife and I to get our $200 checks, too.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Republicans have decided not to feed Americans in need of food assistance. Do not let them tell us otherwise. They refuse to use emergency funds to feed children, women, and men. This is today's MAGA Republican. Talk about this with your family and friends, because the corporate media will not #SNAP
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Spot on.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/10/2025
people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/10/2025
Pritzker on Fox: "He's challenging the integrity of the next election by sending troops into our cities. It isn't about fighting crime. He said he's going after the worst of the worst. That's not what they're doing. They are literally after black and brown people because of the color of their skin."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If Mr. Art of the Deal really wanted to end the shutdown and cared about federal workers, programs and services, he would be negotiating instead of building a ballroom. And if he’s too busy with the ballroom, he could allow Thune to do it since Mike Johnson is a useless fool.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ronny Jackson is a joke.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A Sure Bet: Flunky Mike Johnson will allow the Epstein Files to be released before the Republicans ever let Jack Smith testify. #JackSmith #Resist #EpsteinFiles #Trump
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/10/2025
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is revolting.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Then when did Thune vote to confirm RFK as head of Heath and Human Servicse? What a disgrace. And this is the Senate Majority Leader? The Republican Party is both corrupt and immoral. #RFK #Resist
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
SCOTUS is going gut the rest of the VRA. Done deal. And honestly, I'm tired of watching legacy media treat this Court separate from the authoritarian takeover. The've laid the foundation for this moment, gutting the VRA, granting corporation rights w/Citizen United. We're in the end game now
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
As a participant in the No. Kings march on Oct. 18, I feel my government just put a target on my back. This as not an accident—it was intentional. An attempt to intimidate? This will not stop my wife and I. A call to action to right wing extremists? I pray we have not yet reach that stage.
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This is a significant escalation in this regime's declaration of war against the American people. If this does not light everyone's hair on fire, nothing will. The clock is ticking loudly on Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. #NoKings #Resist #Resistance
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YouKnowRightFromWrong 💙🇺🇸 🫘 @gizmoshorty.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
@secnoem.govpeeps.us this was last night in Portland. No fires in sight or wars in progress unless you count the one you & your fascist regime have BROUGHT to PDX, allowing ICE to target & brutalize peaceful, lawful citizens, shooting pepper bullets at priests who are standing up for your “enemies.”
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Jon Pessah @jyp52.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This "man of God" is na absolute disgrace.
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