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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 21h

pay it out of their pensions and I think a lot of problems resolve themselves

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Amazing. Maybe he means the airport, because he’s weird and uncomfortable to be around?

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anything that gets rid of the term of cloture “ripening” is fine by me

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If there was one lesson from political science I wish I could shotgun into the minds of everyone, it might that MONEY DOES NOT BUY ELECTIONS Elections are mainly determined by deep social & economic factors that a few TV & online ads can only affect at the margin.

Half a billion dollars in GOP spending does little to move polls

Republicans’ massive money advantage has yet to reshape the midterm map, as Democrats keep expanding their ambitions.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lucky enough to have seen Yamamoto live in Tokyo at the 2023 WBC and it was like watching DeGrom command-wise.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.

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OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier

OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

UVa football: 30 years of punching myself in the balls

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of five parks still standing where Babe Ruth played (another is in Osaka). Also where Haruki Marakami decided to become a novelist, watching a Swallows game

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perfect novel chapters (rough running list) “How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Kiriath,” Bulgakov, Master and Margarita (I just read this) The last chapter of The Great Gatsby The bar scene in Crime and Punishment The Cat Town chapter in 1Q84 The first chapter in Underworld

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile Avril Haynes becomes the new Carnegie Endowment president.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I made eye contact with Ron Darling in the elevator leaving Nats Park and he looked to the floor wanting no part of me reminding him he lost the only game the Mets dropped to the Dodgers in 1986, the only game that season I attended

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three of these involved at least one major economic depression

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

was talking about this recently with an ex-congressman (an old timer from the 80s and 90s) and one of the remarkable things about this cycle is that trump has given his party absolutely nothing to run on. no bill to tout, no accomplishment to hype, no nothing.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to congratulate Google Maps product team for finding the single dumbest route to memorial bridge from my house two miles away

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why, good sir, are we in the Pentagon parking lot?

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Again, Lyft, but they get out and let you drive

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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

WVU totally out-coached us from there, and your QB made some huge throws. We were befuddled on both sides of the ball. I also wonder if they held Pribula back from running intentionally.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

just want to point out the thumbnail is cropped and the current acting Comptroller General is not a white guy with glasses but an African-American woman who's been at GAO for 30 years.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Even tho GAO is a Leg Branch office, the President nominates its head? Even this President. Not great! Congress should amend the law, then pick a new Comptroller General. Also, why proposed Dem House Caucus rules changes are worse than they seem firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/congress-s...

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Congress Should Appoint the Next GAO Leader

AGI’s letter on Comptroller General appointment; Democratic factions need to push back on proposed caucus rules changes

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

UVa football: 30 years of punching myself in the balls

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also unmatched in American history is the degree to which Johnson as speaker is not just actively participating in the neutering of his own home institution but in fact publicly cheering it on. Thune at least has the good grace to shut up about it.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hope this isn't actual fatalism on the capacity of the legislative branch to do draft and enact regulatory legislation - because it has the ability to do both - and more a cop-out for something they don't want to do in the first place (in which case, vote 'em out).

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For west coasters starting their day, please read and share my newest piece for @atrupar.com Public Notice, this one focusing on MIA Mitch and the need for means to force incapacitated members of Congress to retire: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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Retire in peace

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

WSJ editorial board FOIAs emails showing Sen. Katie Britt’s office privately seeking Trump tariff exemptions for Alabama — while she’s publicly praising the tariffs. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...

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Opinion | One Senator’s Plea for Tariff Breaks

How protectionism works in practice: Public support, but seeking exemptions in private.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Orioles have a bad deal w Alonso. I’m ok w moving on. But this the Mets’ sourpuss reaction to the humanity of their fans, given this insane opportunity to say something for themselves at the stadium, is some story

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve always thought the smattering of boos of Bryce Harper from the Nats crowd paying attention to such things was weird - he wanted to stay, cheap ownership lowballed him. The lesson also is Freeman: if you replace The Man, get someone who is a click below talent, not Jorge fucking Polanco

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Major reporting fail: Christian Scott was a college teammate of Alonso’s. So he’s been Code-pilled. The comp to Darryl Strawberry is there: left to a hated rival for $$$, got mercilessly heckled (even by Bart Simpson) the rest of his career

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s not always the Seinfeld joke about rooting for laundry. I could easily drop 4000 words on this as it’s interesting on so many levels: Mets fandom, analytics v heart, sangfroid modern baseball mgmt, baseball’s “code,” simple human desire to share joy…

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‘Crazy to me’: Mets left stunned after their fans cheer Pete Alonso, 300th career home run (Gift Article)

"I know how fans feel about him. They've made it very clear the last couple of days," a notably terse Andy Green said.

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We have some ideas about how to address that, Mr Speaker

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Nats’ giveaway Expos jerseys today were nicer than what Fanatics sells @mlb.com

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How much did they waste trying to be a Div1 football team?

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Amused, having three cousins who went to NC State, that Norfolk St has gained more yards than the Wolfpack against the UVa defense, who at this point is playing band members

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Peter Jennings as that horrific day unfolded -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K5r...

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Good Morning America 9-11-01 - ABC Network Live as Tragedy Occurred

YouTube video by Mark Davis

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 11/09/2026

The system is still blinking red. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/the-system...

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The System is Still Blinking Red

Twenty-five years after 9/11, time is running out

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Entirely grossed out by this

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh, Dallas, you shine with an evil light

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Consolidating all of our primaries on that date would have a much greater impact on voter turnout than any other rule change” Stop funding primary election reform already!

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Demolished house, NIMBY sign, In This House sign - Arlington in toto

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Chris Nehls @nehls.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Liars deserve the career Animal Collective’s had

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