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Jared

@unofficialjared.bsky.social
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ATL policy analyst. Civic consequentialist focused on turning good ideas into real, net-positive outcomes. Governance, strategy, execution. MBA, MPA, PMP, RP.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h
Holy shit.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WashPost: Taxpayer funded Trump political ads seen by many as illegal draw on government cash that was in part devoted to "memorials for officers killed in the line of duty."
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Jared @unofficialjared.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two GOATs in conversation
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In Conversation with Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny, Trump, and the Midterms
Watch now (36 mins) | What the author of “On Tyranny” told me about Trump, Tyranny, and the Midterm elections, five weeks from today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guess what I'm saying is that AI may turn some of our students into Gollums, & others into Sam Gamgees
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New polling! We can get so inured to the current political landscape that it's worth remembering that, while Trump was also unpopular in 2018, the economic backdrop looked *very* different www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“So much of what we’re living through right now ... feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of ‘we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes,’” writes @vermontgmg.bsky.social.
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It's the accountability, stupid.
Doing crime
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Venezuelan oil is unusable sludge. The Greenland deal is NOT new. The Strait of Hormuz is CLOSED. Belarus says they've no potash to sell. China isn't buying soybeans they said they would. Saudi Arabia is under attack, Trump sitting it out. He is a distrusted deceitful disaster, despised globally.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you believe that gas and diesel prices are high in late September 2026 because of Biden and Zelenskyy, then you might be a Trump supporter. And a moron. Which is pretty much the same thing.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
November needs to be a Blue Wave so big, so huge, that it reaches into territories beyond the blue and purple, so that it can reasonably be characterized as a voter revolt.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not just weird; it’s delusional. HE. IS. PSYCHOTIC. If your grandpa said things like this, you’d take him in for a full neuropsychiatric workup. And it’s time the media starts interviewing psychiatrists and psychologists to talk about it. DO. YOUR. JOBS.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's been three days since he said this, but I think it deserves an encore: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” And this guy is in charge of the world's largest economy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/09/2026
Joe Manchin remains an enormous piece of shit.
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Opinion | Why Joe Manchin’s endorsement of Susan Collins is so infuriating
Does the former West Virginia senator really believe his old colleague will transform from credulous to courageous?
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
National security expert here, and speaking strictly personally, what the f#ck???
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It appears that Trump’s claim last week that he negotiated a deal between Putin and Zelenskyy to stop bombing energy infrastructure was just another lie to manipulate markets. Every hour of every day, Trump lies about everything.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ask and ye shall receive
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Macklemore thing is more proof that pro-Israel activists have just lost the ability to persuade. All it can do is browbeat anyone opposed to them. That doesn't work when you're -25 in public opinion.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The goal of this new right-aligned polling effort is to make it appear that Senate is slipping away from us. That our candidates are weakening, theirs strengthening. That's there no reason to invest and fight - all is lost. I talk more about all this 👇4/ www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/fake-polls...
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Fake Polls, “Demoralization Operations,” And The 2026 Elections - A New Conversation With Tom Bonier
In elections across the country Republicans have repeatedly “flooded the zone” with favorable polls. With Trump’s new social media post it appears they are intent to do it again
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 14/09/2026
Trump stooges contend that, because Trump put the Kennedy Center into a financial crisis by slapping his name on the Kennedy Center, Trump's name must be slapped on the Kennedy Center to save it from a financial crisis.
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Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show
Officials said the center is facing “certain fiscal collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026
Ohio
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Jared @unofficialjared.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Watching Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and the only thing I know for sure is that every single ape in this movie is dying of tetanus.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Terrific analysis from @davidkurtz.bsky.social: "Trump just wants indictments. More than anything else, Trump is eager to stain his foes with indictments. What about actual convictions? That would be icing, but they are almost beside the point." morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/10-thought...
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10 Thoughts on the Abrupt Resignation of Joe diGenova
INSIDE: Joseph diGenova ... Todd Blanche ... Donald Trump
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There should be wall to wall coverage of a sitting US Senator preaching lies about his political opposition to his audience whom chant back in refrain “He should be shot.” And just factually none of these Democrats listed said any of this stuff.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Although I don't think there is currently any viable theory for Trump's $5k promise being criminal, it got me thinking whether he would have de facto immunity under Trump v. US if it was a crime. The promise itself is not an "official act." But the check would be.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the specific insanity of “what if i started a perpetually-escalating trade war with Canada two months before control of the senate is determined by voters in Maine and Michigan” is under-discussed here, just wild how unmoored from public opinion concerns the Trump admin has gotten
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hell yeah, I wanted random things to be more expensive solely to prolong our inevitable loss in an inexcusable and inexplicable pissing match with a longtime ally and trading partner that abided by the trade agreement Trump signed with them.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes, three separate warnings dismissed: Egyptian intelligence, the leader of the UAE, and a group of female Israeli soldiers who monitored activity in Gaza. All shrugged off as a distraction from Bibi’s efforts to deepen control of the West Bank. Worst intelligence failure ever. Leadership’s fault.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sunday reading - on a day that could mark a caesura in German post-war history: Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism In the fight against the far-right AfD, Germany must avoid the mistakes that have sabotaged the democratic response to rightwing extremism in the United States.
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Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism
Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is genocidal rhetoric from the president of the United States. Trump explicitly stated that if Dems win the midterms, “Transgender will never end.” The stated goal of the president of the United States and his party is to make transgender people “end.”
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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is the standard union-busting trope, “Our workplace is a family and a union would disrupt that.” A few words are swapped tomake it about mentorship, but that’s it. And as a former unionized grad student who now supervises unionized grad workers, let me state the obvious: It’s nonsense.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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