Jonathan Dean
@dean4il.bsky.social
Survivor, solar entrepreneur, activist, adventurer, lawyer, and very concerned father. Former US Senate candidate (Illinois) in Democratic primary. Democratic leaders need to be effective. https://lnk.bio/jonathandean
Not only do we need to abolish ICE but we need to strip their immunity retroactively. People need to know that following orders to terrorize families will never, ever be tolerated in America again.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h agoWitnesses captured the moment NYPD officers rushed to the scene of a shooting involving federal goons in the Bronx this afternoon. Officers ran to the scene and carried a man into the back of a car to transport him to the hospital.
Translation: He is going to majorly shock the world energy market immediately after the election.
Our government is now paying Middle East allies $5B (of our money) to enhance their energy infrastructure to adapt to a world where the Strait of Hormuz is no longer consistently open. This is an acknowledgment of a humiliating loss to Iran.
Thom Tillis, Bill Cassiday, and John Cornyn had moments of clarity where they had a spine once or twice. And yet after getting railroaded for it, they still can’t bring themselves to do the right thing. And these guys are supposed to be….”the good ones?”
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2d agoThom Tillis voted to confirm these people. Now he wants credit for telling us how terrible they are. And oh so conveniently, Thom Tillis has a new book to sell. Spare us.
Narrator: Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants because the Supreme Court told him he could while shielding him from criminal prosecution.
The Cat Knows -- Fvck Trump & MAGA 💙🌊🇺🇦@hissyseesall.bsky.social · yesterdayThis really reads like a satire or an Onion piece, but it's reality...🙄😬 www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Susan Collins proved last night that she is a prototypical creature of Washington who can’t bring herself to retire because she doesn’t want to have to think about all the wreckage she has caused.
🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 2d agoSusan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks.
Corporate capture of the political system halts innovation and leads to low growth. It entrenches elite corporate interests, keeps wealth locked at the top, and smothers risk-taking, job creation, and small business. And then the economy suffers.
Yesterday SCOTUS heard arguments on whether we can sue oil companies for climate change. We all know they are responsible; and so do they. That’s why they rushed to their “Big Daddy” Supreme Court to try to argue they are not.
Sam Altman is the most inept, incapable, foot-in-mouth spokesperson for his own industry in the history of business. He should continue his public statements as often as possible.
Politico@politico.com · 4d agoSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI politi.co/4rJE8dI
Today is the first day of the new Supreme Court term. And as this Court has done in years past, they will once again seek to mainstream conservative fantasies into law, including: - establishing a 2A right to AR15s - saying we can’t sue oil companies for climate change
The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to continue on its current trajectory and still expect Americans to have faith in the rule of law.
The Constitution is clear that Congress can to regulate the Court, including its size and jurisdiction. Statements like this reflect how the Court has been acting — that it is above the Constituion rather than within it. He is a living embodiment of the problems with lifetime appointments.
Reminder that SCOTUS is directly responsible for the political extremism and instability of the past two years because it could have stopped Republican gerrymanders, it refused, and those gerrymanders resulted in Republicans barely winning the House in 2024. SCOTUS must be reformed.
I have no idea why it took MLB a whole 4 days to decide that building a baseball stadium in sacred wilderness was a bad idea.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 7d agoAmazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
Echoing the recent words of AOC: So many elite institutions have proven themselves to be incubators for sexual predators: - Catholic Church; - Fraternities; - Religious organizations; - Private Schools; - Boy Scouts; and - Collegiate athletic departments.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2w agoAOC goes to Ithaca and denounces rape culture: www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
Predators and perpetrators will always gaslight their victims that there “was nothing wrong” with what happened. They prey upon the victim’s shock and trauma to try to disorient the victim’s memory of the traumatic experience. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
How a Cornell Student Went From Shame to Action
The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”
nytimes.com
It’s insane that so many US Senators — some of the most powerful people in our country — are so morally weak that all they do is grovel to the worst POTUS in history.
Politico@politico.com · last wk.Sen. Eric Schmitt expressed no remorse for falsely accusing Jack Smith of lying to Congress about attending a basketball game as a guise to investigate Trump. “He has lied before to Congress,” the Missouri Republican said.
History will remember Jack Smith standing in the breach to uphold the rule of law, saying “I will not be silenced.”
What’s going to happen when one of these AiAgents goes rogue and actually causes significant damage to the economy or people’s lives? These Tech bros can’t just be like “oh, sorry, yea, we’ll work on that.” No — this is why we have a government and regulations.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump on AI: "I think I'm seeing tremendous self-policing"
I want a country where every Congressional Republican has this look on their face for the next 14 years.
The thing to remember about Eric Schmitt and Katie Britt is that they planned this out in advance. This plot was hatched, passed several layers of internal review, was approved by Schmitt and Britt and no one caught the obvious mistake. These people are making decisions about our future.
Eric Schmitt shouldn’t even be mopping the floors in the Senate.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.🤡 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:
Excusing elected officials who spout outrageous lies as “just politics” is immoral and must end. This attitude keeps clowns in office who don’t take the job seriously and don’t care about our children’s futures. Today, I’m talking about Eric Schmitt.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
Eric Schmitt is a huge POS and doesn’t get nearly as much attention for it as he should.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
I’m excited for Jack Smith to once again give the country a lesson in civics, law, public integrity, decency, and courage under fire this morning. Everything this current government lacks.
MS NOW@ms.now · last wk.SOON: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate on his investigations into President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. FOLLOW ALONG HERE: www.ms.now/liveblog/jac... WATCH HERE: youtube.com/live/H69_OqF...
The Tompkins County DA would not have reopened the criminal investigation without (1) Jane Doe filing her civil case and (2) the resulting public outcry. abcnews.com/US/district-...
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
abcnews.com
In 2005, Bush + Cheney were such a threat to American values (eg, torture, breaking laws, ignoring Congress and the courts) that former VP Walter Mondale started teaching about it at University of Minnesota. I took his class.
John D Rockefeller Jr. purposefully bought all of Jackson Hole, just below the Tetons, and donated it to the people so that it would never be developed and always set aside as a National Park. That was back when billionaires were worth a damn. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
washingtonpost.com
