Hearing RFK Jr.'s crazily heavy breathing through the microphone sends such an interesting message about this administration's view of public health.
Ian Koski
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Democratic comms strategist leading Quorum Creative, formerly of the U.S. Senate and the ONE Campaign. Called a "terrible campaign manager" by a candidate we beat by 51 pts. Former GWU prof. Villanova grad. Dad and woodworker.
Ticketmaster sending an email with new terms of service at 6:50 on the Friday night of Labor Day weekend can’t be good.
Super super smart (per usual) by @espiers.bsky.social, per usual on the problem with Democratic media efforts. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
Massive win for Democrats in Utah today.
Ben Winslow@benwinslow.bsky.social · 11mo agoBREAKING NEWS: A judge has THROWN OUT Utah's congressional maps in the League of Women Voter and Mormon Women for Ethical Government's gerrymandering lawsuit against the Utah legislature: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
I wonder how he felt about this idea when it came from Hillary Clinton. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo agoTrump signs an executive order: "If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail."
Is Senator Collins really saying here that because Republicans didn't vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, the Trump Admin shouldn't have to continue executing the law? This is stunning. Especially from a "moderate." Especially from an appropriator. #MEpolitics www.pressherald.com/2025/08/06/m...
Any reporter who publishes future data without noting this obvious pledge by the president to manipulate future data should surrender their press credential. This is insane.
Luke Kawa@ljkawa.bsky.social · last yr.No other way to slice it: this is incredibly fucked up.
Five straight years of Monica Lewinsky jokes didn’t alienate anyone at all
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · last yr.Jay Leno thinks his former fellow late-night show hosts are alienating audiences with their barbs and jabs against the Trump administration.
PPH rewards Susan Collins for her complicity in the withholding of this $$ -- e.g. thru Trump nominee votes -- by slapping her photo next to this article instead of Mills or Pingree who also called for the funds to be released but were not similarly complicit. Absolute propaganda move. #MEpolitics
Maine media: Stop crediting Susan Collins for getting Maine's education funding released. Every state's withheld money was released! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07... #MEpolitics
The Democratic party needs fresh faces and fresh voices. by Rahm Emanuel, James Carville, and David Axelrod
Wow. Puck reports that Susan Collins pulled her amendment to make rescissions smaller after MAGA Senators pressured her, not Democrats like she claimed. Embarrassing but par for the course. Shady Susan liar. #mesen #mepolitics puck.news/collins-back...
Billionaires get cancer too. I hope some step up where Trump has surrendered.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy
Was just texted this completely bananas Maine Senate Democratic Primary poll. It’s not restricted to a single respondent. It would be terrible if people spammed it. bit.ly/me-primary-p... #MEpolitics
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Amazing quote. Payroll in freefall since the World Series? That’s on the Lerners.
Dan Steinberg@dcsportsbog.bsky.social · last yr.“The sun will come up tomorrow,” Mike Rizzo wrote in a text message to Barry Svrluga. “That’s the job. I had a great run. Navigated that ownership group for almost 20 years.” www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Move fast, break things, and cause megadeath. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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She already supported this by voting yes in debate. Even if she casts a symbolic no vote for the actual bill, she gave up opposing it at the only time it would've mattered. #mepolitics
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last yr.Susan Collins tells me her stance hasn’t changed, i.e. still leaning no on the OBBB without revisions. She cites Medicaid cuts and extension of tax rates for upper earners as “two of the most important” concerns she has. “There are going to be a gazillion more amendments tonight.”
Senator Collins has demonstrated again that she no longer knows how (or does not care to) to use the power she has to effect meaningful change in the modern Congress. #MEpolitics
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last yr.Susan Collins voted aye after a conversation with Thune. She said she is leaning against the bill on final passage, but passed up a chance to hold it hostage tonight.
How do you know your senator doesn't care what her constituents think? When the staff assistant doesn't even ask where you live, let alone your name, when you call to urge the senator to vote against the GOP budget bill. #MEpolitics
No joke, Trump has to fire all of them now. They're a sabotage risk to the administration.
To aqui pra procrastinar@euperdendotempo.bsky.social · last yr.I wouldn't want to be a DOGE kid right now
Ignore this Pan-Atlantic poll of Maine gubernatorial candidates. Only 11% of Mainers saying they're unfamiliar with Angust King III (not SENATOR King... his son who's never run for anything) is the way you know it's preposterous. panatlanticresearch.com/omnibus #mepolitics
Canva is a plague. Being able to use Canva is not the same as understanding how to design quality graphics that effectively communicate. Statewide campaigns should not be relying on middling Canva templates for social media content. Work with professionals.
An absolutely abhorrent notion.
James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · last yr.NBC News: "The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya" in exchange for the U.S. releasing to Libya "billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
The plane being a White Elephant gift is the funniest turn this saga could have taken
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · last yr.Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey. Delicious. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
Somehow Villanova graduated me, Peter Doocy, and the new pope. What a world.