Jan Walsh
@janwalsh.bsky.social
Retired Legal Asst. from Denver now living east of Lake Ontario. I knit and vote for Democrats. Happily married to L-Dub w/dogs, cats, goats, chickens, ducks, guineas. Three grands. #GoAvsGo #DenverNuggets #DenverBroncos
I try not qt Rupar, as much as I value what he does, because I know so many others will so mine isn't needed, but... this is full on Man in a High Tower stuff. We have gone through the portal and we live in the world in which hitler won.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoSen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists
NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
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Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
Survivors have been on Capitol Hill for months, courageously sharing their stories and demanding accountability. The Senate must listen. Todd Blanche is unfit to serve as our next Attorney General. Every Senator should vote NO.
The MAHA movement are a bunch of bigoted eugenicist cranks who believe food regulations are government overreach, vaccines kill, children with autism should be sterilized for the good of the gene pool, and an issue like a peanut allergy or celiac disease is a sign of evolutionary inferiority.
Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
He should run. He is one of the many Dem prospective candidates that I would be very happy to ultimately vote for.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2d agoButtigieg also mentioned that being a father this time around will factor into his decision.
Abbott’s internals must have him spooked www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/t...
Texas data center projects must stop until state audits them
On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.
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Good framing that starts from the risk. Insurance is the signal. The fundamental problem is climate change causing increased physical risk to housing.
John Vaillant@johnvaillant.bsky.social · 3d agoSenator Whitehouse said it better than anyone: "Climate risk makes things un-insurable. No insurance makes things un-mortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.” #wildfire #Spokane #insurance
In his live video, Max Miller stated that the allegations only stemmed from his ex-wife. Wrong. There are allegations that he: - Threw a girl down the stairs in high school - Was expelled from college for a violent incident involving a female student - Abused his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Grisham
People need to get it through their heads that whatever they *might* have “actually” meant a couple of years ago, when leftists say “AIPAC” or “Israel” NOW they often mean (((Jewish))) just as when MAGA says “DEI” they mean “Black.” If you can’t get that I don’t know what the else to say.
The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers
And @ossoff.bsky.social has been absolutely brutalizing Mike Collins for his ties to neo-Nazis. Just over and over and over. A lesson how to make far right ties a political liability. www.c-span.org/program/camp...
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No. This is a bald faced lie. Trump cut the agency that protects cybersecurity by $700 million and still hasn’t nominated a permanent director for it. Trump is grossly incompetent. He is responsible.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Juicebox Jeanine files a 20-page Motion to Dismiss the case against Davey Hearn that ... claims to have been helpless before DOI told them how Trump's incompetence ruined the pool. Not sure when I've seen this Olympic class ass-covering before. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Tl;dr: Their witness told the grand jury they didn't have a case. And then SOMEONE sent the witness back to lie, and say there surely was proof Davey Hearn did $1,000 of damage.
The Trump admin’s case against Davey Hearn should have never been brought. Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The administration owes Mr. Hearn an apology.
The Trump Administration Owes Davey Hearn an Apology | Democracy Defenders Fund
Statement from Davey Hearn’s co-counsel regarding today’s decision by the U.S. government to dismiss all charges against
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Trump’s self-dealing doesn’t stop at one scandal Courts have already forced accountability & more fights are coming I explained on @ms.now 👇 -TN
Judge gives federal government two weeks to explain incomplete Renee Good shooting evidence
Judge gives federal government two weeks to explain incomplete Renee Good shooting evidence
The order identifies gaps in personnel files, use-of-force policies, witness statements, medical records and video evidence related to the Jan. 7 killing.
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This post not only holds up, but it includes several of Trump's bullshit claims to deflect from his own incompetence. The Reflecting Pool Arrests Are an Attempt to Cover Up Trump's Corruption emptywheel.net/2026/06/21/t...
The Reflecting Pool Arrests Are an Attempt to Cover Up Trump's Corruption - emptywheel
Trump is demanding arrests of people who witness the failure of his reflecting pool project. That distracts from the failure, sure, but it also covers up the corruption behind that failure.
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She’s right, of course, about all of this.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5d agoKamala Harris: I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the electoral college. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.
This is false. It was known immediately through public reporting the job was botched. The indictment was wrongful and vindictive.
Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 5d agoI especially appreciate DOJ's efforts to throw the Interior Department under the bus.
Just to clarify: It’s not more than *I* expected; it’s actually about what I was expecting so far.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d agoWSJ tracks what @charlesgaba.com has been tracking state by state: More people are dropping Obamacare than expected. And it's hurting hospitals. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche, he has now submitted to a federal judge unredacted emails & documents for the court’s review. I walk through the documents & explain how Blanche continues to violate the court order and the Epstein Files Transparency Act. youtu.be/oAEHQXlYWK0?...
🚨 AG Blanche HANDS Judge UNREDACTED Epstein Files In MY LAWSUIT!!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
Colom is good people, a smart and decent man running against a complete MAGA buffoon. First black DA ever in his district. It’s a longshot’s longshot, but if any Democrat could win a Senate race in Mississippi, it’s him.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d agoScoop: Schumer stopped by a fundraiser last night in DC for SCOTT COLOM, Dem Senate candidate in deep-red Mississippi, per two sources. Colom is facing GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. (Fun fact: Colom was nominated by Biden for a federal judgeship and blocked by… Cindy Hyde-Smith.)
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
