Tim Nokken
@timnokken.bsky.social
Political Scientist - Texas Tech University (From Here It's Possible), MN Sports Fan, Lover of Music/The Replacements, Player of Golf. Dogs and cats. Opinions my own.
tl;dr Old man with old, discredited ideas ranting to his television about phantom voter fraud.
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Fed Mandates electionlawblog.org?p=157434
So, now England fans have a sense of how Minnesota Vikings fans feel when someone comments "he took a knee."
It’s really a great question because it immediately reveals whether someone is unfit for public service. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoOSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
This isn't what they have in mind when they emphasize "broader impacts" at NSF
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is akin to Trump raiding the National Parks Service in order to pay for his Reflecting Pool disaster. (Which he has done). Take something that works remarkably well, and divert resources to cronies to deliver something the public did not ask for.
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
I think we should repress rapists. I believe we should have rules binding them. Not being a rapist is a low bar to enter the elite. They should not be forgiven publicly for their unrepented crimes. I'm a liberal and I vote.
Anne Norton@annenortonnow.bsky.social · 4w agoWhy I so dislike liberals: rule bound, censorious, gleefully repressive, unforgiving, elitist, Puritans. I’d vote for Platner before I’d align myself with that.
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Not kicking the ball has been a significant problem for that US tonight.
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Sending happy thoughts to one friend and healing comforting thoughts to other friends. A day of beauty and sadness, and it hits hard. Choose kindness.
I think this could provide a basis for some bipartisan agreement...and, it couldn't have happened to a better group of travellers!
Raw Story@rawstory.com · 2mo agoA bipartisan group of Congress members sat grounded on a runway for more than an hour Thursday — all because of an airshow rehearsal for Trump's White House UFC fight.
Dan Patrick and the Danettes were excoriating Texas Tech on today's show. It was glorious.
I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
The one word that hasn’t been mentioned in the Sorsby saga is integrity. And that’s totally on brand. From here it’s possible
Yes Sorsby bet on his own team in direct violation of NCAA and all other sports leagues' rules, but it's not like he did something like say that gender might not be a binary concept. From here it's possible.
Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean
President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.
It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.
Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops
The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.
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NEW: Colorado Republicans are meeting now to select a new chairperson after infighting led the resignation of the previous chair. A leading candidate is MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann, who has called for the execution of the "Synagogue of Satan Jews" running Colorado.
What a quote on Ken Paxton, by a party colleague. A gift basket to Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...
To beat the market reliably you have to have information the market lacks. So Mike Johnson is literally saying "insider trading is good"
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo agoMIKE JOHNSON STATES THAT CONGRESS MEMBERS' $174,000 SALARIES ARE FALLING BEHIND INFLATION AND THEY REQUIRE STOCK TRADING FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, ACCORDING TO MONEYWISE.
