Bob Morris
@bobmorris.bsky.social
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Politics, Vegas, taxes, cats.
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Wajahat Ali
about 6 hours ago
These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest. They don't need to be in these positions anymore. They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage. Demand more and better, folks.
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Everyone, be like Olivia!
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
about 8 hours ago
folks. this is not going to blunt the blue wave. i am going to need you to ease all the way back on the dooming. trump is going to do eighteen more horrible things that eat news cycles by next *week*. no one is going to still be fuming about this in a year
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Governor Tony Evers
about 17 hours ago
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️
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Acyn
about 11 hours ago
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
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“Hiring displaced coal workers was part of Matt’s ‘why’ for starting this business,” Kristine said. “He wanted to be part of the solution for the employment of these individuals.”
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Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business
A Colorado entrepreneur is going all in on a renewable energy source that will keep him digging — and could be a model for other miners looking beyond…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/geothermal/colorado-coal-miner-renewable-energy-drilling-business
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"Dealignment has two signature characteristics: increasingly volatile electoral swings as voters become progressively disaffected by whichever party holds power, and depressed turnout as voters disengage from both parties."
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There was never a Racial Realignment
We're witnessing a Latino "Dealignment" and that's why the experts keep missing it
https://substack.com/home/post/p-178280371
about 17 hours ago
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"A stay is needed to reach an “expeditious resolution,” Justice Ketanji Brown wrote. She's on our side. This was a smart ploy to avoid a potentially bad outcome.
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US Supreme Court temporarily blocks November SNAP payments • Stateline
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Friday night a lower court’s order that the Trump administration pay for a full month of food benefits, hours after some states began loading nutrition assistance funds on payment cards held by the 42 million Americans who use the program.
https://stateline.org/2025/11/08/repub/us-supreme-court-temporarily-blocks-november-snap-payments/
about 19 hours ago
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President Very Stable Genius is having a toddler tantrum because the Supremes will probably rule against him on tariffs.
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Audrey
1 day ago
Mark Carney was talking about attracting foreign investment to Canada and listed reasons Canada is a good place to invest. A reporter pointed out that the U.S. has those things, too. What sets Canada apart? Carney responded, "Well, we have rule of law."
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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼♀️🇲🇽🍉
1 day ago
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
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Brendel
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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Are there any Silicon Valley or Seattle billionaires who aren't horrible, repulsive greedheads? Is being devoid of ethics and morality required to become a billionaire? As well as being insane. I mean, Thiel says Thunberg is the Antichrist and Musk wants an army of robots.
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A local Audubon chapter defeated huge home builder in Florida. They organized, kept fighting - and explained the land is on a flood plain. And will keep fighting, if needed.
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Bird-defending Audubon chapter defeats Florida development planned by nation’s largest homebuilder • Florida Phoenix
Since the 1880s we’ve referred to dopey people as birdbrains. I contend it’s a misnomer. Birds are actually pretty smart – think about how far they migrate without any access to maps or GPS! I think the people who like birds are pretty smart too. Exhibit A of my argument would be what the Sarasota […]
https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/06/bird-defending-audubon-chapter-defeats-florida-development-planned-by-nations-largest-homebuilder/
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"From 2024 to 2025 Republicans lost the most support — 25 points, on average — among the very voters they theorized would remake the GOP into a vast, multi-racial, working-class coalition."
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The 2024 Trump "realignment" is over already
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
https://substack.com/home/post/p-178103911?source=queue
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Josh Marshall
2 days ago
fine. keep it shut. Trump's approval seems to drop every week this goes on.
rollcall.com/2025/11/07/r...
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Republicans denounce new Democratic offer to end shutdown - Roll Call
A new Senate Democratic plan for ending the partial government shutdown met with a wall of Republican resistance late Friday.
https://rollcall.com/2025/11/07/republicans-denounce-new-democratic-offer-to-end-shutdown/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_content=11/07/2025
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Andrew Case
2 days ago
BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at
@latinojustice.bsky.social
and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.
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Jury Awards $112 Million to 674 Immigrants Unlawfully Held by Suffolk County for ICE Handover | LatinoJusticePRLDEF
FOR IMMEDIATE
https://www.latinojustice.org/en/press/jury-awards-112-million-674-immigrants-unlawfully-held-suffolk-county-ice-handover
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Microgrids are small scale solar and battery storage for neighborhoods. When the power goes, they switch on and continue providing electricity. Jamaica microgrids survived hurricane winds and kept the lights and internet (via Starlink) on.
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Solar-Plus-Storage a “Game Changer” for Jamaica Residents During Hurricane Melissa-Sparked Outages
During Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s solar microgrids proved crucial in maintaining power, water, and communication for residents, highlighting the importance of resilient energy...
https://www.microgridknowledge.com/microgrids/remote/article/55327961/solar-plus-storage-a-game-changer-for-jamaica-residents-during-hurricane-melissa-sparked-outages
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Democratic Socialists basically favor New Deal Democrat agenda while also critiquing the grotesqueries and excesses of capitalism. This is a good thing. However, they aren't communists calling for the state to own the means of production. Which is a big difference.
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This is so accurate!
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Exit polls showed voters blamed Trump and the MAGA agenda. Despite his whining and blaming everyone but himself, "the president and his policies were largely to blame."
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Hey, Republicans: Blame Trump
Exit polls show Tuesday’s election was a referendum on the president and his policies.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-republicans-blame-trump-off-year-2025-elections-virginia-new-jersey-nyc?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt
3 days ago
I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*. on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.
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Ana Marie Cox
4 days ago
It is good to know who the real enemies are.
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Also, given the current TSA lines at airports, no sane person should consider air travel during Thanksgiving.
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Las Vegas tourism leaders urge Congress to end shutdown before Thanksgiving travel season
Las Vegas tourism leaders join 500 businesses urging Congress to end government shutdown, citing $4 billion travel losses and Thanksgiving crisis concerns.
https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-tourism-leaders-urge-congress-to-end-shutdown-before-thanksgiving-travel-season
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How do we know they aren’t the same people? They aren't trained law enforcement. They mostly are just masked thugs.
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FBI urges ICE to ID themselves as criminals impersonate officers
The FBI is urging partner agencies to “adequately identify themselves” amid a string of cases in which those impersonating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers committed cr…
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5590694-fbi-ice-masks-dhs/
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"The best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it."
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G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris)
Why did the polls underestimate Democrats last night? Here’s one theory and some preliminary evidence for it: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data-driven-takeaways-from
https://substack.com/@gelliottmorris/note/c-173837842?r=88t8&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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"A US-backed global gag order preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 billion in corporate tax from 2016 to 2021"
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$475bn lost to US-backed global gag order shielding corporate tax cheaters | Tax Justice Network
A US-backed global gag order1 preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 billion in corporate tax from 2016 to 2021, the Tax Justice Network’s research reveals today.2 The tax lost is far more than the amount urgently needed […]
https://taxjustice.net/press/475bn-lost-to-us-backed-global-gag-order-shielding-corporate-tax-cheaters/
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Texas Republicans thought the 2024 shift towards Trump among Latinos was permanent. So, they redistricted four House border districts to take advantage of that. That Latino surge is gone. Those districts now favor Democrats.
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Vote! "55% of voters think Donald Trump is “acting like he is above the law, consolidating power like a king.”
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New poll: Voters want Democrats to win in NJ, VA and in 2026, as they push back on Trump
Plus: Voters trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy; a majority of voters say Trump is acting above the law; and 62% say the country is off on the wrong track
https://substack.com/inbox/post/177620598
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This is how we toss the angry toddlers out. "Americans who care about democracy must organize and vote in every election, no matter how small or local.
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A Confederacy of Toddlers - The Atlantic
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/11/trump-maga-insults-trolling/684786/?gift=vThEKg5dYrkjangQaRcHfetGCZ-qgvK2bf2unRRtj-k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Mark Joseph Stern
5 days ago
Chief Justice Roberts is out. Says the major questions doctrine pretty clearly applies here; the tariffs simply can't survive that. Looks like five pretty clear votes against Trump. And we STILL haven't gotten to Gorsuch...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
5 days ago
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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Massive blue wave everywhere tonight. Democrats won by big margins, higher than polls predicted. Republicans got whomped. Democrats won VA, NJ governor. Mamdani elected mayor of NYC. PA Democratic Supreme Court members reelected. CA prop 50 will win overwhelmingly. Many more too
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The Hill and Decision Desk call VA governor for Spanberger. The biggie call is AP.
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Tens of thousands have been tortured, butchered, and murdered. "Sudan is facing a deadly proxy war, waged by foreign nations seeking to colonize Sudan’s vast gold reserves, arable lands, and Red Sea shipping ports."
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Sudan Isn’t a Civil War. It’s an Empire-Fueled Genocide.
A guest post by Mo Seifeldein, a Sudanese-American refugee and attorney
https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/sudan-isnt-a-civil-war-its-an-empire?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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$13 billion in annualized revenue, which is basically a feel-good number. And plans to spend a trillion in the next few years with still glimpse of profits. Altman is way defensive about this. And for good reason.
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Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-enough-questions-171526759.html
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Trump to children: Drop dead.
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OH, THE TRAUMA!
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Bolts details hundreds of important elections today in addition to NYC mayor, NJ and VA governor, CA Prop 50, and PA Supreme Court. Vote! Let's stomp the Trump agenda.
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts
Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More
https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/2025-general-election/
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Andrea Junker
7 days ago
Let me put this as simply as possible: If the 60 Minutes editorial team cuts out most of their interview with Trump to make him look his best, and he still comes across as completely demented, then it is extremely likely that Trump actually is completely demented.
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My God, they're collateralizing leases. PE firms buy/build data centers "which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond"
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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens - The Atlantic
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=vThEKg5dYrkjangQaRcHfbj4noPwbQvTMq5GXihAUCg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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All of this is due to Trump policies, including tariffs. And is happening in all states. "Food banks in NV face a triple whammy: cuts in federal grants that help them buy food, rising costs of groceries and the impending end of federal food benefits."
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Anti-hunger groups in Nevada strain to meet record demand. SNAP pause is just one reason. - The Nevada Independent
Anti-hunger groups in Nevada strain to meet record demand. SNAP pause is just one reason. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/anti-hunger-groups-in-nevada-strain-to-meet-record-demand-snap-pause-is-just-one-reason
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Today is one of the busiest days of the year at H&R Block. It's the first day of Emerald Advance. Taxpayers can get a loan based on their assumed refund. Every tax pro, including me, has 30-minute appointments scheduled nonstop all day. Plus, walk-ins. Whee!
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Trump wants to start nuclear testing in Nevada again. Downwind refers to nuclear tests in Nevada in the 1950s where the govt deliberately waited for the wind to be blowing into Utah onto "a low use segment of the population." People got sick and died.
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Bagley Cartoon: Blowing in the Wind
Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: Blowing in the Wind
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2025/10/31/bagley-cartoon-blowing-wind/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
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Look at all these cowards in the Trump Administration. They talk tough, then scurry to military bases to live because protesters are just too scary for them. Snowflakes!
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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases - The Atlantic
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-stephen-miller/684748/
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It's almost like Trump doesn't care about farmers at all. I doubt he evens understands the issues.
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Iowa soybean farmers lost China as a buyer. Cattle was their backup plan — then Trump announced plans to import more beef
Trump administration officials say new trade deals and aid could ease the strain, but many farmers are struggling to stay afloat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-soybean-farmers-lost-china-as-a-buyer-cattle-was-their-backup-plan/
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
8 days ago
I love this ridiculous mashup of olde english font and midcentury motifs, nothing says "colonial" like a multi-colored sputnik ball
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Mark Harris
9 days ago
You can't make this up.
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