Under The Desk News
The Nice Side of News 🤓
Explainers and a look at the days events
Co-Host of American Fever Dream Pod
- TOMORROW!! Live with Senator Warren - click here to subscribe to the Substack and get an alert when we are live - it’ll be about 1120am ET, WHAT ARE YOUR ?s substack.com/@vspehar?liv...
- Are they able to diminish or nullify Gay Marriage rights? Yes.. here’s how - and what my wife Natalie and I did to prepare. youtu.be/hOhIHdmnBM0?...
- I wonder if my great great grandpa dreamed when he escaped the Black & Tans and set forth to America… that 174 years later his descendant would be explaining WHY WE DONT FUCK WITH FASCISTS AND ZEALOTS TO A BUNCH OF WHITE FOLKS WHO WANT A KING AND STATE SPONSORED COMPULSARY RELIGION - STILL!!!!
- Misery For Profit. Trumps sweetheart deal with private prisons to incarcerate more people than ever before youtu.be/qrCxHeOjkDA?...
- Trumps plan to destroy Dept of Education - all the details youtu.be/wTD_2Y0xAEQ?...
- One of the great privileges of college is testing the boundaries of society and learning what you value in a sheltered place. Leave the kids alone -
- “I think it’s dystopian, it’s certainly authoritarian. Going after college protesters is, in particular, just another example of the way the Trump administration seeks to punish youth.” @underthedesknews.bsky.social on Trump going after pro-Palestine college protesters.
- I said what I said 😂
- “He would call him Little Marco. And Marco Rubio has in fact gotten a little part when it comes to Trump’s State Department.” @underthedesknews.bsky.social on Trump sidelining Rubio when it comes to Ukraine and the Middle East.
- Reposted by Under The Desk News“He would call him Little Marco. And Marco Rubio has in fact gotten a little part when it comes to Trump’s State Department.” @underthedesknews.bsky.social on Trump sidelining Rubio when it comes to Ukraine and the Middle East.
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- Here it is - what it was like in the week leading up to TikToks blackout, the indignant response from Biden team that he had “done all he can” - I’ll have a YouTube explainer with even more detail in the coming days. Tiktok is still not “saved” - far from it. Gift Link: wapo.st/4ax8ffP
- What’s your over/under guesses on how many rounds it’ll take to get a Speaker of the House tomorrow? I say we go at least 3 rounds -
- This 🫡
- Headed to DC one last time for the year.. maybe the next 4 years 😂
- They deleted his Instagram account - but not before I got these screenshots of his only story highlight. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? #luigi
- I saw MVP today and she said pray for the haters… who could nevaaaaaa look this good in natural lighting 💅
- Helloooooooo all my TikTok followers 🫶 are skies bluer here??
- #TiktokBan what to know: -A Peter Thiel backed rep championed legislation to give the President the power to ban “foreign adversary owned” apps -TikTok sued claiming Citizens United gives them 1A rights -A DC court found it DOES NOT -Ban takes effect Jan 19 UNLESS -Biden grants a 90 day extension
- 2025 - no time for smugness, or faux niceties just like - talk normal. We are tired.
- There’s always a tweet 😂 this one was from last November about the Destiny/Fuentes situation (though I’m not sure Jarad knew literal allegations of being in bed together would come out) @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
- Anyone have good news to share?
- Ok listen - @meidastouch.bsky.social has better reach than Joe Rogan and with like 1/100th of the budget. MSNBC lost 48% and CNN lost 37% of their audience post election - Here are my post election stats from just TikTok, ONE of my several successful platforms; INVEST IN NEW MEDIA
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- Matt Gaetz was not a fake out to make Pam Bondi “look better” she was always a pretty safe sail through choice for the gig. He dropped out bc the Senate got a SECOND report about an underage girl being SAed by Gaetz at a party.
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- Jail! The news that broke 5 min before Gaetz pulled out of AG nomination www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/p...
- Two UNELECTED men pen op-ed about how they’ll be dismantling the US Government. They start off by saying the government is FOUNDED on the basic idea that the PEOPLE should ELECT the folks who run the show. The lack of self awareness is mind boggling - by what merit did they earn these powers?
- How early is too early to primary John Fetterman? www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
- Nancy Mace (R-SC) has put her name on over 500 pieces of legislation since she took office and only ONE has ever become law, the naming of a post office. This bathroom bill BS gave her something to point to as a “win”.
- It’s always the bad built butch body can’t keep a man women that make transwomen existing a crime. Nancy Mace had no problem sharing facilities with “biological men” when she was the 1st woman to graduate from the Citadel - relax Nance - be a hero and use that energy to leak the Matt Gaetz papers
- Someday Big Justice will write a tell all called something like “Chicken Bake - how my childhood was cooked” What would a book about your life be called?
- “What radicalized you” I got punched in the face in high school for being ignorant and learned real quick to be more aware and caring about my surroundings and the people in them 😂
- V - don’t you want to move back to the city?? The City:
- Drake lost 335k on this fight… but I will never get my childhood optimism back 😂 Who should Paul fight next wrong answers only-
- Highlight of the Tyson v Paul fight
- Another conspiracy theory from lazy extremists who claim I’m a disgruntled former Trump supporter psyop sent by the lefts “MSM” to gaslight you into watching believing in Dems to “punish” the Right. Y’all need to do some community theatre with all that imagination and leave me alone
- @samisagesays.bsky.social to me just now while recording American Fever Dream Pod: V, are your hopes of saving this country hanging on an Act of God?? Cause that’s not good.
- Reposted by Under The Desk NewsEarnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
- “We need new media spaces” - old media says bet, we will take up that space too
- I’d like to resurface this for consideration by the group
- I think many of us feel the same 😂 @aoc.bsky.social
