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“This is the end of representational government. That’s what this is. Your votes will never matter again because it’s going to be people with money paying lawmakers to do what they want. One hundred percent legalized bribery in Ohio.” www.cleveland.com/news/2025/06...

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Silicon Valley is so uncool.

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Do tell me again about your freedom

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More and more evidence pointing to the conclusion that the male loneliness epidemic we keep hearing about is just a skill issue

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1956: Democracy for Hungary! ...then the tanks rolled in. 1968: Democracy for Czechoslovakia! ...then the tanks rolled in. 1989: Democracy for China! ...then the tanks rolled in. 2025: ..............

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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Everything we learn about crypto makes the case stronger; crypto is sleaze: Full Stop.

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It's DAY TWO of #Seedtime2025! 🙌🎶💚🪕 We had a great turn out last night to our punk show, and now it’s time for another day of music, art, and friends! We hope to see you there! Learn more at appalshop.org/seedtime

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Gender-affirming care.

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But the Democrats should have recruited him.

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Small town Ohio friend, just back from a trip to South Africa: “I’ve been asked twice about the white farmer genocide.”

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If clean energy tax credits are repealed, Ohio loses Tens of Billions and America loses massive Private and Public investment. We can create jobs of the future at home now, or we can give them away to China for generations. I want jobs of the future in NW Ohio—not overseas. Call your Senators!

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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

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Father Coughlin had a following. The Democrats should have recruited him.

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Lindbergh had a following. The Democrats should have recruited him.

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After what happened in my neighborhood in San Diego, people are ready to fight ICE. Nobody had a problem with them going after truly bad guys. And those bad guys do exist. But ICE has zero credibility now.

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Time for Martinis! #FridayCocktail

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Clearly it was a terrible idea to impose pressure on the White House on this matter, look at all the nothing it did, @mattyglesias.bsky.social was so right

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So much good comedy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/n...

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People are logging in to see if the state owes them money before Ohio Republicans give it all to the Haslams to build a brand new Browns stadium in the suburbs Get yours at unclaimedfunds.ohio.gov

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SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

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Last week DOE cancelled $3.7 Billion for 24 advanced energy manufacturing projects including 3 in Ohio for Libbey Glass, OI Glass and Kraft Heinz totaling $107 Million. I fiercely object to these hasty ill considered decisions that risk Ohio jobs and undermine investment in our manufacturing future.

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“Private equity is also a much better model of corporate governance…” !!!! I have not read Megan’s book. But this one sentence in the review she links to discredits the whole review. I mean, holy cow.

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Seems to me @thirdway.bsky.social already does this. (And not well, obviously)

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America did not storm the beaches at Normandy alone on June 6, 1944. We had allies who fought with us. Allies from Britain, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Poland. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Contra Ro Khanna, I don't think the Democrats should offer amnesty to putschists and mass murderers in exchange for short-term political advantage www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Yes. My mother and father landed in Normandy about 30 days after D-Day. (My mother, pictured shortly after arriving, while still living in pup tents. She's shooting craps.)

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How can parents tell if curriculum like PragerU & Hillsdale is garbage? Here's the tell: MAGA history HAS to insist that the Founding Fathers worked hard to stop slavery. For PragerU, Douglass tells the children: "our founding fathers knew that slavery was evil and wrong…they wanted it to end.”

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Tonight Musk will be holding up a boom box outside of Trump’s window.

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You can stand for something or stand for nothing. People are starving for leadership that stands for something.

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In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

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I am a husband who has a husband and I have never been as gay as the "Alpha males" on Twitter who are constantly talking about other men's phalluses and testicles.

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Beautiful lede

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Twenty four years ago: www.wired.com/2001/02/proj... I helped clone cows.

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I know everyone is fixated on the Trump/Musk drama, but IREHR dropped a bombshell new report today that I think you're gonna wanna read. The director of the MAHA Institute has a history of promoting hardcore antisemitic conspiracies and anti-science quackery. irehr.org/2025/06/05/m...

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Yes, the Trump/Musk break-up is hilarious to us, but spare a thought for JD Vance, all curled up in his jammies as the dishes fly downstairs, wondering which daddy he'll only see on weekends now.

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The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

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Our democracy is in excellent shape.

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This shit shows how stupid the tech right was. But Thiel and az16 will still rise because of their bets on crypto and Palantir

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This is very true - and very, very scary. It's all fun&games to watch the Trump-Musk feud heating up, but seriously: Who knows who these DOGE kids are? Where they are? What they're doing?

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While Elon Musk and President Trump mark their territory, the GOP is working to kick 16 million people off their health care, collapse rural hospitals, and rack up more debt — all so Billionaires can receive massive tax breaks. It’s time for them to grow up or get out of the way.

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For crying out loud, I’ve got work to do!

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everything is securities fraud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club Flagged For 18 Health Violations In Latest Inspection—Earned Lowest Grade In County www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

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