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ICYMI last night, we posted @ryanlcooper.com's thoughts on the Real Housewives of D.C., and how oligarchy inevitably breeds absurd levels of self-confidence and leads to splits like this: prospect.org/politics/202...

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A little late-night Prospect: @ryanlcooper.com on the Trump-Musk feud and how it's the inevitable outgrowth of an unaccountable politics of powerful billionaire men. prospect.org/politics/202...

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TIL Trump's nominee to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was Amazon's lead executive on worker safety. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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This is some Finals Game 1.

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I think we all know how to fill this up so you do it

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So the Senate Commerce Committee's state AI regulation ban is a little different and a bit more clever. I still don't think it'll pass the Byrd bath, but it's at least closer.

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it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

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Bannon just called for this. Let the socialist revolution begin!

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I am glued to my phone right now like the Arab Spring is happening

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Waiting for my born-in-Pittsburgh wife to come home and not sure whether to tell her first about the Real Housewives Trump-Musk fight or Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers

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Don King is still alive and the PPV numbers could finance the national debt

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Hey @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social please pick up the red courtesy telephone.

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Maybe we shouldn't get into a situation where one guy can threaten the entire U.S. space program because the president wrote a mean tweet about him. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The thing is that Musk's consolidation of contracting has gone neglected for so long that cutting off SpaceX would be akin to cutting off the space program at this point. Which is in fact the problem. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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👍👍👍👍👍so close👍👍👍👍👍

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lol He's in the "Epstein files" that have been available for many years in pictures and video!

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Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

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If this was the only goddamn thing we had to deal with right now I'd be having a lot of fun

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The biggest and most documented waste, fraud, and abuse is directly in Medicare: ending the privatization of the program that has led to $100 billion a year in overpayments. Somehow I don't believe Republicans will touch it. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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"In their pursuit of statistically bulletproof popularism, the centrists have their head so deep in data that it is impossible for them to have a vision. And that lack of a vision is the very thing that turns off the public." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-ce...

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Senator Joni Ernst needs to stop hiding and explain why she wants to kill 51,000 Americans a year by sacrificing our health care for a billionaire tax handout in the "big, beautiful" betrayal.

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Congress is poised to kill clean energy production tax credits in Trump's megabill. But the biggest state for clean energy in the nation is Texas, which couldn't get a rollback through its own state legislature. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports: prospect.org/environment/...

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@ryanlcooper.com has the latest on the Big Beautiful Bill: • CBO estimates $2.4 trillion in debt over a decade, 11 million losing health insurance • House members who voted for the bill now against it • Elon has become the Joker prospect.org/politics/202...

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Great piece here from James Baratta. The rail industry is asking regulators to approve freight trains with zero crew members: fully remote, autonomous ghost trains, to ride on aging infrastructure without a proven record of split-second decision making in crisis. prospect.org/infrastructu...

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Wells Fargo had an asset cap for seven years, a cascade of scandals ensued throughout that time, there was no escalation of penalties, and now the Federal Reserve decided to let them off the hook. Open season on smaller banks as Wells readies to devour them www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

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"Builders nationwide are 'pumping the brakes because elevated interest rates are making many projects prohibitively expensive'" If you're not talking about financing you're not talking about how anything actually works in America. www.axios.com/2025/06/02/a...

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It's Dave's job to describe current realities, but I think insta-narratives aren't warranted. Trump just doubled steel tariffs & has many tools to keep igoing even if the Liberation Day tariffs fizzle. The bill that's more likely to pass than not is unpopular as legislation & will be worse as a law

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Looking forward to UnitedHealth realizing it might have to allow The Guardian to get discovery

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This is an unbelievable amount of bullshit and there are all kinds of receipts

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I said it when Trump said this the first time, you absolutely take this deal if you're the Democrats. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Adam Jentleson once berated me in a room full of his colleagues because I had an accurate story he didn't want to confirm to me because he didn't like how I would frame it and screamed that I couldn't possibly know what he knows and that my career would be over if I ran with it. Get over yourself.

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First deployment I've seen of this math. Expect every Democrat to be saying it soon. 11 million (10.9 to be exact) from the Big Beautiful Bill 5 million (5.1) from not extending premium support for ACA exchanges that expires in December.

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During his presidency, Obama officials met with Google representatives on average once a week. Now Obama's Solicitor General is going to argue for Google appealing the ruling from D.C. district could that it has an illegal monopoly in search.

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"'Everyone thinks this is a grift,' the first former official said of Jean-Pierre’s book project." www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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The opening of Judge Boasberg’s opinion:

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Stop robocalls, eliminate ATM fees, and turn down the volume on commercials, and win a newly created "president for life" slot

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🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

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Yet with all this money, I heard that they're charging everybody, including press members, $25 at the door. I can watch these people beclown themselves on X all day for free

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Somehow seems that despite all the big success stories of politics over the last three decades, we're averse to concluding "people who appear to believe in something sincerely are popular, being the kind of person perceived as someone who would say anything to get elected is unpopular"

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Brutal poll here for Ernst. An incumbent at 45% against a generic opponent is terrible, and 69% of voters (!) have heard her "we're all going to die" comments www.publicpolicypolling.com/polls/joni-e...

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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could cause 51,000 deaths if passed—but it may have already claimed its first victim: Sen. Joni Ernst. That should be fine by her, since “we all are going to die” anyway. From @ddayen.bsky.social‬: prospect.org/politics/202...

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