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Software engineer. Freedom and lasers are the right of all sentient beings. Takes on politics, tech, culture. Quality is job 9.
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andy, it's possible that the army sec made this statement because it happened to be a plotline in trump's favorite tv show:
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this is elon's biggest problem - it's not the nazi shit, not the ketamine usage, not the child army shit - it's that he has been america's preeminent bullshit manufacturer for decades, and people are no longer uncritically buying what he's selling
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When Semafor was staffing up its DC Bureau, there's a reason that its first stop was NBC News.
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if you’re a journalist who cares about journalism and you’re still working at that place: what are you doing?
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@seamus.bsky.social curious about your thoughts here, as bsky's resident bread expert
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"A sitting US Senator was body-slammed by government agents for asking a question today. But something else was assaulted first: decorum." - the NYT Editorial Board, tomorrow
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yep: bsky.app/profile/hopt...
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Yep: bsky.app/profile/hopt...
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BREAKING: area idiot talks her way into significant exposure on state level criminal charges, then keeps talking
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trump is at 38% right now in latest polling; the support for this shit might be at 5%
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i disagree, only because I think what you're seeing here is a very, very stupid person without adult supervision get waaaaay ahead of her skis; to be clear: noem is not only dumber than the dumbest person you have ever met, she is dumber than the dumbest person you can conceive of
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noem is talking her way into exposure on a very, very large number of state level crimes, none of which are pardonable, and she is not bright enough to realize what she is doing
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my guess is that noem, homan, and possibly rubio already face significant exposure on state level human trafficking offenses, none of which are pardonable
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i genuinely believe that he has asked pam bondi if she can start prosecuting booing him as an act of treason, and pam has some poor asshole at DOJ researching that now
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would love to see a pose from one of his many questionable roughing calls, perhaps this one
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someone from the WH press ask him if the windmills are in the room with you right now and be an absolute legend
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i hear maga voters in florida would love to pay thousands more in income tax so that big balls can get paid millions to kill government funding of skin cancer research, florida famously has no need of that
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it's fine, it's not as if florida's status as an income tax free state is made possible almost entirely via its tourism industry
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also the SNL jeopardy bit, in which french stewart/jimmy fallon wagers $texas
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we go live to the White House, where Stephen Miller is shrieking at big balls about how they’re able to sing without ribbons, violence, and racism
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we laugh, but this is more or less the yglesias engagement model
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math is hard, markwayne