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Must-read 🧵on what happens next with the MAGA Murder Budget.

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Senate Dems approving the CR in March, after colleagues in House made every effort to block it, now looking exactly like the profound political malfeasance we warned it was at the time.

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Non-zero chance Vance lobbies Trump to pull a King Henry and sign an EO denouncing the Conclave as “illegitimate” and declaring himself Supreme Head of the Church. ACB later writes the majority opinion saying that’s totally cool.

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Farm trade wars are wild because we've already done similar things in the past, and it did NOT work out for the US farmers in question. Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

They’re gonna pick a new pope before any team picks Sanders.

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China’s response to WH saying the two sides have opened trade negotiations: Whatchoo talkin bout Willis?

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Pope Francis to JD Vance: No Good Friday agreement for you, heretic!

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The attack on 501c3s will also place squarely in the crosshairs news orgs that have produced some of the finest, most impactful journalism of the Trump era, including Pro Publica, The Trace, and The Texas Tribune, among many others. Save accountability journalism, call your Senator.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

It’s just me but if I had big bet-the-company dilemmas instead of going with Paul Weiss or Skadden I might choose a firm with lawyers who understand concepts like cause and effect, object permanence, and stated intent

submitted 41 days ago • 68 comments

I am 6’3 (on a good day) and 185. This is a whopper of a lie. Dude weighs at least 300 lbs. I’d wager that he can’t walk up a flight of stairs without assistance.

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Thinking about this today for no particular reason: Before 1933 German universities were widely considered the world’s best, especially for research and STEM studies. Then they were gutted by the Nazis. Nearly 100 years later those schools still haven’t regained their prominence.

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Wonder how long it takes for the CEO class to realize they aren't the leopards in this scenario

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 55 days ago • 869 comments

Here's the real kick about how Trump's tariffs are going to hike prices for everything: Once that happens, even if the tariffs go away, the prices are never, ever going back down again.

submitted 55 days ago • 13 comments

Cory Booker is on the Senate floor explaining why using your hips to generate power is going to affect your field goal accuracy

submitted 56 days ago • 22 comments

We're net importers of everything that isn't grain, chicken, or pork. Some threads on US's dependence on food imports: bsky.app/profile/sara... bsky.app/profile/sara...

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

I feel like there's a pretty good argument that Congress did not hand presidents the power to do this unilaterally (and also, separately, that Congress could not do that), but nobody seems to be making much of an effort to make it.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

LOL x.com/lepettre/sta...

submitted 61 days ago • 97 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 62 days ago • 2065 comments

Hegseth was pretty obviously quoting from strike storyboards, so I expect their defense will be "well he didn't put the storyboard in the chat and that's what's classified, the info on its own isn't" To which I'd say setting aside how pants on head wrong that is, if you're explaining you're losing

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What if the severed employees actually work for the DOD? And the “mysterious and important” work they do is actually searching for woke terms in three-year old tweets?

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

anyway i'm extremely excited to see what happens when the unstoppable force of warrantless entry meets the immovable object of castle doctrine

submitted 68 days ago • 21 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 73 days ago • 757 comments

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

submitted 77 days ago • 1544 comments

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

submitted 78 days ago • 288 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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Do these suburban wine moms with Ukrainian flags even know that my faith in humanity entirely relies on them

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Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

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