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The right decided they didn't have to give up and accept marriage equality, that if they were patient maybe they could turn back the clock. There's a lesson here for liberal movements: The arc of history doesn't just bend in one direction. Sometimes it doubles back. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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No idea if this is real, but note that there is exactly ONE documented case in recent history of actors being paid to show up at a political event, and that was Trump's presidential announcement in 2015. How do we know? Because he stiffed them on the bill. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

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In 2010, the Supreme Court's conservative justices made it easier for Republican lawmakers to pass permissive gun laws. In the years that followed, 7,398 more children than expected died of gun violence ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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What precisely is the bizarre economic fantasy Republicans are trying to sell the public on? My latest for Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gop-...

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Because the Cybertruck is a brand with such positive associations for all Americans, Tesla is calling its trash-Waymo self-driving cab service "Cybercab." Elon Musk is a true business genius! www.statesman.com/story/busine...

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Too often, Democrats have made polls into a cage in which they imprison themselves. Immigration is a perfect example. The latest at my newsletter: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/dont-let-p...

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It's 2025, and one of our two parties is passionately committed to honoring TRAITORS WHO WAGED WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES TO PRESERVE THE ABILITY OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS TO OWN OTHER HUMAN BEINGS Sorry for the all caps. It's just unbelievably maddening.

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Have you been feeling like your kids aren't breathing in enough mercury, lead, and arsenic? Well have I got some good news for you! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/c...?

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Ah, the glorious free market, where competition reigns. X is getting advertisers by telling corporations: Advertise with us, or we'll sue you. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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I hadn't looked at this closely and had no idea that after the initial $1,000 it's basically just like a 529 account, i.e. it gives wealthy people a tax-free investment vehicle but if you don't have the extra money to put into it, it does nothing for you. Terrific!

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You thought Joni Ernst was morbid, here's the Director of National Intelligence telling us we're on the brink of nuclear annihilation because the elites want us to die while they chill in their bunkers. What in the hell is going on

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There's a real tendency to assume that the more appalled liberals are by something Trump is doing, the more the median voter must love it. Usually not true!

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The Singularity is when we have created an AI whose intelligence is so vast and encompassing that it can tell Mark Zuckerberg how to convince people he's actually a really cool dude

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Trump's reindustrialization strategy going great

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Over at the Heritage Foundation they are frigging STOKED

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Zuckerberg is clearly concerned about Meta falling behind in the great race to create the Torment Nexus www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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This cop who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for feeding information to the Proud Boys leading up to January 6 is 100% going to get a pardon from Trump, just you watch www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

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Fun fact as you watch Trump's stormtroopers crack heads and fire usually-less-than-lethal rounds at protesters in Los Angeles: the highest-paid CEO in America, with salary and stock worth $165 million, is the head of the company that makes Tasers. www.wsj.com/business/ric...

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This Sinner-Alcaraz French Open final is incredible, reminiscent of the best of Federer-Nadal - two athletes of inhuman talent pounding the hell out of each other for five hours. Lost count of the number of times I've shouted "Holy crap!" at some amazing shot.

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It's true, since I no longer pay attention to X and don't have to listen to the Nazis in my mentions telling me to climb into an oven, I have no idea what conservatives are saying and can't really get a handle on the contemporary political debate www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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One way to think about this: Imagine Moran had tweeted that Miller is a "world-class policy mind" or something equally complimentary. Would ABC News have suspended him? Not on your life.

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Really important piece on what a catastrophe it was when Arkansas imposed (paper)work requirements on Medicaid. Now Republicans are going to do it nationwide, and it will be one of the worst policy disasters in decades. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

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We're about a year away from Tesla literally paying people to take those Douchemobiles off the company's hands

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I keep thinking about how we're spending $2 trillion on the F-35 program like the future of warfare is fighter jets having dogfights and not what it actually is, cyber attacks and thousands of drones bombing your enemy's territory

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@thetraecrowder.bsky.social talks to his fellow rural people about how the Republican Party hates them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCzr...

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We spend too much time romanticizing manly jobs done by manly men, when there just aren’t that many Americans doing them anymore. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/do-we-actu...

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I have entertained the thought of finding a place like this with no residency requirement, paying the filing fee, and then come election day, boom guess what, I'm the sheriff now

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Cursed PR pitch of the day: Got an email trying to get me to promote this "Heart-Melting Pure Love Therapy Chat App." We're in hell.

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A lot of reporting says Musk is mad that the budget bill eliminates EV subsidies. But for the last year his position was that eliminating subsidies would hurt his competitors more than Tesla, so he was for it. Did he really change his mind? Is it because Tesla is hurting? What's really going on?

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New, from me: A Brown student built an AI-powered harassment machine of university staff. When the university investigated (and cleared) him, he was presented as a free speech victim. He became a right-wing celebrity, which was his goal all along. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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I'm proud of this one: @newrepublic.com let me do a story on the prospects for reindustrialization through the prism of the woodworking tool industry. Featuring a discussion of Lie-Nielsen hand planes, none of which I own because they're so expensive. #woodworking newrepublic.com/article/1960...

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Today in "Wait is this The Onion OMG it's real" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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"Family values" party literally taking food from the mouths of pregnant mothers and babies

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New from me at Public Notice: Trump told everyone cities are hellholes, and now that he's in office that's what he's trying to turn them into. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-duff...

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"we are going to rein in big tech!" was a giant, successful Republican con to bully tech companies away from competent content moderation of racist right wing propaganda online and the tech and businesses press completely helped them sell it as a good faith effort

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"Ember, the A.I. writing coach being developed by The Post, could automate several functions normally provided by human editors" Pretty sure if I was still at the Post my reaction to being edited by some shitty AI would have gotten me fired www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...

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The cost of selling his soul is written all over Marco Rubio's face. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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"No one has more contempt for Trump voters than Trump himself. He really believes that they are simpleminded, that they’ll believe anything, and that they want to be their worst selves at all times." On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social on GOP budget scamming MAGA: newrepublic.com/article/1960...

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In a new op-ed in The Hill with @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social, we discuss how Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid will most hurt Republican voters — not only taking away their insurance but endangering the stability of rural hospitals (which affects everyone!). thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Wait, what is "a medical intuitive" is that a job you can get

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According to GOP: Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage! Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon! www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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Trump's FEMA head said in a briefing that "he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season." Last week it was reported FEMA canceled a four-year strategic plan. The agency, gutted by DOGE, is without one. People are going to needlessly die because of this unqualified moron running things.

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Right-winger ingesting mind-altering substance:

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If I didn't know better I'd think that "efficiency" was never the point in the first place, and in fact hamstringing government so it can't carry out its functions is not a bug but a feature. But that would be crazy. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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A Trump intermediary tells CNN’s parent company that they can buy peace with Trump by making a highly flattering documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Trump Jr, which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money. The move appears to meet the legal standard for extortion.

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