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daveooo.bsky.social
Retired Info Tech project manager in the Sonoran Desert. Animal shelter volunteer and art museum docent. Previously from Detroit and the Pacific Northwest. Dilettante reader of political theory and history and admirer of weird cars.
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We’re repeatedly told that only private industry can do things efficiently, but it’s good to see that a quasi-public CEO can still pull themselves up by the bootstraps and somehow find meaningful work in the private sector… and not just a job screwing together phones.

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Always! Why are they ALL so afraid of him that they never can just say no, the ruling stands?

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I know it’s bad when I’m guessing based on color. Cardle 2/5 Streak 3🔥 Total Score 358 🔴 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Honestly @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s team deserves an award for these

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The gaslighting here is off the charts. With a quiet, moderated voice, measured cadence, and downcast eyes, Johnson will gladly facilitate the disintegration of our government.

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“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

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Senator David Padilla should not have attempted to politicize DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference announcing that the federal government would liberate Los Angeles from socialism. Tomorrow in the New York Times

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The NYT is scared of Trump, so they are lying. This is what happens at the beginning of fascist regimes, when opposition is still legal but the threat of punishment is looming.

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I wouldn’t mind one. Cardle 1/5 Streak 2🔥 Total Score 346 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

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0-Malaise in Who Cares Seconds

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Again: Dems: stop treating public opinion like a static thing to respond to! Zaller told us decades ago that YOU… YOU are the biggest predictor of public opinion/awareness. YOU frame the moment for us. Journalists look to YOU. They need YOU to signal strength and opposition everywhere all the time.

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"[Randy] Newman’s flirtation with Communist Albania didn’t yield an anthem, but it left behind a revealing Cold War artifact." This piece, you guys.

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Really? He couldn’t find that many actual people? “Smith didn’t face much competition in his re-election bid, but state law required him to gather 527 signatures from registered Republicans in his district to qualify for the ballot. Smith turned in a total of 826 signatures”

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Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

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How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

submitted 65 days ago • 90 comments

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

submitted 45 days ago • 117 comments

LAST NIGHT: CNN reporter Jason Carroll detained and cuffed by police live on TV

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A Well Regulated Militia (2020)

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For thought leaders who want to move fast and break things, what can be done about laws that get in the way? These tech moguls have some ideas.

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A $10.4K 48,000-mile Renault Le Car might sound like serious coin, but it’s in serious like-new condition, too.

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2020 TRUMP: “We have laws… we can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.” (H/T @realdlhughley.bsky.social )

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Bondi's brother loses bid to be the DC Bar president by numbers that would make Donald drool: 90-9. Now let the disbarments and disciplinary actions fly.

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Didn’t go with my gut. Cardle 3/5 Streak 1🔥 Total Score 331 🔴 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

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When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

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How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:

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I probably could have done this all day… Cardle 5/5 Total Score 322 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🔴 🟢 www.playcardle.com

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Me, when they shut down the EPA and fire inspection personnel:

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I was so very sure on that first guess. Cardle 4/5 Streak 11🔥 Total Score 320 🔴 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

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The chrome Cardle 1/5 Streak 10🔥 Total Score 314 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

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not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

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