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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Standing in the Rose Garden for General C.Q. Brown’s announcement was one of the highlights from my time in the Biden Administration.

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Every reporter should pin down the 32 Republican senators who voted for CQ Brown about his firing.

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Good piece from Farah Stockman. The betrayal is surreal for Americans too. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...

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They should pay the fine in pennies. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

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The Federal Reserve.

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On @Bloomberg, I talked about Trump's ridiculous plan to take over Gaza and force 2M+ people to flee their homes. Yes, it's terrible idea, but it will also likely undermine his broader effort to reshape the Middle East. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

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President Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs — a blanket duty of 25% on all steel and aluminum imports — are expected to negatively affect the nation’s craft brewers by driving up the cost of critical materials used to brew, house and serve their beer.

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Zero fraud has been found. Lots of programs you don’t agree with, but zero fraud or abuse.

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Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

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Today on @bloomberg.com I talked about Elon, #DOGE, and their meddling with the Treasury payments system. Real questions about whether we’re already defaulting on the debt by selectively paying our bills.

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A must read. Five former Secretaries of the Treasury sound the alarm about the "arbitrary and capricious risks" of DOGE's political control of federal payments, "which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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TLDR from Trump: Oh we're GOING to do the bribery. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Does Elon know? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Obviously, this is BS. But just ask any former Biden White House flack and they'll tell you we DEFINITELY didn't get a pass or payoff for news subscriptions.

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Shocking nobody, Secretary Rubio was once a huge fan of USAID for years in the Senate recognizing, rightly, that the agency "furthers our national interest" and is a key tool to counter China's global influence. Once again, he's flipped to appease Trump. www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

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Kansas farmers hit by Trump and Elon’s illegal push to eliminate USAID. www.kwch.com/2025/02/05/t...

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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 20 days ago • 306 comments

If you thought markets weren’t rattled before, buckle up.

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It’s about damn time! Beyoncé finally gets the #Grammy for Album of the Year. 🤠

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Congrats to @kenmartin.bsky.social on being elected DNC Chair! Ken needs all of our support to rebuild the party so Democrats can once again win up and down the ballot in every corner of the country.

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After the news this week, I kind of hope the odds go up. 🥴https://apnews.com/article/newly-discovered-asteroid-nasa-space-6f81d82acc55c899764d2a900d33f1d0

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What a great win for @arsenalfc.bsky.social. Gritty, fantastic result! #COYG

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A TV personality who lacks the judgment and experience to run a lemonade stand is now in charge of the Defense Department. The good news is that the world should be pretty quiet for the next 1,455 days.

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The NSC staff are some of the smartest, most dedicated patriots in government who bust their ass regardless of who runs the White House. America is weaker and less secure tonight because of this. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Well - got Trump Bumped (certainly not for the last time). A couple points I would have made: 1. The long list of competing priorities, a razor thin House majority, and Trump’s… cavalier interest in the details increases the likelihood that any budget deal gets bogged down.

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Trump pardoned Enrique Tarrio — serving a 22 year sentence for seditious conspiracy — and appears to have no idea what he pardoned him for. Tarrio served 4 months on a DC charge for burning a BLM flag — which had nothing to do with his Jan. 6-related charges.

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Looking forward to joining @Bloomberg's Balance of Power next hour to talk about the budget quagmire for Republicans. Will also touch on Trump's pardon of the January 6th rioters who stormed the capitol and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Tune in!

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I’m the son of Jewish refugees that fled the Nazis. I know exactly what I’m looking at.

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Even if Musk made a mistake mistake, for a man who wants the neo-Nazi AfD to win next month’s German elections, whose grandparents were unrepentant post-war Nazis and who has restored extreme right violent accounts to X - and indeed reposts them - I’d say it’s a pretty careless one.

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Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa for the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter. But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.

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I honestly thought they’d wait at least a day to do the Nazi stuff.

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Waka Waka Eyyy! Waka Waka Eyyy! £60 million down the drain! Kai Havertz scores again! What a well deserved goal. #COYG

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Arsenal seem to be attacking with much more balance down both sides against Villa. Haven’t seen this in a while. #COYG

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The temperature at noon on Monday will be 22 degrees which is the same temperature it was in 1961 when Kennedy was inaugurated. The ceremony was held outside.

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🚨🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL, FOLKS!🚨🚨 Mike Turner’s removal is a sign that the politicization of our intel apparatus is already underway. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

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#OligarchEra

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Mike Turner is dedicated to national security and thoughtful oversight of the IC. His removal makes our nation less secure and is a terrible portent for what’s to come. The Constitution demands Congress function as a check on the Executive Branch, not cater to its demands.

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North London Forever! North London is Red!

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@pbump.com gets it here: "In other words, Hegseth admits that he lacks the experience and qualifications of past secretaries... That is precisely the sort of inclusion that the right excoriates when it is applied to Black people or women."

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Would be funny if they weren't also trying to confirm someone to run the Department of Defense who would struggle to run a lemonade stand.

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This is some B.S! Angelinos didn’t ask for strings attached to disaster relief after Katrina. It’s un-American.

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The latest column by @maxboot.bsky.social connects the right dots on why Pete Hegseth's nomination should be D.O.A. We still face real challenges and hard choices about how we make America even safer. Hegseth would struggle to run a lemonade stand. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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