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God, that final Around the Horn panel. Tim, KB, Frank...some of the coolest humans I've ever met. And Jackie...went from being a personal hero (I was so intimidated by her!) to a pal; sent me one of the first gifts I received my son was born. She means so much to women in our industry.

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Opinion | I developed my unitary executive theory based on an originalist constitutionalist reading. But the next time we have a Democratic president I may have to rethink this theory.

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John Roberts, who was part of GW Bush's 2000 Florida Recount team (with Kavanaugh and Barrett), is now the 21st Century counterpart to Roger Taney. Look it up!

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This is also why anti-vax sentiment is so deeply rooted in people with low social trust—the fantasy of separating yourself from your neighbors so profoundly you don’t have to worry about it is so deep (and irrational)

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Chairman Mao announces that he’s increasing the price of iPhones

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i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

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They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

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Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

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Deborah is 💯% right to emphasize that Wilcox didn't just happen. It's the latest milestone in a decades-long project of the conservative legal movement, one designed to convince legal elites that unitary exec. theory is correct, despite deep historical, textual & functional flaws. 1/2

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The backlash in Republican circles against Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy meant that our pivotal justices were specifically selected to be people who were not pragmatic or responsible stewards of the nation as a whole---they were selected for radicalism.

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THIS IS A VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, AS WELL AS A SPECIFIC LAW

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I knew when I saw Andy Harris drop in a “present” with Garbarino and Schweikert taking a walk that we’d be inundated with this take, which is understandable but wrong. They had 4 more votes if they’d needed them. Republicans did this, they made decisions, they don’t deserve to be excused this way

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BREAKING: A 4-4 Supreme Court rules religious schools CANNOTI participate in publicly funded charter school programs. (Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond ex rel. Oklahoma, 24-394 & 24-396) #SCOTUS

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My statement on voting against Trump and Musk's handout to the rich and powerful:

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this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

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Damn it

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Some of us have always loved Aaron Nesmith. green-tint.ghost.io/in-praise-of...

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Medicaid changes in managers amendment are out and the drive to kill the ACA Medicaid expansion by a 1000 cuts accelerates. 1. Work requirement moved up to 12/26 with state option to go earlier 2. State directed payments limited more tightly for expansion states

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NEW from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office: Republicans’ budget bill will GIVE MORE MONEY TO THE RICHEST 10% and TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM THE POOREST 10%. It’s a scam.

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

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America’s still got the juice

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BREAKING NEWS!

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I’ve reported on presidents’ health for 53 years. No public evidence suggests Biden’s doctors mishandled prostate cancer testing www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/b...

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This is in some ways more scandalous than Dick Cheney’s politicization before the Iraq war. Trump made a transparently bogus claim in order to get emergency power to render legal immigrants to a concentration camp. When spooks debunked the claim, Tulsi started firing people.

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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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GUYS NFL LIVE JUST WON A SPORTS EMMY FOR BEST SHOW IM AT HOME SCREAMING

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RESULT: Democrats have defended a state Senate seat in New York State. Democrat Sam Sutton wins by more than 30%. The GOP was eying a flip: This is a district where Trump received 77% of the vote in November, so a huge swing compared to that. Prior senator was conservative Democrat Simcha Felder.

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Trump won this district by 55 points 6 months ago.

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“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

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Shadow docket strikes again

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Being allowed to bully trans kids is an emergency. Having the US honor Congress appropriations for programs that save kids from HIV: Give us eleven months to say, "Go for it."

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This will cause preventable death. But hey, Biden's old.

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Why this remotely relevant ESPECIALLY for Vance? They won. They're the President. Biden is old. He was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer. Why on earth are they choosing to litigate this beyond the siren song of flawed personality character?

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if you're letting your freak flag fly, time to lower it to half mast. CDC shut the office which tracks outbreaks/clusters of STIs

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Devastating. The cowardice and the betrayal of an incomparable news brand.

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Anyone remotely paying attn to the technical issues can see that converting Trump’s Qatar pimpmobile plane to and AF1 will take years not a few months and will probably require significant deblinging/depimping. Sad.

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“Sesame Street” has found itself a new home. Netflix announced that the decades-old public educational television program will premiere its 56th season on the global streaming giant, along with 90 hours of previous episodes.

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Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA

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Waxman was uncommon, perhaps a rarity, even in his day for the breath of his policy knowledge and oversight ability. But observation here is dead on. None of this is being driven by any policy knowledge or even goals. It's just how to keep spinning the Rubiks cube until the get the right dollar ...

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"Average voters won't trust us until we dump on Biden more" is the most transparently self-serving horseshit I have ever heard in my life.

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It’s 10 pm on a Sunday night and Republicans on the Budget Committee are cutting food assistance, health care, and access to education to give billionaires a tax break.

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Sending love, support and solidarity to President Biden and his family. We know he’ll face this cancer fight with the same grace, tenacity and strength he has shown throughout a lifetime of public and private battles. This man shows us what character and courage are made of.

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shoutout to the atlanta tsa agent who, after i got flagged and needed an arm pat down while trying to hustle to make a flight, said “it’s because you’ve been working out, machine thinks you’ve got guns.” best city

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Do media executives realize that their message to politicians is "if you act to correct things we say are bad, we'll denounce you for that same thing more, but if you want us to let the bad thing go, you should double down on it, lie about it, attack us, and threaten us with frivolous lawsuits"?

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The candidate who actually cares about Romanian security and prosperity won Now the far-right tries to construct an alternative reality and contest the results.

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That is horrifying. Cancer is the stuff of nightmares. Hoping for him and his family that treatment goes well.

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As it turns out, the costs of voting for the far right, either sincerely or in protest of mainstream parties, were far more limited when the hegemon was there to backstop domestic politics with a baseline level of sanity at the international level. Much finding out now after years of f*cking around.

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RESULT: Nicusor Dan, the centrist mayor of Bucarest, will be the next president of Romania. A big loss for the far-right: its candidate George Simion got 41% in round one, but didn’t grow enough, & turnout surging worked against him. Simion is down 54.3% to 45.7% with 96% reporting.

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