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The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

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What Does It Take to Quit Shopping? Mute, Delete and Unsubscribe. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

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It is so reminiscent of when Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace ambushed Winston Churchill in the Oval Office, made fun of his wartime blue romper and said they wouldn't go negative on Chancellor Hitler, and told him he might have a country left....Oh, right.

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So how will appropriators respond? Will the staff cuts lead them to lower their spending levels? Will they want contractors to do the work? So many questions. "DOGE barrels toward a fresh round of firings, the most widespread yet" www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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I'd forgotten that about Gene Hackman!

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@bsky.app piling on @daveweigel.bsky.social for some perceived apostasy is what many of us fear about this forum--that it will start taking on X's intolerance but with an MSNBC green room smugness.

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There is also Cindi Williams, and there was John Cazale well before that. Harrison Ford might be the last cast member with a speaking role. (His creepy aide foreshadowed similar in Apocalypse Now.)

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How many Americans know that the Trump administration is choking off funds for cancer research?

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Peter Baker at The New York Times is doing something a lot of the mainstream press is not, and it deserves to be noticed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening. An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply: “The same will happen here”.

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has announced he would like the Postal Service to find his successor so he can step down. about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...

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I look forward to JD Vance's statement denouncing this European attack on free speech.

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Indian Americans Ditch Democrats open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

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This is fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

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The late Lars Erik-Nelson was great. www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

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Doubt the Veep will give a free speech talk in Hong Kong or Moscow

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oh god I actually watched the clip, he fumbles the clearly canned punchline when he gets to her last name, and then there’s a moment when he’s done with that sentence where it is exactly like a comic bombing at a club in a new town

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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Pizzagate conspiracy theory peddler and far-right chaos agent Jack Posobiec invited to accompany Trump’s Defense Secretary during trip to Europe Earlier today, Posobiec posted that he was accompanying Treasury Secretary Bessent on his trip to Kiev to meet with Zelensky. Gift link: wapo.st/4gInd4e

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I’m charlton heston about my ssris

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Hegseth team invites far-right activist Jack Posobiec on overseas trip - The Washington Post

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Danielle Sassoon wasn’t afraid to lose her job.

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For US Senate, @alfranken.bsky.social? Pushed out of seat unfairly but at 73…

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See this for what it is (and call it out), another formal boost from Team Trump for the AFD.

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This famous photo of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton is proof that new camera technologies can have unexpected consequences

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These middle schoolers have more courage than most of Congress bsky.app/profile/danl...

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Senator Richard Durbin says he has info from "multiple sources" & meeting notes indicating that Kash Patel has secretly helped direct the FBI purge (via Stephen Miller to Emil Bove), and asked for an IG investigation. Says if true, Patel may have perjured himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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Trump may have been the first president to attend a Super Bowl, but this 70 film had a very Jimmy Carter-like POTUS attending the big game and facing terrorists who hijack the Goodyear blimp. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, and Susie Wiles's dad, Pat Summerall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzk3...

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Four days ago, legal scholar Peter Shane wrote @washingtonmonthly.com that the best hope for stopping Musk’s seizure of federal data systems was for state AG’s to sue. Early this morning…/1 washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/04/t...

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The most read @washingtonpost.com story

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I urge in @washingtonmonthly.com that progressives now turn to the courts with the same energy, intensity, and creativity that Red States brought to bear against Biden. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/04/t.... Many have started. See the Just Security tracker: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

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big deal >>> To Save Democracy, Start Filing Cases washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/04/t...

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Interesting question. If you're looking for something longer lasting than Vichy or Quisling, see the decades-long chain of free-state Democrats who supported slave power--e.g., James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Stephen A. Douglas. Their acquiescence was key to slave power even as North grew.

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Someone please let Klippenstein know that McKinsey consultants are one of the groups that directly benefit from the destruction of a functioning civil service

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An important USAID piece from @brookings.edu 's Bill Galston is on @wsj.com. Gift link. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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The great Margaret Carlson pens an instant @washingtonmonthly.com classic on the art and craft of the "sherpa"--the likable former senior official who shepherds problematic nominees through the Senate. Trump 2 is a full employment plan for sherpas. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/04/i...

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Anti-Musk action plan from legal scholar Peter Shane: “State attorneys general have standing to challenge the hostile takeover of government databases, thanks (ironically) to the Roberts Court’s generous grants of state standing to challenge federal policy.” /1 washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/04/t...

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Gee I wonder why the Russians pay this guy.

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