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"smeared" = "accurately reported upon"

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a soupçon of good news

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An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

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We have kind of two mayoral races going on right now. One is a bunch of earnest left of center wonks putting out policy papers and the other one is two guys doing an Alien vs. Predator thing

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

"The more acutely a man experiences masculine discrepancy stress, the more likely he is to harm other humans. What does that mean when the richest, most powerful men in the world suffer from masculine discrepancy stress?" by @celestedavis.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

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Banning “ideological purity tests” is critical when you clearly don’t believe in anything.

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all these people need to be exiled to an island where they can live out their fantasy of mitt romney being the 2028 democratic nominee

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Percent of school vouchers that go to religious institutions (schools and the churches that run them): Florida - 82% Arizona ESP - 87% (older AZ program: 96%) North Carolina - 92% Ohio - 91% Wisconsin - 96% Indiana - 98%

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Ok it is going to be titanically annoying when a dem is back in power and the investigations of Musks businesses which were not politically motivated are restarted, and the GOP starts singing “retribution!” and then some of the elite media goes along with it

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Fox News reported that JD Vance had to move to an “undisclosed location” due to protests at the Vermont resort where he’s skiing this weekend. For inflicting misery on the world and here at home in America, this is exactly the energy that should greet Vance wherever he goes for the rest of his days.

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I really shouldn’t have to see either Rahm Emanuel or Andrew Cuomo at this point in my life.

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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Too late to spin this up, but every single Democratic member doing a direct-to-constituents explainer of what's happening

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tfw your budget for the employee advocacy marketing program is $30

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One of the savvy takes you hear every so often is that Elon is actually extremely smart beyond his specific technical competencies and is only pretending to be dumb to get in with Republicans. We've seen no evidence of this whatsoever.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

"America First (against the wall)"

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i hope more than anything what people learn from this 2nd trump term is that the capitalist class are aligned and they want you to have less rights and only want you to exist to generate profit for them

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

JD Vance is probably enough of a dumb worthless piece of shit to think this is good, but Rubio knows he's destroying the country and that he's too much of a coward to do anything about it, and he deserves the misery that comes with that.

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so now we're not even getting the rare earths? some dealmaker

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If the Trump/Vance/Zelenskyy thing moves the needle for me at all, it's not because it's somehow worse than anything Trump and Vance have already done. It just looks worse because it's to Z's face instead of hiding behind the polite veneer of "it's just politics." This is Trumpism at its core.

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It was, and is, a coup.

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Trump did a recession

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hey if you're making signs...don't riff off the MAGA crap. We are better than that. We are more creative. We know more words. ok xoxoxo go be great

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it's me! in the Prospect: angry at the fecklessness of the Democratic opposition? looking for somewhere specific to direct your anger? here are ten House Democrats who are especially ripe for primaries:

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Do something in front of the scenes or shut the fuck up. bsky.app/profile/wash...

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Nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink are going to be part of the conversation in any thinkable post Trump/Musk era. Democracies that become structurally dependent on infrastructures provided by unpredictable private actors are going to be weak democracies at best.

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Nvidia down 6% now Taiwan Semiconductor down 5% Broadcom down 4% China tariff reality check szn has begun

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hey guys I'm trying to establish right-wing dictatorship in a wealthy, diverse, and relatively robust democracy. the ideal political economy for my project is one in which I've picked fights with the military and professional classes and strapped a ticking time bomb to Wall Street, right?

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if the Republicans' proposed sweeping cuts to Medicaid go through, West Virginia is going to get gored. more than a quarter of the state's residents are on Medicaid and 45 percent of its children paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cruel-and-...

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I just called Senator Cantwell's DC office to leave a comment. You should call your senators too and let them know what you think.

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Teens with disabilities were getting help with life after high school. Then DOGE started cutting. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/26/t...

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New: Reporting over the past few days suggest Dems really do see the government-funding as an opportunity to force a return to the rule of law. (Good!) It also suggests that they might settle for a fig leaf. (Bad!)

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"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

The Weekend at Bernie's presidency.

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I'm starting to think we probably shouldn't have put a plausible serial killer in charge of people not dying.

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Hey, nobody said it was a good plan.

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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

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