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This is the exact inflection I use with my dog when he doesn’t chew on the couch after being left home alone

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the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

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Claire and I bought eggs this week — the good news is it only cost us our combined paychecks and the eternal damnation of our souls — so you could say things are looking up!

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Trump slump

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

“Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”

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They’ve internalized “we should reduce the size of the federal workforce” to such a degree that it’s just seen as inherently good until someone starts doing it and you see the actual outcome. Unless your worldview is just chaos there’s no reason it should support blindly shrinking the government

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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

submitted 13 days ago • 477 comments

Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

John Turturro did some of the finest acting I’ve ever seen during the last ten minutes of yesterday’s episode of Severance.

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If you know literally anything about South Africa — you realize how incredibly offensive and fucked up this is

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A fascinating experiment for a new approach to forward guidance!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things that always irritated me with the coverage of Obama/Trump voters is the lack of interest in Romney/Clinton voters. If you’ve spent any time talking to them — you’ll find many didn’t only start voting for Democrats but adopted Democratic issue positions too.

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I had to get off Twitter because it was making me genuinely depressed about where society was headed. I became convinced that Nazis were a significant part of the population. Getting on BlueSky has been like a very welcome slap in the face back to reality.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

An underrated strategy especially in todays media environment is just doing stuff until eventually something sticks

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To expand on this: There is a lot of evidence that coming across as moderate is helpful to winning elections. The problem is the popularists determined that being moderate only applies to position taking — allowing their opponents to paint them as crazy radicals with zero pushback.

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Agree with a lot of what Will says here. It’s important to add that Democrats can talk about inflation but it has to be part of a broader narrative. Republicans tied inflation under Biden to a narrative of incompetence resulting from ideology/age.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The thing is it wasn’t cringe and those of us at the time who thought it was and popularized that were 22 and didn’t know anything — a lesson that everyone continuously forgets.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I’m convinced The Vibes They Are A-Changin’ based on reading comments on facebook under local news outlets. This methodology has never let me down before!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It’s important to understand — they want to kill you.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Claire is out of town so I can’t watch Severance until Sunday and I’m not handling it well:/

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Exactly! You’ve got to explain what is actually happening and instead I just see DEI plastered on every news headline.

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As a proud liberal YIMBY, the attitude taken by Matt, etc is not helpful. The same thing happens when people decide the construction process of the Empire State Building is something we should emulate. There’s usually good reasons why we have modern safety/environmental practices.

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Tomorrow is Severance Day and I will not be interacting with those who do not observe

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The moment I know you’ve all been waiting for. Project Horizon, aka Rivian, has closed its $6.6B loan with LPO. Georgia is a go. 🍑🇺🇸 The future of the American auto sector is brighter today. 🔌💡 www.energy.gov/lpo/articles...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Our statement on DOE’s announcement that Century Aluminum has received its first phase of funding to build the first U.S. clean aluminum smelter: www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/fi...

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