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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It is unambiguously good, for Germany and Europe, that the CDU did a 180° turn on fiscal policy and broke its election promises even before day 1 of formal coalition talks. Not sure how its voters will take it, but voters overakk were ahead of the conservatives on debt for a while now.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

One thing that popped out of YouGov polling this week: The idea of Musk making money off his access is VERY unpopular.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

we do the "working toward the fuhrer" comparison but this is actually paying a compliment to the Trump II administration

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Elon Musk and Nancy Mace think they are going to scare me and silence me with a censure. They don’t want opposition as they raid the social safety net. Democrats need to fight harder, not retreat. I’m not backing down folks, I’m from Long Beach.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

There are lots of NGOs that use the NH primary to get candidates to commit on video to their goals. In 2008/2012/2016 I kept seeing activists use town halls to get Rs on record that they would support PEPFAR. Used to think "why ask that, who's against it?" And now we know!

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Actually it’s good that a bunch of teenagers are unilaterally firing thousands of government employees because they have ChatGPT” i can’t get over how unfathomably stupid the average SF venture capitalist is

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Whoever made the original graphic doesn't understand the scale and speed of smart high IQ people who can program, and what they can do in a moment when intelligence now on infinite tap using LLMs
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Luke being charge of our money is an incredible shift. I didn't know this was an option, amazing development
Who are these little boys?
And why are they in charge of our money?
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Luke Farritor Ethan Shaotran Edward Coristine
(Not pictured: Gauthier Cole Killian & Gavin Kliger)
The US Treasury pays for:
Social security
Medicare
Grants
Federal salaries
And is usually run by grown-ups.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I hope folks remember that the statute of limitations is long, Dems will regain power, and Merrick Garland is seen as a clear failure in our party. Act accordingly.

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 31/01/2025

Think your grocery bill is high now? Trump just said he’s going to put a 25% tax on all food and goods from Mexico, here’s what that means.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Believe it or not, Colombia is an important export market for US wheat, which is already under pressure from climate change. This will probably impact the Great Plains the most.

Top 10 Export Markets for U.S. Wheat (Values in millions of dollars)
Country
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2021-2022
% Change
2018-2022
Average
Mexico
662
812
778
1,293
1,590
23%
1,027
Philippines
643
708
814
885
920
4%
794
Japan
717
609
635
703
914
30%
716
Nigeria
193
473
311
504
478
-5%
392
South Korea
364
301
356
498
474
-5%
399
China
106
56
570
764
395
-48%
378
Taiwan
268
324
302
306
379
24%
316
Yemen
103
168
193
154
262
70%
176
Colombia
88
137
133
191
238
24%
157
Thailand
180
162
171
189
233
23%
187
All Other
2,077
2,491
2,025
1,739
2,611
50%
2,189
Total Exported

6,241
6,287
7,227
8,495
18%
6,730

bar chart showing a pattern of increased planted acres but diminishing harvests from 2017-2023, especially for winter wheat

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This guy justifiably believes that he’s been released to vomit extralegal violence for Trump, we’ll see what he does with that!

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The J6 pardon story is not going to go away. Emboldened violent lunatics have been given a license to commit crimes on behalf of the state. This will get worse.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Attention Federal Workers: if you encounter one of these folks, contact your friendly Oversight Committee Democrats. We’re always happy to chat.

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Response of the President of Panama

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

4 years ago a mob incited by Donald Trump attacked the Capitol to overturn the election. Now, Trump wants to pardon these insurrectionists. In 2023, I visited these prisoners at the DC jail on behalf of the Dems on the Oversight Committee. Marjorie Taylor Greene was there. Here's what happened: 🧵

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Attn DC runners/cyclists/others I guess! A brand new road opened south of the Lincoln which restores access to the tidal basin while Ohio drive is closed! Woooo

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Why aren’t you playing spikeball

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

“Lisa, a guy who has lots of ivory is less likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

“Nobody said anything on the campaign trail about attacking legal immigrants.” Lady, they were trying to incite pogroms against legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Impossible to imagine the Elon/MAGA fight happening in Trump’s first term. But now he’s too old to control his own coalition or dominate the conversation. It’s gonna get weirder!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

In a battle between Musk and Miller on immigration, Miller will eat Musk’s lunch every time, because unlike Musk, he actually knows how the system works and how to sabotage it.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

This is really, really good on a range of important subjects. To rephrase a take I posted on Twitter, the realm of the possible and available congressional majorities were a bigger shaping force for Bidenomics than reflected here, I think. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Chartbook 341 On thinking in medias res: An Interview with Ding Xiongfei from the Shanghai Review of Books (summer 2024)

Conducted in the summer of 2024 in Shanghai this interview with Ding Xionfei is the most far-reaching public discussion I have had had about the development of my writing and thinking since Perry Ande...

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clarabellum @clarabellum.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

bereal went off as i was giving my cats their annual holiday treat plate. god bless.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“God forbid a guy have hobbies”

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Idk how much to trust the media narrative here, but it’s fun that an ostensibly communist dictator holds a lot of dumb, out of touch anti-welfarist takes. Combined with the foreign policy hawkishness, he’d be a great Republican backbench member.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/12/2024

(setting alarms the night before travel) but what if i sleep in for the first time in 15 years tomorrow

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Good takes here. I would nuance slightly. Most of Trump’s lunatic aggression is trolling to feed the culture war and outrage libs, at least for now. It’s an idiots vision of smart foreign policy- but it can become real, fast! Hillary warned us! A guy you can bait with a tweet cannot have nukes!

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A good microcosm of my whole political critique is that GOP leaders reflexively understand that “Biden commutes death penalty sentences to life in prison” = “attack Dems viciously” while Dem leaders reflexively see “Trump’s top pick to be AG is a child rapist” as another opportunity to say nothing.

There is only one screengrab here because only one party leader bothered to criticize the other party on a big news day.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Well informed folks in DC are regularly shocked at how recently places like South Korea and Taiwan democratized. Even in Europe, you can’t understand Poland or Hungary without recognizing that communism fell, like, recently! The Weimar Republic lasted 15 years, for context.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I have also removed my name from consideration

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Not exactly disagreeing with this line of analysis but the original tweet is a Spanish woman grifting for attention, not actually campaign messaging. The camp performative masculinity posting what people assume the algorithm will promote, or a guess at what appeals to braindead Elon worshippers.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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The therapeutic potential of a venomous lizard: the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues in the critically ill

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a principal mediator of the postprandial insulinotropic response in health, has a half-life of minutes. The saliva of the Gila monster contains exendin-4, a structural...

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Elon Musk and Donald Trump tried to shutdown the government and raise the debt limit to pass huge tax cuts for their billionaire friends - but we stopped them. The government stays funded and we move forward. Don’t ever stop fighting.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I know we all decided that it wasn’t his fault, but Trump’s first term ended with “The Worst Year Since 1945” so yeah safe bet

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

If you’re Mike Johnson, do you call Elon and try to correct his astonishingly dumb misinformation about the CR? Or does he just assume Elon is knowingly lying? Tough call, glad I’m not a Republican.

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Andrew Bower @andrewbower.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Big 2016-2019 vibes right now folks!!!! Republican trifecta (derogatory)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/12/2024

spent this afternoon reading some early US history (as one does) and was reminded of the important fact that these people were almost constantly drunk as hell

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