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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

That should certainly be the trigger for all governments in Europe to eliminate their dependence on MS, and, indeed, ALL US tech companies, because Apple and Google have bent the knee in other ways.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

Because you'd be breaking a promise that we worked under our whole lives. Nobody would have paid into it for 45 years with the understanding that "Well, I can *probably* get welfare if I need it when I'm too old to work". That's not a retirement plan.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 11h

It wasn't designed for this ratio in the 1930s. But it WAS anticipated by SS reform that Tip and Ronnie agreed on in 1987. That's why Boomers paid ahead into a trust fund since then--most of our working lives. The SS actuaries didn't just "seat of the pants" this thing.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

People on the upper end DON'T get more back than they put in, not compared to what an equivalent amount of money would have earned in a 50/50 bond/stock fund. Social Security is somewhat progressive that way.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Oh, the irony of him complaining about people spouting off when they know nothing about it.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We have a nutcase in charge of public health. I wish there were more experts like you who would publicly say this. It might break through.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Did a judge actually sign a warrant to do that? Hard to imagine, but Trump has put some wackos in place.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

it's really not hard unless you are determined not to.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew

BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

There might be a couple of rounds of tit-for-tat expansion, but the effort becomes a lot greater in each round. Once you get to a certain size, it's a lot harder to expand in a way that produces a desired change in political outcomes.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Tapper is a cynical opportunist. As such, he can be trusted to be a reliable indicator of which way the wind is blowing. This and other moments suggest he believes maga is a spent force. He might evem mention Trump's dementia after the midterms.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hey, at least she's not handing them water bottles in a voting line.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

As I've written before, & I"m sure I'll write again, both here & at the mothership Elon is the biggest insider threat. In August 2023 Ronan Farrow reported how Biden's senior natsec treated him as equivalent to a head of state. 1/ (Link in next post).

Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. A staffer handed him an iPhone—in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts and colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. Kahl had returned to his room, with its heavy drapery and distant view of the Eiffel Tower, after a day of meetings with officials from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. A senior defense official told me that Kahl was surprised by whom he was about to contact: “He was, like, ‘Why am I calling Elon Musk?’ ”

The reason soon became apparent. “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,” Kahl told me. SpaceX, Musk’s space-exploration company, had for months been providing Internet access across Ukraine, allowing the country’s forces to plan attacks and to defend themselves. But, in recent days, the forces had found their connectivity severed as they entered territory contested by Russia. More alarmingly, SpaceX had recently given the Pentagon an ultimatum: if it didn’t assume the cost of providing service in Ukraine, which the company calculated at some four hundred million dollars annually, it would cut off access. “We started to get a little panicked,” the senior defense official, one of four who described the standoff to me, recalled. Musk “could turn it off at any given moment. And that would have real operational impact for the Ukrainians.”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2026

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He didn't even know her, really.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Noem and Musk are scum of the earth.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Legally Blonde. But not like the movie.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That's what Trump said when Zelensky asked for intel.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just quit already! Christ, you're 84 years old, you're rich and have had a fabulous career! Why are you lending credibility to this sham?

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It was quite noticeable that the band behind him, normally pretty lively and responsive during the monologue, were pretty deadpan through the whole thing.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Might be right, but you have to be willing to absorb a beating and hours if not days in jail to find out. I don't blame people for not wanting to chance it, especially with the current climate of No Accountability.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Assault with a vehicle is a state crime. Arrest this driver now!

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Streaming it is terrible, but my question is why is this guy still alive? He is an example of why I can’t support completely eliminating the death penalty.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

She'd have to have a mind before you could change it.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If he actually DID issue such an EO, it would be interesting to see if Google and Apple followed suit. I mean, there is no difference between this and the Gulf or Lake Ontario, except in degree. But would this be the bridge too far?

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You believe him? bsky.app/profile/ippo...

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And his weird ideas about what constitute healthy include eating more of things like "beef tallow".

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Answer: No He used Trump to gain some power but the pro-business people (and religious nuts, but secondarily to business) in the Admin still make all the decisions. That was clear when Trump forced him to pose with McDonalds.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The proper reaction to this view of the war in Ukraine is...stunned silence, disbelief that a someone could show the world what a monster she is.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just set up a monthly donation.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is the work reporters should be doing. Not following Trump around at rallies.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would hope that nobody not in the cult still holds on to the "liberal bias of the press" myth. We've all seen the sh*t storm that happens when a Democratic is caught in one inaccuracy, versus the upraised "whattya gonna do" palms in the face of mountains of GOP lies and corruption.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course it's the capitalists who have always wanted the cheap foreign workers that they can exploit without much legal recourse to any are mistreated.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pitt and ASU going "Well, at least we're being mentioned with Harvard and Yale!"

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's very unfortunate how these tendentious claims take off and distract from the absolutely valid criticism that Trump continually claims the false dichotomy of "it was WAR or destruction of US cities."

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Welp. You gotta hand it to him, the man really knows his socialism. /s

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If Deters didn’t make the payment to cover Kim Guilfoyle’s $100,000 AmEx debt ahead of her ambassador confirmation, then who paid it? Her ethics disclosure doesn’t list any credit card debt

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There has never been anyone in history with a higher and more undeserved opinion of himself than this sad, pathetic man.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is effectively a new $100k tax on international students, and will destroy the market. Which is killing the golden goose -- higher ed is one of the most successful exports the US produces

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Dennis D. @dennisdoubleday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who came up with this rule that you can't ask nominees what they think about cases that might come before them? It was nominees who know their honest opinions would be unpopular enough to sink their nomination. OF COURSE they should be asked!

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