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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This should obviously get thrown out, but what is the penalty for bringing bullshit prosecutions? Will the government at least need to pay legal fees?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

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'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Bad news for Americans.

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The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on immigration in major cities across the United States. cnn.it/45yvNjJ

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Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on imm...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

People really need to just ignore Cam Newton. He lives for attention and nothing else.

GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

16% of respondents have "a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court". On the bright side, only 13% say climate change is "not happening". apnews.com/projects/pol...

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Latest AP Polls | AP-NORC Polling

New and historic polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on presidential approval, the U.S. economy and other issues.

I was 15 that year. Gives me chills thinking back to how epic that era was.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Wall Street is no longer a serious place.

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BOOCKVAR: After seeing the Japan deal, we assume "$2.9 Trillion that will be taxed at 15% and that equals $435 Billion of taxes on US consumers and businesses .. For context, US companies pay about $525 Billion of corporate income taxes to the US govt." peterboockvar.substack.com/p/great-to-s...

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Great to see a trade deal but.../JGB yields jumping again in response/Mixed commentary still from calls

I want to quickly start by saying that Bleakley Financial Group has officially changed its name to One Point BFG Wealth Partners.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*

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I also think the mythology comes from the "elites" who fund the Democratic agenda. The liberal professional class is accustomed to knowledge, decorum, and honest debate having value in their daily interactions. But obviously that doesn't translate to politics.

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This is why corporations need actual boards, not a team of sycophants. If they had spent the Cybertruck money on a Model 2 or *actual* self driving technology then they'd be doing a hell of a lot better right now.

"ending THEIR war" 🤔 How do you screw up such an easy headline? At this point it's hard to believe it's unintentional.

GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Amongst my peers, the ones who grew up with strict responsibilities for chores have a much better work ethic and better focus in adulthood. Seems like a win-win for parenting.

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Yeah but Oklahoma has more freedom - right?

GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Another example of something that would have been solved LONG ago if men had to give birth.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 17/07/2025

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Trump's threats to fire Jerome Powell are being covered by the US press with the wrong lens. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans or Trump vs. the Fed. This is a story about why authoritarian rulers who remove constraints on their power destroy prosperity. I explain why here:

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Jerome Powell and the Authoritarian Sirens of Odysseus

Why strongman presidents become weaker—to everyone's peril—when they remove constraints on their own power.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It didn't work for the Black woman. It might work for Trump.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Many of them truly believed that. Just one example... I had an otherwise smart coworker tell me: "say what you want about the guy, but at least the economy will probably be better".

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I'm old enough to remember when F1 gave the USA broadcast rights to ESPN for *free* because NBC backed out and nobody else wanted it.

GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Using animals for sport should be banned. If poor people were using animals like this it would be considered cruel or barbaric. But if rich people think it's cool then it's fine.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Tesla share price was a result of ignorant group-think on Wall Street and delusional fanboys on Main Street.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2025

I am fine having my blue state tax contribute to military, diplomacy, EPA, etc. But I'm sick and tired of subsidizing red states while they consistently strip away services for their residents in the name of "small government".

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If blue states kept their money, they would be fine or even better off. Red states would be in deep financial trouble. Example: California is the fourth largest economy on Earth. It grows over one third of America’s vegetables and two thirds of its fruits and nuts.

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Another feckless coward hiding behind his bullshit Christianity Lite. We will not make progress until we can leave this Bronze Age garbage in the past where it belongs.

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She's not helping her reputation as a whiny brat. Her take is nonsense, but if she wants to change it then win.

Automatic... What a shame.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

"Imagine no religion"

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He wants it to end with Russia winning.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I miss those days. But I don't want to redo them.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Especially since the last two movies sucked. Just move on.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

How is this an improvement over Tibs?

GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Agree with everything in this piece. But what happens when R voters are told by state propaganda that this bill is actually *not* responsible for their economic hardship, and it's somehow the fault of Dems? Will they believe their own eyes or the propaganda? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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They Didn’t Have to Do This

By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

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GW @gdubba.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Up there talking like he isn't part of the problem. Get somebody with some outrage. Give me AOC, or Murphy, or Bernie, or anyone with a pulse.