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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

To be fair, it was tantalizingly orange-flavored

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If like three years ago the pundit class and democratic politicians had held to this line we wouldn't be where we are today "I don't know what the big deal is."

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“How much could two dolls cost, Michael? Ten dollars?”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If Hegseth resigns and we get an Acting Secretary of Defense, it'll be the eighth time we've had one. One came under Nixon, a second under GHW Bush. And then we had *five* under Trump.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Now would be a good day for George w bush to say something

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/04/2025

once again, members of Congress are held to a lower standard than we hold volunteer neighborhood board members and we should really figure out how that happened

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Elected Dems: do not let up on due process and do not let up on Hegseth’s security violations. The admin thinks it can get away with anything. Change that.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Van Hollen is very good at conveying he understands the moment we’re in and he’s an adult in the room. Much more effective than Chuck Schumer aiming for clever and hitting cringe.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Sen. Van Hollen and his meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is all over the news and social media. Joe Rogan is talking about the value of due process, wrongly denied to Abrego Garcia. Thankfully the “just poll, then do what’s already popular, never try to lead or shape opinion” crowd lost.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Good morning to everyone but especially the White House employee whose assholery apparently woke up SCOTUS

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ceej @ceej.online · 17/04/2025

if we tell you the real reason we can’t bring that guy back home do you guys promise not to get mad

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Maybe. At the same time, I think they are embracing the notion that they can act with impunity without having to prove anything to anyone. If they presented actual evidence, that would set a precedent, and they might be expected to do it again next time. They prefer “because I said so”

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

“A vibe shift is happening. To support this thesis, we anecdotally speak with a trad wife podcaster in Romania.” -NYTimes pitchbot and NYTimes forming a singular overlapping Venn diagram circle once again.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

*checks watch ten days later*

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It is pretty wild to think of Barack Obama sitting with someone from Central America and going “well uhhhh I think it would be a good idea to uhhhh send American citizens to your secret prisons” and the media just being like oh ok that’s dope man anyways how about TARIFFS

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

POTUS is telling another world leader he's going to start deporting native-born Americans, and to build more concentration camps for the inflow. This is shocking, even for Trump. I'm sure MAGA will tell us that it was just some jokey chit chat. It's not at all.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Congratulations to John Roberts for enabling *two* heads of state to mock you openly.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The entire world economy, but particularly the US economy, is teetering on the brink of catastrophe, with the naive hope that someone will stop Trump before we reach the tipping point. But that “someone” is always “someone else” which ultimately results in “no one.”

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Fyodor Dostoevsky to the formerly supply-side free trade Republican Party:

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just bought a $2.86 coffee from Haji's Famous Deli, but the cashier refused to buy anything from me, and I made clear to him that this deficit is not sustainable.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Stunning note from Mizuho, comparing tariff policy to Chernobyl Gorbachev’s gov’t “was built on power and lies and could not admit mistakes .. Admitting the disaster to the world, even if it was the right thing to do, would show weakness. “We are all along for the ride, no matter how dangerous..”

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

smart republicans, if there are any, should recognize this moment as a good off-ramp from MAGA, and take back their party in the image of HW Bush, McCain, and Romney. Because of this tariff disaster, being MAGA is about to be politically toxic. The groundswell against it will be something to behold

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Inciting an insurrection was not quite enough to invoke the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office, but I kinda feel like his unilateral decision to senselessly immolate the American economy could do it.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For a decade, Democrats have been wondering: "Who can take down Donald Trump?" Answer: Donald Trump.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

… is this… is this a threat?

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We are all going to live out the plot, and learn the valuable lessons of, A Day Without a Mexican, and its lesser known sequel, A Year Without Any Imported Goods.

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Gourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

WEEKS?! If they're forcing manufacturing back into the U.S. they would need to stay on for decades. No one is building a factory here when they can just wait it out. Man, we're all gonna just eat shit while the rest of the world sits it out.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

has Joe Biden made a public appearance since the election?

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We — namely republicans, but democrats too — built an economy based on supply-side economic theories. Then, with these tariffs, Trump burned the bridge from which the supplies came. This is laughably stupid.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

He’s so close to getting it

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Remember all the politicians, pundits, anchors, law firms, billionaires, and corporations that voluntarily bent the knee to Trump and threw America under the bus. They made a selfish choice, thinking Trump and MAGA would be in power for years. Well, the regime is cracking and people are waking up.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hey @schumer.senate.gov - what are the senate republicans saying at the congressional gym, on their recumbent stationary bicycles, now?

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The tech bro oligarch, who successfully provides Trump a face-saving justification that Trump can offer the public while immediately and completely reversing his utterly stupid tariff plan, will get a Nobel Prize.

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Joshua Pauselius @pauselius.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Incredible opportunity for Democrats to step up and lead with a clear bill to override these tariffs. It either hits the floor or they can run on it. That's if they actually want to step up

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Thing is, if there is zero due process, how do you prove you even ARE a citizen?

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Dave Simon @hairyhilarity.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Here’s a question I’m not hearing anyone asking about Signalgate: Who was the person, presumably with a name similar to Jeffrey Goldberg, who SHOULD have been included in these Yemeni War Plans, but who was inadvertently left off the chain? Was a major figure in the top brass…just forgotten about?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The only way someone can be added to a Signal chat is if the person who started the text group--the admin--directly adds them or directly approves their request to be added. There is no way Jeffrey Goldberg could wish his way into that text group. Mike Waltz accidentally added him. That's it.

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