Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19hAmerica today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 442163758
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21hCox has also banned fluoridation of water and packed his state supreme court so Republicans can gerrymander at will. Thoughts and feelings ass motherfucker. 530447
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 22hRon Johnson blocks vote to stop Trump’s funding cancellations www.politico.com/live-updates...politico.comRon Johnson blocks vote to stop Trump’s funding cancellationsDemocrats tried to pass a bill to revive $810 million Trump unilaterally canceled and prevent similar clawbacks. 104611
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gas prices have been over $4 nationwide for two months, and interest rates on 10 and 30-year bonds keep going up. And no, Scott Bessent, we won't "grow our way" out of this. Especially as corp tax revenues and worker wage growth go down. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2026/09/us-g... #EconSky #innersjakehasablog.blogspot.comUS gas prices, bonds and debts all aren't showing what you wantHere in Wisconsin, you may have noticed that gas prices have been on a roller coaster for September. AAA says that regular gas prices i... 011
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 273128242111
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again 873403387
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAlex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This clip from Katie Nolan on @pablo.show captures the vibe perfectly. It's been decades of stories where the villains and bad faith are obvious, but no one ever faces consequences. 539255
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BURRY: “.. Fundamentally, I am moving timelines up. .. As such, I want more leverage in my short positions. Better timelines make leverage more palatable. Nothing says leverage like options, in this case put options, which are relatively cheap ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/m... 23406108
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAllison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 28/09/2026Most of the dunking on this focuses on his political ineptitude but can we just talk for a second about how little he apparently cares about the victim here? Who he was supposed to be advocating for? You're the fucking prosecutor, asshole! 27120
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend. 772049435
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAllison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 28/09/2026Editors, I beg you: respond to these more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger mea no culpas with a jerkoff motion that can be seen from space. 1136
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Phone calls investigated with the utmost haste and unlimited resources, while the FBI ignores the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, likely klilled due to orders from Stephen Miller. 430473
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment. 2390281
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social 14548164
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026RAJU: Only 33% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling his job. Is he a drag in your district? VAN ORDEN: I am fully supportive of President Trump. And if that's not popular, that's just the way it is 199943212
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialCurt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jacob Misiorowski's final 2026 numbers: 174.2 IP, 1.80 ERA, 2.17 FIP, 252 K, 44 BB, 31.3 K-BB%, .802 WHIP. The third-lowest WHIP by any qualified starter (excl. 2020) in MLB history, trailing only 1913 Walter Johnson and 2000 Martínez. One of the best pitching seasons ever. 311834
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Census Bureau released figures this month showing 2025 median household income rising over inflation, and official poverty went down. But SPM poverty didn't fall, due to increasing costs of shelter and medical expenses. And it'll be worse for 2026. jakehasablog.blogspot.com/2026/09/inco... #EconSkyjakehasablog.blogspot.comIncomes up and "official" poverty down for 2025. But costs were up, and it's definitely worse in 2026Earlier this month, the US Census Bureau gave its annual updates for income and poverty in America for the previous year. On the income... 000
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oracle has a ballooning $27 billion contract with one federal agency to do health records. Do you have any idea how much internal tech capacity the government could build if it hired capable tech people and opened up the procurement process to non-oligarch vendors? fedscoop.com/bipartisan-b...fedscoop.comInside the bipartisan backlash to the $27 billion VA-Oracle EHRM contract blindsiding CongressBillions of dollars, dozens of hearings, three administrations and no answers. On the VA’s fourth attempt to modernize electronic health records, Congress says “enough.” 517348
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9047351725
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Congratulations, America: Our public health policy is now dictated by Grandpa Simpson. 04812
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...newrepublic.comTrump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ HeelTrump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works. 792240642
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Andy you think he cares about your fat ass" is the perfect response to MAGA right now. Trump truly does not care about Andy's fat ass. He's got a ballroom to build. 1684586
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions. 11738551016
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When it comes to promoting conspiracy theories, theses guys are all about free speech. When it’s criticism of them… 724052
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In Madison, @slotkin.senate.gov says "You punch a bully in the face" in response to Trump using lawfare to harass her. OH REALLY? Is that why you voted for Laken Riley BS and threw trans people under the bus? Or are you a POSER who only cares when it affects you? @majorityreport.bsky.social 120
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Tom Tiffany voted to raise the cost of your healthcare… and then gave a tax break for data centers. 219267
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This straight up personalist propaganda, paid for by American taxpayers. Trump has more than $400 million in just one PAC. He can pay for this himself instead of stealing from us. 23629184
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188103854
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460511068
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Forwarding to @drewmagary.bsky.social for potential future inclusion on the "Run Through a Brick Wall" segment of the Funbag. This is the stuff here. 000
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Page One in Milwaukee: @mcbridetd.bsky.social 621147365
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026AI has not made us better, more productive, more successful or grown the economy outside of GPU sales and data center construction. It has also made the price of every single device of every kind more expensive, depressed the housing market, and increased literally everybody’s cost of debt. 7582157
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To answer the question given to @harvilla.bsky.social in the Mailbag. Best 20-year era of music - 1977-1997. That's what you want. 100
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices." 289219756777
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Listening to the Bandsplain episode on Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and @jennylsq.bsky.social says she did this Onion story IRL in the early 2000s. Which is tremendous. theonion.com/guy-from-the... @yasisalek.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.socialtheonion.comGuy From The Strokes Accused Of Trying To Look Like Guy From The Strokes 010
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/20269/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds. 61497301
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialSchrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty. 25768252252
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When Trump can decide whether corrupt Senator Susan Collins gets indicted or not, he has the power to decide how she votes.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 19473176
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro saying that the AI trade has been “dead money” for three months, and that it’s inflationary, meaning (as I’ve discussed multiple times) that the more debt they raise the more expensive debt becomes and the more they build data centers the more expensive it gets 221045207
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron 133106002481
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it was @pbump.com who pointed this out, but an absurd amount of adults believe their kid has a chance at pro sports. When you put that incentive there, it really adds a whole layer to the trans sports panic. 40985143
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here's David Ellison's statement on his successful Paramount-WBD. Thanks Newsom "for his support throughout this process." State AGs were on track to kill the the merger with litigation and delay. Is Newsom giving up on the presidency and instead pursuing a post-gov career as Friend of Oligarchs? 21419108
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... 6226691083
jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fun fact - residents of Tom Tiffany's Oneida County pay 50% more per capita in property taxes than MKE Co residents under "high tax" Crowley, and nearly as much in sales tax. Tiffany's hometown just got a 0.5% sales tax. Are they irresponsible? jakehasablog.blogspot.com?m=0 @danshafer.bsky.socialjakehasablog.blogspot.comJake's Wisconsin FunhouseVentings from a guy with an unhealthy interest in budgets, policy, the dismal science, life in the Upper Midwest, and brilliant beverages. 100
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 805149263704
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Republicans' entire campaign against David Crowley is just this, over and over. 110237
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDrew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"ESPN and the SEC made their little pact, and now they’re trotting out their highest paid jackasses to put a late shine on it. It’s a pathetic effort that debases the rest of us." defector.com/this-is-so-f...defector.comThis Is So Fucking Embarrassing | DefectorI guess the addled corpus of Lee Corso was the only thing keeping ESPN’s college football arm from shedding every last trace of dignity. Because if you tuned into the four-letter network’s College Gam... 516422
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Treat enemies like enemies. Crypto is an enemy. 151376263
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 20/09/2026I honestly can’t think of a better metaphor than the Department of War inviting a guy who padded his boxing records with scrubs right until he got hospitalized by someone who could actually fight 582869580
Reposted by @jakemadtown.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The plan is paid for by taking child care supports away from low income parents (mothers), just as they're requiring these same families (women) to *work* to access Medicaid and SNAP. The real goal is to punish poor single mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...nytimes.comWhite House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides ConservativesSome praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles. 5304127
![Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u27cygy2ortpq65lvdxe5rlc/bafkreieg7ly23rqije5bfbr6qktzgmtpf4bl6haer3yhzpfl5kyiiku3he)
