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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

People who think this guy has a shot in the primary simply because he has a B / B+ online troll game haven't envisioned what his opponents are going to do to him in debates and on the airwaves... (And that's before we even get into the overall oily vibe/appearance.)

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

California electeds sold the nation down the river on the Paramount merger in pursuit of guaranteed film production jobs, which is the thing they think people care about the most. If you don't want a repeat of that, kick Bass out of City Hall and make sure Newsom doesn't exceed 3% in South Carolina.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh my God, this was a recurring nightmare of mine during and *well* after I left M&A.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My God. He lost another full point *overnight.* New highs for disapproval and net disapprove, new low for approval, obviously. Meanwhile the gulf in the generic has widened from D+6 to D+8 in just the last two weeks alone.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let's see what's going on over at the ol' fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv... this AM. 👀 That's a 0.5% gain in disapproval and a 0.5% loss in approval over the space of just ~14 hours, driving a full 1.0% bump to net disapprove, up to -27%. All new records by *big* numbers for the 2nd day in a row.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, all schadenfreude for Paxton aside... *THIS.* Fucking fuck that guy forever.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Holy good gravy: over the course of the day, we've now hit new records (by a lot!) for disapprove and net disapprove. All while only 0.1% from his all-time low.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 WE HAVE A POLL WITH SUB-30 PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL 🚨🚨🚨 (Also a new record for disapprove on the aggregate.)

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I agree with the premise of this post but also would definitely not mind losing Moskowitz in an otherwise blue tsunami.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good morning, #NetsSky. We’re now only one week from media day for the 2026-2027 season! 😊 ⚫️⚪️🏀

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These are my ten, but there are SO many nipping at their heels. Our Flag Means Death, Silo, The Expanse, WandaVision, Sherlock, GBBO, Peaky Blinders, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Squid Game, George Gently, TLoU… Vote for Your 10 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be...

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My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

The Wire, Band of Brothers, Ted Lasso and 7 more.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

lebron you are a fucking billionaire you simply do not need to exploit your fans like this stop it

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

WaPo Exclusive: More American service members have died during the Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon's public database.

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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Um, folks, is that good? bsky.app/profile/unus...

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I want to believe... www.270towin.com/2026-senate-...

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yep. We could govern for a decade or more if we could only kick the G-D establishment and their enablers (strategists) out of power in the party.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh man, I feel this so hard. My pup *just* turned 11 in July, and bang, he’s started sundowning. It seems so unfair. I love him to pieces, but also, it’s so very hard to live like this, with him either constantly weeping or barking angrily/confusedly at me, from 5 to 10 or 11pm every night. 😢

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.

NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There's really no good argument against it, especially if Dems take the Senate. A distraction? Futile? As opposed to what, passing bills that you can't get past a veto anyway? Oversight? You get more attention and stronger legal tools with impeachment. Just do the right thing, it's good politics!

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is that good? (Finance guy here. No, it's not good.)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the "Sheeran effect" seems like a useful shorthand to start using

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anthony Volpe! AL East still in play, baby.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For my Nets crew: training camp is now less than two weeks away. There are still good things in the world!

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It took from late February to early August for the generic at fiftyplusone.news to move from D +5 to a solid D +6. In the time since, it's *blown* through D +7 and is now hurtling toward D +8. LFG!

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here's a list of musical artists that all deserve a stream (or dare I say, even an album purchase) this week, even if they wouldn't normally be your cup of tea:

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW YORK (AP) — At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Harris (the stand-in for the admin in 2024) performed better than all but like one other incumbent worldwide, and still the punditocracy didn't not realize this. It's *maddening.*

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The idea that if Talarico wins he will spread anti-trans ideology throughout the whole Democratic Party and cause a loss of trans rights in all fifty states is objectively bonkers and I'm not sure how it came about that so many smart people all radicalized themselves around this one theory. Wild.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I give you the violent hellscape of Brooklyn that Republicans so loathe and fear. (This was last night around 6:00-6:30.)

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One one hand, I think it's perfectly reasonable for trans people to see what's happening with Labour and fear the worst about Dems becoming that. On the other...it's wrong. Talarico and Turek winning will not signal to national Dems to be "anti-trans." It's not how our politics or Dems work.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026

Democracy and civil society depend on taxing billionaires so ruthlessly they lose their obscene, outsized political power.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12/09/2026

at this point in political time i have to believe that trans people make up 70-80% of society and are oppressing the cis minority

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is exactly right. Also, as a native NYer, most of us had a feeling of "You all have said loudly and proudly for as long as I can remember that you hate NYC and it's not 'real' America (though more than 5% of the country lives here), and now you're using this as a pretext for war? Fuck you."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remember kids, communism isn’t when the government owns the means of production. It’s when someone with blue hair tells you their pronouns, as Karl Marx demanded.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My grade school had these when I attended back in the mid to late *garbled voice*!

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 09/09/2026

New YouGov/Economist poll out this AM has Democrats up 11 points on the House vote among likely voters. This is with named candidates, not the usual "generic ballot," which in my testing with CES data is typically more accurate in forecasting outcomes d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.

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James E. Graham @jamesegraham.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Asst supply mgr for the asbestos remediation team on the renovation of MSG in '90. I sat in the back of a semi, doling out sheets of plastic and rolls of duct tape to Polish immigrants who all smoked a half pack of Marlboro reds on every break. We communicated using our mutual inexpert German.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ever think about how Republicans wailed and moaned about liberal media bias for decades and now Democrats have copious examples of a media double standard against them and they largely just take it?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026

the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.

NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Whether it’s Chuck Schumer’s daughter getting a spot on OpenAI’s board or it’s Kirsten Gillibrand’s son getting millions in backing for a crypto startup, the children of New York elites always prove that with hard work, anyone can beat the stimga of a family name by A. G. Sulzberger

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