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Moderate. Independent. Older than you think. Smarter than you look. I block if you follow more than you're followed. He/him

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h
Cool, cool. Lots of reporting that theres a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia, and several hospitals are under forced quarantine. Obviously, it’s Russia, so accurate information is scarce.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 2h
‘Many IPOs have been postponed owing to investors’ growing scepticism about the “tone deaf” valuations. Tech listings this year have on average fallen about 23% since their first day of trading, compounding worries that banks are overpricing deals to win mandates.’ www.ft.com/content/b892...
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Wall Street’s IPO fervour cools on tepid demand and valuation worries
Several listings have been paused in recent weeks as delay in Anthropic’s public debut sends a chill through markets
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
Trump keeps saying that a 1929-style Great Depression is likely during the second half of his term. Quite the midterm message.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Folks who own these companies have an interesting perspective on the first amendment.” - a UTA agent & ‘MUSK’ producer on social media platforms blocking promotion of the doc👇🏽🤔 www.instagram.com/p/Dd1KmuTF3Y...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oklahoma News: “What do you say to people struggling with gas/food/diesel — when can they see relief?” Trump: “We have the greatest economy in the history of our country…” 🤔
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Psaki: Even in ruby red Alabama, enthusiasm for Trump and his gimmick seems to be waning. Here was the scene from inside the venue at Trump's big Alabama rally tonight. Trump couldn't even fill half the seats in the arena
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"'In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had literally been gang-raped' and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney, Ms. Hochul said." A world in which the police report to a university president who was appointed by a wholly unaccountable group of rich people
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Hochul Rebukes Prosecutor’s Handling of Cornell Case
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahem…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow… at Robert Kraft’s stadium…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
Trump's human binky made the trip to Alabama with him #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/Getty)
pic of Ms Harp on AF1
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump wants the Supreme Court to rule that DHS can imprison-indefinitely-immigrants who enter the US illegally He wants ICE to arrest millions of migrants and keep them incarcerated-maybe for years-until they can be deported Even if they have legal status In violation of their due process rights
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Donald Trump hasn't just conned his MAGA followers. Corporations, legacy media and even the Democratic Party have all capitulated to his unconstitutional power grab.
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Suckers, Simps and MAGA Marks: How Donald Trump Made America His Bitch
The White House press ban is the inevitable result of corporate media’s capitulation to the MAGA cult.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
DHS is simply buying local cops’ support with our tax dollars. Like I’ve been saying, they own a lot of these cops. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
Even if Boring's deputies don't take any others into custody, his department is eligible for a payment equal to more than a quarter of its annual budget. Those are the terms of a Department of Homeland Security task force program that enlists local police as paid partners in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Jurisdictions similar to Doddridge County-sparsely populated with few immigrants-make up the majority of new recruits to the
DHS task force program, which has become a cash cow for state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide. After turning over a single deportable immigrant, departments qualify to receive $60,000 a year for each deputized officer, regardless of additional arrests.The Venice Police Department in Venice, Fla., tallied one federal immigration detention in September 2025 and has since requested a total of $895,000. The department can continue collecting funds every quarter as long as it remains on the task force.
The program is most profitable for large departments. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office in Florida signed up more than 970 deputies, making it eligible for roughly $14.5 million in DHS funds from April to June, state records show. That pencils out to more than $2 million for each of its seven immigration arrests in that quarter.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
"Midterms are generally about the president and his approval rating. When you're at 38, where Trump is right now, that's just historically bad," David Brooks says. "This is the kind of climate where people you don't think will lose, lose." to.pbs.org/4z6vsR6
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Brooks and Atkins Stohr on GOP vulnerabilities in the midterms
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston Globe join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump hitting the campaign trail in a string of relia...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I Completely Agree, Coach!
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
<rant> You know, if Trump really wanted to lower diesel prices, he would "jawbone" his pals at the big refiners (Marathon, Phillips & Valero, who made $10B in excess profits last quarter alone due to the shortage elsewhere, not here) into selling in the US for huge instead of obscene profits. 1/5
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Michele Harrison @shellydogg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wait til the Medicaid cuts kick in January 1. They purposely waited until after midterms. They KNOW how hard that will hit. Every ad Dems show on tv should be about Medicaid cuts.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Trump Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling: "We're seeing people staying in their jobs longer now ... we're seeing people very happy where they are in their jobs because employers are doing better."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING NYT: The top super PAC for Senate Republicans is canceling all the remaining ads it had booked in North Carolina as of Friday — shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state this fall.
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All by himself Sen Mike Lee killed a bill to stop Trump from razing other President’s memorials Mike Lee has no morals left, only blind ambition to be appointed to SCOTUS
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“.. Tech payrolls have fallen to the lowest level since December 2020.” - Schwab
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"No Jewish person in NYC is responsible for actions of Israel... critique of genocide is not antisemitic... we need a politics of humanity, not just at home but for people we're bombing." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells Theo Von the genocide must stop & Bibi should be arrested
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 02/10/2026
Addisyn is an independent artist known to most as the former singer for Halocene. Today, she's revealed #MeToo & writing in support of the millions of other women who have suffered sexual assault. We have to stand together & give voice to those who are suffering in silence. 💔🫶
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Secretary Mullin keeps making promises while his agents keep shooting people.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis privately tore into Trump in texts obtained by Politico:
Graphic featuring Donald Trump on the left and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on the right, with two large iMessage-style text bubbles attributed to Tillis overlaid across the bottom. In the first message, Tillis tells Trump that Trump “NEVER” threatened him with a primary challenge, says Trump may have him confused with other Republicans he has threatened, and adds that if Trump had threatened him directly, he would have told him to “fck yourself” and immediately announced his retirement. He ends, “Save those threats and head games for cowards and fools.” In the second message, Tillis writes, “I still want to help but I don’t take this bullsht from anyone, including you Mr. President,” adding, “Save that sh*t for the cowards who don’t care if you fail. I care if you fail and right now we are failing.”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The author(s) seem relieved that Biden did not, ultimately, force Israel to end the war in Gaza in spring 2024. If he had, it would have saved something like 40,000 Palestinian lives and 50,000 Gazan buildings. An eternal stain on Biden’s legacy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cover. @time.com time.com/article/2026...
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration's scare tactics ahead of the midterms have hit a usual refrain: "migrant caravan." In reality, it's about 600 people (mostly families) who are 1,000 miles from the border. Just when gas prices keep climbing, Trump world is looking for a distraction. This is their attempt.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
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MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This day is a victory!" Mary Dohrmann, the attorney for former Olympian David Hearn, reacts to the judge's full dismissal of Hearn's case
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The IMF issuing a statement to reassure the public that bond markets are "functioning in an orderly manner" is highly unusual—and risks raising more questions than it answers. #economy #markets #bonds #yields
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So today Ukraine finally revealed and used their first home built ballistic missile in an actual military mission. Known as the FP7, it’s the baby brother of the soon to be revealed FP9, a ballistic missile capable of dropping a lot of boom on the Kremlin in Moscow. youtu.be/aW-GQCWAj5c?...
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Update from Ukraine | Huge! Great news! Ballistic Missile FP-7 Used for the First Time
YouTube video by Denys Davydov
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