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So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.

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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 8h

So, an interest-free short term loan from the government to run your campaign ads? While your Super PAC earns interest on the $20 million you stole? No. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads

The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 9h

I meant the guy in the next courtroom over.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 11h

Along with whatever interest "his money" earned while we floated him the loan for the ads to run. Thanks.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 12h

The “arrest the 8647 guy” president.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, oh, yes. I see. These are NOT the invisible ones. Yeeeessss. Of cooooourse, sir.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20h

Has anyone asked Trump why we had to move invisible planes?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20h

It's not that we want to. It's just that that's how science works.

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Ken Fang -- Very Asian @fangsbites.bsky.social · 21h

The biggest takeaway is that people thought he was already dead.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 23h

Who produced the ads? Who paid for that?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 23h

So he was check kiting. Making the government foot the bill while “his money” earned interest. Not to mention that millions already saw the ads carrying the backing of “the US government.”

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that sounds kind of treasony.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why not? That's how the Sauds got Jeddah. It's tradition!

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, lesson learned. Briefly.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It does. But once again we’ll be forced to prove that after the fact. And then be told it’s moot because [inset “doctrine”].

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unlikely that it’s either authorized or coming from the claimed source.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next, you'll tell me she handled World Series ticket distribution for Cleveland.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Noem demanded personal control over all DHS contracts over $100K and should be held responsible for the waste and (likely) graft that followed, which conservatively ran into the hundreds of millions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

From what we know of Kristi Noem, the head of DHS at the time, she was focused on micromanaging some aspects of government operations. Not workforce planning, but — you guessed it — the flow of grants and contracts. Any contract worth more than $100,000 had to be personally signed by her. And some of that spending was pretty questionable, such as a $200 million ad campaign prominently featuring Noem. There was no competitive bidding process and Noem directed money to Republican firms with long-term personal and professional ties to her. (The fact that Noem had previously led a “Meth: We’re On It” campaign did not seem to stop anyone from questioning her public relations skills).

DHS also bought 11 empty warehouses that it said would serve as detention centers, overpaid for them, and has since sold seven of them. Apparently Noem told officials to buy the warehouses within 30 days, leading to a rushed acquisition process. After the DHS spent nearly $500 million via no-bid contracts on 10 jets, officially for deportations, the planes are mostly unused, or reserved to ferry Trump officials around. So more likely to be incompetence than corruption in this case.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

She's a former press aide “focusing on crisis management” for Paul Gosar and Matt Gaetz? What'd she do? Stand there while there was a crisis? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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White House defends new press aide who posed with rifle in ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ shirt

Beni Rae Harmony, 24, has been ‘a trusted voice for the MAGA movement as a White House correspondent’, White House says

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, right, that’s capitalizing. Thanks! I guess the issue is really that I just don’t leave my house.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What have we been DOING with ourselves all these years?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No one knows what happens if you accidentally walk in on yourself-from-elsewhere-in-time in a toilet.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/10/2026

The extent to which the rule "you are not allowed to insult the other side's voters" is applied exclusively to the left never ceases to infuriate me. "Basket of deplorables" and "cling to guns or religion" were WEEKS-long news cycles. There were panels. There was theme music and a logo.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On second look, it’s not clear this one went through the hotel room wall and hit someone in the next room. But that happens a lot. Nervous gun owners traveling with their weapons, and fidgeting with them in their downtime.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the most outrageous but rarely noted types of #ShootingWhileShopping: the through-the-wall hotel #GunFAIL. #ShootingWhileShopping was my old tag for people accidentally shot while just minding their own business and going about their ordinary commerce.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think this must be where Wendy and Marvin work, now.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean, no one is hurdling that.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But , you know. People are sometimes weird.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m also struck by the idea of a “lifelong Democrat” voting Trump in 2024, versus any of the other times. And based on the idea that “we” had to “try something different.” Like, more different than a black woman for president? When the other guy had literally already been president?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can never quite figure out whether these “lifelong Democrats” turn out not to be what they say because they’re lying and no one checks, or because it’s just another scramble-brained #medianvoter, wanting a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why does this always seem to happen?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good eye! He must not look as healthy as he definitely really and truly is, for some reason.

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