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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Donald Trump's Russian diesel "deal" has little to do with actual diesel or actual US market. The point of this brilliant Kremlin op is to use the WH as a disinfo tool for vilifying Ukraine: by falsely portraying Ukrainian long-range counterstrikes on Russia as "harmful" for the United States.

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 2026 midterms will be the most expensive election cycle in American history. (Bruce Mehlman's Age of Disruption) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/261005-top...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The wealth of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans has more than doubled since 2019. If that doesn't convince you we need a wealth tax, renowned economist Gabriel Zucman will. Watch.

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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)

Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.

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NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone thinking about the upcoming election needs to be prepared the your standard vote propensity model is going to underestimate turnout for Dem voters, and overestimate it for Rep voters. We're probably only talking a swing of several percentage points for each, but that will have huge impacts

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most of Norway 's deviation is probably due to petro wealth though, right?

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You've got to appreciate the depths to which Mike Rogers sees Michigan as a path to power without being at all dedicated to the state itself: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

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Mike Rogers' wife on why they took Florida home off market | Insider

"... With Mike running for office and us not being trust fund babies, I'd love to sell that house," Kristi Rogers told The Detroit News.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dual class shares are fundamentally harmful to both investors and society, giving founders a strangle hold on companies that persist on the massive advantages of scale.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So mad you could cry. Congressional Republicans insist that everyone has to work, even if they are disabled. Unless that might hurt Don Jr's investments in Kalshi or Polymarket

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When I first posted that MAGA acolytes were going to flee like rats on a sinking ship, I couldn't have guessed Trump would start a war that turned into the worst strategic defeat the US has suffered since 1812. But unwillingness to admit defeat meant he was going to get stuck in a debacle

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump and his sycophants aren't just trying to roll back the Constitution, but Magna Carta as well. This is a basic principle established by the English Civil War that the founders saw as absolutely fundamental to democracy

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trump is taking Grover Norquist thought to the extreme. If he destroys the economy, there won't be any money to have a government and then people will be free I guess

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LA is physically larger, and so the city itself constitutes a much larger part of the metropolitan community, so much larger percentage is classic suburban population and much more Republican than NYC's more urban pop. As always enthusiasm drives elections. Dems had low enthusiasm, Republicans high

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just had a good conversation with Will Lawrence at the Ingham County Fair. Good to see a Democratic Congressional candidate working to.court rural voters

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is an amazing story that helps us understand why the U.S. Iran war has not yet led to catastrophically high oil prices. China's actions to reduce its demand by a quarter, for reasons unknown and mechanisms unclear, are credited with blunting the damage thus far.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Magyar is providing an important demonstration of what a de-Trumpification effort in the US is going to need to look like. It will require intensive efforts to root out people who enabled and supported the lawlessness of the last couple of years, and real legal changes apnews.com/article/hung...

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Orbán allies protest in Hungary against plans to oust President Tamás Sulyok

Opponents of the Hungarian government's efforts to oust the president have gathered for a protest in Budapest at the urging of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Any investor should obviously be forewarned that this is going to be the first anti-trust move taken by the next administration. And Republican supreme Court judges are not going to be in a position or stop this freight train against illegal monopolies that were enabled when companies kowtowed

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Supreme Court is political, not making ball and strikes legal choices. They need to be brought to heel. There have been some good choices, but they also made the Dredd Scott decision. An unelected lifetime body making policy choices is fundamentally incompatible with democracy

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Being a self professed science nerd is often negatively correlated with not very knowledgeable about science

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Simon D. Schuster @simon.schuster.press · 22/05/2026

Organizers are trying again for a gubernatorial debate during the Mackinac Policy Conference next week, given Mike Duggan's exit from the race. This debate would be pared down to just two candidates: John James and Jocelyn Benson.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Come on everyone. The obvious solution is just to have a worm eat the part of your brain that makes you sad

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🇺🇸 trifectas get <one> shot at doing something Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem The platform must be <immediate> institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Whenever the admin starts talking about Trump derangement syndrome, I just hear it in the voice of Doc McStuffins saying "you've got a case of zoomy-itis"

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Ok alcoholic rapist. It's everyone else who is the problem, not you

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

To be clear, Trump has led the US to our biggest strategic defeat since the war of 1812. Our ability to control the strait of hormuz and guarantee the safety of traffic is basically destroyed. The Iranian government is in a stronger position both internationally and domestically. Comprehensive loss

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump and his ilk are teaching the rest of the world that it really is dangerous to have any government be indispensable. Orban is likewise teaching the EU that requirements for unanimity make every government indispensable and need to go the way of the Articles of Confederation.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"Since I set all those fires, my house is the nicest one on the block"

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"I'm not exactly like the KKK leaders, I just think like them" isn't really the slam dunk defense this guy seems to think

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Trump entirely disrupting the reliability of fossil fuels from the Middle East might make his the presidency that does the most to fight carbon

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It's also important to note Trump didn't do what Israel wanted. He did what Bibi wanted. Trump has a well documented regard for authoritarian crackpots who remind him of himself. He kowtows to Putin, Orban, etc. And to blame the lobbying of American Jews for Trump's disaster is rank anti-Semitism

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Yeah, this line goes very bad places. It is both true that Israel encouraged this war but also that Trump made his own foolish decision and is fully responsible for it. But most importantly it is *obviously* true that Jewish people, worldwide, are not responsible for what Israel does.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This 15 second clip from Mock the Week really speaks to the deterioration of the public view of America around the world: youtu.be/_1Ux26O3Tjc?...

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Mock the Week (2026) - Episode 2

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Even the conservative Wall Street Journal understands the havoc wealth inequality is wreaking on our economy and society. It’s far past time to unrig the system. www.wsj.com/finance/billionaires-lo…

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is a really interesting paper about a supreme court decision from the Berger court I hadn't previously been familiar with. Apparently it's the reason Congress can't effectively check the presidency anymore and provides a direct line to the imperial presidency. also interesting to Michigan...

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Ascribing intentionality to Trump is like saying a rutabaga "wants" to grow towards sunlight. Trump's choices are probably as much a surprise to himself as they are to everyone else. Dementia can do that

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Gov Shapiro needs to make sure the local police chief (who instigated this conflict it looks like) knows that if these students aren't released to their parents tonight they will be receiving a full pardon immediately.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

When idiots think they understand economics. The 'market clearing price' only makes sense when you're talking about substitutable goods. In this case, not all NCOs are equally valuable to the military, and those who are more valuable will have more valuable alternatives. Outcome would be classic...

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I was watching TSN for Olympic hockey, and the preview for the US-Canada game had McDavid talking about how the emotions are so intense for this game, then had a clip of Trump calling Canada the 51st state

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Sometimes I feel like a git when I can't find something and have to call my wife at work. But at least I haven't done this

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

How it started. How it's going.

Academic article "Acting "As If": Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria" describes army officers being forced to describe fantastical tales that are obviously not true to show fealty to the Hafez al-Assad regime.

An obviously not true story is relayed by MAGA acolyte Nick Adams where he describes fictional young women gushing over the documentary about First Lady Melania Trump with such believable phases from 2025 as "Slay queen." He establishes that he is a real man and was not working out with them by emphasizing he was going out for a "hot black coffee." This fantastically tale is said to show his fealty to Trump.

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Noem has found a new way to incentivize a bureaucracy, "keep working or you have to watch me shoot my fucking dog to death." www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since at least 1939, Americans, from the President down to Privates, have earned the presumption of truthfulness and honesty. Trump has destroyed this in only a year. We are going to need to do a lot of work to re-earn that trust

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Matt Randall @mrandall.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Supreme Court has given up even the pretense of calling balls and strikes on the law. They are trying to function as an unaccountable policy making institution based on their preferred outcomes, which invariably end up being those of big business apnews.com/article/fede...

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In the case of the Federal Reserve, Supreme Court appears to carve out a murky exception

The Supreme Court for the past year has repeatedly allowed President Donald Trump to fire heads of independent agencies, but it appears to be drawing a line with the Federal Reserve.

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