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Nick Popper

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
what a visual
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
An ambitious swing seat Repub rep could likely find the 8 repub votes for a motion to vacate the speaker, make a deal with dems re: tariffs, be speaker of the house in three days, and take up the senate’s tariff bill. This seems such an obvious winner for someone who will otherwise lose in 26.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2025
trump take job
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump, a father, has 34 felony convictions
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's a great job, you're in charge of a beloved national institution and get to work with and on behalf of a lot of talented journalists. The downside is that sometimes you will have to go to Washington D.C. and try to calm down an extremely flustered cartoon pig.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/03/2025
I saw the work by Olga Lautman and he findings were disturbing: Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the signal chat. Russia has infiltrated Signal and used against Ukrainians. Very possible they have the classified signal info:
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Just accidentally texted Steve Harvey the plans for my invasion of France. I'd appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Everyone on the chat saw that Goldberg removed himself A WEEK AGO and they evidently… just did nothing. Find dumber people anywhere, I challenge you.
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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2025
my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Someday it will seem insane that there was a period when people thought the couch story was untrue just because the outlets like the Times, doing everything in their power to normalize his campaign, said it wasn't. Who cares if someone admitted to making it up, why would that matter.
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Goad (Legal Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Glenn Youngkin has left the Patrick Henry reenactment and receives a chorus of boos as he makes his way to his car.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Any pub or show not running or reporting on this comment right here is absolutely caping for this administration. Everyone knows education is the most kitchen table ass talking point ever and specifically saying disabled kids shouldn't have access to it affects so many families
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We need to start calling things what they are. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
The Trump administration is, by its words, its deeds, and by the people who comprise it, a white supremacist regime and it fully hopes and intends to usher in a new segregationist era. In order to do that it must, by its own bigoted logic, deny and erase the accomplishments of anyone who isn't white, who isn't male, who isn't Christian, who isn't straight, and who isn't gender-conforming. It has now done so with Jackie Robinson, a civil rights pioneer and, in my view and the view of many others, the most significant figure in baseball history.

At what point does someone in a position to stop this do something? Where is the bottom? And if there is no bottom, how much farther will we fall before those of us without the power to stop it take action of our own?
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Defector @defector.com · 18/03/2025
"The Democrats had refused to abolish the filibuster when Schumer was the majority leader, on the grounds that someday they might be the ones who needed it. Now the House and the public were begging Schumer to use it. And he refused."
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Chuck Schumer Is Responsible | Defector
Chuck Schumer was always going to come out of the budget showdown a loser. The only question was which of the two available forms of losing he would end up with: an organized legislative surrender to…
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/03/2025
mRNA vaccines are legit a near-miracle tech, there's one in testing that might be able to cure pancreatic cancer, and this fucking degenerate might take them from us arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,” one researcher said.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
BREAKING: @indivisible.org calls on Senator Schumer to step down as minority leader after voting in favor of GOP funding bill. “Our democracy is in danger. The path ahead will be hard. Indivisibles are ready to do the work - it’s time for a Senate Democratic Leader who is too.” Full statement:
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Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Some of the most non political and moderate people I know are keying cars with Trump stickers, meanwhile Dem leadership is “ruefully” huffing Trump’s farts. When was the last time their judgment didn’t prove to be absolute dogshit? Primary these abject losers.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The federal workers unions have asked for the shutdown over the CR.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Seems like only the most MAGA faithful would blame Dems, suggests that politically this should be a no-brainer for them.
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Absolutely the dumbest people. Completely leaves out that if she had won CANADA WOULD ALREADY BE THE 51st STATE and it would be called AMERICA GULF.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Immediate presidency-ending scandals for any previous president from Truman to Biden, now happening daily 🤷‍♂️
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump attacking Columbia for not protecting Jewish students is similar to Russia invading Ukraine to stamp out Naziism.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“The most anti-veteran administration ever”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/03/2025
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
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Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...
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Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind.
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/03/2025
hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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joe @jjoe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"The House minority has not bothered with... articles of impeachment. No senator has blockaded the Trump administration's appointments...No judges have locked anyone up for contempt" Via @tomscocca.bsky.social @defector.bsky.social defector.com/this-is-uvalde
Despite Rubio's supposed waiver, late last week the State Department killed the entire operating budget of the organization that coordinates tuberculosis treatment worldwide and cut off funding to other groups fighting polio, starvation, malaria, and other debilitating or fatal conditions among millions of people. Trump and Musk's minions are in there killing people, out of sheer malice and fanaticism. No one has driven them out, despite their open lawlessness. The House minority has not bothered to commemorate any of Trump's new impeachable acts with articles of impeachment. No senator has blockaded the Trump administration's appointments to demand Musk be removed, investigated, and prosecuted. No judges have locked anyone up for contempt yet, despite a stance from the administration of unbroken contempt toward the courts. 

The horror of Uvalde was that the people who did nothing were there in uniform. Their cowardice was not just the sum of their individual moral weakness, but of what they had been organized into, supposedly on the public's behalf. With their badges and their guns, they were not simply people who were merely personally afraid to face the danger themselves, but who would institutionally, forcibly interfere with other people who did want to face it.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Supreme Court legalized bribery, took bribes themselves, and declared this was all just how democracy is supposed to work
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 04/03/2025
"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future." - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020 www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...
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Nick Popper @nickpopper.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This Is Uvalde - defector.com/this-is-uvalde
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This Is Uvalde | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Should Democrats att...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Spending funds Congress has not appropriated literally violates the Constitution and to do so knowingly and willfully is a crime punishable by two years in prison. See 31 USC 1341(a) and 1350. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity." www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.
Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in ‘The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.
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Sam Schwartz @samuelschwartz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I still haven’t seen JD Vance say “thank you” to the American taxpayers for his little skiing vacation.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
new this morning from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink
After Trump and Musk gutted the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal.
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Defector @defector.com · 02/03/2025
The NIH cuts are part of an all-out war on higher education:
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The NIH Cuts Are Part Of An All-Out War On Higher Education | Defector
In a presidential administration with an unlimited capacity for chaos, colleges and universities have become targets of this early phase of right-wing assault. This is not so surprising: Many of the…
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I find it weirdly encouraging that this post I wrote last year about J.D. Vance being a fascist has gotten a MASSIVE uptick in hits via search results in the past few days. craigcalcaterra.com/blog/j-d-van...
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J.D. Vance’s Fascist Ideology
J.D. Vance is a fraud but it’s far worse that he has a long and consistent history of advocating fascist ideology.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/02/2025
relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump and Vance are part of the tiny percentage of Americans who sympathize more with Russia (4%) than Ukraine (62%) and who view Putin more favorably (75% unfavorable) than Zelensky (28% unfavorable) today.yougov.com/politics/art...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/01/2025
I think antitrust is not enough to deal with the tech industry. We need - and I know this era isn't one where we get it - a digital EPA, with quality standards for apps/digital services with personal liability for executives and real, meaningful mechanisms to force companies to stop hurting people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025
it is so important to remember that IN THE MOMENT there was no one who thought jan. 6 was some innocent protest gone awry. everyone recognized it for what it was.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
If there's one thing complicated electronics love it's lots of heat, moisture, and vibration
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2024
when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/12/2024
i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs
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