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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 19h

To be fair, celebrating holidays in the Middle East with criminals and an adulterous woman is as Christlike as Paxton's ever gotten.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Our nation deserves a Democratic leader in the House whose response to a pretextual DHS raid on a member's home unequivocally denounces both the executive's malfeasance and the Republican majority's dereliction. Jeffries ought to be calling for, at minimum, unanimous censure of Mullin and/or Homan.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mateer hasn't thrown a backbreaking pick yet, so there's still hope for the Horns.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh come on, Sark. Make em make the play deep snapping to the kicker.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Under-35 wealth fell by more than cumulative inflation, so it was down in raw dollars. Wages may have kept up with inflation, but the increased time since stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment assistance, CTC, and ACA credits, and continuous Medicaid enrollment saw falling nominal wealth.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Everything is poison except for actual poison, which is fine.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump's Russian diesel announcement knocked down November futures a whopping 10¢/gallon.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans are two-stepping again, this time to cut 340B drug reimbursement: 1. Identify unseemly incentives. 2. Claim the incentives, regardless of realized magnitude, justify cuts. The ASPE paper supporting the proposed 340B cuts even contemplates smarter fixes than just slashing payments!

fiercehealthcare.com

HHS: 340B 'expanded beyond its original intent,' incentivizes consolidation

A controversial program to subsidize safety-net hospitals’ drug spending “has expanded beyond its original intent,” incentivizing provider consolidation while doing little to better serve patients’ | ...

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hadn't checked in on $BWET in a week or so and... it's beautiful

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Who on House Financial Services wants to introduce the bill barring donors of appreciated stock from deducting the value of those donations from their taxable income until the recipients are allowed to sell (and requiring the contribution value be recalculated once the selling window opens)?

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Has OpenAI changed its name yet? What about all the startups with .ai extensions?

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Crucial to understand that (some) swingy 2024 Trump voters believed his worst impulses wouldn't be realized in his second term because they often weren't during his first. Obvious—to us—changes from then to now: enablers instead of babysitters on staff, SCOTUS composition, no reelection incentive.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The salient corollary, of course, is that established private enterprise favors Republicans because they too *oppose* free markets, instead preferring markets tilted in their favor via regulatory capture. (Also because Republicans won't impose meaningful liability for corporate malfeasance.)

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cool, now Dems should walk through the open door and enact automatic voter registration and substantially streamlined Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP enrollment when they retake power.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Went looking for bsky commentary on the GA Gov debate and realized pretty quick I wasn't gonna find the right stuff searching "bottoms"

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Supreme Court Justice Eric Cartman

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Southsiders just keep rolling along like the dang popemobile

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This should conclude the Get To Midfield And Let Aubrey Kick strategy.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incoming Democratic majority needs to hold hearings on legal impediments (libel suits, etc.) to truthful negative coverage of public figures. Key question for (ex-)journos willing to talk: why didn't major outlets tell the truth about Trump and Republicans in plain terms? Get them on the record.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Paxton's campaign just released a new spot, and it's... Paxton's daughter saying her dad is a fighter who'll stop the libs—like AOC and Talarico—from raising costs. Way to close the barn door several months after all the horses ran out.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing. The Trump administration simply refuses to deploy the power of the federal executive to compel lower drug prices when doing so would be both easy and popular. No enduring rules, just Trump deals. Overpromise, underdeliver. thehill.com/newsletters/...

Screenshot from the linked piece in The Hill:

It’s now estimated that the GLOBE model will save $440 million over seven years — a 96 percent reduction from the proposed version, which estimated nearly $12 billion in savings over the same period.

The payment model is mandatory, but there is a myriad of exemptions, most notably if a company entered a separate deal with the White House for “most-favored-nation” pricing in Medicaid.

In the end, only three companies are covered by the final model, a decrease from about 40 firms estimated in the proposed rule.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There have been so many scandals on the Republican side of Texas politics in the past few years (Paxton, French, Huffines, Farenthold, Slaton, Gonzalez, now this guy) that Gina Hinojosa could run a really snappy spot and hit the Gov and the GOP with the chair: We Can't Trust Greg Abbott's Judgment.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In reverse order: 3. Manufacturing go *pffft* 2. Healthcare go *whoosh* 1. Recent retirees are mostly men (Same explanation for why net job growth for immigrants under Biden far exceeded the same for native-born Americans. Native-borns were retiring as fast as they were entering the workforce.)

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Possibly the only one I've actively watched a dozen times: The "You Fool" episode of Hollywood Squares

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Five years ago, pretty good, as a guy looking long-term. Swipe judiciously, comment thoughtfully, make plans, be courteous, go on dates (with mixed results). Now? A doom loop. Users who were over- or underwhelmed have gone dormant, leading to lower match/date rates and frustrating everyone else.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gonna need some quality "Go Hawks!" content from Sand, Turek, and their House candidate pals today. Rub it in.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah dang I thought this was gonna be about like an insane footwear startup brought to us by the slop fellas (it's worse)

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jeremy Strong just isn't pale enough or empty-eyed enough.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Describing a carbonated beverage as crisp: sure, fine, whatever Describing a carbonated beverage as crispy: go directly to jail

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.

A frame from Wreck-It Ralph showing a support group meeting for video game bad guys.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since cooking shows are apparently fair game, on what planet is Great British Baking Show ahead of Top Chef?

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Husted, Sullivan, Marshall, Graham, Ricketts all just voted for More War again. Collins got a free pass, of course.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI airbrushing and touching up with no quality control afterward would explain the artifacts: - Servicemembers now pixelated - Emergency exit door screwy - Xi's hair (and Crowley's) fixed - Crowley's bracelet removed - Trump glove (singular) gone

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The purpose of a 90-day diesel export ban is to punish the West and the Northeast (where Republicans stand to lose one Senate seat and few House seats) to soften the blow in the Midwest, Heartland, and South (where they risk losing a handful of Senate seats and a dozen House seats).

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If anyone in the Trump administration could read Wolfe's A Man in Full, it'd be banned from red state public libraries over wokeness within a fortnight. Vance and Rubio in particular would spontaneously combust.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tarrant County 2026: Now entirely Blue Mound.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hanging slider for Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and Bobby Pulido if they want to swing at it. Talarico, too.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would very much like to see Democrats advertise that Republicans cut healthcare services and funding across the country, whereas they believe every American should receive the care doctors say they need, regardless of income, age, race, or gender. Say something affirming. (And then act on it.)

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democrats trying to win over AI titans and convince them to Cut It Out, Already would go like Biden's persistent pleading with Netanyahu to do the same. As much as they would like a productive relationship, the other party just has too strong an interest in defeating them.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hate to say it's Too Much Phone, but it sure seems like you can tie a lot (immediate private global communications among ambitious unsavory characters, proliferating misinformation and public anger, underestimating the sheer political-economic weight of geography and physics) to Too Much Phone.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So there's a market for Grok after all.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"This NFL fantasy update brought to you by DraftKings and Molina Healthcare..."

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Adam Hamilton said he's not voting to keep Schumer as caucus leader, citing farm bill gridlock and crediting the GOP on that issue. May be savvy in KS. Sets up a clever "wow, Rs actually really suck" two-step should he win. Also sets him up to be a royal pain (but still much better than Marshall).

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Vicente Gonzalez should have a field day with this one. Republicans keep stepping on rakes in South Texas this cycle.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dang, imagine if the rurals and the valley knew the following: Mayes Middleton works with Ken Paxton's wife in the Texas Senate. Mayes Middleton voted to acquit Ken Paxton.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This reads more like Cornynese for "I told you so, but that's none of my business 🐸🍵" than a signal toward an endorsement or anything big. Now that he's out, he loves mess.

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Dan Meeps @onekneedjacks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: he's right. Dems shouldn't stonewall. If Trump wants to nominate James Ho, there should be a committee hearing to lay out Ho's abhorrent views and record, followed by a committee vote, and every D/I should and will vote no to sink the nom.

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