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I've only been in a couple of gender-neutral public bathrooms, but THEY'RE AWESOME. You get your own little room, with a door that goes all the way to the floor and no gaps people can see in! It's terrific.

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Don't know if any journalist has explored this, but the fact that Elissa Slotkin is now working hard for El-Sayed shows she's a smart pol. No doubt she realized that if she held back and he lost, presidential primary voters in '28 would never forgive her.

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Inflation was 3% when Trump took office; it's 3.4% now.

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Texas Republicans are refusing to debate for the election

All the statewide Republicans in Texas are refusing to debate their Democratic opponents, always a sign of a party confident about how voters will receive them and their ideas www.texastribune.org/2026/10/07/t...

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The last U.S. Senate race in Texas to go without a debate was in 2000. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, debated his Democratic opponents in each of his last three campaigns.

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How’s “Drill Baby Drill” Working Out For You?

Trump delivered exactly the energy policy that conservatives and the oil industry wanted, promising that it would bring us to “energy independence.” So how’s that working out? paulwaldman.substack.com/p/hows-drill...

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Trump delivered exactly the energy policy the fossil fuel industry and conservatives wanted, yet we didn’t get the “energy independence” they promised.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I try really hard not to be seduced by conspiracy theories, but we never got any plausible explanation of why Gov. Polis let Tina Peters out of prison, and the idea that he was being blackmailed, or something similarly crazy, is about all that makes any sense.

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Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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In case you were wondering, they STILL haven't managed to fix the Reflecting Pool, six months after work began

Livestream image taken from the Washington Monument, showing the Reflecting Pool still empty

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"Bessent enjoys cultivating a tough-guy image," the article says. But treating those over whom you have power like shit doesn't make you tough, it just makes you an asshole. Trump's "tough guys" are all like this - whiny toddlers with no self-control who mistake cruelty for strength.

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"The Treasury secretary yells at his communications staff over stories or headlines he doesn’t like, current and former officials said"... After being heckled at a restaurant, he berated the owner, then "According to the owner and also a nearby diner, Bessent spit in his own food before leaving."

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Inside Bessent’s Treasury: Tension, Turnover and Unmet Economic Goals

From this article, on how Scott Bessent terrorizes everyone around him, and the result has been unprecedented turnover at Treasury: www.wsj.com/politics/pol... He may be a nightmare to work with, but on the other hand, he's also bad at his job

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Ahead of midterms that could turn on high prices and borrowing costs, the secretary dresses down officials.

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WSJ: "Some aides said they ask colleagues about the secretary’s mood before coming into contact with him, and trade advice on how to avoid him when he is angry. Several officials described feeling relieved when Bessent was away from the office." That's how you know you've got a great boss!

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Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.

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There's no one answer. Maybe post-WWII

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Trump’s Desperate Plea Is Based on a Myth

Trump says “pretend I’m on the ballot,” and even those who understand his current unpopularity believe that he did well when he was on the ballot. But it’s a myth we need to discard. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trumps-des...

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Even the news media accept that Trump has a unique power when he’s on the ballot. But it’s not true.

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Every news organization is reporting "Trump says his Super PAC will pay for those ads instead of taxpayers," but we should be very careful about taking his word on that until we see the proof. It's not like this is a guy who keeps his promises and pays his bills.

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Much as I loathe the "My opponent doesn't share our [insert state here] values" attack, it's nice to see a Democrat benefiting from it for a change

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Jim Bakker was a fraudster and a rapist, and it's too bad there isn't a hell because if there were he'd be spending an eternity boiling in the lake of fire

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

None of those things is incompatible with being a skilled politician. Nixon was a skilled politician. So was Jesse Helms, and George Wallace, and a hundred other villains.

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Reposted by Paul Waldman

Also, rural homelessness is SURGING, but that fact doesn’t fit the cities-are-hellscape narratives the Right/GOP push. So we barely hear about it. My friend and co-author @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I discuss this in White Rural Rage.

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The unmanly truth about Trump’s jobs record

Trump wanted to create an economy in which manly men would get manly jobs doing manly things. The exact opposite is happening. My latest as MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

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There is a yawning gap between what the president promised and what he has delivered — especially for young men who hoped he would improve their lives.

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There's a case to be made against impeachment, but the alternative should be a scorched-earth effort to destroy and discredit the Trump administration and everything the Republican Party stands for. If you think "passing an ethics reform package" is the answer, my god what is wrong with you?

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...when the much more straightforward strategy is to go to those voters and say "The Republicans you keep voting for? They think you're stupid, they lied to you, they conned you, they screwed up everything, and you should be ENRAGED at them."

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The most obvious thing in the world is utterly puzzling to so many in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, who believe the better idea is to spend the next 20 years on their knees before Republican voters, saying "We hear you, all your choices were wise and virtuous, please don't hate us"...

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In case you weren't aware, the only competent Republican speaker of the House in the modern era was also a child molester

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This is precisely the premise of Annie Jacobsen's "Biological War" and spoiler alert, it does not end well for the human race

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This dude is 100% going to be speaking at the 2028 Republican convention, and he'll be like the 12th phoniest grifter on the schedule

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The "radical" Democrats in Congress think everyone should have health care and the minimum wage should be higher. The radical Republicans think vaccines give you cancer and Nixon was innocent. Both sides!

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Congrats to the new Florida state Director of Social Services, I look forward to seeing her at the ceremony when Gov. Donalds signs the Who's Sorry Now Janice You Ungrateful Little Bitch Act of 2027

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Here's me on C-SPAN this morning, for anyone interested: www.c-span.org/program/wash...

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