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Robert A George

@robgeorge.bsky.social
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Ex-Bloomberg, Daily News, New York Post; standup, improviser, pun-dit, overthinker, undersharer, Trini-Dad jokes, comics nerd, etc. Writing: thepunstack.substack.com Comedy: www.instagram.com/robertgeorgecomed…

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Just gonna leave this here. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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The MAGA Foreign Policy Evolution
"Already it was impossible to say which was which."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It’s important to remember there are two scandals here: 1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes. 2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/12/2025
The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
So, I went viral in the last few days! Track Star is an online “name that tune” type show. Here’s the Instagram clip:  www.instagram.com/reel/DRUqXH7keeS/… And the YouTube long version:  youtu.be/r0uSuoi5czQ
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is a really big deal in Virginia- absolute bloodbath for republicans in the House of Delegates.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
That's not how it works.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hey, New Yorkers! Looking for some hearty laughter and warmth at the end of this rainy day? Come join me 8PM TONIGHT as I host at Comic Strip Live -- 1568 Second Avenue (btw. 81st & 82nd)! It's partly a late birthday celebration and partly an early Halloween! $20 cash at the door!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Total coincidence that he wants direct personal control of the Federal Reserve, right?🙄
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Texas House has passed Trump’s GOP redistricting map 88-52 after a seven-hour debate. Final passage expected later. Over to you, Governor Newsom. And NY. And all blue states if they’re up for it. Should cheaters win? Let’s hear the answer.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
People kept hand-wringing or tut-tutting about calling Trump a fascist, but it’s pretty obvious now. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Military officers shifted to prosecute local D.C. crimes amid Trump takeover
Members of the Judge Advocate General Corps are set to join the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Hey, NYCers!!! I’m on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social Inside City Hall talking mayor’s race and related stuff with Manhattan U. Prof. Margaret Groarke. Around 7:40-ish (repeat at 11:40)! Hosted by the incandescent @errollouis.bsky.social!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
For reference the New York Times was among the outlets that declined to publish hacked materials from the 2024 Trump campaign www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/m...
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News outlets were sent leaked Trump campaign files. They chose not to publish them | CNN Business
In the hours after President Joe Biden’s historic decision to step aside from the 2024 presidential race last month, journalists across three major US newsrooms began receiving emails from an anonymou...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It is absolutely insane that the New York Times is granting anonymity to famous extremist race science activists in order for them to launch political attacks. More than the anonymity, the complete lack of relevant context here is egregious.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If racial preferences are good for the goose, they should be good for Uganda.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Meghann Cuniff @meghanncuniff.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
All the details: 'Enormous victory' for Sean 'Diddy' Combs as jury acquits on trafficking, racketeering www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/enormous-v...
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'Enormous victory' for Sean 'Diddy' Combs as jury acquits on trafficking, racketeering
The 55-year rapper and businesses mogul will remain in federal custody pending sentencing on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We keep hearing credulous pundits say MAGA is "antiwar." So how many MAGA Republicans will support the new resolution requiring Trump to get congressional authorization for war with Iran? This resolution is important. People should pay attention to it. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1969...
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Trump Is Suddenly Raging at Tucker Carlson—and MAGA Is Deeply Rattled
Is opposition to “forever wars” really a core pillar of MAGA Republicanism? Looks like we’re about to find out.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/06/2025
And they say comics journalism is dead 🍿
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 18/06/2025
Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte New from @flaminghydra.com below "Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"
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A Swingin’ Surprise or Two
The best-kept secret in the history of Marvel Comics was in high dudgeon by the time he sat down at his typewriter. It was a July afternoon in 1971, and Ron Whyte, a playwright and activist, was about...
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sky’s the limit!
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In surprise move, Qatar sweetens Air Force One jet deal: To help solve another immediate American government concern, air traffic controller vacancies will be filled by fully qualified…Saudis!
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I'd say pour one out for Pete Hegseth, but I think he can handle that himself.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
NYCers: Looking for some Good Friday fun? How about GREAT Friday fun!?! A pre-Easter standup show that is…wholly hilarious! Grisly Pear Comedy Club Midtown (243 W. 54th St. btw. Broadway & 8th Ave.) www.grislypearstandup.com/events/co…
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I could tell you the Constitution limits a president to a maximum of two terms But then, it also states that all persons who reside in America are entitled to due process and enshrines birthright citizenship as foundational US law And this also means nothing to Trump So draw your own conclusions
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“.. Heart pounding, he called his father, John Yates, shocked that Trump's administration would take such action. “ .. ‘Dad, they're trying to bankrupt me,’ he said.” www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Rubio says a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia that was compiled by Yale researchers is safe and will be handed over to the proper authorities. US lawmakers had feared someone had deleted the database during Trump's funding cuts. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/03/2025
Replacing DEI with nepotism.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hey, I got on All Things Considered: WALTER OLSON: It is so central to being able to be a good lawyer… to be fearless and to be able to go up against the most powerful interests of which the most powerful is the federal government. And if they can't do that, what can they do for their client?
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Two major law firms fight back against Trump orders seen as retribution
Two major law firms are suing the Trump administration. They're asking a judge to block executive orders that punish them because of their clients and the lawyers that they hired.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I won’t believe Secretary Hegseth was bombed when he shared war plans on Signal — until he confirms it himself (on Signal, as he does information on all such bombings).
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Several Defense Department Officials expressed shock that Mr Hegseth had put American war plans into a commercial chat group. They said that having this type of conversation in a signal chat group itself could be a violation of the Espionage Act, a law covering the handling of sensitive information.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Upon learning that P*rnhub’s parent company is headquartered in Montreal, Donald Trump is now referring to Canada as “the 51st Tate”. #FunFacts
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
@jizzycreams.bsky.social Thanks for the like on the old post! For my more recent stuff, check me out in a couple weeks: www.broadwaycomedyclub.com/shows/20…
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Robert Reich remembers his friend Alan Simpson: open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p…
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In loving memory of my very dear 6-foot-7-inch Republican senator friend
In memory of Alan Simpson, who died this morning
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My return to Substack posting is something of a deep dive on the meaning of Lent -- and what appears to be a trend (even in secular spaces) to seek pauses in casual drinking, random sex and other habits. open.substack.com/pub/thepunst... I'll be back later with a somewhat shorter hits.
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Lenten Observations
Robert's 40/400 pledge
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
100% agree. Trump wants to make it hard for any of his targets to get top-notch representation from an elite firm, especially if it's pro bono. White-shoe firms will justify their silence and recusals on the grounds of "protecting" their clients and "preserving access."
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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I logged onto LinkedIn today expecting to see my feed filled with outrage from the lawyer connections I have – most of whom are former federal government attorneys who now work outside the federal government in private practice or in the private sector. Per a Tuesday Executive Order, /1
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NYCers: If you’re around the UES this Thursday, come check out this extraordinary comedy lineup — including yours truly! Comic Strip Live, 1568 2nd Avenue (W. 81st/82nd). $20 cover and a two-item minimum!
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Of course, if Amy Gleason is the administrator of DOGE, as my colleagues and others have now confirmed, the questions now are *when* she was named and whether she has actual authority or is a conduit for Musk. DOJ lawyers couldn't answer either question in court yesterday.
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
On what grounds? apple.news/A3eUYiFy4QzyKvZ0759w9IA
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Starbucks to lay off over 1,000 corporate workers — Fox Business
Starbucks announced it was laying off over 1,000 corporate workers as it tries to simplify operations as part of its
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Robert A George @robgeorge.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
NYCers: I'll be on NY1's "Inside City Hall" tonight discussing Mayor Adams, congestion pricing and other matters with the one and only @GersonBorrero. Around 7:40 (11:40 replay). A quote of mine in this article may come up in conversation. nymag.com/intelligence...
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How New York’s Black Leaders Are Trying to Move Past Eric Adams
The mayor has become a national embarrassment, and the city’s Black political leaders are working to line up candidates to defeat him.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This pulse on group 'with diverse political ideologies' has 3 declared Trump voters and a 4th whose vote isn't specified but who loves Trump & Musk; and one Harris voter. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
1. This week, the White House barred an Associated Press reporter from covering an event at the Oval Office. Why? The global news agency was not using “correct speech.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The new cover of TIME.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
MAGA: Make Apartheid Great Again.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Now let me ask a troubling question: If the President is no longer bound by the Constitution - if he can ignore legislation passed by Congress and rulings by federal courts - are the states bound by it anymore? Because we are on track to ask that question, and not in a good way.
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