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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What is happening right now? Is this happening? How did everything get so weird? Did I unwittingly ingest a hallucinogen? What's going on here?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bill Clinton got House and Senate Democrats (zero Republicans) to pass a bill that cut the deficit by $500 billion through a mix of tax increases and spending cuts, setting the table for years of economic growth and a fiscal surplus. The party's reward was a crushing defeat in the 1994 midterms.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million. That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"make up shit to get mad at and then run on how mad you are at it" has been The model of Republican politics since Gingrich at least and it's no surprised it's raised to power an empty suit with no tools or assets beyond free-floating belligerence and bottomless shamelessness

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Republicans are not our “political opponents.” They’re criminals who are trying to steal the safety and happiness of everyone we love. It’s not “just politics.” We need to turn their party into dust.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's billionaires jump through a lot of pseudo-intellectual hoops to say, "You're not the boss of me."

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady Pace

NYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Musk is right that many problems can't be solved just by "throwing money" at them. But US aid to fight AIDS, child hunger & other global plagues has one of the highest ROIs in government. The data is clear: cutting this $ means millions will die. The question is how many.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/06/2026

Conservatives wanted Barack Obama impeached over the money he agreed to pay Iran (which was Iran’s money, frozen in U.S. banks), which was $1.7 billion. Trump is going to hand Iran 176 times that amount. trib.al/YEFHCNb

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Trump may be a laughingstock to 1.4 billion in China, but he still has Kentucky’s 4th district in the palm of his hand.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Succinct and, well, dead on

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 27/04/2026

A million seconds ago was April 14th. A billion seconds ago was 1994. A TRILLION seconds ago was 30,000 B.C. The US national debt grows by $1 Trillion every 150 days.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

From a friend’s Facebook page. Perfect. 👌

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/04/2026

Can Vance & Co persuade Iran not to enrich above 3.67%, to surrender 98% of its enriched uranium stockpile, to allow weekly IAEA inspections, to keep the straits open without tolls, and to stick to that for at least a decade? In other words, the Obama deal.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Pass big tax cuts for the rich, slash health care spending, let polluters set environmental/energy policy, start a pointless war in the Middle East.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Gupta: If we’re making choices, we’re making a clear choice right now about how to spend $200 billion over three months. That money could very easily be repurposed to fund a public option and provide healthcare to everyone in the United States who needs it for years.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I don’t want to be a Debbie downer but the straits were open before we decided to bomb them.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Is it happening again?

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.

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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is absolutely false. Had GOP operatives like Roger Stone and John Roberts not interfered in the Florida recount Al Gore very likely would have been president and SCOTUS would be entirely different today. John Roberts is responsible for Citizens United.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In case anyone forgot how incoherent this administration’s policies are… we just removed sanctions on a nation we’re actively at war with. Oh well, at least the cowards in the GOP will have to spend the weekend trying to explain how this won’t fund the war for Iran (it will).

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We won! Also give me $200 billion dollars and send more troops to the Middle East

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines. It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Our Low-IQ President Did an Oopsie

You won’t believe Trump’s dumbest Iran mistake.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

And as a fun related legal fact, the failure of a commander to punish war crimes by his subordinates is also a war crime under the doctrine of command responsibility. Published by the Naval War College in 2021: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol97/is...

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U.S. Recognition of a Commander’s Duty to Punish War Crimes

This article explores the United States' recognition of the doctrine of command responsibility. The doctrine has been invoked by those alleging that President Trump’s pardons of U.S. personnel convict...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Maybe it's just me, but I think more people should be talking about the fact that Jared Kushner helped convince Trump to start a war with Iran. Meanwhile, Kushner's top client, Saudi Arabia, which pays Kushner $25 million+ annually, was also lobbying Trump to start a war.

The disclosure highlights Kushner's massive financial conflicts.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I think people are overrating the odds the ayatollah is a purely rational utility maximizer and underrating the odds the guy is rather upset about his father, wife, and daughter being incinerated and wants his pound of flesh.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

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