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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h
The radical change of saying you'll do very obvious things that people desperately want and desperately need.
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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 8h
Insane. These jobs typically have a hundred or more applicants for every open role.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h
Bessent apparently thinks that the restaurant was going to reheat his half-eaten dinner and serve it to another customer. But crafty fellow that he is, he has foiled their plan!
When hecklers from the liberal group
Code Pink interrupted the Treasury secretary at a Washington restaurant in December and criticized the Trump
administration's economic sanctions policies, Bessent called them ignorant and erupted at the owner of the restaurant for not removing them.
According to the owner and also a nearby diner, Bessent spit in his own food before leaving
"When people legitimately question what he's doing he falls back on ad hominem attacks," said Myrow, the
managing partner at Beacon Policy
Advisors. "People want someone in that role who's less thin skinned and seen as almost boring."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h
"We don't want to turn into a banana republic, so we won't try to rein in corporations" is the kind of thing you say if you don't know what makes a banana republic a banana republic, and instead want to be a banana republic where the bananas are data centers.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 17h
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h
"Cash rules everything around me"
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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 7h
ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
"President Trump, of course, makes the sun rise each morning."
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 6h
oh look paid protesters
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 6h
I guess this is what happens when AIPAC-AI writes your talking points without any human in the chain to check for basic humanity. David Valadao (R-CA-22) literally says that military aid to Israel helps the US because the money goes to the production and TESTING of American weapons systems.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h
Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About Trumpism
What is the future of the conservative movement?
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working towards a 2034 window of contention @whygavs.com · 4h
6. Does Paul Skenes suck now? The answer might surprise you!
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working towards a 2034 window of contention @whygavs.com · 4h
FIVE QUESTIONS LOOMING OVER THE PIRATE OFFSEASON: 1.BR 2. AND 3. ON 4. LOW 5. E www.mlb.com/news/pirates...
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5 questions looming large over Pirates' offseason
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 4h
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Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
Alt: Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4h
this is not the pedophile whose brother tried to kill acton, by the way, this is a different one
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4h
Unprecedented corruption
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h
If guys who look like this are libs they leave absolutely no ambiguity, that’s why Alan Ritchson concludes every interview with “moreover, Stephen Miller must be put in a trebuchet”
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h
I think we know what this means
Variety: Glen Powell Is Staying Quiet on Politics Because It 'Divides People' and 'I Genuinely Do Not Like the Discourse'
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h
Important under-the-radar race. There's a big debate next week, given how Graham performed in the last one it could create a swing.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 7h
Exactly 💯
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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 3h
Residential gas customers in Pennsylvania, the country's second largest producer, pay exactly the same amount now (inflation-adjusted) for gas as they did in the 90's, long before the fracking boom. PA produces 4,000% more gas, and residential customers are no better off. Data via EIA
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 3h
1. sports are for everyone or they're for no one at all 2. that is an INCREDIBLE shirt arktimes.com/food-and-cul...
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Can a Black gay man still call the hogs? - Arkansas Times
White heteronormativity has long dominated the University of Arkansas. What does that mean for Black gay Arkansans?
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 2h
Him planning to go to this football game and use up however many first-responder resources that requires, while the region gets set to get blasted by a hurricane, really does just say a lot sports.yahoo.com/articles/gon...
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‘It’s gonna be a nightmare’: Alabama-Georgia faces a ‘perfect storm’ with President Trump visit and hurricane
Saturday’s showdown between the No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs and the No. 6 Alabama Crimson Tide was already a massive, high-profile game, but add in a College GameDay during the morning, and a visit from Un...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. Congress can, in fact, say the court got the Constitution wrong, on such questions as: - Should there only be 9 Wizards in Robes, or 47, or 100, or 250? - Should the Wizards have a building? Clerks? Docket control? - Should they ride the circuit? On horses?
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

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there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

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social obligation
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like this is embarrassing! Why are you even playing fantasy football if you’re gonna offload the fun part of building your team????
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h
This is the first OMB Director who, when you hear the President mention his name, you start pondering what illegal abuses of power will be coming soon. My guess: some systemic bribery efforts as well as punishments to blue states.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 19h
The Cornell community has floated abolishing the Cornell Police Department. We should take it seriously, especially if you think that survivors should have the option of going to the police instead of their schools. I feel strongly about this too, because something people don't understand is that universities at this point are essentially total institutions. For a lot of students, their schools are not just schools.
They're their landlords, their employers, their source of health care, their gym, their coffee shop, the arena where they attend concerts. It leaves survivors with almost no real options. If you can't trust your school and your school systematically discriminates against sexual-assault survivors, where is left for you to go?
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19h
They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 22h
“I Got Friends That Will Hurt Her”: Court documents describe audio recordings and video footage that Tyreek Hill wants kept out of his divorce trial. It includes a proposed confidentiality deal that would have barred his estranged wife from sharing video with the NFL.
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"I Got Friends That Will Hurt Her": Court Documents Describe Audio Recordings And Video Footage Tyreek Hill Wants Kept Out Of His Divorce Trial | Defector
To hear powerhouse sports agent Drew Rosenhaus tell it, his client, the once-electric receiver Tyreek Hill, could sign with a new NFL team at any moment. From a football-only perspective, the agent’s ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
Jackson's little chuckle and "what are we doing here?" gesture at the end are both perfect
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18h
if I didn’t know anything about Susan Collins’ politics I would think of her as that nice older lady who is really kind to the tourists who hang out at the Capitol, which I think is part of why she’s been hard to defeat….Troy seems to be making a good go of it
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 22h
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h
It‘s utterly unconvincing when Susan Collins tries to pretend her vote for Kavanaugh wasn’t a betrayal of women’s right to bodily autonomy.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 18h
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 17h
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h
I’ve been wrong before, and might be wrong now, but I sort of feel like it isn’t necessary or helpful to parse trump’s most deranged utterances and give the the most charitable possible interpretation. There isn’t a clear meaning, there’s almost never a clear meeting, and that’s often on purpose.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026
over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":
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The Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'
Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.
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JosABats @thejoshbanks.bsky.social · 20h
We don’t want a little “socialism” getting into our government funded public schools system now do we folks?
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Calling a shit ruler "poorly-advised" is the oldest propaganda trick in the coward's book. It, quite literally, is the reason that an English king from the early 11th century was called "Æthelred the Unready" which translated to "Æthelred the poorly advised." He actually just sucked!
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