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Tom Whalen

@tom513.bsky.social
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feeling combination of sleepy john estes. jayne mansfield. humphry bogart/mortimer snerd. murph the surf and so forth

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 01/10/2026
The people profiting from war should not be the people making the policy decisions about the war. We're looking at you, Jared Kushner.
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m sure farmers paying $7 per gallon for diesel during harvest time will be delighted to know their tax dollars will be used to pay the lawyers who will try and fail to defend this in court.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I feel like we are so used to living in a time of madness that we can't grasp just how insane the Kennedy Center dispute is. Trump took something that was running just fine and destroyed it because he couldn't put his name next to the murdered president whose memorial it is. That's completely nuts.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Enten: "Trump is breaking records. Yesterday the Marquette Law School poll came out -- Trump's worst net approval rating on inflation. Minus 61! That's the worst Trump has ever polled on inflation, & not only that, it's the worst any president EVER has polled on inflation. Worse than Jimmy Carter!"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
LEVINE: “.. It is a little strange that an industry is overwhelmingly saying ‘regulate us, otherwise in our pursuit of mammoth profits we will kill everyone,’ and the US government is like ‘nah we’d rather you have the profits.’” @matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The entire presentation of conservative masculinity is elaborate fantasies about how you would do Taken if an immigrant/hip-hop thug/antifa sicko touched your daughter and when it actually happens they're like "it's very sad, he should go to the doctor :("
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roe
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It gets worse when you remember that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started. So we’re spending $40B and people are dying on both sides to return to the status quo from January. Everything is socialism unless it’s money for killing people in pointless forever wars.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 14/08/2026
The Trump DOJ said fighting sex trafficking was a “top priority.” Then they gutted the resources needed to actually fight it.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 11/08/2026
NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 7-10 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump's job performance U.S. adult citizens: 33% | 62% Democrats: 4% | 95% Independents: 18% | 71% Republicans: 79% | 21% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Approval and disapproval of Trump's job performance."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President? (%)."
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"I've remained silent on this topic for years now, but now that I think it might hurt my own re-election chances, I'm willing to take a grudgingly principled stand."
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Steve Ricketts @stevericketts.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
if you ignore deaths due to WWII, Russian population increased during the early 1940s
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On July 1, 2025, RFK Jr's Dept of Health announced that the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), would stop surveilling illnesses caused by Campylobacter, Cyclospora, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia as part of an effort to reduce federal funding. 13 months later:
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.
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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 PaceNYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For those keeping track, this is 110 times the amount of money from foreign sources that House Republicans claimed went to the “Biden family” (most of that actually went to non family business partners, none to Joe Biden).
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T. Ed Campbell @tecampbell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If a Supreme Court judge cannot read, understand and defend the 14th amendment, they cannot be a judge on the Supreme Court or anywhere The next democratic candidate for president must make Supreme Court reform a commitment
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🧵🧵🧵 Take this quiz: Which of these quotes are Republicans talking about Somali immigrants and which are Nazis talking about Jews? 1/ They’re “garbage. These are people who do nothing but complain.” 2/ “Public pests … vermin … leeches.” 3/ “They’re all crooks.” 4/ They’re “criminal-minded people.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When a news story includes claims by Trump that are unverified, it should run with a logo reading, ”He’s probably lying.”
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Trump, Claiming Vandalism, Says Reflecting Pool Will Likely Need to Be Drained
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The peace deal in Trump's disastrous war of choice in Iran is falling apart, but don't worry, Americans, he's busy tweeting about rebranding ICE, polling people on whether "dumocrats" or "dumbocrats" is a better zinger, and spewing conspiracy theories about the reflecting pool.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/06/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico: “I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas.  That’s why I'm supporting you.”
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Tom Whalen @tom513.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Jesus H Christ, where does the Republican party find these racist weirdos?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Jay Bhattacharya has been a constant critic of the CDC and of public health strategies to protect the public from infectious disease. After mass firings of expert staff, he’s now looking for untrained volunteers to screen airport passengers for Ebola symptoms. A lot could go wrong with this.
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CDC asks staff to volunteer to help with Ebola screenings at airports amid DRC outbreak
The CDC sent an "urgent request" to staff to help screen passengers coming from Central Africa for any potential signs of Ebola illness.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A great opportunity to be Trump's arch nemesis. Comment by noon on June 3. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...
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Public Comment Period: Proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The National Trust has raised concerns about the proposed...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/05/2026
Trump's chins cast a shadow as he mocks transgender weightlifters during his speech today in New York (Roberto Schmidt/Getty)
pic of Trump. my caption tells the story
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Democrats @democrats.org · 07/05/2026
Trump fired every full-time health official responsible for investigating outbreaks on cruise ships.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract
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NBC4 Columbus @nbc4i.com · 16/04/2026
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine denounced a gubernatorial campaign ad that claims Democratic candidate and former Ohio Health Director Amy Acton was responsible for postponing the 2020 primary election. nbc4i.co/3Qq4tij?utm_medium=social&…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Reagan’s OMB Director:
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/03/2026
I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/03/2026
The divide between the rich and the poor in America is widening. The wealth held by the top 1% increased by more than double the rate of the bottom 90% in the first nine months of last year, according to federal data.
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America's wealth gap is growing, and Trump's policies are making it bigger
President Donald Trump has cut programs helping lower-income households while advancing policies benefiting the wealthy and corporations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
Here's back to back clips of Fox & Friends misleading viewers this morning by presenting as though it's new an old clip of Donald Trump attending a dignified transfer without his campaign baseball cap on (unlike yesterday, when he wore one), then apologizing for it later in the show
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.
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Tom Whalen @tom513.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"The days of economic misery under the last administration are rapidly giving way to the greatest economy in the history of the world." -Trump, last year
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...
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