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This is a smart take:
Ousting Biden mid cycle did not work.
The drama around Schumer will also not work.
Dems will look untrustworthy to the public.
Too much beltway thinking.
Have a competitive leadership election in Dec 2026.
The drama around Schumer will also not work.
Dems will look untrustworthy to the public.
Too much beltway thinking.
Have a competitive leadership election in Dec 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This is a smart take:
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Ousting Biden mid cycle did not work.
The drama around Schumer will also not work.
Dems will look untrustworthy to the public.
Too much beltway thinking.
Have a competitive leadership election in Dec 2026.
The drama around Schumer will also not work.
Dems will look untrustworthy to the public.
Too much beltway thinking.
Have a competitive leadership election in Dec 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Ousting Biden mid cycle did not work.
The drama around Schumer will also not work.
Dems will look untrustworthy to the public.
Too much beltway thinking.
Have a competitive leadership election in Dec 2026.
The drama around Schumer will also not work.
Dems will look untrustworthy to the public.
Too much beltway thinking.
Have a competitive leadership election in Dec 2026.
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NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
High-profile Jan. 6 defendant facing charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting woman
John Banuelos' case was unique among Capitol riot prosecutions because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
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Such an amazingly stupid asshole
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Such an amazingly stupid asshole
Importantly, with nobody else nearby, they turned around to look for the Fitz.
Pilothouse perspective, steamer Arthur M. Anderson passing Detroit downbound with iron ore destined for Conneaut, Ohio, January 2015. The Anderson is remembered for being the vessel that followed the doomed Edmund Fitzgerald across Lake Superior the night the “Big Fitz” vanished with all hands.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Importantly, with nobody else nearby, they turned around to look for the Fitz.
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“Then she will return to the north, to the loading docks of Duluth, where her holds will be filled for another 5 1/2-day round trip.
It is a mundane trade, but one that helped build the world's mightiest industrial nation.”
It is a mundane trade, but one that helped build the world's mightiest industrial nation.”
“Forty or more times this shipping season, the Ryerson, her hull low in the water with 26,000 tons of concentrated iron ore aboard, will steam 854 miles from the Minnesota iron country at the western tip of Lake Superior to blast furnaces at the southern end of Lake Michigan.”
Iron Ore's Route by Inland Seas
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December 9, 2024 at 2:43 AM
“Then she will return to the north, to the loading docks of Duluth, where her holds will be filled for another 5 1/2-day round trip.
It is a mundane trade, but one that helped build the world's mightiest industrial nation.”
It is a mundane trade, but one that helped build the world's mightiest industrial nation.”
Roman Empire? Rarely.
Astonishing tales of the Great Lakes? All the damn time.
Astonishing tales of the Great Lakes? All the damn time.
ill put it like this, its surprising to me its still got the pull. it feels like there is a media campaign out there
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Roman Empire? Rarely.
Astonishing tales of the Great Lakes? All the damn time.
Astonishing tales of the Great Lakes? All the damn time.
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I mean, there's "out of touch" and then there's whatever the fuck this is:
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I mean, there's "out of touch" and then there's whatever the fuck this is:
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
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Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct
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Dave Portnoy is an ignorant piece of very dubious, arguably racist, garbage. So, of course, Bari Weiss is going to platform him across CBS.
What a joke.
What a joke.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Dave Portnoy is an ignorant piece of very dubious, arguably racist, garbage. So, of course, Bari Weiss is going to platform him across CBS.
What a joke.
What a joke.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This is happening because of republicans.
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is happening because of republicans.
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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PACER embodies the judiciary's contempt for the public.
I'm having trouble with PACER so I don't know exactly *how* they amended (yet) in the Chang case
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
PACER embodies the judiciary's contempt for the public.
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2nd, children born to mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy have a higher risk of developmental disorders by the age of 3 years, including autism & speech delays
RFK, Makary & Bhattacharya were taking steps to increase the risks of worse pregnancy outcomes
2/2
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
RFK, Makary & Bhattacharya were taking steps to increase the risks of worse pregnancy outcomes
2/2
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
journals.lww.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
2nd, children born to mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy have a higher risk of developmental disorders by the age of 3 years, including autism & speech delays
RFK, Makary & Bhattacharya were taking steps to increase the risks of worse pregnancy outcomes
2/2
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
RFK, Makary & Bhattacharya were taking steps to increase the risks of worse pregnancy outcomes
2/2
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
This is how the Senate usually has been (pre-Reid).
the caucus gets how this is *worse* right? if you're just going around Schumer, what's the point of leadership
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is how the Senate usually has been (pre-Reid).
Here’s our giant scam that will leave everyone worse off!
You can prevent this kind of thing by having a president who isn't an idiot child
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Here’s our giant scam that will leave everyone worse off!
He’s too arrogant to have a proper spotter
What are the odds Nate Silver dies of autoerotic asphyxiation?
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
He’s too arrogant to have a proper spotter
I’m still mad about 2004.
As often as Mitch McConnell made it look like he was doing shameless things to reward individual members of his caucus just for the fun of it, I don't think he ever wrote in cash money legal settlements for no reason at all.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m still mad about 2004.
Seinfeld plot: Estelle Costanza is playing mahjong.
and I don't think anyone replying here has a concept of the gravitational force of mahjong in the culture right now - you can whisper mahjong and get sixty women to show up somewhere and every last one of them leaves with two new friends.
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Seinfeld plot: Estelle Costanza is playing mahjong.
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This sucks. They had a good (enough) product that expanded the reach of ebikes to a whole lot of people.
NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding.
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart.
Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social
techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes faces shutdown in January without new funding | TechCrunch
The company is "still fighting to find ways to continue" according to an email viewed by TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This sucks. They had a good (enough) product that expanded the reach of ebikes to a whole lot of people.
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How the fuck did they miss this?
I'm told Sen. Ted Cruz led this effort. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats weren't consulted on the addition of this language, per a source familiar. Committee's top Dem, Dick Durbin, was among the 8 Ds who voted to advance the spending measure last night.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
How the fuck did they miss this?
She was a right wing “politically homeless” nutcase before Musk completed the sale.
Self-described “moderates” and mainlining right-wing bullshit and lies. Name a more iconic duo.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
She was a right wing “politically homeless” nutcase before Musk completed the sale.