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and coming up next at the national prayer breakfast we have this golden calf that we’re all worshiping now, lets get those hands in the air for the golden calf everybody
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 PM
and coming up next at the national prayer breakfast we have this golden calf that we’re all worshiping now, lets get those hands in the air for the golden calf everybody
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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My precinct captain has been to every caucus in my district since 1996. He says there has never been this many people at our caucus event in those 30 years. Room is packed. Parking lot is crammed. Cars lined up around the block.
February 4, 2026 at 1:47 AM
My precinct captain has been to every caucus in my district since 1996. He says there has never been this many people at our caucus event in those 30 years. Room is packed. Parking lot is crammed. Cars lined up around the block.
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This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
I was a little late to catch up with this WSJ kleptocracy story. We already knew Sheikh Tahnoon dropped $2b on World Liberty Financial to get Trump to let UAE import advanced chips. Now we learn Tahnoon also purchased 49 percent of World Liberty Financial.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
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REMINDER! Caucuses are tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 3! Don't forget to print out the resolutions to bring with you: https://mape.org/committees/political-council
📷 MAPE members from SD53 met up yesterday for a bipartisan discussion to get ready for caucuses.
📷 MAPE members from SD53 met up yesterday for a bipartisan discussion to get ready for caucuses.
February 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
REMINDER! Caucuses are tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 3! Don't forget to print out the resolutions to bring with you: https://mape.org/committees/political-council
📷 MAPE members from SD53 met up yesterday for a bipartisan discussion to get ready for caucuses.
📷 MAPE members from SD53 met up yesterday for a bipartisan discussion to get ready for caucuses.
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ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom
January 24, 2026 at 1:05 AM
ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom
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How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
January 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
How you can tell the protesters aren’t paid agitators: Watch the videos. It’s the accents.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
Those accents have a favorite Zorbaz.
Those accents can tell you EXACTLY where they were on 10/31/91.
Those accents have thrown a bra off the SkyGlider.
Those accents get emotional about Randy Moss.
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I think it’s more likely than not that we see the end of Fed independence and NATO this year.
January 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I think it’s more likely than not that we see the end of Fed independence and NATO this year.
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Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.
Sam Bankman Freid thought this dude was truly corrupt.
Thanks John Roberts!
Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act?
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Sam Bankman Freid thought this dude was truly corrupt.
Man, huge survey size for Alaska. Definitely means Alaska is in play with rank choice voting.
Quick preview of numbers being released tomorrow… special for my Bluesky peeps:
Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)
2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)
Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%
Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)
2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)
Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%
Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
October 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Man, huge survey size for Alaska. Definitely means Alaska is in play with rank choice voting.
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Quick preview of numbers being released tomorrow… special for my Bluesky peeps:
Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)
2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)
Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%
Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)
2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)
Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%
Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
October 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Quick preview of numbers being released tomorrow… special for my Bluesky peeps:
Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)
2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)
Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%
Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
Alaska Survey Research
October 10-15, 2025
N=2,083 adults (1,957 RV, 1,708 LV)
2026 Alaska US Senate (LV)
Mary Peltola (D) 48%
Dan Sullivan (R) 46%
Undecided 6%
Sullivan’s negative hits 50% for the first time.
Of course.
Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Of course.
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this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
August 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.
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Always read @joshchafetz.bsky.social, but especially this. I have come to the view that if and when we get to the other side, real constitutional reform will be needed, and allowing for some version of a legislative veto absolutely has to be part of that.
I just posted a new paper on @ssrn.bsky.social, titled "The Chadha Presidency". Here's the link, and I'll post the abstract in the next post. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The <i>Chadha </i>Presidency
<p><span>Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans
papers.ssrn.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Always read @joshchafetz.bsky.social, but especially this. I have come to the view that if and when we get to the other side, real constitutional reform will be needed, and allowing for some version of a legislative veto absolutely has to be part of that.
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Thanks be to hoops logic, we don’t have to listen to that Durant-to-Woofs crapola anymore.
Now Connelly can worry about what he needs — an in-his-prime point guard.
Now Connelly can worry about what he needs — an in-his-prime point guard.
June 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thanks be to hoops logic, we don’t have to listen to that Durant-to-Woofs crapola anymore.
Now Connelly can worry about what he needs — an in-his-prime point guard.
Now Connelly can worry about what he needs — an in-his-prime point guard.
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This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.
June 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.
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“We are devastated by the targeted killings of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shooting of Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette."
June 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“We are devastated by the targeted killings of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shooting of Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette."
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"U.S. job growth over the first five months of 2025 is the worst since the Great Recession. When Donald Trump says the economy is 'booming,' he’s wrong..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Job growth held steady in May, but new signs of economic trouble emerge
U.S. job growth over the first five months of 2025 is the worst since the Great Recession. When Donald Trump says the economy is “booming,” he’s wrong.
www.msnbc.com
June 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"U.S. job growth over the first five months of 2025 is the worst since the Great Recession. When Donald Trump says the economy is 'booming,' he’s wrong..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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So Trump, you want to deport “homegrown” criminals? Only one of you has 34 felony convictions, was found liable for sexual assault, impeached 2x, and is actively tearing this country apart.
Look in the mirror,it’s you.
Not sure you’d survive a gulag-you dodged military service because of bone spurs!
Look in the mirror,it’s you.
Not sure you’d survive a gulag-you dodged military service because of bone spurs!
April 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So Trump, you want to deport “homegrown” criminals? Only one of you has 34 felony convictions, was found liable for sexual assault, impeached 2x, and is actively tearing this country apart.
Look in the mirror,it’s you.
Not sure you’d survive a gulag-you dodged military service because of bone spurs!
Look in the mirror,it’s you.
Not sure you’d survive a gulag-you dodged military service because of bone spurs!
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“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “These are going to be huge losses to the research community.”
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I just accidentally sent My plans for the Apocalypse to an editor at The Atlantic.
March 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I just accidentally sent My plans for the Apocalypse to an editor at The Atlantic.
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This really is a bigger problem than “the groups” or hedging for donors, or being too cowed by *either* “the left” or Republicans. It encompasses all of that.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This really is a bigger problem than “the groups” or hedging for donors, or being too cowed by *either* “the left” or Republicans. It encompasses all of that.
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This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school.
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Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce | CNN Politics
The US Education Department said it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, according to senior agency officials, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
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