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artcandee.bsky.social
Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?

People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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agawande.bsky.social
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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atrupar.com
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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pbump.com
Three examples in one 24-hour period of people threatening to use the power of the state against those holding them to account.
www.pbump.net/o/these-are-...
These are all the same thing.
1. When ProPublica emailed questions for a profile of the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, they received a response from the communications director of the state Republican Party. He...
www.pbump.net
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
Republicans used to say they believed in free markets & free trade. Now they believe in Trump.

Republicans used to say they believed in the rule of law. Now they believe in Trump.

Republicans used to say they believed in states’ rights. Now they believe in Trump.
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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walterolson.bsky.social
All legal nonsense aside about the supposed state of armed conflict between the U.S. and Venezuelan gangs, what "I wish to emphasize is that there is a word for killings outside of armed conflict for which there is no domestic legal authority. That word is murder." [@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org]
The Situation: Murder She Wrote
There's a word for what they're doing.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
New, from me:
It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The worst takes from a bad week
The Free Press, about to take over CBS News, blames universities for American political violence
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 11
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
The former chief economist of the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee. 15 years at Heritage!
August 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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deanbaker13.bsky.social
Krugman is on the money again, Musk money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/muskenfreu...
Muskenfreude
When an oligarch confronts an autocrat, guess who wins?
paulkrugman.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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nikobowie.bsky.social
In the spirit of this great oped, journalists (inc. Goldberg) must recognize that one of Trump’s patterns is:

1. Do something wildly illegal
2. Identify the name of a law
3. Proceed to ignore every limit in that law

The pattern is tricking papers into writing “Trump is invoking a rarely used law.”
June 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Trump’s immigration actions are a classic bait & switch. He campaigned on deporting violent criminals. Instead, he’s deporting moms with their (sometimes American citizen) kids, good neighbors & hard workers; people who pay taxes & provide the labor we need.
June 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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keptsimple.bsky.social
it's really funny that any news anchor in america can say that biden was mentally incompetent but you can't say trump is mean without getting in big trouble
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 8
BREAKING

ABC News has suspended Terry Moran for this now deleted tweet.

This morning the White House Press Secretary said she asked ABC News for accountability.

A reminder that ABC and George Stephanoupolus paid a multi-million dollar settlement to Trump.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 8
ABC News senior correspondent Terry Moran on Stephen Miller.
June 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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paulwaldman.bsky.social
Foreign officials are under no illusions that by approving Trump Organization developments they're doing anything other than paying a bribe to the president of the United States. They know it, he knows it, the only people who are fooled are in the American public.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
This $1.5 billion golf complex outside the capital, Hanoi, as well as plans for a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale. And as that blitz makes the Trumps richer, it is distorting how countries interact with the United States. To fast-track the Trump development, Vietnam has ignored its own laws, legal experts said, granting concessions more generous than what even the most connected locals receive. Vietnamese officials, in a letter obtained by The New York Times, explicitly stated that the project required special support from the top ranks of the Vietnamese government because it was “receiving special attention from the Trump administration and President Donald Trump personally.” And Vietnamese officials have waved the development along in a moment of high-stakes diplomacy. They face intense pressure to strike a trade deal that would head off President Trump’s threat of steep tariffs, which would hit about 30 percent of Vietnam’s exports.
May 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
A corrupt pro wrestling promoter given the authority to shut down the nation’s oldest university is about where we’re at right now, as a country.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
I mean, they did promise to run the country like a business. Which, these days, means funneling as much money as possible to investors while getting mired in lawsuits, pushing legal costs onto customers, and gaslighting overworked workers into keeping productivity up.
April 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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atrupar.com
Imagine seeing this image four years ago. You would've wondered what tragedy befell our country where a scene like this could possibly happen.
April 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences?

A sociopath.
April 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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thefarce.org
We've killed tens of thousands and starved hundreds of thousands or maybe millions by gutting aide but at least we're paying more to do it
jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Apr 11
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.

Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Starting to think that we should sort out a general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. Let's keep the region strong with some kind of of north american free trade agreement. Perhaps a trans pacific partnership could soften China's influence.
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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spooknine.bsky.social
The bond vigilantes we were long warned of by right-wing economists are here thanks to right-wing policies
April 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM