@benstarr66.bsky.social
For those arguing it was never about Dem policy positions.
Increasing opioid overdose death rates were associated with an increase in Republican votes. surveys show Independents became more likely to support stricter border security & higher spending on law enforcement as drug death rates increased.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Drug Crisis and Voting Behavior | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Drug Crisis and Voting Behavior
www.cambridge.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For those arguing it was never about Dem policy positions.
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Here I go again. If you want small and diverse businesses to bid on government work, the RFP cannot by 48 pages with 12 appendices and 17 attachments.
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Here I go again. If you want small and diverse businesses to bid on government work, the RFP cannot by 48 pages with 12 appendices and 17 attachments.
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Hey @chadfinn.bsky.social how long is the waiting period before we can start referencing "the Cleveland game"?
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Hey @chadfinn.bsky.social how long is the waiting period before we can start referencing "the Cleveland game"?
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Best choice for 2028
Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.
America deserves better.
New threats from Trump:
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Best choice for 2028
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
And if he did he wouldn't have his cult.
The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
And if he did he wouldn't have his cult.
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“The real failure here is not the seedy behavior of one unethical central banker, it is the failure of the entire Biden Administration to take central bank appointments seriously.” petercontibrown.substack.com/p/the-biden-...
The Biden Administration’s Federal Reserve Failures
The Biden Administration did not send the best central bankers. What will the Democrats learn from the experience?
petercontibrown.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“The real failure here is not the seedy behavior of one unethical central banker, it is the failure of the entire Biden Administration to take central bank appointments seriously.” petercontibrown.substack.com/p/the-biden-...
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This Thanksgiving please remember to give thanks to the Lord that Trump and his people are so unbelievably incompetent 🙏🏼🦃
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This Thanksgiving please remember to give thanks to the Lord that Trump and his people are so unbelievably incompetent 🙏🏼🦃
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“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Almost the entire House Democratic Caucus is united against Marie Gleusenkamp Perez for accurately pointing out that one of their members resurrected Chicago machine politics to pull a fast one on his district. Just gross levels of hypocrisy on election integrity. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/m...
Scoop: House Democrats' infighting is poised to get even worse
Progressive Caucus members are privately discussing a retaliatory measure against Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Almost the entire House Democratic Caucus is united against Marie Gleusenkamp Perez for accurately pointing out that one of their members resurrected Chicago machine politics to pull a fast one on his district. Just gross levels of hypocrisy on election integrity. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/m...
Let's do this.
NEW— A proposal that will go before the Boston School Committee for discussion on Wednesday (Nov. 19) would result in the closure or reorganization of six city schools in 2027. Four Dorchester schools are impacted
Story: www.dotnews.com/2025/four-do...
Story: www.dotnews.com/2025/four-do...
Four Dorchester schools impacted in BPS re-org plan - Dorchester Reporter
A proposal that will go before the Boston School Committee for discussion on Wednesday (Nov. 19) would result in the closure or reorganization of six city schools in 2027. Four Dorchester schools are ...
www.dotnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Let's do this.
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
Dems need to grasp to flip this state blue.
"The Jones Act: A century-old anchor dragging Alaska’s economy under water" www.adn.com/opinions/202...
Opinion: The Jones Act: A century-old anchor dragging Alaska’s economy under water
The Tustumena replacement’s ballooning price tag shows how the Jones Act’s U.S.-build mandate bleeds coastal Alaska and delays relief.
www.adn.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Dems need to grasp to flip this state blue.
Susan Collins ladies & gentlemen.
“.. Collins eventually cast her vote against the resolution, giving opponents the decisive 50th vote to defeat it ..”
@politico.com 🇻🇪
www.politico.com/live-updates...
@politico.com 🇻🇪
www.politico.com/live-updates...
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Susan Collins ladies & gentlemen.
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Both the Wash Post and The NY Times have pieces on the Tucker-Fuentes-Roberts fallout, but the WaPo dive into Heritage is good, and the Times piece on Fuentes is not. Choose wisely!
🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation
The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.
The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.
🎁 Gift link:
The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months.
The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open.
🎁 Gift link:
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
wapo.st
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Both the Wash Post and The NY Times have pieces on the Tucker-Fuentes-Roberts fallout, but the WaPo dive into Heritage is good, and the Times piece on Fuentes is not. Choose wisely!
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Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.
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Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
They always reveal who we thought they were.
“.. Law enforcement and TSA agents .. deserve respect and appreciation. Not profanity. Not threats. Not tantrums," Wilson said.
@nbcnews.com #SCgov
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
@nbcnews.com #SCgov
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
They always reveal who we thought they were.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM