An appropriate time to remind everyone that Sam Kuffel still was right.
June 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
An appropriate time to remind everyone that Sam Kuffel still was right.
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Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her.
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her.
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
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In these uncertain times,
one thing never fails: watching cartoons where the Road Runner is very horny.
one thing never fails: watching cartoons where the Road Runner is very horny.
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In these uncertain times,
one thing never fails: watching cartoons where the Road Runner is very horny.
one thing never fails: watching cartoons where the Road Runner is very horny.
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This is a good starting thesis - focus on public administration - and has some good ideas but misses a lot of key points, and mixes up some stuff. Its a good provocation to get the conversation going. Some thoughts 🧵
“To fix the problems of American governance… A good place to start would be where government is currently under assault: public administration. It’s not enough just to defend the administrative state — it must be strengthened.”
Opinion | Democrats Need Their Own Version of Project 2025
A call for a reform project that is ambitious, radical and iconoclastic yet grounded in a genuine desire to fix the problems of American governance.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is a good starting thesis - focus on public administration - and has some good ideas but misses a lot of key points, and mixes up some stuff. Its a good provocation to get the conversation going. Some thoughts 🧵
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I feel like we don't talk enough about how many lives have been saved by accurate, publicly available weather forecasts
February 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I feel like we don't talk enough about how many lives have been saved by accurate, publicly available weather forecasts
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Do I know if the Democrats' messaging will click? Not really. Does Chuck Schumer look silly at these rallies? You could say that.
But I remember covering the early Tea Party rallies in February 2009, when the CW was "look at this stupid shit, do Republicans actually want to associate w this?"
But I remember covering the early Tea Party rallies in February 2009, when the CW was "look at this stupid shit, do Republicans actually want to associate w this?"
February 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Do I know if the Democrats' messaging will click? Not really. Does Chuck Schumer look silly at these rallies? You could say that.
But I remember covering the early Tea Party rallies in February 2009, when the CW was "look at this stupid shit, do Republicans actually want to associate w this?"
But I remember covering the early Tea Party rallies in February 2009, when the CW was "look at this stupid shit, do Republicans actually want to associate w this?"
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I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
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By advocating for zero-based budgeting in government, one immediately reveals oneself as a crank who knows nothing about the last five decades of public finance.
February 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
By advocating for zero-based budgeting in government, one immediately reveals oneself as a crank who knows nothing about the last five decades of public finance.
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We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
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On CBC right now:
Ottawa Senators fans just loudly booed the us national anthem at the hockey game in Ottawa. They are playing Minnesota.
Having been to a few hockey games in Canada I can tell you that just doesn’t happen.
Ottawa Senators fans just loudly booed the us national anthem at the hockey game in Ottawa. They are playing Minnesota.
Having been to a few hockey games in Canada I can tell you that just doesn’t happen.
February 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
On CBC right now:
Ottawa Senators fans just loudly booed the us national anthem at the hockey game in Ottawa. They are playing Minnesota.
Having been to a few hockey games in Canada I can tell you that just doesn’t happen.
Ottawa Senators fans just loudly booed the us national anthem at the hockey game in Ottawa. They are playing Minnesota.
Having been to a few hockey games in Canada I can tell you that just doesn’t happen.
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Trump today raised taxes on Americans. That's it. That's the policy.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Trump today raised taxes on Americans. That's it. That's the policy.
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Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
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A big reason satisfaction with "your personal life at home" plummeted to a new low recently was Republicans ... between January 2020 and January 2025 Gallup recorded a 43-point decline in personal satisfaction among self-identified Republicans.
January 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A big reason satisfaction with "your personal life at home" plummeted to a new low recently was Republicans ... between January 2020 and January 2025 Gallup recorded a 43-point decline in personal satisfaction among self-identified Republicans.
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a critical thing here is that wapo/nyt subscription numbers are down *because people see them as Vichy media*
There'a been a lot of media talk about how "the Resistance is dead" for which the evidence is Dem electeds aren't fighting and cable news and WaPo/NYT subscription numbers are down.
We should not overread into this one result, but consider: those might be the last Resistance's metrics.
We should not overread into this one result, but consider: those might be the last Resistance's metrics.
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED IOWA'S #SD35:
Mike Zimmer (D)- 51.8%
Katie Whittington (R)- 48.2%
THIS WAS A TRUMP+21 DISTRICT!
Mike Zimmer (D)- 51.8%
Katie Whittington (R)- 48.2%
THIS WAS A TRUMP+21 DISTRICT!
January 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
a critical thing here is that wapo/nyt subscription numbers are down *because people see them as Vichy media*
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Coffee and egg prices: all-time highs. 🥚 ☕️
(via Kevin Gordon)
(via Kevin Gordon)
January 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Coffee and egg prices: all-time highs. 🥚 ☕️
(via Kevin Gordon)
(via Kevin Gordon)
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Coverage cannot continue to be “he says this, he signed that, they got this e-mail.” The rapid speed of delusion and chaos is the point. We need context and impact. Is it legal? How is it happening? How will it be challenged?What’s the history of the policy and agency and why is this unprecedented?
January 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Coverage cannot continue to be “he says this, he signed that, they got this e-mail.” The rapid speed of delusion and chaos is the point. We need context and impact. Is it legal? How is it happening? How will it be challenged?What’s the history of the policy and agency and why is this unprecedented?
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I actually don't think this is true. His appointments in the U.S. have opened up space in the U.S. Bishops conference for much more forceful responses to Trump this time than in his first term. You can already see this. Empirically the U.S. bishops are much more vocal against Trump this time.
Unlike 2016, when Francis was at the peak of his popularity and surrounded by world leaders who were in open opposition to Trump, the pope is now 88 and an increasingly isolated voice in his appeals to promote migrants and peace in the world.
https://religionnews.com/2025/01/16/the-vatican-braces-f…
https://religionnews.com/2025/01/16/the-vatican-braces-f…
The Vatican braces for a second Trump presidency
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Recent appointments show Pope Francis and Trump already setting a different tone for Vatican-U.S. relations.
religionnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I actually don't think this is true. His appointments in the U.S. have opened up space in the U.S. Bishops conference for much more forceful responses to Trump this time than in his first term. You can already see this. Empirically the U.S. bishops are much more vocal against Trump this time.
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Bowie, gone nine years ago today.
His unbelievably prescient BBC interview — from 1999, about the internet’s sudden, mass adoption — is always worth a listen.
#RIP 🙏🏼
His unbelievably prescient BBC interview — from 1999, about the internet’s sudden, mass adoption — is always worth a listen.
#RIP 🙏🏼
January 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Bowie, gone nine years ago today.
His unbelievably prescient BBC interview — from 1999, about the internet’s sudden, mass adoption — is always worth a listen.
#RIP 🙏🏼
His unbelievably prescient BBC interview — from 1999, about the internet’s sudden, mass adoption — is always worth a listen.
#RIP 🙏🏼