kirblar024.bsky.social
@kirblar024.bsky.social
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Pardon business is booming, huh
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party
This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
No one should be shocked by this.
November 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?"

I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Every other major news outlet in America should be throwing teams of their best reporters in to finding out WTF happened with Epstein & the NYT.

And remember this.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Plausible that Trump’s policy of mass deportations will not just end a “temporary shift” among Hispanic voters but also lead to a more durable U-turn. In California, the 1994 “anti-immigrant ballot measure Prop 187 marked the death knell of the Republican Party.” calmatters.org/commentary/2...
The New Jersey governor’s race is the first significant sign that Trump’s success with Hispanic voters in 2024 may have been a temporary shift.

Via @christinezhang.bsky.social and @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Not enough people realizing we are in the lame duck years now.
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Most presidents whose approval rating is net -16 would be trying to reinforce intraparty bridges, is all I’m sayin’
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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musical theater knowers recognize this as a sign of extreme distress
Trump blares Phantom of the Opera at the White House with an empty Friday schedule
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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um, it’s actually misogyny to suggest the NYT shouldn’t do a glam cover story of the reporter who fucked her source. in fact, it’s also misogyny to suggest that our reporter shouldn’t have rolled his tongue out while his eyes grow x10 larger like an old acme cartoon while he reported on her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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is there literally anything an elite journalist can do to get blackballed other than MeToo a powerful colleague
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Hey if there's going to be a battle over Wiles maybe we'll find out what she's actually been doing these last nine months.
If there’s a nascent power struggle around the WH COS (and there always is), the thing that will quash it is definitely a major cabinet secretary publicly calling attention to it with vague accusations in a social media post.
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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not to absolve them of their other work, but every so often the Bee posts a banger
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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New homes per capita over time
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I hope the dead kids haunt her house
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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unfortunately some of the stereotypes about social sciences that conservatives have, largely false in like Econ, Poli sci, etc. are partially true about education research (lots of exceptions, etc). it's really bad.
"i don't like the value judgment implied in 'that kid can't read so well'" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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You obviously can't just do what they say, but an unfortunate reality about politics (per the "legislative subsidy" literature) is that corporate lobbyists tend to be much better informed about the substantive details of policy issues than overworked/underpaid congressional staff or NGOs types.
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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NEW: Before Biden's team course-corrected on inflation, they made some missteps—and Trump and his team are repeating them. New from the estimable @crampell.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
How to Lose on Affordability
Trump has learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation last year.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Fortunately, PTSD is a condition whose treatment is covered under the essential health benefits that remain in place thanks to the progress of the Affordable Care Act.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he still has “PTSD” from the GOP’s failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during President Trump’s first term.

Now, the party is about to plunge back into the tricky policy debate that once cost them seats in the House.
As health insurance bills rise, Republicans are still seeking an Obamacare alternative
Premiums for millions of Americans in red and blue states are expected to more than double on average next year unless Congress finds a solution.
nbcnews.to
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Lots of wildly incriminating stuff in here but also seeing a lot of people taking whatever he says as gospel, when he was, among other things, a world-class bullshit artist.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM