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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
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1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
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Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
Zero.
Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:
Zero.
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President Trump, I am calling on you to fire Secretary Kennedy immediately.
He has contributed to this measles outbreak by spreading falsehoods about vaccines.
His reckless rhetoric will cost lives.
He has contributed to this measles outbreak by spreading falsehoods about vaccines.
His reckless rhetoric will cost lives.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
President Trump, I am calling on you to fire Secretary Kennedy immediately.
He has contributed to this measles outbreak by spreading falsehoods about vaccines.
His reckless rhetoric will cost lives.
He has contributed to this measles outbreak by spreading falsehoods about vaccines.
His reckless rhetoric will cost lives.
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‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
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Mark Kelly: "It was just two months ago that Charlie Kirk was assassination and Trump talked about political violence. And now his instinct is to call for our execution."
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Mark Kelly: "It was just two months ago that Charlie Kirk was assassination and Trump talked about political violence. And now his instinct is to call for our execution."
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Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes."
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes."
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...
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I haven't seen one legitimate business or academic reason for anyone to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I haven't seen one legitimate business or academic reason for anyone to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
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"A land-value tax would discourage land hoarding, and the number of properties that can be owned by any single corporate landlord should be limited. Concentration is the enemy of supply."
El acaparamiento de suelo y vivienda debe frenarse para que aumente la oferta vía @ranaforoohar.bsky.social.
El acaparamiento de suelo y vivienda debe frenarse para que aumente la oferta vía @ranaforoohar.bsky.social.
What happens when housing supply is driven by markets not Main Street
Home prices in America won’t come down without systemic reform
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"A land-value tax would discourage land hoarding, and the number of properties that can be owned by any single corporate landlord should be limited. Concentration is the enemy of supply."
El acaparamiento de suelo y vivienda debe frenarse para que aumente la oferta vía @ranaforoohar.bsky.social.
El acaparamiento de suelo y vivienda debe frenarse para que aumente la oferta vía @ranaforoohar.bsky.social.
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Honestly, I wish the markets would react to an absolute moron being on the Fed.
This is who gets to vote on how to manage US currency.
This is who gets to vote on how to manage US currency.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Honestly, I wish the markets would react to an absolute moron being on the Fed.
This is who gets to vote on how to manage US currency.
This is who gets to vote on how to manage US currency.
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The magic numbers on the Epstein Files petition are 290 and 67. That's what it takes to override a presidential veto.
The petition needs 72 more House Republicans and 20 Senate Republicans willing to defy Trump.
(That has not happened all year.)
Trump had a veto overridden once: NDAA 1/1/21.
The petition needs 72 more House Republicans and 20 Senate Republicans willing to defy Trump.
(That has not happened all year.)
Trump had a veto overridden once: NDAA 1/1/21.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The magic numbers on the Epstein Files petition are 290 and 67. That's what it takes to override a presidential veto.
The petition needs 72 more House Republicans and 20 Senate Republicans willing to defy Trump.
(That has not happened all year.)
Trump had a veto overridden once: NDAA 1/1/21.
The petition needs 72 more House Republicans and 20 Senate Republicans willing to defy Trump.
(That has not happened all year.)
Trump had a veto overridden once: NDAA 1/1/21.
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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"We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning."
-Jean Baudrillard
-Jean Baudrillard
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning."
-Jean Baudrillard
-Jean Baudrillard
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“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”
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How to Avoid A Climate Disaster
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How to Avoid A Climate Disaster
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
1. Ignore Bill Gates on climate
2. Repeat #1
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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These billionaires can’t bring their own clean power to the grid? Can’t pay emissions fee on pollution they cause? World’s biggest freeload.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
These billionaires can’t bring their own clean power to the grid? Can’t pay emissions fee on pollution they cause? World’s biggest freeload.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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unbearably important
thanks @michaelemann.bsky.social
thanks @michaelemann.bsky.social
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
unbearably important
thanks @michaelemann.bsky.social
thanks @michaelemann.bsky.social
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Tell me you haven’t actually *read* The Great Gatsby without telling me you haven’t actually read it…
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tell me you haven’t actually *read* The Great Gatsby without telling me you haven’t actually read it…
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"No Kings! Not then! Not now! But you can be a good republican and still give a foreign king credit where credit is due. So let me offer an American tip of the hat to King Charles III."
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
For One Day at Least, Long Live the King
King Charles III shows us—but, really, congressional Republicans—what actual accountability looks like when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
www.thebulwark.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"No Kings! Not then! Not now! But you can be a good republican and still give a foreign king credit where credit is due. So let me offer an American tip of the hat to King Charles III."
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
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this is exactly what's happening
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
this is exactly what's happening
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1. Reagan’s speech is real
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1. Reagan’s speech is real
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
2. It’s public domain
3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians
4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check
5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs
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Let them eat ballrooms.
“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.”
@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Let them eat ballrooms.
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Preventing health care costs from exploding?
Reopening the government?
Lowering the cost of groceries?
Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.
Reopening the government?
Lowering the cost of groceries?
Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Preventing health care costs from exploding?
Reopening the government?
Lowering the cost of groceries?
Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.
Reopening the government?
Lowering the cost of groceries?
Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.
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"Those who study the law and are experts on the balance of power warn that unless Congress reasserts its authority soon, we may end up unable to repair the guardrails that have held our government together for centuries."
The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government
It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.
www.thebulwark.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Those who study the law and are experts on the balance of power warn that unless Congress reasserts its authority soon, we may end up unable to repair the guardrails that have held our government together for centuries."