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these people got annoyed by some grad students on the internet in 2020 and projected it on to joe biden for some reason. bizarre behavior.
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
these people got annoyed by some grad students on the internet in 2020 and projected it on to joe biden for some reason. bizarre behavior.
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You get two dolls, a hunk of chicken, one piece of broccoli, and a corn tortilla
Golden Age!
Golden Age!
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
You get two dolls, a hunk of chicken, one piece of broccoli, and a corn tortilla
Golden Age!
Golden Age!
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He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
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Out of shape goon squad 🤣
October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Out of shape goon squad 🤣
Horrifying
I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Horrifying
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This is incredibly silly. Of course he did. What even is the alternate theory of the case? You're not obligated to treat it as some kind of seriously open question just because Trump denies it.
September 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is incredibly silly. Of course he did. What even is the alternate theory of the case? You're not obligated to treat it as some kind of seriously open question just because Trump denies it.
Can’t wait for the nation to have to reckon with the grievances of these conservative action admits when they get to Harvard and find out that nobody likes them!
Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.
April 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Can’t wait for the nation to have to reckon with the grievances of these conservative action admits when they get to Harvard and find out that nobody likes them!
Ah yes, now I see the big beautiful signature Hassett was talking about
April 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ah yes, now I see the big beautiful signature Hassett was talking about
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outright vote buying
March 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
outright vote buying
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The administrative machine Dems built in post-WWII years is one of the great wonders of the world, responsible for untold miracles, but it was built, and exists, under well-funded, non-stop attack. All the design choices, and all its current features, must be understood in that context.
March 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The administrative machine Dems built in post-WWII years is one of the great wonders of the world, responsible for untold miracles, but it was built, and exists, under well-funded, non-stop attack. All the design choices, and all its current features, must be understood in that context.
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What the Trump administration is doing to unions right now is worse than what Reagan did to PATCO, and if TSA workers allow their union contract to be tossed out without striking, public sector union power in America will soon be decimated.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...
Strike, or Else
As Trump tosses out the TSA union contract, everything is on the line.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
What the Trump administration is doing to unions right now is worse than what Reagan did to PATCO, and if TSA workers allow their union contract to be tossed out without striking, public sector union power in America will soon be decimated.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...
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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
Resistance is not going to be just big dramatic things. When you dismiss small acts, you discourage the folks who are testing the waters for the big acts.
I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.
February 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Resistance is not going to be just big dramatic things. When you dismiss small acts, you discourage the folks who are testing the waters for the big acts.
Feels like we’ve moved from Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue to @billybragg.bsky.social’s Mermaid Avenue.
February 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Feels like we’ve moved from Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue to @billybragg.bsky.social’s Mermaid Avenue.
wHY DoN’t YoU rUn GoVeRnMeNt liKe A bUSInEsS?
NEW memo from OPM acting director Chuck Ezell saying that fed employees should respond to the 5 bullets email by the 11:59pm deadline tonight unless they had an excused absence today. Absolute madness.
Full text:
Full text:
February 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
wHY DoN’t YoU rUn GoVeRnMeNt liKe A bUSInEsS?
Among other truths, this from @ryanlcooper.com contains the best concise description I’ve read of our unimaginable betrayal of Canada
"the lesson is clear: America cannot be trusted, and all its former allies should start preparing for the worst, including developing their own nuclear deterrents in case of war with the U.S. itself." prospect.org/world/2025-0...
Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History
Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic.
prospect.org
February 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Among other truths, this from @ryanlcooper.com contains the best concise description I’ve read of our unimaginable betrayal of Canada
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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
wrd.cm
February 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
Some of the tech bros who mistook trump’s election for a shift in the cultural zeitgeist are going to be sad that the culture makers hate them now.
Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg.
Eisenberg speaks not as a person "who played [a part] in a movie" but as somebody "who is married to a woman who teaches disability justice” and whose students face tough times ahead.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Eisenberg speaks not as a person "who played [a part] in a movie" but as somebody "who is married to a woman who teaches disability justice” and whose students face tough times ahead.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg
The actor, who played the Facebook founder in The Social Network, criticised Meta’s decision to scrap factcheckers
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Some of the tech bros who mistook trump’s election for a shift in the cultural zeitgeist are going to be sad that the culture makers hate them now.
Appreciate my rep @balint.house.gov being there for this. 💪Of all the insanity swirling around Trump admin, Musk’s illegal takeover is the most important to put a stop to.
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Appreciate my rep @balint.house.gov being there for this. 💪Of all the insanity swirling around Trump admin, Musk’s illegal takeover is the most important to put a stop to.
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Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961?
Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?
Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.
Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?
Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.
February 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961?
Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?
Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.
Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional?
Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.
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A private citizen does not have the authority to do this. The President also does not have the authority to do this.
This is unbelievably evil and completely illegal.
This is unbelievably evil and completely illegal.
Elon Musk said on X early Monday he is in the process of closing USAID with Trump's blessing.
“I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said. ... ‘Are you sure?’”
The answer was yes, he said.
“And so we’re shutting it down,” Musk said.
wapo.st/4jI7On5
“I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said. ... ‘Are you sure?’”
The answer was yes, he said.
“And so we’re shutting it down,” Musk said.
wapo.st/4jI7On5
Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
wapo.st
February 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A private citizen does not have the authority to do this. The President also does not have the authority to do this.
This is unbelievably evil and completely illegal.
This is unbelievably evil and completely illegal.
Face-eating tiger meme still works even when the tigers tell you they’re gonna eat your face
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Face-eating tiger meme still works even when the tigers tell you they’re gonna eat your face
Very important point. There is no sane world where any of this should be allowed, and yet…
It should be obvious, but let's be clear: if a new president can arbitrarily nullify existing federal contracts, they aren't real "contracts" at all and they aren't worth the paper they're printed on. 🧵
January 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Very important point. There is no sane world where any of this should be allowed, and yet…
People complain about the “bureaucracy” but in my experience this email is emblematic of the folks that make up the civil service. Actual leadership. Actual principles.
Background: 60 USAID employees had been placed on leave for “undermining” Trump’s executive orders. Nick Gottlieb was told by DOGE to then fire them. Instead he emailed all of them earlier saying he found no evidence of misconduct and used his power to take them off leave. Then he was put on leave.
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
People complain about the “bureaucracy” but in my experience this email is emblematic of the folks that make up the civil service. Actual leadership. Actual principles.