Skyline
@skyline4438.bsky.social
As anonymous as possible, since the internet is generally horrible. American. Public health professional.
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Targeting criminal immigrants, reducing illegal immigration, raising taxes on billionaires, healthcare reform, affordability are all ideas popular with everyone, and a real populist Republican could work with Dems to get these things done. Maybe MTG is the one to break away from the rich.
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Targeting criminal immigrants, reducing illegal immigration, raising taxes on billionaires, healthcare reform, affordability are all ideas popular with everyone, and a real populist Republican could work with Dems to get these things done. Maybe MTG is the one to break away from the rich.
Beyond parody.
KERNEN: When people think of who would be the least independent of the Trump administration, they think of you
HASSETT: I just totally reject that. Right now, my job is to be at the White House and serve the president every day.
HASSETT: I just totally reject that. Right now, my job is to be at the White House and serve the president every day.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Beyond parody.
Border Patrol has drones following reporters around Charlotte. This is not about immigration.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
Border Patrol drone follows reporters around on Sunday
Border Patrol drone follows reporters at Dany’s Supermarket off The Plaza in Charlottee on Sunday, November, 16, 2025
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Border Patrol has drones following reporters around Charlotte. This is not about immigration.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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Also all of this is happening because it is increasingly clear that most of this country absolutely hates what is happening today — and even the GOP base is starting to sour on the admin. There’s a power vacuum. Expect to see more people break rank to try siphoning off power for themselves.
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Also all of this is happening because it is increasingly clear that most of this country absolutely hates what is happening today — and even the GOP base is starting to sour on the admin. There’s a power vacuum. Expect to see more people break rank to try siphoning off power for themselves.
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This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
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Published yesterday: The Trump Organization requested a record 184 foreign workers this year.
me, for @forbes.com
me, for @forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Published yesterday: The Trump Organization requested a record 184 foreign workers this year.
me, for @forbes.com
me, for @forbes.com
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
Justice for Epstein victims is probably an eternal fantasy. Decades of the rich living their best lives means they already got away with everything. Every American system favors them.
Trump, more than anyone, has won. He's 79, and we know the justice and political systems won't stop him.
Trump, more than anyone, has won. He's 79, and we know the justice and political systems won't stop him.
Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Justice for Epstein victims is probably an eternal fantasy. Decades of the rich living their best lives means they already got away with everything. Every American system favors them.
Trump, more than anyone, has won. He's 79, and we know the justice and political systems won't stop him.
Trump, more than anyone, has won. He's 79, and we know the justice and political systems won't stop him.
It should go without saying, but 15 is not "barely legal" anywhere in America.
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It should go without saying, but 15 is not "barely legal" anywhere in America.
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Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
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Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone who is not a flat denialist. We know they were good friends, the birthday book was full of sexual messages, etc. so best case for Trump has always been that he knew and did nothing.
BREAKING
“Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct:
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
“Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct:
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone who is not a flat denialist. We know they were good friends, the birthday book was full of sexual messages, etc. so best case for Trump has always been that he knew and did nothing.
This would literally cause the insurance market to spiral into collapse. It isn't enough money to do anything significant, and many will pocket the money and not enroll. This leaves the remaining, sicker pool with costs so high that they, too, will have to opt out.
Trump: "We want a healthcare system where we pay the money to the people instead of the insurance companies. We're gonna be working on that very hard over the next short period of time. Where the people get the money. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars."
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This would literally cause the insurance market to spiral into collapse. It isn't enough money to do anything significant, and many will pocket the money and not enroll. This leaves the remaining, sicker pool with costs so high that they, too, will have to opt out.
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These kinds of things happened two decades ago under the last Republican president. A lot of people made a lot of short term money. Then it all came crashing down and his successor had to clean up a huge mess. Here we go again.
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
These kinds of things happened two decades ago under the last Republican president. A lot of people made a lot of short term money. Then it all came crashing down and his successor had to clean up a huge mess. Here we go again.
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No one who suggests this idea earnestly has ever had the unique displeasure of trying to get an insurance company to do something for them. These corporations could not care less about you and whatever they might give in ACA money will be nowhere near enough to cover even the basics.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
No one who suggests this idea earnestly has ever had the unique displeasure of trying to get an insurance company to do something for them. These corporations could not care less about you and whatever they might give in ACA money will be nowhere near enough to cover even the basics.
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We know this because he told us.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We know this because he told us.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Thank you to Lee Roberts for standing up where so many others have bent over.
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Thank you to Lee Roberts for standing up where so many others have bent over.
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
Sure, you've got Trump right where you want him.
Do I trust them? No. That’s why I voted no. But they are in a terrible position, and we can use the next few weeks to turn the pressure up even further.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Sure, you've got Trump right where you want him.
Republicans are never going to allow ACA subsidies to continue. They've wanted to eliminate them since the ACA was passed, and they now know that Democrats aren't that committed to keeping the subsidies.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Republicans are never going to allow ACA subsidies to continue. They've wanted to eliminate them since the ACA was passed, and they now know that Democrats aren't that committed to keeping the subsidies.
Today feels like the day that the Left version of MAGA is born.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Today feels like the day that the Left version of MAGA is born.