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one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
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@maiamindel.bsky.social noted the other day that if he’s talking about a black or latino person he will without fail use the phrase “low IQ”
Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
@maiamindel.bsky.social noted the other day that if he’s talking about a black or latino person he will without fail use the phrase “low IQ”
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can we all at least agree that no one should ever be criticized for any reason
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
can we all at least agree that no one should ever be criticized for any reason
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eric adams has dropped out of the mayoral election upon discovering that he is mayor already
September 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
eric adams has dropped out of the mayoral election upon discovering that he is mayor already
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The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted.
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: "There's actions we can take on licensed broadcasters. It's long past the time that...Comcast and Disney say 'We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore...because we licensed broadcasters are running the possibly of fines or licensed revocation from the FCC.'"
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted.
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
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Lol Miran also projecting GDP growth to stay at 2.6% a year through 2028 (ht @weakinstrument.bsky.social)
September 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lol Miran also projecting GDP growth to stay at 2.6% a year through 2028 (ht @weakinstrument.bsky.social)
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We still don't really know what drove Tyler Robinson, or if he even holds a coherent worldview.
The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile.
The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.
The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile.
The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.
September 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We still don't really know what drove Tyler Robinson, or if he even holds a coherent worldview.
The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile.
The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.
The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile.
The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.
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This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.
“.. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud ..”
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September 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.
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Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
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Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages.
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages.
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI
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I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate.
The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.
The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate.
The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.
The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.
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Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
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Holy shit
August 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Holy shit
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As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
June 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
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Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.
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these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
these people think you're stupid and hold you in absolute fucking contempt
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June 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn.
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS.
#EconSky
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Slightly more seriously. It's crazy how the entire supposed constitutional theory of Trump 2.0 is that all power is vested in this single individual, down to every last tiny detail and whenever you ask him he's like "I have no idea; ask the lawyers"
May 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Slightly more seriously. It's crazy how the entire supposed constitutional theory of Trump 2.0 is that all power is vested in this single individual, down to every last tiny detail and whenever you ask him he's like "I have no idea; ask the lawyers"
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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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April 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER
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April 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER
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Turning dehumanizing conditions and ritual humiliation into a US government propaganda video. This makes me ill
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Turning dehumanizing conditions and ritual humiliation into a US government propaganda video. This makes me ill
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my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing