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markharris.bsky.social
Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
Let’s walk back to where we started. What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism. You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group. Let’s suppose you’re the spoiled son of a self-made man. Let’s suppose that, despite your flash and bravado, you’ve failed at virtually everything you’ve tried. You’re the laughingstock of polite society, a punchline for the privileged. You think you’re superior enough to be the president of the United States — the highest honor in your country — but the actual president is a man of humble origins, a minority of the kind your family didn’t even rent to when you were in the landlord business. And he is claiming power that rightfully belongs to you. He’s even mocking you, ridiculing you for all the world to see. For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism.
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Justice in the American system is supposed to be blind and impartial—but attorney General Pam Bondi’s vow of wrathful punishment for Nicolás Maduro and his wife is “profoundly illiberal, suggesting a lust for criminal vengeance,” Paul Rosenzweig argues:
American Justice Isn’t Supposed to Be Wrathful
Attorney General Pam Bondi transgresses basic principles of criminal law.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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hollyanderson.bsky.social
🎄 GOOD MORNING, and welcome back to the annual Italian Christmas Donkey Challenge 🫏

The rules are simple 🌟

You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:

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Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey (HQ Audio)
YouTube video by Christmas 365
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December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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requiemarm.bsky.social
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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suzannewinland.bsky.social
OHIOANS. This is imperative!!!!
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. By Rogé Karma The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development. By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction. The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101.
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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stephnoh.bsky.social
Dean Wade with the firm congratulatory handshake for a job well done
April 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality.
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They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports Michelle R. Martinelli For The Win They’re lying about transgender people in this world. They’re lying about what LGBTQ+ inclusion in society really means, and they’re lying about trans people in sports. They’re lying about a “transgender cult” and “transgender insanity,” about teachers indoctrinating kids with “transgender ideology” and about “making mice transgender.” Right-wing activists, anti-trans bigots, many politicians, the president — they’re lying to you about many things but especially trans women and girls in sports. They’re lying about transgender athletes supposedly ruining women’s sports, and they’re lying about this being a ubiquitous “problem.” They are deliberately and strategically lying about trans folks’ lives, about trans athletes and about their own disingenuous motivations for pushing these lies. They don’t care because they keep doing it. Worse, it’s working. They're lying about trans people, especially trans women and girls in sports, probably, in part, because the actual data doesn't support their arguments. Yet several states have their own bans against trans athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender identity, despite expert estimates of fewer than 100 trans high school athletes nationwide. In 2022, Utah's Republican governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed an anti-transgender bill - it was eventually overruled by the legislature - and outlined his rationale. Along with the high suicide rates for trans youth, he noted that of 75,000 high school athletes in the state, four identified as trans and just one student was playing girls' sports. A whole state bill targeting four athletes, but really, one.
March 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Listen to our Editor-in-Chief @sengelberg.bsky.social break down the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices, and why the untrue statistic matters.

📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social
When an Untrue Stat Shapes Federal Policy
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March 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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civics-for-all.bsky.social
Watch our Hidden Voices curriculum come to life in an AP class at Park East High School in East Harlem! cbsnews.com/newyork/vide... via CBSNews! The Hidden Voices curriculum highlights overlooked people and places, giving students a deeper understanding of history. 📚✨ #HiddenVoices
Advanced placement students in East Harlem study "Hidden Voice" curriculum
As we celebrate Black History Month, an advanced placement class at Park East High School in East Harlem is expanding. The course teaches students about people and places that are sometimes overlooked...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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atrupar.com
also can't help but notice that John Roberts, like far too many other MAGA men, now has the complexion of an Oompa-Loompa
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 18
Fox News host John Roberts: "If you're gonna trust anybody with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, wouldn't you want it to be a guy who really doesn't need your money?"

(Rich people, famous for not wanting more money ... )
February 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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edgeofsports.bsky.social
The slickly produced NFL celebration of the rich, diverse history of struggle and progress in the USA is so counterposed with the reality raging outside our windows and the federal, fascistic effort to erase that history.
February 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
wiseguy-dave.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social please run for President.
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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michaelvpina.bsky.social
Shout out to everyone who said Evan Mobley couldn't be great if he didn't shoot a bunch of threes!
January 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Really is amazing we’ve had six weeks of takes about how Trump “remade the GOP” and no we’re getting: enormous corporate tax cuts; huge cuts to the social safety net and privatization.
jeffstein.bsky.social Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · Dec 16
BREAKING: Trump confirms our scoop over the weekend that he is looking at privatizing the United States Postal Service
December 16, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?

It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.

It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
December 12, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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edsbs.bsky.social
Russell Wilson definitely called the snow "opportunity flakes" in the huddle
November 22, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
America's most credulous Senator is back on her bullshit
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Nov 13
Susan Collins tells reporters she was “shocked” at Gaetz’s nomination
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 AM