Paul Newman, Reply Guy

Paul Newman, Reply Guy

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Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social

Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

I wish it were more broadly understood that Trump constantly and explicitly holds up his naked corruption *as a badge of honor* that his supporters are supposed to thrill to (and see benefit for themselves in). He thinks corruption is the highest form of winning.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

No, see, "overruled 90 years of precedent in order to expand presidential power" is the way *critics* describe it. *Your* side says: resisting intrusion into core executive functions, protecting the sanctity of the separation of powers, and acknowledging that the precedent has been whittled away.

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

in texas you'll go to prison longer for protesting ICE than raping children

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

what is happening in Los Angeles County's ballot processing facility could not be more transparent.

MaddowBlog@maddowblog.bsky.social

. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social shows Rachel how literally transparent the ballot processing is in LA County.

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

“they had to shoot him because he had a gun” - the same people who have been bought and paid for by the gun lobby for decades

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

Early DHS spin (via Fox News) is that the person shot repeatedly by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis was armed -- note that open carrying firearms is legal with a permit and notably, they are not (yet at least) claiming that the person fired or even brandished a gun, just had one.

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

Doomerism in January was cowardly preemptive surrender, but done at a time when the future was unknown. Doomerism in December is still cowardly preemptive surrender, but now also requires ignoring all the non-doomer things that have happened over the year.

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year

Donald the Dove strikes again!

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: President Trump said he will not rule out the possibility of sending U.S. troops into Venezuela, as a buildup of U.S. forces in the region — and his increasingly combustible rhetoric — raises the prospect of military action there.

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

Mini-Nate with the moral clarity that pedophilia is a horserace

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Enten: "Trump is 39 below water on the Epstein case. 39 points in the negative! My goodness gracious. What Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people have not been buying at all ... less than half of Republicans are buying it. This is his worst issue by far"

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

One of my strongly held elder millennial beliefs is that my transactions of that size need to be made on Big Computer.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

lol Trump literally ran on fixing everything on day one and has spent the last few weeks telling us he ended 8 wars.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "If you run as a socialist, you run on a big list false claims. You promise everything to everyone, and you can't deliver, and if you were able to deliver it would be to the great detriment of the people you lured in to vote for you."

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

in the Bible it says to help people only if they have papers and a Cigna plan

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

this is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about, whatever you want to call it: the need to make it easier to build clean energy infrastructure. it's genuinely doable! other places are doing it!

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Paul Newman, Reply Guy reposted

Why? Why don't they know? Whose responsibility is it to ensure they know, how are those mechanisms failing, and what can we do to repair or replace them? Those are the questions those who believe in journalism as public service should be asking ourselves. Because 48% is a failing grade.

nymag.comPoll Shows Public Knows Little About Trump’s Ugly MegabillThe battle to define this incredibly significant legislation has just begun, particularly for Democrats.