Charlie Board

Charlie Board

@chboar.bsky.social

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I just realized that when It Happens, Fox News is going to be so weird to watch -- solemn, tear-filled tributes to America's Most President™ interspersed with angry coverage denouncing the millions and millions of Americans celebrating in the streets.

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Understandable concern about not just the midterms but what comes next, seating the House on Jan 3. It's not as simple as Johnson could refuse members. But there is real potential for mischief or worse. Callais has appreciably increased the danger. So here's what they might try, and how to fight it:

theunpopulist.netThe VRA Ruling Might Have Handed Republicans a Weapon to Attempt a Jan. 6-style Midterm CoupAn outlandish scenario to refuse to seat newly elected blue state representatives just became more plausible

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I just can't get over how for decades the line among political scientists was that presidents get blamed for economic conditions even though they don't have much control over them ... ... and Trump just came in and proved that he could significantly affect conditions *and* reap the blame!

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

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Iran: We will blockade the straits of Hormuz if you attack us. Donald: No, WE will blockade the straits of Hormuz unless you surrender to us. Iran: Ok. That might save us some trouble tbh.

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All of Trump's policies have been--to one degree or another--inflationary War: inflationary Deficit: inflationary Tariffs: inflationary Politicizing the Fed/loose money advocacy: inflationary Immigration: inflationary Cuts to renewables: inflationary Corruption: inflationary

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When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Anthony L. Fisher@anthonylfisher.bsky.social

Weird. I tried to warn libertarians about Trump

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SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

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Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

theintercept.comPardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police SayPardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.

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Trump take egg

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

NBC News exit polls VIRGINIA GOV 2021 Economy is the #1 issue Economy voters prefer Youngkin+11 over McAuliffe VIRGINIA GOV 2025 Economy is the #1 issue Economy voters prefer Spanberger+20 over Earle-Sears Sea change. TBD if it replicates elsewhere.

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when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Lucy Rohden@lucyrohden.bsky.social

What’s everyone’s favorite bill belichick memory at Carolina

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John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

@sarahtaber.bsky.social fyi, (because I can't dm you and I thought you should know).....I posted a screenshot of your excellent soybean/Civil War/cotton min thread in reply to a comment over at The Bad Place and..... it's getting a little bit of traction. Just thought you should know.

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Underreported story - just how GREAT it is to be a drug dealer, sex trafficker or money launderer when Trump has GUTTED federal law enforcement to round up innocent brown people at Home Depots....

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a @reuters.com review of court dockets found. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going. Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations. Plus almost all of social media. The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social

The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

texastribune.orgGov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

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Replying to @karenattiah.bsky.social

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

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"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

My ex-PI homies - how many of you are back over there regularly No interest in betting anymore but thinking I might go back for the shitposting.....what's the top commenting market these days?

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my wife: (shouting down to the basement) hey me: (shouting up the stairs) yeah what’s up my wife: (still shouting) did you forget to create one hundred thousand jobs last month ?? me: (no longer shouting) oh shit oh fuck

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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

bit.lyTrump 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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Replying to @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social

We should be running more Nice Young People, and it's going to be a bit different everywhere. And we should celebrate that, because it's part of what makes the country cool and is opposed to fascist sameism.