Mark Potts

Mark Potts

@markpotts.bsky.social

Skating to where the AI puck is going: LocAlmanac.com. Strategy/product consulting, mentoring and investing. This gun for hire. Recovering journalist: ex-WaPo, AP, ChiTrib, SF Examiner. Tramps like us. #Natitude

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That’s our point. The Brewers are winning these games. None of their playoff opponents have rolled over. They are creating openings and running Patton’s army through them.

D@dustnk.bsky.social

The Rays are a very good team that ran into a buzzsaw.

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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So…MAGA has decided that they’ll close their campaign on Islamophobia. On anti-Muslim hate. Let’s show them what we think of this racist BS. By voting against it. In BIG NUMBERS. Let’s go!

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I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

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Total bullshit, of course. I've been to DC restaurants innumerable times over the last 10 years. No robberies, obviously. He's lying to his sucker fanboys correctly assuming they'll believe anything he says -- that, and he knows most have never actually been to DC.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

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Check out how easy this is.

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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Brutal swing call here. That can’t end a World Series game.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

Yandy thought he had a walk, called for the check swing strike. Brewers take a 2-0 lead in the series

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This is fucking lunacy. The only people getting robbed in D.C. restaurants were those prodigals patrons leaning too hard into the overpriced wine list.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "In Washington, all the restaurants were closing. People were being held up. They'd walk into a restaurant. Like Jesse James. 'Stand up! Give us all your money.' They're eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. All the restaurants were closing."

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Obama in Michigan: "After 10 years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence and tomfoolery and nonsense the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times at least, you get to say enough is enough. We're voting for change right here in Michigan."

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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

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Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

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Cyndi Munson, the Democratic nominee for Oklahoma governor, says Republicans' record in her state speaks for itself. "Republicans have been in full control... for nearly 20 years, and we're at the bottom of every single category that matters to Oklahoma families."

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

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For those of you who don't know about him: Meet James Dolan, the Vivek Ramaswamy of NYC sports and real estate.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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This, this, this. Won’t somebody or a bunch of them step up? Mr. President, that’s disgusting and a disgrace to your office. You have no right to speak to any reporter that way.

Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

Still waiting for a legacy journalist to slap back and say they’re not going to take any more abuse from this sick and disgusting man.

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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Weird how no congressional candidates are seeking Rahm's endorsement or for him to do campaign events with them.

Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social

This is the ninth (9th) major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald.

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Like, I wish just once someone would spell out the mechanics of how this works. Are they hiding the surgical theaters in the teacher's lounge? Is the school nurse handing out hormone therapy to anyone that asks for it?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Turek voted to allow schools to turn your kids transgender without informing the parents" (This never happens)

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You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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Vance's presidential campaign is gonna be so much fun for however many months it lasts.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

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How is this brand of political engagement and advocacy entitled to any non-profit tax-exempt status? How is this is any difference than the messaging from a political organization or PAC? How the fuck how?

Dr. Bradley Onishi@bradleyonishi.bsky.social

A message from decayed husk of the “Moral Majority”:

Mark Potts reposted

I hope that whatever psychological defense mechanisms that immigration judge uses don't work. I hope they one day look honestly at what they have done.

Ned Richardson-Little@historyned.bsky.social

Remigration in action:

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The guy who made his fortune by giving Alzheimer’s patients and their families false hope just tried to exploit the sex abuse his opponent suffered as a child for his own political gain. Republicans are a Mad Libs of depraved cruelty and moral degeneracy. Just horrible people.

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If a foreign leader in, say, the United Kingdom or Germany gave batshit crazy speeches featuring comments about a political ally’s ass, the New York Times would write a big story about the leader’s mental state. But when it happens in the U.S., the Times doesn’t. Why is that?

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Really looking forward to the oral history of the Amy Acton ad, because everyone on that campaign *will* want to talk about it. (After they lose.)

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The examples that blew up share something in common: Democrats didn't ignore or merely deflect they or surrogates punched back. The incredibly dumb echo-chamber approved shit is not new. What's changed, in my view, is response to it.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

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Yes, but it would still BE a loss for Republicans. Also, are there many Democrats who are online enough to expect a blue wave but also so unscarred by the last decade that they are unaware that polls can be way off? 🤔

cnn.comAnything short of a blue wave could seem like a loss to Democrats | CNN PoliticsDemocrats are hungry for a blue wave in the November election, and a series of recent polls has them thinking they could pull off victories in some deeply red territory that would have seemed unthinka...

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"And then the nurse puts a spoon in the applesauce and brings it up -- and here's what confuses most people -- she says it's an airplane. An airplane! And she tells you to open up the hangar, but what they don't tell you is your mouth is the hangar. But I knew! And I opened my mouth like a big boy!"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

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Replying to @atrupar.com

These people are too stupid to realize that he has a Republican House and Senate NOW, and could send those checks out any time he wants.