Paul Tree

Paul Tree

@paultree10.bsky.social

it’s still a pun on "paltry” do you get it

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What pretty clearly happened here is Marist — rightly or wrongly — does not trust their raw Jackson number over Collins, but the LV screen they had to apply to get it in the range they wanted made the governor and GCB result become downright goshdarn silly

Marist Poll of Maine Senate is Jackson +2 with LV +9 with RV Gov is tied with LV 44-44. but LV is Pingree+11 GCB is D+5 with LV and over D+10 with RV

The near simultaneous releases of Jimmy Stewart and Sylvester Stallone biopics, combined with my inability to stop doing annoying impressions, presents a real danger for my marriage

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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

genuinely wasn’t expecting the president’s burgeoning bisexuality to be our October surprise

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

We are now at the point where Trump is comparing the asses of Jon Husted and Nicki Minaj.

Wait lol this is because of the same Nikkita Oliver who was a failed Seattle politician just a few years ago.

WFIU/WTIU News@wfiuwtiunews.bsky.social

Four of the civil rights organization’s five principal attorneys have submitted resignations. Read more: www.ipm.org/news/2026-10...

Very cool for my tax dollars to be paying for this

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.

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The next time you complain about the endless deluge of fundraising texts & spam email from Dem campaigns, keep in mind that it would take *40,000* $25 donations to cancel out 1/445th of what Elon Musk has spent this cycle.

I love how it’s not even a story that the president’s stump speech regularly includes bragging about passing the “oops you just got kicked in the head by a mule does your brain still work” cognitive assessment

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."

Call me crazy but I suspect it would have gotten just a little play if Biden had been bragging about passing apparently regularly-administered dementia exams

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A full Picasso drawing — not even just a study — just went for a bit over $100,000, which is obviously a lot of money but I bet a lot of people don’t realize you can get a Picasso work for that much. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Paul Tree@paultree10.bsky.social

Picasso absolutely yes! He was crazy prolific and there’s a ton of inventory so his work sells all the time for low 6 and even 5 figures. Sotheby’s has an auction in early June with 17 Picasso works, only one of which has an estimate over $1 million. www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

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by the end of the day the republicans criticizing the ad will be either totally silent or have fully reversed themselves into a “well it maybe isn’t polite but the REAL problem is [talking point about Acton x]”

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I interned in the Hill circa 2011 for a Democratic congressman and was friendly with a few of the Republican staffers and interns, they were (mostly, some exceptions) normal and were generally a bit embarrassed by some of what they had to do/write I uh don’t think that would be the case anymore

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

The main story of the GOP over the past decade is the takeover of the party establishment by people who actually believe the nonsense they formerly deployed to rile up the rubes without actually buying into it themselves.

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The main story of the GOP over the past decade is the takeover of the party establishment by people who actually believe the nonsense they formerly deployed to rile up the rubes without actually buying into it themselves.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

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I hardly know how to express this idea because I am not personally embarrassed that Elon Musk is the richest man ever, but I am embarrassed that a verified condition of object reality is that the richest man ever is a dipshit redditor. It’s like he makes being alive feel skeevy.

by the end of the day the republicans criticizing the ad will be either totally silent or have fully reversed themselves into a “well it maybe isn’t polite but the REAL problem is [talking point about Acton x]”

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

JD Vance reacts to Vivek Ramaswamy's ad using Amy Acton's abusive and estranged mother: 'Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not my concern... I have to admit that I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining about that advertisement'

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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

I would pay extra for a version of NBA league pass without gambling ads

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

Everyone watching NBA games the last couple years: man this is way too many ads and promos for gambling apps The NBA on opening day: ARE YOU READY TO BET YOUR FUCKING LIFE

Early voting analyses, like polling crosstabs, are where demons dwell. Tread not.

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Democrats are up by 8.2% with Texas primary voters, a near 20 point swing left (!!!) from 2022

Early MVP favorite

Law Murray 📘@lawmurraythenu.bsky.social

The Pistons outscored the Celtics 76-55 in the second half Javonte Green played 17:49 in second half and Pistons outscored Celtics by 21 points in those minutes with Green on the floor

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Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

Where have you gone, Matt Taibbi, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

This is a genuine conspiracy, an outrageous attempt to use regime-friendly media to ban unwanted topics. (I also think we should be careful about conflating it with the Meta No Kings account freeze, which seems pretty likely to be an accident. Don’t dilute the real conspiracy with fake ones!)

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This is true and true in a way that "well it wasn't actually that broad a decision" misses. Trump v. US was, and has had the effect of, the Roberts Court's political endorsement of total executive lawlessness and corruption far beyond the four corners of any direct application to prosecuting Trump.

Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com

The only thing I’ll add to this fine statement is that vindictive prosecutions are now a feature, not a bug, of our constitutional system, thanks to Trump v. United States. Unless and until Congress adopts deep, structural measures, presidential harassment through the criminal system won’t go away.

My hawks fan friends made fun of me for maintaining even into the playoffs that I hated Sam Darnold but I believe I’ve been vindicated