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dad • husband • dog guy • sports junkie • decent golfer • poker enthusiast • Colorado resident • Georgia Tech alum • posts my $0.02 • repost = hmmm, interesting
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@cjzero.bsky.social got any video of this kid at nuggets game. 4th quarter stress and emotions. Great GIF potential.
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US journalist in Kyiv faces White House online attacks while under fire from Putin’s missiles.
Russia has hit Kyiv, Ukraine, with at least 6 ballistic missiles within the last 30 minutes, targeting 3 million civilians and infrastructure, after meeting with Trump's lapdog Witkoff, who praised Putin as a humanitarian and saluted him on behalf of the rogue United States.
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My career-limiting flaw in corporate America was I could never be this big of a kiss ass
RFK Jr. kisses Trump's ass: I discovered a self-effacing man of superior intelligence, of empathy and compassion, with an encyclopedic grasp of issues in molecular detail, and most of all, a near reckless courage.
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Aaron Rodgers is obsessed with his own privacy. His neighbors? Not so much. After moving to a new town, Rodgers used a cutout to secretly fund the local police department’s Flock-style surveillance program. www.foiaball.com/p/aaron-rodg...
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I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.
Trump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel."
Someone should tell Trump it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
A great story as long as the listener doesn’t understand how these things actually work…
Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
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A few weeks ago I shared my view that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket should be made illegal. Today it was announced that Kalshi is now taking bets on FDA drug approvals and clinical trial outcomes. These markets are metastasizing and nothing good can come of it.
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Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.
BREAKING on MS NOW: Dozens of intel officials have started receiving notice of their terminations under Trump's unqualified acting DNI, Bill Pulte. The individuals are officials "who they believe are deep state" and whom leadership claims have not provided complete pictures of available intel.
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Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...
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Looking forward to the segment on Fox News about the Trump crime family..... Oh, wait....
The White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied to Don Jr. The request was made by top aide Peter Navarro. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was considering funding at the time, the Don Jr.-linked company was the only deal initiated by a top aide to Trump.
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One story that sums up the grift, graft and 'morality' of Trump's America.
Meet Robert Morris, who served on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board. As Trump's spiritual advisor, he founded a Texas megachurch, then pled guilty to 5 counts of child molestation. He only served 6 months. He’s already home. Full story: letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/trumps-spi...
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I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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Again, he's addressing children gathered for an Easter Egg roll on the White House lawn, standing next to someone in an Easter Bunny costume, talking about all the people he's killed
Every day, I think: there’s no possible way it can get dumber and more embarrassing. And then Trump does something like this. And yes, this is real. It is all too real.
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A multimillionaire thinks that paying down the national debt is so important that all the poors should get into the workforce earlier, work in it harder, and stay in it later to help pay it off. It's the only possible way to do it!
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
So just today I’ve seen the Trump admin dump on rural America, on states rights (voting), and gun rights. GOP has changed, but yet the base continues to support them. 🤷♂️
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"