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Now I can spend too much time here instead of Xitter, then Threads...

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Jake Grumbach
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We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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Donate time and labor NOT money!

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.
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Bike racks at 3:30p, but I'll be wearing glasses so you can't hit me - na na na na na

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Q: Do you want to debate James Talarico? Ken Paxton: I- Look. I-if the terms are right Q: What are your terms? Paxton: I don't wanna end up with a CNN reporter on the debate. I don't- I don't know what all the terms are.

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How fuckin fucked is this and are we?! Asshole trying insider trading on Kalshi tanks @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social candidacy on his way to...$5k (to be generous). This needs to go on the Dems list, too.

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

UPDATE: I found Wedgewood’s Kalshi account. He goes by Andrew and has been insider trading using the fake polls that he was posting. I reported this to Kalshi, hope they do something about it @gelliottmorris.com

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Emblematic of how broke the electoral landscape is, thanks to Republicans (and their Court).

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

In an operation that costs millions of dollars, a deceptive flyer that is intended to spark moral panic among parents about trans issue was sent out across Texas. Hey, do you know of anyone obsessed with trans people that just dumped a ton of money in Texas? newrepublic.com/post/216856/...

newrepublic.comMystery Flyers Sow Mass Confusion Ahead of Texas ElectionA flyer from a nonexistent trans rights group is showing up in voters’ mailboxes, fueling right-wing hysteria.
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🧵 So incredibly on-target! @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social got fucking cheated, both by the system and by careless 'reformers'. And, here she is laying out the problem with polling, and how it gamifies politics (which is really about governance!) and is amped by a mostly now lame ass media, more

Mallory McMorrow@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

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clearly and concisely than these posers. They're baddies, too. I remember how McMorrow's star rose, but then *seemed* to burn out. FFS, we are facing such an onslaught of authoritarianism, in so many forms, and here's some righteous assholes that don't even see there own collateral damage.

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This is so important for many reasons! @markjacob.bsky.social has been a persistent advocate for the practice of journalism and it's critical role as the Forth Estate, he sees how influential these heads/subheads/ledes are (esp from @nytimes.com !), he's been vocal in calling NYT out for

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

nytimes.comVideo: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About TrumpIn this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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abandoning its role (since Sulzberger is so confident the NYT survives - even if democracy doesn't), his criticism has been heard by NYT, its willingness to platform (in a good way, for once!) Mark, and for even the wiff of change at NYT!

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Jfc, using Xitter, even to post dumb-ass takes, is doing a whole lot more to "negatively affect *American* Jews"!

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

Personally, I think what really threatens American Jews is insisting our safety is dependent on denying what the whole world sees, that the Israeli gov committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians. Force people to think protecting Jews means denying reality, and they will stop caring about us.

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Great step for next Congress - nationalize Starlink! Hell, it’s even ‘consistent’ with regime precedent, in addition to being in our legit best interest!

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Did Jefferies ask to speak to the manager? This may also warrant a strongly-worded email. Obv, his hair's on fire rn.

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com

Oh does it raise serious questions, dude? Is that what it does? Are the questions both serious AND raised? Wow he really got out the baseball bat for this one

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Challenge made!

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

There’s not a whole lot of room left for him to fall here. Nixon still had 25% approval when he resigned and Trump has an even more loyal cult behind him. It’s staggering that he’s this low but frankly it’ll be an earthquake if he goes any lower

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@donmoyn.bsky.social captures Xitler's regime-wide (and way beyond!) corruption so perfectly: "The message: grab what you can, but stay loyal to the boss."

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

donmoynihan.substack.com“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's AmericaKimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Hey look! Xitler was playing 4D chess after all! He wanted “Artificial” for something else, that’s why…

Rex Huppke@rexhuppke.bsky.social

I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.

Scott Gross 🚫👑🚫
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Another evergreen reminder of why working with - or arguing with - the GQP is pointless. They’re so fundamentally disingenuous

John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social

John Kennedy is a literal Rhodes Scholar who then ran for office as a Republican & now talks like a man named Earl who steals chickens.

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And it’s really in spite of the msm, who continues to bothsides, whitewash, etc and willingly subvert their own best interest while they sell democracy down the river. From NYT and WaPo to NPR, the needle has barely moved. Thanks to so many who’ve stepped up/in to do actual journalism!

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social

After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.

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This fuckin headline! The Fuck Your Feelings Crowd may be warring but they demonstrably haven’t won any ideological war - empathy is not toxic and they’re psychopaths. Both can be true. SMH

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

The war on empathy, led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and embraced by Trump and his MAGA movement, is a systematic rejection of Christian systematic theology as established from the second century. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.comWhy Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Thought this was referring to AI, but I think he's calling out the Republican Party!

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

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Tell me you don't... ah, fuck it

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Q: “Wherever you go you are the Attorney General…” Blanche: “That’s not what the law says…I’m allowed to go and support administrative priorities in my personal capacity.”

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So, his wife sat on The Couch, got pregnant, couldn't get an abortion - that's not persuasion, it's COERCION!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "My wife said 'JD, you can be vice president or you can have a fourth baby, but you can't have both.' Ladies and gentlemen, let it be known that I am very persuasive because I am the vice president and we just had a fourth baby too."

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Lol! a) China doesn't need them b) China purchases to mine the tech c) China purchases so no one else can d) all of the above Xitler probably also offered to sell various categories of Americans, too...

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

U.S. Ambassador David Perdue casually let slip that Donald Trump had offered to sell weapons to China. trib.al/JmScGPQ

trib.alTrump Team Scrambles to Backpedal on Slip About Arms Sale to ChinaU.S. Ambassador David Perdue casually let slip that Donald Trump had offered to sell weapons to China.

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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

The Independent@the-independent.com

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

trib.alAn OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
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Ohhh, the efficiencies of sole source

ProPublica@propublica.org

The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.

propublica.orgThe Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million FiascoProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
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🍿🧵

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social

🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
@froomkin.bsky.social

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comHe spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Dear MSM: be like @aclu.org ! This is not a ‘political’ statement, but a matter of fact. Xitler is no more ‘pushing bounds’ than he is ‘trying to expand’ his authority (that would be by legislation!)! He’s breaking the law - say so. THATs calling balls & strikes, if you will.

ACLU@aclu.org

The president does not have the authority to interfere with our elections.

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Newsome entering is Biden era?!

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social

Insurance companies thought they could leave fire survivors stranded with homes full of toxic soot and unpayable mortgages. What Gavin Newsom just signed alongside victims changes the rules forever: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/he-was-hir...

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"The Free Press is to the free press what the University of Austin is to University of Texas Austin." An oxymoronic, coattail riding, trojan subterfuge! But @donmoyn.bsky.social put it more clearly...

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Its a good insight into the Potemkin institutional world Bari Weiss has built that anyone would ever be confused into thinking "he is banning The Free Press?" The Free Press is to the free press what the University of Austin is to University of Texas Austin.

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Topshelf Thomas
@frostyaf.bsky.social

Killing the OTA can only be understood as part of the broad, long-running conservative effort to make everyone—including and especially elected officials—dumber and more reliant on the private sector.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

Once upon a time, Congress had its own in-house think tank that would research and suggest remedies for technical problems politicians might not have a handle on. Might be a good resource now, ay? Here's @maxmoranhi.bsky.social on the long-lost Office of Technology Assessment:

prospect.orgWhat Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up - The American ProspectIn 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.
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While this is 💯 apropos, Rick Scott is not not right - Congress, in its current form, cannot regulate AI. Self-evident thanks to all the money AI is throwing around.

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)