@jaketapper.bsky.social . Tapper? Tapper? You should be in chapter 3 by now.
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@jaketapper.bsky.social . Tapper? Tapper? You should be in chapter 3 by now.
I will tune into @jaketapper.bsky.social as I am sure he will be all over it. Ahem.
Thoughts, @jaketapper.bsky.social?
Shocking only Donald Trump, Trump’s grand summit with Putin accomplished nothing but to help Putin, while embarrassing the US on our own soil on the world stage and harming our allies.
How do you have the authority to deploy the national guard today, but you blamed Nancy Pelosi for them not being there on January 6th.
The irony is not lost on many in Washington that Trump says spitting on a DC cop is justification for hitting/punching back "hard" when he pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted those same cops — and said attacks on them that day were "minor."
We are under attack by our own federal government.
Tapper? Tapper? Anyone home? @jaketapper.bsky.social
Remember all the members of the media who spent 2024 downplaying concerns that Trump would rule as an autocrat. "This will go further" Yeah, we know. That was always the plan.
Felon-in-Chief in action.
This is insane. And as dictatorial a power grab as we’ve ever seen in US history. Most of all, though, it’s also just unneeded. Crime is at a generational low in DC.
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
So, now what? Maybe @jaketapper.bsky.social writes a book!
How many little kids right now meant to grow up to become scientists, academics, artists, may never get the same inspiration we did just by turning on TV for free, because we used to agreed as a society that was worthwhile to offer everyone
Of course, it will.
What say (or write) you, @jaketapper.bsky.social ?
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Because you got a nice office and a pension and people bring you coffee and drive you around and do whatever you tell them to do and you don’t have to live at home among the people you claim to represent, who you probably don’t very much like to begin with
“Get out of my way! Time to hawk my book!!!”
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No holding hands, though. That is extra!
Stunning turnout. Sad!
Lee is lip syncing. Sad!
“People.” I had a bigger crowd at my 50th.
Low energy. Sad!
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
SHOCKER!!!
Not until the first season of Real Housewives of Rhode Island had aired, @ktumulty.bsky.social!
Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
A true honor to welcome, and be in conversation with, @libradunn1.bsky.social for #ASPA2025. With public service under attack, there’s no better model to show us how to stand our ground.
Thrilled you are here!
The news media are an institution, too. Worth including in the list?
What could possibly go wrong?
Having written a kind of first draft of that history myself, voters have even more to answer for
Too busy yukking it up at the Gridiron Dinner tonight.
A great time to be a resident of DC. Thanks, kids.
As a dc resident, please give us your address so we can dump our garbage on your doorstep once trash collection is stopped.
Some have disappointed, some have bad policy, some made big mistakes. But I’ve never in my life been ashamed of American leaders. Until today.
Americans don't do history. That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.
CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
It’s @axios.com. Why expect anything more?
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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And 99 percent couldn’t pick it out on a map.
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From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.
I am so goddamn mad. A friend who’s been FISHING BODIES OUT OF THE POTOMAC appears to be in the Trump purges today.
Media Fail 1924 is starting to get some tough competition from Media Fail 2025 (not from you, @ktumulty.bsky.social!)
They feel pretty damn good.
Real journalism and a great investment!