senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
@nytimes.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @pbsnews.org You will never be able to please him. Eventually he will come after you anyway. Stop kowtowing. Do what you're supposed to be doing, and do it well. Right now you're not. You're milquetoast.
#GiftArticle NY Times "CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on COVID Vaccines in Many States" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
#GiftArticle NY Times "New CDC Director Resists Ouster As Other Officials Resign" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
#GiftArticle NY Times: DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data At Risk www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Are they going to begin renting out seats for a profit?
My guess is that California would love you -- Charlotte -- back more than Texas would or could, no matter how much you might pine for the past. Sadly. No matter how much we do or don't love or like Texas, it needs fighters right now because it is in bad shape.
I grew up in California. I love California, but it is not the same now. There are some good things, some that aren't so good. But it is way, way better than Texas FOR ME and in my opinion. (I am not a direct CA transplant, I've lived all over the world....)
I live in Texas. It has some good food, music, distinct cultures, some diversity and a shitty government. 1/3 of the state votes for the fascists in power, many don't but not enough. Where do you live now? Things change with time. It's like going back to your elementary school as an adult...
timcook@.bsky.social no matter how much you try to appease Trump, eventually you will do something he doesn’t like and your groveling will be for naught. He will throw you under the bus. Quit while you’re behind. Be brave.
Question for the “Both Sides are the Same!” crowd: so do you think Kamala would have federalized the DC police and deployed the National Guard to sweep & clear all the homeless people from DC? Follow-up: Are you prepared to be laughed at and shamed if you answer yes?
@nytimes.com grossly irresponsible is right.
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
#Giftarticle NY Times: "Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
#GiftArticle NY Times "Employee Pulled Back On Hiring, The Labor Market Shows Signs of Weakening". www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
#GiftArticle NY Times "A Clash Over A Promotion Pus Hegseth at Odds With His Generals" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...
#GiftArticle NY Times "What If Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
I just canceled my subscription.
@bellingcat.com @rollingstone.com @wired.com Is there not something within the documents the Miami Herald acquired that can be used to unravel more of the Epstein case than what is currently known?
@nytimes.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy Where are you?
#GiftArticlle NY Times "A New Era of Hunger Has Begun" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
#GiftArticle NY Times "Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...
Is 24 hours and still unaccounted for brief? abc7.com/post/disable...
Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...
Here is a gift version of the article so anyone may read without encountering a paywall. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
#GiftArticle NY Times "From Good Aid to Dog Chow? How Trump's Cuts Hurt Kansas Farmers". www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
Ouch (in a good way).
Interestingly, among the girls rescued from Camp Mystic are two of Rep Pfluger (R-TX) children. Pfluger is complicit in the Administration's decimation of the Federal workforce and he voted for the Big Ugly Bill. www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-a...
@nytimes.com explain why you would do this, and then compare it to your milquetoast journalistic approach to Trump.
...Or to have our President and Supreme Court agree that without due process human beings can be trafficked to foreign countries, imprisoned and tortured. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#GiftArticle NY Times "Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests". www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
I imagine having a Republican governor who backs the Trump Administration had something to do with the decision not to fight. The Commonwealth's gubernatorial election can't come soon enough.
www.opensecrets.org/members-of-c...
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Perhaps you could explain to America what the hell you're thinking. As if there aren't enough import issues about which you might speak, you have to badmouth Mamdani. Truly reprehensible.
#GiftArticle NY Times "What The University of Virginia Should Have Done" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
#GiftArticle NY Times: "G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
#giftarticle NY Times "Breaking Down the Massive Cuts to Science Funding" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...
Hey Bluesky, with one day until Election Day in NYC, can you help us out by making #dontrankcuomo go viral? We’re trying to prevent a corrupt sexual predator from running our city. Just share a post with the hashtag! This thread is filled with ideas. Repost. Share. Everywhere. Don’t rank Cuomo.
The data is from 2015-20. Five years ago...
We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
Thanks to “institutional neutrality” an African American law prof couldn’t offer a course with “inequality” in the title, but a self-described white nationalist could win a prize for writing a paper that reads like a Klan manifesto.
#giftarticle NY Times: "Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/b...
#giftarticle NY Times "House Policy Bill Would Add $3.4 Trillion To Debt, Swamping Economic Gains" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
@cnn.com Rich.
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social Know anyone?
Isn’t the sponsor “the American tax payer?”
@nytimes.com @pbsnews.org @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy Looking at you.
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On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.
@vademocrats.bsky.social Ghazala and Rouse took money from Comstock (the Tysons Casino backer). Leteef and Stoney from Dominion. That leaves Salgado, folks.
This last minute donation to your campaign (from the casino-backer Comstock) speaks volumes. I would not have cast my primary vote for you if I'd known. I won't forget next time, if there is a next time. patch.com/virginia/mcl...
@NYTimes is writing the skeets for @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
@kaine.senate.gov You voted to confirm Noem. I think you need to speak up now. (And I agree, the whole good faith experiment bombed and both you and @markwarner.bsky.social were naive to be part of it. I thought age and experience might have given you greater wisdom, but no...)
#GiftArticle NY Times: "Live Updates: California Will Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @manbc.bsky.social @npr.org @pbsnews.org
@thehill.com
A benefits calculator that the Department of Veterans Affairs used for figuring monthly compensation amounts for disabled veterans had errors that incorrectly lowered payments for certain complex illnesses and injuries, a federal watchdog found. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."
"They didn't know they were voting to deport all those people"
Exactly.
How could they miss the "mass deportations now" signs at the Republican National Convention that nominated Trump as its candidate? Seriously.... www.youtube.com/shorts/RxY9P...
And Jaime Dimon's wording about the "insider threat" -- both-siding "mismanagement" at the state and local level with what the Trump Administration is doing -- is boldfaced cowardice. It gives Musk and the Administration an "out" to claim they're not the real problem.
And sensitive data on almost all American citizens and US residents, as well as access to the systems that house the data; to defund and fire Federal employees who worked at agencies that regulated and investigated his businesses. Among other things.
#GiftArticle NY Times "On The Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs And Family Drama" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
Not exactly. He has access to the personal data of most American citizens and US residents that he can dispense with as he sees fit.
Also, apparently Steven Miller's wife is going w/ Musk. The counterintelligence officer in me considers the possibility that Musk will form some sort of non-governmental entity to continue to wage war, perhaps using the data he took to mess w/ elections. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Musk was given access to data on American citizens that he potentially can take with him and monetize. For him, his departure likely isn't a complete loss.
Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.
CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
CBP at Dulles is no more inclusive than anywhere else (www.reddit.com/r/washington...). Safe travels and smooth sailing when you return.
@jaketapper.bsky.social, like many, is a fearful person who finds it easier to speak ill of a former President who served his country well than the lunatic in office he fears will say or (try to) do something bad to him if he repots honestly. Complete capitulation. He's in the wrong business.
@jaketapper.bsky.social
A bargain, in blood money!
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social . Be a real journalist.
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
#GiftArticle NY Times "In The Future China Will Be Dominant. The US Will be Irrelevant." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
@jaketapper.bsky.social Lazy journalism.
"I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy" (Detoit Free Press) www.freep.com/story/opinio...
@rollingstone.com @youranoncentral.bsky.social @propublica.org @wired.com @markzaidesq.bsky.social @johnsipher.bsky.social kyivinsider.com/fbi-agent-go...
Proud yet @jaketapper.bsky.social? Meanwhile, back to the present day, maybe we will have a reality show where undocumented immigrants compete for expedited consideration (or time in a Salvadoran prison) and a $45 million birthday military parade for a draft dodger. Priorities.
@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @propublica.org @rollingstone.com @wired.com What a scoop it would be to get an informant able to say exactly what did happen…
@jaketapper.bsky.social Amen.
US government buildings now appear to be putting up giant banners of Donald Trump’s face, echoing authoritarian dictatorships.
@nytimes.com @npr.org @pbsnews.org
@nytimes.com
Fox Business analyst.
An elected official accepting a 747 from a foreign country is so flamboyantly illegal that any news outlet characterizing it as "controversial" or "an ethical issue" should be ignored, have their subscriptions canceled and their reporters banned as TV pundits forever. This isn't close.
The @60minutes.bsky.social segment was very poorly done. DOGE's cuts have nothing to do with finding legitimate fraud. A wasted opportunity.
Fetterman isn't doing his job. "Fetterman has missed nearly every committee hearing and regularly skips votes." "I haven’t seen him this year in person,” a House Democratic lawmaker from Pennsylvania said. “My staff reaches out on bills and such.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
The "comments" to the video on YouTube are wild.
The Orange One's contribution to Mother's Day, because he "loves" women...
@rollingstone.com @propublica.org @contrrarion.bsky.social @wired.com @militarytimes.bsky.social In WDC we're hearing DOGE has targeted the National Cemetery Administration (NCA), a system of 164 military cemeteries in US and territories that provides burial space for Vets, eligible family members.
Absentee ballots for Virginia's 6 Lt Governor and 2 Attorney General D candidates are out. Can anyone cite meaningful editorials/charts/articles that would help D voters choose? Mostly I am seeing candidate promo bios that do not help much. @vademocrats.bsky.social @center4politics.bsky.social
The Stockholm planning office called for US to withdraw demand. The embassy benefits from City of Stockholm, not the other way around. If U.S. ends ties w/ the planning office, it'd have difficulty getting a permit for construction. 'It's their headache, not ours,'". www.newsweek.com/european-cit...
“All of Trump's actions and all of his words suggest that, yes, he is foolish and destructive enough to single-handedly push the U.S. economy into a catastrophic recession,” says Chris Hayes.
One toe in reality seems a generous assessment.
I believe you underestimate how much racism and misogyny play a role in rural voting patterns. Democrats cannot fix that for them.