Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
Tennessee transfer. He’s a proven WR, but had injuries last year so the transfer was really only a gamble depending on his health.
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Tennessee transfer. He’s a proven WR, but had injuries last year so the transfer was really only a gamble depending on his health.
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John Jorgensen (@bearsox.bsky.social) reposted
The nation's transformation into a North Korean clone is happening at an alarming rate.
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Workers first… news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
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Very small government idea here from the small government Rs. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Trump: "We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day to the Pacific Ocean. They turn a valve and the valve heads out. And we turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. We turned the valve back and now they have water."
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Wild. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...
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Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
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Speechless. Again. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...
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I think it’s a disinformation bot.
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Jennifer N. Victor (@jenvictor.bsky.social) reposted
I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...
Violet Blue® (@violetblue.bsky.social) reposted
"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system." It will use AI and "monitor wellness": apnews.com/article/trum...
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s so confusing to have the same people who say the government can’t be trusted keep giving the government more control over individuals.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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More absurdity… www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...
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Creating wealth isn’t the problem.
Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) reposted
July 1: Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's personal lawsuit against CBS. July 22: Trump and Paramount dismiss the case, formalizing the settlement. July 24: Trump-appointed FCC approves $8 billion Paramount merger. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
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That’s wild
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“Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people,” Musk said Friday. True will of the people? True will of the world’s richest man. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/05/e...
David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted
It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right. Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Gold everywhere. Paintings of mug shots everywhere. A new cheesy Mar-a-Lago style ballroom. Now a UFC fight. The crass and classless ass continues to sully the understated grandeur and dignity of the people’s house to turn it into one of his failed Atlantic City casinos.
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
You must not have been trying very hard. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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"We need to stop trusting the experts," Kennedy told Tucker Carlson. gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...
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5-1?
Alt Health and Human Services (@alt-hhs.altgov.info) reposted
Picture pretty much captures the gist of it, read the whole thing anyway.
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The Supreme Court just castrated itself intentionally all to serve a king. What the hell is wrong with these people? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Grant Stern (@grantstern.bsky.social) reposted
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.
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I mean this is unquestionably wrong, right? www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g...
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
Not the vast majority of Americans.
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
The American people long ago stopped trusting politicians. They did largely still trust the government agencies. Now that sycophant politicians run the agencies, that trust is gone too.
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Complaining about creased pride flags seems, at least to me, to be a fairly inefficient application of energy and substantially counterproductive to the goals I assume the flag represents. slate.com/life/2025/06...
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
And that in no way is an argument against rank choice voting. The absolute worst case from rank choice voting is we end up with the same outcome as now. Meanwhile a better outcome is at least realistically possible for once.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet it won’t matter one bit. Amazing to think misspelling potato was once a disqualifying blunder.
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Once again, something so laughably absurd that I had to verify it’s actually true. And of course it is. Unbelievable.
Just-Me (@just-me.bsky.social) reposted
Trump wants to give emergency management to states but states have always led disaster response & only seek federal aid from FEMA if they need addt'l assistance. It's up to the president to issue a federal disaster declaration and allow FEMA aid to flow to states. So pointless. wapo.st/45RTx2B
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Yeah man. Faux News is strong down here. They believe it all without any critical thought.
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Staged. And wildly revolting.
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Another example of ever winning looks like. But at least we get one more hurricane season with FEMA… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Jamie Carter (@jctheresistance.demcast.com) reposted
While are attention is diverted, this just happened. RFK Jr. Drops All Members Of U.S. Vaccine Advisory Panel In Unprecedented Move www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
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There are always troops ready to deploy.
Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) reposted
The LAPD says there was no violence and they had things under control. The National Guard never even made it to their armories no matter clearing the streets. He’s declared victory and thinks he can dictate masks are illegal. This is a 2:41 AM lunatic post.
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Crazy
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Trump on Joe Biden, who recently announced a cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him."
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Can’t they just override the veto considering it had unanimous support?
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VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”
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I’m continually shocked. Remarkable.
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#BREAKING: HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
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Those are absolutely ridiculous chairs to use for that purpose.
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
This. There’s actually nothing stopping them from doing the fake electors thing again. It’s amazing that as a country we were shown the vulnerability of our election system and we did nothing to fix it.
Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted
WSJ editorial board: Starting with the next academic year, Oklahoma students in US history classes will be asked to “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information,” including on “sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters” This is batshit.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
This is indeed what they are going to do if we don’t stop them.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
So just always flounder in group think then?
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TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
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“All of them recommend low doses of fluoride supplements for a limited cohort – children who live in areas without fluoridated water. “ You mean areas like the entire states of Utah and Florida? Unreal.
Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Um… what? We have a very secure military base there. They’ll be fine. Just constant lies. Also I’m sure the judge would let you fly them back to the US for proper immigration court proceedings!!!
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
This is so depressing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@artcandee.bsky.social) reposted
South Africa’s murder rate for white farmers was 54.5 per 100,000 in 2023, lower than the national average of 78 per 100,000. Doesn’t sound like “white genocide” to me.
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
What did Dan do? I remember an affair, what else?
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes but the technology has only been incorporated very recently so most cars don’t have it - although probably a good chunk could have it turned on with programming. And it’s not standard either, which it will need to be to make the vast majority of cars compliant in 10-20 years.
Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) reposted
“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?" That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security. Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.
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If you think this is fine then you are evil.
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I guess that $1M pitcher did her job?
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude calm down. If you walk blindly into traffic and get hit by a car it’s the pedestrians fault by the way. So you’re not fully correct either.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
This is real. “Suck it.” The Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
Lost your Medicaid because of the GOP tax plan? No worries. Just ask crypto to pay for your cancer treatments.
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This is so outlandishly evil I don’t even know what to say. apple.news/A9abylu9eQUm...
Yossarian (@tsgarp007.bsky.social) reply parent
And federal workers. It strips around $100K from many future retirees by eliminating the supplemental retirement annuity.