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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

It's ok to let it happen. It's not ok to fund tyranny.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

The end of the enhanced Obamacare subsidies could be "the foundation for a big political backlash, one that might come disproportionately from Republican districts and states—and some key GOP constituencies." From before the shutdown, and still relevant:

If the Government Shuts Down, Obamacare Will Be Why

The clock is ticking to avert a big rise in health care costs.

www.thebulwark.com

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

I can guarantee the latter is a lie. Trump can get a vaccine at the White House.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Candyman Jackson said Trump’s visit today to Walter Reed was a follow up for his vascular issues and also to get updated travel vaccinations.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 13h

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

What he thought: "Do you know what is stupid... these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings who won't fuck me."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

it's fun how every Trump tantrum about China has a 95 percent chance of blowing over in two weeks and a 5 percent chance of destroying the global economy.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 12h

LOL. Maybe they'll finally learn how many regular non criminal immigrants it takes to meet the quotas.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think there's any better example of leopards eating faces than the Lebanese immigrant who opened a Trump-themed burger restaurant and then got arrested by ICE.

Chron.com @chron.com · 13h

🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 16h

1. What will do viral damage to the GOP and Trump? This, or middle easterners grabbing parts of America?
2. We know that trump is getting something in return for letting this go through.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

Yes ultimately many Dem electeds are afraid to give police under their command lawful orders because they think they will not be obeyed and the consequences that fact would have for them and for their state.

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 17h

It’s easy to call out Pritzker on this but something darker may be happening here. I’m not sure if he is secretly helping Trump behind the scenes. I think he’s terrified to test whether state police would obey him at all if he used them against the feds

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 16h

Guess what? They knew that was the deal but they still voted for Trump. Propaganda works!

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 17h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 17h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Lee = MS squared 🐟🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @aquaticenby.bsky.social · 19h

The barreleye however, decided to go one step further. Those things you think are it's eyes are actually nostrils. The eyes are the large green orbs inside its transparent head. The eyes point upward, looking through its head, so it can see fish above it. Absolutely unhinged fish. 10/10
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A barreleye fish. It is dark with a transparent head. The large green orbs inside the head are it's eyes

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Sam Thorpe @samthorpe.bsky.social · 20h

It turns out that once you correct for this error, unemployment is actually rising faster for NON-degree workers - meaning that explanations in terms of AI replacing the college-educated workforce don't make much sense, and this looks a lot more like an across-the-board labor market slowdown.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 18h

Thune nuked other parts of the filibuster, why didn't that come up then?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 18h

I mean sure, but they did in 4 tracks what most bands can't do in one whole album or career.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 18h

Emoluments. Impeach.
How is the US press ok with a president selling parts of America for personal gain? Forget about what the opposition might say to that. What do you, as a journalist reporting on us politics, want to say?

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19h

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 19h

Remember when the media kept bringing up emmer as a moderate Republican?
They're all insurrectionists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 20h

Hmmm. I had a boss suggest to use AI to write unit tests for the code I wrote...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

“Go 5x faster.”

@wired.com $META

www.wired.com/story/meta-m...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 22h

Ah. Now a Kavanaugh cause for arrest.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 22h

Those who can will leave tyranny. Those who can have the most talent, money, and resources.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 22h

Do you ever wonder why people like you were replaced by idiots whose only talent is to be able to buy a microphone? It's because people can't tell the difference.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 23h

"He has the heart of a humanitarian" such fucking gall for a guy who has cut billions in humanitarian aid and sent thousands, most children, to their certain death. (unless Steven means it literally, which I can't exclude)

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

RIGGED!!!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

So everyone's *first* question should have been, "why are we talking about this?" Why not other political issues that affect more people? Why not other *trans* issues that affect more people? Why not other *HS sports* issues that affect more people? Why this very particular, specific, rare thing?

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