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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder: the WH press corps prefers this gang to the people who earnestly served under Joe Biden.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 19m

About to get the wrong side of the fact they stopped making cars that cost less than $40 grand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

WSJ: “.. the portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6% ..”

@wsj.com
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1h

Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 51m

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2h

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1h

Not an unfounded fear

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1h

This is the less-than-zero that this admin had vetting senior FBI officials.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment

Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia ...

www.politico.com

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder: the WH press corps prefers this gang to the people who earnestly served under Joe Biden.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1h

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4h

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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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 9h

A memetic image known as “the Ro Khanna cycle.” Beside a portrait of him staring rightward with seriousness of purpose, two thought bubbles are drawn — both of them filled with four question marks. Two arrows form an infinitely looping order of operations — from one ???? to the next, over and over.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 9h

Elite lawyers and firms just aren't built for this moment. It's a small world that runs on civility and conciliation and you wind up working with the same people and firms over and over. This moment requires a willingness to burn bridges and send people to prison. Different skill set.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h

Oh FFS Jeh Johnson saying “we have to find a way to rise above it” rather than go after Trump people who are breaking the law.

It’s not universal, but in general elite law has been a failure.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 9h

Marc is a dick-and a bad writer

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 13h

An actual opposition party would do hundreds of simultaneous responses to everything that happened every day & everyone would be aware of those responses & resources of every kind are infinite. If everything doesn’t happen they’re not a real opposition party

PS, I’m a serious person.

Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 17h

An actual opposition party would run this on a loop in every conceivable space.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 18h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Milwaukee Record @milwaukeerecord.bsky.social · 12h

DO IT FOR HIM

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 13h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 12h

Finally getting E.W. Jackson vibes out of Winsome, who is losing some dignity along with the governors race.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 12h

An exchange in tonight's VA Gov debate:

AS: My opponent has previously said that she does not think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

WES: That’s not discrimination!

AS: She said that she is, quote-unquote, morally opposed to same-sex marriage.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (1/2)

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 14h

Someone should reverse engineer the chatgpt prompt that produced this exact idea.

Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 18h

I don't hate this idea as television. Quite the opposite, but this is exactly the kind of idea the sclerotic TV news titans have been pushing for decades.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 14h

A geographically honest name! Rare.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14h

My favorite thing about Cal Raleigh (other than the obvious thing) is that he's a North Carolinian named Cal Raleigh.

Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 14h

Good looking basin

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 14h

The greatest of basins.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

NOTABLE: Lindsey Halligan requested that a summons be issued for Letitia James to appear in court.

She did not request an arrest warrant.

Criminal cover sheet showing that summons, not arrest warrant, was requested for Tish James

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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 15h

Yet again, Trump is grossly abusing the criminal justice system by directing an unqualified political lackey to indict his adversary.

Let’s be clear: this kind of corruption is how authoritarians become dictators.

And this is also on every Republican who doesn’t speak up.

Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charge

James, a Democrat, has clashed with President Donald Trump after bringing civil charges against him in New York.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 16h

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 15h

Not that Cillizza deserves a response, but—in the sense that hes deeply representative of the intellectual & moral rot at the heart of political news media—its v indicative of their mentality that he doesnt consider murdering ppl in the Caribbean or disappearing ppl domestically an affront to peace

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 15h

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15h

I look forward to watching Tish James humiliate him once again.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 16h

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

www.cityandstateny.com

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