Paul Waldman
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Columnist for MSNBC and The Daily Beast. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Host of The Cross Section podcast and author of The Cross Section newsletter: paulwaldman.substack.com
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It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.
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Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.
paulwaldman.bsky.social
As I wrote today, it's not cool to be with the Empire; it's cool to be with the Rebellion. Especially when the Empire's approval ratings are slipping:

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That's not the entirety of why Tucker Carlson is doing this, but it's definitely part of the story.
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Trump’s support among young people has collapsed, and even the podcasters he cultivated in 2024 are fed up with him. Here’s why it happened.

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Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros
It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.
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I think Trump is going to do a Michigan Man of the Year and just invent a fictitious peace prize he won.

"I won the Norbiggle Peace Prize, not a lot of people know that. The Norbiggle, people are saying it's even more prestigious than the Nobel, which nobody wants anymore."
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Hey what happened to the sandwich throwing guy, does he have his own podcast yet?
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Watching this I kept thinking "Toonces CAN drive, just not very well."

This thing can fold laundry and pick up after you, just not very well.

Have humanoid robots come a long way? Sure. But there's a loooong way to go.

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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Been looking around some right wing web sites this morning (Fox, Newsmax) and every page I click on pops up an ad from OpenAI featuring Trump and Sam Altman touting the glory of the Stargate project
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It's as though every PSA was like:

"I smoked a pack a day and got cancer. Remember, tobacco kills."

"Brought to you by the crisp, clean flavor of Marlboro cigarettes. Come to Marlboro country!"
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I feel like I'm seeing this all the time now: A Reddit post, a YouTube video, etc. lamenting the dire effects of the proliferation of AI (in this case a teacher talking about their students being rendered unable to think and learn) followed directly by an ad for an AI product
Reddit post from a teacher lamenting that AI is making their students unable to learn, followed directly by an ad for Microsoft's AI product
paulwaldman.bsky.social
Every time a new AI slop machine like Sora is released, know the next iteration will be better and worse, both in very bad ways.

It'll be "better" - more realistic, tougher to tell the real from the fake

It'll also be worse - more useful for scams, higher volume of slop, enshittifying the world
paulwaldman.bsky.social
Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people
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Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
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Thanks! Things are tough out there, but we're doing our best.
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Attention residents of Queens: If you're a genuine he-man with rippling muscles and a contempt for housework, Mrs. Sally Grabstein is totally dtf
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🧵on Bari Weiss at the Times written by one who knows
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John Mitchell does come to mind. And that ended with him in prison.
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Never before has the United States had an Attorney General and FBI Director who openly serve the president personally as he works to break laws rather than enforcing laws for the country, Constitution, and American people.

I don’t know if any previous one even said “the president’s agenda.” Ever.
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Democrats are finally showing some spine, and not a moment too soon. So who’s willing to do what is necessary to undo the horror of the Trump years? That’s what voters are going to demand, as they should:

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Democrats Need to Find Their Strength
They're beginning to get the picture, but this should be only the start.
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1. Clearly Homan kept the $50,000 (alleged) bribe money.

2. You think he declared it on his taxes? No way.

3. Democrats should say now that there will be a full investigation once they're back in power, and if Homan committed tax evasion he'll be going to prison.
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WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️