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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 37m

I don’t know why I find Harry Enten ending up as (revealing himself as?) an intellectually-empty takes machine to be so depressing, but I do.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

The last people who said this here were American colonial merchants who remained loyal to King George III. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 3h

This is the one, boys. Don't change a letter. Perception problem solved. Can I please get it on a T-shirt?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h

BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

Three senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR has language that would begin to address this, but Trump and Vought are completely opposed.

"If you're a Democrat - even just like a mainstream Democrat - your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism," said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. "Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?"

"I don't think the Democrats want to shut down either," Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. "Their concern right now, and it's a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we're not going to spend them there?"

Julie Tsirkin @news_jul •1h
MURKOWSKI blames Russ Vought for making it harder to negotiate shutdown end:
"The appropriations process is being run over, and that, to me, is absolutely unacceptable."
She understands why Democrats don't trust them given Vought's rescissions and layoffs.
"Why would you?"

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 19h

It excels both on its own merits and because it has a sound and a

The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 1d

Never in doubt, Bears. Not once.

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 1d

“Save”

The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 1d

The Bears have been undisciplined all season, so it makes sense that the night they actually get it together is the night the refs decide to completely fuck them on every third play.

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t even bring that single doink energy when you play the Bears. Those are rookie numbers.

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 1d

I am a Cubs fan and I know this shades my opinion, but go Dodgers. MLB owners do not need additional evidence that you can win with a team of scrubs running a bullpen game thrice a week.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 3d

Coming to grips with the fact that most respected journalists don’t actually possess critical thinking skills beyond those of the average internet poster has been a rough but necessary lesson over this past decade

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 3d

I am sad about the Cubs but goddamn you all are doing good work on the Matt Shaw jokes and I applaud it.

Now to root for a short, noncompetitive, borderline humiliating AL World Series win no matter the teams that make it through the LCS.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

what up TikTok it’s yr boy Young Gru

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 3d

I was saying that this sits right behind…uh, world events, in the list of things that would be shocking to someone who warped here from 20 years ago.

The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 3d

We just locked down the 2 seed. Sit all the starters now, please and thank you.

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 3d

The Illini have now lost badly twice but I’m leaving the weekend happy because it was maybe to the #1 and 2 teams in the country?

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 4d

Bret Bielema should eat one of the officials if this call gets overturned.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4d

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 4d

LOL

Eben Novy-Williams @ebennovywilliams.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman has a new three-year contract, per sources. Under her guidance the league has seen large commercial growth and undergone multiple expansions. #NWSL

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NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman Receives 3-Year Contract Extension

Jessica Berman received a 3-year extension as NWSL commissioner. The deal was executed by the league's four-person executive committee.

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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 5d

Republicans are defined by getting forever mad about things that everyone else stopped thinking about years ago.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to multiview I just got a brief split screen of the Cubs in a must-win playoff game and Mark Prior walking to the mound.

Did not like that bit of PTSD one bit.

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 6d

It felt like Aziz Nasari was mostly free of his MeToo rep but then he does Riyadh it's so funny it's like he got used to be being cancelled and couldn't live without it like Brooks on the outside in Shawshank Redemption lol

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The Leader Is Good @theleaderisgood.bsky.social · 6d

Ever have a running/biking route where it feels like every hill you clear has been hiding the next, bigger hill? That is this beautiful website.

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