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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 2h

Option 1: Dementia
Option 2: Strategy
Option 3: He's a moron who has always said whatever self-serving thing popped into his head and never worried if it even remotely plausible or what the consequences might be.

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 3h

ChatGPT just scored Thiel at 20-25 out of 100. With 0 being drivel and 100 being profound, and I kind of trust the drivel machine to identify drivel.

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blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 4h

Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of stories?

blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t date this.

/r/Habs @habsonreddit.bsky.social · 19h

The Habs PP every year

blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 4h

IMHO, Bibi was always the holdup and recognized that Israel was losing public opinion so was willing to make a deal now, either to consolidate gains or to stall by pushing the story to the back burner. Remains to be seen which.

blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 4h

Morning thought: AI can be the production and humans the guardrails & strategy, or humans can be the production and AI the guardrails & strategy. AI/AI is a recipe for failure.

blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 7h

We will bring to everything the efficiency and satisfaction of automated phone customer service systems!

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 1d

We were there too! Still talk about these two guys in front of us who were being “tough” and when it finally got too cold, everything wearable had been sold out, so they bought like a beach towel and huddled together under it, we call them the “blanket bros”

Anne E. Nelson @aen29.bsky.social · 1d

Nats v. SF? We were freezing and starving over 18 innings. Tied rally towels together to make a scarf. It didn't work.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Why would he doubt it? The previous "No Kings" protests were all entirely peaceful. Sounds more like a threat to the protestors' safety to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.