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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

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 · 8h

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

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 18h

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly. This should make you and the other Dems in DC dig in further, and tell these lowlifes that you'll agree to NOTHING without guarantees that Russ Vought is out of the White House, that the money is spent, and that ICE is off our streets.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats has a trifecta in 2021 and did not do any of these things. Maybe Dems should be taking notes on power politics here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 18h

Also, how can you have rescissions when there isn't any budget in force for Federal Fiscal Year 2026?

It's a completely empty threat if no budget is passed. So again, why would Dems even give Trump/GOP the chance to impound our tax dollars?

jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 18h

Between this and ICE running rampant on our streets and Trump officials calling any dissent to be terrorism, why should Dems sign on to ANY CR AT ALL?

It's time for Dems to dig in further and say "we aren't going to allow things to go on this way."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20h

Republicans keep insisting that they’re pushing a “clean CR” while promising to unilaterally cut spending below agreed-to levels however they want with zero Democratic input.

Eleanor Mueller @Eleanor_Mueller
X.com
00 On this press call with the House Freedom Caucus, Johnson tells reporters: "We worked on rescissions, and there'll be more of that, we expect, in the days ahead."
11:12 AM • 10/10/25 • 28K Views

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 18h

In this specific case? Absolutely. She made Hakeem the Number 2 Dem and cleared the way for him when she stepped down as Dem Leader.

You're not going to my waste time on this anymore. We know why Hakeem was chosen for the gig, and it wasn't because he was awesome. #Machine

#Muted

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 18h

He's House Minority Leader because Nancy Pelosi made Jeffries her successor. It's not because he has any special skill beyond that, as far as I can tell. So why wouldn't it be a personal, NY machine-related reason here?

But go on and curl up into that Bubble and throw the race card as a shield.

jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, is that Wisconsin's own Bryan Steil standing up there as GOPs call No Kings protestors terrorists?

Keep in mind when anyone says that fascist bum is "reasonable".

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

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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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me the GOP knows they're losing without them admitting that they are losing.

The closeted Keebler Elf of a Speaker is throwing garbage around because he knows the No Kings protestors are more in line with the Real America.

@markpocan.bsky.social - GET THIS GUY! And don't bail out the GOPs.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

Great point here. This is why Stephen Miller goes on Fox News to propagandize. He knows his host won't bother him with niggling facts like these.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

HA! How much is Stephen Miller a propagandist? He’s saying the building in Chicago raided by DHS, where children were zip-tied and citizens dragged out, was “full of Tren de Aragua terrorists.”

Even DHS’s own account claims just TWO gang members total — and even that is a highly suspect claim!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024.
Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane.
Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour.
This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever.
Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

New study shows COVID vaccines:
💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29%
💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39%
💉Reduced the risk of death by 64%
💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, you are WAYYYY off here. I just call em as I see em. And Trump supports Isr*el just like you.

As someone descended from multiple generations of Milwaukee Jews, I ask that you go waste someone else's time with your 20th Century BS.

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 1d

Has it been mutually beneficial? Especially in the last 25 years? There's less people in that country than there are in New Jersey. Why are they special?

If that country wants to commit genocide, they can do it with their own dollars and their own weapons.

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 1d

Cut Bibi off of our weapons, and they'd listen to us real quickly.

That's all it takes. That country has been around more than 75 years. Tell them to make their own weapons.

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 1d

What if...your alleged career is based on who you know and who you kiss up to, and not on any competence in journalism or in having a clue about anything in the real world?

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 1d

And also because it affected someone he likely knows personally as part of the NY Dem machine. Funny how that focuses him.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is a dull-minded, paranoid, gullible old man surrounded by twenty cranks, thousand-year-reich zealots, and single-issue lunatics, all with phones, running around saying, "Show him this! He'll like this! Make sure he sees this!"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

So, Tom Homan can straight accept a bag of $50K in cash from the FBI in a sting operation, have the investigation dismissed by this corrupt Justice Department, but all of Trump's critics somehow face indictments?

Cool, cool. Cool.

A desperate, weak Administration overplaying its hand.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

🗞️Today's NYT reporting:

"Trump said this, then Trump said that. Trump did this, and then Trump did that. Trump did that, and now Trump's doing this. Trump wants this, now Trump wants that."

NO JOURNALISM
NO CONTEXT
NO FACT-CHECKING

They basically just takes notes for the MF'er, and print it.

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jakemadtown.bsky.social @jakemadtown.bsky.social · 1d

This is where I am on this. Apparently the stupidity and conspiracy stuff isn't an act for MTG? Which means she can stumble into good places if it directly affects her and/or her feelings.

Vs allegedly "moderate, sensible" Rs who defer to TrumpWorld despite knowing better? They're the real scum.

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