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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2h

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 11h

I'd say something about unintended consequences but these shit for brains don't know or care about what they destroy. Destruction is the point. #idiocracy #traitors

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out watching videos on TikTok of masked thugs zip tying kids and kidnapping people coming to court or walking to school is not all that appealing.

Meanwhile Dem strategists advise elected officials not to talk about it.

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 3d

NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -51
30-44: -6 | -17
45-64: +12 | 0
65+: -4 | -16
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump by age in his second term."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."

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emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay · 1d

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

Has any reporter asked Mike Johnson, “You keep saying you’re too busy to keep up with the news, doing what exactly?”

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss' most underappreciated quality is that she is dumb.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 3d

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call.

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre.

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 3d

Sure does seem like it.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 3d

History says your base case can't be anything but "the bastard gets his ludicrous package" but in light of the NBER paper I posted earlier, in any sane company (if you can find one) the result would be "no...and you're fired." #tslaQ #ElonQ

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d

Tesla’s chair said it’s too early to tell whether efforts to win shareholder support for CEO Elon Musk’s massive pay package will succeed ahead of a pivotal investor vote.

Tesla Chair Says It’s Unclear If Musk Pay Package Wins Approval

Tesla Inc.’s chair said it’s too early to know whether a campaign to win shareholder support for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s enormous pay package will be successful just days ahead of a pivotal vote by investors.

bloom.bg

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 3d

Pissing in the soup, quantified.

“By the first quarter of 2025, we find that without the Musk
partisan effect, Tesla monthly sales would have been about 150 percent higher.” #tslaQ

www.nber.org

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 3d

Spot on. Assuming absolutely anything is still illegal in our wonderful new oligarchy. #tslaQ

Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 3d

Future Tesla chairman Robyn Denholm defense:

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

(Kenneth Lay - chairman of Enron)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d

TESLA CHAIRMAN STATES THAT ELON MUSK IS THE ONLY LEADER FOR TESLA AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE QUALIFIED TO DO SO

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I'm just saying that every escalation and trespass and glib little threat they've made has been at the cost of hemorrhaging whatever 'make life 2019 again' capital he had a year ago. This is with low unemployment and a stratospherically-high stock market.

They have no one on deck.

Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

Chart showing Trump's net approval compared with this point in previous presidencies. In 2009, Obama's approval at this point was approximately +7, in 2017 Trump's was -16 and in 2021 Biden's was -7

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 3d

Not enough.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

If your savings account can’t buy you a yacht, maybe stop voting like it can.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta make up for those crap cloud margins some how.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners

John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.

deadline.com

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 4d

Autocomplete with pretensions.

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 4d

Guess they have to do something with them. 🤣
#tslaQ #IncelCamino

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Machine Planet @machineplanet.bsky.social · 4d

Potentially a brilliant idea. Timing is everything, though. #idiocracy #traitors

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:

Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 5d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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