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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 3h

Well it was a good season at times.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 4h

Why does a one run difference feel like three runs?

Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 5h

Are you fucking kidding me?

Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out to have been a disaster, just not how I expected.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 5h

One of the most vital things I’ve been wrong about was that Elon’s acquisition was a disaster and would drive everyone away from Twitter.

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 5h

If it wasn’t incredibly obvious before that X revenue sharing is treated as a slush fund for Elon to funnel cash to his future baby mommies and favorite right wing influencers, it is explicit now.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 5h

We’re so back!

Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 5h

It’s so Cubsver.

Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 5h

Drew Pomeranz had retired 17 consecutive hitters to begin this postseason. William Contreras ends that streak by taking him deep on a full-count fastball to give the Brewers a 1-0 lead in the 1st.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 8h

In retrospect, this post lacked the imagination to believe that taxes weren’t necessary.

Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t like that the president can impose his own taxes and determine how those taxes should be spent independent of Congress.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 9h

Underrated value in focusing on expanding SCOTUS so that corruption can be illegal again.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

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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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 17h

America, 2025:

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

“The story is totally take and she didn’t even formally complain about it.”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia is now threatening to sue Politico:

“This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.”

October 10, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Statement on behalf of my client Paul Ingrassia regarding last night's story, Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment, POLITICO (Oct. 9, 2025), https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-
00596545
POLITICO's hit piece about Mr. Ingrassia is calculated to cause maximum harm to his promising career — and torpedo his nomination for Special Counsel. This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.
To be 100% crystal clear, so that there is zero room for doubt: Mr. Ingrassia did not engage in any wrongdoing in connection with the matters reported. As POLITICO itself reported: "The woman, whom POLITICO is not naming, said in a statement that she 'never felt uncomfortable' about Ingrassia's behavior and said she had never made a complaint." This is one of the only accurate parts of POLITICO's otherwise fantastical and fictional partisan fairy tale.
Accordingly, one last time, I call upon POLITICO to publicly apologize and issue a full retraction of this disgraceful and partisan sludge.
/s/ Edward Andrew Paltzik
taylordykema.com

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

He said it was over above, so 100% plus whatever the current level is (35%?).

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

I hate it here so much.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: Impose a tariff of 100% on China - Truth Social

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

Got any extra room at the table?

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

Oops! All viziers.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

It will be a little funny in just over a week split screening them calling us terrorists with, like, little old ladies holding signs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

It makes the Comey indictment look watertight and serious by comparison.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, if it dislodges Collins then fine.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

I agree, though I do wish that the age factor didn’t exist. I mean, I’m not a Maine primary voter, so I can’t pick, but I get concerns around that.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

Great that we have shadowy evil billionaires also frying their brains to achieve immortality.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

He’s always sort of been Like This, but the religious aspect is new.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

I want to know which of his anti-aging treatments did this to his brain.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

I get there is also the owner-occupied representation, but the specifics of that are less clear, what specifically was represented or intended. Fraud is always hard to prove and I’m not sure I would gone with it for one of two counts.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t this the operative issue? They claim she couldn’t enter an agreement requiring her to rent it and that she rented it, but mention nothing about some kind of agreement requiring her to rent it?

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 1d

Also… does Congress have no role in this?

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