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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 24m

In poll after poll on most issues being polled, Republicans are strongly united, a large minority, and on the opposite side of everyone else in the country. They also control all branches of government. This is the fundamental political problem of our time.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1h

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 29m

Humans can do this just fine already! I’m hardly a fan of LLMs,
but to me this is a Juciero-type harm, not sure the tech is actually amplifying anything

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The -30- Newsletter @30newsletter.bsky.social · 11h

The Guardian is hiring a senior sports business correspondent workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 15h

“Somebody showed me a TikTok video,” said the nation’s top health science bureaucrat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 15h

Seeking the TRUTH

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 15h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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“Sam,” and in some cases, “Samuel” @insideoutside15.bsky.social · 17h

Put Eric Adams on Inside The NBA

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 17h

This is maybe the purest distillation of the difference between lawyers and scientists when it comes to knowledge that I’ve ever seen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 17h

cool cool

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 17h

Dems have had years to tie this guy—a phenomenally unappealing and uncharismatic professional troll whose every public utterance sounds like Cobra Commander threatening GI Joe with his weather domination machine—to the GOP like a boat anchor, and they just don’t do it! Masterful politics!

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 22h

The thing is, the sentiment of the headline is probably not wrong! But exploring and explaining *why* that’s the case would make for a completely different and much more informative piece.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

WaPo seems all-in on becoming a worse WSJ

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

lol man you're not supposed to just say that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 8d

Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read is like a skeleton key for understanding the modern right. You can throw out that Perlstein book, it's just failed salesmen, success gurus and hucksters all the way down.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16d

Green recommended Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder as the best book ever about TB and he was right. A lot of insights there into what public health should look like.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · Apr 19

John Green's Everything is Tuberculosis is brief and interesting, but it feels like a lot of books written before Trump II will need to spend more time on how things can go really really wrong in the future. Also he's a YouTuber, he should do some videos on why funding USAID is good, actually.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Wish we had a press corp that would actually ask something like “where are you getting this information from?”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Inadvertently honest chyron

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Data centers are the new sports stadiums

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't bode well for a Wolfenstein III

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds (and looks) familiar!