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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 7h

I really miss Prince ☔️

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 7h

A thing I want to say and then possibly take a nice long break from this website is I am very much old enough to remember “Nancy Pelosi will never impeach.”

Many of you are as well yet seem to have learned approximately nothing.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 7h

Actually not sorry at all.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry folks I’m on Booker‘s side here

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 12h

Worth a watch ❤️https://youtu.be/YZ42k83mUlk?si=eOIb-bfLEVOuCvC0

Diane Keaton's Charmingly Chaotic Interview On "The Colbert Report"

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 22h

Also, Joe Biden is way too old! We Serious Journalists smell a coverup! Good thing there is no old guy still in the race who will not release real medical records!

charliedingus.bsky.social @charliedingus.bsky.social · 1d

Many examples, but I still can’t get over the fact that when Trump said “we’re not doing Project 2025,” the media by and large responded with “well, that settles that!”

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 22h

🎯 on this alone

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 22h

Yes

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 22h

Both bad (especially 2016) but 2024 wins

Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the 2000 election & the 2016 election

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

This picture is misleading. Surely he was wearing a hot dog costume while saying this.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

Is this a Kavanaugh stop

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

::screams into void::

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

They are even yellow bsky.app/profile/doug...

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

Is one of those a CAVA bag 🧐

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

This Styles writer thinks a CAVA bag would be a swell No Kings accessory

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

George.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

Well this sure seems on the up and up

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

Is it a day ending in y Mark

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Jake, Trump was President on January 6. He is very old. Perhaps instead of thinking about Henry II you should think about the conceit of your last book. You can do another video and put the same thinky mystery music behind it! 🕵️‍♂️💡

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

Keep calm and call them out

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

Is Jake Tapper available for comment

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump on Ukraine: "They'd like to have Tomahawks. We talked about that. We'll see. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so."

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Kamala Harris: "The Supreme Court made the decision that the president would be immune from any of his conduct while in office. So we went into the election with this individual, Donald Trump, knowing that he would essentially be immune from any consequence for misbehavior while in office."

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Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 3d

@mtsw.bsky.social

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 3d

Trump take package

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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