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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Incredible Congressional hearing opportunity here which is to ask Oz if he knows how numbers work.
Like, Katie Porter whiteboard stuff: "Ok, if the drug was $100 per month, and it was reduced by 650%, what would the price be?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 7h

Was literally just writing a similar response. Imagine what someone with a platform like Dr. Oz's could have done if he were even a halfway decent person rather than the soulless grifter that he so obviously is

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 7h

These are not people with any understanding of what looks cool

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 8h

That's the start, but Polish judges can show them the way m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLw...

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 10h

This is ridiculous either way, but also, are they counting their cars as ICE agents now, like it's some kind of Knight Rider situation? It's like the AI freaks trying to call us bigots or whatever for treating LLMs like the algorithms they are rather than actual people

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 10h

Ingrassia is begging to have someone explain the Streisand Effect to him, but he's such a dick that everyone is going to let him just flap in the wind instead, and I am 100% here for it

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 10h

I thought we had laws against war profiteering wtf

The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 15h

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 10h

Not even bi I don't think, but True Blood definitely had me wondering

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11h

Can't find the article, but maybe @jasonkpargin.bsky.social knows who wrote that one (assuming it wasn't him lol)

Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11h

Before Cracked's buyout, they wrote about how celebrities and politicians get locked in time whenever they first make it. It broke Eminem's brain to learn that his massive collection of porn DVDs was meaningless in the internet age. Same for politicians but it's like, calipers and shit. It's bad

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Nov 8

Once you reach a certain threshold of wealth your brain breaks, you completely disassociate from reality. Wealth cap should be mandated as a mental health protection.

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11h

I guess on the bright side, having spent the last seven years trying to convince left-ish lawyers that we can't litigate our way out of fascism, they're finally starting to listen?

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 12h

wtf? Definitely thought that was just a Clarence Thomas kink or something and pretty horrified to hear that this is still something that happens

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

Can't and won't

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

A pretty consistent thoroughline across conservative culture is that these are people obsessed with the "powerful" people they see in media. This is Bari Weiss doing an Alec Baldwin always be closing speech. Hegseth literally copied the Patton opening set. All of ICE is cosplaying Call of Duty

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

That constant sheen of sweat is not natural folks. I sweat like a pig, but for Thiel it is 100% weird drugs that only the tech lords can access

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

The U.S. president is still bragging about passing dementia tests, so I don't know, maybe this is just where we're at. The people who spent a decade complaining about participation trophies are inventing their own now since they missed out on it in Little League teeball

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 13h

So the modern day equivalent of the U.S. founders basically

Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 14h

Not to give Crash any credit, but that was a whole thing in a movie that won best picture! A character saying that he feels like buses are all windows to shame the people too poor to use a different option! And in a movie from white Hollywood used to take a victory lap for "overcoming" racism! 🫠🫠🫠

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 16h

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 15h

Yes! And the party could institute that policy itself. Time for a push from younger Dem leaders for mandatory retirement ages where party endorsements and financial support are cut off

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 15h

At least under the French monarchy, Louis XIV felt the need to explicitly say that he *was* the state. Trump's sycophants just assume it

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 16h

I would have said no one could top Newt Gingrich as the worst Speaker at least in recent memory, but Johnson is trying so hard to dethrone him. Looking forward to his future as a deranged Newsmax commentator someday. At least Newt landed at Fox, and that is obviously not an actual compliment

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 16h

Kind of hilarious because he's not wrong, but I'm also sure he's not talking about the year that motherfucking *Henry Kissinger* won the peace prize

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 16h

And, finally, the good people at @peoplesparity.bsky.social have a new report, “No Kings: the Urgent Need for Court Reform,” which analyzes the outcomes of the 389 cases challenging Trump Administration actions filed in federal court between January 2025 and September 1, 2025.

No Kings: The Urgent Need for Court Reform - People's Parity Project

People’s Parity Project’s new report,“No Kings: the Urgent Need for Court Reform,” analyzes the outcomes of the 389 cases challenging Trump Administration

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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