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"-My electricity rate has increased nearly 50% since early 2023

-Okay but have your tried min/maxing your HVAC and just throwing clothes away instead of washing and drying them?!"
February 12, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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This is such a widespread sickness among pundits. Pointing out that Republicans are lying about welfare fraud — and have been for decades — doesn't qualify as a publishable take.

So you get this bizarre fixation on optics and this amorphous demand for Dems to "admit" something they admit already.
January 19, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Let's review the facts at hand here: A Democratic administration discovered and prosecuted a case of welfare fraud. Republicans are now using this case to smear hundreds of thousands of immigrants and militarize an entire city.

And your conclusion is that Democrats need to do something different?
The massive scandal around welfare fraud in Minnesota became a big story the same way the character Mike Campbell in The Sun Also Rises describes going bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.” Federal prosecutors first filed criminal charges in 2022 against the fraudsters at a Minnesota nonprofit called Feeding Our Future, who stole hundreds of millions of dollars while supposedly serving meals to low-income children and adults. Nearly 80 people have already been convicted or pleaded guilty, and more are expected. But only in recent months has this case—which the lead prosecutor has described as “industrial-scale fraud”—become a national fixation.
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM