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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 6d

DHS: Where was this lead pencil made?
ME: State of Washington, mines in South America, Malaya, and other places I don't even know about, by thousands of people who don't speak the same language, practice different religions, and might hate each other if they ever met
DHS: denied

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Independent media!

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PositiveEnerG @positiveenerg.bsky.social · Sep 5

reason.com/2025/09/05/m... @reason.com @ericboehm87.bsky.social

MAGA economics is losing

Trump promised that protectionism and immigration enforcement would be good for the economy. The latest jobs report tells a different story.

reason.com

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · Sep 3

Who won the Battle of Thermopylae

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Harmeet Dhillon at NatCon: "When the next group of elites comes to demand we stop protecting fairness in hiring, confidence in our elections, safety in girls sports, we're going to answer them the same way that Leonidas answered on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae: Molon Labe. Come and take it."

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Sep 3

Absolutely love to see it. And I hope this trend catches on in other circumstances too.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases

Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening”

www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...

D.C. grand jurors reject latest wave of Justice Dept. indictment requests

One former federal prosecutor said of the indictment denials by D.C. grand juries that he's "never heard of this happening."

www.cbsnews.com

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · Aug 31

🚨BREAKING:

Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 27

What if we just let people peacefully exchange goods and services? What's the downside to that idea?

Slacks @jayslacks.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 26

Seems bad!

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 26

A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly.

On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years.

For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Aug 26

If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Aug 25

This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites,
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...

www.dropbox.com

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Ariana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Reporting outside the Baltimore ICE field office for @statesnewsroom.com where hundreds are gathered to protest the potential deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 24

We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.

If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.

Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown

President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yup

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 22

Right, because the people doing the public executions in the Bible were the good guys?

Someone might need to re-read the gospels a few times

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · Aug 22

we're on our way to becoming freaking Gilead:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids

Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 21

A mediocre life sounds a lot better than whatever the hell this is

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 21

Work-life balance is bad, says 22-year-old with terrible life www.wsj.com/opinion/work...

Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre

I took a different approach and spent my time building a social-media company from my dorm room. That business, Step Up Social, helped companies grow on TikTok and Instagram Reels. It hit $1 million a year in revenue in less than two years. During my first year working on Step Up Social, I averaged 3½ hours of sleep a night and had about 12½ hours every day to focus on business. The physical and mental toll was brutal: I gained 80 pounds, lived on Red Bull and struggled with anxiety. But this level of intensity was the only way to build a multimillion-dollar company.

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · Aug 20

The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.

Trump's D.C. goon squads are un-American

The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.

reason.com

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 19

So the trade deals don't actually exist, then?

If a business owner wants to understand the rules for importing/exporting, what exactly should he or she do?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 19

In most cases, Trump's tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods.

So much for reciprocity and fairness.

reason.com/2025/08/18/t...

Trump promised 'reciprocal' tariffs. The numbers tell a different story.

In most cases, Trump's tariffs are significantly higher than the tariffs charged by other countries on American goods.

reason.com

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 19

I hope it was worth it!

(It was not)

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Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · Aug 19

No offense necessarily intended, but it is very funny to negatively frame The Argument for being "flush with $4 million in startup cash" when you cofounded another magazine/publishing outlet, Compact, that had a far more expensive website and Thiel/Soros funding.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

Why Is a Progressive Mega-Donor Funding Right-Wing Ideas?

At a recent get-together, little lefty mags were roiled to learn that George Soros’s foundations are supporting Compact, a publication that’s flirted with authoritarianism. “It was weird to me the who...

www.vanityfair.com

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Eric Boehm @ericboehm87.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thuggish behavior from those who are supposedly in DC to provide law and order

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.

Please take care when watching.

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · Aug 12

The persistence of the “chicken tax” suggests something about the long-term impact that Trump’s myriad new tariffs — including the dozens of country-specific tariff rates that went into effect this month — could have on the economy and federal trade policy.

The latest from @ericboehm87.bsky.social:

Opinion | The ‘chicken tax’ offers a scary lesson about Trump’s tariffs

Don’t be surprised if Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs far outlast the trade war.

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