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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 9h

Unironic mustaches deployed and ready. Very Ditka like, good camo.

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 9h

Classic. Had that one.

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 9h

Or, that she’s confident of full preemptive pardons for everyone in the administration

Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 10h

But the sun doesn’t set outside the US and the wind always blows there so you see, we have to be different

Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 10h

The US basically has no price controls for medications. Most of the rest of the world does, so we get to pay more to offset drug company losses there. Feeling familiar here.

Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 11h

I suppose it depends on who is writing the history. Prager U textbooks may be thrilled.

Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 11h

Audience of one.

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 13h

Lord of the lox? Conjures visions of Michael flatley dancing to klezmer music.

Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 14h

I will be mocked online in five years and then decide “f those kids”

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 14h

So the us gets to subsidize Europe in something other than drug pricing.

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 15h

“Managed”?

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 15h

Paging Jake Tapper

Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 16h

To be fair, it still serves to block lots of folks from trying to stop the administration from disregarding the emoluments clause and plenty of other constitutional provisions

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 16h

Isn’t that the predicate (excuse) for all this crap as applied to Mexico and Canada? A fentanyl emergency???

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 16h

It is super annoying to acknowledge, OK as a species we've had basically instantaneous access to all documented human knowledge for 20 years now and yet our collective decision-making sucks ass.

But faster access to wronger information at a higher cost isn't the move.

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Topkick75 @mhaberman00.bsky.social · 18h

Audience of one.

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 1d

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.