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Steve Metz

@stevemetz.bsky.social

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Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Jul 15

There has never been a greater ethical asymmetry between the two major parties in American history.

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 3

So 35% of people with graduate degrees don't consider character, competence or respect for the Constitution important. It's sickening.

Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · Aug 3

Just going to uhh...post this here before anyone says Asians voted for this and are FAFOing

Asians voted 61% harris 37% trump
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/harris-trump-and-the-state-of-the-2024-presidential-race/pp_2024-9-9_harris-trump_1-01/

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hush puppies. Usually they're round. I make mine with a small ice cream scoop

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 3

My Carolina BBQ pilgrimage begins. This is Wilber's in Goldsboro NC. Big after church crowd.

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 3

I deeply regret that I began contributing to the Fetterman campaign the day he declared. What a tragic disappointment.

Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · Aug 2

John Fetterman: Trump is absolutely winning the trade war. I'm a huge fan of Bill Maher, he's one of the oracles for the Democratic Party. He thought that the tariffs we're going to tank the economy, and he acknowledged that they didn't.

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Kim or Khloe?

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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · Aug 2

Trump's trade war probably qualifies as the greatest madness in economic policy in a developed country after WWII:
1. All decisions are made by one single person (Trump).
2. No principles are applied.
3. No economic rationale or theory.
4. All is based on Trump's emotions. /1

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Does that same logic apply to the poop emoji?

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · Aug 2

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 2

Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Newsmax becomes the pro-pedophilia network to demonstrate fealty to Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 2

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "There's something else going on here. It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden DOJ."

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Kewl! Pharmaceutical firms will pay consumers to take the drugs off their hands.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 2

Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."

Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect those organizations to do that. Congress and SCOTUS were specifically tasked to do so and they are failing epically.

Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · Aug 1

This is how democracies die.

Step 1: Dislike the facts.
Step 2: Attack the fact-finders.
Step 3: Replace them with loyalists.
Step 4: Control the "truth."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Aug 1

Principal Skinner saying “are tariffs bad for the economy? No, it’s the data that is wrong”

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Fox has a monopoly on the gullible demographic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 1

Kevin Hassett dismisses today's bad jobs report: "I don't think anybody can trust that the numbers are right whichever way they are going."

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Michael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased.

#econsky

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Like the inflation statistics. And the flying monkeys in the congressional GOP are probably filled with glee.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 1

As virtually everyone else has now said, the jobs data going forward will be more or less meaningless

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Aug 1

the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 1

Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files

The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

www.bloomberg.com

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Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Trump and his toadies like Patel and Gabbard are about a week away from claiming Durham was a "extreme leftist
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 1

Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Bartiromo will lead with the "Russia hoax" today.

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 1

The US economy added 73,000 jobs in July, trailing the consensus estimate of 110,000 reut.rs/3UDVFUO

US job growth slows sharply in July; unemployment rate rises to 4.2%

U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in July while the prior month's data was revised sharply lower, pointing to a sharp moderation in the labor market.

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