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Listener. Learner. Upstander. Pot-stirrer. Die-hard Monty Python fan. Please, no crypto bros, bible thumpers, or "sexy friends.”

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From @pkrugman.bsky.social, based on estimates from Americans For Tax Fairness. Billionaire contributions as a percent of total US campaign contributions. And contributions to Rs v Ds are 5:1. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

12.03.2026 14:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Regarding Henry but in reverse.

12.03.2026 05:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cruel

11.03.2026 20:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.

10.03.2026 17:45 👍 2628 🔁 761 💬 153 📌 43

This nails where we are. Precisely.

11.03.2026 02:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

The Navy says NOPE www.reuters.com/world/middle...

10.03.2026 22:47 👍 3473 🔁 1114 💬 205 📌 79
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I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

09.03.2026 11:46 👍 4762 🔁 1416 💬 333 📌 123
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the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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Perfect.

07.03.2026 19:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The difference is the war in Wag the Dog was fake.

05.03.2026 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.

It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

02.03.2026 12:23 👍 11197 🔁 3652 💬 611 📌 239

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

01.03.2026 00:36 👍 26276 🔁 7100 💬 1279 📌 349
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"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

28.02.2026 08:28 👍 14611 🔁 3310 💬 415 📌 124
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The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

28.02.2026 17:05 👍 22534 🔁 6336 💬 1317 📌 399

Brilliant.

27.02.2026 23:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

26.02.2026 19:16 👍 24872 🔁 7671 💬 1465 📌 582

Are they all hitchhiking?

26.02.2026 07:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Either way, it’s not the American people.

23.02.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Of course a husband is never trespassing in his own garden.” Hooboy.

22.02.2026 21:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Trade Officer Says No Change on Tariff Policy After Court Loss

Because when you control the levers of power (DOJ, FBI, DHS, military), you no longer need to follow the rules. You no longer need Congress or the courts. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

22.02.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I feel this so much having been a server all through college.

22.02.2026 17:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Devastating.

21.02.2026 19:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Standing up to racism shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

Trump posts an objectively racist video, and MAGA is silent.

All while he continues to nominate bigots and dine with Holocaust deniers.

It’s clear who this President is. And it should disgust all of us.

16.02.2026 18:23 👍 1595 🔁 418 💬 54 📌 20

This is what haunts me most—the harms we can’t see now but will compound over time.

16.02.2026 13:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For the purposes of this CAPTCHA, please consider the wheels on the bus unconnected from the concept of wheels, round and round, or bus. Please choose all the buses in this single picture of a bus. NO NOT THE WHEELS, YOU ROBOT.

15.02.2026 11:53 👍 1594 🔁 124 💬 62 📌 8
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The stock market is not the economy. 🤷

14.02.2026 19:35 👍 8064 🔁 2459 💬 16 📌 109
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👇👇👇👇

14.02.2026 00:59 👍 12515 🔁 5303 💬 392 📌 246

Pam Bondi says "ditten" when she means "didn't."

12.02.2026 05:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

12.02.2026 02:26 👍 15823 🔁 7765 💬 519 📌 299

Reprehensible.

12.02.2026 02:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0