David S. Bernstein
@dbernstein.bsky.social
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Journalist. Politics and policy. Contributing editor Boston Magazine, bylines Politico Magazine, Atlantic, many more. Formerly of Boston Phoenix. Substack: https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
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… Hannity and Ingraham w/ Watters, O’Reilly, Carlson; posted by Kolvet (who I misspelled above)
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… Blake Neff, Benny Johnson, Jack Posobiec, Tyler Bowyer, Andrew Klavin at the WH for the Kirk ceremony; posted by Johnson.
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Glenn Beck, Jesse Watters, Bill O’Reilly, Tucker Carlson. Posted by Beck, I think at WH for Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom ceremony.

I’m telling future generations this was the Beatles.
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… My apologies; apparently if the table is long enough, Susie Wiles gets to sit at it.
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… Look at that U.S. side, dudes as far as the table will stretch
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… And in case you think it’s just the leaders of nations:
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Don’t worry your heads ladies, the menfolk are handling Middle East peace
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If the social media manager at any company or organization posted this they would be fired, no?
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When you’re a Republican U.S. Senator but you represent South Dakota
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I don’t expect him to know everything about world geography, it’s just so weird to say something so wrong with such confidence for no reason. (There’s a body of water between the two countries.)
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Trump: "Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar. You can walk it in one second. You go, boom, boom, and now you're in Qatar."

Qatar and Iran do not share a land border.
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Dinesh D’Souza has a Solana coin coming out, there’s a web site where you can get info and link your wallet but I’m not going to put it here because one of you might accidentally click on it
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Somebody made this mock flyer for the Turning Point halftime show, and I keep seeing it shared on X by MAGA types very excited by it and not realizing it’s making fun of them
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I instinctively think of the Mariners-Blue Jays series as a battle of the expansion teams, and apparently I am older than dirt.
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JD Vance, on Maria Bartiromo, says that on Qatari deal “there’s been a lot of misreporting, as there often is, as you well know Maria.” But I don’t think he meant it as the dig on her that it sounded like to me.
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Sorry I was out tonight and didn’t realize that Joe Biden ran the FBI while Trump was President?
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That’s some chutzpah to claim an EXCLUSIVE when Johnson has been interviewed by every outlet he can find in the past 24 hours talking about this, including your own network.
Tweet from Kayleigh McEnaney, touting an EXCLUSIVE interview with Benny Johnson
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… “CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight.” One virologist tweets
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“Friday night massacre underway at CDC” according to NY Times reporter. Scientists, staff, “disease detectives” RIFed by the dozens.
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Yeah who would want this dramatic excitement during the season, when you can have the ghost runner instead
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… Ah, there was one woman at the Astra-Zeneca signing ceremony (I’m not sure exactly what they’re signing), or 9% of the 11 participants as posted by Secy of Commerce Lutnick.
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The MAGA Twitter/X accounts I monitor seem to so far be avoiding mention that Trump got a COVID booster today, but Katie Pavlich just tweeted an image of the report, without comment, and more than half the replies are horror that he got the evil jab.
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FHfA’s Bill Pulte threatens to demand info from CNN’s Kasie Hunt on the basis of Libs of TikTok tweeting that… oh forget it, I can’t even
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The entire staff of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDIF) Fund is being RIFed, per Punchbowl reporting.

I suppose that puts it in the “Democrat programs” Trump said he’d be targeting.