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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h

She was legally declared a victim of a crime in a court of law, she was not an "accuser," she was a VICTIM

NBC: NEW ALLEGATIONS FROM EPSTEIN ACCUSER MEMOIRE

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 8h

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
-Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution

Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: You talked about the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC. Is the funding terminated?

TRUMP: Right now there is no funding. Because it's up to me

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11h

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

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jlp2024.bsky.social @jlp2024.bsky.social · 4h

It is predictable. Not astonishing

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

Something I'm not enjoying is the president constantly looking into the camera and saying "I am breaking the law" only for the Supreme Court to go "We conclude the president isn't breaking the law"

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jlp2024.bsky.social @jlp2024.bsky.social · 4h

Did he commute the restitution and custodial sentence?

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AblativMeatshld @ablativmeatshld.bsky.social · 1d

For sport, I tell you. For sport.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

A bicyclist riding in the intersection tried to join the group on the outside of the police line after it moved and was shoved off his bike by two officers and wrecked into the pavement. He’s bleeding from the head

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 9h

It’s just incredible this isn’t the way everyone talks about him

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h

Gov. Pritzker: "The president lies consistently, and he's got a lot of people around him who are sycophants, including JD Vance, who lie on his behalf...It's propaganda."

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 10h

What exactly is the point of having a Congress if it’s going to be run by spineless sycophants whose only function is to let America’s most special little boy do whatever he wants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: You talked about the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC. Is the funding terminated?

TRUMP: Right now there is no funding. Because it's up to me

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Of all the people CNN could’ve platformed to tell a personal redemption story, they chose the least authentic and deserving person in America for their dwindling audience.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d

"Tariff rollercoaster prompts Chinese exporters to 'give up' on US" www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

"Camp Mystic Security Guard Saved Dozens Amid Deadly Flooding" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
"A trim, 57-year-old who volunteers as a firefighter in nearby Hunt, Texas, his heart — “broken,” he said — began giving out in the weeks after the flood, requiring a pacemaker." 😢

Camp Mystic Security Guard Saved Dozens Amid Deadly Flooding

In interviews with The New York Times, the guard, Glenn Juenke, offered the most detailed firsthand account yet of what staff members did as floodwaters rose at the Texas camp in July.

www.nytimes.com

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jlp2024.bsky.social @jlp2024.bsky.social · 5h

If only politico, etc had covered this for what it always has been..a bunch of really dumb fucking bullshit

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 13h

"administration officials have thus far struggled to find ways to use the tariff revenue as Trump and his officials have promised." 😲 www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

sky you’re wasting your time, this dickhead can barely read and he definitely can’t read charts, you’re explaining algebra to a seal

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

it is 1030pm and i am explaining to the economics reporter for the new york times how to read a chart and understand its sourcing. x.com/rhcm123/stat...

Sky Marchini
@rhcm123
the "KFF data" is two series fom the BLS, as the tooltip at the bottom of the chart you posted indicates. i was able to quickly recreate the chart on FRED just now.

so yes, I do think it's a correct summary of the facts.
[Image he originally posted showing healthcare costs versus general CPI from KFF]
[Image i quickly recrated showing the exact same thing from FRED]
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ok. different Q. do you trust KFF data or think its tilted toward partisan goals
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jlp2024.bsky.social @jlp2024.bsky.social · 5h

One big exception is Margot Sanger-Katz. She's an excellent health care reporter

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7h

And something important to remember: Smith’s editors are probably no better than Smith

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

it is 1030pm and i am explaining to the economics reporter for the new york times how to read a chart and understand its sourcing. x.com/rhcm123/stat...

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 6h

in case you're wondering how America, 2025 CE is going: an economics reporter for the most prestigious newspaper on Earth (who has no training in economics) is having an incoherent crashout on a Nazi website and being a dick to Sky for no discernible reason because he is methodologically incompetent

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 8h

jesus christ it's in "scare quotes" because it's not KFF data, it's BLS data that KFF made a nice chart of

and if the question is... that, then why the fuck did this start with asking me if i'm a libertarian? what does a 14-year-old memoir have to do with this? what the fuck is happening here?

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Sky Marchini
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the "KFF data" is two series fom the BLS, as the tooltip at the bottom of the chart you posted indicates. i was able to quickly recreate the chart on FRED just now.

so yes, I do think it's a correct summary of the facts.
Line graph titled Peterson KFF Health System Tracker showing cumulative percent urban change in CPI for medical care and all goods and services from January 2000 to June 2024 with green line for all goods and services rising to 86.1 percent and blue line for medical care rising to 121.3 percent with shaded recession areas and note on medical services outpacing commodities source Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Line graph titled Peterson KFF Health System Tracker showing cumulative percent urban change in CPI for medical care and all goods and services from January 2000 to June 2024 with green line for all goods and services rising to 86.1 percent and blue line for medical care rising to 121.3 percent with shaded recession areas and note on medical services outpacing commodities source Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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talmon joseph smith
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ok. different Q. do you trust KFF data or think its tilted toward partisan goals
talmon joseph smith
@talmonsmith
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why is this kff data in scare quotes. why would i doubt your ability to recreate data.

the question at hand is whether the populace is insufficiently grateful for the material progress made by the ACA or 15 years later understandably not.
Sky Marchini
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then why were you asking me if I trust KFF data? what is happening here
talmon joseph smith
@talmonsmith
the chart i originally posted is from that source. the price data is from it. its in Abundance. It was predicted by Confidence Men, a fantastic piece of reporting by a wsj reporter. so whats happening here is up to you.
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google search for Ron Suskind Confidence Man "healthcare"

AI Overview

In his 2011 book Confidence Men, Ron Suskind addresses healthcare in the context of the early Obama administration, arguing that the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a missed opportunity. He contends that the administration failed to use the crisis environment of the time to push for a more aggressive, systemic reform of the healthcare delivery system and costs.

Key points regarding healthcare in Confidence Men:

Political distraction: Suskind reports that many of President Obama’s aides were concerned that pursuing healthcare reform would overextend the administration, which was already focused on the 2008 financial crisis and broader financial regulatory reform.

Compromised legislation: He portrays the final ACA legislation as a watered-down version of what was possible, arguing it did not go far enough to restrain costs or reform the medical system itself.

Squandered opportunity: In Suskind’s view, the administration could have leveraged the public’s sense of urgency in 2009 to demand greater concessions from the healthcare industry. He suggests this was a missed chance to enact more fundamental changes to the system.

Lost momentum: Suskind claims that once the healthcare and banking industries observed the Obama White House up close, they found it possible to exploit the administration’s “human frailties.” According to him, this led to a loss of momentum as the industries pushed back against stronger reforms.

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jlp2024.bsky.social @jlp2024.bsky.social · 5h

I learn a lot from him. Very informative and curious guy

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 10h

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Original photo from post showing a well dressed man with a blazer, hat and umbrella standing next to police. I have helpfully circled the man on the photo and drawn arrows pointing at him to help law enforcement

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 6h

it seems like there's this meme that is pretty specific to the Times (Klein repeats it a lot in his podcast with Coates) that the 2024 election was not just another loss but a sign that liberal politics can't win. this seems not borne out by the facts, to put it mildly.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

talmon joseph smith
@talmonsmith
web posses of partisanDems saying 'don't believe these simple factual data/charts, look at the context of this other reality we believe & realize that people have it better than they understand' is the sort of attitude that led to a 2024 multiracialworkingclass asswhooping

so ok
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wint
@dril
and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
11:42 PM · Dec 28, 2014

https://x.com/dril/status/549425182767861760?lang=en

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jlp2024.bsky.social @jlp2024.bsky.social · 6h

Joe W is actually is quite good though in contrast

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · Sep 16

full disclosure: I've beefed with talmon for a while now because he's an economics reporter at the NYT with no training in the subject (and frankly, no knowledge of it despite years writing about it) and has, among other things, literally told *actual economists* that vibes matter more than data

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talmon joseph smith
@talmonsmith
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wildest thing about the vibecession discourse (besides @kylascan
inexplicably getting less credit for coining it in some spaces as its become a bigger phenomenon) is that it ignores how youths* were also dissatisfied in 2019 when cpi inflation was low. problems are structural.
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How the Fed Navigates Uncertainty through Lovebombing
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Is this true? Not really seeing it in the sentiment data.
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talmon joseph smith
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as somebody that was 24 when the pandemic hit i can assure you sir that vibes were somewhat off and we weren't cheering soft cpi prints lol
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