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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 31m

Judicial deference for the guy who keeps promising 1500% discounts, please.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1h

It took a commercial break to enforce “the rules,” but it’s good it happened. Once.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 2h

At least there’s now one segment in which the TV hosts do not treat the designated Republican as an important truth-teller.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 1h

She point to numbers from BLS.

I don’t know where she’s getting stats from.

I just told you, mere microseconds ago.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

BREAM: Federal workers in Virginia lost jobs bc of DOGE. Your opponent points out unemployment is up under Youngkin/Sears

EARLE-SEARS: Actually unemployment is down

B: She points to numbers from BLS showing unemployment is up. Do you quibble w/data?

S: I don't know where she's getting stats from

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think I’ve seen that one. Unfortunately I’ve been in the room when the New Orleans one has been on the screen, and in that one, if you saw a Popeye cartoon as a kid, NCIS has jurisdiction. And they’ll shoot somebody.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 2h

Also, now that you’ve dropped out, you’re without the key qualification that will allow you to easily switch jobs if you later come to understand that your boss is a maniac idiot.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 2h

Isn’t everybody onboarded to work for him under his grant program is REQUIRED to drop out of college?

Seems like a way to guarantee the perpetuation of the situation.

ceej @ceej.online · 3h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 2h

At least there’s now one segment in which the TV hosts do not treat the designated Republican as an important truth-teller.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 3h

The Emperor is forcing the invisible hand of “the market” down the front of his invisible new pants.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has expropriated TikTok U.S. (banned under the law) and is now on the verge of forcing its sale at a below-market price to cronies of his choosing. What could go wrong? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been wondering why the New Orleans NCIS office personnel are discharging their weapons every single day on the job.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 3h

Trump forces the invisible hand down his invisible pants.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 3h

Something, something, picking winners and losers or whatever.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has expropriated TikTok U.S. (banned under the law) and is now on the verge of forcing its sale at a below-market price to cronies of his choosing. What could go wrong? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 13h

9/11 gave an unpopular/illegitimate president 90% approval ratings, and he knows it.

Plus, this time he’ll want to say Antifa was an accomplice.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 17h

Trump and paperwork, man.™️ I’m tellin’ ya!

#TrumpAndPaperworkMan

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 17h

Buy ‘em, rig ‘em, try to steal an election with ‘em, and if you get caught, you can say, “See? We TOLD you those things were rigged! And you said we were crazy!”

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 18h

I mean good god there’s nothing wealth won’t destroy uk.news.yahoo.com/republican-b...

Republican Buys 2020 Voting Firm and Gives it MAGA Makeover

A former Republican election official and GOP donor has purchased Dominion Voting Systems, stating the acquisition will be pivotal in “restoring trust in our elections.” Dominion was central to Presid...

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 18h

Sounds bad, Jesus-wise.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 18h

Look, people meet ends. It happens. 🤷‍♂️

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 18h

This was in my annual government ethics training! It’s not allowed, but you know…🤷🏻‍♂️

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22h

Meritocracy www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19h

Meanwhile, 19-year-old Barron Trump will magically end up on the board of directors of TikTok.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Letitia James
Indictment
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Timeline of Conflict
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20h

And if you’re thinking of a solar powered version, think again! What will you do when the sun isn’t shining and you need to clean up where the sun don’t shine?

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 21h

#GunFAIL (in the tornado capital of Maryland)

SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 21h

Our NRA World: Maryland gunslinger shoots himself in the hand at a gun range. It happens.

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At Myrtle Grove Shooting Range In La Plata - The BayNet

LA PLATA, Md. — A man in his 60s was taken to a Baltimore hospital Friday morning, October 10, 2025, after accidentally shooting himself in the hand at the Myrtle Grove Shooting Range in La Plata. The...

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 21h

Critics say it’s a gigantic crime, right in everybody’s faces. Critics of critics say it is not. It depends on the narrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 21h

We have barely even sniffed around the insider trading crimes of the WH and its friends

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 22h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 21h

Lost custody of your kids during your divorce because of your domestic violence conviction?

Join ICE, mask up & take ‘em back!

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 23h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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