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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 1h

Perhaps tariffs and juiced stocks resolve this discrepancy. Would perhaps explain why spending and wage data among lower income is holding up while sentiment (UMich) and account balances (BOA) show a growing rich/poor divide. Thoughts?

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 12h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 3d

Follow up for the admin:

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 4d

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 4d

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 7d

Oh come on...

dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 11d

How do you reconcile your takes that he should not be commended for taking liberal positions as a Democrat but then also arguing he is a conservative, and American conservativism falls squarely on the right wing of the Democratic Party?

The second take seems like nonsense.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 12d

The same administration that posts website landing pages and out of office messages specifically blaming Democrats for the shutdown considers an employee’s display of a desk flag a year ago, before Trump took office, to be objectionably political.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 12d

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
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Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag

The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 13d

Especially when you consider the insane NFL tiebreaker procedures.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13d

My daughter has been riding the subway since she was 5 and she loves it because she isn't a scared loser like McClains daughter

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 13d

Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:

"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."

[Her daughter is 22]

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 14d

Can that gender split be accurate?

dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 14d

Democrats also did this. The judicial filibuster is long gone.

dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 14d

Ya as is always true! The filibuster is a norm that can be broken at any time. Again, in 2013 this happened exactly!

dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 14d

This is not exactly accurate. They do need Dem votes to avoid the shutdown. If Dems controlled everything, and GOP withheld Senate support (as has happened in 2013!), I'll bet we would object to a headline saying it was exclusively a Democratic shutdown.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 15d

Minkah was awful last year too. Don't know why it happened, maybe the injuries the year before, but he seems to have lost it.

dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 16d

*reviles* Trump that should say.

dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 16d

Agree. And part of it is that the coastal, pundit class is reviled by Trump and therefore think that his 45% ish popularity *must* be do to some colossal failure of the Democratic Party. They fail to see that for those 45%....the authoritarianism is liked or at least accepted.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 17d

Exactly. I'd love to see the auyhor's "evidence" that the 18% swing in Hispanic margins was people turned off by Liz Cheney. Just ridiculous.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 17d

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 17d

We can and should be critical of reflexive centrists who think the answer to ever electoral loss is more centrism. But desperately seeking to argue (without evidence) that optimal electoral strategy should be basically this individual's policy (leftist) preferences... is no better & not productive.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 17d

How can we read the first half of this paragraph and think this is an excellent piece? The second half of the paragraph is correct, but the leftist ranting in the first half is evidence-free itself! Plus no nod to Biden's pro union policies? Abundance is the product of "Billionaires"? Come on.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18d

/2 HEGSETH: NOBODY tells a warrior "hey ease up" or "haven't you had enough" or "must you vomit into my handbag"
GENERALS: [eerie silence, cough, creak of chair]
HEGSETH: and NOBODY tells a warrior how to keep his women in order or how to chase tail
GENERALS: ....
HEGSETH: NOT. EVEN. MOTHER.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 23d

Agree with all of that. Just wish for the country's sake, he had gotten his way and wiggled out of it.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 24d

Although tbf, he tried as hard as he could to get out of the deal and NOT buy Twitter due to him making a bad deal, and was eventually forced to buy in Court. It's such horrible irony that he ends up losing money on this thing he didn't end up wanting....but damaged the country in the process.

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dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 25d

Not sure how you square your acknowledgement that Trump's infamous comment on shooting someone on Fifth Ave and not losing voters was "right" with you being "reasonably sure" Democrats will win the next presidential election...

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