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Michael Mathog
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I like lilies.
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This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Twitter was a real source of news, truly the instant global newspaper. We’d get fast expert perspective on today’s shooting. You could separate the out the noise. It’s all gone, Elon ruined a terrific public resource.
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nancy Pelosi and Christina Romer could have combined to be the most consequential economic policymakers of the 21st century alleviating all suffering, but (woman-hater) Larry Summers bodyblocked Romer.

Even worse, they and Dems still wouldn’t landslide elections.
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Imagine going through life like this
what?
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.

RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Secretly negotiating with the Russians to deliver them a wish list peace plan sounds more like sedition than asking soldiers to follow Constitutional law.
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Carville the original Pod Save bro (spuriously correlates the success of the generational political talent he latched on to with his professional advice).
fwiw, what Carville wants is a populist economic message that he believes will magically win over white male voters. He wants everyone else to shut up about their concerns and vote D out of desperation since Rs are worse. 1
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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"device hoarding" is a phrase that would have made my grandparents become the Joker
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.

I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Both 1978 & 2004’s Battlestar Galactica, by Neil Davies.

"All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again."
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
David Leonhardt didn’t know that Cory Booker couldn’t leave the Senate floor during his 25 hour marathon.

These political media people are just ignorant idiotic goons.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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BREAKING:

A judge has dismissed the criminal case against James Comey without prejudice. Rules Lindsey Halligan has been invalidly appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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We should try to avoid explicitly converting the hedonic treadmill into a policy metric, imo
by definition we should expect half of people to be living a below average lifestyle

if your absolute minimum quality of life is defined as "a comfortable average lifestyle" then you've mathematically guaranteed that half of the population will always be in poverty
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Montreal Quebec
Come see the building
It’s even better in person
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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A non-negotiable part of Woke 2, and destroying elite impunity, is that you stop overlooking silly little things like this
Just want to remind everyone that Mike Flynn told a crowd of rabid QAnon troglodytes in no uncertain terms that the military should conduct a coup in order to reinstall Trump as an unelected dictator, and he never once was subject to the penalties that the UCMJ demands for that sort of thing
latest sham investigation just dropped
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Call your senators. Call your representatives. Demand no war with Venezuela.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM