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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

The research does suggest that competitive primaries hurt the party in high salience races like this one.

I'd bet that it's even bigger when party organizations like the DCCC fundraise for one side in the primary--half of the base will get really mad at that.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15h

It’s all grievance, all the way down

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 17h

They also literally just worked for Zohran!

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

This one was mine, just want that on the record for posterity

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RiderToast, fumbler of the First Bag @ridertoast.bsky.social · 3d

We are literally waiting on the cdc to tell us what bugs some patients have and now they just won’t. So some people in hospitals are gonna die cause of this. That’s all there is to it.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

If you aren’t old enough to remember Jordan play in the 1990s, this is what it was like

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

The restaurants around there are fine but nothing exceptional in terms of cocktails. If you can go a bit north the options are much better in Newton Centre.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

anyone who thinks this is good for israel, in the medium and long term, is not a serious person.

relatedly: best of luck to the next D presidential aspirant who thinks they’ll be able to J Street their way thru the primary. you’ll need it.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

The TACO trade is back baby

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

US stock futures rose more than 1% and oil prices increased after President Trump said he might negotiate a trade deal with China, easing worries about renewed trade conflicts. Meanwhile, Asian markets, including South Korea and Australia, declined as investors stayed cautious

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Next logical move for him is to turn to the occult now that he feels god has forsaken him

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2d

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

He’s bad enough that he will break the trend (Zach Wilson also not looking great on this chance)

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Justin Fields had -10 net passing yards today! Congratulations Bluesky users, we all have more net passing yards than an actual NFL quarterback!

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

*nodding along* So you embrace the Antichrist and it still doesn’t work

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Oh he can definitely run

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

He’s gotta get in line behind Zach Wilson

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s probably far enough into his career that we can say Justin Fields is not good

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Justin Fields is so bad they just let the clock run out rather than risk a pass

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t need vaccines if you can just cast Cure Disease

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Me: D&D stuff isn’t real, clerics don’t actually have powers that come from their gods

Catholic priests in Chicago: We used “Turn Undead” and the ICE ghouls couldn’t come near us

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Morty’s bringing back the precordial thump

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

How is this guy not in a literal coma

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