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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

Real estate bubble under Bush. AI bubble under Trump.
It's kinda discombobulated. You'd expect a real estate bubble under Trump. Can't the writers get anything straight?

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 4h

"Oh, and by the way, the AI sector, which increasingly rests on OpenAI’s shoulders, is holding up the U.S. economy, with 80 percent of stock market gains in 2025 attributable to AI spending." prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

🧵There's an ideological component, to be sure. But how many times do we need to be reminded the personal is political?

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 10h

What really pisses me off about the Dem gerontocracy more than anything is that it's a shitty personal value system. Whenever I used to hold petty party offices when I lived in California, I was always looking for good replacements because I knew I wasn't going to be in that position forever. 1/x

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Lorraine Berry @lorraineberry.bsky.social · 10h

Clark County is across the Columbia River and in an adjacent state.
Why was she not taken to Multnomah County Jail?
What’s up with Sheriff John Horch?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

For real! If she were 20 years younger & had a credible future as a powerful senate figure, it'd make sense. But as is, it's just flatout bullshit. It makes no sense from a Politics 101 POV.

Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 7h

the 'janet mills running for senate' thing is less about her choosing to run and more about Schumer etc. pushing it hard. Not that she is like Cuomo, but it is like Cuomo in the sense of "is this the best the powers that be could come up with?"

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Brendancalling @brendancalling.bsky.social · 6h

Let’s make it so big they shit diapers

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

Meanwhile, on main street:

Chart of domestic & imported prices showing downward trend till Jan 2025, going flat, then rising since April

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 4h

See:

JD Vance literally REFUSING TO CONDEMN their contemptible speech.

ALL 2900 PAGES OF IT.

No, he chose to WHATABOUT a Dem's two-year old passionate utterance of "he should get two bullets to the head" about a scumbag.

FALSE EQUIVALENCE doesn't BEGIN....

www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-res...

JD Vance blasted for response to Young Republicans group chat

The leaked messages have compounded worries about toxic political discourse spawning violence.

www.newsweek.com

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 4h

Nope.

This isn't the "absolute worst stereotype" of young Republicans and Trump supporters.

The ABSOLUTE WORST stereotype involves real guns & lynchings & passionate support of bigots & rapists & murderers.

And you know where stereotypes begin.

THESE young Republicans are the fucking BASELINE.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21h

These young Republicans are exactly what you would think young Republicans are like if you believed the absolute worst stereotype of young Republicans and Trump supporters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

Nuzzi is in the club and when you’re in the club the other club members boost you no matter what

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 12h

I don't understand what it is about Olivia Nuzzi that makes people think "Olivia Nuzzi should continue to attempt to use language to convey ideas," much less "...and I should pay her to do it."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

They used to turn out grifters & saboteurs like Roger Stone & Jack Abramoff. Now they're turning out groyper ground troops.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

Young Republicans have always been racist and sexist, but they haven't always been full-on groypers. It's the difference between having prejudices and making them your entire personality and politics.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3h

8. Trump is ineligible to President under the 14th Amendment, no matter WHAT the criminal Supreme Court says.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 17h

These strikes are illegal for about 7 reasons:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Occurred in int'l waters
5. No open state of hostilities
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people killed or group targeted

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 3h

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Commentary: Corporate tax breaks are exploding the federal deficit, but who gets the benefits?

Business tax breaks cut federal revenues by $77 billion this year, fattening the pockets of rich corporate insiders.

www.latimes.com

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Mike Sisak @mikesisak.bsky.social · 10h

Beating Oregon and the First Amendment all in the same week!

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3h

He hasn't seen ALL the frogs!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3h

Germany: Many little Hitlers.
America: Many little Trumps.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine a social positioning in which you believe sniping passive-aggressively at a 20–year–old is a more mature response than owning up to doing a bad thing. Imagine being such a pathetic excuse for a leader.

Solidarity to the Indiana Daily Student staff & to student leaders everywhere. /fin

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 13h

" ... Rodenbush passed on guidance from the Media School administration that the IDS's print publication should solely focus on a special theme, such as homecoming or fall sports, and contain 'no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage.'"

Story time! 1/

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 3h

"Mask off," but without much of a mask.

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3h

The notion that the use of race by the criminal punishment system is fairly unproblematic but the use of race in the service of addressing inequality is highly suspect has been dominant at the Supreme Court for decades. The current court has taken this to new extremes.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 13h

Jack Smith pointed out something important in his comments. Re: Roberts' reasoning in the immunity case Smith points out that the problem w/his logic is that he's worried about presidents being afraid to do their jobs for fear of retribution when the real problem is the one who seeks retribution.Yup

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 13h

Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 13h

The beauty is that full names are attached to these Telegram chats; they were concerned about leaks and did it anyway. Claiming "altered" or "it's out of context"= AUTOFAIL.

When bottom-feeder *Roger Stone disowns you* in that Politico piece (is.gd/dEORKz) you're cooked.

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Long Beach Indivisible @indivisiblelb.bsky.social · 13h

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

@rweingarten.bsky.social, please cancel the @aft.org's partnership with this terrible company. They cannot be trusted to keep this away from products they offer children.

404 Media @404media.co · 18h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h

The "he looked at me cross-eyed" standard!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 17h

"The error that many bargaining teams make is not reviewing the cost of living each of the previous five years. Because of extreme inflation during the last five years, minimum increases of as much as 10% may be needed to restore purchasing power." labornotes.org/2025/10/bigg...

The Biggest Bargaining Mistake Unions Are Making in 2025

When unions get ready for bargaining, we tend to look at the wage scale in our existing contract and think something like, “Let’s open with a proposal for a 5 percent raise every year, and maybe event...

labornotes.org

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