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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

The dream!

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

Putting my name in for random class action settlements is the 2020s version of playing the lottery. Still hoping to win big

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

how's everyone spending their $38.36?

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

I just assumed this sentence would end with "I suplexed them" so two points for civility

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

A really bad one called the DSCC

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Janet Mills has jumped into the Maine Senate race against Susan Collins.

Recent polling we did with @ZenithPolls shows that Graham Platner is best positioned to beat Susan Collins, out-performing Mills by 6 points.

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

"It's not that difficult" good lord the entitlement these people feel. Good luck against the oyster farmer

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2d

I would simply not use a national party body to intervene in a primary race and instead build infrastructure for the eventual nominee, trusting the choice of primary voters, but then again I lack the political acumen of people who have steered the party into its lowest ever modern approval rating.

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 1d

Classic lefty hysteria, this is clearly just one guy four times

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 2d

There are 400 people in this country whose wealth needs to be confiscated by the public, followed by new laws and regulations that make it impossible for anyone to become a billionaire ever again. That's the ballgame

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 2d

In media as in politics, retail, healthcare, housing, groceries, entertainment: billionaires charge in, buy everything, ruin it, and abscond. Dealing with consequences is for the rest of us

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 3d

You start to wonder how people like this can even function in adult society and then you remember that's why they became politicians, so they didn't have to

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 3d

I'm starting to think that a system of government in which one of our two parties can't ever be convinced not to horribly abuse and oppress people, unless they themselves experience that exact form of abuse and oppression, is not sustainable

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 3d

they support the fascists and they're not practicing journalism, hope this helps

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 4d

It was right in Ponta Delgada, a local let us inside and I took some bad videos, here's a still looking over the sanctuary from the balcony. No idea what state it's in now, it was not being taken care of when we found it, lots of sforim and even some tefillin rotting on the floor

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 4d

We went like 15 years ago and found an abandoned synagogue

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 5d

Folks.

Everyone in DC is needed in Tuesday.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d

Times headline writers literally do not believe headlines are for saying what the news is; headlines are for showing that the paper is reserving judgment about events and not getting carried away

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 5d

IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Taxes evaded as a percent of taxes owed from a study showing that the 99th wealth percentile and above evade significantly more taxes than everyone else. The richest evade 25% of the taxes they owe on average. The bottom 95% evade less than 3% of their taxes on average. While these data are from Scandinavia, similar patterns are likely in other countries, including the U.S.

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Max Socol @socol.bsky.social · 6d

Nobody outside a microscopic DC media bubble has any idea who Jay Jones is. Seriously

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