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Kyle Weidleman
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Dad. Dog dad. Union man. pfp 🖋️ @atlastalos.bsky.social
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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those movies lean into the idea that Spider-Man is a working class superhero whose real enemy is making rent
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Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended
Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A
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ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.

Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.

Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.
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You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.
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2 reasons some are surprised: Victorian essentialism that imagines women in rightwing marriages must be captives (see the *years* of "free Melania"); conflation of talent w/ morality (& morality w/ good politics.) Hines is a great comic actor, w/ very ugly politics, doing real damage in the world.
Here she is.

Tucker Carlson: “If the vaccine is effective and you take it, then why does it matter if I take it?”
Cheryl Hines: “It doesn’t make any sense.”
Tucker: “So ‘my body, my choice’ was not a real thing, it turned out.”
“It’s your body, my choice.”
Cheryl: “Yeah, your body, my choice.”
lol
(to be fair this was a reply to a DNC begging-for-donation text)
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You know how you could trick me, a bartender, into giving you a free drink? Not being a sociopath. I gave free drinks to nice people every shift, man.
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If you're considering a run for president in 2028 your highest priority needs to be fighting to ensure that the midterm election is free and fair.

There's no 2028 without a legitimate 2026 where the results are respected. Something I pray that everyone with presidental ambitions understands.
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The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.

(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
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This was a punchline 15 years ago and now it’s a third of the electorate
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Rest in peace, Nick Mangold. 41 is too damn young.

Will carry on love for the Buckeyes, Jets and Tottenham Hotspur in my heart too.
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Nick Mangold, former NY Jets star center, died at 41 from a kidney disease.

He was a Phish fan. But also MAGA; he supported Trump and last month angrily posted that he was “disgusted” that Madison, NJ didn’t put the flag atop town hall at half mast for Kirk.

www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Nick Mangold dies at 41
Mangold had been in need of a kidney transplant.
www.nbcsports.com
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this is exactly what's happening
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
I don’t think either of the Kelce Bros are MAGA either, tbh
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A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
Terrible public policy but amazing pastoral work.
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.