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History and Law. Not very interesting.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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That's okay. If the tariffs don't fully close the budget gap, they can just use the tariffs to pay for it. Also to pay for tariff "rebate" checks to everyone. Also to pay for subsidies to farmers who were screwed by the tariffs. And more! Tariffs are magic! Everybody knows that.
There goes a major talking point:
“.. The new tally leaves tariff savings failing to fully offset Trump’s signature tax-cut law, which the CBO said would add $3.4 trillion to deficits ..”
@bloomberg.com
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“.. The new tally leaves tariff savings failing to fully offset Trump’s signature tax-cut law, which the CBO said would add $3.4 trillion to deficits ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
That's okay. If the tariffs don't fully close the budget gap, they can just use the tariffs to pay for it. Also to pay for tariff "rebate" checks to everyone. Also to pay for subsidies to farmers who were screwed by the tariffs. And more! Tariffs are magic! Everybody knows that.
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This segment is so so good. Truly no one out there uses his platform like John Oliver
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This segment is so so good. Truly no one out there uses his platform like John Oliver
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Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
January 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
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He did the crimes, Senate and SCOTUS Republicans let him get away with them, he got reelected, Senate Republicans let him appoint his personal lawyers to run DOJ, and now he’s ordering his personal lawyers who run DOJ to give him $230 million of your money.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
He did the crimes, Senate and SCOTUS Republicans let him get away with them, he got reelected, Senate Republicans let him appoint his personal lawyers to run DOJ, and now he’s ordering his personal lawyers who run DOJ to give him $230 million of your money.
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!
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Doctors and nurses and scientists — people who’ve dedicated their lives to advancing public health — are befuddled, stymied, and demoralized by the Trump administration’s extra-constitutional determination to stop American medical research in its tracks.
October 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Doctors and nurses and scientists — people who’ve dedicated their lives to advancing public health — are befuddled, stymied, and demoralized by the Trump administration’s extra-constitutional determination to stop American medical research in its tracks.
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It’s about time some red state governors said this!
October 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It’s about time some red state governors said this!
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They’re getting exactly what they voted for in 2024.
SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill
FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
They’re getting exactly what they voted for in 2024.
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OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:
I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:
I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
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What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.
October 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.
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once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says
supreme court please stunt on these people and allow Trump to nuke their finances
September 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says
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By coincidence I am teaching Civil War grand strategy today and I have never heard even the most callow disengaged undergraduate say something as fucking stupid as that below
September 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
By coincidence I am teaching Civil War grand strategy today and I have never heard even the most callow disengaged undergraduate say something as fucking stupid as that below
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This soundbite pretty much captures what it's like living in this moment in history
TRUMP: That's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money
KARL: A judge just threw that out
TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.
KARL: A judge just threw that out
TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.
September 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This soundbite pretty much captures what it's like living in this moment in history
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Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
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they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice
I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.
September 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice
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Will they listen to pleas for decency? Will they accept new information that challenges their narrative. Spoiler alert: No.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Will They Listen?
Reality checks and a plea for sanity
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September 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Will they listen to pleas for decency? Will they accept new information that challenges their narrative. Spoiler alert: No.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Most of the people I know are actively angry at him for numerous reasons and would greatly prefer he disappear from the stage entirely. Have at it!
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
September 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Most of the people I know are actively angry at him for numerous reasons and would greatly prefer he disappear from the stage entirely. Have at it!