"Scranton Area Paper Company, Dunder Mifflin, apologizes to valued client. Some companies still know how business is done."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoDefense Secretary Hegseth used his press conference on Trump's war on Iran to browbeat the press & weigh in on CNN's ownership: "More fake news from CNN ... the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better" (Hegseth spent more time attacking media than he did on US casualties)
Good news, but what a child. Putting jobs at risk and making people’s commutes worse all bc he wants his name on a building www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/n...
U.S. Judge Says Trump Cannot Halt Funding for Tunnel Project
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My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
This is what our useless members of congress are concerning themselves with instead of re-opening the govt www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...
GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report | CNN Politics
Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations s...
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Missing here is that Trump himself is the king of taking a nugget of truth and spinning it into a huge conspiracy theory. He basically got a taste of his own medicine this weekend www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/m...
How Trump health conspiracy theories went wild on social media | CNN Business
President Trump’s political success was derived in part by being omnipresent on every screen. So his recent absence from public view provoked all sorts of speculation – fed by social media algorithms ...
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Crime in DC is at a 30-year low. It's not even in top 10 dangerous cities in US. Throughout history, autocrats use a false pretext to impose government control over local law enforcement as a prelude to a more national takeover. That's far more dangerous than the situation he says he is fixing.
People with half a brain will realize this federal takeover of DC is all strongman BS. But it worked during the campaign with those supercuts that suggested all immigrants are coming to murder you, so it's concerning to say the least.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12mo agoSomeone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
seems like you'd have more leverage BEFORE you voted for the bill, given the close vote. what incentive is there to undo things now? that's how you know this is all BS.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Josh Hawley on voting for Trump's bill after he said he wouldn't vote for Medicaid cuts: "When I said I'm gonna vote for the bill, I said, 'Listen, I like a lot of it. I don't like all of it. I'm gonna try to undo the parts I don't like.'"
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
oh good, we're applying the old "two weeks" trick to whether we should go to war with iran 🙃https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-timeline-always-two-weeks-1513302785
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.beyond parody -- Trump, through Karoline Leavitt, announces he'll make his decision about whether to strike Iran "within the next two weeks"
Instead of an old man's take, I had my teenage son watch the WWDC keynote with me and tell what he thought was, and wasn't, cool. via @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/i-w...
I Watched Apple's WWDC With My 14-Year-Old. Here's What Actually Impressed Him
Who needs a focus group when you have a kid in the house?
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the musk-trump meltdown is funny, sure, but there are real consequences to elon's reckless doge bs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people
Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.
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it's almost like yelling about conspiracy theories on a podcast isn't a real job
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard." (Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
fellow reality show grifters
CNN@cnn.com · last yr.President Donald Trump has signed full pardons for imprisoned reality show couple Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2022 for a conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million, according to a White House official. Read more: cnn.it/45rCXX8
we lost $200 million worth of drones in yemen last month, but sure, let's cut funds for food stamps www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.“.. would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...
isn't this guy always wrong? why is he and others like him still on tv as 'experts'?
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.CRAMER on Trump’s Tariffs: “I feel like a sucker.”
we've come to the witch hunt portion of the program
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do this. How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with it. Look, it's all a witch hunt ... I think Signal could be defective to be honest with you."
information about bombing targets, weapons, and attack sequencing apparently isn't classified 🤔 www.pcmag.com/news/trump-o...
Trump Officials: 'War Plans' Signal Chat Didn't Include Classified Information
At a Tuesday hearing, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and DNI Tulsi Gabbard struggle to explain how info about targets, weapons, and attack sequencing is unclassified. Democrats weren't having it.
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Severance finale made me think of when PCMag’s offices shared a floor with Birchbox years ago, and they had a full-on marching band come thru mid-day for some sort of office pep rally
“Lutnick is worth $2.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.”
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last yr.Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
Meta's lawsuit will probably Streisand effect this book to the best-sellers list, but the directive likely came from the top. I'm almost done with it, and it's an interesting insider look, but so far not a ton of new info. Mostly just confirms what we probably all think rich tech execs are like.
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.My question to Meta is, why bother to roll out the cannons to blast this tome? The effort to neutralize the book seems quaint and futile. For one thing, NDAs do not cancel out the first amendment, @stevenlevy.bsky.social writes. On Meta's effort to bury the book, "Careless People."
Elon's companies don't have a great track record when it comes to customer service access www.pcmag.com/news/starlin... wapo.st/3DKAX0I
Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service
Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.
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The negotiating table the Ukrainians were not invited to? (Also, Lindsay Graham will say whatever is necessary to hold on to even a crumb of power)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.JD Vance: "My message to Ukrainians, to President Zelenskyy, is when you've lost Lindsey Graham, that means you need to come to the negotiation table and recognize Donald Trump is the only game in town."
memo to the smug tiktokkers sitting in their cars post-election asking "what rights did you lose, exactly?" www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections
The move is the first time a state has removed a protected class from a state law prohibiting discrimination.
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