Caliphate Pontificus
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"Your the reason this country is going to a Socialistic nation"—Some dumb right-winger
I'll keep saying this: There's a reason why many on the right considered Bill Clinton the greatest Republican president. For too long the Democratic party has been content to be "GOP-lite", the Pepsi to the Republican Coke--flying in the face of their left leaning progressive base. #cspan #cspanwj
chrislehmann@chrislehmann.bsky.social · 11h agoThe DNC dithers on: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Google on hook for $44bn if leases go bad, but marks liability at $815m on its balance sheet. "There’s a whole world underneath ai companies, if their appetite to invest decreases, all of it sees a slowdown,” said Petersen. “That’s the big macro risk.”" #cspan #cspanwj www.ft.com/content/549f...
Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic
Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending
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Trump’s handlers gave the rapidly declining potus some fun little development projects, and even those have been a clusterf*ck. #cspan #cspanwj
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d agoScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
Trump’s handlers gave the rapidly declining potus some fun little development projects, and even those have been a clusterf*ck. #cspan #cspanwj
Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social · 2d agoThe failure here is not dismissing the charges. The failure was bringing politically motivated charges and abusing the power of the Justice Department in the first place.  www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
"Prediction markets" are to gambling as "Influencer" is to propagandist. #cspan #cspanwj
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3d agoThis is why MAGA podcasters are jumping ship. They’re losing millions of viewers. For years, they built audiences by promising America First, no new wars, and economic prosperity. Then Trump gave them inflation, higher gas prices, and a war with Iran.
Nonsensical gold: Fasulo rejects solar, but doesn't accept fossil fuels drive warming. When asked, “I’d like to stick to speaking about solar” But they are the reason for solar builds she fiercely opposes. “Do you believe fossil fuels cause #AGW?” She did not answer the question. #cspan #cspanwj
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3d agocredit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe...
The real "Weaponization of government". #cspan #cspanwj
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Obligatory old post: bsky.app/profile/mona... #cspan #cspanwj
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
If the journalists covering Elon Musk are not reading the numerous interviews of David Duke in the late 70s, early 80s then they are doing a disservice to their profession. Musk and Duke's sentiments are nearly identical. Attached from David Duke in 1980. (Interviewer Michael Bane.) #cspan #cspanwj
Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2w agoListening to @zannymb.economist.com interview Elon Musk and she’s just (smartly) reading him his tweets and he’s denying it.
"On X, Rand Paul posted an AI-generated image of a pastel-sweater-clad Fauci lying on his stomach on a purple shag carpet, poring over a unicorn-themed diary." Ah yes, a very serious, very good faith inquiry by a sitting senator whose kookoo dad named him for Ayn Rand. #cspan #cspanwj #covid
Kiera Butler@kieraevebutler.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the inevitable conspiracy theories being spun up around Fauci's diary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Healthcare, or lack thereof, in these United (for now) States: #cspan #cspanwj
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
#todayRightwing. Political violence calls at highest levels. #cspan #cspanwj
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
Trump administration admits political weaponization of government. #cspan #cspanwj
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Healthcare, or lack thereof, in these United (for now) States: About 25% stay with their crappy job just for the access to healthcare. AKA "Job lock". www.npr.org/2026/07/22/n... #cspan #cspanwj
Staying in a job for the health insurance? About 1 in 4 Americans do, a survey says
About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. econo...
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Breaking "transgender a danger to children" news! #cspan #cspanwj
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w agoNEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
From those dirty hippie flower power folks over at um, checks notes, CATO. #cspan #cspanwj #election2026
Walter Olson@walterolson.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump and Mullin are laying the rhetorical groundwork to indict or even arrest state and local election administrators who ignore White House voter-purge demands -- even though the federal government has no clear authority to make those demands. New from me at Cato.
100 years of #rightWingLogic: 1917: "Women's suffrage IS Socialism!" 1934: "Social Security IS Socialism!" 1959: "Race mixing IS Socialism!" 1965: "Medicare/aid IS Socialism!" 2009: "Same sex marriage IS Socialism!" 2010: "ACA IS Socialism!" #cspan #cspanwj
Aea has more about the blind eye being turned on white collar corporate criminality: bsky.app/profile/cspa... #cspan #cspanwj
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w agoIf it's the sort of white collar crime that Donald Trump and his cronies routinely commit, then Todd Blanche is not allowing it to be prosecuted. It's pretty simple, actually. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
For fascism, there are no facts or truths—only “opinions,” which are seen equally ideological, no matter their factual content. There is no better argument or logic they will accept. Any dialogue will result in their response doing more finger pointing and being more histrionic. #cspan #cspanwj
Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · 2w agoIt does feel pretty rich that the President of the United States can spend months calling for us to be annexed, hammering us with tariffs etc. (to general indifference or reactions that treat it like a joke) but Canadians losing patience is treated as an unreasonable betrayal.
Public funding of private organizations. Corporate welfare. @ohiocapitaljournal.com #cspan #cspanwj
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoA group that advocates for private school funding programs estimated that last year, states allocated $10.6B to these programs, up 29%. One company encouraged churches to tap into public funds, calling them "God's new gold mine."
Remember my mantra on capital markets: The institutional proclivity is to feed the quacking ducks until they choke. 🦆🦆🦆
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago“.. 900mn further SpaceX shares could become available to trade as soon as next month .. “.. ‘[SpaceX] could announce that they’ve conquered the moon and found gold inside it and there still wouldn’t be enough money out there to buy the stock.’” @financialtimes.com $SPCX www.ft.com/content/2b96...
Draining the swamp, huh? Trump taking all the bribes, or some very unprecedented fundraising for a guy where running again is illegal. No surprise: Donors are crypto, oil, military. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... #cspan #cspanwj
The Mystery Money Powering Trump’s Second Term
The president and his allies have built a network of groups financed by wealthy donors and businesses that is advancing his priorities with little public disclosure.
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Healthcare, or lack thereof, in these United (for now) States: Economists did a study looking at plasma donation facilities where donors are paid. They find in regions where paid plasma donation becomes available, payday lending goes down. #cspan #cspanwj
Al Roth@alroth.bsky.social · 3w agoI discussed healthcare with Drs Wendy Dean and Matt Ramsey, ranging from health care markets described in Moral Economics, to the experiments on trust in medicine conducted by Marcella Alsan And there's a transcript. #econsky #medsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/is-h...
The cruelty is the point. Trump signed his big tax and spending bill into law on July 4, 2025. The new law makes it harder to qualify for programs like SNAP. Some states are already seeing dramatic declines in enrollment as they implement the changes in the law. [Marketplace.org] #cspan #cspanwj
In These Times@inthesetimes.com · 3w agoNearly half a million people in Arizona have already lost SNAP benefits. In Illinois, 150,000 have lost eligibility. They and the farmers who fed them, @danaka.bsky.social writes, will still be expected to finance a $1.5 trillion war budget.
