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If you wanted to hear an old-school Republican in Florida Tuesday night, you had to go to a Democratic victory party. David Jolly talked about free markets, lean government and individual liberty. Big tent. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Why David Jolly’s Win Matters Regardless of What Happens In November
Florida remains a steep climb, but his nomination has already shown how a broader pro-democracy coalition can work.
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This is unacceptable—but it’s also insufficient to *merely* call it unacceptable. It takes an act of absolute fucking gall—bordering on clinical malignant narcissism—to think you deserve to be a leader of others when you’ve done *zero* work to prepare yourself for the responsibility. Shame on her.
“Family values” now includes family audit immunity, folks. These are the people who tried to make you mad about Hunter Biden. This is a good read by John Fugelsang.
A Busy Weekend, for Unserious Men, Unfit for Office
We grew up with the GOP screaming about character. I have a few follow-up questions about their party’s hiring practices.
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"We are adults who respect the rule of law and the Constitution, can run the country and will get you back to work in good-paying jobs while bringing down prices and trying to make life affordable. Also we are not far-left lunatics."
Sean Mills@seanmills1020.bsky.social · last mo.What should the messaging be for Democratic candidates to win back enough swing voters?
Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win. But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
Trump traveled all the way to South Dakota to read a half-baked red scare speech straight out of 1950
Trump and his allies lambasted Obama’s Iran nuclear deal for a decade. Yet their proposed deal is objectively weaker than the JCPOA: fewer conditions, more money for Iran, and less nuclear oversight. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
I haven't been this impressed with a candidate in a l-o-n-g time. If @jamestalarico.bsky.social is the future of the Democratic Party, we are in VERY good shape.
James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
No better way to close things out than Alicia Keys performing “Empire State of Mind” 💙🧡 #nyknicks
The MSM is terminally stupid. The big news today is that retail sales are "robust", jumping 0.9% month-over-month in May, above forecasts of 0.5%. A search by category shows the biggest bulk of higher spending came at gas stations. This is not good, unless your name is Chevron. #EconSky
RBADVISERS: “.. Sorry folks, it ain’t just the war. The SuperCore PPI (i.e., no food, energy or trade) has been accelerating for 11 months.”
NBA is rigged! when Spurs had 29 point lead the game should have been immediately stopped and Spurs declared winner. Instead officials decides to play "4th quarter?" and Knicks "somehow" score enough baskets to win. Fraud!
It's easy to shrug off the idiots claiming that the incredibly accomplished politician Spencer Pratt was cheated out of a rightful win in Los Angeles. But they're going to make these same claims in November, so we need to carpet bomb this conspiracy out of existence right now.
Tom Clark@tomsclark.bsky.social · 3mo agoListen, the fact that the GOP is freaking out that Spencer Pratt didn't win is a VERY bad sign for November. And the fact that they're willing to claim fraud and say the evidence is the lack of evidence, makes it even scarier.
Psaki: What are you hearing from your former colleagues about what's happening inside CBS right now? MacFarlane: I'm hearing an acceleration of concern about the future, not just of CBS news, but of linear legacy broadcast media
I just don’t understand why he’s so easily allowed to destroy the White House??? Who are these companies working without a permit and why aren’t we arresting them for destruction of property????
Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
The brave student said … what a room full of high-level journalists would not….. youtube.com/shorts/a7vpG...
Student Emmy winner REACTS to his viral speech that stunned the world of corporate media
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoBezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."
There is no way the republicans would be anything less that outraged if Obama had taken almost $2 billion of taxpayer dollars and given it to people he pardoned for trying to steal an election. Every republican in congress who doesn’t speak up and prevent this is complicit
"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...
Opinion | CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert
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The Intel chair hasn’t read the treaty. If he had, he’d know there’s only been one time NATO was required to help the U.S. and that was after 9/11. And they did.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoIntelligence Chair Crawford: "It's in our interest to revisit the construct of NATO and say, 'How does this work for us?' Because when we need help from NATO, by and large they aren't there. Whereas when they need our help, we're there to do the heavy lifting, and I think POTUS has recognized that."
Trump has made more money off the presidency than every other president has combined in the last 230+ years.
🔥 Trump’s Freedom 250 website uses stories from everyday Americans — who don’t exist, Karen Park found. How AI-generated founders, invented citizens, and synthetic patriotism are constructing a digital Christian nationalist fantasy. open.substack.com/pub/kareneli...
The Fake Americans of Freedom 250
How AI-generated founders, invented citizens, and synthetic patriotism are constructing a digital Christian nationalist fantasy.
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When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
Donald Trump’s Iran war is ripping across the US economy at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in lost output, as soaring fuel prices, rising borrowing costs and supply chain snags erode Americans’ prosperity. ft.trib.al/UBrpxHz
Trump on Xi Jinping: "He's a great gentleman. I find him to be an amazing man. And when I say that the press always says, 'Oh, that's terrible'…Well, you know, he runs 1.4 billion people with a pretty iron fist."
Every journalist should be asking what the hell is going on with this guy's health that they aren't telling us.
