I've often felt that I missed my calling by not becoming a comedy writer. In fact, my dissertation advisor told me that many times.
Steve Metz
@stevemetz.bsky.social
Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
So 35% of people with graduate degrees don't consider character, competence or respect for the Constitution important. It's sickening.
Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · last yr.Just going to uhh...post this here before anyone says Asians voted for this and are FAFOing
My Carolina BBQ pilgrimage begins. This is Wilber's in Goldsboro NC. Big after church crowd.
I deeply regret that I began contributing to the Fetterman campaign the day he declared. What a tragic disappointment.
Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · last yr.John Fetterman: Trump is absolutely winning the trade war. I'm a huge fan of Bill Maher, he's one of the oracles for the Democratic Party. He thought that the tariffs we're going to tank the economy, and he acknowledged that they didn't.
Trump's trade war probably qualifies as the greatest madness in economic policy in a developed country after WWII: 1. All decisions are made by one single person (Trump). 2. No principles are applied. 3. No economic rationale or theory. 4. All is based on Trump's emotions. /1
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.
Newsmax becomes the pro-pedophilia network to demonstrate fealty to Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "There's something else going on here. It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden DOJ."
Kewl! Pharmaceutical firms will pay consumers to take the drugs off their hands.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."
We are pleased to report from the new MAGA Patriotic Bureau of Labor Statistics that thanks to Leader Trump employment is up 10 million jobs for the month of August.”
This is how democracies die. Step 1: Dislike the facts. Step 2: Attack the fact-finders. Step 3: Replace them with loyalists. Step 4: Control the "truth."
Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. #econsky
Like the inflation statistics. And the flying monkeys in the congressional GOP are probably filled with glee.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.As virtually everyone else has now said, the jobs data going forward will be more or less meaningless
the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last yr.Breaking Bloomberg: The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files. "An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Trump and his toadies like Patel and Gabbard are about a week away from claiming Durham was a "extreme leftist "
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last yr.
Preparing an alibi for when his bumbling incompetence causes the economy to crash. In typical juvenile fashion.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · last yr.Smithsonian's American History museum does a White House "content review" then rewrites history, removing Trump's impeachments. A spokesperson says "it became clear that the ‘Limits of Presidential Power’ section ... needed to be addressed" wapo.st/3HhfyxU @janaykingsberry.bsky.social
Leavitt pivots from claiming that Trump doesn't support elected officials "ripping off their constituents" by profiting from their public service to fielding a question about Trump's plan to host the G20 at Trump Doral
I'm looking for a motorcycle horn that sounds like Judge Judy's voice. That would make even dead animals get out of the way.
The US is at risk of losing the competition with China — mainly because of what it is doing to itself. On science, technology, research, and immigration, the Trump administration is shooting itself not just in the foot, but in the head. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
The United States and China are in a race. Who is winning?
The US is at risk of losing the race mainly because it is shooting itself not just in the foot, but in the head.
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