Haley Stevens got a lot of attention this past week, but what about @crockett.house.gov? People should be mentioning how she handled things
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Writing/Editing formerly for WSJ, BBG and Forbes when it was just a magazine. Allergic to penicillin, hater of raisins.
Maybe if the party built the app and sold it, it would address both of your needs
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3w agoI would spend a small fortune for an app that blocked all Democratic fundraising texts to my phone forever.
Old-fashioned plagiarism is wretched but this is a good point: to commit that sin one had to at least engage with what source material and make an affirmative choice. Still horrid and worthy of opprobrium, but it’s hard to say it’s worse than submitting the work of an anonymized plagiarism machine.
southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3w agoIn my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.
You rarely hear him switch to demon
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "Maybe I won't have a news conference santamataldum"
If Talarico wins it will be amusing to watch Vance swear him in.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoJD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."
This ABC News story about the Trump brothers' investments really made the rounds the other day. Now it's been taken offline. Hmmmm archive.ph/0r8k8
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JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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You'd think the NFL, as part of its campaign to broaden its female audience, might have done some work and workshopped some better, more honest ways to discuss a prominent player with a history of sexually assaulting dozens of women that acknowledge the women's ordeal.
Sarah Spain ✨@sarahspain.com · last mo.I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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I’m a former in-house lawyer for Harvard. During my recent role as DEI Director at UCLA, I fixated my AuDHD brain on digesting, analyzing and memorizing Project 2025. Since then, unfortunately every one of my political predictions has come to pass. P2025 is 55% complete. The last 1/2 is terrifying.
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After the first plane hit and before the second hit, I was on the F train from 4th Ave to Carroll St., a short elevated section in Brooklyn. The conductor made an announcement about it. On the train we all thought it was a small private plane that had gone off course or something like that.
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2mo agoHistory says the 9/11 attacks began at 8:46 a.m.—but that's not how most, from NYC officeworkers to the President, experienced it. Instead, the "attack" begins at 9:03, when we saw the second plane strike. I wrote abt the fascinating 17 minutes in between: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/grap...
It also reminds me of the money Trump raised in Iowa during the 2016 primaries that he said he was giving to veterans but which David Fahrenholt then at the Washington Post showed had not been given to veterans and that Trump probably kept. That was 17 lifetimes ago…
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf this turns out to be true — and given the specificity, it certainly has the ring of truth — it will go down as a Trumpier deal than even his steaks, watches or university
This story about highway guardrails -- yes, highway guardrails -- by @charlesbethea.bsky.social is amazing. It's got tragedy, redemption, and an all-too uncommon bit of successful public policymaking for the public good. I highly recommend it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail
In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them.
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I wish that before Dolly Parton signed off that had some inkling of just how much she was loved and how much she meant to so many people.
genuinely cannot imagine anything like this ever happening again.
I literally lol’ed. My second thought was, did he think Bessent was sending in troops the first time?
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3mo agoReporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'
Fox was the first network to call Arizona in 2020 and withstood a lot of pressure to walk back the call but didn’t.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3mo agoI think a lot of folks here don’t understand that Fox News actually has an excellent polling unit that is well regarded by other media outlets
The second one looks like the portrait Tony Soprano threw in the trash
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3mo agoThese are actual posts.
"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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the very first episode of Mary in America is OUT NOW! it's a conversation with the world's greatest Al Roth, about -- his fave, and actually mine too -- "repugnant markets." kidneys! drugs! sex work! this chat has it all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lEU...
Organs, Sex Work, and Drugs: A Nobel Economist on Why Banning Things Can Backfire
YouTube video by Mary in America
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The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.
Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website
When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…
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This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Bari Weiss’s ace reporter spent a month on this “story.” Bari also held back a 60 Minutes story on ICE because of reasons. Funny how that works
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Who answers for Rama Duwaji's apparent Spotify account?" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard