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Tom Finch turned to the waitress and said "I'll have one more Alpine before I go to tell Marie the news".

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d ago

Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

“If you don’t know, I asked Abdul a tough question during his last town hall meeting, and it generated a VERY negative news cycle for him,” one member wrote in a Michigan College Republicans GroupMe chat, according to the Daily. “We are going to coordinate questions to ask him and spread out to increase the chances we’re called on. We’re gonna boo him. We’re gonna show everyone that ABDUL IS NOT WELCOME IN THE SENATE.”
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d ago

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last wk.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump

In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

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Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 2w ago

One thing about how Washington "works" is there are legal niceties to observe while paying gobs of money to politically connected people. Quids and Quos are supposed to be connected by at most a wink, not "hey I sent you $300,000 already and you better start delivering"

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last mo.

Rs who previously espoused free markets now backing price controls, diesel embargoes, ending wars, government ownership stakes in tech companies, massive tariffs and inflationary give everybody-a-$5,000-check-but-only-if-we-win policies right before an election.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last mo.

Maybe it's just easier to have a fight over banning members of the press from the White House than it is to deal with the many other things weighing down the administration. In my 30+ years reporting, hostility to the press often is inversely proportional to how badly things are going for the pol.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 80-year-old is doing and saying all the right things and his younger opponent is dreadful. And we’re talking about a lawmaker, not a chief executive We can generally oppose gerontocracy without being dumb about it

Michael Kruse@michaelkruse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“In an ideal world, we could count on leaders to be honest about their capacities and abilities. We could count on them to step aside when they’re no longer able to serve at the highest possible levels,” says @amandalitman.bsky.social. “It is so clear that we cannot.”

@optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

Bobby Allyn@bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump’s media company today began selling early access to the president’s posts on Truth Social for up to $100k a month to financial institutions. I talked to former SEC lawyers, who see the service as a violation of insider trading laws. And a Wall Street executive, who told me: