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@semaforben @daveweigel @ShelbyTalcott It can’t be easy for Trump: he wants competent people but requires sycophants. Not a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram.
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@waxaxe1
University Prof, anonymous account so that I can talk politics without making students feel unwelcome in my classroom
Boston Beigetreten Mart 2022
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I spent a weekend with the Cape Fear Proud Boys at their clubhouse and gun range back in March. My story about it, with my photos, is out in print in @esquire today as part of their America 250 issue.
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@marcthiessen Don’t worry Marc, it’s going to be difficult, but I’m sure you’ll figure out some way to spin this as a Trump victory.
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$300 billion to Iran under any circumstances is a disaster. Like offered the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany while the Nazis were still in power
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false? JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation
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@DigitalSamIAm @charlescwcooke Good post. The person you’re responding to is conflating the service Space X provides to the US (seems great) with the market’s valuation of the the overall business and Elon’s stewardship thereof (debatable, but that’s what free markets are for)
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Can we debunk this nonsense?
Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.
The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.
End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.
And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.
The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)
On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.
So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.
Political Punk@actingliketommy
Elon Musk was given tens of billions in government contracts and tax breaks and was able to take a company that’s lost $41 billion and somehow become a “trillionaire.” You will pay social security your whole life and they’ll tell you it’s an “entitlement” when you try to collect
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Trump's emergency plea to the DC Circuit to stop removal of his name from the Kennedy Center included this odd reference to a bylaw that had never been mentioned before in the litigation. It's looking increasingly like it was passed last week—and maybe on Thursday, the day before the petition.
Roger Parloff@rparloff
Here Trump asserts that center’s “trustees” passed a poison-pill bylaw that requires return of donations if his name is ever removed. AFAIK this has never been alleged before in the litigation. If true, it's another shocking indictment of his board of toadies. 2/5
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@kyledcheney @joshgerstein Collusion doesn’t seem necessary when both sides represent the same client
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NEW: President Trump's personal lawyers denied any collusion with DOJ in the settlement that led to the creation of the anti-weaponization fund. And they urged a judge asking questions about it to stand down.
w/ @joshgerstein
politico.com/news/2026/06/1…
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It's amazing how profoundly ignorant of basic WWII history many US residents are, thanks largely to the Cold War.
Lord Lucas Ward Ferguson@TheGatorsAbba
@tufpraise Hitler killed himself in the bunker because the United States was on the-door step of Berlin and we were about to get him but you didn’t learn history you’re fucking retard
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@kylenabecker @RobGeorge I wish I could give this post more than one like
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Paraguay just got a yellow card penalty for “simulation” of a foul on Team USA.
Why can’t we enforce a “flopping” penalty in the NBA?
It should be the same as a flagrant one to fall down on no contact to sell a foul.
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@kyledcheney Courts have no role in deciding what happens when someone files a lawsuit. Ok.
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JUST IN: Trump attorneys involved in the establishment of the Anti-Weaponization Fund tell a judge in Florida she has no business superintending a settlement that was reached out of court — and could have been reached even if there was no lawsuit in the first place. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2824…
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@RadioFreeTom Sure, but it would have been worse if he’d said “WWII teaches that the way to win is to target civilian population centers with firebombs then start dropping nukes”
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You don't even have to go to a war college for this one
Andrew Neil@afneil
JD Vance went to Ohio State then Yale. But clearly not to study history. WW2 did not end ‘with some kind of negotiation’.
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@hissgoescobra You know he had to take a ton of shit, even after pinning on his 4th star. Also, presumably, the namesake of Lou Gossett Jr’s character in Iron Eagle.
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I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.
His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.
Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.
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@RepThomasMassie Your party realized its voters are gullible and there is money in grifting
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Republicans are in charge because we promised:
to Make America Healthy Again.
to start No New Wars,
to put people above corporations,
to put America above foreign countries,
to release the Epstein files,
to not spy on citizens,
to eliminate fraud,
what the hell happened?!
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@_rotimia @daveweigel You reckon Platner’s running the “so many scandals you can’t focus on any one so nothing matters” gambit?
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Platner’s 74% is higher than Sara Gideon’s primary share. Hard to look at the last few weeks and not think much of the pundit class is just projecting its own views, not reading voters. Feels very Trump 2016.
Acyn@Acyn
Platner: Susan Collins has gotten 21 times wealthier just in the last 15 years. Has anybody else gotten 21 times wealthier since Susan Collins was elected to office? Does Maine have 21 times the schools and hospitals? No, we have less. Susan Collins is getting rich while we're getting screwed.
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@MTSlive @JackFarley96 Baller move would have been to let ChatGPT underwrite the IPO.
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@waxaxe1 @gtconway3d Cogdell is a dem. Everyone in Texas knows this 😆
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Is this big? Because it seems big.
Stephen Neukam@stephen_neukam
NEWS — Ken Paxton’s impeachment defense lawyer is endorsing Democrats James Talarico for Senate, @NOTUSreports scoops Dan Cogdell, who represented Paxton in his 2023 impeachment trial and several personal cases, told NOTUS in a statement that Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission” Cogdell is well-connected in Texas GOP politics, and has represented top state party officials. He donated $6,500 to Paxton’s campaign, contributing as recently as last year But he’s been critical of Trump. A clip of him calling Trump the “greatest threat” to democracy was even turned into an NRSC attack ad last year. It’s been scrubbed from the web. Talarico said in statement “if you voted for John Cornyn, you have a place in this campaign.” More: notus.org/2026-election/…
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@noturtlesoup17 NIH approved vaccines are dangerous and untested, but Mexican stem cell treatments just make sense
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@geraldposner Why do you think a slow count is easier to cheat than a rapid count? If all of the various people involved in certifying election results decided to collude, as would be necessary, why would they decide “let’s do it real slow”?
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🚨 SHOCKING: FIVE DAYS after the LA mayor primary deadline, votes still trickle in — and far-left progressive Nithya Raman has suddenly overtaken Spencer Pratt by ~3,000 votes to face Karen Bass in November.
How many "late count" coincidences does it take before people stop believing elections are clean?
Slow rolls that always deliver just enough...
nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/…
#LAMayor #ElectionIntegrity
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@gtconway3d Or that everything, even park service maintenance, needs to be disingenuously weaponized to score cheap political points.
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I think people may be upset that the second image is fake.
Marc Thiessen@marcthiessen
Imagine being angry about this
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Political appointees vetting science funding?
Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previous administrations of doing.
But in previous administrations, there was no political control of research grant approvals.
Grant proposals were evaluated through peer review: the research community decided which proposals had merit.
Bye-bye Vannevar Bush, hello Trofim Lysenko.
Bye-bye meritocracy, hello political favoritism.
From The Guardian: "A set of sweeping policy changes unveiled by the White House would leave officials appointed by Donald Trump vetting every public grant issued to universities and nongovernmental organizations on the basis of their fidelity to “American values”, as defined by the president, triggering widespread concern."
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It speaks to Trump destructive self-absorption that he is willing to sacrifice progress in medical and scientific research to pursue his far-right political vendettas. trib.al/KZcCL2h
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@AaronBlake @CorieWhalen Logical, debatably, in isolation. The obvious partisan hackery only emerges with a longitudinal analysis.
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Whatever one thinks of the merits of either of these decisions, the underlying issues aren't comparable.
In the first, SCOTUS was declining to overrule the Virginia Supreme Court. SCOTUS rarely reviews state rulings.
In the second, it was interpreting its own new standards.
Mark Warner@MarkWarner
It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.
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