CW Donald
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Kid gave me a potato today for teacher appreciation week. Recession indicator?
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There is no candidate that can carry the Trump/MAGA movement forward other than Trump; not Vance, not DeSantis, not Trump Jr. Trump will likely run for president in 2028. Best confront that now, rather than (as many did with Project 2025) pretend it doesn't exist or wish it away
Acyn@Acyn
Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.
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@bonchieredstate @JonahDispatch They were temporary because it wouldn’t have passed if permanent.
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*You* made those tax credits temporary. They were a COVID measure.
Why do you guys never mention that?
Mark Warner@MarkWarner
We all knew this was going to happen – after Republicans ended ACA tax credits that kept health insurance affordable, millions are now dropping their coverage. It never had to be this way.
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I finally convinced them the movers weren’t robbing the place.
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Jon Cooper: "Sometimes you win the game and not the score."
Evan Closky@ECloskyWTSP
Brandon Hagel and Jon Cooper both said this feeling is very similar to the one they had in Milan. Hagel didn't really know how to explain this loss after the contest. "You give up 0 shots in the 2nd period. Three shots in the 3rd period. And lose a hockey game."
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@JimmyKempski Does UDFA long snapper Rocco Underwood from Florida have a legitimate shot at making the team? Also any rumors of competition for Jake Elliott?
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Let's do a post-draft Eagles mailbag 📬, friends. Your questions and comments, please and thank you. 🙏
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Maybe all the guys who stink should play less.
Alex Pavlovic@PavlovicNBCS
Bryce Eldridge and Jesus Rodriguez are getting called up, a source confirms. Buster Posey is shaking it up after a brutal trip. Tony Vitello will have to figure out the infield playing time, because Casey Schmitt needs to stay in the lineup. @susanslusser was first on the news.
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@EWErickson Yo asshole, if I am the DD, does Taco Mac even get to ask my name, let alone scan a government issued piece of plastic?
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My local Taco Mac makes everyone show their ID before ordering a beer. It's a wings and taco place, not a strip club. Does this person not live in the real world?
Catherine Rampell@crampell
A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”
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@RadioFreeTom Say hello to R Craig Nation next time you see him.
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I bequeath this post about my "worship of war colleges" to my former PME colleagues, who will enjoy hearing this, and to the many admirals and senior administrators I drove crazy.
(I argued at various points for shutting them all down, but that's a story for another day.)
John W@txradioguy
@infantrydort Safe to say you and the others had no clue you'd have this kind of effect on poor old @RadioFreeTom when you pushed back on his worship of military war colleges. You shook his entire belief system.
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Criticizing Avs/Wild for its sloppiness is like going to a Ramones concert and waving sheet music at them.
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@RadioFreeTom Tom have you published a post mortem of Sovietology or has anyone? I was around profs from Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, Indiana, Stanford, Kansas, Toronto, Edinburgh, and UCLA. I also interacted with folks at CGSC and Carlisle, and have wondered methodologically what was bad.
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I appreciate this, but must be honest.
1. My field (Sovietology) got a lot wrong.
2. I was a Reaganite, on the right side, but not a major player in that field. (My PhD was in 1988.)
3. FWIW, I rejected the consensus in my field, but that was easy to do by 1988.
Mourning in America@Funky9ers
@Ami_Marisol @RadioFreeTom Policy experts on the USSR throughout the 1980s and 90s like Tom helped formulate strategies that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and freeing Europe of communism. But we don’t seem to be interested in geopolitical strategy anymore…just populist bluster.
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The right knows there isn’t much voter fraud. But it knows there are poor people who don’t have cars or driver’s licenses, or money/time to worry about Real ID.
It wants to game the system by disenfranchising those voters.
The right also fundraises off pretending there’s fraud
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@wil_da_beast630 @charlescwcooke Climate change scientists would respectfully disagree
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Why is it so important for many people on left and hard right to feel that the world is horrible, and getting worse?
It very clearly is not.
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I was especially unpopular with students in the greater Niagara Falls area
Tom Sauer@thomasbsauer
@GBNT1952 I know guys that took his class at NWC. Can confirm.
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@RadioFreeTom @MikeRGlenn Careful, Tom. You-know-who will say that’s why he won the American Revolution…
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You know what Army officer also didn't go to Ranger School? How about George Washington! You can say what you want about the current Secretary of Defense but I won't stand here and let you badmouth the Father of our country!
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Seth Moulton: "Hegseth is an embarrassment to the troops. That's why they call him 'Ranger Pete,' because he's the only Army Major who's never been to Ranger School. The troops don't respect this guy."
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@RadioFreeTom @MikeRGlenn And Benedict Arnold tried to prevent him from going to West Point.
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@TeeplesCY @EWErickson Opium of the masses. Life is nasty brutal and short for these dumb fucks.
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Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go.
Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't.
"Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck."
What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name.
Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."
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@tejfbanalytics Kick him in the nuts. That kind of statement is typically made by someone who doesn’t understand the difference between a differential equation and a differential motor.
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