I was shocked to hear @asymmetricinfo say that it would be inappropriate for Congress to investigate Elon for shutting down StarShield in Ukraine because it’s a private company. If Jim Taiclet remotely grounded all of Britain’s F-35s, I’d want him dragged in front of Congress too
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Random thought. I think Fetterman steps down in the next 12 months. He alienated his own party & the caucus is too big for him to be able to be a Manchin/Sinema and throw his weight around. He’s not much use to Republicans either. He may find himself pretty lonely in the Senate
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I don’t see the problem with this. A water landing is good enough for our brave astronauts, it’s good enough for this lady’s MacBook
An Amazon customer in Texas was not enthused when her first drone-delivered order was dropped into her swimming pool. After hearing the loud buzzing of the drone arriving, she ran outside to record the delivery, and to her surprise, it landed in her pool.
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I mean that’s just a return to the John Major years when Soros and Bessent squeezed the pound
UK seems more like Jamaica getting squeezed by the IMF and Marc Rich in the 1970s than even a second rate, former great power. Permanent relegation. At least Jamaica had bauxite and pot.
Burnham would be impressive if he put up as much of a fight as Michael Manley did then.
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I really enjoy the Phillies broadcast of this. They sound like a disappointed Little League dad when Realmunto runs back to second
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One thing the Derby not starting yet makes me appreciate about the World Cup is when they say it starts at 8, it starts at 8
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Im pretty sure we all know where Ayatollah Khomeini is, considering the fact that he died 5 years before Alayna Treene was born.
POTUS says the US knows "exactly" where Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini "is hiding" and that he's an "easy target" but the US won't "take him out (kill!)" for now
He adds that the Trump admin's "patience is wearing thin"
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They’re making a low rent Vertu, that will probably end up being even tackier
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Looks like @JessicaBRiedl gets to add another tally to the wastefulness of DOGE. The funny part is, they were still paying the VOA employees, so there weren’t any savings
USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.
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But a lot of that was true back in the day too. Mr Burns, Shere Khan from Tale Spin, every 80s movie villain, even the main “bad guys” in the Jetsons and the Flintstones were the rich bosses
💯 I've watched my kids grow up on children's shows where:
-The villain is usually a rich businessman or developer,
-Every socially-conscious kid is a climate activist,
-Every politically-active teen girl wants to be RBG,
-Worst of all, no one advocates full business expensing.
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The funny thing is Republicans tried to do the same thing with the ACA Medicare cuts.
Democrats often emphasize that of course they want to cut waste too, as long as we also protect benefits for the vulnerable.
They undermine any credibility on that by responding to such waste reforms by running the "OMG THEY ARE TAKING AWAY YOUR MEDICARE!!!" playbook.
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I would believe this is a rule if he had burned a source with this before. No way Squire is the first person to lie to him and searching “from:alexthomp off the record” doesn’t show other instances
If you don’t tell the truth, off the record no longer applies.
Here is Gilda Squire’s denial at the time.
“This is unequivocally untrue.”
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Funny how he doesn’t think it should work. Because the answer to these questions is “Yes”
Is Trump any less coherent in the transcription of his remarks today than he was ten years ago?
Does he issue misstatements, half-truths, or outright falsehoods more than he once did?
With that, the effort to transpose Biden’s sin onto Trump and his courtiers will enjoy the presumption of dispassionate objectivity. It just might work, too, even if it shouldn’t. nationalreview.com/2025/05/g…
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Jessica really gets to the nut of the issue and why “starve the beast” tax cuts were such a toxic idea. Instead of the deficit leading to cuts, it allowed taxpayers to get spending while paying less in taxes. It severed the idea of the trade-off between gov’t services and taxes
It really says something that John “torturing kids is kosher” Yoo thinks you’ve gone too far
John Yoo, former clerk to Justice Thomas: “zero chance” courts would allow suspension of writ of habeas corpus over immigration.
Suspending habeas would provide “much stronger ground for impeachment than Trump’s first two rides on that rodeo.”
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English literary tests? I think we know who Meta AI was targeting with their Moby Dick book club ad
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