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Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) for years. I post a lot: breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. My mini Australian Labradoodle, Hamilton, has trained me well.

Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇺🇸🇨🇦

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2025-01-21 23:43:09 UTC

📣
Whatever it takes to bring followers over to my new @npub16el…n8vf account, I've failed.
So, please spread the word to my usual friends to follow me there if somehow I messed up that part of the move.
I'm having a tough time getting it right. Sorry.📢

2025-01-21 16:32:10 UTC

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Politico:
COLUMN | “Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He's Still Trying
To Be a Good”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-column-trump-great-president-00199564
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/867/300/509/139/554/original/7879b39c0937663e.jpeg

2025-01-20 22:55:02 UTC

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Good to know. @npub1q03…ds0r @npub19zy…rrny @npub1s20…twmm

2025-01-20 19:22:52 UTC

@npub19zy…rrny Do you like your instance? I'm thinking of switching.
I spend hours blocking on this one.

2025-01-19 15:46:02 UTC

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4/ Via Catherine Rampell‬:
What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production

2025-01-19 15:45:17 UTC

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3/ Via Brad Moss:
I don’t think an executive order can lawfully do that but who cares anymore
‪Ron Filipkowski‬:
And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

2025-01-19 15:41:29 UTC

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2/ Via Brad Moss:
I can’t think of something that GenZ will hate more than US Government owned and run TikTok.

2025-01-19 15:38:51 UTC

Welp.
“ #Trump says he plans to issue an executive order that would give #TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent ban in the U.S. ” https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-trump-biden-china-bdc79b7ce741a81761f67ea56d410103

2025-01-18 01:15:03 UTC

As expected, Racist Felon is dictatoring immediately.
Via Katie Phang:
Per the WSJ: “The incoming #Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week..
The raid is expected to begin on Tuesday morning, a day after Trump is inaugurated, and will last all week, the people said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will send between 100 and 200 officers to carry out the operation.” https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-begin-large-scale-deportations-tuesday-e1bd89bd

2025-01-17 19:05:42 UTC

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To say the least

2025-01-17 17:42:43 UTC

“Danny Werfel, the commissioner of the #IRS, will resign Monday, he told employees, as #Trump eyes a successor to undo much of Pres Biden’s agenda at the tax agency.
 Trump had previously announced plans to fire Werfel, who took office in 2023, and nominate Billy Long, a former Missouri congressman without any tax policy experience, to replace him”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/17/irs-commissioner-resign-trump-eyes-replacement/

2025-01-09 14:48:18 UTC

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Nothing meaningful? Sigh. I had to go through this several times yesterday. Here’s one of my posts.
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113793436118503415
@npub1q2e…weuj

2024-12-23 19:23:28 UTC

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Gotta elect the right Dems or we'll keep failing.

2024-12-13 14:38:05 UTC

Via Kyle Griffin:
#NorthCarolina's Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the hospital system has aggressively pursued former patients' medical debts, even placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
"It is like a miracle." https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/-miracle-nc-couple-free-nearly-100000-medical-debt-15-years-rcna183426

2024-11-30 23:56:53 UTC

Omfg.
Via Adam Parkhomenko:
Donald #Trump announces Kash Patel as the next FBI Director. What a disgrace. The clown car is getting full

2024-11-25 18:54:21 UTC

Via Katie Phang:
ANOTHER) FILING JUST HITTING THE DOCKET:
Special Counsel, #JackSmith, has now filed his Motion to Dismiss the Appeal as to Donald J. #Trump, in the MAL classified documents case.

2024-11-21 02:29:14 UTC

Omfg.
Via Rupar:
Nancy Mace: "It is offensive that a man in a skirt thinks that he's my equal. He's forcing his genitals into women's restrooms."

2024-11-15 20:24:32 UTC

#Trump Treasury Department
https://on.wsj.com/3AGJQag
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/488/840/056/445/220/original/4d423980d617fab0.jpeg

2024-10-30 00:12:20 UTC

Wow. Perfect speech.
#Harris ends her speech at the Ellipse with this:
"In seven days, we have the power, each of you has the power, to turn the page and start writing the next chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told."

2024-10-29 01:07:24 UTC

Via Kyle Griffin:
Forceful words from Doug Emhoff:
"He demeans immigrants with the same hateful slurs hurled at our ancestors, vermin, animals who poison the blood of our country. He scapegoats Jewish voters right to our faces, saying that if he loses, it will be the fault of Jews. He looks at Adolf Hitler's generals and sees something to admire. Just let that sink in. You do not reward someone like that with a platform or with power, and never again with the presidency."

2024-10-11 17:32:18 UTC

Via Tommy Vietor
NYT on how Elon #Musk is trying to buy the election for #Trump:
- Spending $140-180MM on Trump super PAC
- Twitter coordinating with the Trump camp to throttle links to leaked campaign documents
- Musk rallying other billionaires to support Trump
- Musk temporarily moving to PA

2024-09-14 14:33:08 UTC

Despicable doesn’t even begin to describe him. We better win in Nov. folks.
Via Kyle Griffin:
The day after #Trump spread anti-immigrant lies at the debate, the leader of the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe took to his Telegram channel to take credit for 'pushing Springfield into the public consciousness.'
Another member of the hate group agreed: "This is what real power looks like." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-neo-nazis-pushed-false-claims-haitians-part-hate-campaign-rcna170796

2024-09-12 14:33:53 UTC

JHC, what an idiot.
Via Rupar:
#JDVance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )

2024-09-11 13:13:26 UTC

New in PN: Kamala #Harris dogwalks #Trump
"Harris walked right onto that stage, approached Trump as he tried to slink away, and shook his hand. That subtle show of dominance set the tone for a dominant performance that sent Trump into a tailspin." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/harris-trump-debate-september-2024

2024-09-09 13:36:54 UTC

I can’t believe my eyes. This is an actual headline from Fox (online) just now:
“Retired generals defend #Harris, blame #Trump on Afghanistan withdrawal: report
The former military brass say Trump left Biden and Harris with a disaster”
#ClusterFox

2024-09-03 17:12:29 UTC

Via Kyle Griffin:
Team #Harris just announced an almost $25 mil donation to bolster Dems up & down the ballot — the largest transfer ever in a pres cycle, according to the campaign.
The full breakdown:
* $10 million to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
* $10 million to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
* $2.5 million to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
* $1 million to the Democratic AGs Association
* $1 million to the Democratic Governors' Association

2024-09-01 17:43:31 UTC

Emptywheel always nails it:
Pt I keep making abt this yr's sched is reporters need to adjust their thinking of time. Sure Labor Day is trad'l start of low-info voters tuning in. But it's also 91% of way thru #Trump's campaign but only 40% thru #Harris's
https://nytimes.com/live/2024/09/01/us/harris-trump-election
Mind you there are abt 10 foundational q's (like his biz ties w/Gulf states) that supine press hasn't bothered to ask Trump in 21 mos he;s been running
Ah well, I'm sure they'll get around to the basics 1 of these days

2024-09-01 16:32:49 UTC

Oh geez.
#Germany's AfD is projected to win majority in regional elections in Thuringia — the first time for a German far-right party since 1945-DW News

2024-09-01 13:18:35 UTC

Neither got a bounce from their conventions. Pundits’ predictions were wrong again.
“#Harris doesn't get convention bounce, but widens gap with women: POLL
Other key takeaways from ABC's poll include white men shifting to #Trump.”
https://trib.al/yKDoETH

2024-08-31 13:20:32 UTC

“‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of #JDVance’s dark vision of women and immigration
#Trump’s running mate rants against feminism, immigrants and Ilhan Omar in a newly unearthed podcast from 2021”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/31/jd-vance-podcast-feminism-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2024-08-31 03:25:11 UTC

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2/ Cheney:
Trump also says that if his interactions with Pence are deemed immune, the entire case has to go
SMITH doesn't present any counterproposal to Trump re: timing of the case or trial. He basically says it's up to Chutkan

2024-08-31 03:24:12 UTC

👉🏼👉🏼 Via Katie Phang:
And (finally) here’s the Joint Status Report in #Trump’s DC federal election interference case:
#legal
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25084185-joint-status-report
Kyle Cheney:
#JackSmith is urging Judge #Chutkan to streamline Trump's efforts to dismiss his D.C. prosecution by linking the immunity fight with his other efforts to scrap the case.
Trump (right) envisions a process that stretches deep into 2025.

2024-08-29 14:57:49 UTC

👇🏼
Via @npub10tx…6fzv :
It makes me feel like I'm on crazy pills listening to pundits talk about the "high stakes" of tonight's CNN interview for Kamala #Harris when her opponent is desecrating Arlington Cemetery and amplifying disgusting misogyny on social media. Voting for #Trump is a profoundly ugly and irresponsible choice that should not be normalized.

2024-08-29 00:37:11 UTC

Oy.
NYT: “Elon #Musk hired a Republican operative with expertise in field organizing to help steer his political work, a move that suggests that Musk is preparing to become even more involved in Republican politics and get-out-the-vote efforts specifically.”

2024-08-28 20:06:29 UTC

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Thank you Mansplainer. I'm so glad you took the time to address this in two separate threads to explain to me how posting works.
And as I told you, Trump's judge disagrees with you. When Trump reposts something, it's considered a post and it was used against him in a court of law.
But you do you.
Now I'll do me and block you. #Toodles

2024-08-28 17:50:29 UTC

Via Ben Meiselas: 🧵 1/...
This morning, Donald #Trump posted the following:
1. Photo of VP #Harris and Hillary Clinton with text: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently...”
2. Photo of VP Harris in an orange prison jumpsuit.
3. Multiple QAnon posts saying “Nothing can stop what is coming” with QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA.”

2024-08-28 17:42:18 UTC

Via Ron Filipkowski:
#Trump reposted a vile attack on Kamala #Harris today on Truth Social that said she used oral sex to advance her political career. Does any establishment media care to cover this stuff, or just focus on horserace issues, media access & debate rule minutiae?

2024-08-28 13:42:55 UTC

Via Kyle Griffin:
Team #Harris-#Walz is launching a new paid media campaign focused on the dangers of #Trump's #Project2025.
The campaign says "battleground voters will hear every single day about the existential danger Trump's Project 2025 agenda poses to American democracy, freedom, and the middle class."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkuOOfpDyWg

2024-08-26 22:22:34 UTC

Via Stephen Fowler:
#Georgia administrative law judge has ruled both #RFKJr. + his proposed slate of electors not qualified as candidates to be on Ga's ballot
Also pres electors for Jill Stein, Claudia De la Cruz, Cornel West ruled not qualified
https://documentcloud.org/documents/25073518-rfk-georgia-initial-decision
IF all of these decisions are final, then I believe Ga would be Trump, Harris & Chase Oliver, the Libertarian nom who is also from Ga
1/2

2024-08-26 22:17:17 UTC

Via Robert Reich:
Effective tax rates before and after the #Trump tax law:
Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%
Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%
AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%
Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%
FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%
This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.

2024-08-26 18:13:45 UTC

Via Emptywheel:
I think folks are missing what's going on w/debates.
1) #Trump is getting cold feet
2) Kamala #Harris also wants hot mikes, Trump's handlers do not
3) Brian Fallon said as much (abt Trump's handlers)
4) Someone got Trump to confirm Fallon is right
5) Whoever drives Trump's SM balking

2024-08-26 13:45:59 UTC

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4/ Harris campaign statement:
"We have told ABC & other networks seeking to host poss Oct debate that we belv both candid’s mics shd be live thru/o the full broadcast. Our understanding is Trump’s handlers prefer the muted mic bc they don’t think their candid. can act presid’l for 90 min on his own. We suspect Trump’s team has not even told their boss abt this dispute bc it wd be too embarrassing to admit they don’t think he can handle himself against VP Harris w/o the benefit of mute button.."

2024-08-26 13:41:33 UTC

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3/ lol, go #Harris!
Via Politico’s Eugene Daniels:
FIRST IN PB: Negotiations over the Harris-Trump debate have hit a speed bump over ... A muted mic.
The Trump camp wants the CNN rules while the Harris folks want them to be open the whole time just in case he has "an intemperate outburst."

2024-08-26 13:25:43 UTC

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2/ More: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-hedges-presidential-debate-kamala-harris-election-2024-rcna168170

2024-08-26 13:13:58 UTC

Of course. Trump is weaseling out.
“#Trump’s campaign is casting fresh doubt on whether a September 10 #debate will take place on ABC amid a dispute over the rules, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/trump-harris-september-debate?cid=ios_app

2024-08-24 23:23:19 UTC

Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who founded the messaging app Telegram, was detained at an airport in France, a CNN affiliate reports

2024-08-23 14:01:39 UTC

LOL!
Via farhad manjoo:
nice speech but she avoided all the tough issues
1) electric boats vs sharks
2) low-flow toilets not flushing it all down
3) steam vs electric carrier catapults
4) with wind power can’t watch TV when the wind isn’t blowing
5) no position on Hannibal Lecter
#DNC #Harris

2024-08-21 20:37:15 UTC

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4/ And FYI:
DDHQ Polling Average Update: Full Field National
🟦 Kamala #Harris (D): 48.3% (+4.6)
🟥 Donald #Trump (R): 43.7%
🟪 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I): 2.8%
This average is based on 57 polls.

2024-08-21 20:34:00 UTC

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3/ Via Emptywheel:
The question about RFK Jr dropping and endorsing Trump Friday is who wins The Art of the Deal.
RFK clearly DIDN'T get the deal he wanted in July, when he met Trump at the RNC, but then left W/meetings scheduled.
But Trump needs RFK right now more than RFK needs Trump.

2024-08-21 20:32:09 UTC

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2/ Via MaryAlice Parks:
DNC senior advisor Mary Beth Cahill, responds in a statement:
"Desperate men do desperate things. RFK Jr. was recruited by MAGA, funded by MAGA, and parroted MAGA talking points. No one should be shocked if he formalizes his relationship in an attempt to maintain relevance."

2024-08-21 17:01:16 UTC

⚠️Mass bomb threat sent to Jewish institutions across #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mass-bomb-threat-jewish-institutions-1.7300582

2024-08-13 19:11:55 UTC

Spot on.
Via Bernie Sanders:
Donald #Trump may be crazy, but he's not stupid.
When he claims that “nobody” showed up at a 10,000 person #Harris rally in MI that was live-streamed & widely covered by the media, that it was all AI, he is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses.

2024-08-10 19:17:26 UTC

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2/2 Via Brad Moss:
Per Donald Trump, his lawyers, and the Mueller Report, the Harris campaign is free to proudly, brazenly and publicly promote any materials distributed to the media that resulted from this criminal hack by a third party.
The Harris campaign can do so no matter how much they are told by the IC the hack was done by a foreign power and no matter how morally disgusting it is to use the stolen material.
That is the precedent that was set by Trump and the Russia hack.

2024-08-10 19:16:53 UTC

1/2 BREAKING:
#Trump's campaign says some of its internal communications have been hacked.
The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump's operation.
The campaign blamed "foreign sources hostile to the United States." https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503/

2024-07-06 00:16:00 UTC

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2/ Via Rupar:
Biden doesn't commit to taking a cognitive and neurological exam and releasing the results, saying his doctors don't think it's necessary

2024-07-06 00:11:20 UTC

It’s not airing in Canada. Via Kyle Griffin:
Asked by ABC if he's had a cognitive test lately, President #Biden cites his experience in office: "I have a cognitive test every single day. Everything I do."

2024-07-01 18:18:29 UTC

If you come into my feed supporting "assassination" you get blocked.
I don't care how long we've followed each other.
We are not them. Murder is not the answer.
My god.

2024-06-26 14:28:29 UTC

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I hate SCOTUS (well, 6 of them)

2024-06-26 14:20:34 UTC

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4/ Geidner:
Jackson, spitting fire in dissent: "Snyder’s absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s Court could love."
Of federalism concerns: "[W]oulds, coulds, and shoulds of this nature must be addressed across the street with Congress, not in the pages of the U. S. Reports."

2024-06-26 14:19:43 UTC

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3/ Katie Phang:
Justice Jackson in her dissent notes that the defendant was convicted by a jury of violating the federal bribery law after he steered more than $1 million in city contracts to a local truck dealership, which then gave him a check for $13,000 as a "consulting fee."
"Snyder's absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today's Court could love," Justice Jackson.

2024-06-26 14:17:00 UTC

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2/ Elie Mystal:
this is a case about bribery, and whether state and local officials are allowed to take bribes if it is just a "token of appreciation"
You're not going to believe this but the 6 Republicans judges say bribes are fine.

2024-06-26 14:14:41 UTC

The second and FINAL #SCOTUS opinion today: Snyder v. US. Written by Justice Kavanaugh. The vote is 6-3. Jackson dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
Geidner:
The final SCOTUS decision today is Snyder v. US. Kavanaugh has the court's 6-3 decision on ideological grounds, holding that the Section 666 bribery statute does not apply to "gratuities" given for public officials' *past* acts. Jackson writes the liberals' dissent.

2024-06-19 14:02:21 UTC

Texas Observer’s
@npub13uq…vy6g, who provided the photos on Xitter:
Gov. Greg Abbott, Donald #Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, and Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn were all pictured with Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris, who recently was found to have sexually abused a child for years. None of them have issued a statement regarding the abuse.

2024-05-29 20:02:53 UTC

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2/ Justice Merchan also inquires about the laptop the jurors were provided, which contains the exhibits admitted into evidence.
Does it have WiFi capability? Susan Hoffinger indicates that it does, and Justice Merchan asks if there's a way to disable that function.
"All rise" and the jury enters.
Justice Merchan begins by re-reading the jury notes he received this afternoon.