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Unexpected culture war outcomes, 2018 edition:
- liberals to get football
- conservatives to get Kanye
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Tammy Baldwin spends her weekends in Manhattan with her partner, Maria Brisbane. Brisbane is a private wealth advisor to the ultra-rich. She routinely invests her clients’ money in industries that Baldwin regulates. Because they aren’t legally married, this goes undisclosed.
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Maybe Germany can stop letting its energy policy be dictated by a Swedish teenager now.
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A rich guy used a PAC to pay @AOC's boyfriend $6,000 when her campaign was running out of money. After AOC won, she gave that rich guy a job in her office. Follow me on a journey.
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While you were having a nice Valentine's Day, @AOC decided to put her boyfriend on staff - drawing a salary on the taxpayer's dime. Nice to see her adapting to the swamp so quickly.
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Guys, I don’t think this chart is communicating the message you want communicated.
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The @desantiscams account just deleted this video after at least one campaign staffer RT'd it. I wonder if this was also made in-house.
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I’m enjoying the @ProjectLincoln meltdown. Truly awful people getting a comeuppance. But worth remembering they only exist because cable bookers and the NYT breathed them into existence and sustained them.
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He’s not your spouse. Is he being paid? At what level? It says “staff” not spouse or boyfriend.
Furthermore he doesn’t appear to be in any groups and the House doesn’t use Google. Are you giving him access to your official calendar? Why does he have his own email address?
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I used to think Twitter made people insane and then I joined NextDoor. Congrats to everyone on here for being incredibly normal.
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There is a widespread belief that the Minnesota lawmakers were murdered by a right winger. They weren’t. They were killed by a deranged Walz patronage appointee who thought he was working on Walz’s behalf. And don’t get me started on these ludicrous numbers.
A conservative murdered a Democratic lawmaker -- and wounded another -- three months ago.
Between 2013 and 2022, right-wingers committed the vast majority of political murders.
If you actually care about political violence, you should not spread wild lies about it.
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Dude has been back on CNN for less than a week.
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For the cover of its diversity report, ODNI bought a stock photo called "Portrait Of Multi-Cultural Office Staff Standing In Lobby" and then photoshopped a woman in a wheelchair and a blind guy into it.
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Using the fires for ActBlue lead generation is absolutely bottom of the barrel scumbag behavior from @PodSaveAmerica. Shocking even for them.
If you want to help those impacted by the California wildfires, please donate at votesaveamerica.com/relief
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Nobody would be talking about your love life if you hadn’t given your boyfriend a staff email, lied about why, and now deleted it. Your problems are entirely of your own creating.
You know, when I got to DC I was told that it’s considered “off-limits” to report on a member’s family, love life, etc.
Unsure why that consideration is suspended for me.
(Also for those who ask how I learned to handle pressure,try being the only daughter in a Latino household)
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I’d also like to know, if he’s not a government employee, in what capacity he’s doing government work. Are you having campaign volunteers handle duties in your official office?
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There are no standards left at CBS News. What a disgrace. A political appointee and a consultant passed off as career civil servants in a tendentious, partisan hit job. Is there anybody at the network who isn’t a complete idiot or a fraud?
“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown. cbsn.ws/3CU2X1y
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Shocked that the guy who refused to acknowledge one of his biological grandchildren is also ditching an inconvenient pet.
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Watching Dem comms folks face a hostile press for the first time in their careers is fun.
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Wow. Harris openly challenging Biden on the legality of striking Syria. Is this unprecedented?
I strongly support our men and women in uniform and believe we must hold Assad accountable for his unconscionable use of chemical weapons. But I am deeply concerned about the legal rationale of last night’s strikes.
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Every Democrat leader was willing to endanger America for the sake of politics. Every single one.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that advisers privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election, @jaketapper and @AlexThomp write in their new book. axios.com/2025/05/13/biden-b…
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Nobody objects to Pete spending time with his family. We object to him failing to do his duty to the public. Don’t agree to accept a position of public trust if you can’t do the job.
I don’t understand how anyone could be against getting to spend more time to bond with their children and help out their spouse.
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You’re both lying.
New from a friend inside the House. Seems like more than calendar access to me. Care to revise your statement @AOC?
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CNN going to Jeffrey Toobin on abortion, presumably for his lived experience trying to pressure a woman other than his wife into having one.
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So, we get an under the table PAC payments to your boyfriend from a wealthy benefactor, who you then hire? Add that to your next lightening round of questions about HR1 @AOC.
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The last time Liz donned feathers, it was to get a job at Harvard.
Happy Pride Month! This month, we celebrate the progress we’ve made toward building a more inclusive nation for our LGBTQ+ community and we renew our fight to create a world where everyone is truly equal.
And yes - this is a new boa!
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I’m glad Biden is leaving the White House doing the only thing he’s done well his whole career: humiliating the people who defended and vouched for him as anything other than a two-bit hustling scumbag.
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Elizabeth Warren wants the same federal government that couldn’t keep Jeffrey Epstein alive to run your healthcare, the internet, and pretty much every other major sector of the economy.
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Uh. This is very bizarre. The account that tweeted about @tedlieu making contributions to Stanford out of his campaign account - and Lieu’s son now attending Stanford - has been suspended.
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Lmao. This is absolutely not what the city did. Baltimore kicked its Soros Prosecutor to the curb and started actually punishing criminals. Legum is simply lying.
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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Beto is doing this for ActBlue money. Let’s not pretend it’s about anything else. This is who he is.
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Just a reminder that Matt Dowd has always been an absolutely awful, awful human being.
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Pemex is a state-owned monopoly that the Mexican government has fleeced to prop up its budget for decades, leading to chronic underinvestment in maintenance. But sure. Capitalism.
The sea is on fire but some people *still* think capitalism can be managed.
Community note
This tweet explains it simply.
nitter.app/MatzoBalling/s…
"Pemex is a state owned oil company created by the seizure, nationalisation and expropriation of all private oil companies in Mexico in 1938 by decree of former revolutionary general Cárdenas...
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[David Attenborough voice]: Freshly hatched, the newborn umbrellas race for the safety of the sea.
HC
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The Bidens are in fact what the press imagined the Trumps to be. nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world…
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Our working class hero, whose grandfather designed the Ford Foundation headquarters and whose corporate lawyer dad pays for his lifestyle as a professional activist and hobby farmer, is sorry for calling the working class stupid. Please don’t ask about his time at prep school.
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A no fly zone means American forces fighting Russian forces. There isn’t a middle ground here. This is a call for war against a nuclear power. It is irresponsible and reprehensible.
1) The fate of #Ukraine is being decided tonight, but also the fate of the west. Declare a #NoFlyZone over Ukraine at the invitation of their sovereign govt. Disrupt Russias air ops to give the heroic Ukrainians a fair fight. It’s now, or later.
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The postal exemption is pretty compelling evidence that Biden isn't on the level. Should make the lawsuits even easier to win.
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Seems like a good time to remind everybody that Nancy couldn’t get her caucus to pass a resolution condemning antisemitism.
Heartbroken and deeply disturbed by the stabbing in Monsey and the many recent anti-Semitic attacks in the NY metro area, especially during this holiday season. We must condemn and confront anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry and hate wherever & whenever we see them.
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I’ve been critical of the Obama Admin, but comparing his immigration enforcement approach to Hitler is over the top.
The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during WWII.
It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it.
These camps occur throughout history. Many refuse to learn from that shame, but here we are today.
We have an obligation to end them.
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Congratulations to @ReverendWarnock and @staceyabrams. Couldn't have done it without you.
Cobb County says loss of All-Star game will cost tourism industry over $100 million wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-co…
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Dave McCormick has won the race for Pennsylvania’s senate seat, defeating Bob Casey. The press need to get off their duffs and call the race. This is getting absurd.
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The level of psychopathy on display here could only come from the delicate combination of two highly unstable elements: Harvard and CNN. Really a marvel to observe.
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Candidate for office posting videos on websites for money: has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Suburban teenager in 2020: deserves to be irradiated for using a slur on Snapchat in 2016.
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Can the president maybe come back from his weekend vacation before we all get together to crush the world’s 11th largest economy? Just a thought.
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The payments to Roberts are the largest payments made by @BrandNew535 to any person or group other than Brand New Congress LLC. Oh, and Roberts doesn't work in marketing.
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The number of newsrooms and journalists bullied into silence by a single midwit trust fund baby with narcissistic personality disorder is really something.
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The smartest guy running for Governor in California, the guy with the best solutions for the state, is @ShellenbergerMD. abc7news.com/michael-shellen…
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.@saikatc funneling money to Roberts - who @AOC says is her spouse - is unethical and maybe illegal. And AOC didn't disclose this income, and didn't claim Roberts as a spouse, in her candidate financial disclosures.
2017: clerk.house.gov/public_disc/…
2018: clerk.house.gov/public_disc/…
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She resigned to avoid an Ethics Committee investigation into her sexually exploiting multiple subordinates and misappropriating campaign and government funds to cover it up. But sure. Good journalisming George.
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With Marco Rubio being tapped for Secretary of State, @GovRonDeSantis has only one choice for his replacement as the next Senator from the great State of Florida
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The Washington Post ladies and gentlemen.
"When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group.
What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have reasonable disagreement—where violence is not an option." - Charlie Kirk.
May his memory be a blessing.
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When @BrandNew535 decided to pay six grand to Roberts, AOC's campaign was $24,000 in the hole, having raised only about $3,000. By the end of 2017, she'd raised just over $8,000 but spent about $37,250. That's a lot of money on somebody's credit card.
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Katie Hill sexually exploited multiple subordinates and used political and government dollars to pay them. She resigned because the House Ethics Committee figured it out and she was worried about facing legal consequences. This rehab tour is wrong.
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New from a friend inside the House. Seems like more than calendar access to me. Care to revise your statement @AOC?
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Roberts lists his residence as Arizona, where he's from, for the purposes of the disbursement, but for the in-kind work in 2018 and his cash donations to @AOC's campaign, he lists New York. Looks like a sad attempt to be sneaky.
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This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws.
Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands.
We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters.
Community note
All 9 judges agreed that the EPA overstepped its authority and that the plaintiffs' property should not be subject to EPA regulation. However, 4 judges disagreed with the majority's opinion on the limits of EPA authority with respect to wetlands.
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The Washington Post is less a newspaper than a repository for affluent liberal Boomer anxieties.
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The actual purpose of this interview is to funnel cash intended for fire victims into a slush fund that the pod save bros spend on themselves. These people are truly beneath contempt.
EXCLUSIVE: @GavinNewsom discusses the need for answers with the LA fires.
New pod out tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts.
Get more Pod Save America on YouTube!
#PodSaveAmerica #CrookedMedia #Governor
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Took you twelve hours to come up with this?
The conspiracy machine is in full effect & it’s been disappointing to watch professionals get duped + amplify unvetted Medium posts as truth, treating journalism like it’s a high school Livejournal rumor mill or something.
No, I don’t shadily pay my boyfriend. Come on & VET. ⬇️
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You defended the first impeachment on the grounds that Hunter Biden should be immune even from investigation because of the political implications.
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Rather, fired for running a politically motivated hit story against a Republican President, is being interviewed as a credible expert on a show called “Reliable Sources”. CNN is beyond parody.
>> @DanRather's takeaway after the first two days of televised impeachment hearings: "Truth is closing in, facts are closing in..."
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I don’t think Rupar should be booted from Twitter. But his existence on this platform glaringly illustrates the partisan double standard at work. It takes a lot less to get kicked off if you’re on the right.
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Plus, the timing looks bad.
.@BrandNew535 paid Riley Roberts $3,000 on August 9th, 2017.
@AOC's campaign paid Brand New Congress LLC $6,191.32 on August 27th.
A month later @BrandNew535 then paid Riley Roberts another $3,000.
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Walz is getting so brutalized that Brennan is breaking the debate rules trying to bail him out.
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Fun fact: his email address no longer exists. Guess he doesn’t need calendar access anymore, eh @AOC?
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Now, maybe he wasn't her spouse then, but they were living together per her Vogue profile, so paying the money is still a massive ethical problem.
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The category was “Black or African American”. Mamdani would not become an American citizen for another nine years. He was thus not an African American. And he certainly was and is not black. He was trying to game admissions. Pretending otherwise is mendacity or idiocy.
It's still hilarious to me that someone from Uganda identifying as part African-American was actually a news story. For those unaware, Uganda is a country in Africa.
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Thank almighty God you’ll be out of power in eleven months. You’re a bloodthirsty cretin.
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LA Times: we have a credibility problem and it’s hurting our bottom line.
WaPo: we have a credibility problem and it’s hurting our bottom line.
USA Today: we have a credibility problem and it’s hurting our bottom line.
NYT: LEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!!
1/ If you were wondering what the legacy media would plan for its October surprise, wonder no longer: it's here. Today, I received the following text from a reporter at @NYTimes:
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