Skeets Of The Day

Trump's Big Lie budget --

 

1: Lie about the causes of financial hardships and blame our most vulnerable 2: Increase the deficit and give handouts to billionaires 3: Pretend to care about the deficit 3: Pass policies that create financial hardships for the working class 4: Repeat

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— Melanie D’Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM

Meanwhile, Democrats need to exploit the coming Trump downturn --

"The battle for narrative control is only just beginning. As markets continue to deteriorate and if growth turns to contraction, the right will shift from panic to scapegoating." Read @brianbeutler.bsky.social on why Dems must prepare now to exploit Trump downturn: www.offmessage.net/p/be-prepared

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— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM

 

Anti-Semitism-washing --

 

I mean, you *can* understand it that way if you ignore everything we know about the term and those who use it in this exact context www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM

 

Son, he means “Jews”.

— James Felix Black (@tft.io) March 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM

Free speech for me, not for thee --

 

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

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— Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (@jfrejnyc.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM

The Trumpists' plan to overturn Civil Rights Act and dismantle liberal arts education --

And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

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— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM

 

The taxpayer bailout of crypto fraudsters --

 

It truly breaks my brain how stupid and crooked this is. might as well imagine an alt universe when congress was setting up a strategic ape NFT reserve, because that's actually this reality.

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM

What's that Musk-y smell?  Slide whistle or sad trombone --

 

needs moar slide whistle

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— shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM

Thanks, you crackpot charlatan RFK, Jr.! --

 

NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"

— Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM

 

The anti-union presidency (looking at you, Teamsters' sellout Sean O'Brien) --

 

"The move by Trump’s Homeland Security Department is the single most anti-worker and anti-union presidential action since Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981." prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

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— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM

The Bezos Bugle continues its decline into dark irrelevance -- 

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

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— Ben Mullin (@benmullin.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM

(Four) eyes wide shut?  --

 

This was always the risk with Gabbard and Patel at the head of our intelligence gathering. We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies. This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.

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— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co) March 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM

 

Today's history lesson --

 

Historian here: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

— Manisha Sinha (@profmsinha.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM