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Don Moynihan

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    hate to praise Massie, but this is funny

    thomas massie claims to have spoken to mcconnell who now agrees with all of massies positions
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    Jul 8, 2026
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    Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now.
    He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway.
    Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country.
    donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

    And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant. In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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    Jul 3, 2026
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    When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots."

    Well, dots connected:
    www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

    The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
    “Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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    Jul 17, 2026
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    It is undeniably funny that Chris Rufo - whose whole career is based on the idea that identity politics is so bad that its fine to ruin people's lives over it - is unhappy that Mamdani is not adequately appreciative of his identity

    Rufo accusing Mamdani of anti-italian bias
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    Jul 10, 2026
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    If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

    tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net
    Republicans may be running out the clock on disclosing whether McConnell is even alive, purely so a filing deadline slides past and Thomas Massie can't grab the seat. A man's actual mortality reduced to a procedural loophole for gatekeeping power.
    Journalists float astonishing theory around silence surrounding Mitch McConnell’s health
    With Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) health status still unclear after his latest medical incident, multiple journalists have offered a stunning theory for why his office and fellow Republicans have remained largely silent.McConnell was rushed to the hospital in mid-June for an undisclosed medical rea...
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    Jul 5, 2026
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    Insurance, how does it work?

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    Dr Oz on ACA "fraud" -- "Of the people who signed up, 40% never use the insurance. Let me ask you, John, you have health insurance -- do you use it once a year? In Obamacare right now 40% of the people ostensibly signed up never use the insurance ... we have a lot of fake people on the policies"
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    Jun 29, 2026
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    New meme just dropped

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    Jul 15, 2026
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    Mamdani wants to make it easier for consumers to cancel gym memberships and magazine subscriptions…so, just like Trump’s authoritarian overreach.

    But the appearance of overreach could also spook the business community, much of which is still uncertain about Mr. Mamdani. It could also invite comparisons to other executives, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom Mr. Mamdani has cited approvingly, and President Trump, whose Justice Department has aggressively pushed the limits of the law in seeking to achieve the White House's agenda.
    Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social
    Lina Khan and Zohran Mamdani bring click-to-cancel to New York. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...
    With Help of Lina Khan, Mamdani Looks to Quickly Cut Costs for New Yorkers
    Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s signature plans for New York City will take time. Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has ideas for making a swift impact.
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    Jul 11, 2026
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    No-one ever expects the Islamic Republic of Japan. Surprise is their chief weapon.

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"
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    Jul 8, 2026
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    This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

    Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social
    "Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
    Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
    Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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    Jul 21, 2026
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    If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

    Shoe @shoe.bsky.social
    It's all fun and games until we gather at the Capitol
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    Jul 13, 2026
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    This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID.

    One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions.

    Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

    I met with, first of all, a woman named Angelina David, who is the clinical manager in Panyijiar for the International Rescue Committee clinics. She was overseeing the clinics that were shut down and could tell me exactly what happened. It was a complete shutdown, and a scramble, because there were medicines and other things on the shelves they didn’t want looted, so they had to get out to these places—and they’re very far away. You have to travel, in some cases, seven or eight hours in order to get to the extent of what’s there. I then went and visited some of those facilities, and I connected, with her help, to the subcounty chiefs—they’re called the payam administrators—who keep their own records of deaths. So one of the things I found was that their own records showed that they are measuring an over-all tenfold increase in child and adult deaths. Wait. A tenfold increase? Yes.
    The New Yorker @newyorker.com
    Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
    The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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    Jul 12, 2026
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    Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense.
    www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

    Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
    Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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    Jul 23, 2026
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    When people say that there is a bias against conservatives in places like the Times that reflects their failure to understand that the Times (like many university spaces) lowers standards to represent right-wing views for purposes of intellectual diversity.

    Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social
    Opinion Guest Essay Senator Banks Might Have a Case on Birthright Citizenship Jul. 15, 2026 By Randy E. Barnett and Ilan Wurman Mr. Barnett is a law professor at Georgetown University. Mr. Wurman is a law professor at the University of Minnesota.
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    Jul 13, 2026
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    Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?

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    Jul 11, 2026
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    People are facing felony prosecutions on the thinnest of claims that they vandalized the Reflecting Pool.

    amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
    Firework cleanup at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool this afternoon.
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    Jul 5, 2026
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    The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them

    dell cameron @dell.bsky.social
    NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social
    ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
    The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
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    Jul 6, 2026
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    "You don’t pressure witnesses to a shooting to self-deport if your goal is to get to the bottom of what happened."

    In the same way that the government did not investigate the Minnesota shootings, they will not investigate these shootings.

    Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
    NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...
    Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
    There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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    it is impossible to post about this game because something else happens before your finish the last thought

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    Jul 6, 2026
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    "Who won the 2020 election?" is the sort of question you ask people to ascertain if their brain is functioning. Failure to answer is akin to being unable to address questions like "can you remember your name?" and "what year is it?"

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
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    I do find it amazing that even in this moment, the Dems can't come up with some sort of "Contract for America" like language that offers an alternative to Trump. Maybe they have it, but whatever governing vision they have is lost in the noise.

    Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
    Jeffries: "They have nothing to run on. We're going to run on fighting for an affordable America."
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    Jul 26, 2026
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    Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

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    Jul 20, 2026
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    There are a range of media and people who have lost their mind about Mamdani. At the time of real threats to democracy they treat him evoking the American creed they grew up with as dangerous radicalism.

    Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social
    One sense of how skewed our political reality is comes as Mamdani says anodyne things that the GOP presidential nominees from 1976-2012 would have all agreed with, like “We should rely on due process for the burning of witches,” and everyone screams, “Leftist Commie! Red Commie!”
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    Jul 4, 2026
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    The point is that members of Congress have de facto unlimited paid sick leave, even when members of the public are asking why they aren't turning up for work.

    Its a benefit that he, and other Republicans like Tom Kean, oppose for the rest of us.

    Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Block Mandatory Paid Sick Leave For Workers Who Get COVID
    NPR @npr.org
    It's been nearly four weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized. It's not the first time this year that a member of Congress has been absent for weeks with scant details. n.pr/4f8IxAT
    For Mitch McConnell and Congress, health transparency is a choice, not a requirement
    It's been nearly four weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized. It's not the first time this year that a member of Congress has been absent for weeks with scant details.
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    Jul 11, 2026
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    If Platner were to drop out by July 13, the Maine Democratic Party would be able to replace him on the ballot.

    The Downballot @the-downballot.com
    New Platner video: "So regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward" x.com/grahamformai...
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    Jul 6, 2026