Don Moynihan

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Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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2026-10-31 20:21:52 UTC

Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico City
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2026-10-30 02:00:17 UTC

I keep saying the scale of the waste, fraud and abuse going on on DHS is is off the chart. Too much money handed to people not known for their integrity
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2026-10-29 12:41:24 UTC

Was she knocking on the door of her own house?
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2026-10-28 02:46:09 UTC

I thought the US was blocking immigrants from South America with ties to violent gangs
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2026-10-28 02:44:15 UTC

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.
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2026-10-27 02:57:28 UTC

I honestly was not sure if this was a new or recycled allegation, which says a lot about our President.
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2026-10-27 01:36:42 UTC

[Bernie Brewer Bernie Slide](https://static.klipy.com/ii/4493325008d34b7bf8cd6813cd5c1619/92/6e/TLU3SOANOPXRTKy5d7c.gif?hh=281&ww=498&mp4=IauH4cDrw2TxN&webm=VqbVbYKswWEqB24S )

2026-10-27 01:14:34 UTC

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan.
He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. [donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-thank-trump )
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2026-10-26 22:12:26 UTC

This shit is so pitiful because you know Bessent would never normally enter a chain restaurant
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2026-10-26 21:51:38 UTC

The same day a court threw out the Trump administration's firing of Comey's daughter, the Trump administration goes back, for the third time, to try to indict the head of the FBI who refused to swear loyalty to the President. [www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-fbi-james-comey-charged-third-time-trump-national-security-rcna342963 )
[James Comey charged for a thir...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-fbi-james-comey-charged-third-time-trump-national-security-rcna342963 )

2026-10-26 20:17:02 UTC

Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.
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2026-10-26 13:56:04 UTC

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.
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2026-10-25 21:06:22 UTC

Deeply disheartening to see what appears to be a deliberate effort to suppress the votes. Hope they pay the consequences.
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2026-10-25 18:45:15 UTC

Very glad to hear that Elon Musk is a stickler for details on contractor – government relationships. Could come in handy later.
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2026-10-24 21:19:44 UTC

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.
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2026-10-24 21:17:14 UTC

I’ve gotten so many of these types of flyers
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2026-10-24 17:14:10 UTC

Checking on the scores on ESPN, and finding out that Democrats are crazier than Michael's ex. Those crazy ladies, amirite guys?
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2026-10-24 12:40:50 UTC

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.
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2026-10-23 20:34:45 UTC

We all complain about headlines too much, but if your headline ends with "the White House said" or "Trump said" you are probably just giving the most valuable words in your article over to propaganda
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2026-10-23 15:32:22 UTC

Kudos to the reporter here, who does something we almost never see: she interrupts Trump to try to make him and answer the question she asked, not allowing him to bloviate.
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2026-10-23 01:50:59 UTC

I give CBO credit for at least trying to model the effects of administrative burdens (would not have happened a generation ago) but looks like they underestimated it. Hope it is not the same for Medicaid.
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2026-10-23 01:25:38 UTC

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle.
And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.
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2026-10-21 21:14:16 UTC

An 11 year-old child supported a conman. As an adult, he is having doubts. About Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny also.
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2026-10-21 17:14:11 UTC

There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.
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2026-10-20 23:51:40 UTC

My brain cannot process this level of corruption.
She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee."
And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money.
[www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/politics/julio-herrera-pardon-alina-habba.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFE.Ck8H.E2UUUTjvIIko&smid=bs-share )
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2026-10-20 16:36:34 UTC

The problem with the Titanic was more the iceberg related hole dragging it to the bottom of the ocean rather than its handling capabilities.
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2026-10-20 15:43:07 UTC

One of the ironies here is that the group was created by Bobby Jindal, who addressed the concerns of otherness that El-Sayed faces by...abandoning his Hindu faith to become Catholic.
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2026-10-20 00:19:33 UTC

Is he flying on the regular Air Force One or the one that Qatar gave to Trump?
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2026-10-20 00:14:50 UTC

From 1982-2018 the RNC that Rodgers invokes was under a federal consent decree that restricted its ability to engage in "ballot security measures" to intimidate voters.
This is why.
There is a reason Rodgers talks about Detroit and no other part of the state. Same reason as always.
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2026-10-19 18:41:12 UTC

Its less a big tent and more a small hood
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2026-10-19 03:03:32 UTC

Worth checking they’ve actually passed the bar
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2026-10-18 20:55:20 UTC

Tommy is not actually a registered voter in Michigan.
Tricia McLaughlin is the former DHS spokesperson who kept telling the public that everytime ICE shot someone, it was because they were weaponizing their car against the masked security agent
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2026-10-18 20:52:27 UTC

The Republican Party is using government power to impose the unpopular business practices of its largest donor on other countries.
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2026-10-18 15:18:43 UTC

On the one hand, Trump is telling Ukraine to abandon their leader, while telling Israel not to abandon theirs, with the not-so-veiled threat that they will be unable to defend themselves if they don't follow his direction.
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2026-10-17 00:51:31 UTC

Elon Musk has hosted SNL and appeared on Rick and Morty more frequently that he has testified to Congress (zero fucking times). Fix that.
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2026-10-16 21:01:11 UTC

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?
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2026-10-16 18:24:34 UTC

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What can Dems actually do about DOGE? A Democratic Congress has a real opportunity to engage in the type of oversight that DOGE has avoided thus far.
[donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-and-grifters )
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2026-10-15 11:46:36 UTC

The curse of paying attention to the Trump admin is I now recognize these guys.
Zampolli who pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane, refused to marry her even when they had a kid, and then years later set ICE on her after she married someone else.
[www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/paolo-zampolli-ice-melania-trump-epstein.html )
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2026-10-15 02:10:00 UTC

Brewers!
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2026-10-15 02:09:00 UTC

Brewers!

2026-10-14 16:12:31 UTC

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So where is Kliger now? As soon as he left the Pentagon, he and other DOGErs raised money for a new startup to sell AI to the Pentagon. It is now valued at $1.4 billion by the DOGE VC sponsors. Meanwhile, Musk is back in government, advising the DOD on what tech to buy.
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2026-10-14 14:29:05 UTC

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DOGE had a lasting effect in stripping out principled agency leadership who refused to go along with illegal and unethical actions.
IRS leadership *today* is still hollowed out. Lewis gives a view from the inside about what those decisions to exit felt like.
[donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-and-grifters )
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2026-10-14 13:50:35 UTC

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The IRS is a great example of where DOGE undermined the core mission: in this case, collecting revenues. It cut 1 in 4 employees, and 1 in 3 of audit specialists. Thats creates revenue losses. It also made it harder for IRS to collect the $66 billion in annual revenues from undocumented immigrants.
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2026-10-14 13:26:53 UTC

Confidently and incorrectly asserting the law is on your side, while demanding to take a camera from the press is very on-0brand.
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2026-10-14 13:22:02 UTC

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DOGErs were told they were breaking the law but that did not stop them. Kliger pushed the illegal sharing of IRS data with ICE. After his time in DOGE, he was hired by the DOD as - wait for it - Chief Data Officer.
[donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-and-grifters )
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2026-10-14 12:44:59 UTC

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Lewis details some of what we already knew about DOGE, such as the fact that they told civil servants to fire employees by lying about their performance. Many refused to go along with the lie, knowing that it would cost them their job.
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2026-10-14 11:45:50 UTC

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One DOGEr, Gavin Kliger, enabled the handover of IRS data on immigrants to DOGE. Kliger had an anti-immigrant right wing edgelord profile online. For DOGE, he was also shutting down agencies, killing life-saving grants, and firing federal employees. [donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-and-grifters )
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2026-10-14 03:07:41 UTC

New from me: Michael Lewis provides a timely reminder that even the heroic federal employees who tried to block DOGE grifters could only do so much.
If DOGE could not be stopped at the time, accountability must be on the agenda for the future. 🧵
[donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-and-grifters )
[Blockers and Grifters](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-and-grifters )

2026-10-13 21:59:11 UTC

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The DOGE people were idiots unable to think about second order effects. Lets use IRS data to round up immigrants!
That data comes from immigrants who voluntarily pay about $66 billion a year taxes.
What happens to the deficit when they are too scared to pay taxes?
[budgetlab.yale.edu/research/pot...](https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/potential-impact-irs-ice-data-sharing-tax-compliance )
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2026-10-13 21:55:50 UTC

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6. DOGE lied and the government lied to the press and in court about what was going when it came to the stealing of data (l). As [@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:zbrmcdi7kjdncn44q62wszkr ) wrote in her review of the state of the IRS, more than 90% of the data was improperly shared.
[donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-really-are-getting-worse-at )
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2026-10-13 21:51:37 UTC

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5. At the time what we could see from the outside is that a lot of IRS career leaders were resigning, with stories that they were resisting the DOGE press to illegally grab data because they did not want to be blamed. What I wrote at the time was on the left. Lewis gives the insider perspective.
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2026-10-13 21:46:06 UTC

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4. DOGE officials were told datasharing under certain conditions was illegal. The most obvious is IRS data. Need an act of Congress to share. They did not care.
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2026-10-13 21:42:30 UTC

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3. DOGE made false claims about employee performance in order to fire them, but did not want to put their names to these emails. So they would coerce civil servants into doing so. If the civil servants refused, they were fired. (Not just DOGE, other Trump appointees like Kash Patel did this).
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2026-10-13 21:37:58 UTC

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Lewis also claims the footsoldiers had a certain type: white, middleclass, desperate to have Elon's attention. Many had been rejected from elite institutions and had a chip on their shoulder and enjoyed their sense of power over people who knew much more than they did.
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2026-10-13 21:36:09 UTC

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article).
1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention.
Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE.
[www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/03/elon-is-my-prophet-how-musks-doge-team-took-a-wrecking-ball-to-washington )
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2026-10-13 18:38:34 UTC

This whole opinion is terrific. Also, *a year and a half* after a series of government officials made false statements about a federal employee to justify cutting funding off to a blue state. They also hoped to put this employee in fear, using amplifiers like Benny Johnson and Laura Loomer.
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2026-10-13 01:19:00 UTC

The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.
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2026-10-12 20:10:19 UTC

This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law).
[www.military.com/air-force-ma...](https://www.military.com/air-force-major-jason-watson-called-trumps-impeachment-solitary-confinement-24-hours-a-day-attorney )
[Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is...](https://www.military.com/air-force-major-jason-watson-called-trumps-impeachment-solitary-confinement-24-hours-a-day-attorney )

2026-10-12 16:46:38 UTC

The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

2026-10-12 01:01:42 UTC

Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users
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2026-10-11 23:34:58 UTC

They literally passed a bill expanding sanctions on Russia a month ago. It was named after one of their colleagues. Vote was 86-11!
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2026-10-11 15:24:46 UTC

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.
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2026-10-11 14:42:58 UTC

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses:
H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left.
H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent.
Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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2026-10-11 13:38:59 UTC

CLAIM: we engaged in deceptive and dangerous practices befitting a secret police in an authoritarian state
FACT: see above
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2026-10-11 13:05:21 UTC

Fetterman does not seem to like his job, the biggest city in his state, or his governor. He does like spending time online and going on TV.
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2026-10-10 14:40:18 UTC

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option.
[onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.70224 )
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2026-10-09 22:16:57 UTC

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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2026-10-09 00:26:53 UTC

You know what’s really bad for your health? Not having health insurance. Come January millions of people will lose Medicaid because of Trump’s signature policy while Rodgers is comparing us unfavorably to a country with universal healthcare.
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2026-10-09 00:17:38 UTC

This is not going well for Rodgers when he blurts out “you are bought off by Hamas, Hezebollh.” WTF?
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2026-10-08 16:36:06 UTC

In a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity.
At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one.
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2026-10-07 01:29:06 UTC

Really weird how Trump campaign managers end up working for Putin allies
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2026-10-07 00:14:23 UTC

The restaurant is not closed - we just don’t serve food anymore
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#note1fpt…lrm9

2026-10-06 21:46:56 UTC

Very excited to get my hands on this! Hat tip to @npub13k8…qmwn
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2026-10-06 21:44:28 UTC

What’s the matter with Kansas (complimentary)?
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2026-10-06 20:35:24 UTC

This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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2026-10-06 20:17:25 UTC

Everyday you read of a new story about conditions that reflect or will predictably lead to failure and/or corruption. Giving orgs without capacity vast infusions of new resources typically does not work well.
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2026-10-06 11:23:05 UTC

Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research
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2026-10-03 15:19:19 UTC

The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.
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2026-10-02 12:57:06 UTC

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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#note1x7a…0qtu

2026-09-30 14:18:52 UTC

Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military.
[www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/09/29/hegseth-halts-tenure-appointments-for-civilian-faculty-at-military-academies/ )
[Hegseth halts tenure appointme...](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/09/29/hegseth-halts-tenure-appointments-for-civilian-faculty-at-military-academies/ )

2026-09-30 01:01:09 UTC

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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#note1h8l…q3dm

2026-09-27 21:03:58 UTC

Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?

2026-09-27 01:56:36 UTC

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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#note1e25…hm04

2026-09-22 02:24:35 UTC

Decades from now, people will may wonder how people let this one guy accumulate so much power
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2026-09-21 21:09:54 UTC

I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.
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#note1tds…u5va

2026-09-21 20:16:53 UTC

If I were an opposing quarterback, I would simply ensconce myself in a round tower to frustrate the Vikings's attacks
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2026-09-20 20:12:50 UTC

Strong "I don't need the money, but I do prefer the money to integrity" vibes.
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2026-09-20 18:00:37 UTC

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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2026-09-20 13:27:07 UTC

An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House
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2026-09-20 12:09:03 UTC

Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him
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2026-09-19 22:11:10 UTC

#9 ranked Aggies currently having their ass handed to them by a basketball team. Curse of Pete.
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2026-09-19 17:28:48 UTC

Her family also raised a shit ton of money to create America First Legal to sue others.
Her husband has helped weaponize the DOJ to sue others. Using the legal system to intimidate and threaten people or force them to adopt MAGA views is a core tactic of these people.
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#note155t…mcw8

2026-09-19 15:59:45 UTC

I know a lot of Dems don't want to hear this, but I am CALLING on Piker to DROP OUT of his Senate race.
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2026-09-19 15:17:05 UTC

When I worked at Texas A&M I asked people, why are these students dressed in pretend uniforms? The Corps of Cadets is pretend. It is not a part of the military. It's dress up. Its perfect for a pretend Secretary of Defense.
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2026-09-18 23:30:40 UTC

One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person
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2026-09-18 20:32:58 UTC

It...uh...is not meant to be a competition
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2026-09-16 13:37:40 UTC

Kavanaugh stop
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2026-09-16 13:13:04 UTC

Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation.
One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵
[donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-thank-trump )
[China: “Thank Trump”](https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-thank-trump )

2026-09-16 01:49:44 UTC

Absolutely amazing that Trump is viewed as so untrustworthy that not one in five people will support the promise of free money
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2026-09-15 21:10:35 UTC

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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