Matt O'Brien
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Writer in New York. Formerly the Washington Post & the Atlantic. https://t.co/OwdoDtQgn1 https://t.co/ODLsHkejTQ
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Joined July 2010
I'm sticking around Twitter, but I'm also going to be posting at Blue Sky, just to remind myself what it's like to be someplace where the algorithm isn't promoting fascists.
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“Carbon dioxide has what plants crave!” was right there in front of him.
Zeldin: "They'll say that carbon dioxide endangers public health, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and they'll never talk about anything that is good or important about it."
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Kevin Hassett is a stone cold moron, but even he’s not stupid enough to actually believe this. He’s just such a genuinely bad person that he’s willing to say 2+2=5 if Trump demands it.
WELKER: Does the administration have any evidence that the jobs numbers were rigged?. HASSETT: The evidence is that there have been a bunch of revisions. WELKER: But hard evidence?. HASSETT: The revisions are hard evidence . (They are not "hard evidence")
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Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are probably to blame for today’s miserable jobs report. Instead of getting rid of his tariffs, though, Trump has decided to get rid of reliable economic statistics. They’re just going to fake the numbers.
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If you’re going to fake that jobs numbers, you need to fake GDP too so that everything is consistent. It’s all going to become garbage.
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It will actually be interesting to compare the average market reaction to jobs reports from up until now with what happens in the future to get an idea of how much Trump is faking them.
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Welp. Guess economic reporters can stop covering the jobs reports now.
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Can’t wait for the BLS to congratulate Comrade Trump on another record grain harvest.
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, an longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
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QAnon is like if people who wanted to fight anti-Semitism decided that the best way to do that was to support Hitler.
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If any of this were funny, I’d be laughing about how Trumpers built an anti-pedophile cult around the guy who was best friends with the most famous pedophile of all time.
BREAKING NYT:. The Times just found that at least once before the infamous 2003 birthday book, Trump had written Jeffrey Epstein an admiring note. "To Jeff — You are the greatest!" reads an inscription in a copy of Trump's book 'The Art of the Comeback' that belonged to Epstein.
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Trump would rather release a child sex trafficker than release the Epstein files.
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Can’t wait for Trump to announce he’s going to finish OJ’s work looking for the Real Killer.
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When you have nothing to hide dot com.
BREAKING:. Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.
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When he was consolidating power, one of the first things Putin did was pressure late night hosts to stop making fun of him. In other news, CBS just canceled Colbert because they want Trump to approve their merger.
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Resolved: Democrats should call him Donald Epstein from now on.
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Trump couldn't act guiltier if he tried when it comes to Epstein. Makes you think!.
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The thing about Samuel Moyn is he’s a stone cold moron, and Yale should be forced to give a refund to everyone who’s taken a class from him.
This, from Sam Moyn's piece on Ukraine today, is utter bullshit:. "There will be no full restoration of lost territory for long-suffering Ukrainians, who have been treated as pawns for a long time—by America’s Democrats, too.".
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John Roberts is just calling balls and strikes: balls when the other team is pitching, and strikes when his team is.
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On the one hand, it would still be a big deal, electorally-speaking, even if only 10-20% of Trump voters turned against Republicans over Medicaid cuts. On the other, it really is something how impervious so many people are to material conditions, esp when it comes to Trump….
Voters vulnerable to Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” law are reluctant to blame the president or congressional Republicans who approved it, instead directing their frustration at their hospital system.
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I honestly wonder if there’s anyone else in the Epstein Files other than Trump.
a deranged Trump claims Obama and Hillary wrote the Epstein files and urges people to not care about them 🥴
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