Huffing that coal pipe..
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TimmyTimTom retweeted
Economic populism is a winning strategy for democrats, depending on what you mean by that term.
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I now think the best explanation for Trump is simply that Hillary and Kamala were deeply, deeply unlikable people.
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The unfortunate thing about laws that protect tenants is that the people it protects are often the most psychotic, narcissistic, petty grifting group of malingerers and scoundrels imaginable.
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Democrats should really consider getting on board with self-driving cars, I don't think the alliance with the Teamsters is paying large dividends.
Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien here. Just voted in the State of Florida for the first time, and very proud to have cast a ballot for @SenAshleyMoody. Sen. Moody has been extremely helpful working with the Teamsters to protect workers’ pensions, defend good-paying jobs, and support well-funded union apprenticeship programs. The Teamsters look forward to working with Sen. Moody in her role on the Senate HELP Committee to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act and get this critical legislation signed into law to protect American workers.
TimmyTimTom retweeted
This headline is a literacy test
BREAKING: More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California cannot be found on voter rolls, according to a legal filing. apnews.com/article/californi…
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Around 1500, Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on a sinner's bare butt in hell. 500 years later, someone transcribed and performed it. Now you can hear the original butt song from hell.
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When I see young people at a dark, glamorous bar, I want to tell them, “This feels like a long chapter, but it’s going to be one of the shortest in the book.
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I've never really understood the disdain for Vivek Ramaswamy. The new ad with Amy Acton's abusive mom has fixed that. If I were an Ohioan, that alone would be enough to swing my vote. No normal, well-adjusted human being with a basic understanding of social cues would do that.
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The core fiscal issue in DC is that spending is on a trajectory that was set during the 15-year population boom that ran from 2004-2019.
The top consideration in every issue — both tax and non-tax — should be how to return to that strong growth trend.
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TimmyTimTom retweeted
"First time offender court" -- all ages -- is a much better concept than a juvenile court segregated by some arbitrary age.
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This is an example of waste fraud and abuse in government spending & why instead of a tax increase roundtable the council should be conducting a massive audit of the government, starting today.
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Yes, the violence interrupters & Cure the Streets have never achieved their mission; there was no data to support claims of success. The DC auditor released a report years ago.
jonetta rose barras: The unclear impact of violence interruption in DC – TheDCLine.org
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A CPS high school student shot and paralyzed a pregnant classmate — while on pretrial release for a carjacking case AND two days after threatening someone else with a knife during a “gang check,” prosecutors say.
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Illinois is embarrassed by the number of career criminals caught reoffending after slaps on the wrist.
But the legislature has come up with a solution. No, not a solution to the recidivism problem, but a solution to the judges-and-prosecutors-being-embarrassed-by-their-bad-decisions problem. A new law automatically seals the records of every criminal case (with minor narrow exceptions). This means that journalists can’t write stories like this unless they maintain their own parallel records of sentencing instances.
This is unconstitutional. The public has a right to access to the court records, and a government can’t blanket seal such an overbroad category of cases.
@HamLincLaw would love to bring that lawsuit to block this law, but we need a journalist or publication who can show that they’ll be affected by this law to have standing to do it.
If that’s you, and you’re interested, DM or email me.
Getting a 42-month sentence for robbing the Prada store on Oak Street of $46,000 didn’t set him straight.
Months after getting out, he helped rob a utility crew of a $25,000 camera, which made the feds angry.
His sentence: 8 years *federal*
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/prada…
TimmyTimTom retweeted
This is woke bullying disguised as sports opinion writing.
There would be no problem if Sophie Cunningham had expressed a progressive opinion instead of a commonsense one held by the vast majority of Americans.
From @TheAthletic: If the Indiana Fever ever wants to go back to being a basketball team, Sophie Cunningham has to go, our columnist writes. "Cunningham is too combustible, her takes too turbulent to be paired with Caitlin Clark." nyti.ms/4eiBPJ0
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
w/@DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ
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TimmyTimTom retweeted
Sophisticated statistics can produce extremely precise nonsense when the design fails to identify the causal mechanism.
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