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Paul Waldman

@paulwaldman.bsky.social

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Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com

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@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:08 PM

These two are going to fight each other to the death, it's only a matter of time

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:06 PM

oh man

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:09 PM

Meanwhile, Eric Adams was spotted at a cockfight in the basement of a house in Staten Island

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 3:18 PM

So to recap: 1. Advocate for lunatic conspiracy theories 2. Almost melts down from nervousness at first briefing 3. Turns out she's been lying about being a lawyer I figure it'll take one or two more bad stories before she resigns to spend more time with her family.

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 3:09 PM

It's mostly just him bitching about how bad the environment is for Rs and how he's not getting the support he needs. So maybe he'd want to unlock more money from the national party and big donors? Who knows.

@maxkennerly.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:14 AMReposted by @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.

CCatherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 2:21 AM

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 1:42 PM

Deep cut

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 1:30 PM

At some point, enough of these secret recordings of Ken Paxton get leaked that the hypothesis that the one leaking the secret recordings is Ken Paxton himself begins to look quite plausible

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 1:23 PM

And all it took was 30 years of Republicans causing a recession, Democrats cleaning up the mess, Republicans causing another recession, Democrats cleaning up the mess, Republicans causing another recession...and high gas prices.

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 1:14 PM

When things are going very well for you and your party

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 1:12 PM

Man, Joe Biden is gonna have to answer for this

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 10:41 PM

Whaddya know, Dems, you can answer a question about trans people by 1) standing on principle, 2) turning it into an attack on Republicans, and 3) not acting like a sniveling coward. It's not that hard!

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 5:36 PM

It's understandable that she's nervous - this is big step up from being an on-air contributor to NewsGrift TV or whatever it was. But she really needs to work on the seething hatred for the news media and democracy itself that made Leavitt so effective.

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 1:21 PM

I don't get it. How is William Lawrence going to accomplish this? Will he use mind control to turn, say, Jim Jordan into another AOC? One bright spot in the deluge of Musk's money is that he is clearly making all the strategic decisions himself, which is good because he's a moron.

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 1:17 PM

It's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 1:22 AM

I guarantee you, Husted would have given anything to not have Trump come campaign for him, but he couldn't say no. Then he had to stand there smiling and laughing at Trump's weird jokes while his campaign went down the tubes.

AAaron Rupar@atrupar.comOct 12, 2026, 11:28 PM

Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"

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@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 8:45 PM

Just remembering that Melania Trump got a green card on an EB-1 visa, aka the "Einstein visa," reserved for a small number of people with extraordinary talent and renown - Olympic athletes, globally recognized scholars, etc. Then she chain-migrated her parents too.

@paulwaldman.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:56 PM

Uh-oh, it "raises serious questions," stand back

@jennycohn.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:11 PMReposted by @paulwaldman.bsky.social

“One might even ask what took them this long to stage the first federally produced snuff film of the modern era, since today’s conservative movement is absolutely saturated in violence — encouraging it, glorifying it, and from time to time, committing it.“ By Paul Waldman

@schooley.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:58 PMReposted by @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.

washingtonpost.comElon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegallyInvestors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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