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Joshua Smith

@smithmachine

Currently: Policy Director, @SenateBudget / @SenJeffMerkley. When I grow up: Major League Baseball-Playing Supreme Court Justice.

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  1. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    "Obviously it stinks for those attending." This is college football in a nutshell in 2026: Scheduling a rivaly game at 10 am local, not caring about the players or the fans or the alumni. The true "customer" is a rando who didn't go to a football school but likes watching on TV.
    Stewart Mandel @slmandel
    Obviously it stinks for those attending. BUT for TV exposure, you'd much rather be in that slot than opposite Miami-Notre Dame in primetime.
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  2. Stewart Mandel✓@slmandel
    Obviously it stinks for those attending. BUT for TV exposure, you'd much rather be in that slot than opposite Miami-Notre Dame in primetime.
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  3. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Posts @smithmachine
    The thing is, the College Football Overlords are right! The game has never been more profitable, never had such high TV ratings. So what if century-old rivalries go away? So what if West Coast schools are in the Atlantic Coast Conference? So what if games are at 10am or 10pm? 🤑
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  4. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Posts @smithmachine
    Only 13,000 fans went to Stanford-NC State. Scheduling a game with a school with so little culteral/geographical overlap (rather than, say, UCLA) that didn't end until 11 on a Friday night? "Obviously it stinks for those attending." At least the TV guys got what they wanted.
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  5. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Losing to Stanford will do that. 🌲 🤓
    Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach
    NEWS: North Carolina State announces that Dave Doeren has been fired.
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  6. Nicole Auerbach✓@NicoleAuerbach
    NEWS: North Carolina State announces that Dave Doeren has been fired.
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  7. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Joshua Smith
    RT @SaveEastPo: Good article today from the NYT. I have still yet to hear one good reason why we should get rid of a broad, multi purpose space to satisfy one thing and one thing only. It defies imagination and what PUBLIC space is meant to be.
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  8. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Joshua Smith
    RT @ArthurDelaneyHP: [president dumps huge pile of White House debris on East Potomac Park] The President: behold Trash Island
    Aaron Rupar @atrupar
    Trump: "Trash Island,' Washington, D.C., the nickname for the broken and dilapidated Golf Course that is the subject of frivolous litigation in the United States Court System, before a judge that seems not to want Greatness for our Capital or our Nation (but who knows?), has been badly managed for so many decades that it is a completely nonviable and unsafe Project. Our Plan, developed to the Highest Levels and Standards of Golf, will turn Trash Island into an Island of Beauty and Success! It will be one of the Most Wonderful and Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World. The United States Department of the Interior, and its Experts, are so proud of what has been designed that any delay would be sad, both for them and the Public, which is anxiously waiting for something that is really special! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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  9. Aaron Rupar✓@atrupar
    Trump: "Trash Island,' Washington, D.C., the nickname for the broken and dilapidated Golf Course that is the subject of frivolous litigation in the United States Court System, before a judge that seems not to want Greatness for our Capital or our Nation (but who knows?), has been badly managed for so many decades that it is a completely nonviable and unsafe Project. Our Plan, developed to the Highest Levels and Standards of Golf, will turn Trash Island into an Island of Beauty and Success! It will be one of the Most Wonderful and Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World. The United States Department of the Interior, and its Experts, are so proud of what has been designed that any delay would be sad, both for them and the Public, which is anxiously waiting for something that is really special! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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  10. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Tearing down the East Wing and ruining the Reflecting Pool are bad, but symbolically so. This makes the experience of living in DC as a normal person – turning a place for cycling, fishing, birding, picnicking, and cheap golf into a playground for the rich – materially worse.
    Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix
    Trump announces plans for the redeveloped East Potomac Park golf course.
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  11. Andrew Leyden✓@PenguinSix
    Trump announces plans for the redeveloped East Potomac Park golf course.
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  13. Josh Dawsey✓@jdawsey1
    Our latest:
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  14. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    The most recent non-Trump violaiton of the Impoundment Control Act was in 2006 under W.
    Joshua Smith @smithmachine
    This makes nine (9!) seperate times in less than two years that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has determined the President has illegally withheld Congressinally appropriated funds.
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    Posts @smithmachine
    This makes nine (9!) seperate times in less than two years that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has determined the President has illegally withheld Congressinally appropriated funds.
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  16. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    The President broke the law by illegally withholding funds to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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    Posts @smithmachine
    The President also broke the law by illegally witholding funds from EPA's Community Change Grants program, part of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants Program, and illegally terminating the grants.
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  19. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Every $1 spent on flood adaptation saves $1.80 in federal disaster recovery costs. Seems like a good investment imo
    U.S. CBO @USCBO
    CBO examines how spending for flood adaptations today might affect the federal government's potential costs for disaster relief later, and what households are likely to pay for flood insurance that is subsidized by the federal government.
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  20. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    This is a load-bearing "provided that." “I applaud this administration,” [Mark Iwry, a former senior Treasury official] said, “provided these measures are implemented responsibly, in good faith, and free of conflicts of interest, corruption, and ulterior motives.”
    Richard Rubin @RichardRubinDC
    New from us: Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.
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  21. Richard Rubin@RichardRubinDC
    New from us: Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.
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  22. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    This is a very good essay.
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  23. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    JFC
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    DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm
    The official launch video for the new Warner Bros/Paramount merged company — Skydance.
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  24. DiscussingFilm✓@DiscussingFilm
    The official launch video for the new Warner Bros/Paramount merged company — Skydance.
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  25. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Come on now. This can't be real.
    Sadie Gurman @sgurman
    DOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation. W @PhilipWegmann
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  26. Sadie Gurman@sgurman
    DOJ is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation. W @PhilipWegmann
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  27. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Joshua Smith
    RT @sn_handler: News in Punchbowl News Midday: Merkley and Murray will try to UC a bill later today that would block the White House’s pocket rescission
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  28. Joshua Smith@smithmachine
    Joshua Smith
    RT @elwasson: The non-binding document on super intelligence says Trump is president of the “Unites” States
    Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
    Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities
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  30. U.S. CBO@USCBO
    CBO examines how spending for flood adaptations today might affect the federal government's potential costs for disaster relief later, and what households are likely to pay for flood insurance that is subsidized by the federal government.
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