@benborges.xyz he fella! Just a (hopefully helpful) heads-up in case you weren’t aware: there appears to be a bug in a script/API/plug-in you’re using to share YT links to Bsky…it’s apparently got an “undefined” field that’s populating your posts with that text on the last line of every YT link post

To journos covering Trump 2.0: the word “policy” is N/A. Phrases like Trump “tariff policy” or “foreign policy” are not just semantic anachronisms—they’re wholly incorrect…and malpractice. Trump 2.0 has disregulated “impulse” and diversionary “sideshow” —but none of it is “policy” by any definition.

This is the day we give thanks for the real Americans—the pre-founding Great-Grandfathers—who thought it wrong to turn away foreign refugees seeking a better life or deny them food assistance when they were going hungry and struggling Native Americans…who rejected nativism on that 1st Thanksgiving.

@realjakebroe.bsky.social it’ll ++help to explain Witkoff-Trump corruption via HOW Witkoff is Trump’s business partner: Not just real estate—Witkoff’s & Trump’s kids own/run *Liberty World Financial* crypto co. Russia + Saudi keep pouring $Bns into its bribecoin scheme, laundering $Bns to both fams

to all the anti-Zelenskyy Ukrainians, I wish you understood how dangerous it is to not be behind someone trying his best to save the country if putin and trump succeed in ousting him, they're trying their best right now, they will not give you a choice they will impose another Yanukovich on you

When the “Temu United States” ad is just a little too on-the-nose

I think what RFK Jr. meant to say was “the CDC director refused to put kids' health at risk when I told her to, so I fired her."

@jayinkyiv.bsky.social has a YouTube channel, and it’s a good one. I’m really appreciating his takes. Jay’s updates regularly give a deeper backstory-context than you’ll see in the headlines and even on many other pro-Ukraine YT channels Slava Ukraïni

@jjsmart.bsky.social YouTube really needs to clean up their act. Look at the header ad they serve *above* your profile when I search for “Jason Jay Smart” — a promo for a paid Russian propagandist, Tim Pool.

What happens if we all wear masks and yell at each other that we’re all ice, stuffing each other into cars, stopping those cars, and stuffing the occupants into yet other cars? It’s a perfect ICE ouroboros.

an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

While working for Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, "Sergio Gor" and Senator Paul took a week-long trip to Russia in August of 2018. Shortly after this trip, Senator Paul promoted him to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff in January 2019.

"Sergio Gor" (Sergey Gorokhovsky) rapidly ascended in Republican politics over the years for good reason: He delivered massive amounts of cash through "donation fundraising." Jesse Benton, his co-worker from Sen. Paul's office, went to prison for laundering $100,000 from Russia.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social Would you PLEASE stop using deceptive clickbait thumbnails? Obama is nowhere in this vid—using his image + a title quotation *he did not say* is intentionally misleading; it’s destructive to your own brand & to Dem credibility For all our sakes—do better—BE MORE HONEST

I recently discovered @mindfulrussell.bsky.social Dr. Russel Razzaque’s YT channel—highly recommend Here’s an intro excerpted from his latest vid, with a quick WhoWhatWhyHow explainer of his content Sanity in what feels an increasingly insane, Trumpy world YT channel: youtube.com/@russrazz?si...

Every time Jon Stewart takes a crack at bothsideism it’s a swing-&-a-miss It’s as if he doesn’t have the capacity to recognize the gross hypocrisy in his own rhetoric…even while critiquing the gross hypocrisy of MAGA Rs’ rhetoric —and Dems who do nothing to counter MAGA Rs’ rhetoric or their agenda

There are an endless number of *valid* criticisms to make about the cult of MAGA…but this is not one of them This kind of vapid anagram connection-drawing is no better than Qanon faff Sharing it as though it were meaningful is not helping—it cheapens all the valid criticisms that need to be made

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Law enforcement found a hit list in the Minnesota suspect’s car that contained nearly 70 names, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.

thread on what law enforcement officials had to say about the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and the attempted assassination of Sen. John Hoffman

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Getting really tired of all the “marines took an oath to the Constitution” copium. So did Trump. So did everyone in his regime. The reality is that our military’s culture is largely hard-right into Trumpism —and I know marines, I have some in my family that I barely speak with because of this.

Foreboding: in closing this Lincoln Project vid, @therickwilson.bsky.social’s use of the idiom “running roughshod over” carries literal, non-metaphorical weight this wk Whether consciously intended…it’s chilling that “trampled by rough-shoed horses” is NOT an anachronistic metaphor in Trump’s 2025

You know what this protest movement needs? A sharp, poignant slogan. I propose this Christopher Walken line: THE I C E IS GONNA BREAK

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This is excellent news. The DC bar president oversees disciplining of lawyers who practice in DC…IE: the fed govt seat. Pam Bondi’s Brother-in-law was running for that seat and lost… lost Hugely-bigly.

LAPD Shot A Woman In The Head With That Was Sitting On The Ground With Her Hands Above Her Head Holding A Sign With "Less Lethal" Munitions”

"Note that neither Los Angeles nor the state of California is mentioned in the memorandum. Trump’s mobilization order is in no way limited as to time or place." We are not alarmed enough. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Hours and houra of footage of LAPD savagely beating people with clubs and shooting them.

Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

This is exactly what we need from all our members of Congress—SHOW UP. Thank you, Reps @gomez.house.gov , @repluzrivas.bsky.social , @ntorres35.bsky.social , and Lou Correa for showing up at the Federal Building to demand answers amid reports of inhumane conditions: no beds, no food, no water.

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

I see the LAPD has decided to publicly join the cheka. Not only was this journalist shot from behind, but the gunman waited until the camera turned so he was in frame.

I mentioned to Jessica Pishko’s book “The Highest Law in the Land” yesterday re: LA Sheriff rescuing ICE from their debacle It’s a very real Trump admin [Mike Flynn] strategy underway to use local sheriff jurisdiction to subvert blue city & state PD See also documentary www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

I have posted this link so many times I’ve lost count. From 2022; still available on PBS to stream. They have been organizing what we are seeing the beginnings of for a very long time. They believe they are doing this for *God*. They will not stop.

MASSIVE RESPECT for Ukrainian interviewer @yewleea.bsky.social on UATV, asking @general-ben.bsky.social his thoughts on US citizens’ hesitancy of protesting Donald Trump for fear of Military crackdown. So.👏On.👏Point.👏 So necessary. So utterly insightful. Full ep here: youth.be/aIeNkhsg8Nw?...

@benify.bsky.social just thought I’d share this in your general direction, my friend. Hope you’re well, Mike. youtu.be/6skuCiLCjRA?...

Here’s a funny-sounding word with equally nutty implications of the distinctly Russian domestic propaganda paradigm around May 9th celebrations: “Pobedobesie” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobedob... Think of it as…An orgiastic wreckstasy of collective wargasm …if you will.

I may be the only lawyer targeted by Trump willing to speak on camera, but for me it wasn't a choice. All of us have an obligation to speak out against what Trump is doing. All of us have an obligation to fight for democracy. I am fortunate to be a lawyer and to have a platform -- and I will use it.

God bless the snarky brilliance of @starskyua.bsky.social 🤣 Literally spit out my coffee laughing this morning with his UATV English report. Full thing is here, and yes, there’s more to love: youtu.be/Q4O0I9FkS8w?...

When A President Isn’t A Criminal Propped Up By A Corrupt Supreme Court…

I’ve posted about “Project Russia” a few times — if you haven’t seen @davetroy.com’s write-up, check it out and inform yourself. No, seriously. This is huge.

“Mandrake, have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation—fluoridation of water? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived & dangerous communist plot we’ve ever had to face? …The international communist conspiracy to sap & impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

She's right about everything. Brexit & Trump are the same. Same Facebook. Same Nigel Farage. Same Russians.

Props to @ninajankowicz.com for her crucial work & this address to the EU parliament Poor awkward guy sitting next to her suddenly became excruciatingly self-aware of being in frame while she spoke—and his fidgeting distracts from Nina’s important words Here’s an appropriately-cropped version: