They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

The fact that someone named Mueller She Wrote is still followed by serious people after Mueller, in fact, wrote and did nothing is... very 2017.

The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

How are we so easily distracted from that batshit speech??? Whoever stopped that escalator did him a huge favor.

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Elon Musk’s father has been accused of child sexual abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. Donald Trump is a senile old codger, standing before the United Nations, reading a speech clearly written by an alt right lunatic and a bunch of oil and gas lobbyists. Well done, U.S. voters. You really fucked this one up.

Not the Rapture but everyone dying of embarrassment.

Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promises, prices have not fallen under his administration—a topic I’d be continually hounding him about if he was a Democrat.

What Epstein records have not been made public?

I've never been so viscerally angry at a politician before. Using violence against women to push quack science about children?! F him into space.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Because we should always remember the 21st night of September.

Rare double feature but I gotta sneak this in before the clock strikes midnight @erinbiba.bsky.social

Demi Adejuyigbe, we miss you!

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online, MSNBC has learned.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

The problem is that mainstream Dem opinion makers are addicted to X. And, to a T, they have all moved right since every normal person left the platform, because they can’t bring themselves to find us where we are.

The termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social is insane. They’re claiming that white men are a protected marginalized group

“Pufferfish” needs to become a term in marketing and politics immediately. Mostly just angry for show. Poisonous if handled improperly. A chance to dunk if you can channel your inner fiending dolphin. To push the metaphor way too far: Who’s gonna give these Dems and CEOs sushi knife skills?

all corporate execs (disney, target, budweiser, wherever) should force themselves to spend like one day a month around normal people just so they don’t fall for it when far-right culture warriors inflate themselves like pufferfish to trick them into thinking they speak for millions of other people

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

They figured out lying to Congress doesn’t matter when during Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2017. Why are we still surprised? Why does our leadership not understand accountability?

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

“We are living through fascism and the primary way we connect with and inform and organize w/ each other is under lethal attack. No one is coming to protect the internet for us, and people won’t even have a clue how catastrophic this can become until it’s over” @kattenbarge.bsky.social

Oh god dammit. I just realized that Bluesky also has spam from “men” suggesting a “sugar daddy” relationship. I know it only takes seconds to delete, but it’s so damn annoying. In olden times I’d amuse myself by wasting their time, but now it’s just AI chatbots (“I am from USA 🇺🇸!”), so no point.

remember way, way back like a week or two ago when all of our tech lords lined up like peasants at the feet of a king begging to be the first to tell him how perfect he is?

My tenants are fleeing the country because one of them is a Dreamer/DACA recipient. Everything is fine.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Yet again with the "it's all a distraction" centrists. Do we not understand how the right got low info voters?! They jumped on EVERY issue, pop culture, politic or otherwise, and made a huge deal about it. Whatever you cared about, they were there to be outraged with you. GET ON IT.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

I understand that Rancho Gordo has good beans and a cult following, but seriously people, Zursun is the way. Orca Beans! Trout Beans! They are just so good.

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.

I keep thinking about the fact that California already has infrastucture for their own border checkpoints (because "agriculture") but none of the rest of us do. Might be useful...

Jerry Greenfield said in a public resignation letter that Ben & Jerry's "has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power" by Unilever, which bought the Vermont-based ice cream maker in 2000.

IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The Obama "if I had a son" answer has been retconned into the Moment He Divided Us. But before that, it was Obama telling Lynn Sweet that the cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates, thinking he was breaking into his own home, "acted stupidly." www.politico.com/story/2009/0...

❝ ⋯ right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90% of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020, far outpacing terrorism from any other source since 1990. And since 2020, it’s gotten increasingly worse. ❞

By the way, the tiktok universe looked at that Candace Owens tribute to CK and spotted the tension, immediately. Bluesky just does not have the same abilities to clock a vibe.

This crystallizes the incredible shrinking Congress under Trump: MAGA Republicans think that public employees should not communicate with Congress even when members of Congress make clear that they want to hear from them. Because they believe legislative oversight of Trump is fundamentally wrong.

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

In other news, roses are red.