For The Umpteenth Time: This Is Why Republicans Will Get Pounded In November: Another person died in ICE custody over the weekend, that’s 12 so far this year. This one was an Afghan National, here legally, who fought along side our troops in Afghanistan for over a decade. Why the fuck was he…

So the woman who accused Trump and Epstein of having sexually abusing her when she was a teenager was credible enough to be interviewed four times by the feds AND to get a settlement from Epstein.!

ICE just got caught in another lie. ICE cut over 40% of its training program, slashed half of all firearms instruction, and eliminated ALL evaluation of agents’ grasp of skills specific to immigration enforcement and deportation operations.

complete insanity

James Talarico is great. www.facebook.com/reel/7627274...

It’s amazing how these people have no morals or beliefs of any kind, and just will say anything that works, at any moment, to grasp some power.

One of my colleagues wrote about this over 30 years ago, noting that Congress was all about "blame avoidance" in foreign policy, which basically made the president a king

… Because Trump has pulled resources from Ukraine and the “negotiation“ is how he’s going to feed that democracy to Putin. Sure, if you’re handing a puppy over to a crocodile, the puppy is going to bark.

Paramount is going to destroy the independence of CNN...like David Ellison did to CBS and Jeff Bezos did to the Washington Post and billionaire Soon-Shiong did to the L.A. Times. We will effectively have Trump-run media, all desperate to appease him. @mcuban.bsky.social, Help! Please buy MS NOW!

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

However bad your life is right now, take comfort that the lives of the Congressional Republicans who are not only forced to listen to Trump ramble but who also have to muster the energy to stand and clap are, at the moment, much worse.

"The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 yrs old, Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out."

Some of the comments here explain why Democrats stink at actually winning elections. Mamdani won in NYC. NYC and Texas are not the same. And supporting a white candidate over a Black one does not equate to racism. There's a lot of actual racism; stop trivializing it with baseless allegations.

Let’s go Cyclones! Cheering from Florida! Two hours to game time. 🥱 #IowaState vs #BYU

Trump & his political party these past 11 years have all been about spreading fear and stoking division. To preserve this democracy, we must defeat fear and division.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

For anyone who is new here ... The thing that upsets Trump the most is not tariffs. The thing that upsets him the most is that someone told him "No." The entire world is at risk because not enough people in his whole life have been willing to tell him "No."

As Joe Biden would say, this is a BFD

I know my feed on X got almost no interactions once Elon changed the algorithms. I would not buy a blue check to be more visible. Screw that.

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

Since I’m comparing being on Blue Sky to X this week, please remind me your greatest reason/s for leaving and what you like about being on here. Thanks

On day 3 of giving this a true chance over X, I’m finding it all positive except… Why isn’t there a chat group option? I’m not alone in feeling it’s a major downside here. Is it too hard to change the feature?

New in PN: CBS obeys in advance "A routine TV hit which would have been quickly forgotten became a national story about government censorship and a Democratic candidate being silenced by Trump’s henchmen. In a tough primary, you couldn’t buy better exposure. Nice work, FCC Chair Brendan Carr."

I’m tempted to buy one of these but then I feel like a hypocrite. I thought the Let’s Go Brandon shirts were so immature. I just know I’d laugh if someone admired it. 😅

I see this as pathetic. What do you want to bet that the same MAGAs who ordered Trump phones are thrilled by this?!

Day two of here vs X. Quickly gaining new mutual followers is far superior! I felt invisible on X. The downside: I have group of friends there in a chat group discussing sports, fun pics, and game scores such as: Connections Puzzle #982 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 This offers nothing. 😟

Iowa State handled Houston! Great win 70-67!

Boom💥🤣

I’ve made a decision to give this another run. My interactions on X are almost none. 🤦‍♀️ Anyone else sharing Connections? Connections Puzzle #980 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sorry I’m not on here regularly. I enjoy group chats which are still not available here? And we can’t send a gif or picture in a chat? Seems really lame.

Hey @ej23.bsky.social, where should you go to solve math problems on NYE?

How much does it cost 🎅🏼 to park his sleigh 🛷?

Joke for @ej23.bsky.social 😄

Curious who has experienced an X suspension and successfully regained their original account? I’ve been going in circles with X support. Every time I log in with my usual I pad an alert is sent with no way to provide feedback that it’s me. I think I’ve lost my account since 2009!

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Better not leave the house! 🙄 @ej23.bsky.social

Political violence against ICE is wrong & unacceptable. Masked federal agents grabbing innocent people off the streets and disappearing them into unmarked vans without due process is also wrong & unacceptable. So ICE should stop doing it. Today’s show.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Let’s spell this out. Trump fired a qualified U.S. attorney who refused to do his bidding and installed his own personal lawyer to punish a perceived opponent. Justice needs to follow the law, not politics. This is an attack on the rule of law. Full stop.

This was never the point of the Fairness Doctrine, and if the last 24 hours don't convince you why the government should have *less* control over the media, then I can't keep explaining it to you

Buttigieg: "We are not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House ... in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down."

My former political party is everything we used to fear the left would become. colombiaone.com/2025/09/14/l...

For now I’m sticking with X. I really tried to like it here but it just isn’t doing it. Not sure exactly why but so many great accounts there. I miss many that came here and deactivated. Lost so many informative bookmarks too. 😣

I understand that many people on the left think that associating Trump with conservative views is a shortcut to delegitimizing everything about conservatism, but Trump is no conservative; the MAGA movement is Big Government, Nanny Statism for white people.

Who could’ve foreseen that it would be a disaster to put an unqualified Fox weekend host with a drinking problem and sordid personal history in charge of the military

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Hey @texhellcat.bsky.social @ej23.bsky.social what do you call an Irishman who is bouncing off the walls? 🍀 🥁🥁🥁

Be clear about one thing: The rest of the world isn’t wondering what was wrong with Kamala Harris. They’re wondering what is wrong with the American voters who had to decide between a convicted felon who said he wants to be a dictator - and a black woman. And chose the convicted felon.

It’s a cult.

It’s imperative at this point that Europe develop a defense posture independent of the United States, which should be treated as the ally of Russia that it has now become.