21c Know Nothings are as nasty and weird as what came before.

Brendan Carr is a political hack using government power to push Trump's fascist agenda. I don't recall Carr complaining in 2022 when the networks skipped Biden's speech about democracy. The networks are not supposed to be tools of the ruling party, despite what Carr thinks.

a very confused Scott Bessent, voice quavering, claims he was the target of an assassination attempt in February 2024, a full year before he worked in any sort of government capacity

This article nails it.

The equivalent of swearing a loyalty oath to Trump in front of everybody.

They don’t even make claims that make sense. These aren’t even protesters. These are people ICE is hunting. What could anything Dems say have anything whatsoever to do with these incidents even if the rhetoric were inflammatory?? (and the rhetoric is pretty gentle)

The President’s cabinet member oversees a federal law enforcement agency. He threatens literal bloodshed if the opposition party refuses to suspend using their first amendment speech rights. He’s threatening state violence in response to opposition free speech.

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

Head of the Heritage Foundation in July 2024. It’s not like voters weren’t warned.

The level of disrespect this regime shows to their fellow Americans reaches a level that’s completely incompatible with democracy. These people literally believe they have the right to kill people who disagree with them. It’s disgusting.

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Nice! Congratulations, Hunter Biden [X].

🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”

really proud to play a small part in this effort www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...

It remains a bit amazing to me how Trump have these ghouls free license to enthusiastically express their most bigoted desires. Stone was always quasi-fascist, his anti-abortion radicalism was always the tell, but Trump/MAGA has tipped all these cats into barely disguised racist psychosis

A Washington Post columnist got chopped up by bonesaws by a close Trump ally and the Post subsequently fired everyone at the paper who thought that was bad bsky.app/profile/prin...

The New York Times catches up to a 5-day-old story about Trump social media posts targeting Somali immigrant kindergartners, and it excuses itself by saying “the posts nearly slid by.” They didn’t slide by me and others, who wrote about it on Monday. Keep up, NYT. This is presidential hate speech.

Republicans don’t give a damn about the national debt. Even in times when they say the economy is percolating, they pile on deficit spending to help their favorite donors get even richer. Republicans pretend to worry about the budget as an excuse for screwing over the poor.

Lyman stone is a christofascist freak and it is insane that people pay attention to any of the nonsense he says

This is promising. And it is, again, a reminder of how important local DA elections are. Houston and Minneapolis voted for reformers, Chicago and LA voted theirs out. There's a reason Tende is reaching out to Minneapolis, not Chicago or LA.

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.

this is basically like a colony

So important.

This is more of an investigation than our government will do. It shows someone trying to evade ICE, and pretty much rules out the story that the van drove toward ICE agents. Of course, the ICE claims could be easily verified if its agents wore their bodycams. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

This is quite possible the best trolling yet. 😊🐈‍⬛ #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR RICK CRAWFORD: I think the Iranian people are supportive of the United States coming in and helping them achieve liberty MARIA BARTIROMO: Oh, for sure. The Iranian people are thanking president Trump (Note the B-roll of Trump bombing Iran as they say this ... )

* American heroes who are Black.

The white supremacist Republican Party wants to erase Black heroes.

Combatants are blowing each other up day after day. Is this phenomenon something that’s called “war”? The New York Times is uncertain.

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

MS NOW was all over the Graham Platner story. It didn't try to hide the news about a Democratic scandal, as Fox News does when Republicans are involved in misconduct. MS NOW is following the facts about our political crisis, and that makes it vital right now, as I wrote this week.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal

Juan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: There were three others with him in that vehicle. Those individuals are now being pressured to sign self-deportation orders. They’re trying to get rid of them as witnesses as well.

Really amazing how they can't see they're shooting everyone's faith in the legal system in the dick every time they pull this shit. "Trump is guilty but everyone has to vote on whether we sentence him." Gee I wonder if that made more or less people believe the prosecution was a political witch hunt

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Wasn’t this a multi day story when Biden made one verbal gaffe? Are we just never going to talk about how physically and mentally unfit to serve our president seems to be? Are we all just going to keep pretending this is fine and normal?

Right after @ejeancarroll.bsky.social wins against Felon Trump & the judge enters an order directing the Clerk to release $5 million to E. Jean, Trump files a Notice of Appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. He is such a cheap, judgment-dodging SOB. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Pentagon is running out of money Defense officials asked for more than $67 billion in supplemental funding. But Congress hasn’t approved the money yet, in part because of frustrations over information about the war with Iran, sources say. | NBC www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I feel like ”he just says shit and sometimes it’s an order with the weight of the presidency and sometimes it’s not and there’s no way to know 100% until it happens for anyone including him” is not a sustainable state of affairs.

We need to do what Hungary did: Peaceful citizen observers at polling places

THIS SHOULD ALARM EVERYONE Trump’s DOJ is sending election monitors to Detroit, Lansing, and East Lansing for Michigan’s August 4 primary. The real target isn’t just the election. It’s public trust in blue cities.

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

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Former DOJ lawyer David Becker said this effort to prosecute election officials is unprecedented: "It's a rather transparent attempt at bullying and it's kind of reflective of the panic that is being felt at the DOJ right now."

Most states have resisted the Justice Department’s demands that they hand over sensitive voter-roll information. Judges across the country - including in Maine - have ruled that the DOJ does not have authority to demand this data.

Maine and Minnesota are among the states that confirmed receiving the letter. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in a statement that the state already runs free and fair elections and she didn't need "another letter from the DOJ trying to tell us how to do our job."

NEW The Justice Department is threatening to prosecute election officials across the country for failing to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls, an escalation of the Trump administration's attempts to prosecute election fraud, according to letters I obtained with Andy Mannix @propublica.org 🧵

READ: Detroit Responds to DOJ Sending Election Monitors to Three Blue Michigan Cities talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-de...