Adi and Flauschi in the garden. I'll go back to my winter home in Austria tomorrow, and I already miss my strays so much. They are getting huge piles of treats today. #catsofbluesky #crazycatlady #cats

Release the boat videos. Release the Epstein files. Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage. Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.

Artist: @dagsson.bsky.social

Hegseth's tough-guy act is diminishing our military and our society - and it's using the military as a venue for performing culture war in partisan politics. None of this is good. @markhertling.bsky.social discusses the boat strikes and more with Ben Parker:

The billionaires and the corporations are taking all of the goodies. Keeping all the good things for themselves. They are scooping out all of the big pieces -- licked their spoons clean. They are mounding over their plates over and sneaking away. jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-goodies

Great new newsletter from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social. Please, my American friends, boycott these companies, if you can. Of the companies mentioned in the article only Amazon is active here where I am, and I'm already avoiding them as much as I can.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

And because everything is so awful, here is a picture of Oskar, looking especially cute in hopes of scoring more food. He did not succeed. #cat #catsofbluesky #crazycatlady

It really is disgusting that Trump can insult, berate, single out, threaten, and demean female reporters on a daily basis for asking fair and legitimate questions and you can’t find a single Republican woman in Congress to say it is inappropriate behavior.

One of the things I can't get over is Christians like Mike Johnson....What do you think Mike Johnson's doing? How do people, if they know this stuff about Trump is in there, how can they cover for him? How can they live with themselves?" @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Welp!

Adi, relaxing in the garden. Happy #Caturday!

Flauschi, camouflaged 🌿🫣🌱 #cat #catsofbluesky #crazycatlady

Of all the awful things this administration has done this was the most disgusting.

Savage trolling award goes to Newsome

Step one getting rid of Trump…

Oh, you simple-minded, wheezing gargoyle . . . you were very much on the ballot. You are blamed for the shutdown. You are blamed from SNAP shutting down. You are blamed for a bad economy. And numerous people interviewed last night mentioned that seeing the East Wing destroyed motivated them to vote.

Thank you, people in Virginia, New Jersey and New York! It's nice to have some good news for a change.

List 538 @bm1970.bsky.social @gdad1x7.bsky.social @frankiemillie10.bsky.social @bandroll.bsky.social @stillpissedkris.bsky.social @teacherlisi.bsky.social @handshoe1.bsky.social @lostloves72.bsky.social @redkody.bsky.social @audiophile559.bsky.social @maltosend.bsky.social

"It's the classic way that military coups happen. They say, 'these revolutionaries are about to take over the government, so *we* had to take over the government!'" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social in the latest episode of Sarah Longwell Explains It All:

Oskar the Goofball. Happy #Caturday! #cat #catsofbluesky #crazycatlady

“Having struck out with Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana, ICE now seeks to deport our client Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia – a country with which he has no connection, thousands of miles from his family and home in Maryland.” Weird how they don't just put him on trial. www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abreg...

Every time I read about this or see pictures of the destruction I cannot help but think of the Taliban and IS.

It's not yet #Caturday, but Oskar the Goofball is just too cute. #cat #catsofbluesky #crazycatlady

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

Everything is awful, but I am back in Cyprus, so here is a picture of Flauschi, complaining about the insufficient quantity of food. #cat #catsofbluesky #crazycatlady

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

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The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

Recent reports that the Trump administration is withholding roughly $400 million of military assistance to Taiwan are deeply disturbing. The pause is eerily similar to Trump’s summer 2019 withholding of security assistance to Ukraine, for reasons entirely unrelated to Kyiv’s defense needs.

“He may need to release the Epstein files to distract people from this (show).” —Jimmy Kimmel

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Like a toddler with a machine gun" is spot-on. I feel sorry for all the serious politicians that have to interact with him. And for the poor interpreters at the UN who have to translate his ramblings.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Zohran Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't suggesting anything that's even remotely close to what Communist regimes have done and still do. Trump, however, has done many of these things. Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social lists them in another great article.

A devastating development

As it turns out, the "Kennedy Curse" wasn't that the smart ones were killed, but that the stupid one survived.

"One would think that a man who once owned a casino would know not to allow a known cheater into the house."

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

From today's @financialtimes.com #trump #nobelpeaceprize

"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"

Great breakdown on the meaning of the discovered summit documents and how Trump viewed the meeting.

Eight pages of U.S. plans were reportedly left behind in the business center of an Alaskan hotel.

There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.

Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out