@gene4va.bsky.social Healthcare subsidies are not the issue. Hold the line for dear life.

Did Hegseth consult the the anti trans girls in women's sports people before implementing a unisex fitness standard?

As of this morning #GSA is operating business as usual.

As long as I am a member of the United States Congress, I will NOT fund authoritarianism. I will NOT support Fascism. And I will NOT vote for a continuing resolution that steals from American families.

When what's happening is not actual binding legislation and appropriations, but a fake rubber stamp for lawless tyranny, nothing Trump and his GOP can or will pretend to offer is worth giving them the cover of constitutionally legitimate normalcy or bipartisan agreement. @theunpopulist.net

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

@kristenwelker.bsky.social As Majority Leader Thune was bragging about how his Congress holds the power of the purse via appropriations, you failed to press him on the executive branch's takeover of appropriations via impoundments and pocket rescission. Republicans are letting this happen.

@govwesmoore.bsky.social Prosecute ICE agents for violating Maryland laws. Federal supremacy doesn't protect them from unlawful activity. We demand that you and Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown protect us from kidnapping and assault perpetrated by supposed federal agents.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Is Chicago? Is not Chicago.

@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social You guys are being rolled like chumps practically daily. You've actually been helping. So stop it. Don't go along to get along on this. Let the bozos shut this b*tch down.

If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

There’s a widespread misconception in Western society that repelling Russian provocations would lead to war. It’s a narrative fueled by Russian propaganda. In reality, the opposite is true: Russia will continue escalating its aggression and provocations until it is stopped.

Finally a reasonable headline from the NYT.

Pointed takedown of Trump's fed gov facility design directive by Aaron Betsky in Architect Magazine today: www.architectmagazine.com/design/aaron...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Looks like Gov. Spencer Cox has been repeatedly telling press that Robinson was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology” but refusing to substantiate the allegation even when TV news anchors press for evidence.

So, Gov. Cox is going on the Sunday shows and claiming the shooter of CK is "leftist" when all evidence points to him being even more alt-right than CK was. He's pushing Donny's narrative like a good little puppet and there seems to be zero push back. Swell. #BeenNiceKnowingYouIGuess

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social So disappointed by your comments on Meet the Press today. This is not a both sides issue. The vast majority of political violence is perpetrated by the Right. Charlie Kirk himself advocated for gun violence as a price to pay for the 2nd Amendment. It's on the record.

Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

@bloomberg.com This morning's hagiography of "Charles Kirk" on Bloomberg disgusts me. The nation is not torn apart by Kirk's death; Charlie Kirk helped tear this country apart with his hateful words.

This is not the safe course, it's a reckless gamble that the party will magically rebound from record unfavorable polling numbers by quietly helping Republicans fund their agenda and avoid a major electoral problem until just after the midterms.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard. The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

@abigailspanberger.com How about losing the milquetoast bipartisanship pitch and putting some teeth into your campaign ads, future Gov Spanberger.

Good morning. Christopher Armitage clearly lays out the significant powers, legal precedents, and timing of Democratic state disruption of the fascist federal regime. This one really has teeth - viable teeth. @carmitage.bsky.social

Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list. “We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors”

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

@flightradar24.com Are there tracking issues today? Never seen anything like this on FR24.

@abigailspanberger.com Supervise your consultants please.

@abigailspanberger.com Your TV commercials are weak. Denying Donald Trump his dictatorship isn't "some petty political fight," this is a fight for our lives. Democrats have had enough bi-partisanship with Kaine and Warner confirming the same Trump appointees stealing our freedoms.

Any reporter writing about Lisa Cook who uses a passive voice phrase like "after allegations emerged" and not something more accurate like "after a Trump crony went digging through the private mortgage information of officials Trump wanted to target looking for dirt" should quit their goddamn job

Truth Art! #arresttrump #art

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

John Bolton refused to testify at Trump's impeachment, preferring to sacrifice national security to make money with his book. He could have helped bring accountability and erode the mafia state, enduring that Trump and his cohort could not return. He did not, so now the mafia state comes for him.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/t...

As Putin heads to Alaska with his maps and narratives, here's an essay I wrote last year about one of his spurious justifications for Russia's illegal war of aggression—his ideological story that Russia is an ancient state, and Ukraine is historically Russian land snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Please read this excellent, point by point refutation of the claim that there was a "Russia hoax" From @noupside.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

Okay, right off the bat: NOT TRUE. I have zero idea if they even looked up the law that they're citing, but no, a state legislator is *not* an "officer of state government" within the meaning of Texas Government Code Section 22.002. Fun fact: the Texas Supreme Court has issued decisions on this!

Summary of ineptitude: billkingpiano.substack.com/p/silence-of...