Cute, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, but this glosses over the trauma, dislocation and anxiety our public servants have gone through. You’re one of them. Do better.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Hard to argue with this.

Reminder. Congress gets paid during a shutdown. Fed workers do not. On top of that, feds deemed essential must continue working while not getting paid. Refusal to work could easily lead to termination. Make sure to find a way to helps feds who will be impacted by losing pay. Not all make big $$

Hegseth has been a disaster. Why are Dems not making a bigger issue of this? These are serious, fundamental failures.

Reading this piece gets me even angrier than I was six months ago-if that’s possible. I live for the day to see these bastards arrested, convicted, and thrown in jail. Superb, comprehensive, and damning reporting by the WIRED team.

Fan-girling here but I’ve just bought a ticket for @wolfhall.bsky.social weekend in London next June. Right now can’t think of anything better than hanging out with Tudor historians, talking about Cromwell, Anne Boleyn, and Hilary Mantel. Sure beats damn news on either side of the pond these days.

Gail is exactly right. Now imagine the impact throughout the entire government.

So it can be done.

Who in their right mind would invest in this country right now? Killing a strong economy, one step at a time.

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

JUST IN: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DEPORTS UNITED NATIONS ESCALATOR TO EL SALVADOR

USAID saved lives. They killed it because they could.

Nails it.

Hero.

We just totally normalized & moved on from this, the greatest constitutional crime in 🇺🇸 history. Elon & a bunch of techbro fake government employees with no security clearances going in & dismantling large swathes of the government Congress created. They need to go to jail, some, like Elon, forever.

Maybe POTUS’ motorcade shouldn’t have screwed up Macron’s walk to the French UN Mission in New York yesterday…

This is a drop in the bucket of how many of us were terminated, but highlights how haphazard our terminations were.

“We should remember this not only as a tragedy of waste but as a stark reminder that when we abandon humanitarian leadership, we imperil our own security.” @steadystatevets.bsky.social member Ambassador Bruce Berton on the shortsightedness of destroying USAID supplies-and USAID itself.

This morning reading the French and UK press reporting on that UN “speech” is…so goddamn embarrassing. I remember a time when people actually welcomed the words of the American president from the podium.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Disgusting doesn’t begin to describe it.

(1/3) I'm excited to announce that Stephen Colbert, Host, Executive Producer, and Writer of @colbertlateshow.bsky.social will be honored with the 2025 @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social Ripple of Hope Award at our annual gala on December 9!

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN: “I appear to be living rent-free in Trump’s head… when people behave a certain way you’ve got to believe them. Trump has shown he is racist, sexist, Islamophobic.”

Donald Trump and John Roberts are jointly holding nearly $5 billion in foreign aid hostage. It's now less than a week until the September 30 spending deadline.

Zelensky: “War has already reached too many people to pretend it has nothing to do with you. So it depends on you. Whether you help peace or continue trading with Russia and helping Russia to fund this war, it depends on you.”

Perfect from @djrothkopf.bsky.social: “To describe the speech as insane, while accurate, would distract from just how extraordinarily packed with lies it was. How profoundly ignorant it was. How much damage it did to the United States’ standing in the world.” www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-un-ad...

In other words, Kimmel is doing doing what many of our corporations, universities, law firms, and so-called elites refuse to do.

Keeping it blue.

You can tell they think the speech went well because all they want to talk about are escalators and teleprompters.

#raptor It's Official Raptor Day! Ignore the bird brains in Washington DC and celebrate our flying friends who are smart, beautiful and contribute to a healthy ecosystem.

The Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Players strike again. I did 6 UNGAs with 3 different administrations over my years at State. We never broke the UN escalators.

“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.” To the people of the world who wonder if there are Americans who grasp how mad he is: There are. We can see it. We are working to mobilize our people to oppose him and his dangerous regime.

Yes.

Unlawful Crossing. Newsday.com/matt

This.

Phang: Trump can get up and be an absolute fucking embarrassment and humiliate our country by saying the dumbest lies in front of the UN… and others can get up and say horrific things about people, and they can have free speech. But we can’t? That’s not how the First Amendment works.

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

In no way does Marco Rubio represent the proud tradition of service and dedication of the Department of State. Shameless. (Reposted to correct typo.)

The war on women by this administration continues.

USAID is the quiet lifeline America gives the world proof that democracy heals instead of destroys. To cut it is to betray our own humanity. If you believe in mercy justice and freedom you fight for USAID because it is us at our best.

As a note taker, I remember sitting in the US delegation hold room at UN headquarters and being proud when the US president addressed the General Assembly. Those were the days.

The same prick who gives me a headache every day now wants to outlaw Tylenol.

I continue to feel that our national experiment of making the dumbest MF in the country president was ill advised.

“News programming” in that last sentence should probably be in air quotes.

Folks Wait a few days before declaring victory on Disney.

Are we great yet? Wouldn’t want to miss it.