Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Has any reporter done a deep dive into two of the most powerful people in Washington DC who seem determined not to use that power or even comment on current events? Mike Johnson and John Thune could stop virtually all of the current chaos simply by putting their hands back on the wheel. 1443038684
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 27/12/2025It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately. 877155743714
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC. Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms. 892363655
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here? 859156574082
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/06/2025So a pathological liar says on the global stage that Iran’s nuclear sites were “obliterated.” Actual intel says that’s not true. Why would anyone believe the pathological liar who’s desperate to be seen as a strongman and a winner, if they’re not a cultist? 481164253
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/05/2025📌Impeach him. Maybe THAT will get people paying attention to the anti-American fuckery that is going on here every hour. 1352651486
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz. 1274201114983
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Garcia: She's playing cosplaying as an ice agent, running around the country, going down to El Salvador, to prisons. You know, holding guns, dressing up. She is a joke 660168313595
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/20253 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain developmentcbsnews.comCDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffsThe CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts. 8322105210459
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/04/2025"The 2024 election wasn’t a restaurant where you could order cheaper eggs but politely ask for the server to hold the fascism. You’re still getting the fascism, and your eggs aren’t just overpriced now, they’re broken and rotten." -- @playtyperguy.compublicnotice.coYes, they voted for this"You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in." 352138823530
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/04/2025They are obviously slow learners 35014899310733
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11/04/2025This was three months ago. 804214395706
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025"The fact that no one is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me, right?" said Representative Jasmine Crockett on MSNBC. She is 100% correct. 18266931525
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialMarjan Geotraveler @marjangeotraveler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Does anyone even remember the fact that war plans were sent on personal phones using an insecure app with 2 people in the chat who did not have security clearance. The shit rolls in so fast that to keep up, we let some things slide. But that was a big one. I haven’t forgotten. 32903254
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/04/2025#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash 402177505007
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialdindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 11/04/2025It's all a distraction to achieve their primary goal! 33821
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals. 1305162295820
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11/04/2025Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing. Emergency powers? He’s abusing them. And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve. The math ain’t mathing. 937291687063
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.thinkbigpicture.substack.comNeither Neurodivergence Nor Mental Illness Made Them Bigots—They're Just Awful PeopleIt's hard to admit your heroes are jerks, but the mentally ill and neurodivergent shouldn't be collateral damage. 1017339768090
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/ 478104544648
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead. 3056305646545
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin. 66790112012
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialOlivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 11/04/2025Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold? 1175280387931
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025NY Times actually used “lie” in a headline 29576431679
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialFiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Daily🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Continue Thread. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social 8285102
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialBiggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 10/04/2025One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh..... 255308756675
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Kurt Vonnegut man 251192225418
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." 100 years ago, today: The Great Gatsby published. 28862117
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress. 11833610710838
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.social✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Good morning ☀️☕️ Happy Thursday! 😃 I hope you have a good day 🦋💙 33618163
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Friends, my very good friend, @mikesacks.bsky.social, is running for Congress in the NY-17th (Putnam Valley area). I vouch for him personally, and while we hardly agree on everything, he is a true believer Supreme Court reformer. And his opening ad is fire. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U5...youtube.comUnf*ck Our CountryYouTube video by Mike Sacks for Congress 541477371
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here. 2203126064
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike! 843279408038
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad. 2230235398952
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent. 386188874964
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense. 2007187805278
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse. 851179265487
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency. 21495568119675
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialdindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Good morning Joe🦋🌷🪷started my day listening to Jeff Beck ❤️🔥🫂 youtu.be/DcFiQXKa9Ok?...youtu.beJeff Beck & Tal Wilkenfeld csodaszép előadásaYouTube video by László Kovács 122
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025#HandsOffProtests 437263747557
Reposted by @wipapa5.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/04/2025We have a winner! 225121762051