Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 10hJust remembered the Christopher Columbus bit from the Curtis Sliwa-Adam Friedland podcast, the #1 clip of all time for Not Having Any Idea What Words Are Coming Next 431808260
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7hWeird how Republican lists of bad people to deport never, ever, ever includes neo-Nazis, segregationists, apartheidists, or any other white nationalists. 934443
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 7hI may be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that this is not a good headline for Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate RaceTrump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms 716340
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18hThis story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...nytimes.comFederal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates. 532914837
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16hThe Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open. 484479993
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12hThis is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...military.comAir Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s ImpeachmentMaj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle. 27906327
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hAnd that line will continue until it connects with every single person in this country who is not a straight white male conservative Christian 191012213
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16hI would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW. 281975401
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h"The investigation, nicknamed 'World War Eleven' within the administration because of the uproar it could cause, has accelerated in recent weeks, the senior official said." wapo.st/4hTG5zPwapo.stFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. homeHomeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, executed the search. 24460126
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 16hGiven FEC spending totals, 5.6% of all the money spent by Republican campaigns this election cycle - candidates, superPACs, all of it - was donated personally by Elon Musk. That's up from 3.8% in 2024. 621266
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16hIf @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had shown, in his entire career, even a tenth of the courage and care @ilhanmn.bsky.social shows every single day, I’d have more hope for this party and this country. Instead we have a corporate-padded coward writing mildly worded letters as we drive off a cliff. 2154996
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18hShe keeps shouting at the DOJ attorney for not immediately calling plaintiffs and notifying the court the MOMENT they found out what the NPS was going to do late on Oct 8. DOJ's attorney responds and says "we did our best" and Reyes responds: "You did not do your best. You did your absolute worst." 101122175
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19hHAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes is furious. She has repeatedly told the government to inform her before any major demolition work was done on the golf course. The abrupt removal of 500 trees, without notice, "has cost the government all of its credibility" in this case. 2753646986
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk? 3427134996
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19hAn important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems. 612734836
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20hThe DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle. 12926193
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 10130711112
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC 1344834872
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying. 16240401735
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is attempted murder. 623139
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026BREAKING: Federal judge order an immediate end to DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads. Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to “cancel or cause to be cancelled“ any remaining ad placements, including for Sunday evening. Tonight, at Law Dork:lawdork.comBreaking: Federal judge order an immediate end to DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda adsJudge Jennifer Rochon ordered the Trump administration to “cancel or cause to be cancelled“ any remaining ad placements, including for Sunday evening. 16571145
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialLawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Now, here's a question to peer-reviewers who are doing the same thing: Have you breached any confidentiality when you use Pangram? 26022
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency." 5246991290
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error. 451913545
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work 19733132
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.social🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not voting for a Democrat that isn’t on record as saying that they will prosecute Pete Hegseth 435818
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialbree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 07/03/2026the major implication LLMs have for consciousness is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it at all 1729933
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11/10/2026“Give us the money we need to make Stephen Miller cry on national television” 1056583
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026No one has more contempt for Donald Trump's voters than Donald Trump. 732046369
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMatt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A livestreamed execution isnt about justice. Its about helping people enjoy inflicting and witnessing pain and violence while not feeling bad about those feelings because its construed as justice 3196
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialSMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The man had his five year old in the car. Why wouldn’t he try to get away from men running at him with guns drawn? 220552
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2 12720287
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Horrific thread 29429
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 11792279
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I should add that this isn't even about *this case.* He's just randomly complaining that SCOTUS used "transgender pronouns in its official caption" in a case from June. 27319
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol. 7175993051
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 311398349
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialBen Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@sunraysunray.bsky.social, @mikejbeggs.bsky.social, and I are in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today with an essay adapted from the first chapter of The Blueprint, explaining why opposition to capitalism has to come attached to serious answers to concerns about the economic viability of transcending it.jacobin.comBeing Against Capitalism Isn’t EnoughSocialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better. 053
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJohn Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is an absolutely phenomenal analysis. And everyone should take a moment to read it. Asking ourselves ‘what does this exercise of state power mean?’ is an essential analytic frame. 1104
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026WTF. Even I am just seeing this now. 191089370
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 18167471965
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialgoof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra 322229458
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 11705227213607
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492777786
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 460175502690
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11149911482
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“That’s the problem, Mike. It’s not just that you hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” Ossoff said. “It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...talkingpointsmemo.comSomehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate DebateRep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won... 101035191
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 425181114780
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Looking at different videos of police confiscating protests signs, it seems to me that the signs that are confiscated all point towards police brutality. It is now officially verboten to not only protect oneself from arbitrary police repression, but also to call it out. 113628
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