Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15hWarren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'" 21984692738
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hJack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 632252718752
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed! 219140513069
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 410113386022
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. 720160486051
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialJake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Cartoon by Nick Anderson 114102322963
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans. 21368872249
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Massie exposes the hypocrisy: Some members get to vote against bills they know will pass, giving them a convenient campaign talking point without changing the outcome. 26864742046
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me. 432178063683
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BROWDER: None of Trump’s actions support his claim that he wants to end the war in Ukraine. He’s been talking about it forever without doing anything to end it. Trump wants to do whatever he’s agreed to do with Putin in order to get whatever benefit he thinks he’ll get from him. 1118553
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Mike Johnson really has them working hard for you, America. 650137924875
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The water that data centers use for electricity generation in just the top 7 states with the most data centers is the equivalent of 12-times the annual water use of Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, combined. /1 news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...news.bloomberglaw.comData Centers Use More Water Than California Cities, Study SaysElectric power generation for data centers is a threat to water supplies even in states outside the arid Southwest, according to a report published Tuesday by the think tank Ceres. 12124901475
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The five biggest defense contractors spent more than $100B on buybacks and dividends since 2020. I have a simple question for defense contractors: If taxpayers are giving you billions to build military equipment, why are you buying back your own stock? This needs to stop. 32290263007
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund? 951223887747
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The GOP is that syndicate. 24452282159
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal. 30837318
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026When the banks needed help, they called it “stabilizing the economy.” When airlines needed help, they called it “protecting jobs.” When corporations got tax breaks, they called it “pro-growth.” When working people need health care? “SOCIALISM.” 336128614974
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 03/08/2026🌊 Record heat has shallowed Europe’s rivers, exposing mammoth bones, sunken ships In Bulgaria, a mammoth jawbone and tusks have been found on the bare bottom of the Danube, in Croatia, the cargo ship Fulton, which sank in 1937, and in Serbia, a German warship from World War II. 8437118
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it. 671252218962
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget. 404155696442
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:propublica.orgThe Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev... 361185552
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialGo Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Trump family project in Albania caused 'irreparable' damage A road cleared, an entire zone deforested and a bridge built to span the channel connecting Narta lagoon to the sea Bulldozers destroyed nesting sites of loggerhead turtles, threatened with extinction, www.thejournal.ie/albania-trum...thejournal.ieTrump family project in Albania that led to mass protests has caused 'irreparable' damageEnvironmental activists have long raised concerns about the €4.5 billion project to build luxury hotels amid flamingo colonies and on a deserted island. 18271188
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/07/202617 Mexican citizens have been killed during ICE operations. The Mexican government has filed criminal complaints w/several state prosecutors, served evidence preservation letters on detention centers, & called for a formal review by the UN Human Rights Council. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...chicago.suntimes.comMexico seeks accountability in Chicago-area ICE death and 16 others. Can it force the U.S. to act?Mexico has filed criminal complaints with state and county prosecutors seeking investigations into the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals, including Silverio Villegas González, who was shot and killed by ... 26297473827
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialCAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird. 1170132216691
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/07/2026The U.S. Secretary of Defense just stated that—so far—the war with Iran has cost $37.5 billion dollars. That's since February. That same amount is how much the United States spent on planetary science from FY2013 through FY2026 inclusive. Thirteen years of planetary science or five months of war. 16936021418
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20378812824809
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 21/07/2026⚡️ Meet Mykhailo Drapatyi, Ukraine's new Commander-in-Chief.united24media.comWho Is Mykhailo Drapatyi? Ukraine’s New Commander-in-ChiefBattle-tested General Mykhailo Drapatyi has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, succeeding Oleksandr Syrskyi, who h… 214335
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialTim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026#RussiaIsCollapsing The vicious downward spiral continues for Russia's economy. As the stock market plunges, stagflation takes hold, the deficit grows. Even official figures show Russia has been selling gold from its reserves, this time in all time record of 44 tons. 4699
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialWindhorse @windhorse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with. 34499363371
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026matthew always brings the receipts 6776073906
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Trump has ordered US CENTCOM to open "the gates of hell" upon Iran after US casualties in Jordan, US officials tell NPR. Another US official tells CBS News tonight's US attacks will be much more extensive and larger than previous nights. 136771284
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialUncle_Wolf @demiurg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Fedorov - A lesson in leadership! This is not what I usually write about, and not something I enjoy writing about. So, I will try to put a positive spin on it. What I will write will be the other side of the conversation, and I will use a different tack on how to explain it. 1/14 29382145
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17/07/2026Critical context about Trump's speech: Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and criminally conspired to subvert it. That conspiracy was based on knowing lies. Not delusions. Not mistakes of fact. Lies designed to preserve and grow his power. 16775291
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Head of the Heritage Foundation in July 2024. It’s not like voters weren’t warned. 1392400810
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence. 687237505558
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026 507262858530
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding. 452254788106
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10666502720319
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/07/2026Gill: "The FBI has admitted that it has in its possession training videos instructing analysts at the FBI on how to redact the Epstein files ... instructing them on how to find and log and mark Trump's name and other information for redaction." 6727201072
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying. 4224701187
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: In a stunning admission, the FBI just confirmed to me the existence of training videos instructing FBI analysts on what to redact in the Epstein Files. I’ll show you the letter and discuss the massive implications in one hour. Link below: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...muellershewrote.comBREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: FBI Admits it has Epstein Files Training VideosIn a letter sent to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act Request, the FBI admits to having training videos that it failed to release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act 362160846803
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...nytimes.comHow Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From AfarThe secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th... 35941421825
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026A Police Executive Research Forum report from 2014 showed that CBP officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them. This isn’t something that can be reformed. Abolish ICE. www.npr.org/sections/the...npr.orgBorder Patrol Releases New Use-Of-Force Guidelines, Critical ReportU.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said the release was a push for more transparency. The agency had previously declined to make changes recommended by the panel. 29395674150
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026All the greatest hits. 21988982527
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 09/07/2026Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could. 590260676974
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous. 40150591121
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.social𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I tire of the constant blatant lying. 82771491443
Reposted by @altairaster.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to: • At least 38 destination vacations; • 26 private jet flights; • 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events; • 2 stays at luxury resorts; • 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club (Published 2023)propublica.orgClarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury TravelThe fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood. 831570748