Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Let it go. The Greenland of his imagination has penguins. 6617
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialCNN @cnn.com · 05/10/2026The FBI arrested a 34-year-old California woman who has been charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China and allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's son and his family, federal officials said. cnn.it/3VMrwqg 59527
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There's a lot of that going around. 57927
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Important analysis from @risabrooks12.bsky.social, one of the best civ-mil analysts: Hegseth's proposals are even more ideological and corrosive than they appear --> 05115
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Plus, it is far from clear that the Venezuela raid made much of difference in the country's corrupt government, besides persuading them its more advantageous to do a corrupt deal with Trump than with our rivals. 2298
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comHe Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him OutDan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon. 16477220
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm guessing he thinks the "bad things" will happen to other people, not to him. 4518
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974 47844681282
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026@eggerdc.bsky.social reacts to Trump reciting “The Snake,” an anti-immigrant poem that he dedicated to Springfield: “ This guy makes people worse…When they get into that sort of MAGA mob mentality, a lot of that nuance drops away, and they're just kinda ready to rock with ‘The Snake.’" 1317039
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"I don’t care about the culture war. I care about the actual war that we’re actually in, that we’re losing." @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social has had it with SecDefothermeans.substack.comThe Weak DepartmentSend Me! (Somewhere I can get a Lobotomy) 321042
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026@eggerdc.bsky.social reflects on his experience going to Pierre Damas Bel’s funeral: “ It was hard to be there. It was good to be there…I mean, it's real. It's human beings who are impacted by all this.” 112118
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.propublica.orgA Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But... 2112125969
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If Dems get 51 in the Senate, guaranteed that he switches. 58217
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialKori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I love this light-hearted poem by @teaandtactics.bsky.social with its window into the quotidian experience of military life. 182
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 04/10/2026German post-war election results in one wonderful chart. A lot of history squeezed into a chart. Source: buff.ly/dkqoCfy 27424
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He should f-ing feel haunted. 516721
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026Trump: "Would anybody like the hear The Snake? We gotta whip it out. This is in honor of Springfield, Ohio, a quaint little town of 32,000 where they took in 35,000 and put them into Springfield. It didn't work out too well and they're being removed." The crowd starts chanting "De-port! De-port!" 161589170
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Gas prices in 2022 were mainly the result of the Russia-Ukraine war, and look where that explanation got Biden. 2397
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Keep saying that. The voters will love it. 46413
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Somehow we’ve survived 250 years with the military not being called in to oversee elections. 318641
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026On the other hand, if autism does make you superhuman, shouldn’t that make RFK Jr pro-vaccine? 3365
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The richest man in the world is agreeing with some explicitly crazy sexist shit about how only high-testosterone men should vote (no women, no “low-t” men). 2424267
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's revealing that Vance calls Epstein "a creep." Really, that's all he was? It's revealing that Trump dismisses a question about the Cornell scandal, saying he's sure Cornell will do what's right. Being a Trumpist means not taking sexual assault--not taking rape--seriously. 1725140
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This kind of logic is just dressed up racism and, quite frankly, cowardice. "I'm too afraid to live next door to someone who looks or thinks differently than I do" is a sign of a weak society, not a strong one. 37920
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You can call up nearly any expert in the world 24/7. Why in the world would you consult a chatbot? 94813
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest… In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50%. Brass instruments fell 43%”nytimes.comTariffs Are Making Instruments So Expensive, School Music Programs Are at RiskWhen a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets. 25235
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it. 15842198
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026This corruption must be investigated. 897159996239
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialU.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 02/10/2026Pentagon Doubles Down on Pacific Area Denial, Need for High-end Munitions — USNI News news.usni.org/2026/10/02/p...news.usni.orgPentagon Doubles Down on Pacific Area Denial, Need for High-end Munitions - USNI NewsThe Pentagon doubled down on its plans to establish a forward-deployed area denial, anti-access network along the First Island Chain to deter China in the 2026 National Defense Security update. In a S... 178
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialJ. Edgelord Hoover @obliqueirony.bsky.social · 03/10/202636k but yes exactlythebulwark.comMeet Kevin Hassett: Conservatism’s Invincible IgnoramusTrump's director of the National Economic Council is a silly man. 042
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Shorter Trump administration: Data centers good. Homes bad. 2635998
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Totally not a conflict of interest at all. 58221
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Great job everyone. 29326
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026Today, over 230 people have been killed by the U.S. military in airstrikes against vessels only suspected of having drugs on board. trib.al/NVjePMztrib.alAmerica Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?Polling shows the president in free fall. Unfortunately, a number of his most reactionary policies still have disturbing levels of support. 1311354
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The disheartening part is that if gas was $2, for whatever reason, they'd all be fine with fascism. 1531648
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.) 1971392171
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again? 1942703486
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k. 35933299
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The President of the United States said he felt bad for the men accused of committing horrific crimes against a woman who reported being sexually assaulted. He said nothing about the courage it took for her to come forward or the trauma she has endured." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...open.substack.comThe President's decline is in a freefallAt 3:54 pm Donald Trump emerged from the White House with freshly colored hair and makeup, as Marine One's engine roared in the background. He walked directly over to the waiting press, threw his hand... 46429114
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026"The vision of life liberalism offers is the one that most expresses who we truly are. Reaction demands submission and promises bliss; millenarianism exalts suffering and promises righteousness. Both flee from the terror of freedom." www.liberalcurrents.com/remember-who...liberalcurrents.comRemember Who You Are, LiberalChapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers. 27411
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1222988777
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialMark Sandeen @marksandeen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AI systems should be designed to at least the same standards as commercial airliners. A defense in depth strategy including, No single point of failure, using dissimilar hardware and software, fail operational design, with zonal segregation so failures don't propagate, manual backups... 0191
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... 20737177
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialHome of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We talked to Truckers who are turning on Trump because of the war in Iran. "It's going to put us out of business for sure." 1520158
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 1471885559
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“OpenAI promotes autonomy, although the company was recently forced to cancel the launch of GPT-6.1 Astra due to the model's tendency to lie and unpredictable behavior during tests…OpenAI's agents attacked more than 100 organizations during trials.” What could go wrong? gagadget.com/en/728430-op...gagadget.comOpenAI Unveils Dots: AI Agents with Human-Like Reasoning and 4000 Plugins for Personalized HelpOpenAI launched dots — autonomous AI agents based on the GPT-6 Astra model, which operate on personal cloud servers and support over 4000 plugins. 1815456
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialJohn Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 42919
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 03/10/2026As theatrical antagonists, White House reporters serve the president’s interests more than the public’s. Donald Trump’s attack on the press corps is an opening to do away with antiquated, corrupting and infantilising rituals bit.ly/4hC4pWR Illustration: David Simonds 527271
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A hypothesis likely to make a lot of BlueSky mad: A large part of Mamdani’s popularity is that his bark is WAY bigger than his bite, and he actually hasn’t done (or been able to do) much that is really THAT radical, leaving his largely likeable persona. 3117720
Reposted by @angielaw.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This what a real wave looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmAC...youtube.comNYT/Siena Just Dropped a Bombshell Senate PollYouTube video by The Bulwark 719440
