Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4h“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 159132113957
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8hI think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 7740671530
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5hThis is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 102992968
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 6hShameless plug: In our Cambridge Element, we argue that Trump consistently tries to distract from bad news with outrageous new stories, and that he usually succeeds at dominating attention. But this strategy often fails to generate positive coverage or popularity. www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgAmerican Presidential Campaigns in the Attention EconomyCambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - American Presidential Campaigns in the Attention Economy 02610
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9hThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening. 351541372
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6ha trivial but public and humiliating thing that you make a lot of powerful people do to show strength. everyone knows what it is, but also no one is going to pick a huge battle over the integrity of the term "artificial intelligence", so they acquiesce and become a little bit more pot committed 326417
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 7hIt’s almost like they’ve created a nationalist socialism… we have a word for that. 010
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 9hTurning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW. 511784507
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12hThis has to be an 8th Amendment violation. Don't forget that everyone in the US, even visitors, are protected by the Constitution. 882178941
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There is an entire White House Gift Office whose job it is to acknowledge and catalog gifts to the President and transfer them to the National Archives, as they belong to the American people and not the President. 56921
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.nytimes.comAn Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 12510108
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The one part of campaign finance law that apparently still functions. 000
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think it’s time to start pre-emptively proposing taxes on companies based on their IPO projections. If SpaceX projects it will be as valuable as the whole U.S. economy, then it can pay for Medicare. Get that in writing now 2405
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The genocidal logic of dehumanizing language really should get more attention. 000
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 1381214114986
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughAndy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026Honestly the amount these guys just straight up say "war is peace" and "ignorance is strength" is like "I know writers who use subtext" level 351050150
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughJared Leto Atreides @genericuser1234567.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Isn't the McRib released about every year during the fall? I too vote based on which president promises the sun will rise and fall every day, like a good Bronze Age peasant does 2661
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughSentimentalist @sentimentalist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The idea of executive immunity in a Constitution based upon the idea of the rule of law is so obviously a contradiction in terms that only a rank ideologue could even imagine it. 092
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And we should. All of these men should be expropriated from their companies. 000
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Your right to preach ends at the front of my pew, or something. 000
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughMatt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Like national race forecasters, analysts of state legislative races are relatively timid in seeing opportunities for wave election pickups. But if the generic ballot shifts 12 points, with both differential partisan turnout & a large swing, it suggests many unexpected pickups 24110
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughMichael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The US is a signatory to the Convention Against Torture. It was signed by Reagan and ratified and enacted into the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act, which prohibits refoulement, meaning this is illegal under US law.latimes.comU.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed againJeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad... 35332
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition 675147145979
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Canonical example of NYT delighting in trolling its readers. See also: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-... and the all-time winner presswatchers.org/2022/12/just...presswatchers.orgNew York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want | Press WatchThey want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan 510628
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone. 1163367697
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Beyond the disgustingness of this attack, its as clear an indication as any that they are headed for a nationwide wipe out in 4 weeks. In no world where they are sweating South Carolina is this going to be a good or even mediocre midterm for Republicans 627939
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughWilliam Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We're almost numb at this point, but Trump attacks democracy and its institutions daily and we shouldn't let it slide for a second 38024
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughJeff Herr @thejeffreport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I got a targeted ad recently from Adobe which advertised the ability of their "AI" to follow the prompt "replace all 60 with 70 in this slide deck." And I was like, MFer, I've been using "find and replace" for decades ar this point. Why is a standard feature "AI" now? 2582
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They are set on driving all primary care physicians out of the state, apparently. 020
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797393030
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We gotta get over this frame that there is only one thing the Dems can do. They need ethics reform and impeachments. And investigations. And ultimately trials, prison sentences, and constitutional amendments. Don’t trust anyone who says there’s only one thing to do. Elect people who want to work. 1377
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They should impeach him every day they have the House majority until they run out of ideas. 2492
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026if I had "Orinoco Flow" money I too would disappear to a castle and you'd never see me on the internet again 139735
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I gave up on them when they moved to the exurbs. White flight-ass baseball team. 120
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughSuper Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Seems like an ad that says “paid for by the US government” should be an impeachable offense 521629332
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Mr. Lahey from Trailer Park Boys is the only other contender. 0200
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026look who's with Trump on his trip to Ohio! #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Nathan Howard) 5413587717
Reposted by Andrew Scott WaughJoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America. 18643330
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The rejection is a ruse, is it not? They want mostly the same shit, only to be in charge. 010
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yep. Evil is the negative space left when you’re out of doubts to benefit. 000
Andrew Scott Waugh @aswaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Can confirm this was huge in my social justice oriented Catholic upbringing. 020