Reposted by atoms are enoughjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/06/2025a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further 16846101211
Reposted by atoms are enoughDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2025"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade. 8531146
Reposted by atoms are enoughAdam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 17/06/2025The US housing market is stalling. 4357
Reposted by atoms are enoughAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/05/2025Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach. bsky.app/profile/mlhe... 35114
Reposted by atoms are enoughAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/04/2025Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach. 18772156
Reposted by atoms are enoughJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Your vote for Trump at work 94979342
Reposted by atoms are enoughNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.” 2374495789
Reposted by atoms are enoughJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 25/05/2025We’re all looking for the guy who did this. 483325849
Reposted by atoms are enoughGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/05/2025The dead-weight loss of investing over $100B, as Republicans propose, in walls, jails, police, and surveillance tech is compounded by the economic losses from making the U.S. radioactive for foreign tourists. Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?news.com.auEx-cop jailed and deported during holiday to USA former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband. 47423
Reposted by atoms are enoughTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025the number of 'takes' there'd be today if Krasner had lost, versus the near-absence of 'discourse' around it, is telling. 251910446
Reposted by atoms are enoughKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight 401207376
Reposted by atoms are enoughMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential. 6361061575
Reposted by atoms are enoughChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/05/2025They unlocked the doors, turned off all the alarms, dismantled the guardrails, fired the watchers, and have damaged or removed endless safeguards across the spectra of our daily existence. All so, presumably, the rich get richer, and Trump doesn't have his feelings hurt with "bad news." 20871294
Reposted by atoms are enoughOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Go anti-woke, go broke 711742259
Reposted by atoms are enoughGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified: 10129291144
Reposted by atoms are enoughAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/05/2025HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster." 612856841
Reposted by atoms are enoughDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2025For a half century now, Republicans a) pretend to care about deficits when Dems are in power, as a pretext to cut spending, & b) massively grow deficits when they are in power, via tax cuts for the rich. The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.washingtonpost.comGOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficitThe figure is expected to intensify a national debate over spending and tax levels as President Donald Trump tries to push the legislation through Congress. 26775273
Reposted by atoms are enoughNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Has any major US media org seen declining public trust, and reacted with something like "MAGA/GOP will denounce us if we do anything other than lie in exactly the way they want, it's bad faith, we can't win their trust, so let's try appealing more to customers that prefer truth"? Even one example? 620023
Reposted by atoms are enoughNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Vague, toothless coverage is media trying to regain public trust. It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider. 13660126
Reposted by atoms are enoughNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense. 928851
Reposted by atoms are enoughSpokane Sammi Rose @samrosewatson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025We’re all gonna die 025
Reposted by atoms are enoughSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025“Did I mention we are VERY racist?” 515835
Reposted by atoms are enoughsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US 546130193336
Reposted by atoms are enoughDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Jeff Merkley & Schumer introduced the "End Crypto Corruption Act," which would bar Presidents, their family, senior exec branch officials, etc from issuing crypto. That'll be introduced as an amendment to the GENIUS Act, which will fail. Then they'll pass GENIUS, & say they did their best. Pathetic. 12580106
Reposted by atoms are enoughDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could. "Schumer 101," said one source. prospect.org/politics/202...prospect.orgDemocrats Cave, Prepare to Rubber-Stamp Trump Crypto CorruptionPro-crypto senators are poised to pass a stablecoin bill, while failing to crack down on the Trump organization issuing one to collect payments from foreign governments. 1342015799
Reposted by atoms are enoughJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025This is an awesome example of local-govt resistance to needlessly aggressive state-level interference. 219645
Reposted by atoms are enoughWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/05/2025becoming increasingly firmly convinced that ideas are either worth taking seriously or not, and that a lot of the societal dysfunction that the internet introduces is downstream of it making this ambiguous "haha I'm just joking...unless" rhetorical affect the default for a lot of topics 2061177
Reposted by atoms are enoughJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The Fed didn't use the word "stagflation", but that's what it's warning about. Never a good moment when your central bank says that it's worried about *both* higher unemployment and higher inflation. That's a problem that monetary policy alone can't solve. 391777543
Reposted by atoms are enoughBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025And if other countries are doing this for Starlink, what are they doing for Trump? 16117
Reposted by atoms are enoughBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025"As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill" "In India, government officials have sped through approvals of Starlink with the understanding that doing so could help them cement trade deals w/the administration" 1419596
Reposted by atoms are enoughBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025It’s this. He overcame heroin addiction and now thinks people who can’t do the same deserve to die. When he says make America healthy, he doesn’t mean cure the ill, he means cull them so the American population is more invulnerable at a genetic level. It’s repugnant. 920271
Reposted by atoms are enoughBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025RFK clearly thinks he’s an ubermensch, and that anyone who succumbs to any vulnerability he thinks he would have survived is subhuman and deserved it. Brain worms Mengele. 1125451
Reposted by atoms are enoughDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025One angle I'm always thinking about is how much free stuff Trump promised. There are people currently expecting 1) no income tax under $200k, 2) free IVF, 3) a baby bonus, 4) a $5000 "DOGE dividend." And there is no plan to do that stuff! Just campaign rhetoric. 1442224512
Reposted by atoms are enoughDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Reminder! Many of the major actions Donald Trump has taken as president have one thing in common: They’re flatly illegal. presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-...presswatchers.orgThe Trump regime should be covered as a criminal enterprise | Press WatchIt’s not a one-off when he does something flatly illegal. It’s his M.O. 79825
Reposted by atoms are enoughBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...offmessage.netDemocrats Who Don't Fight Will Learn The Hard WayCeding the mantle of moral leadership during a crisis is a bad way to seize the center. 1010120
Reposted by atoms are enoughDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 30/04/2025Complete writeup here:the-downballot.comMorning Digest: 13-term Democrat could face primary after outburst at constituentsOr, why Democrats should heed progressive ire over their response to Trump 522420375
Reposted by atoms are enoughMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Stephen Lynch gotta go. Sorry Stephen. You work for us. 1321717
Reposted by atoms are enoughWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It is not a coincidence that the most effective protest and resistance of the Trump era come from groups - suburban moms, even conservatives - who are fundamentally optimistic about the promise and values of America. They are betrayed, outraged, and highly motivated to save the nation. 141196
Reposted by atoms are enoughWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Yeah this is the practical problem with saying “Trump is who we have always been, a natural continuation of our history” - it’s DEmobilizing! It’s enervating. It’s the argumentative version of a sigh of resignation. It’s factually wrong, but more than that, it actively shuts down resistance. 2516112
Reposted by atoms are enoughOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025because they do not care the mainstream media does not care about freedom of the press. they care about getting to the top of the cool kids club (maggie haberman, currently top alpha) and making a lot of money from book deals they can talk about when their pals interview them. they do not care. 614635
Reposted by atoms are enoughmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025once again reminding people that "swing voters" are mostly not centrists they are "get mad at the president because i disapprove of the supermarket rearranging the aisles again" voters 523639527
Reposted by atoms are enoughJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/04/2025BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it. 51493974803
Reposted by atoms are enoughQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/04/2025Dem Rep Gerry Connolly has resigned as Ranking Member of House Oversight due to his cancer. I like Connolly. But we should all be furious that Dems gave him this critical role knowing he was battling incurable cancer. This is a pattern from Dems. It must stop. www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-g...qasimrashid.comBREAKING: Gerry Connolly Resigns As Ranking MemberDemocratic Party leadership needs to reckon with its inability to understand when it is time to step aside—because this model is enabling the collapse of our democracy 1341890362
Reposted by atoms are enoughBrendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Replacing income taxes with tariffs is 1.) imaginary and 2.) the most regressive tax policy imaginable—huge tax increase for low-income families, huge tax cut for wealthy. www.americanprogressaction.org/article/comp... 514346
Reposted by atoms are enoughDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u... 25153741782