Reposted by Avice MeehanElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad. 1154776795
Reposted by Avice MeehanThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️ 12826991553
Reposted by Avice MeehanThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/10/2026"Commissioners, business owners, and members of the public all complained that Shapiro’s Hollywood dreams have brought mayhem to the town’s population of roughly 9,000 people, with a list of misdeeds that includes..." Read the whole thing:lnk.thebulwark.comA Small Montana Town Tells Ben Shapiro to F*ck OffThe Daily Wire wanted a backdrop to film an Antifa siege. The filmmakers got a revolt over their own behavior. 27518
Reposted by Avice MeehanBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026No responsible news outlet should go to the White House as long as this ban on their colleagues is in effect. It’s time for big media to show some backbone. Also, any apologies about that embarrassing WHCA dinner yukking it up with Trump and his apparatchiks? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...nytimes.comCNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces BanThe prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge. 1422382582
Reposted by Avice MeehanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised" 10052771785
Reposted by Avice MeehanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Ossoff: "Our whole government made a corrupt tool of one man's vengeance and power and wealth ... in one month, Athens, we will vote to rebuke him so decisively, no president will dare such abuses again for centuries!" 11254271343
Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Waiting (eagerly) for my copy from Bookshop.org.bookshop.orgBookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores. 052
Reposted by Avice MeehanThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/09/2026Meditation has become a multibillion-dollar industry that’s promoted as a cure-all. @olgakhazan.bsky.social on how a true believer in the practice ended up founding a clinical space geared toward helping people who believe that meditation has actually harmed them: bit.lyWhen Meditation Makes You Feel WorseA prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her. 3296
Reposted by Avice MeehanFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/09/2026The latest nationwide FT-Focaldata poll found that just 33% of registered voters approved of Donald Trump’s performance as president — the lowest number recorded since the FT first started asking the question. ft.trib.al/L70XHLr 48495128
Reposted by Avice MeehanBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Obvious point: The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are far better Americans than Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller. 331437287
Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is rich: In addition to violations of federal records laws, Dr. Morens pleaded guilty last month to receiving illegal gratuities in the form of two bottles of The Prisoner Red Blend Napa Valley wine from Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s former president. Read the whole story from @nytimes.comnytimes.comInside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists (Gift Article)As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers. 010
Reposted by Avice MeehanDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...wired.comICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting DatabaseAs part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. 135939602
Reposted by Avice MeehanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down. 331382297
Reposted by Avice MeehanCharlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If a Twitch influencer who has campaigned with a handful of Democrats is a big issue, then what ought we to make of Elon Musk — the richest and most virulent antisemite and racist on the planet — bankrolling and campaigning with pretty much the entire GOP? charliesykes.substack.com/p/dems-have-...charliesykes.substack.comDems Have a Hasan Piker Problem. But the GOP Has a Much, Much Bigger Elon Musk Problem.If Piker is bad, Musk is a trillion times worse. 21440108
Reposted by Avice MeehanNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Liberals say that secret concentration camps for children have no place in our democracy. They’re wrong— secret concentration camps for children have no place in our republic. 10790103
Reposted by Avice MeehanThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/08/2026"The power to manage federal property begins and ends with Congress. But Trump’s lawyers ballooned that statute into a capacious grant of absolute power to demolish chunks of the building." Of course they did, but Roberts didn't have to rubber-stamp it.lnk.thebulwark.comJohn Roberts Gives Trump a License to Bulldoze the LawThe chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli. 511338
Reposted by Avice MeehanNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The president’s daring catering-truck escape raises serious questions about whether America still has the moral authority to lecture other countries about transparent governance. 1039927
Reposted by Avice MeehanAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase! 34766173251
Reposted by Avice MeehanDan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon. 693126664263
Reposted by Avice MeehanAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I need your help. We are almost at 1 million YouTube subscribers. Can you share this and help me get there? www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1 16452285
Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Thank you. I broke a rule and tried to read but my eyes quickly glazed over. After all, who anointed him? 020
Reposted by Avice MeehanProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/08/2026NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.projectsaltbox.comU.S. Border Patrol wants a contractor to track down deported people abroad and collect their immigration finesThe agency gave bidders three business days to compete for a first-of-its-kind contract to collect fines from people it has deported to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. 23182136
Reposted by Avice MeehanSeptima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 04/08/2026🔥🔥🔥🔥 “All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.” 318153
Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Outrageous.wsj.comHow ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its CriticsThe agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements. 010
Reposted by Avice MeehanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026What will the media companies who are publishing stories that Blanche agreed to a “deal” with Cornyn & Tillis to kill the slush fund write when people start getting paid with our tax dollars & this whole thing is revealed as a sham? Since they aren’t writing how it’s a sham now. 17952871571
Reposted by Avice MeehanAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. 688140155724
Avice Meehan @avicea.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Also very very cold water with ice cubes. Confuses all those nerve endings. 🤣 000
Reposted by Avice MeehanBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I was going to write this morning on the damage Trump and Hegseth have done to the American military, but went in another direction. But Paul Krugman does an excellent job here. And as he would be the first to say, there is even more evidence that could be cited. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comThe Putinization of the American MilitaryWhen poseurs and yes-men run a war 11376119
Reposted by Avice MeehanSave Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“Daylight Saving” and “Sunshine Protection” are deceits. Restore permanent Standard Time for more honest time-keeping. 1713150639
Reposted by Avice MeehanProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal. 277161174986
Reposted by Avice MeehanPatrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The fact that we’ve had 10-plus years of Trump the politician and we are STILL having this conversation shows just how behind journalists (and particularly the TV kind) have been in adapting their practices to fit a changing reality. This should be a no-brainer by now. 35110