Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Enough said. 23432129
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialSocial Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 17/05/2025Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw. 16182172886
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialBlueResister 🦋Fighting for Democracy 🦋 @blueresister.bsky.social · 18/05/2025@jeryzner.bsky.social @depechemodefan101.bsky.social @albieal.bsky.social @veracitas.bsky.social @pandjsmom.bsky.social @mandywhite.bsky.social @ellenripley2024.bsky.social @pdc23.bsky.social @ohreallya.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @girlwithapoll.bsky.social 8239
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialBob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Obamacare Transparency vs. Trumpcare 59035
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.social💙💙~Patty~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 18/05/2025#SaturdayNightParties🎉🥳 @fbiancardi.bsky.social @ecocentroid.bsky.social @cassieblue.bsky.social @jlr1.bsky.social @bluemaura.bsky.social @dragondreamscapes.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @journeyled1.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @feistyresister.bsky.social @luvsoldat.bsky.social Repost 710726
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialLarry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I will stack up Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson against any - and I mean ANY - religious figure for wisdom, perspective and compassion. 31078941044
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Moody’s downgraded the U.S.’s credit rating for the first time in history because the Republicans can’t get their fiscal house in order and Trump is playing whack-a-tariff with our biggest trading partners. Are we great yet, America? 943804558
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.social🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 @baron333.bsky.social · 11/05/2025My favorite couple ..... ❤️🩹 37794205
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Not that this needs to be said, but bribery out in the open is still bribery. 898171644423
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialballardpj.bsky.social @ballardpj.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Right on all accounts. Trump only cares about himself. All those that voted for him wanted what he was offering. They will be hurt just like the rest of us. The old saying of “YOU KNEW I WAS A SNAKE WHEN YOU TOOK ME IN” applies. 274
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/05/2025PM Carney to Trump's face: "Canada is not for sale — won’t be for sale ever." Trump's face looks anguished and angry as he forces a smile for the cameras. Trump: "I must say Canada is stepping up their military participation, but never say never." 2251801394
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/05/2025Man I gotta say, knowing that there's nothing anyone can do to walk the President back from tanking the economy because he's got crank ideas about how trade works is really making it hard for me to do my little work tasks 204920548
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialLedaEM @mledaloo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025JC!! Is Trump trying to compete with Ivan the Terrible? 045
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialCNN @cnn.com · 06/05/2025Speaker Mike Johnson is running into some resistance from fellow House Republicans on a bill to codify President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Gulf of Mexico.cnn.comGOP push to formalize Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ runs into resistance in House | CNN PoliticsSpeaker Mike Johnson is running into some resistance from fellow House Republicans on a bill to codify President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Gulf of Mexico. 4921437
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialDrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 06/05/2025This is an example of the ignorant leading the really ignorant at HHS. We'll need to find competent medical advice elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention roleSteven J Hatfill, who promoted the drug despite scant evidence of efficacy, becomes special adviser at HHS 2614883
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialGoogeliArt 🦋💙PD @googeliart.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Extent of Pete Hegseth Signal usage revealed as he used app to ask aides to relay military plans to other countries Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used Signal to liaise with aides about daily Pentagon business and was participating in at least a dozen chats www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukPete Hegseth used Signal to instruct aides to message about opsSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used Signal to liaise with aides about daily Pentagon business and was participating in at least a dozen chats 011
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/04/20252019 is calling and saying, hey, why didn’t you listen 1243365906976
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025i know it’s a fraught word but these are degenerate people 1022199212960
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/04/2025JUST IN: Supreme Court has stayed a federal judge's order requiring the rehiring of probationary employees at six federal agencies. The nonprofit plaintiffs lack standing, the justices ruled. But... s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 691093340
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2025Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves* 1913223637392
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Doing this in El Salvador with those prisoners as a backdrop is extremely twisted. 2134119502894
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025Duckworth goes on Fox and Baier reads her statement calling Hegseth a “f**king liar” 915269125628
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Ossoff: He’s so consumed by his efforts to secure revenge, crush his enemies, and conquer Greenland that he’s doing nothing for the people who elected him. His entire domestic agenda is tax breaks for the wealthy, rounding up immigrants, revenge, and centralizing as much power as he can.. 9463825510511
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I don’t like this Stratcom Posture Statement coupled with the reported strategic bomber buildup on Diego Garcia at all. 1111522272
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2025DOGE isn't just cutting vital government services. Each federal job loss could also result in the loss of at least one additional worker in the private sector. Working people having less money in their pockets to spend stifles local economies. What’s “efficient” about that? 457109142514
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/03/2025Was Tulsi Gabbard lying today, or was she lying yesterday? 1129100162925
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I bet ICE's Signal chats would make for interesting--and indictable--reading. 15357451071
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025@nedprice.bsky.social: "The irony of this is that Jeffrey Goldberg probably did more than all of these supposed custodians of our national security combined to protect our national security by reporting on this. If this gets them to stop this practice, that is to our collective national benefit." 17290261601
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 27/03/2025The lesson from this whole Signalgate catastrophe? This administration will never, ever take responsibility for their mistakes, even when they endanger people. Especially when they endanger people. And it's the American people who will suffer. 842154863691
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialBlake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Holy shit. April bookings for Canada -> USA flights down 900,000 passengers compared to at same time last year. Well done, 🇨🇦 Lots of other places to visit and work with in the world. Source: www.oag.com/blog/canada-... 761590309
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialHuey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I haven't seen any other country in this century humiliating prisoners, let alone uncharged ones, on TV like this. 9067895
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Just remember all this if there is a catastrophic intelligence failure under this administration. Because they will *immediately* try to crush dissent and offload blame. 807268675239
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025hey, Sen. Ernst and Sen. Tillis- proud of your votes for Hegseth? This is on your too as much as Hegseth. You knew he was not remotely qualified 386188833933
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/03/2025From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason. 377169725389
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Democratic House Rep. Ro Khanna: “GOP reps are attacking me for holding town halls in their districts. Maybe if they spent more time doing their job and talking to constituents, I wouldn't have to.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 362210104030
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/03/2025JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers. 265185344237
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Why were these people confirmed in the first place? There is a cancer on the heart of the presidency, to quote from the Watergate era, and it’s infecting all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-will-... 699151153812
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025The first rule of Trumpism is to never apologize or admit wrongdoing. That’s why he’s not firing anyone or even entertaining the idea anybody around him did something wrong. 1286277244930
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/03/2025It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration. 15463518513075
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered. 65653853510377
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/03/2025The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous. 646314986756
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/03/2025100% this! 893179864732
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025So did Tulsi Gabbard perjure herself in front of Congress? 1942161261939
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025“Nobody’s texting war plans” 761151463516
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck." 432247877077
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialClaire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Of course they are. 457311707583
Reposted by @ballardpj.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous." 629270446527
