Reposted by BertSaysWoofThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/20261. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States. 361596533
Reposted by BertSaysWoofEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 24530201775
Reposted by BertSaysWoofRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026This corruption must be investigated. 893159716219
Reposted by BertSaysWoofBen TG @ben-tg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump’s cuts to NOAA, which regulates fisheries, has left the agency slower to respond to the industry’s needs, fishermen said. Staff cutbacks also resulted in the agency reducing weather balloons used to gather data fishermen rely on. apnews.com/article/dona... @standupforscience.net 🧪apnews.comTrump tried to make allies of fishermen. Some are turning on himSome commercial fishermen have come to question whether Trump is meeting the needs of an industry he has long leaned on for support. 12353132
Reposted by BertSaysWoofKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence. 761155518
Reposted by BertSaysWoofKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Marx acknowledged throwing his toddler son across a room onto a bed in anger, but said the boy was not hurt. "I'm not proud of that," Marx said. KNUS' Jeff Hunt again reiterated: "No calls to police. No reports. No charges. No convictions related to any of that incident." 619728
Reposted by BertSaysWoofKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today, Victor Marx threatened legal action against journalists who have reported on his own past statements. "People are going to be held accountable," Marx told KNUS. "These spineless folks who hide behind a pen or a mic or an article, they have no clue who they're up against." 2124134
Reposted by BertSaysWoofNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame. 32566169
Reposted by BertSaysWoofNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so. 42263257
Reposted by BertSaysWoofNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5441681275
Reposted by BertSaysWoofHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/m...techcrunch.comMusk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president | TechCrunchPresident Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro. 79428166
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMark @ferl67.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A New Trump Rule Could Transform Gun Sales. The President’s Son Is Poised to Profit. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/1… #USA #Trump #Aems #Guns #Gunviolencemotherjones.comA new Trump administration rule could transform gun sales. The president’s son has a stake in a company poised to profit.It’s one of a slew of changes to federal gun policy pursued under Trump this year. And according to a veteran gun violence prevention attorney, “probably the most dangerous action taken by the US government to increase gun violence.” 054
Reposted by BertSaysWoofBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22897013088
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election. 16636901806
Reposted by BertSaysWoofNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Were you feeling left out, Mumps? Measles getting all the attention? And since you're back... any word from Rubella? Some antivaxxers would like to introduce it to pregnant women. 511028
Reposted by BertSaysWoofWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The collapse of our institutions in the face of fascism is really something to behold. Here, the American College of Surgeons, the largest professional organization for surgeons in the country, platformed Trump’s ousted FDA chief Marty Makary, letting him riff about the challenges facing healthcarefacs.orgFormer FDA Commissioner Martin Makary Examines Four Challenges Facing HealthcareFormer FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, examines four challenges facing healthcare and opportunities to address them. 12338119
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20262262871
Reposted by BertSaysWoofAaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The most dangerous part of Trump's corruption isn't the money he's pocketed. It's the precedent he's setting: that a president can be openly transactional and face zero consequences. #PayToPlayPresident 32618192
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMatt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Kushner Serves The Interest Of Israel & Netanyahu! He is their asset & owned by the Saudis for $2B Netanyahu,& SA MBS, are his handlers. Netanyahu has been molding him. He stayed at his house all the time growing up He is an International Criminal,& Future Prison Inmate bsky.app/profile/kryt... 23826
Reposted by BertSaysWoofShady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 02/10/2026Yeah man meet this fucking guy. Meet this fucking guy who got exposed in 2016 as having given $10k to an explicitly neonazi PAC. I have gone to hell while I am still alive because I am cursed with recall of things that happened more than five minutes ago. 939068
Reposted by BertSaysWoofJules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Trump administration has begun sending $500 government checks to nearly 1 million Affordable Care Act customers in 30 states. Each payment comes with a letter from Trump telling recipients that the Biden administration overcharged them to operate HealthCare.gov. #TheCityBrief 37131108
Reposted by BertSaysWoofsouthpaw @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. 15837197
Reposted by BertSaysWooftomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 02/10/2026The Pentagon is quietly reviewing nuclear guidance to give Fuckface more options, in a closed hearing, while he muses about annihilating Iran. A senile narcissist who can't finish a sentence gets a bigger menu of ways to end the world. Why is nobody covering this?rawstory.comPanic as Pentagon quietly moves to expand Trump's 'nuclear options'Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, openly admitted recently that the Defense Department was actively working to increase the “[nuclear] options available” to President Donald T... 1123
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And he didn't do it alone. 281127583538
Reposted by BertSaysWoofRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He promised to cut energy bills in half in 6 months and gas prices would be under $2. He never said he couldn’t do that because he’s “inheriting a mess.” He said he would do it & it would be easy. So he can try & blame Biden now all he wants, but he blatantly lied & is a buffoon. 772614629
Reposted by BertSaysWoofDemocracy Dies in Cowardice @savedemocracy25.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Great source of independent news now free thru the mid-terms…. 8446114
Reposted by BertSaysWoofAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026A deep dive into the Baltic states' extensive preparations for a Russian invasion, from @isaacstanbecker who tracks "the emergence of a new order, in which Ukraine matters as much to the security of Europe as the United States" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Baltic States Prepare for WarLithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it. 36905363
Reposted by BertSaysWoofAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us 351339491
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMatt Ortega @mattortega.com · 02/10/2026This administration is literally looting a national memorial to a murdered president. 0169
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The most powerful men in government have all been involved in sexual assaults. This is the Republican Party.  15310164
Reposted by BertSaysWoofChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty. 58159833364
Reposted by BertSaysWoofCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...citizen.orgTech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects - Public CitizenWASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Big Tech executives met with Donald Trump for a meeting about the threats posed by… 1411557
Reposted by BertSaysWoofRyan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 01/10/2026“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American. This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn."nbcnews.comJudge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool caseThe judge dismissed the case against David Hearn with prejudice, citing “exceptional circumstances” that included President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Pirro’s office. 21890254
Reposted by BertSaysWoofChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026💥 Trump Crime Family. CNN investigation revealing Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump to negotiate peace in Gaza, owns a company with a major stake in a firm linked to Israel's military 35480317
Reposted by BertSaysWoofFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says ft.trib.al/VFLqMHLft.trib.alPutin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy saysUkrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’ 1712948
Reposted by BertSaysWoofRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time Trump shows up Paxton’s poll numbers go down. I wonder why. bsky.app/profile/atru... 921554291
Reposted by BertSaysWoofAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months. 24232151596
Reposted by BertSaysWoofJessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team: 215780
Reposted by BertSaysWoofElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout. 431301480
Reposted by BertSaysWoofKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"? 703025704
Reposted by BertSaysWoofChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident 14040262228
Reposted by BertSaysWoofbrainthink @brainthink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why winning the Senate matters: - Only it can remove a President from office - Only it can approve treaties - Only it approves cabinet Secretaries - Only it can approve military promotions - Only it can approve judges - Only it can remove Supreme Court justices - It must approve all legislation 1012619952
Reposted by BertSaysWoofAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You really can’t make this shit up. 791149694397
Reposted by BertSaysWoofDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea. H/t UKHE 216231
Reposted by BertSaysWoofDave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you wanted to spot the precise blind spot of higher ed journalism, it would be this: what is happening is not the usual ups & downs HE has always had, but an intentional DOGE-like destruction of a crucial infrastructure of lives & careers that serve literally millions of lives. @chronicle.com 12612
Reposted by BertSaysWoofMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media. 9534491078
Reposted by BertSaysWoofLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."welcometohellworld.comWaiting for the next Mr. DeathI don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured 333680