Reposted by Bill FouchéAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7hKen Paxton says Trump is the greatest president of his lifetime (privately he's been blaming Trump for the struggles of his campaign) 75794157
Reposted by Bill FouchéChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9hThis story just keeps going and keeps going. These messages! 925457
Reposted by Bill FouchéChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9hNew strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex BillText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 26809253
Reposted by Bill FouchéGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h11th Cir.: it violated clearly established law for FBI agent to fail to engage in reasonable efforst to avoid error in leading a no-knock dawn raid that ended up at the wrong house. No QI; Bivens case can proceed against FBI agent. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub... 514429
Reposted by Bill FouchéRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 12hThis is a very good analysis of the Texas GOP's white supremacist-adjacent future, via @hooks.bsky.social. Read:texasmonthly.comTexas Republicans Might Finally Lose. Will They Learn Anything?This November could be the beginning of the end of Trumpism. The state GOP is adrift. 110022
Reposted by Bill FouchéCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10hJPMORGAN: “.. US housing affordability remains near its worst level since the Global Financial Crisis, with a market that’s effectively ‘frozen.’” 7365144
Reposted by Bill FouchéCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10hThe ultimate NIMBY. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 30906245
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h“Trump has made more stock trades than every member of Congress combined” 🤯 641687919
Reposted by Bill FouchéAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12hTrump suggests he wants to cut off almost all trade: "We're gonna very very self-sufficient very soon" 7351655504
Reposted by Bill FouchéLiza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 14hA critical piece from my colleague @josephanunn.bsky.social . The history of the law prohibiting federal troops at the polls makes crystal clear that an Insurrection Act invocation wouldn't negate that law. 01010
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14hAnd if you say this is wrong @MarshaBlackburn calls you a communist 331161472
Reposted by Bill FouchéCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15hNYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.orgHow Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street EconomicsA look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices. 12265117
Reposted by Bill FouchéCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15hA much-needed explainer from @citizencohn.bsky.social about those $500 checks (bribes) Trump is sending out as an alleged Obamacare "refund." Looks quite likely to be illegal. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...thebulwark.comDonald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a PopHe’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort. 16339148
Reposted by Bill FouchéDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17hNEW: Over the past year, ICE investigated — and considered sending undercover agents against — hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, new records revealed. The probes were part of Trump's extensive search for noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms.democracydocket.comICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them. 22232135
Reposted by Bill FouchéAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17hThis segment is about DHS's claim that they have identified and arrested over 2,000 "terrorists," a claim laughable on its face. This is largely because the admin has reclassified multiple criminal gangs as "foreign terrorist organizations," and ICE's gang identification is notorious sloppy. 29732203
Reposted by Bill FouchéTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 18hThis sounds a lot like Trump’s NSPM-7 at work. NSPM-7 is a Sept. 2025 presidential directive that authorized the FBI to open investigations without concern for basic First Amendment protections. The memo erased longstanding FBI policy. Via @ryanjreilly.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...nbcnews.comFBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protestersThe former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings. 37840
Reposted by Bill FouchéAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president." 4493597886
Reposted by Bill FouchéAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17hRep. Greg Murphy describes people who have lived in America for decades and have families here and are brutally deported by ICE as "collateral damage," and says "thank God we're getting rid of the garbage that's in our country:" 7071730678
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 17hJeff Flake once estimated that at least 35 Republican senators would vote to remove Trump if the ballot were secret. A Democratic Senate could give them that chance. @andycraig.bsky.socialtheunpopulist.netA Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority BasisSuch a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears 417146
Reposted by Bill Fouché@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 17hNew MAGA talking point dropped: 5326
Reposted by Bill FouchéKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17hAn authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will 551352328
Reposted by Bill FouchéKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17hAs Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in the midterms, two of his top political advisers — James Blair and Chris LaCivita — were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power.nytimes.comAmid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned GovernmentJames Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice. 20570325
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2026The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting and feared additional exposures.bit.lyArmy study found shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fearThe shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting and feared additional exposures. 4511582
Reposted by Bill FouchéMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 12595100
Reposted by Bill FouchéDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026DOJ's Civil Rights Division once attracted the best of the best. These are the worst of the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u... Good article, but for the pathetically weak nut graph that says their work histories "might have disqualified them from being hired in the past, former officials said."nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks (Gift Article)The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said. 46130
Reposted by Bill FouchéChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 22145232050
Reposted by Bill FouchéNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Instead of religious freedom, where believers can practice their religion as they see fit without interference from the state, it’s a demand for religious dominance, where the state forces everyone to live in accordance with one religion’s dictates. If I can’t control them then I’m being oppressed. 1516944
Reposted by Bill FouchéMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comElection deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machinesThe problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution. 57051873175
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 06/10/2026Postliberal Catholic theologian Chad Pecknold has taken leave from Catholic University to become a spokesman for DHS, essentially putting his faith in the service of an objectively ruthless mass deportation campaign.theunpopulist.netA Catholic Theologian Signs Up for Mass CrueltyYet another thinker puts his faith in the service of monstrous deportation policies 042
Reposted by Bill FouchéWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Contra Alito, religious liberty and accommodation have in fact expanded in the years since Obergefell. Examples abound: e.g. the Covid church cases and the way "most favored nation" handling of religion has been displacing Employment Division v. Smith regarding laws of general application.abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 93411
Reposted by Bill FouchéSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Cook Political Report just moved the Kansas Senate race to TOSS UP. Kansas. Which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932. 🤯 www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...cookpolitical.comA Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift LeftFour weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a... 1315141
Reposted by Bill FouchéRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 21450712218
Reposted by Bill FouchéRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.ms.now/news/reflect...ms.nowAttorneys for David Hearn call for probe into Reflecting Pool vandalism caseIn a letter to the inspectors general of the Justice and Interior departments, Hearns’ lawyers demand answers as to who is responsible for the “gross incompetence, negligence, and misconduct.” 261012247
Reposted by Bill FouchéGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm so old I remember when this poll/metric inspired a thousand hot takes about the Dem Party image being irretrievably damaged by cultural excess via @simonwdc.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter... www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/dems-up-11... 1226571
Reposted by Bill FouchéDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026Everyone wants someone else to plan dinner parties & invite them.derekthompson.orgYou Are No Longer Invited to DinnerWe’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975 2916628
Reposted by Bill FouchéDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What stands out in the story is that the only Dem who doesn't like the tit-for-tat idea is Durbin - who is being replaced by a Dem (Stratton) who's fine with it. (Also, Mazie Hirono seemed confused by the Q, but she's 78 and can be dizzy in hallway interviews.) 813714
Reposted by Bill FouchéJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Court Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJ’s Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen Voting talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...talkingpointsmemo.comCourt Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJ’s Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen VotingJudge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting In a potentially very... 115130
Reposted by Bill FouchéJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2. 34471166
Reposted by Bill FouchéAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of the most heinous examples is Matt Walsh suggesting that, actually, Jane Doe raped the frat boys because they were also under the influence. I thought it bore a certain resemblance to some of Andrew Johnson’s comments on slavery. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion... 10618128
Reposted by Bill FouchéCharlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Putin-Trump was the most successful covert operation in modern history. David Corn on today's "To the Contrary" Podcast. 1925684
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In case facts still matter… 6329741251
Reposted by Bill FouchéNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Former German spy chief arrested on suspicion of treason. Looks really bad. If these accusations prove true, it's one of the worst intelligence scandals involving any agency anywhere. Thread. 414862
Reposted by Bill FouchéThe Independent @the-independent.com · 06/10/2026Army secretary who quit Pentagon after clashes with Hegseth breaks silencetrib.alArmy secretary who quit Pentagon after clashes with Hegseth breaks silenceDan Driscoll is one of a series of high profile departures while the defense secretary reshapes the military in his own image. He has now given his first interview to Rolling Stone 12814
Reposted by Bill FouchéCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Perceptions of press freedom in the U.S. hit a record low, and are now below the average among developed nations. news.gallup.com/poll/715025/... 513637
Reposted by Bill FouchéJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Health care went from 8% of jobs in the 1990s to nearly 16% today. That's a sign we got richer. Once you've got a house, a car, a dishwasher, the next dollar doesn't go to a second oven. It goes to more years of life. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 3224246
Reposted by Bill FouchéBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A new Reuters poll makes pretty clear that Republicans aren't willing to follow President Trump on some of his vanity projects. 80% of Republicans don't like his taxpayer-funded political ads. Only a quarter approved of Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center. www.reuters.com/world/americ... 108624
Reposted by Bill FouchéKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8436781433
Reposted by Bill FouchéAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi... 8818171