Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!” 12094300612174
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/08/2025“We’re watching the worst president in history manipulate the worst White House press corps in history every day,” says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. And to that I say amen. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com 310143233718
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away." 456209825160
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this." 34891163260
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025"Texas has basically violated the Voting Rights Act every single redistricting cycle since the Voting Rights Act was passed." Great conversation with @jenrubin.bsky.social about TX gerrymandering & why VRA remains vital today contrarian.substack.com/p/republican...contrarian.substack.comRepublicans' attempt to redistrict Texas is a power grab: Ari Berman explains"Texas has basically violated the Voting Rights Act every single redistricting cycle since the Voting Rights Act was passed." 19246
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Is this what Trump means by transparency? 🙄😬 251
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 15/11/2024My personal sadness is small, contained, fleeting. My civic sadness is massive, untethered, constant. 1552868464
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialGet Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 05/08/2025 14539248
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCatherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Trump’s favored design for his new $200M grand ballroom bears a striking resemblance to some of the interiors in the Kremlin… … I wonder why that is? 001
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialBob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 06/08/2025🤣 1195
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialdarren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 05/08/2025 23796203
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.social🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 05/08/2025They're so stupid and cruel they don't even know or care that they're stabbing themselves in the back... 36230103
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCatherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Attached to this NPR article is the 465 page transcript of Maxwell’s deposition. Yesterday, it’s reported she said Trump did nothing inappropriate. Of course, she also swore she saw no girls under 18 at Epstein’s properties, & he never did anything inappropriate either… www.npr.org/2020/10/22/9...npr.orgJeffrey Epstein Update: Read The Deposition That Ghislaine Maxwell Fought To HideGhislaine Maxwell's answers to questions about the sex-trafficking operation she allegedly ran with the late Jeffrey Epstein are now being made public. 152
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Once again, I’ll repeat: abusing quo warranto to fashion a compliant legislative body subservient to the executive branch’s ambitions is fundamentally anti-democratic and anathema to the Anglo-American constitutional tradition. What Texas officials are trying to do would’ve made the Founders recoil. 12410123
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialAtlantaDon💙🏳️🌈💙🏳️🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025No real regrets here...GQP is gone... 21253951322
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025🤬🤬🤬 2115
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialLiza Donnelly @lizadonnelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson: Voting Rights Act. @hcrichardson.bsky.socialopen.substack.comTalk & Draw with Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson!Voting Rights Act 119257
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Maybe we should send John a tool...media.tenor.coma cartoon of a cowboy holding a lasso with the words get back to work written below himALT: a cartoon of a cowboy holding a lasso with the words get back to work written below him 3328
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Donald Trump won 56% of the vote in Texas in 2024. Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 House seats, or 66%. If this plan goes through they'll control 30 of 38 seats, or 79%. 601134376
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025August 5, 2025heathercoxrichardson.substack.comAugust 5, 2025 (Tuesday)Sixty years ago tomorrow, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. 261272372
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Berman: Was the President right about the polling? Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself. 421225336234
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025As you read this eye-popping story alleging GOP Congressman Cory Mills engaged in revenge porn w/Miss USA, remember that Eagle Ed Martin refused to investigate the earlier abuse allegations against him. So this is abuse Pam Bondi's DOJ let continue. www.dropsitenews.com/p/miss-unite...dropsitenews.comMiss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory MillsLindsey Langston reported the Florida Republican to law enforcement for harassment last month. 811632704
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialMonica @softtail65.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Ok. Who did this? 🤭🤣😂 62819275
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/08/2025MSW Media sues DOJ for grand jury transcripts in the Epstein & Maxwell cases, as well as for FBI training videos searching for any mention of Trump. @muellershewrote.com & I on how independent media is doing the heavy-lifting on the Epstein Files that legacy media won’t. youtu.be/UOuCLNqVo-I?...youtu.beTrump DOJ hit with MAJOR LAWSUIT over EPSTEIN COVER-UPYouTube video by Katie Phang 22986275
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Bonhoeffer’s warning wasn’t just for Germans, it was for all humans. Authoritarianism thrives on the absence of thought. Why fascism always finds fools—and how not to be one. Again. Collective stupidity isn’t new, it’s been screwing things up for humanity throughout history. belib.org/oB19DoE 09332
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025IF he were innocent, they would not need to take respite in a comfy chair. Release the files, meeting adjourned! 2278
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Willingly in Vova's clutches. Russia's control is not a hoax. Never was. 2112
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025The Camp Capo Accords. 🤬 1102
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCarolyn Salter MD @salterfortexas.bsky.social · 26/05/2025The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans would let 100 people starve because one person MIGHT BE unworthy. Dems feed 100 to prevent one from starving. Big diff. You’re a misinformation magician. 643
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCarolyn Salter MD @salterfortexas.bsky.social · 26/05/2025What a jerk. Although I were a cadet, I would’ve been relieved. 063
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialRichard, Democratic activist, ❌👑 @resist4747.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Biden may have accomplished more in his one term than almost anyone else. 02010
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialHave A Gay Day @haveagayday.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Never forget 281298015649
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialJulie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 26/05/2025This Memorial Day I’m thinking of our two Jewish American grandfathers who risked their lives during WWII to fight fascism abroad. 014020
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCatherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025My dad, George Cullen, was a combat veteran of WW2, 8th Army Air Corps. He was fully disabled in connection with his service, both because of physical injuries and what we would now call PTSD. He would be absolutely disgusted & enraged by what Trump & Co is doing in the name of the American people. 011
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCatherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025On Memorial Day “….They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them….” “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon 011
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialLeftist Connection @leftistconnection.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Qatar can't sell a 15 year old broken down plane so they put a little gold colored plating on the inside and the orange idiot falls in love. A perfect metaphor for a pathetic man, broken and empty. 213525
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCatherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Aaaaand… this is just what Qatar has been asking for: 032
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal. Then she fired that lawyer. 285130034551
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialPaulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025🥴😡 1102
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialCatherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I’m sure I’ve probably read better than this… …somewhere …maybe But I can’t remember where or when. It kind of reminds me of my dad. And it reminds me, especially, of what we ought all be thinking and saying. Thank you @retiredrn2024.bsky.social 052
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/05/2025"Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will...to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'" wapo.st/3GDzJFTwapo.stTrump says, ‘I don’t know,’ when asked if he’s required to uphold ConstitutionThe president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview. 53414118
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Ours, by a mile. 290147652424
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I am an American, born and raised. I am humiliated to have this individual as our POTUS - and I am angered by the stupidity of those who voted for him without caring enough to educate themselves about Project 2025 and the nitty gritty details of his plans. #WeThePeople #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue 6747601863
Reposted by @billsmith-boston.bsky.socialJonathan @jonathansocials.com · 02/05/2025Share this with your MAGA friends who still don't understand the Trump Tariffs. 072
