Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's not a flex. They should've sat, listened and then countered in a presser. 000
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Iran has 3 cards: 1. Lock up Strait of Hormuz; 2. Attack the GCC & strangle their economics; 3. Cut a deal w/Israel to forego support for Hamas and Hezbollah in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. They should do option #3 to end the war & elevate technocrats while the Mullahs take a back seat. 162
Reposted by Blank SlateCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/03/2026> @bloomberg.com @javierblas.bsky.social 1320262
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026wow! Rand Paul begins Markwayne Mullin's hearing by confronting him about comments he made describing Paul as a "freakin' snake" & "celebrating" Paul getting assaulted "I wonder if someone who applauds political violence is right to lead an agency that has struggled to accept proper use of force" 1046238566127
Reposted by Blank SlateNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Liberals say that concentration camps filled with children have no place in a democracy. They're wrong—concentration camps filled with children have no place in a republic. 221339134
Reposted by Blank SlateNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Whether it's Donald Trump's DHS Secretary saying that protesters deserve to be shot or a low-level Biden staffer asking Facebook to correct COVID misinformation, but sides have a checkered relationship with the First Amendment. 91164142
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Brook Lopez has killed the momentum for the Clippers. 000
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Trump exploits people's prejudices, vices and guilty pleasures to draw attention. Voters simply have to take it way more seriously. If the reason you voted for Trump is you hate gays, then you can't be surprised by the result when the person who promised he'd attack the groups you hate turns on you. 131
Reposted by Blank SlateNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026The Pam Bondi I Knew How did the soft-spoken Jason Aldean loving Florida attorney general who acted like Trump’s personal lawyer turn into the acerbic Jason Aldean loving US attorney general who acts like Trump’s personal lawyer? 335021
Reposted by Blank SlateFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 20/01/2026MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota 9850241879
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/01/2026That is illegal. ICE has no jurisdiction or authority over US citizens. 051
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/01/2026All of these folks who claim that Dems were 'so bad' as the reason they voted for Trump are so full of it. Trump exploited and manipulated their prejudices, their guilty pleasures, their vices to think that he could punish 'them' and 'them' alone. People took prosperity and good gov't for granted. 010
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Ask folks in Bucks County and Berks County PA and Maricopa County, AZ if they like the framing and get back to us. 000
Reposted by Blank SlateCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026BNP PARIBAS: “.. it’s becoming apparent that even if rate cuts are delivered, long-term Treasury yields are less likely to move lower. The mini cut cycles of 2024 and 2025 offer empirical proof. .. 10y yields can head towards 4.50% in 2026.” 618834
Reposted by Blank SlateAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 20/01/2026BREAKING A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one. Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD Background buff.ly/Ay2iB6u 259105562523
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/01/2026There is no bottom. There is no lie or rationalization that he won't make up to justify abusive and lawless actions, and there is no lie or rationalization that the Supreme Court won't green light as a President acting within the purview of his executive authority. It's a de facto dictatorship. 020
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people." 9615234913679
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Rachel is being a bit premature here. The nation won't stand in opposition to Trump until it actually votes Dems into office. The nation voted Dems out of office last election and didn't let the Dem trifecta last more than 2 years. The defections came from within the Dems' own coalition. 030
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop" 13803603612543
Reposted by Blank SlateMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/01/2026🚨BREAKING: Federal judges in eastern Virginia have moved to strip Lindsey Halligan, the embattled loyalist lawyer President Donald Trump handpicked to prosecute his enemies last year, of her alleged U.S. attorney title more than a month after a court formally disqualified her from the role.democracydocket.comFederal judges formally strip Lindsey Halligan of U.S. attorney titleThe move comes more than a month after a court disqualified Halligan from the role. 1322975785
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Carney has been one of the sharpest and most proactive in terms of analyzing the upheaval in the global economic and political system and reorienting to adapt to it. 020
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... " 813203996507
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Doesn't matter if ICE has sufficient training or not, their mission is to suppress the American people and do so without any accountability. They're the modern day gestapo. As long as Miller is running ICE it is a threat to freedom. 000
Reposted by Blank SlateCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The job market “is struggling, and the broader economy is fragile, in big part due to U.S. tariffs .. the fastest way to boost the job market would be for the Supreme Court to declare the reciprocal tariffs unlawful and for lawmakers to let them become a thing of the past.” @markzandi.bsky.social 381259372
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 11/01/2026That officer is a murderer and Americans have a right to call out public officials, including law enforcement. 000
Reposted by Blank SlateKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Breaking: NEW YORK (AP) — Judge stops the Trump administration's freeze on child care and other social service funding for 5 states for now. 4352511039
Reposted by Blank SlateRep. Haley Stevens @rephaleystevens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Clearly, Trump’s tariffs are not “Making America Great Again.” We need to put Michigan workers first and end Trump’s reckless policies. 24117
Reposted by Blank SlateJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic. 971956395
Reposted by Blank SlateNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides. 271876317
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 14/12/2025@ny-knicks.bsky.social look like they are built well for the playoffs. 000
Reposted by Blank SlatePhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years oldwhatimreading.netViola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has diedViola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old. 590176255611
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/11/2025Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others." 163104102920
Reposted by Blank SlateLauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period. 445181807728
Reposted by Blank SlateNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/11/2025We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad. 131400306
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I mean, this case has to get thrown out, right? 010
Reposted by Blank SlateBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/11/2025theonion.comMegyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia TooNEW YORK—Faced with backlash against comments she made last week downplaying the sex trafficking crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, an anxious Megyn Kelly appeared on her podcast Monday waiting for everyone e... 501185823405
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/11/2025Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal." 441151924762
Reposted by Blank SlateJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/11/2025It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics. 39985582867
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Begun, the war agains data centers and unchecked AI has. 010
Reposted by Blank SlateNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly 424029778
Reposted by Blank SlateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/11/2025I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here 11494642911695
Blank Slate @blankslate2017.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I'd argue the Australian general election earlier this year previewed the embrace of 'affordability' as a political theme. It was a wildly successful campaign for Alabense's Australian Labor Party. 000
Reposted by Blank SlateJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Obvious but worth saying. We really think the White House/DOJ which disappears documents and people pretty regularly is gonna go, "Welp, House voted so I guess we have to turn over the stag films of Trump with a 15 yr old. The rules are the rules." I'm not saying the exercise is pointless at all. 33914144
Reposted by Blank SlateAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance. 520253757585
Reposted by Blank SlateAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LET’S GO!!! 307182134355
Reposted by Blank SlateJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam. 1382861911
Reposted by Blank SlateJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Occasionally the Times just totally nails each part 451278311
