Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 405105696
bobbyroberto.bsky.social @bobbyroberto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Always go to the Barber with the worst haircut; they cut each other's hair. 000
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialEric 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... 24730641798
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 346124884630
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice? 102966354
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"This was elder care masquerading as world-saving policy, stringing together some of Trump’s favorite activities — proximity to power, document signings, and arbitrary renamings — for an entire day." 1224875
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124852674
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes" 451887384
bobbyroberto.bsky.social @bobbyroberto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Watching the Pats, down 28-3, Bingo, got"m right where we want them. Can't believe they fell for it 000
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports 7375792173
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...hamiltonnolan.comYou Have to Call Bigots What They AreStop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate. 7685203
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence 1373717767
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026While the he wrecks the economy, military, alliances, & trade partnerships established over many decades, old out touch billionaire Trump is at his golf resort with Natalie focused on new hair styles, ballrooms, triumphal arches, & his latest schemes to profit off the presidency. 1373490983
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com 15236001039
bobbyroberto.bsky.social @bobbyroberto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026When my kid was 3 or 4, she said, "Dad, what's the 'A' word?" I said I shouldn't tell you, but it's "Aristophanes". Then I'd periodically say, "Aristophanes! - shhhh, don't tell Mom". Went on for several years. 010
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science. 340163585429
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane. 583179610
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialTomorrow’s Affairs @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Rather than making #America more indispensable, Trump has driven its allies towards the opposite goal: learning to live without it tomorrowsaffairs.com/how-trump-tu... #Trump #NATO #MarkCarney #IranWartomorrowsaffairs.comHow Trump turned American power into American weaknessRather than making America more indispensable, Trump has driven its allies towards the opposite goal: learning to live without it 16114
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialChris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him. 342317509
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever. 341622378
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them. 551771441
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Is “Woke 1” in the room with us or is a convicted rapist the President, with a cabinet full of mediocre white people, institutionalizing racism across the federal government? 455875
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's remarkable that you have not just incredibly stupid people like this. But whole movements based on this stupidity. Having your currency as a global reserve currency means that the whole global economy is structured to your advantage and most hard constraints that everyone faces you don't. 841644502
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.boston.comMillionaires tax surges past expectations, once againThe voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row. 192422808
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialPhillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny 402798734
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this 632321777
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026New in PN: The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme "The result is a regime that is constantly tripping over its own bloated mushroom-like appendages — and a global order in which absolutely no one can trust that the United States will do tomorrow what it promises today."publicnotice.coThe Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and memeTrump has made the word of the US government worthless. 30789241
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/07/2026it's so funny that people will forever write articles about this guy like he has a "philosophy" or "thoughts" -- he's an angry frightened child who has moods. oh is he skeptical? oh has he grown skeptical? get the fuck out of here 391335168
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/07/2026IR 101: The primary reason for trade agreements & all the other international treaties/organizations is not really the <content> of the policies, but rather the reduction in uncertainty <about> & credible commitments <to> the policies. 14497102
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The proper response to anyone pushing this is -- you know this is pathetic, right? We don't do this shit with actually popular presidents, much less the shitbag no one likes. 54841190
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialMax Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026So much winning…. Make it stop already! FT: After more than a century the US is on the verge of losing its place as the world’s leading agricultural exporter. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comThe fall of America’s farm superpowerThe US is on the verge of losing its status as the world’s leading agricultural exporter 58832
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is. 261545387
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It. 478174344911
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialDaniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026All the salad apocalypse chatter reminds us that the normal work of government to maintain the commons—good roads, regulations, food inspections, public health etc—is what allows economies to prosper and businesses to plan and compete and make money 14738197
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAhmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It’s impossible to move the debate forward when one side is committed to upholding a disinformation-fueled, dehumanizing false reality that leads to the state-sanctioned street killings of innocent people. There are not two sides to this particular story. Full stop. 24785322467
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology. 46110853239
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/07/202616 July 1903 | Pole Edmund Wojciechowski was born. A lawyer. Son of the President of Poland Stanisław Wojciechowski. Arrested in connection with the refusal to expel Jewish lawyers from the Warsaw Bar In #Auschwitz from 15 Aug 1940. No. 2297 He perished on 23 February 1941. 1039395
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Harris County DA Sean Teare: “The tactics of every LEA I’ve ever worked with in no way resemble what ICE is doing. Either they are completely untrained, or intentionally putting themselves in situations where they can justify firing into cars.” 29670246
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So much ink spilled over Trump saying 20% Hormuz toll, even calculating out hypothetical effects. It’s just the president losing a war he started, feeling embarrassed, having no idea what to do, going “They’re doing what? Yeah, well, I’ll do that bigger!” Not policy, not strategy, throwing a fit. 16693107
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency. 42392932777
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026REMINDER: The answer to “do ships sail?” is based on shipping companies going “will this be profitable given current risks and insurance cost?” and insurance companies going “will underwriting this be profitable given the risks?,” not the US president telling them to sail, even if he does so loudly. 918427
bobbyroberto.bsky.social @bobbyroberto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Did you even watch the game? They kicked two field goals! 1120
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026As for the political message, it's a simple one. Trump started a war really no one wanted or supported, cost the American people hundreds of billions of dollars and then managed to completely fuck it up. Stupidity, incompetence, failure: rinse and repeat (like Trump does). 28919218
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026How could Vance possibly know this? What absurd toadyism. 6123131
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Why didn’t we send Joy Behar then? 732177311
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialkim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026omg ffs we just want healthcare 1393753821
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026One thing that should be very clear now, is that every one of Trump's claims in the last two months that an agreement with Iran was close, imminent, just around the corner, and that Iran had been militarily defeated and desperate for a deal....was made up. All were lies, every one. 27432113
Reposted by @bobbyroberto.bsky.socialAaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's wild that the media isn't 24/7 in on the entirely self-inflicted nature of this. It's not even like Trump is following some long held Republican orthodoxy. It's because he did insane shit that no one wanted. 420965
