Reposted by Brian SpraguePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2026It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it. 127124732386
Reposted by Brian SpragueDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/03/2026Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?" 12598412543
Reposted by Brian SpragueNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷) 594180527095
Reposted by Brian SpragueDr. Roux @tcrotte.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse. 680114222944
Reposted by Brian SpragueFederal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...youtube.comStatement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. PowellYouTube video by Federal Reserve 1134238199098
Reposted by Brian SpragueTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc. 18187301913
Reposted by Brian SpragueSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Kids today are going to grow up thinking “hoax” means a crime committed by Trump. 730346
Reposted by Brian SpragueGod @thegodshow.com · 13/11/2025Megyn Kelly said she thinks “there’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old” when it comes to sexual abuse. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter. Megyn Kelly is going to Hell. 1110171353439
Reposted by Brian SpragueGhoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/11/2025Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight 61157692948
Reposted by Brian SpragueSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. 805612265325535
Reposted by Brian SpragueTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends. 186112112862
Reposted by Brian SpragueAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/04/2025If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings. 521968542
Reposted by Brian SpragueAdmiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Great leaders are constant readers. We cannot be afraid of books with which we don't agree. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...nytimes.comWho’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (Gift Article)An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. 1418336
Reposted by Brian SpragueCraig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times. 9977751631
Reposted by Brian SpragueDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...nytimes.comNaval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and AdmissionsThe defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions. 1411651709
Reposted by Brian SpragueDavid Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel. 110136364874
Reposted by Brian SpragueRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Donald Trump (2016): “In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information.” 91985249
Reposted by Brian SpragueMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion. If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion. 523012820
Reposted by Brian SpraguePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This goes so far beyond politics. I'm just morally disgusted to be living in a country that is behaving like this. 18558104
Reposted by Brian SpragueWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.nytimes.comElon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House ComplexTrump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. 576182538047
Reposted by Brian SpragueThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/03/2025Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up. 468103282292
Reposted by Brian SpragueJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“when you turn America into a vast extortion machine, you will get some short-term wins as weaker powers bend to your gangsterism, but you will burn the relationships, at home and abroad, that are actually the source of America’s long-term might.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.What happens when a superpower goes rogue. 1526378
Reposted by Brian SpragueWIRED @wired.com · 13/03/2025Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:wired.comInside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. 11929641315
Reposted by Brian SpraguePeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law. 589200992820
Reposted by Brian SpragueMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone. 234249329117
Reposted by Brian SpragueTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation. 1523263806
Reposted by Brian Spragueemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025One of the problems, IMO, w/both Dems in Congress and the pundits screaming at them rather than the fascists is they still think fixing Trump is abt winning an election. That's a luxurious thought but wildly wrong-headed. Problem is winning enough non-, swing-, and GOP voters to halt things now. 621206242
Reposted by Brian SpragueCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second. 20245395236866
Reposted by Brian SpragueJoshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 02/03/2025"Londoners keep dying because Churchill refuses to make peace. If he stopped asking for aid and stopped insulting Hitler, the bombs would stop falling." — Elon Musk, 1940 (probably) 631173
Reposted by Brian SpragueHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/03/2025He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was. 9784693613454
Reposted by Brian SpragueCharles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*. 118119222193
Reposted by Brian SpragueMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷♂️ 17369992268
Reposted by Brian SpragueKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Zelenskyy should propose a counteroffer for 100% of his country’s supply of adamantium, vibranium AND unobtainium as well. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...nbcnews.comTrump officials pitch Zelenskyy on U.S. owning 50% of Ukraine's rare earth mineralsThe Trump administration indicated U.S. troops could be deployed to provide security in connection with the minerals if there’s a peace deal with Russia, sources told NBC News. 55123399
Reposted by Brian SpraguePatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/02/2025We are not a serious country. 1016619
Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Every week or two I’m left wondering about the source of Spelling Bee’s deep aversion to nautical words. 020
Reposted by Brian SpragueEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago. 571711586
Reposted by Brian SpragueTiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 22/02/2025DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency. 289244254858
Reposted by Brian SpragueCommon Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again: where oh, where are all of those strict constitutionalists demanding that the executive branch’s power and reach is limited in their very, very very limited government view?media.tenor.coma man in a suit is holding a jacket over his shoulderALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket over his shoulder 571666358
Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The best thing about imaginary grievances is that you can grift off of fighting them for years because they’ll never be “fixed.” 000
Reposted by Brian SpragueNeil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 16/02/2025If you do want to know how it works—and, specifically, how it can work in the US, here’s a thing I wrote: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comTrump Can Be StoppedOther countries managed to fend off autocracy. By borrowing from their playbook, America can too. 541197488
Brian Sprague @briansprague.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Sometime soon Trump is going to say that the United States is more respected in the world than ever before. 010
Reposted by Brian SpragueChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/02/20251/ Elon Musk may be planning to effectively close down much of the US government and replace it with AI, according to Jeff Stein, the economics reporter for the Washington Post. ⬇️ 1824763
Reposted by Brian SpragueSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Steven Dennis' maxim: If they had the votes, *they would be voting.* 3/ 91728187
Reposted by Brian SpragueMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Dear @Doge If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing 20379446812695
Reposted by Brian SpragueThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 06/02/2025Conservatives warning about George Soros but make the footage Elon Musk 733188897