Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h* GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERZ: WE ARE PREPARING FOR MAJOR HYBRID ATTACKS BY RUSSIA, WE WOULD RESPOND QUICKLY AND VERY CLEARLY @reuters.com 25560176
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialJordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 2hJust delivered a $150,000 check to Susan Collins' office with @mainedems.bsky.social. A copy of the check a defense contractor funneled to her super PAC through a fake company. He's in federal prison. Her super PAC kept the money. Senator, you answer to us. On November 3rd, we answer back. 738286
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1hYou really can’t make this shit up. 21535961133
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialCREW @citizensforethics.org · 1hNEW: Trump owned between $2.9 million and $9.5 million in investments in companies that owned, operated or provided infrastructure for data centers at the end of 2025, according to CREW analysis. Meanwhile, his admin promoted data centers—potentially padding his bottom line.citizensforethics.orgAs Trump promotes data centers, he holds millions in data center stock - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonTrump owned millions in investments in companies owning, operating or providing infrastructure for data centers at the end of 2025. 66544
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1hBREAKING: Trump announces a new plan to lower the national debt. Step one: Rename the national debt “America’s savings account.” Step two: Stop checking the balance. Step three: Tell China we left our wallet at home. 513229
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1hSeriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian" 37912147
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 50mEven in his own made up flattery fantasies, the woman has to be completely intoxicated to find him appealing. 3242450
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 58mEvergreen 5689250
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 43mYou know I’m a teacher by trade, but I can’t stand for women to have to share their most intimate horrors to try to educate men on abortion or rape. The men already know…they either don’t care, or they are already actively working on our side.  323447
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 44mBeing asked to share a stage with JD is officially the GOP equivalent of testing positive for mono. 1533446
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1hFor a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 561194447
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 35mRenee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda. 11501155
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 32mJeanine Pirro has been permanently banned from bringing charges against a former Olympian whom the president wrongly blamed for his botched Reflecting Pool renovation. thedailybeast.comReflecting Pool Judge Deals Humiliating Blow to Judge JeanineThe Obama-appointed judge described the administration’s bid to keep the case alive as “simply fanciful.” 13813
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22hWhen you intended to do a racism but you accidentally did a sundowning instead 361176233
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22h🚨BREAKING: In a win for Georgia voters, a federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The department is now 0-26 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter data. 161033303
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21hWay to go, California! Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill yesterday banning law enforcement (ICE) from using electric shock gloves. 20890181846
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21hTRUMP: I won Alaska by a lot. Do you know how many points? DAN SULLIVAN: 15, sir TRUMP: How about 22? 8749992
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22hI can't stop thinking about this. American farmers have lost $30 billion since Trump took over. Thirty. Billion. Thirty thousand millions. Holy shit. 35513135
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22hBy December 8, 2020, Trump's campaign officials were getting frustrated by all the lies Rudy was telling. That didn't stop them from cashing a check saying, Go Get Em Rudy! 416142
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialgeri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 22hMight as well light the Constitution on fire at this point. 831887451
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialCarolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 22hBruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos" 893193505
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23hTrump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall." 9492304619
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have one house. 15370301873
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0 45267491970
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026BREAKING: In a 53-47 vote, Senate Republicans failed to pass an anti-voting measure that would have required voters to provide photo ID to cast ballots. The vote follows repeated failures by the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, an anti-voting bill Trump has called his “No. 1 priority.”democracydocket.comGOP voter ID bill falls short in SenateThe floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ... 25651233
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026hi @POTUS looks like your new SI site is still kinda woke 781567354
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think we all saw that coming 41658951834
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026Klobuchar: "You got this guy who clearly thinks he's got this gotcha moment. And I am sitting there listening because I was the next one up, and starting to think to myself, it's not really major sleuth here, 'I just don't think Jack Smith would lie under oath that he hadn't been at the game.'" 732107410
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You can also ask, “Who had the most impeachments?” and “Who was impeached for incitement of insurrection?” You’ll get your answers. 😂 They’re rushing to change what the system says. Oh boy, America’s “super intelligence” is so woke it even says climate change is real. Hahahaha. 15962103
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you need to catch up on the whole controversy with GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt not knowing his sports and embarrassing himself while attempting to slander a public servant today, I made a 20 min. video explainer. Yes, 20 minutes. And I enjoyed the hell out of making it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjN...youtube.comGOP Senator Eric Schmitt + Most Embarrassing Moment Ever in a Congressional Hearing (FULL EXPLAINER)YouTube video by Charlotte Clymer 2849989
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2629209425702
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know this is shocking, but it never seems to work out for them when Republicans bring right-wing internet conspiracies into courtrooms or committee hearings where the opposition actually gets to see their “evidence” and respond to it. They fare much better with the cultists on X. 251467243
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material. 32924196
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight. 22359188
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Listening to the D.C. Circuit's en banc oral argument regarding Judge Boasberg's efforts to investigate contempt of court in regards to the CECOT flights, and it's not going great for the government right now. It seems like the en banc court is likely to allow the investigation to go forward. 16627117
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race! 34986225
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions. 802335857
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"gas prices have risen more in red states" 61777273
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the MidtermsSee how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress. 5225441027
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered. 161437457
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/202611th Cir. rejects Trump administration's attempt to block an order holding that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported settlement were in bad faith, resulting in sanctions for Trump's lawyers and an ethics referral for AG Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 117457
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026Hinojosa says the emails could shed light on Musk’s lucrative state contracts and tax incentives, campaign contributions, and what she describes as corruption surrounding his relationship with Abbott. Now she wants to know what was so “intimate and embarrassing.” 131197236
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment. 10463901551
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to. 623225981
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Ricketts: "This year we're on track to have record trade with Canad-- er, ah, South Korea" 38792155
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS 272135452849
Reposted by @brighterside.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" 340123774586
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"I was just asking questions." 🤡 2559966
Reposted by @brighterside.bsky.socialThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republican-aligned groups are on track to pour more than $300 million into Ken Paxton’s campaign in a bid to defeat James Talarico.thedailybeast.comMAGA Candidate’s Campaign Descends Into $300M Money Pit DisasterRepublican-aligned groups are on track to pour more than $300 million into Ken Paxton’s campaign. 111910
