Reposted by Escot McCloud Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Little ghost! 👻 Photo from my collection, 1964. 31236101
Reposted by Escot McCloud Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity. 1018296227031
Reposted by Escot McCloud Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!! 774224649899
Reposted by Escot McCloud Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social · 22/09/2025To those who cancelled their Disney related subscriptions. Since Trump defunded PBS, it would help them quite a bit if you took the same money you used to send to Disney and instead, sent it to PBS/NPR. 34990338
Reposted by Escot McCloud George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/09/2025t.co/5fVoRbFS2e 735108614520
Reposted by Escot McCloud Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Scotland 634231134292
Reposted by Escot McCloud Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper. 691227775721
Reposted by Escot McCloud Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent. 796402477026
Reposted by Escot McCloud Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The real cabal is at Mar-a-Lago. 23170982252
Reposted by Escot McCloud Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Now THAT's a cease and desist letter 563363609420
Reposted by Escot McCloud The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/07/2025Pursued relentlessly by the government of Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison. He left behind an account of his final years—and an admonition to his country and the world.newyorker.comAlexei Navalny’s Prison DiariesThe Russian opposition leader’s account of his last years and his admonition to his country and the world. 310116243803
Reposted by Escot McCloud Teri Goodson. 🚨🆘🇺🇲🆘🚨 @terigoodson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Rules for Surviving Authoritarian Times www.thebulwark.com/p/rules-for-...thebulwark.comRules for Surviving Authoritarian TimesRuth Ben-Ghiat joins John Avlon to talk about how authoritarianism creeps into democracies, the patterns she’s seen around the world, and what history says about how to fight back. 15018
Reposted by Escot McCloud Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16/06/2025BREAKING: 87 year old veteran was released from the D.C. jail after being arrested Friday on the Capitol steps while protesting the Trump parade. Asked how it felt to be arrested at 87, he replied, 'I'm just beginning, my friend.' 17945971390
Reposted by Escot McCloud Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2025Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up. 1259161954556
Reposted by Escot McCloud jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months 972533479778
Reposted by Escot McCloud Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I don't know who besides the White House needs to hear this, but spraying cheap, Chinese-made foam wall decorations with gold spray paint isn’t classy, it’s tacky as hell and prodigiously embarrassing Right now the Oval Office looks like the dumpster behind a Michael’s 951181943234
Reposted by Escot McCloud Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 16/04/2025worth reiterating that in literally any other context a 10% tariff on Japan alone would be getting wall to wall financial news coverage, would be considered the largest trade war escalation in modern American history and the dumbest economic policy move by a President in decades 120128382312
Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025The rule of law no longer exists. The system of checks and balances between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches is effectively dismantled. It's a wild new frontier of freestyle lawlessness now. 010
Reposted by Escot McCloud Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now. 17626589217334
Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Apparently, the new protocol is that all hecklers should be tackled and tazed. Daily noted. ✅ 010
Reposted by Escot McCloud Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath. 667215034563
Reposted by Escot McCloud Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/04/2025We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know. 899304436509
Reposted by Escot McCloud EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Libraries across California are bracing for cuts to early literacy, information access and continuing education programs after the Trump administration’s latest effort to slash federal spending took aim at the nation’s libraries and museums. www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comCalifornia libraries losing millions in funding after Trump terminates federal grantThe funds had been distributed to support a wide range of programs across California's libraries, including story times for low-income families, summer reading initiatives, workforce-readiness skills ... 13412
Reposted by Escot McCloud Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2025Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid." 595331646568
Reposted by Escot McCloud Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2025Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet" 10555452713822
Reposted by Escot McCloud Joel Cardwell @joelcardwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Winston Churchill - 1940media.tenor.coma group of men are posing for a picture together .ALT: a group of men are posing for a picture together . 03810
Reposted by Escot McCloud Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/03/2025#NotMyJoker 🃏 368131601371
Reposted by Escot McCloud Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/03/2025Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'" 742274898424
Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. 010
Reposted by Escot McCloud Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate. 34497811015083
Reposted by Escot McCloud Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 10/03/2025It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum. 2041751429724
Reposted by Escot McCloud RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025along with wagon loads of other lies and bullshit from any number of sources 671504429
Reposted by Escot McCloud Tom, BC 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇳🇴 @tomb80.bsky.social · 03/03/2025For those who believe in biblical scripture, please inform Prez,Zelensky 🇺🇦 when this will be fulfilled. He is awaiting your response. 281378261
Reposted by Escot McCloud Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025here's today's post: "gaslighting Republicans turn the bullshit dial up to eleven" — for fuck̦’s sake, we all saw what we saw. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —bit.lygaslighting Republicans turn the bullshit dial up to elevenfor fuck̦’s sake, we all saw what we saw 742536426
Reposted by Escot McCloud The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Brutal. 10196079915765
Escot McCloud @brutusmaximus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Helpful advice from a nurse friend. The collapse of the US healthcare system is going to be an absolute shitshow. Cold-hearted cruelty is so deeply embedded in the MAGA agenda that they'll support it even as it affects their friends and families, just to prove their ideological purity. 042
Reposted by Escot McCloud Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs. 20644366113440