Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 20hThese are good questions. So I'm going to spend a little time giving my answers to them. Will build it as a full thread that posts all at once, rather than post by post. 1219568
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Mike Lee's transformation over the past decade has been hard to understand. 3726450
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 11/10/2026READ THIS: The man who was the commanding general of Fort Hood when Nidal Hasan went on his shooting rampage, and who signed the actual death warrant authorizing Hasan's execution, is absolutely opposed to televising the firing squad. He speaks eloquently for himself here. 31311143
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Because it’s Trump’s party. They reflect the kind of people it attracts, and the kind of people it repels. 4717
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"CFTC staff began to investigate ... then were told to lay off." It's no exaggeration to say that the country is being run by a criminal syndicate. 8299133
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP. 16558702509
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave. A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay. Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus 451563464
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026This photo says everything about why Trump keeps hiring unqualified worshipful young women (who look like his daughter) 105475781980
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialNicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 13/10/2026While Fox News darling-turned Trump family member-turned ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle officially accepted her ousting from Trump world in a post on Twitter Tuesday afternoon, her tale is similar. She faced the president’s wrath only because she did not hide her corruption well enoughtalkingpointsmemo.comKim Guilfoyle Accepts Her Trump World DethroningTrump Doesn’t Like When Women Act Corrupt in Public President Trump stood... 0428
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Trump dispatched liars and sadists to disparage and ruin the careers of dedicated public servants. That is a core of his legacy, and of the GOP, which for decades denigrated federal civil servants, laying the groundwork for hate, and then stood by as all of these outrages unfolded before our eyes. 2381110
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/ 20759402424
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation. 12122651083
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...dailymail.comPutin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply dieselDonald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel. 26022561019
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialBen Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below. 1033189
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.orgHow Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street EconomicsA look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices. 15299141
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialmatty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol... 251319632
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialAndrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Kimberly Guilfoyle's pay-for-play scandal is grotesque and obviously corrupt. But she'd have to run it 20,000 times to match Trump's own haul for second-term graft. www.thebulwark.com/p/our-big-fa...thebulwark.comOur Big Fat Greek Bribery ScandalKimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption is shocking, damning, and—by now—chump change. 15368112
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialOversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026From day one in the majority, we're going to take on: 🔍Trump family corruption 🔍Abuses by DHS and ICE 🔍Corporate corruption making everything more expensive 🔍Getting justice for the Epstein survivors We will hold them accountable for everything that they've done. 39338113
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Whether he does or not, extremists will splice it in with glorious music and images of jihadis in action. He will shout Alallahu Akbar, and enter anti-western mythology. Because we are dumb. 017727
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialKen Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not for nothing, but the span from 2012 to whatever we have as a society when we get through this is an object lesson in "They're called the 'humanities' for a fucking reason, you fucking morons." 121042
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialNational Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 09/10/2026So here's a factoid. Osama bin Laden was buried at sea. It was reportedly done in accordance with Muslim practice. The body was reportedly not desecrated or abused. Pictures and videos were taken. Someone FOIAed the pictures and videos, then sued. DOD said they were classified. But why?? 820163
calawyer.bsky.social @calawyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"I’ve come to see Trump as a secular televangelist preaching his own version of the prosperity gospel to the same marks susceptible to the same grift that powered the fleeting televangelical fortunes." talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...talkingpointsmemo.comCourt Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJ’s Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen VotingJudge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting In a potentially very... 000
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialCharlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Putin-Trump was the most successful covert operation in modern history. David Corn on today's "To the Contrary" Podcast. 1925784
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy 1583971509
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump. 14530133
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats. 361317162
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 12253041366
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story. 17660308
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's very good that Democrats are starting to embrace the idea that they will take back some degree of power in 2026, rather than getting bogged down in conspiracy theories where Trump declares himself god king and Mike Johnson conspires with the House clerk to invalidate the election. 622439
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights. 25822355
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMike Honcho @lasergoblin666.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Beyond the horrific nature of this as an actual part of the government, there’s something just truly evil but also stupid about taking immigrants and sending them to a place they’ve never lived in before. This is something that a man child bigot would think up, so naturally Stephen Miller did this. 211433
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But... 23581168
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yet again, in words neither of us foresaw a generation ago: I agree here 100% with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social . 1351589
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comFeazALT: Feaz 0363
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The simplest explanation is that someone they wanted as a MAGA political appointee came up on the polygraph. 1449
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing. 1212689944
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Alito's contempt for voters and Trump toadyism are an embarrassment to the court www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...nytimes.comSupreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito Would Have Allowed Trump’s Mail-In Ballot RulesJustice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, called the challenge to the restrictions a “Hail Mary pass” that was unlikely to prevail because of the Postal Service’s broad authority... 2237285
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Others have said this but it’s truly insane that Brett Kavanaugh, lover of the major questions doctrine, thinks there’s a good chance USPS can use a vague grant of authority over mail processing to radically alter absentee voting procedures in all 50 states without congressional approval. Come on. 1268684
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy. 231761435
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026That's how we ended up with the richest man on earth slaughtering hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest children for the lulz: hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...hsph.harvard.eduUSAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthThe Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord... 116535
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters. 952438837
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Huge props to the authors of this article for not giving an inch to lab leak truthers. It's perfectly defensible to classify it as a conspiracy theory at this point. 6966159
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party. 9639221068
calawyer.bsky.social @calawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Elon Musk's superpower has been outrunning disaster by successfully duping investors and markets observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/octo...observationalepidemiology.blogspot.comOctober 28, 2016, was arguably the pivotal moment in the career of Elon MuskFrom D.E. Rising and The Standard Dispatch & Mail : As announced by Electrek today , Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof tile p... 000
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“It just came out today,” @angieforfl.bsky.social said of the news report. “She stole $10 million for medically needy kids in order to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives that you all placed on the ballot that would have allowed you all to have healthier lives.” 7427145
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026So embarrassing that Lake America is the smallest of the Great Lakes. One more Trump failure. 30731112
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialMichael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026While Trump is threatening countries to produce zero-sum outcomes, Xi is offering partners aid, trade, and investment opportunities to achieve win-win outcomes. You don't need a PhD in international relations to predict which one of these strategies will endure over time. 1030090
Reposted by @calawyer.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era." 13855208
