Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11hI love that this might be the thing that tanks Paxton, and not the biblical divorce or letting a child rapist out early. 20962012057
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14hWe are being killed by the world's dumbest people. 961732442
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19hAbsolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing. presswatchers.orgThe world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press WatchOur top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda 702757873
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/10/2026On Saturday, millions of Americans will gather to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms. Please join us for the next No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... 24668398
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21hWASHINGTON—Trump’s federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home over decades-old “immigration paperwork” her father filled out when she was a kid. No charges. Breaking DOJ norms. Over the cliff, folks. 30351111909
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Elon Musk committing election fraud agan. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...edition.cnn.comElon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN PoliticsElection officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk. 1561943998
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23hThis is a criminal violation of civil rights under color of law, and the people who made it happen must be indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. apnews.com/article/ilha...apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter. 921569
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...reuters.comUS launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reportsUS authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re... 611952719
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter. 14672871742
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026Feels like someone is out to get her. And I love that for her. The best is yet to come. 35469651850
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialOrange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is how we do it 404153572554
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This Too, JD Couch....... 365124333993
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.social💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 10/10/2026#Gaza 22472236
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Immediately after Ukraine took out two of the five data centers run by the Russian tech giant Yandex, pro-Trump and pro-MAGA posts on American social media sites plummeted. The same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. Russia is engaged in MASSIVE election interference. 18892413
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms. 692076454
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic. 468199037044
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"Groimes, they kilt my preecious bahts!" 221985238
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Every word of this from @drewmagary.bsky.social. Democrats will likely retake Congress, but what they do next is an open question. That's why it's important for us all to press Democrats -- right now -- to commit to an aggressive agenda of oversight and accountability. 441036272
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"You're a NIMBY about AI data centers!" Actually I'm a NOMP (Not On My Planet) about privately-owned fixed-location infrastructure externalizing the cost of burning hydrocarbons for energy. If they had to pay what this really costs society in health and climate harms, they wouldn't do it. 16685166
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I dunno. Maybe it’s time newsroom executives told Trump to go fuck himself, and told their reporters to stop treating him like a normal president. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump. 628282
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialKaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026 161117132913
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We are becoming more like our ally Russia every day under the Trump Regime. Vote his Republican enablers and supporters out of office next month. Our Republic is being shredded and our credibility all over the world is completely gone. 11434961066
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life 121546320
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/10/2026🏛️ After SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act this year, Republicans launched an aggressive attack on Black voting power, write Carolyn Hugley and Lauren Groh-Wargo. The backlash points to a simple, undeniable fact: The South is America’s new political battleground ➡️ demdock.com/4ztr9zG 318968
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 237511337
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.ms.nowOpinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats. 3950416
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h... 491321365
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialThe Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A massive Fourth Estate failure that “I can do anything I want” was not national news. Sanewashing by omission. Do corporate media leaders have no sense of civic duty to defend the Constitution? Cartoon h/t @anntelnaes.bsky.social 1525382
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialForeign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 10/10/2026As Trump antagonizes Canada and Mexico, he risks “destroying a precious geopolitical asset: a strong continental base from which Washington projects power,” writes Robert Zoellick.foreignaffairs.comTrump Is Gutting America’s Core Geopolitical AdvantageRobert Zoellick, an expert on the global economy who served as U.S. trade representative and World Bank president, makes the authoritative case that President Donald Trump’s antagonism toward Canada a... 611547
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The lying liars at DHS said ICE agents tried to block Oscar Belgal from driving away, and believed their lives were in danger. Lies. Always lies. 413144
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump has denied disaster relief for Illinois following severe storms in August. Trump approved a request from Indiana for damage resulting from the same storms. One is a "blue state." The other is a "red state." No other president has politicized natural disasters the way that Trump has. 20859092725
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialZeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon. 131691417
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/20261) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash. 642187804
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026An IRS investigator is suing the agency — claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistleblowing on the agency's failure to tackle tax dodging.nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says I.R.S. Leaked His Tax Records in RetaliationBrian J. Visalli, a veteran investigator of tax fraud, said in a lawsuit that the agency had sent his personal and tax information to federal prosecutors. 151466641
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This billion dollar present to Vladimir Putin comes just days after Trump signed a sanctions law targeting Russia for its brutal war crimes in Ukraine. That law includes a 500% duty on all imports from Russia. Treasury has announced they are "delaying" implementation of the law 59226
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialJonathan Diaz @jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026After pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...washingtonsun.comD.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop BoxesGuard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week. 3358134
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“We only tried to kill an adult, we didn’t mean to traumatize a child” is a helluva defense. 815954
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy. 241489449
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We seem to be having some success with hot smart people who are good at television, has anyone thought of trying this before 381589194
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 11705227713608
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6338711406
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 426181154781
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill. 621457374
Reposted by @califbobcat.bsky.socialNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Trump says the Kennedy Center is too dangerous to walk into Unless you play in the National Symphony, which rehearses there most weekdays @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG are still in court w/ @repbeatty.bsky.social. Say one thing, do another, as we told @nytimes.com👇 -TNnytimes.comIf the Kennedy Center Is ‘Dangerous,’ Why Is the Symphony Rehearsing There?The National Symphony Orchestra is practicing inside a building that President Trump and his allies say could fall on their heads. 9534231210
