capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/ 17284147
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Don't be fooled: the Trump administration, which just rescinded Title IX protection for LGBTQ students, is coming for gay marriage. The lawyers who helped Trump try to seize power in 2020 knew each other from anti-gay activism. John Eastman ran the virulently anti-gay NOM. This is their goal. 1/ 1018582
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026South Korea shows how it's done after an insurrection attempt. Investigate and prosecute those on top. Not just the useful idiots. If you think Jan 6 was just Trump "inciting" a mob, or the Proud Boys acting on their own initiative, you are mistaken. We still need this kind of accountability. 732686
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People have been laughing at Trump for 10 years, saying he doesn't really mean what he says. And now look what's happened to America. Journalists have still, after a decade, not learned how to take Trump seriously. Ask what he has been hearing around him that put these ideas into his head. 48924
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Twice in a row: Trump tears up DC to build something he first calls ceremonial - a "ballroom", a "triumphal arch" - but then pivots to calling it a military facility with drone ports. Did we mention that the Trump-appointed chair of the commission approving these projects works mostly in Russia? 1/ 1513033
Reposted by capitolhuntersBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trump says he's banning CNN, MSNow & Politico from the White House. If he goes through w/ this, the WH press corps needs to boycott. Fox too No more of the correspondents association's white-tablecloth, gladhanding bullshit. Pentagon reporters showed they don't need in-house access. You can too. 76780187
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So Jamie Raskin, a major figure on the Jan 6 Committee, is now "good friends" with Lauren Boebert, one of the core Stop the Steal group who pushed to overturn the 2020 election before she was even sworn in. The J6C did some good work but they had their blind spots and this is frankly shameful. 1/ 136915
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026After Jan 6, I said "this is the pivotal event, a chance for us to stop terrible things that are coming". And media punted. It was too embarrassing to take seriously: QAnon conspiracists, Groypers, anti-abortion freaks, MAGA cultists. Now those nutters are the party destroying our country. 1/ 17213
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So fascinating that the activists who glued themselves to paintings and screamed at politicians in 2023-2024 saying the environment "couldn't wait" are utterly silent when Trump kills off EPA regulation of CO2, removes endangered species protections, and kills all environmental research. 1/ 45619
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Is this guy really the future of our defense industry? The only reason Alex Karp, the Palantir CEO ranting here, is relevant at all is that he made friends with Peter Thiel in law school, and after Thiel got rich, he set his friends up as tech execs in his dystopian projects. They're nepo nutters. 64915
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When AI execs tell breathless stories about how their models "autonomously" caused terrible hacks, please realize 1) they set the conditions for those hacks, 2) they are not trying much to prevent them, 3) companies are liable for their products. AI agents do not have liability. Companies do. 48637
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Umm, the SDNY just indicted a whole gang of Russians for hiring assassins to kill enemies of Putin in different countries, including... here. Looks like the FBI was tracking them for 2 years. This July they start plotting to kill someone on US soil and that was it. 1/ www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me... 314360
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Please God let's not now say "well, Steve Bannon has a point". Remember! He's a fraud, liar, and fascist. He ran Cambridge Analytica and Trump's first campaign; cultivated white supremacists (including Stephen Miller); filled our media with conspiracies; tried to build a global fascist movement. 1/ 918839
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The politicians who made Texas red here, who want to eliminate trans people from existence, are Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott, the Republican TX AG & Governor, who banned all care for trans teens. Please explain why the response is to try to defeat their opponents and elevate Paxton to the Senate. 1/ 54012
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The recent PR push about AI having developed sci-fi dangerous abilities seemed to be largely bullshit, and now that's confirmed when the Anthropic "whistleblower", Jacob Coxon, is booked for an event with Steve Bannon (and Bernie Sanders). Coxon hit all the big news shows but was not credible. 1/axios.comScoop: Coxon, Bernie and Bannon unite for "pro-human" AIAn industry insider, the face of the progressive movement and a leading MAGA voice make for unlikely allies. 95519
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026For people thinking, what's the big deal about the 4% cut in global oil production coming next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and 1979 Iran war oil crisis. Each followed by a major recession. Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/ 23597301
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On Jan 6, Ted Cruz was the first Senator to sustain an objection to the electoral vote, creating the delay that let the mob attack our Capitol. (The other Senator to do so was Hawley: two proteges of Peter Thiel). Ted Cruz encouraging violence to undermine our democracy ....he's already done that. 715770
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What's happening here is that Tucker Carlson is gearing up to run for president in a new pro-Russia party that merges the far right and the far left. With MTG, Thomas Massie, and as much of the DSA left as he can peel off. That's the 2028 game plan. Putin just needs to hold out for 2 more years. 1/ 2217873
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Quote-posting to highlight Sargent's excellent advice for El-Sayed: say "JD, every time Trump and MAGA attack my family's religion and smear my wife for wearing a hijab, they are attacking your wife and kids, too." This works on so many different levels, without being an attack on Vance's kids. 432485
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People's risk assessments are so off. Here's a math grad saying AI is scary because it can 'build extinction-level bioweapons'. AI would at best make bad actors more efficient. The time to worry about bioweapons was a decade ago when we could have regulated mutagenic chain reactions. We didn't. 1/ 25014
Reposted by capitolhuntersRachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think it is understated that a lot of these dudes thought AOC was going to be their cute little mouthpiece in congress and forever take orders from them. When folks like this put out "casting calls" they really mean that - you are an actor playing a role they write for you. 25014
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People have to take the rhetoric at the GOP convention seriously. The anti-trans, anti-immigrant hate isn't just words. It's is what the GOP is running on. Hatred of the "other". They really, actually want concentration camps. And for women not to have the vote. They say it and they mean it. 24576229
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026People who thought they were supporting a working-class candidate in Maine with prepster Graham Platner might consider donating now to Sam Forstag, the real thing in Montana, with a real shot at winning. And with a winning message that can unite people: housing, healthcare, unions, public lands. 1/ 15725
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Realize that when you sigh with relief to hear a university president finally call out the Trump administration for promoting white nationalism or stifling free speech or destroying higher ed - it's always the same guy. It's Michael Roth from Wesleyan. One voice. The others are silent. 112137
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's up to at least three cabinet-level officials in Trump's administration who are doing reality shows. Sean Duffy (Transportation) took months off to film a road trip. RFK Jr (HHS) is doing a cooking show. And now Kelly Loeffler (SBA) is doing an "Apprentice"-like show with rapper Nikki Minaj. 1/ 34321
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Since people are joking about a charisma-free Cruz v. Vance presidential race, a reminder: both men owe their political careers to Peter Thiel. Is it a bizarre coincidence that the two GOP frontrunners are 2 of Thiel's 4 main political proteges? It is not. Peter plans ahead. Either way he wins. 1/ 1817475
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Just as predicted, Mykhailo Federov, ousted Ukraine defense minister, has gone over to the dark side and is working with Peter Thiel's Palantir. Thiel hates demoracy; his minions (in the Senate and outside) helped drive January 6. Looks like Zelensky was not so dumb after all in firing him. 1/ 311248
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Pete Hegseth has forced out Dan Driscoll as Army Secretary. Driscoll was JD Vance's friend at Yale; Hegseth was jealous. Many expect Hegseth will replace him with Gen. Christopher LaNeve: one of the 6 generals who dithered on Jan 6 - didn't call the National Guard, then covered up afterwards. 1/ 13400220
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Read this post: some of our STEM PhD programs have seen a 90% decline in enrollment. 90%. Empty labs, an apocalypse for science. When the Dark Ages swallowed Medieval Europe, they could blame the Plague. We did this to ourselves. Speak up: the only hope is public outcry and a Blue Wave midterm. 710245
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026As people fume about Pete Hegseth secretly paying online influencers, realize the Jan 6 link: Hegseth's trolls were managed by Anthony Tata, one of the men Trump ominously installed in the Pentagon in Nov. 2020, AFTER he lost the election. And Tata was part of a bad crowd, deeply tied to Jan 6. 1/ 4158101
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Once again, here's reporters saying they're a smol beans with no agency to report news. Zeteo complains that "elected Democrats" aren't highlighting Republican racism and corruption. But Zeteo is a news organization! They can write what they choose! And what they choose to do is complain about Dems. 107120
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026For reporters complaining "Dems" should be calling out Elon Musk: here's a thread begging for reporting on Elon's lies about his education, from FOUR YEARS AGO when Elon bought Twitter to subvert democracy. 21 M views and no follow-up. So you can! The scoop is un-scooped! 1/ x.com/capitolhunte... 6238115
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If people make things up for clicks, that's no better than MAGA. Here @qasimrashid.com lies about Mamdani's 2025 race, saying "centrist Dems endorsed Cuomo", but Mamdani was endorsed by Gov. Hochul, Lt. Gov Delgado, and Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. Cuomo was endorsed by Eric Adams and Donald Trump. 1/ 66419
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A bizarre twist: ICE has arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, a key player in the alt right. Milo wrote for Breitbart; fanned Gamergate; was at Peter Thiel's "Gays for Trump" party in 2016; threw the 2017 party where Roger Stone introduced Enrique Tarrio to the Proud Boys - who Tarrio then led on Jan 6. 1/ 57317
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If it's really true that CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow last week to tell Putin that Russia was losing to Ukraine, it looks extremely bad that former Ukraine defense minister Federov, Elon Musk's buddy, picked that same week to claim Ukraine was losing to Russia. 1/nytimes.comC.I.A. Chief Delivered Bleak Assessment of Russia’s War in Secretive Moscow VisitC.I.A. analysts have questioned whether President Vladimir V. Putin’s advisers have given him honest assessments of the conflict. 27121
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Ted Cruz, the first political project for Peter Thiel, a key architect of Jan 6, wants Clarence Thomas' seat on the Supreme Court. This book is his audition tape. This cannot be allowed to happen. That is why Dems must take the Senate. Why Maine's race mattered so much. Why Michigan matters now. 1/ 45326
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026OK economists and IR profs here, when are you going to speak up about Jeffrey Sachs? It's not just that he's pushing Russian talking points, now he's a straight-up MAGA conspiracist. Columbia can't fire him, but it's time - it's past time - for the community to stop pretending this is normal. 1/ 38625
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is astonishing to watch US science get snuffed out with people not even noticing. The US led the world for a century, and it is being destroyed. All those climate activists from 2024 - total silence. We can maybe fix this in November, but the patient is bleeding and it can't go on forever. 417081
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This guy thinks he can lecture this account about Jan 6 while blocking replies on his post. This is not the way to win, buddy. 2420
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The bulldozing of Big Bend's wilderness is the start of the wholesale destruction Trump and his folks have planned. Stop it now, or it spreads. Call your Representative. Fascism takes hold when people give up. Minnesotans stood up for their neighbors. All of us must stand up for our public lands. 713657
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/08/2026As Trump fires up the bulldozers to plow through our National Monuments, realize: he wants to hurt people, to destroy what other people love. What he can't put his name on. What is bigger than him. Destruction is the goal. People need to put their bodies on the line for this. Not online. Outside. 1/ 314056
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's worth revisiting SC Senate candidate Rep. Ralph Norman's unhinged 2021 demand - "Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! - because he WASN'T deeply involved in Jan 6. His brains were cooked in conspiracies, like many of his fellow Congressmen. Media never covered how deep that rot went. 1/ 18138
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Finally, a big-name journalist asks the big question: what is POTUS planning for the "military center" with "drone ports" he is building on the site of the White House East Wing that he knocked down? 38523
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Peggy Flanagan wins it for the Ojibwe. Dems now have two candidates who could be the first Native American female US Senator: Flanagan in MN and Mary Peltola in AK. There were 2 male Native American Senators in 1907; now there are none. Peltola and Flanagan would return us to 1907 level. It's time! 323461
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 08/08/2026When Todd Blanche's DOJ begins rounding up protestors we will need to go back to this thread to understand how authoritarianism starts. Not because people are scared. Because some weak, pathetic politicians want to be liked. By a LA prof who knows Sen. Bill Cassidy, who cast the deciding vote. 327388
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Notice that Trump has now totally dropped the pretense that what he's building in that big hole next to the White House is a ballroom. A month ago he called it a “Great National Security Facility and Ballroom” (with "drone ports"). Now it's just a "Military Center". Trump is building a bunker. 1/ 1920392
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Repeating from yesterday: Max Miller helped arrange the Jan 6 rallies. Trump cannot throw him under the bus. Neither can many other Congressmen. Max knows too much about Jan 6. It's a test: watch who rebukes Miller and who is silent. Jim Jordan (OH-4) will not rebuke him. Nor Mike Johnson. 1/ 8251127
Reposted by capitolhuntersRevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026im sorry, but this is impossible. i talked to mitch not one hour ago and he told me that shithead boozman can suck it. guess we need to arbitrate this 1307
capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Seems bad? Sen. Boozman of Arkansas is now voting for Mitch McConnell, claiming that McConnell talked to him and gave him permission to cast his vote. The photo on the article here is old, from before McConnell's crisis. No one's seen him. No reporters talked to him. But people are using his vote.notus.orgMitch McConnell Is Voting, But He’s Still on Medical LeaveThe Kentucky Republican broke ties on amendment votes “by proxy” on the farm bill Thursday. 135946442
Reposted by capitolhuntersJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/20261. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states. 4615881011