Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2hCNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld 321114395
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.social🏃♂️The Runner🏃♂️ @therunnner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery. Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list Only white men were left in place. 90424256
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMichael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What is going on with our president? Calling people "THE ENEMY" for exercising their First Amendment rights is deeply disturbing. That's what autocratic leaders do, not American leaders. Doing so for such a trivial, vain matter is just nutty. 4002658656
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Trump: Let them hit Los Angeles or let them hit a place like San Diego. Let them hit one of our major cities. 143222
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026Crooked Susan Collins took thousands of dollars from a medical company before giving them a $4.5 million contract. This is now her 3rd alleged pay-to-play story in the last 2 weeks. bit.ly/47LYauMmainedems.orgNEW: Collins Took Campaign Cash From Pharma Executive's Family in Potential Straw Donor Scheme - Maine Democratic PartyZeteo: Collins <3 Contractor Cash 561504622
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it 4541341004
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialJust Call Me Frank @justcallmefrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's especially galling since there's an entire movie about her sexual harassment case against Roger Ailes. I don't understand how these people completely lost their souls. 153
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He will still be president… 551735228
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Saying "artificial is not a very flattering thing" when your wife looks this is crazy! 2652759427
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic. 563170480
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Spare me Sen. Thom Tillis’s self-interested redemption book tour. When he had the opportunity to do what was right, he failed nearly every time. For example, he drew a line on Jan. 6 apologia, and then confirmed multiple people who crossed it, including Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro.apnews.comRepublican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new bookRepublican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.” 63706156
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/10/2026President Trump’s super PAC doesn’t plan to reimburse the government for taxpayer money spent on ads praising his presidency, officials said.nyti.msTrump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional AdsA day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday. 296537
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough. 486116272598
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Susan Collins on confirming Brett Kavanaugh: "I do not regret that vote" 1313157
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump is announcing a $2.9 billion contract with Anduril Industries, a defense contractor backed by Don Jr's investment firm. 29152108
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialcabinetstories.bsky.social @cabinetstories.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Has anyone asked the Republican candidate for Governor of California (the godawful Englishman Steve Hilton who were delighted to be rid of) whether he thinks destroying a large part of the population is acceptable? 041
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: In 2020, a pharma CEO’s relatives donated to Susan Collins. That company got a $4.5M contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Collins was on the Appropriations subcommittee. …The company went on to pay $47M to settle claims it defrauded US health programs. @andrewperez.bsky.social:zeteo.comFirst Draft: Forget Hasan Piker, Donald Trump Is America’s Worst Campaign SurrogateThe president went to Nebraska – and showed yet again why Democrats including Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed are desperate for him to visit! In Maine, Susan Collins faced more embarrassing reporting. 4520131
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialForbes @forbes.com · 06/10/2026Democratic leaders and lawmakers from California called out Trump’s remarks and accused him of “inviting an attack” on U.S. soil. forbes.comTrump Draws Backlash For Saying ‘Let Them Take Out Los Angeles’ Or ‘San Diego’ During Iran War RemarksDemocratic leaders and lawmakers from California called out Trump’s remarks and accused him of “inviting an attack” on U.S. soil. 63200108
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." 181449361900
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every single reporter working in Maine should be asking Susan Collins whether she will commit to voting against any Trump picked nominee to #SCOTUS if Alito retires during lame duck.politico.comJustice Alito confirms he is considering retirementThe conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year. 1220051
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" 413362
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 14826781210
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026UNREAL: Senate Republicans and John Fetterman Block Measure To Probe Killings of Nine Americans by Israelis in West Bank. Yep these Republicans and Fetterman voted to protect Israel over US citizens. This is TREASONOUS! www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...mediaite.comSenate Republicans and John Fetterman Block Measure To Probe Killings of Nine Americans by Israelis in West BankSenate Republicans voted almost unanimously against a measure that would require the State Department to investigate Israeli violence in the West Bank that, since 2022, has resulted in the deaths of a... 28344177
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career. 1160159724519
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Judging by a quick look at Twitter, the right has decided just to pretend that Eric Schmitt did not, in fact, just shoot himself in the dick and that he totally owned Jack Smith. 591514215
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...talkingpointsmemo.comUS Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family CroniesThis has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell.... 418190
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later. 501602649
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”cnn.comI started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN PoliticsTen years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ... 831576438
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 27/09/2026"America was designed with dangers like Donald Trump in mind... We are watching America’s first real challenger to its systems, safety nets and security against a leader resembling a mad English king." Read more from Oscar Robshaw here: bit.ly/3TbWjvX 621090281
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialOSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026According to intelligence reports, Putin is preparing to expand the war to other countries, - Zelenskyy. 12410
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Donald Trump: the world's biggest hypocrite. 58754225
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/09/20261. California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic AGs had Paramount and the Ellisons over a barrel. They had secured a restraining order against the merger with Paramount and their negotiating position was about to get even stronger. Then, Bonta threw in the towel. 31927290
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841441675
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thank California Democrats, those great "centrists" and the great white hope Gavin Newsom! www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base. 34393121
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 23/09/2026Gavin Newsom thank you so much 860395
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base. 2082084794
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026"The FBI in 2025 under President Trump shut down an inquiry into allegations that a political adviser to Senator Susan Collins had participated in a scheme to funnel illegal campaign contributions from a defense contractor seeking lucrative federal contracts"nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 912157786
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/09/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Susan Collins “is not delivering for Maine so much as she is delivering up Maine to the Trump agenda,” Michelle Cottle writes.nyti.msOpinion | Susan Collins’s Luck May Be Running OutThe independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore. 1712027
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.social Zachary J. Smith @vocabulist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026SCOTUS’s majority has weakened campaign finance laws so much that it might consider all of this legal. And I’m not being snarky. 11115
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialZeteo @zeteo.com · 22/09/2026Israel seems to be paying for an AI-generated website to influence AI-chatbots to generate pro-Israel answers, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read more - zeteo.com/p/scoop-isra... 39447
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialMike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 0127
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114386102
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialCollins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When you're Susan Collins and you've lost the Bangor Daily News... #MEpolitics 1378
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The FBI was preparing a major bribery investigation that could have implicated Susan Collins, but it was scrapped soon after Trump returned to the White House.thedailybeast.comFBI Bribe Probe Into Must-Win Republican Senator Is ExposedSen. Susan Collins and other top lawmakers could have been implicated in a major investigation that the Trump administration torpedoed. 128139
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialOliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026CNN PANIC is setting in now that David Ellison will control the network in a matter of weeks: "People are anxious and worried... Unlike other mergers ... that we've been through, we have the preview of CBS, so it's not like people don't have a sense of what's coming." www.status.news/p/david-elli...status.newsEllison’s Bonta BlowoutDavid Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staf... 60647200
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Evidently, Belarus doesn't have the potash to give us: 107730
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/09/2026Decisions are being made by sovereign nations across the world; in every case they involve independence from American influence. And there is no going back.lnk.thebulwark.comThe American Age Is Over. (For sure.) The AI Apocalypse Is Here. (Maybe.)The weekend the world changed. 1417961
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialGreg Iwinski @garyjackson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026CNN, now with a special commentary segment from Mohammed bin Salman!latimes.comFCC approves foreign owners for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros.Royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi will own nearly 50% of the equity of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery 66721
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6019751056
Reposted by @ccm123.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026RFK Jr. received "more than $250,000 worth of free flights to Fiji and Greece as well as use of a vacation home in Washington, D.C. from Gavin de Becker..." de Becker has been described as Jeff Bezo's "top security staffer" www.wsj.com/politics/rfk...wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top DonorThe health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker. 52475293649
