Reposted by Christa RichmondSumma Perplexitas @sperplexitas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Luckily, not everybody, Sánchez, probably the one with better information about Venezuela: 211531
Reposted by Christa RichmondAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet. 1282075511
Christa Richmond @christav-r.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Saying a wealthy person “is worth x million pounds“ implies that a poor person “is worth nothing”. Can we go back to saying a person owns x million pounds, or their fortune amounts to x million pounds, or similar? 010
Reposted by Christa RichmondJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.” 8825288517662
Reposted by Christa RichmondSusanne Baumann @germanambuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025After three incredibly eventful years, it is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to the United Kingdom. Auf Wiedersehen! 3558
Reposted by Christa RichmondKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no. 973302560
Christa Richmond @christav-r.bsky.social · 04/08/2025malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...malwaretech.comEvery Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Toomaybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI. 010
Reposted by Christa RichmondBenjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 17/07/2025Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues: 318122464167
Reposted by Christa RichmondJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025 Starting July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park will shut its doors to the public. Only those with “legitimate business” can enter. A federal records facility—closed to the very public it’s supposed to serve? This should raise eyebrows. It smells BAD. 461105429
Reposted by Christa RichmondMichael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Big fat 0 for me 01026
Reposted by Christa Richmond💙🐶🚴🏻🏊♂️♊️ Victoria🌈💥☀️ @victoriaswimcycle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025 721340789387
Reposted by Christa RichmondKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do. 457171808233
Reposted by Christa RichmondDavid Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Some free thoughts on how to behave... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...open.substack.comBad mannersSome reflections on modern etiquette 73810
Reposted by Christa RichmondChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/05/2025In times like this, integrity matters. Well done 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Top lawyers walked out of Paul Weiss to start their own firm—right after the firm cut a shady deal with the White House to dodge an executive order that would’ve limited its business. Some folks still have a spine. 632234735183
Reposted by Christa RichmondMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I had a productive call with Ursula von der Leyen this morning. We’re ready to build on our free trade relationship, bolster economic security, and work side-by-side on shared defence and security challenges. When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger. 613181463287
Reposted by Christa RichmondRebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Templars Temple Church, London #StainedGlassSunday 2522
Reposted by Christa RichmondChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Seems bad that the new U.S. Attorney who is threatening to lock up Trump’s political opponents was working for Russia before getting his new job. But maybe it’s just me. 541695595
Reposted by Christa RichmondHillary 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. 17636590617338
Reposted by Christa RichmondLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 15/04/2025Hackers turn Silicon Valley crosswalks into mockery of Musk, Zuckerberglatimes.comHackers turn Silicon Valley crosswalks into mockery of Musk, ZuckerbergHackers took control of several crosswalks in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City, changing their audio signals to forged monologues purporting to come from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. 3589
Reposted by Christa RichmondGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... 11453866011952
Reposted by Christa RichmondMike Lundin @mike-lu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025And Canada's Prime Minister outsmarted the orange idiot. www.wallawallademocrats.com/other-voices...wallawallademocrats.comCarney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs — Walla Walla DemocratsLet’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a glo... 0111
Reposted by Christa RichmondMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory 1106262906826
Reposted by Christa RichmondAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2025Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets." 10614164311882
Reposted by Christa RichmondAnthony Roberts @anthonyhroberts.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The thing about writers and their cats is that cats are cool for the long hang. They love a good nap and the tapping of the keys sounds like a gentle rain to them. (Yes, of course, Wittens and I photobombed Poe and King.) 🖤💙🐈⬛ #coolforcats #cats #catlover #catnap #darkfamiliar #EApoe #stephenking 0263
Reposted by Christa RichmondAmerican Bar Association @americanbar.org · 26/03/2025More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews... 19857991662
Reposted by Christa RichmondPaul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The headline figure of water companies discharging 4 million litres of sewage a year is bad enough but the real picture is much worse. These figures are only for known, permitted outfalls & across the country there’s thousands of unpermitted outfalls pouring unknown amounts of sewage into our rivers 34120
Reposted by Christa RichmondAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Re-reading Gatsby and I can’t imagine why this line stood out: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...” 1234584937
Reposted by Christa RichmondTommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Reminder that ending the Affordable Care Act is part of Project 2025. It's been saving lives for 15 years. What us their obsession with killing it? #ACASavesLives #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory 90836451
Reposted by Christa RichmondGeorge Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025And also of the unitary executive theory. 14320
Reposted by Christa RichmondGeorge Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A good summary of the link between the rule of law and democracy by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... 7193108
Reposted by Christa RichmondThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/03/2025Over $1.75 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market today. Trump owns all of this. 31579442030
Reposted by Christa RichmondRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 10/03/2025If Musk and his Technoboyz can't stop a cyber attack at X, maybe they shouldn't have access to our Social Security? Just brainstorming. 13666421519
Reposted by Christa RichmondNewsweek @newsweek.com · 06/03/2025Amy Coney Barrett sparks MAGA fury over Trump Supreme Court decisionnewsweek.comAmy Coney Barrett sparks MAGA fury over Trump Supreme Court decision 17487
Reposted by Christa RichmondJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/03/2025@mcfaulmike.bsky.social: “Trump, Vance & others either have forgotten or never knew that Zelensky signed a ceasefire agreement with Putin in 2019. Three years later, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. So, signing another ceasefire with no security guarantees feels like suicide for Ukrainians.” 25668842535
Reposted by Christa RichmondJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency. 24778521678
Reposted by Christa RichmondPhil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou... 28828481
Reposted by Christa RichmondFresh Air with Terry Gross & Tonya Mosley @nprfreshair.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf 301986556
Reposted by Christa RichmondHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15/02/2025Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9... 54746411074
