Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialCharlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1hThe cognitive dissonance of the pro-Death Pro-Lifers of MAGA: From today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast. 45212
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2hDavid Whamond 8520150
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialLincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 1hThe richest man in the world was handed total control of government tech. Here’s why it failed—and why plutocrats want you to forget. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-doge-… Become a Lincoln Loyal Member to read the latest from @donmoyn.bsky.social lincolnsquare.mediaThe DOGE Disaster Memory HoleThe richest man in the world was handed total control of government tech. Here’s why it failed—and why plutocrats want you to forget. 061
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1hIt is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis" 641037287
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1hFLORIDA — @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon ♥️ : “I was a single mom for 12 years. I struggled. I was able to purchase a home for me and my daughter because the government did the right thing… Trump cut those programs. Those lived experiences are why I fight. You got me crying on TV.” 29825249
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum... 1081040440
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h“For Rufo integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White NationalismThat is the entire point. 514137
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2hThis line by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com might be the best short description of "originalism" I've read yet. 16477122
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2hGood list @rokhanna.bsky.social 30604158
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h“Jared Kushner is literally a war profiteer. That’s what we should refer to him as. Peace would be bad for business.” @timmiller.bsky.social & Tommy Vietor react to the CNN story about Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s obvious conflicts of interest with 🇮🇱 companies 31848335
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3hTrump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst. 14409108
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3hNew in PN: Diesel Don is tanking the GOP "Making matters even worse for Republicans, the bitter yet deserved irony is that key constituencies across Red America that elected Trump are particularly hard-hit: men, whites, farmers, rural citizens, and those from the South and West."publicnotice.coDiesel Don is tanking the GOPRecord high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures. 1151380379
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4hSomething big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161... 441036248
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4hTrump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did. 17421118
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3hPOPE LEO <turns chair around, sits, placing his arms on the back>: You want to hear about an Influencer, one with a direct connection to a superior intelligence? 1329355
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3hEndless corruption. 32358692667
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h"The President of the United States said he felt bad for the men accused of committing horrific crimes against a woman who reported being sexually assaulted. He said nothing about the courage it took for her to come forward or the trauma she has endured." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...open.substack.comThe President's decline is in a freefallAt 3:54 pm Donald Trump emerged from the White House with freshly colored hair and makeup, as Marine One's engine roared in the background. He walked directly over to the waiting press, threw his hand... 3936693
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h"It’s no accident, Umberto Eco further points out, that 'All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.'"lnk.thebulwark.comNot To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is MeltedAnd Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open. 14413102
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12hFair Q 8139761322
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14h"With 32 days to go until the midterm elections, Republicans’ closing strategy is obvious: They’re going all-in on trans. (It seems to have worked for them before, after all.)" - from @elainegodfrey.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comThe GOP’s Culture-War Hail MaryWill it work? 2914745
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialMr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 15hObjective evil exists, and it is all around you, wafting above your head like a miasma 075
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17hAlso, plenty of effort to launch a revolution by white men, including McVeigh bombing in Oklahoma City and the Bundy Ranch and Malheur Wildlife Refuge. Plus Charlottesville. It’s not a lack of trying. I did a whole podcast about this: longshadowpodcast.com/podcasts/ris...longshadowpodcast.comLong Shadow: Rise of the American Far RightEpisode 1, Waco: The Spark, chronicles the 1993 FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound which solidified a far-right movement. 1016854
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hI’m sorry, what’s that acronym again? 1892610467
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17hThis labor market has a type, and it's not a guy with a hoodie and a laptop. Its eyes are still on healthcare newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 1426868
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17hIt was an honor to attend Friday prayers at Beit El Maqdis Islamic Center with Palestinian New Yorkers today. Like an olive tree, their roots run deep in our city, stretching back more than a century and growing through every generation that has made Bay Ridge home. 282055237
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 19hThere are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states. 3101992
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 20hWhy are issues like retirement age and the physical toll these jobs can take on the body so rarely mentioned? stevens.house.gov/media/press-...stevens.house.govRep. Haley Stevens Announces Bill to Lower Social Security Age for Americans Who Work With Their HandsWashington, DC — Today, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) announced the Blue Collar Social Security Fairness Act, a bill to allow Americans who work in physically demanding jobs to collect ... 5102999
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 20hI was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comTime to Consider Becoming a BricklayerCollege degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming. 151920283
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18hWas talking with somebody last night about whether today's plutocrats were objectively "worse" than original Gilded Age. Them: "Well, what are your examples?" Me: "Big three: Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg. "Then Ellisons, Kochs, Singer, Schwarzman. Princelings like Lutnick, Uihlein. No contest." 3231052
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18hEveryone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22293372965
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18hTucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔 6291559456
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17hThe Dems getting better at this 275107273378
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17hIn which I explain (away) the incriminating photo of me with...President Nixon. 314324
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17hFox News talks a lot about the WNBA, but it’s not because it likes to see talented female athletes putting the ball in the hoop. To Fox, women’s sports is good for 2 things: 1. To agitate for white grievance. 2. To foment anti-trans hate. (This is No. 1, but there’s a lot of No. 2 on Fox as well.) 1332260
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17hPhillips O'Brien: "So even if the Trump administration gets an acceptable peace deal, it’ll be in a worse strategic position than it was in February. And states in the area are making their own calculations that the US is not going to be as reliable." youtu.be/BQ7pkSM8zKg?...youtu.bePhillips O'Brien on a Dynamic Middle East After the Iran WarYouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol 212128
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17hwhole conversation here: conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation...conversationswithbillkristol.orgUkraine, Iran, and What's Next w/Phil O'BrienUkraine, Iran, and what’s next 0538
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h"The near-term result of voter disillusionment is very likely to be a drubbing for GOP candidates in five weeks. But the longer term damage to our civic culture is impossible to calculate."lnk.thebulwark.comTrump’s Populist Image Is DeadThat’s the price of corruption. 17713
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialMichael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 18hdlvr.itThe Wake-Up Call: White PeopleContrabandCamp Editor-In-Chief Genetta Adams joins Michael Harriot for a discussion about journalism, politics and why it’s important to call a thing a thing. 0296
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialGoldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 20hI strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message! 33824227
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialLincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 21hTrump says he backs the blue, but The Washington Post reports he raided $20 million in taxpayer funds meant for fallen officer memorials AND border security to pay for his midterm campaign ads. lincolnsquare.media #BackTheBlue #BorderSecurity #Trump 13224
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap) 1444111592
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialMichael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social · 22hWhat our government and its judges continue to do to children in our name. A Moment of Clarity youtu.be/7_GzC3sk_1Ayoutu.beThe Shocking Reality Inside Child Immigration CourtsYouTube video by Michael Steele Network 36435
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22hYou can thank Donald Trump for that.nbcnews.comGas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long. 24984279
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21hSo does the GOP force all of its candidates to prove they’ve physically and/or sexually assaulted a woman before they can run as a Republican? Sorta like a gang initiation? 56999248
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hard to disagree with this. 834320878
Reposted by @connie19601.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026"Sometimes it’s important to remind ourselves of the uncomfortable facts of life. Trump gave a lengthy interview to Time Magazine that was published yesterday. Let’s stare into the abyss together." Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:lnk.thebulwark.comNot To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is MeltedAnd Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open. 810743
