Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 37mcalled it a week ago 213922
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8hAgain, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now. 281062282
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialJason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 14hI wrote about lustration newrepublic.com/post/216470/...newrepublic.comTrump’s DOJ Is Hiring Only the Best MAGA Wing NutsA future Democratic president will have to do more than rehire a competent civil service, they’ll have to cleanse the federal bureaucracy of its Trumpist stench. 612943
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:nytimes.comOpinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)The 2028 election is on the ballot right now. 201056453
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15hThese fuckers need to be jailed for life no exceptionstheguardian.comFDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmedRegulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic 13837208
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialTKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Fix your economy with this one weird trick 5553210
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution 11489551657
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 31278452221
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 7454001299
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026BLUEKURTIC: “.. $NVDA insiders sold over $967 million worth of shares in September, the highest ever on record.” 1724368
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Fraud Task Force is important bc: 1) It chases peanuts while Trump steals orders of magnitude more on a daily basis 2) It is largely propaganda 3) It was the excuse to destroy white collar policing news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...news.bloomberglaw.comDOJ Fraud Division’s Rise Diminishes Premier White Collar UnitThe Justice Department’s corporate crime enforcement hub has lost the bulk of its market manipulation and securities expertise over the past few months, accelerating what former officials call a downg... 1256112
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Pete Hegseth picked Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to lead a Pentagon future of war project. It's: -Corrupt! Big Trump donors. -Conflict of interest! Defense contractors who will recommend their products. -Dangerous! Embeds techno-fascists deeper into US defense architecture. My latest, in @ms.now:ms.nowOpinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the PentagonA new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing. 14391132
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492773786
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here. 462837691
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4093492010518
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/10/2026President Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in debt issued by SpaceX just days before the White House announced a new space-travel policy, the president’s latest financial disclosure form shows.washingtonpost.comTrump 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. 22243127
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 205125413107
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026recalling now that Ossoff came in throwing sufficient high heat in the 2020 debates that Perdue opted to no-show the last two 362433299
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office" 405116502515
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 511152733405
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth 3127703689
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "If you want to understand whether the Trump-Collins budget has helped you, just go fill up a tank of gas. Go to the grocery store. Try to buy food for you kids. Look at your electric bill. Look at your health insurance premiums. They've doubled for more than a million Georgians." 281943453
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’m starting to believe that Pete Hegseth is the violent sociopath his mom says he is. 471725270
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy." 753424681
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "The question was about the stewardship of tax dollars. And as we stand here today Rep. Collins is under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. For illegally funneling public money to his violent staffers girlfriend." 803303878
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "We're now almost 12 minutes into this debate. We still haven't heard an explanation of how the tariffs are helping Georgia families. Georgians deserve to know why someone who wants to serve them in the Senate voted over and over for these tariffs." 402539579
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026El-Sayed: "Weak, cowardly, won't stand up until his poll numbers drop ... he has the audacity to do an ad looking at the drugs prices in Canada, expect he voted four times to keep you from buying the prescriptions drugs in Canada. It's incoherent." 622214536
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop. 25690002076
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/202614 years of GOP presidents & 12 of unified GOP Congress in the 21st century. Not once did we get masthead editorials like 👇, let alone op-eds, Substacks, podcasts & Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias & co. about how The Republicans must do an Abundance of Popularism, let alone basic competent government. 17420
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 21852052293
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialMona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The utter absurdity of all of this 👇 Including that someone would write a book entitled, 'Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison', and expect anyone to buy it Really and truly speaks to where we are And why we're the laughingstock of the world these days So deeply embarrassing .. 44703156
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Congrats again to Anthony Kennedybrennancenter.orgCitizens United, ExplainedThe 2010 Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations. 10414174
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying 182575294
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing." 13783822215
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's 312299600
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAli Velshi @velshi.com · 07/10/2026With the $11 billion merger of Paramount-Skydance with Warner Bros. Discovery, just five corporations now control 90% of the U.S. media landscape. Ali Velshi explains why mega media mergers pose a threat to democracy. 10275124
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026👇👇 607154574937
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Our best hope is that his incompetence will make his attempt to steal this election fail. It's obvious he's going to try. 14488135
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out" 243105332443
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Trump said he would start paying for the political TV ads himself, but the White House clarified that he won’t pay back the federal government for what’s already been spent. About $11.5 million had already been spent airing the ads as of midday Tuesday, October 6th. 59921304
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted RanksThe civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said. 471194500
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 6223141699
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572215234193
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent WorksI tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way. 7394111
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The thing about this stuff is that I don't care. I don't care if it is legal or constitutional or whether his arguments or good or not. This is very obviously bad for society so it needs to stop. I am guessing there is a legal audience for whom this sort of rebuttal to the rebuttal.... 28512
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 06/10/2026‘Voters from the left and the right are finding a common, populist ground targeting American corporations. And this anger is going beyond just Big Tech.’ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comFrom Left and Right, American Populism Is Coming for Corporate AmericaPlus, why the GOP pins its Senate hopes on New Hampshire, and threat of Iranian drone attack prompts U.S. to fly its B-1 bombers out of U.K. 1821452
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialEric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026While we're at it, let's also justifiably harp on the fact that they spent months talking about Hillary's email server, while this massive FBI data breach has already largely been glossed over and forgotten by the oligarch owned media 2927
Reposted by @constpuzzler.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423360711