Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@skooter.bsky.social I sometimes get email meant for you and you should follow me so we can chat! 100
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Candidates who want my vote should be asking these companies how they plan to pass refunds to customers. 010
Reposted by Courtney SkottTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Here's who online anonymity is for. expression.fire.org/p/in-defense... 7383118
Reposted by Courtney SkottDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Anyone trying to high-road us about Graham should remember Trump’s solemn eulogy for Robert Mueller: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” 1121
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The big US car companies cut EVs because they didn’t sell, but they never tried making cute ones. Or pretty ones. Or small ones. 030
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I’d love to see this sort of thing from some people with a (D) by their name. 020
Reposted by Courtney SkottAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15/04/2026Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...open.substack.comHungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours?Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration 373102292972
Reposted by Courtney Skottdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico: Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.govpolitico.com‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East warDemocrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war. 137486318
Reposted by Courtney SkottSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/02/2026I'm going to introduce legislation blocking Trump from stealing taxpayer dollars with this absurd lawsuit. Stay tuned.ms.nowTrump shares his plan for the $10 billion he expects to receive from his IRS lawsuitThe more the president tries to defend his desire for a taxpayer-financed payout, the worse his position appears. 561292324
Reposted by Courtney SkottACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year. 11761323480
Reposted by Courtney SkottMike Levin @mikelevin.org · 12/12/2025“Imagine if Hunter Biden were helping assemble billions in Saudi and Qatari financing so a progressive media owner could take over Fox News while quietly assuring the White House that he planned to replace hosts and reshape the network’s direction."mediaite.comTrump’s Family Is Helping Foreign Governments Buy CNN. No One Can Stop Them.Foreign wealth and political power are converging in the CNN takeover bid, exposing how weak America’s protections are against media capture. 12228105
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Texas results are super disappointing; I may have to arrange a swap with one of the rich people leaving New York. 040
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social I hope you are seeing this. Because it’s everywhere I look, and I agree. The Democratic Party has OPPORTUNITY , right now. Let us not waste it. 020
Reposted by Courtney SkottMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 05/11/2025This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up 51898511
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 05/11/2025If we can figure out how to explain “marginal tax rate” to the majority of US citizens before next November, that would be great. 020
Reposted by Courtney SkottChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder. 447137344038
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Can I get some glasses that block me from being unwittingly recorded by other people’s glasses? 020
Reposted by Courtney SkottThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/09/2025The UAE put $2B into a crypto firm largely owned by the Trumps and Witkoffs (as in Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East)—then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. And let's not forget Trump's other gift from the Middle East, his private jet from Qatar. trib.al/IiVL63ttrib.alDoes Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along. 21239139
Reposted by Courtney SkottRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 03/09/2025You have a baby too young to vaccinate, and your older kid is exposed to Freedom Measles or Populist Polio in their classroom. You don’t have kids,but you may be impacted if you have cancer. Herd immunity is the point. The silent majority needs to get loud; make this a political liability for Ron. 25463143
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Hey @kenmartin.bsky.social, more like this please. 071
Reposted by Courtney SkottCate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 05/08/2025Dems should start working out approximate per person costs for some of these things so they can hammer home "you just paid $683 to deport your son's soccer coach" or whatever. 714923
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 30/07/2025“Never again” means not starving civilians to death. This, exactly: newrepublic.com/article/1982...newrepublic.comMom, You Taught Me to Say “Never Again.” Well, It’s Happening Again.A letter to my Jewish American mother, who refuses to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza 030
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Sometimes it helps me to leave long rambling messages at Ted Cruz’s office about how clearly, Republicans no longer care about democracy. But mostly it doesn’t help. 130
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Ethics and laws aside, that 747 interior is just hideous. 040
Reposted by Courtney SkottAlt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info · 27/04/2025We’ve modernized legacy government systems. We know what it takes. DOGE’s plan to migrate SSA’s COBOL systems without understanding is a disaster waiting to happen. Here’s why DOGE will fail — and why it matters. 🔗 www.wethebuilders.org/posts/what-it… 20271114
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 18/04/2025It’s not “deported,” it’s “imprisoned in a foreign country without due process.” 122
Reposted by Courtney SkottTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends. 186112092862
Reposted by Courtney SkottTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It is not “taking over Greenland”. It is invading the territory of a US ally and an EU country and the sooner people stop pretending this isn’t America proposing an illegal invasion to annex their territory the better off we’ll all be. 11446169
Reposted by Courtney SkottAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime. 302612659
Reposted by Courtney SkottAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 31/03/2025The people who told you to calm down because they would never overturn Roe are now telling you to calm down because they will never allow Trump to serve a third term. 531668491
Reposted by Courtney SkottWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.nytimes.comElon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House ComplexTrump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. 576182518047
Reposted by Courtney SkottLane Becker @lanebecker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025When I worked (briefly) for the 1st Trump admin, we called this the “oil and water” effect. Talented people, whose pay wouldn’t change, dropped down a level or 4 in the agency hierarchy to avoid the worst, & then the least competent slithered up to the top, knowing it was their only chance to climb. 151
Reposted by Courtney SkottSan Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 05/03/2025The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”sfchronicle.comIs Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that wayA joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration. 30265204
Reposted by Courtney SkottWIRED @wired.com · 07/03/2025In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.wrd.cmDOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at RiskIn its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things. 931639630
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Wondering at what point my Trump-voting dad wakes up; developing the strength to respond with, “OK, how can you help?” instead of, “I told you so.” 130
Reposted by Courtney SkottKirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Since the IOC has created a rule for trans athletes to compete in 2003, over 81,000 people have become Olympians. Out of those 81,000, a total of 2 have been trans women & one came dead last the other came 37th out of 42! www.abc.net.au/radio/melbou... www.transresearch.org.au/post/trans-w...transresearch.org.auTrans Women in Sport: What Does the Science Say?Research suggests trans women have minimal to no performance advantage over cisgender women. 211841
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Did you know you can pretty easily peel the Tesla logo off a car with a piece of fishing line? 040
Reposted by Courtney SkottJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org18f.orgWe're not done yet | 18F 31689269230849
Reposted by Courtney SkottJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 02/03/202518F was dissolved because it saved money. We pushed back against contractors who tried to screw American taxpayers. We showed how cheap and good government software can be. Musk hates that. writing by Dan Tangherlini via @donmoyn.bsky.social 271920600
Courtney Skott @cskott.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Eliminating 18F, an office of accomplished technologists building digital tools across the federal government and helping to properly scope and contract external tech services, really exposes the “efficiency” lie. 150
