Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/03/2026Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official. 1/ 47354612149
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/01/2026"Ortiz grabs the keys of an SUV someone dropped off. She takes me with her as she fills up the gas tank for a community member who has legal status but is terrified of even going to the gas station." That's Minneapolis now. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/45pRQbTlnk.thebulwark.com24 Hours Alongside an ICE Protester in MinneapolisCarolina Ortiz, an immigrant advocate, is preparing for ICE’s next onslaught. 325058
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/11/2025Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.” 8633258952
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/06/2025More chaos at home. More wars abroad. This Trump regime is an international disaster. 15455511116
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Trump promised peace through strength and all we got is new and escalating wars through weakness. But I have every confidence he will issue more very stern warnings on Truth Social to solve everything. 751639237
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/06/2025Sen. Mark Kelly: "What happened today to Sen. Padilla was outrageous. It was violent. It's a scary thing to see happen in the United States of America...The Trump administration has arrested a mayor, a member of congress, and a labor leader...That is not who we are as a country." 1632015598
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/06/2025They lie about everything 113995982904
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This devastating Substack post by Georgetown Law Professor @stevevladeck.bsky.social ought to cause Samuel Alito discomfort whenever he sees the word “Justice” in front of his name. He doesn’t deserve what that honorific implies. 862065659
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMatt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony: 324139337300
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide. That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler. 21571061987
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/04/2025If anything, cutting a deal with Trump instead of challenging his absurd executive orders gives the big law firms *less* leverage: now they're entangled with the administration in addition to being targeted by it.thebulwark.comBig Law’s Attempts to Appease Trump Won’t WorkSignals of weakness only invite more bullying. 2245168
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/04/2025NEWS: Hong Kong has suspended postal service for all goods being sent to the United States, saying the U.S is "unreasonable, bullying, and imposing tariffs abusively." 746242596900
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025So, is the mainstream media really just done talking about that time our Secretary of Defense drunk texted war plans to a journalist? 35062161405
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialDoug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 02/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity. 021
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Trump is making noise about being president for a third, and unconstitutional, term. He claims he has a “method” that would allow it. I take a deep dive into that claim in today’s piece. Link: open.substack.com/pub/statusku... 9856086
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025Wow. What is happening here with Hegseth? 3241864304
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The Fifth Amendment says due process is due all persons, whether the number eight or eight million. And if there were a mass-violation exception to the Constitution, why have a constitutional at all? 1558165894948
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025According to MAGA, if you hit a car with a baseball bat because you don’t like the company’s owner you’re a “terrorist”, but if you hit a Capitol police officer with a baseball bat because you don’t like the results of an election, you’re a “patriot.” Do I have that just about right? 443119223080
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/03/2025Trump defied a federal court order—and he’s daring the system to stop him. If Congress won’t act and the courts have no enforcement power, what happens next? Democracy doesn’t survive on its own. Are you ready to fight for it? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-rule-o...adamkinzinger.substack.comThe Rule of Law vs. Trump’s WarAre we ready for a Constitutional crisis? 34251791333
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Trump and ICE have not only violated court orders, they have apparently swept up wholly innocent lives in their rush to rendition. My write-up on how their migrant mistreatment is backfiring: open.substack.com/pub/statusku... 14749120
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The most common sentence in all news stories over the past two months: “(Media outlet) has reached out to the spokesperson for (government agency), who did not respond to our questions and refused to comment.” 15366721328
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/03/2025"You’re thinking of condemning these truly grotesque violations of constitutional rights and human decency. *Maybe I should say this isn’t right?*" Yes. Yes you should, political advisors be damned. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:thebulwark.comStop Making Excuses for Not Fighting TrumpThe capitulations and acquiescence we’ve seen so far will only make opposition more difficult down the road. 835170
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/03/2025The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.thebulwark.comThe Constitutional Crisis Is HereBy shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, the Trump administration has begun defying court orders in earnest. 682355843
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/03/2025Q: Why did the State Department cut funding to find kidnapped Ukrainian kids? Waltz: “I can't speak to that…” 69594138
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/03/2025Posting this photo for no particular reason 2247191994854
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025This White House has now crossed the Rubicon that for centuries has kept the Attorney General from becoming a Consigliere for the American President as Mob Boss Extraordinaire. Read this directive and weep: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...documentcloud.org032125-TrumpMemo-Lawyers 34237711816
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025If you beat a Capitol police officer with their own shield in an effort to overturn a free & fair election, you go free, but if you vandalize an electric car, you get 20 years in an infamously brutal El Salvadoran prison. 51671271947
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Such casual cruelty. It's unacceptable.comicsands.comGOP Rep. Abruptly Adjourns Hearing After Being Called Out For Misgendering Trans Rep.The casual cruelty of Republicans is unacceptable. 2796112689
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/03/2025If you were excusing your support for Trump by claiming that "institutions" would keep him in check, you were admitting that he's dangerous. And, well, so far it looks like you were wrong. @monacharen.bsky.social from the archives: plus.thebulwark.com/p/checks-and...plus.thebulwark.comChecks and Balances Won’t Save Us from TrumpOur institutions have already proved weak. 1549394
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The news is coming in fast today, hard to keep up with it all! 218317
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025You probably saw yesterday that Ukraine agreed to the ceasefire arrangement proposed by the U.S. And you may have had a bit of the same reaction many did: Was Ukraine pressured into this by Trump’s coercive tactics? The answer is far more complex and interesting. My write-up in the replies. 2342159
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The richest man in the world who receives billions from the US govt and has the Chinese Communist Party and the Saudi royal family as business partners, is a victim of an “illegal” boycott. 81151091062
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/03/2025The White House Press Secretary just wrapped up her press conference, and let’s be clear—the White House is gaslighting you as the country burns. Here is everything you need to know.meidasnews.comKaroline Leavitt Gaslights The American Public During Her Press BriefingDon't let her. 727129803700
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/03/2025It's ironic that the playbook being executed against our government is the one that was refined in the destruction of hundreds of the country's small newspapers that held communities together and held local power accountable.thebulwark.comVulture Capitalism Comes for DemocracyThe playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers. 527669
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try? 31548298820681
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Imagine being this proud of this much fucking stupid. 1377667707
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025“I’m gonna berate and bully the leader of a warn-torn democratic ally for all the world to see because my daddy Vladdy told me to, but first let me put on these fifty-three layers of cake makeup so all the drag queen hating MAGA Incels who jerk off to my face know I’m a manly man.” - this fucker 562115681969
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit. 43146239111531
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/02/2025Vance: I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media...You should be thanking the president... Zelenskyy: Have you ever been to Ukraine?... Vance: I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour... 230785821756
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 28/02/2025That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen. 1542642278782
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Not even hiding it. 529108794565
Reposted by @d-saunders.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/02/2025So Trumpers, three options: He's senile. He's a liar. Or both. 1323125023200
