Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 5139411705
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10141991469
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?! 2954413929
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward 18195031815
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump’s Kennedy Center ShakedownThe only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands. 1462429849
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Patrick Mahomes hasn’t completed a pass over ten yards and the Chiefs have 31 points. Alarming, Denver! 5192856
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialNikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bettina Trump, wife of Trump Jr., posts a lengthy Instagram caption responding to @propublica.org’s reporting that a Russian oligarch paid for over $170,000 of her wedding. 282686185
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When, in January 2025, I wrote that the Trump administration was segregationist folks said I was exaggerating. I would have *loved* to be wrong about this but the unfortunate evidence remains on my side. This is just racism, pure and simple.nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 12763288
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584482882
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147262819
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country” 18190222606
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026That we continue to humor this dipshit amazes me. He’s a compulsive liar. He’s constantly wrong, consistently racist and pro-white nationalist. I realize he’s rich. I realize he has burrowed himself into the federal government payroll. But there’s simply no good reason to hand him a microphone. 1038863
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving. 8883364912531
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...gizmodo.comHere's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate LatelyMeteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. 342205971
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026there is a literacy crisis at the Supreme Court: only 5 of 9 justices are capable of reading the Fourteenth Amendment AND it took them a year and a half to do so tragic tbh ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court’s Big Birthright Citizenship Decision Is the Absolute Bare MinimumThe justices had a simple task in Trump v. Barbara: uphold their oaths. Only five were willing to do so. 1029558
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu... 11164211314
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA White House Makeover, Brought to You by Struggling National ParksPark projects are being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. 23928536
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialVince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Every reporter who interviews him moving forward should just keep telling him, “but there’s no evidence of that…” so we can watch him implode on national television again lol 412116772220
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction. 23980442823
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves. 3599513904
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S. 30668972840
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026How to Be a Real Man, 2026 GOP Edition: -Drink whiskey, smoke cigars, make sure it's on camera -Claim you'd kill for your kids, but barely parent -Say you could beat up a bear -Say an out-of-shape 80-year-old can beat you up -Express pants-wetting fear of cities -Be an asshole to women -Whine a lot 411428296
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialQuinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.the-downballot.comHow Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme CourtThe state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it. 14066992029
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/05/2026If you thought elaborately faking being good at videogames to impress a bunch of manchildren was embarrassing, consider elaborately faking that your mother loves you. 1573531722
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialChuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026One of the major planks in the Democratic platform that they should be loudly running on is “The Republicans are racist pieces of shit.“ 217341
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialKevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day 202914669
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can 10557081603
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialMichael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 29/04/2026A SCOTUS that believes that the Constitution protects the political rights of corporations more than it does those of non-White Americans is fundamentally illegitimate and its rulings should be treated as such 13851911513
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/04/2026I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have saidballsandstrikes.orgSix Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights ActThe Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it. 9343621379
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/04/2026If Democrats do not immediately expand and rebalance the Supreme Court at their first opportunity, nothing else they do to rebuild democracy will survive and MAGA rule will remain entrenched. 211236347
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 29/04/2026the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country 4451211495
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 10227081222
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Passed in 1965 with overwhelming bipartisan support, and re-authorized repeatedly, the Voting Rights Act has long and widely been regarded as one of the signal achievements in US political history. Now an activist conservative super-majority of Court has taken it down with a brutal 1-2 attack. 31946353
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialSarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Say it with me now... RFK has not changed his position on vaccines. Politico: RFK Jr. is holding up $600 million in vaccines for poor countries The distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...politico.comRFK Jr. is holding up $600 million in vaccines for poor countriesThe distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives. 411865
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies 9152591141
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/04/2026🚨BREAKING: A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats’ new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comVirginia court declines to block Democrats from using new voter-approved congressional map“Millions of Virginians voted in an election,” wrote the judge in the order. "It is in the public interests to allow the amendment to take effect." 16079682095
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Donald Trump called Somalis “animals.” He said Haitians eat dogs and cats. You fucking journalists had a party with him and now you want our sympathy. Fuck off. 6167871304
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life. 152165525
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people. 8997753836
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over. 438226535797
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026They think you're stupid. 286117833031
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialNBC News @nbcnews.com · 22/04/2026BREAKING: Virginia voters approve a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections, NBC News projects.nbcnews.toVirginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boostNBC News projects Democrats will be able to enact a new proposed map designed to net them up to four seats, as they push for control of the narrowly divided House. 28668232
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 19/04/2026let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are 161903402
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialatticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 16/04/2026the VP being a fucking groyper nazi should probably be a bigger story 191709477
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/04/2026i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass 2556170741
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialRoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 05/03/2026This Women’s History Month, we want to celebrate all the Black women who have helped to shape lives for the better with their innovative minds and tenacity in their respective fields. From the invention of the ironing board (cont.) #WomensHistoryMonth www.theroot.com/13-invention... 18350
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialOh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Wemby actually did that lol 937484
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 20/02/2026So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...digitalcookie.girlscouts.orgOrder your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site TodayThat's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out. 8016051640
Reposted by @darch007.bsky.socialSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 09/02/2026What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent. This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...x.com 21974413