Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialBob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 340124434454
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The GOP motto: when in doubt, blame the black guy. 110
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Unfortunately, her name is actually spelled Caitlin. But that doesn't detract from the hilarity. 010
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If we need any more proof that Trump is off his rocker, his late EO trying to control language on AI is the latest piece of evidence. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...whitehouse.govFact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super IntelligenceUSHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialPam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m sorry, but if what happened to Jane Doe at Cornell warranted removal of the entire fraternity from the campus, how did it NOT justify removal of the men who raped Jane Doe? Make that make sense. 2028894
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Perpetually “concerned” Susan Collins should be VERY concerned by the latest reporting from ProPublica, revealing her involvement in an alleged bribery/pay to play scheme of awarding defense contracts to a specific firm right after that company made campaign “donations." youtu.be/f2fFlCPjKnk?...youtu.beGOP Senator CAUGHT RED-HANDED In MASSIVE BRIBERY SCHEME Probe!?!YouTube video by Katie Phang 740155635576
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Susan Collins was at the center of a major bribery probe for steering millions in contracts to a company whose CEO illegally funneled thousands to her campaign. Then Trump took office and gutted the FBI and DOJ units investigating her. Is this what "being moderate" looks like?propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping po 852168858
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Mike Rogers refuses to talk about gas, groceries, seeing a doctor, or our broken infrastructure. Mike Rogers only wants to talk about old culture wars fought by small people with smaller ideas and no solutions to our actual problems. 13493072632
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026👇👇👇👇 16642723412115
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Seriously, they can all go fuck themselves. They played a huge role in creating this mess. 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2026"For decades, the security architecture of the Persian Gulf rested on an assumption: When the gravest regional threats emerged, the United States would be the power around which its partners organized." Well, then we started this war.lnk.thebulwark.comThe Iran War Is Moving Too Fast for Washington to Keep UpAmerica’s friends, partners, and enemies are making decisions now without waiting for the Trump administration to respond. 611142
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026FFS, the devil is in the house and you're worrying about the window dressings. 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026JUST IN: Attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked for an emergency hearing after a staffer was denied access to the Kennedy Center and told it was closed to the public. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...documentcloud.orgKennedy Center Closed 17262292283
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2026Trump on high gas prices: "It's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that — it's a little more, even if it was a lot more." 4813638
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I don't know what's funnier, the dog or all those cops walking in like they're the star of the latest cop procedural. 010
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have to think (hope) that there will be a reckoning for all of this. For him, his family, his enablers, and his supporters....all of them. And if there's not, then burn it all down...it was all a facade. 000
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Brings new meaning to the phrase "the FBI really screwed the pooch"! 000
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Damn, I was shut out at the Emmy's again. 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Instead of sustained, serious critique of the MAGA movement’s descent into fascism, we got — at most — bemused coverage, which treated Trump as uniquely skilled in manipulating his supporters. Nowhere do we get a hint that he's manipulating a cult that has given up on reality and democracy.open.substack.comWords & Phrases // *Plus last night’s major SCOTUS ruling regarding the USPS*🚨49 Days to the Midterms🚨 312825
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialNotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Russia-gate was real and is ongoing. Turns out it was/is Russia Russia Russia 31573973302
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026THIS 👇 HERE....... 289109863494
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026Trump: "The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History ... It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history." 285966179
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I don't like going to the post office, but when I do, I always enjoy the Eugene Kingman mural. 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/08/2026How compelling, the idea that you can enjoy the same song as your conservative uncle, even if you like its radical lyrics and he likes its hill-country bop. newrepublic.com/article/1605...newrepublic.comIs Dolly Parton the Voice of America?The curious appeal of the country legend in a divided nation 23713
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 25/08/20261,000 stock trades in the month of June? That's day trading territory. 010
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Canada should shut down all energy exports to the U.S. and then ask Frump "who run barter town?". 000
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 21/08/2026static.klipy.comMan's Disgusted ReactionALT: Man's Disgusted Reaction 000
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 20/08/2026While I was walking my dog, I came across two young Mormon missionaries. I was wearing my Church of the Subgenius t-shirt and they both looked at me warily. 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 595165467121
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Tuesday: Scott Bessent unlawfully shuts down a beneficial owner registry Congress ordered. Friday: The Trump's and the Witkoffs open a "bank." (Via Karen Piper on Xitter.) www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... 27533282
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Shamefully and shamelessly corrupt. Court expansion is important, but so is impeaching justices like Samuel Alito who are using their judicial spot to enrich themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comSamuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis showsCritics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case 013362
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/08/2026You see how this looks, right? trib.al/YL2nsIl 912248
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Trump thinks Qatari Grift One is his to keep, but the U.S. taxpayer is paying almost $1 billion in upgrades. As far as I'm concerned, that's our plane to keep, not his. 000
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 12/08/2026static.klipy.comLets Go Lee ChristmasALT: Lets Go Lee Christmas 000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialBoycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 11/08/2026Amentum Services, which operates ICE's notorious Camp East Montana, has a $425M contract to support aerial firefighting ops in California. This will not stop until we stop giving them our money. Blue cities and states have a lot of power here. 1158
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Beautiful area. My family used to go to the Lake of the Woods every summer (on the Canadian side). Some of my best childhood memories. 180
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/c...nytimes.comNew Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments. 912566
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialBuilder of Spine one call at a time!! @oldfraildems.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The Republican nominee for governor in Iowa, Zach Lahn, has been living in a multimillion-dollar mansion in Kansas despite presenting himself to voters as a farmer, reporting by The Daily Beast. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT! Iowa’s U.S. senators are Chuck DEPENDS Grassley, GOT MY LEAFS ON MY BACK Ernst 122
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialGeorge @retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Companies passed along the cost of tariffs to consumers and now tRump gave them back $100 Billions of taxpayer money but NONE of it will be returned to consumers. They'll keep that money and keep prices high too. www.yahoo.com/finance/econ...yahoo.comThe Treasury Has Now Refunded $100 Billion Of Tariff Revenue, and Scott Bessent Predicts None of It Is Going to YouThe Supreme Court forced Washington to return over a hundred billion dollars in tariff money, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a bold prediction about where that cash would actually land. Six... 022
datadefender.bsky.social @datadefender.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I'm sure it would have been fine if they had ended with a rousing "We're number one, can't be number two, we're gonna beat the WHOOPie out of you!". 010
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Republicans have three modes: (1) Twist themselves into a pretzel to defend Trump (2) Feign ignorance about what Trump is doing (3) Pretend that they are holding him accountable while doing nothing prospect.org/2026/08/04/r...prospect.orgRepublican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump - The American ProspectJohn Cornyn caves and agrees to vote for Todd Blanche as AG, while Susan Collins orchestrates a loophole-ridden deal on OMB rules politicizing federal grants. 26920
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialWill Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...thebulwark.comWhat the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode. 15732911000
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Despite promises of cooperation from Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, and Jay Clayton, former US attorney for the SDNY, now director designate of national intelligence, Torrez said only 31 pages were ever handed over." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comDoJ appears to ignore New Mexico deadline for key Epstein ranch filesState attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch 35532
Reposted by @datadefender.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Todd Blanche quite obviously lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he told them this was dead. It was never dead. It was just on hold until he was confirmed. 439132555143
