Reposted by David MNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6hDavid Brooks pearl-clutching over John Ossoff calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist,” as if the problem with violent white nationalism is people objecting to it, illustrates this point as well as humanly possible. 1965787
Reposted by David M🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 6hsort of wild how they’ve all become even worse versions of themselves, too, like, i don’t think people expected greatness from rubio, but no one predicted he would be *this* bad, in both word and deed 1523117
Reposted by David MChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6hBREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump administration to stop DHS's pro-Trump propaganda ads immediately, including ordering the canceling of ads set to run as soon as this evening. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-does-n... 7453381351
Reposted by David MRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 6h"The government is legally forbidden by a court order from converting the Roxbury site to a detention facility... But an NPR investigation has found signs that the facility is being used. The state's Office of the Attorney General is looking into similar reports..." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...npr.orgICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors sayThroughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. 411547787
Reposted by David MEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 7hThis is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying. 13831361312
Reposted by David MEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 7hWatch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation. 981731836
Reposted by David MNick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 9hIn my mind the defining feature of Trump II is that is ✨actually✨ a kakistocracy. RFK Jr and Russ Vought have very little in common politically, but they do share one essential quality: they are absolutely the worst person alive for the jobs they have. 151198200
Reposted by David MNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 18hThinking again how hard it’s going to be for future people to understand that the Trump Admin essentially switched sides to be almost entirely pro-Russia in its FP twice but it was considered impossible to mention this because one early investigation into their ties was successfully obstructed 18327
Reposted by David MPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13hWhen Administration officials and Republican members of Congress get on TV and give stupid answers to obvious questions, I keep finding myself thinking "But what else could they say and still keep their jobs?" And they know this too. 0313
Reposted by David MDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14hThis is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair. 4627208
Reposted by David MNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15hThe US president is incredibly weak on the world stage. Demands concessions from Iran. Gets less than nothing. Tells Ukraine to lay off Russian oil infrastructure. They hit more targets within less than a day. Threatens other countries to join anti-Iran sanctions. China and others laugh it off. 928579
Reposted by David MSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15hIt's strange to document all this and not explicitly pin Trump's violence fetish as being the obvious number one contributing factor. Just because his thirst for violent retribution in politics has blown back on him on occasion doesn't absolve him of blame.nytimes.comThreats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office. 1831482
Reposted by David MJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14h1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people. 29833181276
Reposted by David MDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15hOver the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error. 441844527
Reposted by David MThe Next Day of the Dead @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 14h‘Oh, you know the president. He’s always saying things that are verifiably false for political advantage. No reason to look into whether he’s just incapable of telling the truth or delusional due to age or mental illness.’ 001
Reposted by David M🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/10/2026no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt 272099459
Reposted by David MGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Nothing has ever been more real than the Trump Putin collaboration 762208460
Reposted by David MGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I think people forget the enormous volume of Trump Russia connections and also the enormous number of times Trump stumped for Putin or delivered benefits to him. There’s no such thing as 10,000 coincidences! 731244
Reposted by David MDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I dunno. Maybe it’s time newsroom executives told Trump to go fuck himself, and told their reporters to stop treating him like a normal president. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump. 628182
Reposted by David MDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The purpose of anti-trust law is to protect consumers. Trump has used it to protect himself, and the companies of his political benefactors 216234
Reposted by David MMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 236711296
Reposted by David MAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party. 3349118
Reposted by David MDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.” 10411182
Reposted by David MPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The central issue of our times is that the President of the United States is certifiably insane. Nothing else really comes close. 619845
Reposted by David MStephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026ICE is completely lawless 0238
Reposted by David MAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous 281713477
Reposted by David MDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And removed sanctions from Russia on the same day. 8454156
Reposted by David MDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that." www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comHegseth faces bipartisan backlash over public execution for Fort Hood shooterBoth Republican and Democratic critics said the plan was beneath the United States. 115722
Reposted by David MCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now? 1802522771
Reposted by David M DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is clearly not acceptable 86199593355
Reposted by David MKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc... 412130797
Reposted by David MElieNYC @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. 462846692
Reposted by David MSam @samd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the entire Trump administration makes sense when you realize the animating force is just state violence as content 2858293
Reposted by David MRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“I think in reality, what socialism actually means in the American context is lug nut squirrel biscuit meow meow papa was a rolling stone.” 139420
Reposted by David MVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just open racism and misogyny, they used to try and hide it a little 812828
Reposted by David MJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Democracy is good for business because political liberty goes hand and hand with economic liberty. Authoritarianism, no matter how business friendly it tries to market itself as, always has a pay to play dynamic. Authoritarians hate free markets because they reward ability rather than loyalty 13915
Reposted by David Mmtsw @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 423366711
Reposted by David MCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“.. The only major economy that has seen its 10-year bond yield rise more than the U.S. this year is France, where Ed Yardeni says the government there ‘may be on the verge of a full-blown debt crisis.’” 🇫🇷 @kopack.bsky.social 16478149
Reposted by David MJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social 9479225
Reposted by David MSam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026really kinda sucks that, across the globe, we don’t have majorities of voters who think far right authoritarianism is bad If I had to sum it up it seems like 40% of voters are anti authoritarian 40% of voters are pro authoritarian 20% of voters just want cheap burgers 43949128
Reposted by David MSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 05/10/2026Trump promised his war with Iran would end in "about two weeks" back in February. That was seven months ago. 1621854
Reposted by David MMicah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026every election everywhere after one (1) cycle with the fascists out of power: FASCISM NEPOBABY: 50.1% NORMAL POLITICIAN: 49.9% 221155145
Reposted by David MSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently. 612436440
Reposted by David MSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this 151238196
Reposted by David MReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026american "worse things aren't possible" mindset strikes again 226430
Reposted by David MSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m more sympathetic to the median voter (derogatory) than most people on here but it seems like the only way you can instill some sense of civic virtue is to shove the consequences directly into their face after the fact 171308125
Reposted by David MDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yet more evidence that, despite Trump pretty explicitly saying he'd do really bad things, these sorts of voters were operating under a "it can only good happen delusion" and that nothing in their media/info diet up to that point ever challenged that for them 48311
Reposted by David MMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 37353501838
