Reposted by Kevin Bellelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 09/10/2026i genuinely think they make him do this because they know he’s bad at it because he gets bad reviews because it’s bad for his brand and because they’re extremely mad about all his iran leaks. 769168
Reposted by Kevin BellRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Every single one of these article is full of the same guy, the person is surprised that Trump acted exactly like he said he was going to act. 1220329
Reposted by Kevin BellCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 7454011299
Reposted by Kevin BellKeri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I’ve covered death row cases for nearly a decade and witnessed several executions. What happened to Christa Pike wasn’t an anomaly. It could happen anywhere. With another execution planned for this week in Texas, let me explain why. THREAD 🧵 17388147
Reposted by Kevin Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 107106201804
Reposted by Kevin BellKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship. 210802330
Reposted by Kevin BellRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Like guys, the one thing you can’t do in Texas is blame democrats for statewide policy. Good or bad, the republicans did it. 529422
Reposted by Kevin BellRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Abbott ads blaming the democratic nominee for the (very high) Texas property taxes Abbott is responsible for are pretty impressive in a shamelessness way. 1042445
Reposted by Kevin BellDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes, the Trump jujitsu here has been to use the *impression* that Democrats use DOJ to go after their enemies to actually use the DOJ to do that and say - well, lawfare, yadda yadda 710414
Reposted by Kevin BellAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave... 928750
Reposted by Kevin BellDaniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I learned it by watching you" is a far more sophisticated/knowing joke format and I'm sure I use it more frequently, but in terms of pure "famousness," the answer is "This is your brain on drugs" and it isn't even close... 12714
Reposted by Kevin BellSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15). 1202570664
Reposted by Kevin BellHoward Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'd bet my salary on it. Also yours, @nbabeau.bsky.social. 5699
Reposted by Kevin BellDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The average voter thinks members of Congress are trading stocks all day from the pool on Epstein Island, and you're going to make them angry about this? Godspeed 1362235
Reposted by Kevin BellDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad. 27939128
Reposted by Kevin BellThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2026Josh Turek: “It’s really easy to send out a tweet and say, ‘Oh, we need to end this war in Iran.’ Seven times [Ashley Hinson] had the opportunity to actually end this war.” 10576120
Reposted by Kevin BellOliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...status.newsThe Source Behind The BanThe anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned. 952538909
Reposted by Kevin BellRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Puts “lefty mayor trying a subsidized grocery store” into perspective in terms of nonsense economics 51006
Reposted by Kevin BellRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026An export ban, lol. 5687
Reposted by Kevin Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026this is a genuinely crazy story 11955271179
Reposted by Kevin BellAaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 22/09/2026People say that Trump likes to build things but what he really likes most is renaming things. 1618613
Reposted by Kevin BellRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Deshaun Watson is older than Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson. He's older than the Ravens' offensive coordinator. 32105691
Reposted by Kevin BellDrew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Deshaun Watson is 31 years old 1935917
Reposted by Kevin BellThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026Breaking News: Major TV networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties.nyti.msNetworks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNNThe move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico. 4244789
Reposted by Kevin BellAndrew Mason @masedenver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So, the Broncos didn't get pressure to force shaky throws, didn't do things to get Jaylen Waddle open, didn't establish the run and maintain patience with it so they could wear down the Jags? OK, then 1211
Reposted by Kevin BellAlan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Making conventional episodes WAS their show! The whole original pitch was, "What if we just made a Star Trek show where the Enterprise visited planets and saved the day every week?" And somehow, it's morphed into... this. 137612
Reposted by Kevin BellDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Empty seats on both sides of me as I hear the president insist that the American Airlines Center is full and there are thousands of people outside. Nothing new to say, just... wow, 11 years of this, huh 311470221
Reposted by Kevin BellPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I look forward to the 2028 Democratic nominee turning to him in a debate and saying "Oh, you were secretly against the war? That means you were too weak to do anything about it. You couldn't remove your lips from Trump's ass long enough to stand up like a man, you pathetic coward." 401645260
Reposted by Kevin BellGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New Quinnipiac poll finds Dems +11 on House generic ballot, Trump approval down to 33 percent, at record low on the economy, and down in the 20s on Iran and Canada: 381747368
Reposted by Kevin BellDaniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 08/09/2026[Sigh. He isn't claiming he was lifted out of the rubble on 9/11. He's claiming he was in the US Steel Building at SOME unclear point post-9/11 when there were still concerns about its structural integrity and people tried to get him to leave. This is probably ALSO a lie. But... come on.] 2143
Reposted by Kevin BellTommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756... 203668884
Reposted by Kevin BellThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/09/2026"Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on America without a single Iranian soldier firing a rifle. Hegseth obsessing over soldiers’ physical fitness in 2026 is like a European general fixating on his troops’ horsemanship in 1940."lnk.thebulwark.comPete Hegseth 💩 the Bed AgainThe secretary of WAR is obsessed with doing pushups in the age of drone warfare. America will pay for his stupidity. 551763375
Reposted by Kevin Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026trump has a fundamentally zero sum view of the world. if you trade something you are, in his view, losing something. there can be no positive sum gain. 2053247502
Kevin Bell @dingerc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Isn’t the grand unifying theory as to why certain things get covered and others don’t end up as “Fox News covered it?” When Fox covers, there is follow-up. When they ignore, it gets lost. 000
Reposted by Kevin BellGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149... 201513303
Reposted by Kevin BellAlan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A show that needed Kickstarter to get a movie made should of course get a book that requires a kickstarter. 3519
Reposted by Kevin BellMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/09/2026Sony-loyal video tape format bros in the late 1970s: “you need to be Betamaxxing.” 3897
Reposted by Kevin BellMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I don’t dispute the possibility that this is true, but I do question the notion that any team could’ve figured it out by chatting with a few dudes over the course of a week. 5583349
Reposted by Kevin BellStephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 30/08/2026Here’s hoping that my new acronym goes viral: IAALBNTTOLACNYL (I am a lawyer but not this type of lawyer and certainly not your lawyer) 912113
Reposted by Kevin Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide. 22656901274
Reposted by Kevin Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026the “op” is that vance is the most visibly sweaty, pathetic and juiceless national politician in recent memory 2306115661
Reposted by Kevin Bellryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026he's an outlier in the party but Josh Gottheimer quite obviously wants Abdul El-Sayed to lose. you don't go on Fox News and campaign for Mike Rogers on accident www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4TF...youtube.comDem calls out El-Sayed's 'PATHETIC' responseYouTube video by Fox News 44963103
Reposted by Kevin BellKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Marx has declined to tell 9NEWS who is operating and profiting from the online store promoted by Marx, his family and his campaign. In a convo with Jeff Hunt, a talk radio host and supporter, Marx didn’t say who owns the company and is pocketing the profits. And Hunt didn’t ask. 2688
Reposted by Kevin BellKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026UPDATE: Victor Marx says an anonymous out-of-state company made a “silly mistake” in a campaign finance filing listing him as the owner. Marx says he’s not the one profiting from his online campaign store selling merch and meetings with Marx for up to $1299. 5042793
Reposted by Kevin BellKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Marx has struggled to unite Republicans in his run for Governor, with GOP critics calling him a con man and a grifter. Marx described 9NEWS’ questions about his campaign finances as “stalking.” “People can decide whether it is true or not,” Marx said. 1916518
Reposted by Kevin BellKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Marx said the Wyoming-based LLC running the campaign’s official store made a mistake when it disclosed Marx as its owner and listed his home address on a campaign finance filing. Wyoming law allows LLCs to hide their ownership. “I don’t have anything to do with it,” he said. 59410
Reposted by Kevin BellDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I don't think I'm actually arguing w Osita here but - you obviously prefer having the Senate to having the House if you're a Dem. If Dems had 51 Senate seats in 2020, but Rs held the House, Trump doesn't get to replace Ginsburg. He doesn't get to confirm Aileen Cannon. Etc etc. 2124825
Reposted by Kevin BellDaniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It goes without saying, but still demands repeating, that more of the coastline of Lake Ontario belongs to Canada than the United States. Not that there was any risk that anybody I know was ever going to call it anything other than "Lake Ontario." 5322
Reposted by Kevin BellMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Quick thoughts on the Browns announcing Deshaun Watson is their starting QB 1092589325
