Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoR. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 17hCongress needs to audit the White House and cut funding controlled by the president to the bone. What’s the minimum budget required for him to be housed, fed, and staffed to do the basics of the job? That should be his annual budget. Let him ask Congress for more as he needs it. 618649
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMonteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 12hLooking for the perfect gift to put in your beloved’s Bela Lugosi stocking this Halloween? I got you! What could be better than my new book, How to die (and other stories)? It’s spine-curdling! www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to... 0138
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Republicans spent the past year making choices on war, spending and energy, and voters are now footing the bill. Rather than own it, the party's answer so far has been deflection, denial and AI slop.thinkbigpicture.substack.comThe GOP Crisis: Five Separate Stories, One Looming Disaster 14768120
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/10/2026I really hope whatever is happening in Russia stays in Russia, because the Trump admin isn’t equipped for a public health emergency. 📌 A worker at an anti-plague research institute in Siberia died after developing pneumonia of unknown origin. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation 1371767607
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoCinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Happy 51st Birthday, Kate Winslet, 10/5/75. Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA winner, always delivers! Oscar nods: 95 Sense & Sensibilities 97 Titanic 01 Iris 04 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 06 Little Children ❤️ 08 Reader (w) 15 Steve Jobs 📺 Emmy wins: 11 Mildred Pierce 21 Mare of Easttown #filmsky 📽 2659
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/... 961971566
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoDr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 0356
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoGaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Larry Fine mural at 3rd and South in Philadelphia Fine was BOTD in Philly in 1902 14610
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comHe Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him OutDan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon. 16472218
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoSteve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Or as they say in Russia “Fell out of a window and/or was hit by a random air conditioner.” 812452
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us. 25959652203
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026as well as personally issuing and executing illegal orders to launch cruise missiles at Ukrainian homes, hospitals, schools, churches and more - OSINT analysts reported. Rest in piss, bastards! 419013
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Russian dead crew of the Tu-95MS strategic bomber that crashed in Amur region included two lieutenant colonels and two majors👀 At least three of the crew members were involved in organizing missile strikes on Ukraine, 36684110
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoLondon Reed🫘🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟No Kings🌟🌟🌟 @londonreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Jack Smith smiling at a concert. It was said he was congenial and happy to be with the crowd. I have never seen him smile. 35766651110
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoKellyK🌺 @azkellyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A federal judge ordered Trump to restore CNN, MS NOW, & POLITICO’s White House access immediately. He blocked our reporters but allowed Chinese state media to have access?! U.S. journalists get punished! Flip Congress; NO PRESIDENT gets to make court orders optional. VOTE #BlueWaveIn30Days 34425
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026Nothing says “America First” like Trump decorating the White House with photos of himself cozying up to Xi, a communist, and Putin, an authoritarian. But he calls Dems the dangerous radicals. 34648270
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?" 18445251457
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We cannot be a serious country if we have a "raw milk community." Same with a piss-drinking community, an ant-vax community, etc. Call it all what it is: anti-science and fucking stupidity. 812531
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim Snyder on Trump's fixation with Putin: If you believe in countries, the United States is a much more powerful country than Russia. But if you just believe that it’s gangster on gangster, well then sure, Putin is a much better gangster than Trump. 221289400
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026With Musk tweeting autism supremacy stuff again today, good time to read @juliametraux.bsky.social’s piece on the subject www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normiesMusk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that. 6359121
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 04/10/2026Trump supporters may be surprised to learn the state takeover of means of production is not driven by the lefttheguardian.comRepublicans say they hate communists. So why do they like Donald Trump? 97132
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoAida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He’s so presidential! 😤 #Pinks #USDemocracy 123461197
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026New CBS poll shows Democrats with their widest lead in the Generic Congressional Ballot. Democrats 54% Republicans 45% It's the gas prices, stupid. www.cbsnews.com/news/midterm...cbsnews.comCBS News Battleground Tracker poll finds Democrats maintain House advantage amid concern about pricesHere are 10 things to know about the 2026 midterm elections, in no particular order, based on what voters are telling us today. 67918
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026💔 Being a unwitting party to an innocent man's suicide is a terrible way to learn that voting for a corrupt, convicted criminal and rapist who tried to overturn an election and was under indictment for serious crimes against the United States was a bad idea. 710023
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Tim Snyder: The Republicans are trying to run this midterm on the issue of communism, whereas Trump’s idols are all communists. Whether it’s North Korea, whether it’s China, whether it’s Russia... Full interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... 39891310
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...youtube.comLIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…YouTube video by MeidasTouch 7136951458
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoRest of World @restofworld.org · 04/10/2026Taiwanese authorities have launched hundreds of raids to stop Chinese firms from using disguised front companies to poach local chip engineers and access advanced tech restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-china-c…restofworld.orgTaiwan’s six-year hunt for China’s undercover chip labsPreviously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology. 02712
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 04/10/2026Protip the chemicals you've been keeping in the garage for years might be actually degraded and a bad idea to use now. Some types even get damaged by low temperatures without freezing. Go look up their useful lifetimes or just throw it out if you haven't used it in 15 years. 9554
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoDonna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trump lies over and over. The price of everything is going up. That’s why we need #BlueWaveIn30Days! It’s coming! The Democrats are coming! #momsky#sheshed 22243176
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoDonna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#momsky#sheshed #BlueWaveIn30Days Get off your butt and Vote! 30477258
Reposted by David Newman / San Francisco4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Love this 👇 210150374282
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026look who's with Trump on his trip to Ohio! #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Nathan Howard) 5423586718
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!" 76764731211
Reposted by David Newman / San Franciscoebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Insanity 😡 19193063222
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?thehill.comGOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during WatergateRep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab… 3934575879
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoDan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“[Republicans] are looking for excuses to seize ballots. They are looking for excuses…to take control of the tabulation of votes.” -Marc Elias, Democracy Docket www.commondreams.org/news/georgia... 27151
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds. 268196336042
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoBill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is batshit. This is vastly worse than any Biden decline. Trump has come unglued. He's a danger to the republic. 581220243
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026"Were he trying to raise the cost of diesel, Trump would be hard pressed to improve upon the combination of trade wars, tariffs, and a Strait of Hormuz-choking Mideast war. At this point, he may as well propose doubling the 24.4 cents per gallon federal diesel tax."publicnotice.coDiesel Don is tanking the GOPRecord high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures. 281489333
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 24630331779
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...youtu.beWOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!YouTube video by Katie Phang 53489312619
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld 18891262836
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoMargo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission . 12593236
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoDefector @defector.com · 03/10/2026The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is real and it is my friend: defector.com/the-wupperta...defector.comThe Wuppertal Schwebebahn Is Real And It Is My Friend | DefectorWUPPERTAL, Germany — When my friend in Cologne asked me if I might want to take a day trip, thanks to Cologne’s proximity to various other notable cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Bonn, among others), I… 1477
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker 842230448
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoDan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Diesel now: $6.38/gallon Diesel before Trump’s unprovoked war with Iran: $3.76/gallon www.wivb.com/news/politic... 13829
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I did not have "Donald Trump doxxing Tom Cotton over daylight savings" on my Bingo card. But I support it, I guess? Both making daylight savings permenant and making Tom Cotton miserable. 4175769
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026Eric Schmitt’s attempted gotcha of former Special Counsel Jack Smith failed spectacularly—but in Schmitt’s MAGA bubble, there's no such thing as a gaffe, Helen Lewis argues:bit.lyEric Schmitt’s Very Bad Day at WorkFor MAGA politicians, there’s no such thing as a gaffe. 128015
Reposted by David Newman / San FranciscoSK @sk-76.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Linden Cabaret poster, Berlin (1912) Josef Steiner, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts 0111