Reposted by Doug FisherCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A U.S. Air Force member jailed since August for publicly calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment is being held in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, according to his attorney. www.military.com/air-force-ma...military.comAir Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s ImpeachmentMaj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle. 58884497 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Thanks a lot SCOTUS. Citizens United, the gift that keeps on giving 🤮. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. 020 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Bessent yet again proving himself to be a d*ckhead. 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump is so desperate about the midterms he will do anything, including ignoring Congress and selling out Ukraine. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comTrump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midtermsTrump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms. 000 0
Reposted by Doug FisherAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hey look, more blatant corruption. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you. 25462611869 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is nuts. Alabama now requires all government employees, including journalists working for public radio, to use Gulf of America. (I assume this also applies to college papers at state schools?) The state is a Third World banana republic. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...insidehighered.comAlabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts CollegesRepublican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too. 000 0
Reposted by Doug FisherSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026go.bsky.app/HGA4wmR A good starter pack! 0328 0
Reposted by Doug FisherOatsie @alexcsinger86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves 913206601 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The district court admits it's breaking some ground, arguing that the changed tech context requires a rethink. Appeals courts have been mixed on their reception to that, esp, as the district court acknowledges, numerous cases have avoided going that far. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com#62 in United States v. Kyle (N.D. Okla., 4:26-cr-00189) – CourtListener.comOPINION AND ORDER by Judge Sara E Hill, ruling on motion(s)/document(s): #47 Granted (Re: 47 Opposed MOTION to Suppress ) as to Melisa Susan Kyle (kjp, Dpty Clk) (Entered: 10/01/2026) 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And the tpp of the court's ruling isxquite a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com#64 in United States v. Cox (S.D. Fla., 0:25-cr-60249) – CourtListener.comORDER granting 30, 47 Motion as to Chelsea Michelle Ann Cox.The Information 1 is DISMISSED. Closing Case for Defendant. Signed by Judge David S. Leibowitz on 10/1/2026. (DSL) (Entered: 10/01/2026) 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is so very *not* good. "[The SEC] didn’t ask for comments. It simply adopted a final rule, effective on publication, that lets a single Commissioner act as the entire Commission whenever every other Commissioner is disqualified from a matter." www.corpgov.net/2026/09/sec-...corpgov.netSEC Quorum Rule: A Commission of One, Adopted Without Public CommentNew SEC quorum rule lets one Commissioner act as the full Commission. Adopted without public comment, here's why it matters and what to do. 000 0
Reposted by Doug FisherChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Emergency court filing from Pike's lawyers seeking to "halt and stay" the botched execution tonight in Tennessee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 18573145 0
Reposted by Doug FisherPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike, media witnesses saidhuffpost.comTennessee Unable To Carry Out The Execution By Lethal Injection Of Christa Gail Pike, Witnesses SayPike had been scheduled for execution after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an appeals court ruling that stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start. 2525257 0
Reposted by Doug FisherFred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Your occasional reminder that government action is not the only threat to media freedom. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 022 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The ethical, moral and philosophical chaos we call AI prompts a modest proposal: Lock everyone involved in an arena and make them watch a continuous loop of "Fail Safe" (1964) until they get the point. We created the technology. We are responsible. Not the technology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZU...m.youtube.comFail Safe 1964 EndingYouTube video by bill lange 032 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026MUST READ [Tge] Justice Department no longer takes on public corruption in any meaningful fashion ... investigation sparked by Kao’s revelations is dead ... government is no longer talking to an informant who had offered a road map to corruption in Congress. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...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 political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A really touching tribute from staff at The (Charleston) Post and Courier to Autumn Phillips, the former execitive editor, who died earlier this month. (At the time, she was the newsroom's "editor at large.") www.postandcourier.com/news/autumn-...postandcourier.com‘She made us writers’: Charleston journalists remember Autumn Phillips and the mark she left behindAutumn Phillips’ influence stretched far beyond the stories she edited and the bylines she left behind. We gathered memories from former and current Post and Courier staff to remember Autumn, who left... 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026For 2023. And they already had been granted extensions. 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today's ICEcapades: -- ICE removes from public database locations where it's holding people pending final deportation orders. apnews.com/article/ice-... - US won't send or heavily redacting docs needed by potential deportees to show they're in the US properly. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 000 0
Reposted by Doug FisherProfessor Amanda Sturgill @drsturg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A worthy goal could be to live your life so well that it inspires an obituary like this: www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n... I've written quite a few in my time. You put in the extra work on people who mean a lot to you, and Rose Friedman obviously did.npr.orgEditor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide. 0344 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In which Rick Scott admits he's incapable of doing his job. 000 0
Reposted by Doug FisherPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026America’s Added Fuel Cost Clock: now online and available live on the web for you to see the numbers climb in real time :( hoping if and when prices fall I'll get to the savings in real time... patrickdehaan.com/fuelclock.html 7306114 0
Reposted by Doug FisherKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Stop stop stop treating this $5k check thing like it’s real. It’s just…not. 732132802070 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This may be her pièce de résistance. @ellecordova.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/v/1K2z...facebook.com 000 0
Reposted by Doug FisherDavid Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026How the game is played: the Data Center Coalition— including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.—set up astroturf websites in states. They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads, and buying millions of YouTube views, with pro-data-center messaging. 1106 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'd make a list of all that's out of kilter here, but Bluesky has a word limit. Look forward to seeing @justinwolfers.bsky.social take this apart. 010 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If nothing else comes out of these four years, it must be the courts realizing it's time to get off their deliberative arses to prevent this. Unless,of course, they like becoming irrelevant. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Speed on the White House Ballroom Threatens to Outpace the Courts (Gift Article)In his breakneck construction of a grand ballroom and in many other initiatives, critics say, the president has tried to outrun judicial review. 010 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026You know how Trump et al. didn't seem to have fully thought through what could happen with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz? Well, now let's turn our attention to Canada, the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence Seaway ... and the Welland Canal. Look it up. 000 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A good explainer of what os actually happening with the Postal Service mail-in ballot csees and how things might play out. 010 0
Reposted by Doug FisherTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It was very nice of MSNOW to go back to what I wrote six months ago and point out that my concerns were well-founded and that things turned out the way I warned they would. But this is one case where I wish I’d been wrong. 3267578 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Fantastic! Canada: Take your Lake America and shove it. Portraying Trump as an eagle may be mis-casting, though.Guess no weasels were available. youtu.be/PUKa7tHbrFAyoutu.beCanadian Resistance Army - Lake Ontario (Official Music Video)YouTube video by demonflyingfox 010 0
Reposted by Doug FisherMindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“The grand jury also concluded that Ashley Moody, who was the attorney general at the time, was aware of the plans to divert the $10 million to Hope Florida and ‘authorized’ her former chief deputy, John Guard, to sign …” www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...cbsnews.comGrand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope FloridaA Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes. 2107 0
Doug Fisher @dougfisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026So many questions about what the alternative result of killing is. 010 0
Reposted by Doug FisherGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 22/08/2026There is a broad and durable political coalition in Canada to stand up to Trump. The political coalition for hammering Canada with tariffs in the US is basically confined to a few Twitter posters. 221917212 0
Reposted by Doug FisherKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026JUST IN: Judge Talwani chides the Trump admin and Postal Service for publishing a final rule restricting mail-in ballots late Friday night, even though it can't take effect because of two court orders. She says it'll cause confusion and may enjoin it. 201109403 0
Reposted by Doug FisherNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026GOP STRATEGISTS: We’re going to attack the hell out of this El Sayed guy, Michigan Senate is winnable for us. TRUMP: What if I crush Michigan businesses, especially the auto industry, just before the election? 19786128 0