Reposted by Eagles Fan 518MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them... 7825701106
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. OSHA fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals. Let's talk how companies forced women to be sterilized in the 70s! 48454
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye 231053209
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Here's my obituary of Jim Bakker, religious grifter scumbag. Let me provide a few highlights too. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-ca...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comA Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyJim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86. Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C... 1828096
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853502189
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss. 201459207
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.socialmotherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 14802352
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The death of the Professor Watchlist makes me happy, as I was on it. Fuck fascists. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...nbcwashington.comTurning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impact“I received several death threats.” Two D.C.-area college instructors who appeared on the Professor Watchlist describe what it meant for their lives. 18616
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit 7448741043
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“If you just need a few stitches, an extra half-hour drive is a nuisance. If you are dealing with a stroke or heart attack, that is precious time”. The incredible @mirandayaver.bsky.social has a new piece out on the current and future impacts of looming Medicaid cuts, including hospital closures.ms.nowOpinion | The bill for Trump’s Medicaid cuts is coming due — for everyoneThough much attention has centered on the closure of rural hospitals, quieter transformations could reshape healthcare for publicly and privately insured patients alike. 20536275
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Next, a new model shows Venus could have had a moon for nearly 2 billion years – before the planet ate it. It might be hard to prove this happened, but it could explain the disappearance of the planet's oceans. www.newscientist.com/article/2587...newscientist.comVenus may have had a moon for nearly 2 billion years | New ScientistA moon may once have been consumed by Venus, after existing alongside the planet for up to 1.7 billion years 1195
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 26/08/2026White racists complaining about how woke Harvard is (from the New Orleans Times-Democrat, 1/17/1903) 225963
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The scientific breakthroughs against cancer that Trump and RFK Jr. want stopped www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comThe scientific breakthroughs against cancer that Trump and RFK Jr. want stopped - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyJonathan Cohn on the agony and the ecstasy of cancer research in 2026: This past Wednesday, Moderna and Merck announced positive results from a major clinical trial using a cancer vaccine of the kind ... 22712
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026See, ICE and Iran can work together! www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-ira...cbsnews.comICE, Iran quietly worked together on deporting Iranians to Iran, emails showU.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport more than 100 Iranians to Iran in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship between them despite tensions mounting at the... 35316
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This Day in Labor History: August 16, 1937. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to National Federation of Federal Employees head Luther Steward of his ambivalence over public sector unionism. The right has long spun this into saying that FDR was opposed but it's far more complicated!!! 13715
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Mad Max www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/mad-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comMad Max - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyThis great piece of reportage by Maureen Tkacik in the American Prospect really has to be read in full to be appreciated. One notable aspect of this story is that almost everything in it is public rec... 22712
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 04/08/2026MAHA is a eugenicist movement and you do not negotiate with eugenicists. This is a thing a high proportion of people who will tell you not to frequent the Nazi bar apparently forget when the patrons of the Nazi bar share their priors about food dyes or whatever. 338767
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The great Covid bait and switch www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comThe great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyI find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors... 1184
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 04/10/2025It has been suggested that i pin this piece, but I never actually posted it myself. So 👇 718470
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that 5642951103
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The Illegitimacy Paradigm www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/the-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comThe Illegitimacy Paradigm - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyBack during the first Trump administration, I sometimess encountered a subtype of ‘resistance’ Twitter user. I don’t have a clever name for them, but they would occasionally show up in my replies. The... 232
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/07/2026It's wild to me how many people do not understand this. "Luxury housing" is not some ontologically separate category from the rest of the housing market. Nor is "affordable housing." It's all one big fluid market & when you build more, everyone moves up & frees up the bottom end. 51955148
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This does an excellent, depressing job showing how not just the end of USAID, but the sudden abandonment of half-built projects caused particular harm to vulnerable people. In some cases, finishing them wouldn’t even have required more money. Gift: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comTrump’s Chaotic USAID Cuts Unleashed Floods, Disease and PovertyTrump’s USAID cuts halted critical infrastructure projects around the world. Our investigation in Kenya reveals devastating consequences. 04419
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Glum Rock @jimblower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Paredes congratulating the Spanish players. #SPAARG #ESPARG 131248351
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown. 953234808
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026i have seen this hundreds of times and the final animation never becomes less amusing 1353
Eagles Fan 518 @eaglesfan518.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Donald Trump is the opposite of King Midas 💩 #USMNT #WorldCup #FIFA #USA #Belgium #Soccer #Football #Trump 000
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Horse 🐴 playing with pups 744626719
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers 392623536
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 582613748
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"the Instagram algorithm isn't that good" The algorithm: 2935
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 9145161177
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026this important thread from @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social documents some of the lives lost from Musk's USAID cuts. they were here, they mattered, and we'll never get to know them because the richest man in the world decided he was happy—delighted, even—for them to die 16518
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Everybody needs to go hear Naomi Oreskes explain how Monsanto manipulated the science to obscure health concerns about Roundup — including ghost-writing papers that became touchstones in their denialism. 16398210
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs 141730725
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Why Are People So Unhappy? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/why-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comWhy are people so unhappy? - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyThis is the key political question of the age. Here’s an excerpt of an essay from the guy who ran Biden’s digital campaign in 2020 and 2024, and then Harris’s after Biden dropped out. The essay is in ... 061
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery 24283824210130
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I read about "satisficing" many years ago and adopted it. It's good enough for me! 😉 Gift link.nytimes.comOpinion | Your Decision Making Is All Wrong 2259
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 11/05/2026From @austin-horn.bsky.social , looks like one of Ed Gallrein's interns is having some cut and paste issues. Keep trying, buddy! You'll get it right eventually! 071
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I have a lot of thoughts about labor, the general strike, what's going on today, and lots of other things on May Day!!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comSo you want to organize a general strikeTrump opponents are marking May Day with walkouts, boycotts, and marches. What’s the next step? 02910
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518cablecargal.bsky.social @cablecargal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Reading “Without Precedent” by Lisa Graves about the Roberts’ Court is excellent!! 063
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Since everyone is talking about Generation Lead, here is Kevin Drum’s huge 2013 investigation that first exposed the connection to a broad audience www.motherjones.com/environment/...motherjones.comAmerica's Real Criminal Element Is LeadThe hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic. 1526592
Eagles Fan 518 @eaglesfan518.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Tomorrow's newspaper headlines should all read: "Iran Calls Trump's Bluff" #Iran #IranNegotiations #Trump #IranWar #ExecutiveIncompetent 000
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The man who hired me at the Prospect, my friend and mentor Bob Kuttner, has a new memoir out, and he has a story up about it on our site today. But the book includes some parts of his life I didn't know: prospect.org/2026/03/31/n...prospect.orgNotes for Next Time - The American ProspectWe may well survive Trump. But without a renewed commitment to broad economic possibility, we risk losing a democracy that serves the people. 1328
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Friends in immoral places www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/frie...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comFriends in immoral places - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyHere’s a representative example of the kind of person Donald Trump thinks is worthy of a pardon, given a certain level of emmolument: Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed — w... 1134
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I’ve posted about this before but regular US police kill roughly 25 dogs a day. The equivalent UK figure for *the year* is single digits. 11990190
Reposted by Eagles Fan 518Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/03/20262 points on Trump's media capture: 1. Fascists don’t need to turn all news outlets to their side. They win if major outlets are simply too weak to tell the truth about them. 2. Fascists don’t need to make you believe them. They win if they pollute the news so much that you don’t believe anything.rawstory.comCBS News faces mass layoffs after new MAGA-friendly boss warned network may be 'toast'Bari Weiss is about to swing the ax at CBS News, according to a new report.The polarizing top editor plans to lay off dozens of staffers imminently as she reshapes the storied broadcast network, Busin... 34740339
