Reposted by salt lake super soakerCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the IRS is so badly funded that the most recent time we actually measured tax evasion was 2016 btw this should be a yearly report! but instead the sum of all federal knowledge regarding the tax gap is like five spreadsheets where half the numbers are derived from decades-old figures 329651
Reposted by salt lake super soakerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19370131098
Reposted by salt lake super soakermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412716722
Reposted by salt lake super soakerSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026talking with "good faith" conservatives about policy is incredibly frustrating because you eventually figure out that the basis for their beliefs is a combination of easily disprovable factual assertions that act as window dressing for unshakable reactionary gut feelings 922930
salt lake super soaker @frijolescharros.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw the wife of my PoS state rep (Jordan Teuscher) take their dog across the street, where it promptly peed on the leg of a werewolf decoration belonging to their neighbor. I just had to wonder what the hell she thought the dog would do when it circled behind the werewolf. 000
Reposted by salt lake super soakerRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026This corruption must be investigated. 899160156247
Reposted by salt lake super soakerJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1253240511
Reposted by salt lake super soakerMike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 28/09/2026It was never about arresting “the worst of the worst.”forbes.comTrump Officials Now Restricting All Legal Immigration CategoriesRecent immigration policies of the Trump administration affect American citizens sponsoring family members and employers seeking workers as the economy has slowed down. 18345170
Reposted by salt lake super soakerRob Ware @robware.bsky.social · 25/09/2026From now until Nov 1, I will be a 2317
Reposted by salt lake super soakerRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141911740
Reposted by salt lake super soakerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21088183854
Reposted by salt lake super soakerZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract. 671265549
salt lake super soaker @frijolescharros.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They put all the butter on my garlic bread 000
Reposted by salt lake super soakerWill Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and… 1637689
Reposted by salt lake super soakerCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lysenkoism lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...nytimes.comWhite House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants 32366115
salt lake super soaker @frijolescharros.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Christ almighty why is it so hard to make Python scripts run on a server 001
Reposted by salt lake super soakerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷♂️🤦♂️ 17514160
Reposted by salt lake super soakerAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I refuse to learn what you people are talking about 2335636
Reposted by salt lake super soakercredenza @credenzamostro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026my friend has been saying this for years 28229
Reposted by salt lake super soakerworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026whatcha thinkin? 5812424355
Reposted by salt lake super soakerRichard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026quite something this paragraph. 631138522
Reposted by salt lake super soakerbeloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026 5463121644
Reposted by salt lake super soakerKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time 121895586
Reposted by salt lake super soakermerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 04/09/2026odysseus when there's a bunch of sexy gremlins singing on the wing of the plane 41363145
Reposted by salt lake super soakerThe Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 04/09/2026HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-ca…notus.orgHHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, EDOfficials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise. 1861364815
Reposted by salt lake super soakerJonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is a fantastic, succinct explanation of a phenomenon I was trying to articulate earlier: business and political elites acting against their obvious interests in favor of loyalty to Trump at all costs. It's about the freedom from consequences that MAGA purports to offer the wealthy and powerful. 2328
Reposted by salt lake super soakerMicah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it 202650684
Reposted by salt lake super soakerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895814675
Reposted by salt lake super soakerrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026one fascinating thing is the conservative movement's total replacement of virtue with vice 551093138
Reposted by salt lake super soakerErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA. 8287186
salt lake super soaker @frijolescharros.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It’s bullshit that bread not only has calories, but a lot of them 000
Reposted by salt lake super soakerrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026i think that we can raze the Republican party to the ground using the power of the state and if that risks a Napoleon, i'd rather my dictator than theirs 1363864
salt lake super soaker @frijolescharros.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Shit like this is how we can know that Democrats in Congress don’t have the cran to defeat maga 020
Reposted by salt lake super soakerJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE. 69492315069
Reposted by salt lake super soakerCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." 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. 14126911263
Reposted by salt lake super soakerAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely 8140391599
salt lake super soaker @frijolescharros.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sometimes I’m tempted to say that we shouldn’t judge people support Trump so harshly because their information diet likely doesn’t include very much that’s critical of him but then there are things like this where maybe we can excuse ignorance but these people are moral degenerates too 000
Reposted by salt lake super soakerSteve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026U.S. debt surpassed 100% of GDP this year and is on track to reach 188% over the next 30 years, according to new analysis by @bbkogan.bsky.social and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social. They find the debt would instead be trending down toward 48%, were it not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts. 14206123
Reposted by salt lake super soakerpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"Meow Fuji" by Lim Heng Swee 1549129
Reposted by salt lake super soakerRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Everyone should pay higher prices so we can keep building the world’s worst and least sustainable vehicles right here in America 1652744
Reposted by salt lake super soakerJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Yeah. It remains a sustained multipronged attack on the republic; that much of it is failing and will fail still leaves democracy, and the nation, weaker - and every bit matters and we don't know the extent to which it will succeed. 410725
Reposted by salt lake super soakerslop enjoyer @slop.guru · 24/08/2026when i say i need a new job this is what i mean 429536
Reposted by salt lake super soakerMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i simply do not believe things will get better in this country so long as the supposed alternative to the fascist white supremacy party is run by losers like chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries 261196190
Reposted by salt lake super soakerJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026We were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comThe Trump Intervention That Got the DOJ Off Live Nation’s BackAntitrust case started out aiming to force the concert giant to sell Ticketmaster. After two White House meetings, a deal kept the company intact. 15966308
Reposted by salt lake super soakerKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on. 7166881358
Reposted by salt lake super soakerDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026Did you catch that the Trumpies want to permanently end appliance efficiency standards? They have saved US consumers billions of dollars over the years, but they are a mild inconvenience to the makers of less efficient appliances, so.utilitydive.comDOE wants to ‘permanently end’ appliance efficiency requirementsA proposed rule would create an “obstacle course of restrictions” bogging down the Department of Energy’s appliance efficiency program, a consumer advocate said. 481248446
Reposted by salt lake super soakerPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism 7380451679