Reposted by GreylaceDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 17hOh man you know he fucked up when the committee staff starts leaking. 1118441
Reposted by GreylaceAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for. 652102415
Reposted by GreylaceSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do you find ever yourself driving by a gas station, looking at the price and thinking "I wish there was some way that I could come here to fill up more often?" If so, you'll love Trump's roll back of national fuel economy standards. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comTrump administration lowers fuel economy standards, critics say at a significant environmental costThe Trump administration released new fuel economy standards on Monday, relaxing regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. 26120
Reposted by GreylaceOhio Action @ohio50501.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Don't forget the deadline to register to vote in Ohio for the midterms is Oct 5! 022
Reposted by GreylaceSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly 241627449
Reposted by GreylaceSnowden St. @snowden.st · 30/09/2026Imagine a US politician saying "After decades of lies, millions of Americans experienced for the first time what real regime change and equality before the law really mean. America is finally not a country without consequences." It seems impossible. 1315
Reposted by GreylaceChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 829194376125
Reposted by GreylaceMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 44366951828
Reposted by GreylacePatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🧵: something really fascinating (to a petroleum analyst) happened today, quietly, but very important: FERC just approved Buckeye's Laurel Pipeline Phase 3, clearing Midwest refiners to ship gasoline and diesel east into eastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. service starts now. 12910
Reposted by GreylaceSuriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chernobyl power plant admin: "Our reactor took actions we did not intend" 116041
Reposted by GreylaceOrin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Debates over legal liability for AI agents always remind me a bit of the early spring gun cases, like Bird v. Holbrook, 30 E.R. 911 (C.P. 1828). AI is new in a lot of ways, but the issue of legal liability for harms conducted by machines programmed to act on their own is not the new part. 4436
Reposted by GreylaceSenate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully. 44964701639
Reposted by GreylaceDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes. 1262791541
Reposted by GreylaceHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026When your big gotcha moment goes so epically wrong that it’s the other party sharing clips of it. 12673117
Reposted by GreylaceHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5441001107
Reposted by GreylaceSenator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes! 2509252156225
Reposted by GreylaceDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment. 10463901551
Reposted by GreylaceKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message." 13349011037
Reposted by GreylaceJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As someone who was born in Missouri I need to say not everyone born in the state is a roadkill bumblefuck like this clown. Or not most. Or at least a large plurality. 4141153
Reposted by GreylaceStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's not something I feel like doing myself, but it would be really cool to break down total water rights in California by partisanship of the owners. It might really shift perspectives to learn that we're turning our state into a desert when 70% of acre-feet are owned by Republicans. 63311
Reposted by Greylaceevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001922992
Reposted by GreylaceRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals. 18024551058
Reposted by GreylaceDoug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nobody writes stuff like this about Red America’s refusal to engage with Blue America’s culture 1336
Reposted by GreylaceRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day. 742103713423
Reposted by GreylaceThe Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Republicans say government doesn’t work, then they get elected and prove it.” —P.J. O’Rourke 0181
Reposted by GreylaceJ.J. @jdotj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If this is true, the lesson is “don’t hire woefully unqualified people in positions of power” and honestly, who could have known that would be the case? 2261
Reposted by GreylaceBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins 4559311099
Reposted by GreylaceDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More and more people are saying that Republican electeds should have to contend with a rebuttable presumption of criminality 🫡 012814
Reposted by GreylaceGoldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.seattletimes.comSeattle announces 2027 minimum wageThe minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year. 10038701148
Reposted by GreylaceThe Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I really would love it if Democrats would spend more time saying “if Trump tells you to do a crime it is still a crime and we will do our best to have you punished for it” 810132
Reposted by GreylaceAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026heartening that a Democrat finally claimed the lane of “what if I just explain in plain English what the current administration is doing” 1237
Reposted by GreylaceKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752381422
Reposted by GreylaceJoe Flood @joeflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Reflecting Pool is still broken 3218040
Reposted by GreylaceDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We desperately need a truth and reconciliation commission. It’s not simply about accountability, which may be stymied by Trump pardons. It’s about fully understanding and processing how far we fell as a nation, accepting that we put our faith in the wrong people, and knowing to never do it again. 512946
Reposted by GreylaceJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them 201259227
Reposted by GreylaceAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/09/2026Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream 2297
Reposted by GreylaceRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1271185696048
Reposted by GreylaceJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc... 2253394831
Reposted by Greylace@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 342498772
Reposted by GreylaceMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363577830
Reposted by GreylaceAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For the Texans out there - vote Talarico if you want to change the 30 years of decline in your state 256138123832
Reposted by GreylaceAnna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's a Make America White Again operation. On page 98 of the Reconstruction Papers begins my essay about what basic immigration reform would look like if Dems win. Why is deportation/incarceration the default? Why not fines or community service for peeps to get their immigration papers right?liberalcurrents.comThe PDF of The Reconstruction Papers Is Now Free to the PublicIf you've been waiting to read The Reconstruction Papers, wait no longer. 39030
Reposted by GreylaceHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't know who this unhinged antichrist-on-skates routine is supposed to appeal to, and I don't think the WH does either. 1236
Reposted by GreylaceGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult… 231526257
Reposted by GreylaceJulie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If Trump regrets excluding major news organizations and wants them back, they're in a position to make further demands before they return. One non-negotiable should be that he speaks to reporters, particularly Black women, with professionalism and respect. No name-calling or they walk. Every time. 0197
Reposted by GreylaceGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...newrepublic.comTrump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ HeelTrump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works. 792239641
Reposted by GreylaceAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie 3193123622625
Reposted by GreylaceDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026I know there's a lot going on in the world, but someone yelled "You're a fucking pedophile!" at Trump during this President's Cup presentation and I wanted to make sure you got to enjoy it 68216