Reposted by idealist_meThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Couldn’t make it up if we tried 48369081776
Reposted by idealist_meChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/08/2026A SLAP IN THE FACE. Trump wasn’t concerned about sailors aboard the USS Lincoln being pushed to the breaking point. He denied their suffering. Now the Navy might replace Black war hero Doris “Dorie” Miller’s name on a carrier with Trump’s. Trump wants the honor without honoring those who serve. 2152035812
Reposted by idealist_meHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The number of US service members reported wounded or killed in the Iran war has jumped to 774, after the Pentagon added scores of new troops to the wounded list in the last few days. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comMore than 750 U.S. service members wounded in Iran warThe numbers in the Pentagon report increased as the conflict nears six months. 70800451
Reposted by idealist_meMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026As a lawyer, I spend my days fighting for democracy in court. But as the founder of Democracy Docket it's my job to explain what is happening in the elections to everyone. That is why I am excited to do this AMA at 10 a.m. ET on Aug. 25. www.reddit.com/r/DemocracyD...reddit.comFrom the DemocracyDocket community on RedditExplore this post and more from the DemocracyDocket community 231863588
Reposted by idealist_meMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026NEW: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals tossed a Republican lawsuit challenging Nevada’s grace period for late mail ballots Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.com9th Circuit junks GOP lawsuit challenging Nevada’s mail ballot grace period"By their own admission, Plaintiffs have not suffered any ‘actual or threatened injury,’" the court held. 131532420
Reposted by idealist_meMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A federal appeals court ruled that an acting U.S. attorney in New York was serving illegally when he issued subpoenas to New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comActing U.S. attorney was serving illegally when he subpoenaed Letitia James, appeals court rulesAs a result, Sarcone’s 2025 investigations into one of Trump’s biggest foes, James, cannot move forward. The subpoenas had sought information about James’ case against Trump as well as a separate case... 10433891151
Reposted by idealist_meMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026My latest: The truth is irrelevant to Trump. He wants to sow doubt about our elections, wipe a loss from his record, and find an excuse to insist on new voting restrictions — including the stalled SAVE America Act. newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-week-rep...newsletters.democracydocket.comThe week Republicans went after voters who live abroad 241046388
Reposted by idealist_meMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Late tonight, the USPS caved to Trump. How bad is its legal reasoning Here is a sample: "Although ballot mail does not present precisely the same operational issues as cremated remains or replica explosives, it is unquestionably sensitive mail that raises unique operational considerations." 1562003821
Reposted by idealist_meMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2026BREAKING: Canadian PM Mark Carney suspends all trade negotiations with the U.S. after “unfair, uneconomic” last-minute changes to the deal. At midnight the U.S. will implement a 50% tariff on ~$28 billion of Canadian goods, and now, Canada will match it dollar-for-dollar. 1213152454351
Reposted by idealist_meGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/08/2026In all seriousness, that's a thousand times more interpretable as a threat against the current president than was “86 47.” 1423657639
Reposted by idealist_meAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/08/2026Remember that episode of the West Wing where there was a threat of mad cow disease because the republicans killed regulation of the feed? 742419489
Reposted by idealist_meMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Canada hits back at the US over tariffs after Prime Minister Mark Carney said "last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal".bbc.co.ukCanada says it will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break downA new 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks. 1351865470
Reposted by idealist_meMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026NEWS: Moscow’s skies lit up overnight as Ukraine launched a massive drone attack, reportedly involving more than 620 drones. Explosions rocked the region, all four major Moscow airports were shut down, and a major logistics facility went up in flames. Watch the stunning footage: 722167553
Reposted by idealist_meChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/08/2026No wonder this war is nowhere near ending. Iran is laughing at Trump’s constant buffoonery. 42544166
Reposted by idealist_me𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/08/2026One Ossoff joke produced more coordinated deployment than most NATO exercises. 3552879675
Reposted by idealist_meGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Seriously, this shows where the Administration’s priorities lie …. 3424467922
Reposted by idealist_meVivaHerAlliance @vivaheralliance.bsky.social · 18/08/2026One state stood between women and ratification of the 19th Amendment. Tennessee became that decisive 36th state in 1920, after years of organizing by suffragists including Anne Dallas Dudley. History can turn on persistence. What are we still being asked to persist for? #VivaHerAlliance 57457
Reposted by idealist_meRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities. 429108535458
Reposted by idealist_meDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles. 46345592307
Reposted by idealist_meAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026When people first asked, what’s the harm in electing Trump Well-this is what happens when you elect an incompetent criminal; who nominates an evil, lying sleazy grifter like RFK, Jr for HHS Secretary; who is confirmed by a bootlicking Senator from Louisiana Children ultimately die That’s the harm 36715338
Reposted by idealist_meAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026LOL Hegseth couldn’t get elected as mayor of hometown of Forest Lake, MN, and Forest Lake is 60 percent Trump voters 4303866609
Reposted by idealist_meAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Stepien: Ossoff should apologize because it was below the belt. Boykin: You worked for Donald Trump. How could you say anything is below the belt when you work for Donald Trump in the White House? For you to come here and have this fake outrage… 53070201461
Reposted by idealist_meWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hey, genius Democratic moderates who LOVE Ossoff, maybe take a cue from him. He spent his time ATTACKING Trump instead of progressives or those to his left. Just a thought. Again, he's your "moderate" King. Follow his lead. (I like Ossoff, btw) 1132437434
Reposted by idealist_meBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I think polio is bad and the vaccine for it is good. 36010512950
Reposted by idealist_meThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026HUNTER BIDEN ON UNIVISION: “Trump is objectively the worst president ever… a complete abomination, the antithesis of everything I believe about 🇺🇸. He’s blown through every rule of law, made us less safe. Nothing out of his mouth can be trusted.” (From @marco.foster) 651813461
Reposted by idealist_meChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/08/2026I’d feel extremely safe on this flight because I already know they had to work twice as hard, be twice as good and make half as many mistakes just to get into those seats. Black women make up less than 1% of professional pilots. Yeah, I’d sleep good on this flight. ✈️ 427149612873
Reposted by idealist_meAnonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A federal judge just ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell’s Epstein grand jury records must be made public, rejecting every objection she raised. Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act overrides grand jury secrecy rules. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/maxwell-lose... 321702641
Reposted by idealist_meChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/08/2026Trump is a madman. Threatening to bomb Oman while bending over backwards to help out North Korea. He’s going to get us all killed. 1351671579
Reposted by idealist_meBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Nothing so far has triggered these guys like Jon Ossoff bringing up Natalie Harp. Keep it in the headlines. 35830197
Reposted by idealist_meChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/08/2026Is Natalie Harp writing his 4am Truth social posts too? 94957772546
Reposted by idealist_meAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026Ossoff: "The president, surrounded by enablers in the West Wing, is playing golf, trading stock, & decorating his ballroom. It is a disgrace. All while American families in Georgia and across the country pay more for just about everything as a direct result of his failed economic and foreign policy" 15470231873
Reposted by idealist_meHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.” 2442126183971
Reposted by idealist_meJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Even in the Trump era it somehow seems unreal that this dimwitted crackpot is the top public health official for a nation of 350 million people. 91345336
Reposted by idealist_meMeidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026TYVM @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social 🦋 @bigspider.bsky.social @ps9714.bsky.social @billkane0812.bsky.social @willawendis.bsky.social @mariu2.bsky.social @frida3rdact.bsky.social @idealistme.bsky.social @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social #WeThePeople #StopTrump #ImpeachConvictRemove #GTS 295
Reposted by idealist_meScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026NEW: Trump vanity projects are getting jammed up by wave of new challenges Widening investigations of the conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln Very tough headline for Trump & GOP in Michigan newspapers this AM Lots of enterprise reporting in DAY AHEAD: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-... 13422131
Reposted by idealist_meJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust. 6647030924
Reposted by idealist_meshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the woman in question sent literal love letters to trump (one of which said “you’re all that matters to me”) so they can fold up those fucking fainting couches 551588291
Reposted by idealist_medc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Vote to make this happen. 1944208464678
Reposted by idealist_meOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I simply do not understand the mentality of people who prefer oil and gas and "drill baby drill" to the cost of the Earth and our pockets... to those of us who want clean, cheap, renewable energy. How brainwashed by big oil and its (often) paid advocates do you have to be? How gullible. 70393742048
Reposted by idealist_meAida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Pure insanity! #Pinks #USDemocracy 36558269
Reposted by idealist_meFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My cat has 2 lap settings: 1. You attempted to lift your leg, but I am the weight of 10,000 dying suns, & I will not be disturbed. You will perish here. 2. You moved your ankle 1/10000th of an inch. I am leaving immediately. You've offended not only me but my ancestors. 2167467730
Reposted by idealist_meMeidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"He has failed us. Not only is he a failure as President, he is flagrantly violating the Constitution, breaking the law, engaged in ramping corruption and is killing Americans. That is unacceptable to me. And it should be unacceptable to all of us!" Major Watson last night on CNN with Erin Burnett!cnn.comAirman arrested after protesting Trump in uniform speaks out: Trump ‘has failed us’ | CNN PoliticsIn a CNN exclusive, the airman who was arrested last month on the steps of the U.S. Capitol after calling for President Trump and Vice President Vance’s impeachment and removal from office over the wa... 29621304
Reposted by idealist_meCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“.. The reservoir is now about 30 feet away from the point at which turbines would stop producing hydroelectric power.” #WaterCrisis www.bostonherald.com/2026/08/17/l... 52820378
Reposted by idealist_meMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Honestly this is the right way to look at things 14399252009
Reposted by idealist_meAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms." 518242076097
Reposted by idealist_meChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/08/2026The timing… Congress blocked enforcement of a food-safety rule designed to help the FDA quickly trace contaminated food back to its source. Until July 2028. 1421358900
