Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 3hReally pathetic how major news organizations still fall for Trump’s bullshit. 312126
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3hTrump on the midterms: "We're going to elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate, stop the Dumocrats and the communists and we're gonna do a number like nobody has ever seen. They have a big surprise coming." 9537077
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4hToday in U.S. foreign policy: Attacking the ICC, human rights and the rule of law in the world and committing to send billions to the world's leading war criminal to help him support his vicious aggression against his democratic neighbor. Not an exaggeration. 914351
jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 3hAnd the NY Times yawns... bsky.app/profile/jimt... 010
jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 3hRare kudos to @washingtonpost.com for putting the Trump-Putin diesel story on the top of their paper and framing it accurately in the subheader. Compare that to @nytimes.com making it the 13th story down and framing it as a nothingburger. @nytimes.com is bad for democracy and has been for decades. 000
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 9hWaPo for some reason didn't provide an AI summary of the reader comments in response to their editorial urging the passage of a bill that some call a fossil-fuel wish-list. So allow me! Those Post readers are sharp! wapo.st/4B2wrDS 13012
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 8hY'all have persuaded me. TRUMP DOES NOT KNOW WHERE IRAN IS. 1369
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 18h“That’s the problem, Mike. It’s not just that you hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” Ossoff said. “It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...talkingpointsmemo.comSomehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate DebateRep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won... 11991182
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.social4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 5hEvery bit of this 👇 6135811134
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMiaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 14hInvestigate this Horror now☠️ 56139901586
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5hOssoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it. 291850350
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 8hgoing from defending ukraine against russia’s unprovoked war of aggression to directly funding the russian war machine what an abject disgrace 21603121
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate 24077291858
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15hI like it and I'd like more of it 13495981629
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialWilliamHaugh @williamhaugh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026static.klipy.comStarving Alien Creature Close-UpALT: Starving Alien Creature Close-Up 44687282871
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14hAgain, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy. 241428436
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 9hProblems on the farm (not Ai ) 2383394547
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7hZelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine. 944102113803
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hMarkwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball as he takes questions about the latest ICE shooting 118370041736
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9hThis is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country. 1707123954435
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9hThis is as treasonous as it gets 1179113334298
jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 14hThis is the first I've heard of Liberal Currents and just signed up! Looking forward to receiving The Reconstruction Papers. 110
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 08/10/2026If you're in the US and haven't yet ordered a copy of The Reconstruction Papers, you really ought to do so as the last of our inventory starts to go buy.stripe.com/7sY28s9AJd79... 35519
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialJohn Pettus @johngpettus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I just found this and it's literally something I had been daydreaming someone would do. A series of well thought out ideas for what we need to to do return to liberal democracy and the rule of law. ~150 pages of essays. Free PDF, or they'll print and send it to you. 1418
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialShibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu’s military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career! www.timesofisrael.com/pms-ex-milit...timesofisrael.comPM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ livesIn bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM's chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe 7247127
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 17hIf people really want to see live executions they should just follow ICE agents around. 441811473
jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 15hThat's good stuff from @nytimes.com but it makes me wonder why they refuse to contextualize their reporting of other domestic issues 90+% of the time. It's not like Trump and his administration haven't done things beyond the pale on the regular while the Times simply reported it at face value. 260
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15hThere’s a right way and there’s a wrong way to report on Trumpian extremism. Right way: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u... Wrong way: wapo.st/4yElwyB 1519162
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23hThe people who told you that Democrats must Only Talk about Kitchen Table Issues and not the Authoritarianism were deeply unserious (not least because this is a false dichotomy) & we should benchmark this when they give advice now & in 2028. 1431275
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialCannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Future of Democracy” being second only to The Economy on the list of voters’ most important issues in the election is encouraging 512126
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6236611337
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23hYour now-regular reminder that adding a few seats to SCOTUS is the <baseline moderate> position now. Other, more serious positions also remain available: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 38321
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAvishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 21hRemember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism? 838578
jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 15hNot so sure? The entire world knows we lost that war long ago, no matter how or when we pull our military from the region. Typical DC candyass pundit. 030
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 19hHISTORIC HEAT IN CONGO 37.2C at Brazzaville yesterday HOTTEST OCTOBER DAY IN CONGO HISTORY The Congo has been destroying records every month of 2026 and which were all set in 2025. Absolute insanity 03720
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 16hMamdani is 💯 right. You’ve got guys dressed up as construction workers wearing masks, and you have no idea if they’re a federal agent or just a violent thug. THIS FUCKER OPENED FIRE INTO A CAR WITH A FIVE-YEAR-OLD KID IN IT! ICE needs to get the fuck out of New York City and never come back 19343130
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16hThe Navy sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have been reunited after a record breaking deployment. I was proud to expose much of the horrors they faced on board, and because of you, we got them home. This is the power of independent media. Support this work: aaronparnas.substack.com 4561102
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Epstein Survivor Dani Bensky Is Spot On....... 19396793175
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ah, I think, at last The Times is waking up to authoritarianism's arrival in America. No, this is about Uganda. 29417
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 406171574547
jimtragos.bsky.social @jimtragos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Always reveling in their lowest selves. And the MAGA base is absolutely energized by it. 000
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Republicans are barbarians. 6240084
Reposted by @jimtragos.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He makes a good point. 451264985708