johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 8hopen.substack.com/pub/michaeld...open.substack.comTrump Rejects International Election Monitors, Doubles Down on His Own Fed Monitors. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?With less than four weeks remaining before the midterm elections, the Trump administration is making two significant changes to the way American elections are monitored. 000
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 17242491611
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Check out this amazing story (to me, anyway) of a 1000-mile-long cloud that consistently forms and disappears on #Mars. As a climate and water scientist, this fascinates me. www.livescience.com/space/mars/1...livescience.com1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on EarthNew simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process. 47918
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex BillText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 29890276
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 35554141
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hmmm. But do either have the will to do anything. 000
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026DNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...nbcnews.comDNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV adsTrump announced this week that he and his PAC, MAGA Inc., would pay for the ads moving forward following bipartisan criticism. 072
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Student protest unrest spreads across Europe www.axios.com/2026/10/07/e...axios.comStudent protest unrest spreads across EuropeThousands have been arrested in France's student protests and over 130 in Belgium, as education unrest echoes across Europe. 042
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Breathing room? No, what working people really want are good wages, world class affordable Healthcare, world class affordable education and means to retire without having to live from check to check. 000
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026JW-"Imagine a bathtub with a huge drain. It’s draining 12 gallons a minute, which is enough to fill (and refill) a kitchen trash can. The G7 arrives, heroically, to refill the tub. To do it, they bring a single jug of milk that isn’t even full." 000
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialBrad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Journalists who do not count the zeroes and compare them to the proper magnitudes are not bystanders or generalists, but accomplices in the disinformation bullshit machine. The release is one day of world output and one-fifteenth of the total Hormuz-closure gap over the four-month period of... 1/braddelong.substack.comCROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier AgreementJustin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable... 22412
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unremarkable that the average American doesn't care. Most still throw their lunch trash out their car window. 010
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026And this is why she should have stayed in jail www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comElection deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machinesThe problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution. 18472112
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026-symptoms may come on suddenly. -The earlier a person receives treatment, the better their outlook. - According to the WHO, pneumonic plague can be fatal within 18 to 24 hours without treatment. What could possibly go wrong.... What would ratfink jr do. 000
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/10/2026The world needs to shut down travel to and from Russia until we get honest answers about this plague. The broken vial story makes no sense…. Unless they have absolutely no safety protocols in which case this is even worse 1412268547
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026FOX NEWS: "LA LA LA LA LA LA WE CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!" 961450
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialLA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 06/10/2026REPORTER: Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it's fraud? TRUMP: I'd rather have them vote in person, but they can vote by mail. But there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail. REPORTER: There's no evidence. TRUMP: You are fake news. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed 8177108
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialKayla Calkin @kaylacalkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest." truthout.org/articles/tru...truthout.orgTrump’s Repeal of Roadless Rule Would Declare Open Season on Protected ForestsA public policy expert described the move as “the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”… 3155
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/ 461196554721
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A fun detail: Poirot repeatedly describes the Macho Jesus his leetle grey cells dreamed up as like a “Mustang.” You might think this is merely weird and homoerotic, but it’s actually linked to a bit of misinformation evangelicals like to use to retcon Jesus as a high-T alpha male. 2132992
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And of course "FOX NEWS" 😆 Shouldn't I be reading this while waiting to check out my groceries? 010
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026BREAKING: We're asking the DOJ & Interior IGs to investigate Davey Hearn's prosecution They botched a $14M pool job & pinned it on an innocent citizen The judge said they shot first & asked questions later. @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe & WLG have questions of our own👇 -TN 11159991720
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?" 18646061481
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.social@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u... 46925
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialDyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞. 350130612215
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/20262026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour 191159872907
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialPeter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The American.Gov chatbot knows stuff. 371
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Beloved until they started putting them in cars, tractors and lawnmowers 010
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialRoger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol 6237124
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.washingtonpost.comMLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National ParkAfter The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition. 1292365427
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028 131500252
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it 1545107042162
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialThe Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell #BrucePlante 10602226
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's a shame, but the village idiots got their idiot supreme. 000
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...washingtonpost.comThe Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over 37255372527
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialAndy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well, now we know what it takes to get Trump to go from criticizing your university to calling it “a fine school.”independent.co.ukTrump calls Cornell ‘a fine school’ as he breaks silence on alleged gang rape caseThe president was asked whether the Ivy League school had ‘done enough to investigate’ the alleged sexual abuse 111145
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026The Pentagon office will “sponsor and oversee research, technology, and analytical tools to support and assess spiritual fitness, spiritual readiness, and spiritual resilience.”motherjones.comWhat to know about Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs“Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God.” 8213352
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ahhh. Here comes the " spiritual koolaide" part 010
johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Felons should be banned from any political action. 010
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Exactly 😤😡 496213145986
Reposted by @johns61.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just adds another level to the story of Trump's illegal ads that he stole the money from what is purportedly his top policy priority (immigration enforcement) to run his tax payer funded campaign ads. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comTrump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems sayCongressional Democrats said the White House used $20 million for the ad campaign from funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 919769