Reposted by Jay TalermanRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12hFox News keeps trying to make Michigan congressional candidate Abdul El-Sayed sound scary, but everything he says just keeps making sense. 23470241984
Reposted by Jay TalermanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off. 1617121084046
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In every other court of equitable jurisdiction, a balance of the harms is a bedrock requirement when injunctions are weighed. But not these 6 heartless hacks. 001
Reposted by Jay TalermanDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026hey look the bros are ok with universal healthcare now 2423200484
Reposted by Jay TalermanUSMC Vet M-3-7/MarineBarracks, NAS Alameda 🇺🇦 @usmarinevet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social This "Who are you with?" shit has to stop. "Who are you with?" "The United States of America, sir. Who are you with?" The first journalist to do this should get our nation's most prestigious journalism award. 14581108
Reposted by Jay TalermanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."publicnotice.coModerate Democrats have a choice to makeDo they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left? 2442476628
Reposted by Jay TalermanMaine Center for Economic Policy @mecep.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Last year four Maine hospitals were identified as at risk of closing due to HR 1. If these hospitals closed, Aroostook County would lose $113.6 million in wages, Hancock County $55.3 million, and Washington County $15.8 million. #mepolitics www.mecep.org/blog/medicai...mecep.orgMedicaid cuts put rural hospitals and economies at risk - MECEPIf these hospitals closed, Aroostook County would lose $113.6 million in wages, Hancock County $55.3 million, and Washington County $15.8 million. 14302139
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Maybe I was in a coma for 4 years but I don’t recall Biden using, let alone depleting, any of our critical stockpiles of munitions. 110
Reposted by Jay TalermanMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It. 477174304909
Reposted by Jay TalermanThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026REP. @aoc.bsky.social to @pabloreports.bsky.social on Trump’s upcoming election lies speech: “I don’t think we should be contributing to any platforming of lies about our election that aren’t based in evidence.” 491800466
Reposted by Jay TalermanQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 30/06/20262 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble 151707432
Reposted by Jay TalermanGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago. 9427461010
Reposted by Jay TalermanThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/06/2026Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him | Representative Ilhan Omartheguardian.comTrump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him | Representative Ilhan OmarTrump and Republicans are not interested in combatting fraud and corruption. They are interested in ransacking the public good for their own profit 430752
Reposted by Jay TalermanRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Not only is this $300B of our money to reopen a shipping lane that was already wide open for free but the entire SNAP budget is $100B/year and I was told we couldn’t afford to feed American children fruits and vegetables 281341529
Reposted by Jay TalermanRep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 30/05/2026There is no world in which this is okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵notus.orgSamuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury DepartmentPhilip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department. 27754292217
Reposted by Jay TalermanJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us. He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan! I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. 34067591720
Reposted by Jay TalermanGovernor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 27/05/2026BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.” 20661471230
Reposted by Jay TalermanThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/05/2026To end the war with Iran, “Trump had to choose between a bad option and a worse one, and it seems like, even though we don’t know what will happen in any deal, or if there will even be one, that he has chosen the very bad one,” a Middle East expert said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/FiMWWo 26016
Reposted by Jay TalermanRep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for familyFlorida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say 39351162717
Reposted by Jay TalermanKatherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 21/05/2026BREAKING: House Republicans just pulled the vote on our War Powers Resolution — because they knew it would pass. The GOP doesn’t care about your skyrocketing costs for gas, groceries, and everything else. They only care about appeasing Trump. 1221184
Reposted by Jay TalermanThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/05/2026Prices for groceries spiked in April, according to newly released data, while broader inflation reached its highest level in nearly three years. The effects of the war in Iran are starting to show up in supermarkets. Here's how:washingtonpost.comPrices for these grocery items have spiked highest since the war beganThe effects of the war in Iran are starting to show up in grocery stores. 43219
Reposted by Jay TalermanBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026If you're in power in NJ, NY, MD, CO, IL, WA, OR, wake the fuck up and announce steps to redraw the maps so that Democrats are not drawn out of power forever. 481112234
Reposted by Jay TalermanPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgPushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to SingaporeShirley Meng explains why her passion for decarbonizing the global economy required her to relocate 681591738
Reposted by Jay TalermanAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one. 303126124011
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026With no due respect, this MF doesn’t get to tell us who we can criticize and I can point him to a source for that conclusion. 000
Reposted by Jay TalermanMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/05/2026At this point, I think he is just trolling us. 2053239705224
Reposted by Jay TalermanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026"To paraphrase Nathan Hale, I only regret that we have but one seat to take from the Democrats." This is what Democrats are facing. Any Dem who favors bipartisanship over maximalist opposition is either lost and worthy of replacement or a Republican sympathizer. 611719389
Reposted by Jay TalermanMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Which is the backwards country now, United States? 999313548718
Reposted by Jay TalermanGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory. 244084962
Reposted by Jay TalermanJaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 01/05/2026You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block. 461937701
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Justice Alito to white GOP state legislatures: “just don’t get caught” 000
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026So, in other words, only if white GOP state legislators are stupid enough to “show their math” will the Voting Right Act apply but if they wink their way through racist gerrymandering, it’s cool. Also Roberts is a p.o.s. 000
Reposted by Jay TalermanGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/04/2026We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.apnews.comLive updates: Supreme Court ruling weakens a key tool of the Voting Rights ActThe Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting since 1965. The case concerns a district in Louisiana. 1083068928
Reposted by Jay TalermanKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer. 1409110161768
Reposted by Jay TalermanMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/04/2026For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself. Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz 639125912848
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026To be absolutely clear, the DOJ is literally doing the bidding of white supremacists against one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights organizations. 010
Reposted by Jay TalermanArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Jim McGovern continues to go off: "This farm bill is a disaster. It's awful. It's terrible. It's beyond words. It's a giveaway to Big Ag and chemical companies. There's actually liability protection in this bill for people who make pesticides. Like, who thinks like that?!" Keep cooking, Jim! 🔥 271851575
Reposted by Jay TalermanWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...thedailybeast.comChief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: ReportAt least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts. 50396244178
Reposted by Jay TalermanThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Yikes — “Military advisers intentionally excluded Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes extraction of a downed American airman in Iran, fearing his erratic temper would jeopardize the mission, WSJ reported…” www.jpost.com/internationa... 851493482
Reposted by Jay TalermanClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 15941871380
Reposted by Jay TalermanMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/04/2026Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service 64147771757
Jay Talerman @jtalerman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I long for the good old days when we had a pro nuclear weapon Pope. They don’t make em like they used to. 000
Reposted by Jay TalermanAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby. 927152575105
Reposted by Jay TalermanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Two days before Hungary’s election, Trump pledges to buy votes for Viktor Orban with US taxpayer dollars. 72052142002