Reposted by JustinAntigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 11hPeople don’t realize how serious the situation is. 11461120
Reposted by JustinDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11hWe are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty. 23865261
Reposted by JustinDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026Letting two-bit scammers and thugs run the government is bad. 120557
Reposted by JustinAndrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The first time a man in the US was charged with rape of his cohabitating wife was in 1978. The *first time* that charge had been brought. His lawyer argued “maybe this is the risk of being married, you know?” Anyone want to guess the verdict? 14410
Reposted by JustinOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of Musks breeding allies has apparently called it quits. I know I keep harping on this but imagine the media coverage if the top donor to the Democrats was a billionaire with a baby breeding cult? And yet the media has mostly ignored this part of Musk’s story. 1315958
Reposted by JustinCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thousand-year-old decadent orange emperor that destroys the universe's sole source of transport fuel in pursuit of a new paradigm where it's no longer necessary. Leto II Atreides, or Donald John Trump? 013427
Reposted by JustinGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 294111794054
Reposted by Justin🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hang on - if U.S. nukes are hard-coded against striking NATO states how will President Trump credibly threaten to annihilate Toronto during the next round of trade negotiations with Canada? 1348
Reposted by JustinJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1525356808
Reposted by JustinMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026👇🎯 Also why Musk and all the DOGE guys need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. They had no authority at all to dismantle USAID or anything else. 110720
Reposted by JustinSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah so if a president liquidates a government entity created in legislaiton passed by Congress & funded by congressional appropriations that's super-duper unconstitutional. In normal times he'd be impeached by close of business that day. 511136
Reposted by JustinQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026running list of minor things that i think the us could do to improve its government: 1. mandatory dormitories in dc 2. undo the gingrich era shift to a commute culture by requiring members to participate in a five-day DC work week 3. undo gingrich era "consolidation" of congressional agencies, staff 4828
Reposted by JustinQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026presidency: 1. convert the white house into a museum and shift the Executive Office to the Blair House 2. dissolve the secret service 3. undo the post-9/11 reorganization 4. destroy the Office of the First Lady and just consolidate that work into permanent staff 1637
Reposted by JustinMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026why isn't the answer, just stop all executions forever??? 2018328
Reposted by JustinDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i reiterate: 850873
Reposted by JustinJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power 819424
Reposted by JustinHierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861 inauguration 26518
Reposted by JustinHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is monstrous. Lethal injections are neither painless nor humane; the paralytics just make it look that way. The government should not be allowed to execute people in this way, if at all. The Supreme Court Justices who ignored new evidence to push through this order are complicit in torture. 1327059
Reposted by JustinTara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 30/09/2026It's not the "Cornell 7." It is the Cornell 50, or however many are in that group chat. Their silence is complicity. Essays for five of the seven. Essays. Essays are what you get assigned the first time you plagiarize something, or use AI when it was forbidden. 324128
Reposted by JustinJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜 8428130
Reposted by JustinJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11946791162
Reposted by JustinAlan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Always great to see from six alleged Catholics. So much for “pro life.” 4226
Reposted by JustinIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 30/09/2026Seen Michael Tracey's photo a bunch of times today and now it feels like I have fleas 😬 1159834
Reposted by JustinNegin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are actual human beings being tortured in actual prisons right now and the fact that there are a large number of people more concerned with computers being “tortured” makes me want to go off the grid. 04313
Reposted by JustinPé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies. 692161800
Reposted by JustinWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443811900
Reposted by JustinEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke 631961390
Reposted by JustinAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda. 412030
Reposted by JustinLuis Villa @lu.is · 30/09/2026It is both great that these passed and utterly damning that this is the best we could get. The last two in particular in any sane society would be ”never drive again” rather than debating how many points on a license or how long the suspension is. 6377
Reposted by JustinNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m actually on record saying members of Congress should be better compensated, but they should also absolutely have to itemize expenses. Just get your staff to do it. 11056
Reposted by JustinNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients 4436115
Reposted by Justinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext) 2363380
Reposted by Justinbsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Democrats have to start raising taxes on all of those motherfuckers. Tax rates like during WWII. Close all the goddamn loopholes, etc. 510230
Reposted by JustinMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again. 39803190
Reposted by JustinBrad the Inhaler 🌳 @erectilefunction0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I deleted a post in which I said Michael Tracey should kill himself. That was a mistake, I’m sorry. I should not have deleted the post, I will be better next time. 161123148
Reposted by JustinBobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you’d like to learn more about Michael Tracey and his ignominious career as a professional rapist defender, check out this episode Posting Through It with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @jaredlholt.bsky.social (note: Silkwood shower not included)google.com110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby SilvermanPosting Through It · Episode 712730
Reposted by JustinEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is very interesting. Two thoughts: 1. This will be challenged. I wouldn't be surprised if challenges succeed. 2. You should be able to make officials who violate your constitutional rights pay for it, and if nothing else, this bill highlights how difficult it is-particularly w/r/t the feds. 523952
Reposted by JustinGhostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Once again the biggest mistake with AI is that it's a consumer product. World historical mistake. Ought never have been made publicly available. Just bad. 2103
Reposted by Justinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE" 317636
Reposted by Justinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026what the Trump kids are doing is like 1000x worse than anything Hunter was alleged to have done. But there was a "BIDEN SCANDAL" shaped hole in the news and Hunter filled it and there's no such hole available for Trump that's not already being filled by 15 other things bsky.app/profile/dani... 324541
Reposted by JustinGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one." 6415105
Reposted by JustinMother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026John Roberts has spent his entire career trying to kill the Voting Rights Act. Now his Republican-appointed majority is dusting off arguments once used to destroy Reconstruction to roll back the gains made during the civil rights era. Our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/3m6nawpj 815465
Reposted by Justinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes the fact that we, as a society, obviously posess all the wealth necessary to not only fix the chronic problems but also have everyone live a life of comfort and plenty, and only don't do that so like, car dealership owners can buy a 60 foot boat instead of a 40 foot boat — bad for the vibes! 367785
Reposted by JustinAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stephen Miller can only be sent to the Hague once the US Congress legislates for America to finally sign on to the Rome Statute and accept jurisdiction of the ICC Yet for all their talk of respecting international law, the US Democrats aren't interested and not even the DSA views it as a priority 514652
Reposted by JustinProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is an abhorrent Bill b/c the athletes participating in a dangerous game that causes widely understood brain damage are often located in southern football leagues that are taking away votes from Black and Hispanic voters. We can die for a sport but not vote. The Senate should be shamed. 35213
Reposted by JustinRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes 11646160
Reposted by JustinJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026My basic view is that even post-29 (I) you remain a bad run of inflation away from another unhinged president (II) lots of stuff the US has retreated from will be low on the list to re-establish. 813320
Reposted by JustinChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract. 26644133
![Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.
"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]
"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v35s7l2l3nyjyxvqf427r5av/bafkreicppbo3jr5ugrdiyipnhxdav3aojviofdvoq22qulqh3bxlru2pii)
