Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 14hThat's a whole lot of pay-to-play, and all of these companies donated to the ballroom to appease a wannabe autocrat. If your business is so important to you that you're willing to sell out your country for it, your business is too important to you. What a gross quid pro quo. 022
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 16hYes, this really will be the most consequential election of our lifetime. Here's why... youtu.be/fBbJYuLd0mQyoutu.beWhy it's not illogical for this to be the most consequential election of our lifetimeYouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 021
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It takes informed voters to beat back the billionaire donors. youtu.be/4oVtA9bPzUUyoutu.beThe Mad Mod Pod - Episode 6 - It Requires Informed Voters To Beat Billionaire DonorsYouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.comORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau... 121844479
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Only 11 years ago All talk when the stakes are at zero, but when the stakes are high, Trump throws him a State Dinner and praises him like a fanboy. 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Donald Trump is a broken man. youtube.com/shorts/KSEe3...youtube.comWe're Dealing With Broken AssholesYouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron 2644533922
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As Comrade Jill Stein comes out of her cave prior to each election to remind us why the Democrats suck, remember what happens when you vote for third-party candidates... Especially those who aren’t qualified, can’t win, and many times have nefarious ulterior motives. www.youtube.com/watch?is=CaB...youtube.comHow Ralph Nader Helped Hand Bush The PresidencyYouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why this year's 25th anniversary of September 11th felt a little different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_4...youtube.comThe Mad Mod Pod - Episode 5 - The 25th Anniversary of September 11th Felt A Little DifferentYouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026You also can’t reform people who actively chose to be dumb. What you can do is not elect them to any public office, ever, and keep them far away from the levers of power. 1143
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026“Moderate” is not the term for politicians who think the right response to fascist assault on democracy is accommodation, acquiescence, appeasement. “Centrist,” yes. Chase a moving the middle, over-read narrow electoral results, etc. Fascists oppose moderates’ core values (including moderation). 1331751
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Trump not only used his own livery design on his Qatari bribe revealed today, but also on the two new AF1 747-8s that'll be ready in 2029. He's scrapped the modern version of Jackie Kennedy's iconic blue livery for our two new AF1 jets, on which he'll never even fly. www.cbsnews.com/news/air-for...cbsnews.comTrump unveils new Air Force One, a $400 million plane gifted by Qatar"This is considered the world's most luxurious plane," the president said in front of the enormous new jet. 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The Iran War has exposed just how far behind our military is, despite the fact that we spend $1 trillion a year on defense... More than the next 10 countries combined. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBh9...youtube.comThe Mad Mod Pod - Episode 4, Part 2 - The Iran War has exposed just how far behind our military is.YouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 011
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I’m pretty sure MAGA just buys Bud Light for target practice. We are such a weird country.static.klipy.comKid Rock Blasts Bud Light CansALT: Kid Rock Blasts Bud Light Cans 040
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/06/2026As a reminder, Pulte is the guy who goes through the mortgages of Trump’s enemies, looking for mistakes, which he then uses as a basis to refer them for criminal prosecution. See, e.g.: Letitia James 12840051219
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Evil Nazi billionaire Peter Thiel is leaving the U.S. for Argentina. I hope everyone is paying attention. 1151031315
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅James 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
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026It never works b/c suspending the gas tax won’t suspend the ongoing costs required to maintain a national transportation network. We already have crumbling infrastructure as it is so no gas tax just adds to our infrastructure issues, pushing us deeper into debt and costing taxpayers more long-term. 061
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Uhh yeah, that would be because the United States accounts for only 6.1% of the world’s landmass and 4.3% of the world’s population. It’s wild to watch morons from the MAGAverse cite or quote the most basic and obvious statistics/facts that they think are brand new information to the rest of us. 000
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Meanwhile… On top of starting this war in Iran that nobody but Bibi and Trump wanted, and which is directly response for the rise in gas prices, Trump’s regime is literally paying companies to STOP building green tech infrastructure that we’ve already started building. www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/c...cnn.comTrump administration will pay a French company $1 billion in taxpayer funds to not build wind farms | CNNThe Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean an... 011
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Underrated comment.static.klipy.comNoice! Brooklyn Nine-Nine MomentALT: Noice! Brooklyn Nine-Nine Moment 010
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 22/05/2026After all the ass-kissing and soul-selling, another one bites the dust. It’s amazing how all of these people continue to go to work for Trump, somehow unable to connect the dots that give them a clue as to how destroyed their reputation will be by the time they are forced out of Trump’s admin. 032
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026-Donald Trump, talking about his own son… “He’s a person I’ve known for a long time.” 031
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21/05/2026Democracy cannot survive a state treasury that subsidizes its own destruction. 734392
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026There’s no “they” here. It was one guy and he went to prison. It used to be the norm for a president to release his tax returns. Now the president sues to prevent them from being released. Also, why would Trump’s tax returns destroy him? Shouldn’t they show what a successful business man he is? 🤦♂️ 021
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Random history trivia: Hitler said he was there to help when he demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, claiming the ethnic German majority living there was oppressed. 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 20/05/2026NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin introduces a bill that would prohibit federal funds from being used for Trump's $1.8 million "anti-weaponization" slush fund. He's eyeing a discharge petition if GOP leadership blocks it, a spox confirmed to @axios.com Story TK www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... 32612
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026People who want a parliamentary system forget they have produced people like Berlusconi and Bibi and made it almost impossible to get rid of them. Margaret Thatcher ruled the UK for more than 12 years. 6137052
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The Iran war is a quagmire of Trump's own making and it's time we called it what it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTOY...youtube.comThe Mad Mod Pod - Episode 4, Part 1 (Trump caused the Iran war and he can't spin his way out of it.)YouTube video by The Mad Mod Pod 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I'm gifting this solid Ken Paxton explainer - it even covers the pen. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...nytimes.comHe’s Been Impeached and Indicted. He Has a Chance in Texas’ Senate Race. 30364178
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅If you voted for Trump I already don't value your opinion @msmainah62.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If an acting President sues his or her own government that person should be impeached. 26082851504
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“Please enjoy Colbert’s final shows,” John Oliver told viewers at the end of Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight.' “He’s the f*cking best. Good night, and good luck, motherf*ckers!” Full story: latenighter.com/news/john-ol... 100119882468
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/05/2026"Instead of attempting to match Russian quantitative advantage, Ukraine has increasingly shifted toward attacking vulnerabilities across the broader Russian military-industrial system." And it's working:lnk.thebulwark.comUkraine’s Secret Weapon: AdaptationNothing beats outthinking the enemy. 1132874
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Trump is creating a $1.8 billion slush fund to hand out to all the assholes who helped him destroy our government. These people were rightly prosecuted by the Biden Admin for their actions on January 6th or other crimes, Trump pardoned them, and now he’s literally paying them, with YOUR tax money. 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/05/2026"If this sort of looting of the public coffers at the president’s behest and for his personal gain and that of his allies isn’t an impeachable offense, then the term has truly lost all meaning." On the IRS lawsuit settlement: lnk.thebulwark.com/4tEEC4h 31538185
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from. 427154414014
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comColorado governor grants election denier Tina Peters clemency, reduces sentencePeters was convicted in 2024 after prosecutors showed she facilitated unauthorized access to voting equipment and helped expose sensitive data, actions driven by false claims that the 2020 election wa... 1672143604860
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It should be quite obvious to anyone by now that Trump views any and all criticism of him or his actions as treasonous, because ya know, he is a fascist. Fascist leaders are nothing more than fragile, insecure egos hiding behind the power of the State, and Trump is a textbook example of it. 010
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Mad Mod Pod @themadmodpod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026If there is a single sentence that sums up the ideology of Trumpism & MAGA more than any other, it is definitely this... "People like us should be free to do what we want, and free to stop other people from doing what they want when we don’t approve." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comHow Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?A journey through Ron DeSantis’s magic kingdom 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Of course, Scalise makes an Idiotic Argument….. 772196145514
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026We're constantly barraged by new examples of insanity and corruption, but none of them make me angrier than this. It is so stupid and destructive and wasteful and completely nuts. It just infuriates me. 15234125
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026NEGUSE: My understanding is a no bid contract is reserved for situations involving serious injury. What's the injury w/the reflecting pool? BURGUM: 19 fountains didn't work NEGUSE: That's the serious injury!? And who picked this company? Trump said 'I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing pools' 39672802286
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/05/2026Trump yesterday: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody." Vance today: "I don't think the president said that." 2121679669
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It’s a great idea, so of course Republicans will hate it. 010
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Trump, because he is a moron and a malignant narcissist, committed the most ridiculously predictable self-own in modern geopolitics, and the strait was open until he started this shit. He has put the world in a totally avoidable energy quagmire, one which will pull many countries into a recession. 011
Reposted by Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 11/05/2026John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of” 186135244118
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I mean, he is only a month away from being 80 years old, he was always unstable, and now he is totally out of his mind, so yeah… That tracks. 010
Ken Thompson 🇺🇸🦅 @kenthompson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Trump has always loved and admired a brutal strongman dictator who oppresses his own people. Remember the “beautiful love letters” between Trump and Kim Jong Un that he bragged about? Notice that you never see Trump chum it up with world leaders of democracies, but he easily relates to autocrats. 011