Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/11/2025And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do. 513122603424 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Pam Bondi has posted rants and videos saying that there’ll be no mercy for those who threaten federal agents. But she and her boss just pardoned a woman who threatened to shoot federal agents. Why did this Florida woman get a pass? She’s MAGA. Trump doesn’t care about federal agents. Never did.nytimes.comTrump Pardons Two for Crimes Related to Jan. 6 251362480 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/11/20251. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵 291072514 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please. 459221326059 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialSusan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025America begins clapping back at Trump. My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...newyorker.comAmerica Begins Clapping Back at Donald TrumpIn a week of political exits, a reminder that Trump’s time is coming soon, too. 19701111 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialGregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025NEWS: A federal judge says Gregory Bovino lied under oath. The Department of Homeland Security has a massive credibility problem. Two federal judges in Chicago have ripped the government’s credibility. 421097267 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialGalen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Wholesale murder.theguardian.comUS strikes another alleged drug boat bringing death toll from campaign in Latin America to 70US strikes have destroyed at least 18 vessels, but Washington has yet to make public any concrete evidence that its targets posed a threat to America 78639 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialCurious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 28/10/2025At long fucking last, a group of Democratic strategy eggheads has grasped some fundamental truths about what has to change. 512330 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/10/2025“At a moment when U.S. forces are building up across the Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela are at a boiling point, the departure of our top military commander in the region sends an alarming signal of instability within the chain of command...” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...nytimes.comHead of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say 46373142867 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like. 868249457674 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2025When Washington speaks, commanders must answer. But let’s not forget: Those commanders need a foundation of lawful, principled leadership to stand on. www.thebulwark.com/p/questions-...thebulwark.comQuestions After QuanticoU.S. military commanders around the world will be working to provide steady leadership after Hegseth’s bravado and Trump’s bluster. 1732668 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2025So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation 1090165495465 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Listen. I left evangelicalism but these motherfuckers are trying hard as hell to at least simulate all the antichrist warnings us Baptists had to sit through. 1920055 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 01/10/2025From the Editorial Board: A beautiful early fall weekend in downtown Chicago. Sun-splashed lakefront. Families enjoying the museums and city sights. Packs of men in military fatigues carrying high-powered long guns. Which of those images doesn’t belong?trib.alEditorial: A sun-soaked Sunday in downtown Chicago, marred by a Trumpian show of forceDozens of heavily armed immigration agents descend on downtown Chicago on a gorgeous early fall Sunday. What’s wrong with this picture? 34518 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor." 9903572212715 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialMiles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Trump told military leaders today that US cities would become “training grounds.” Do you understand it yet, America? This IS the talk of a dictator. I’m not afraid to say that word. I’m afraid that my former party is going along with it. 7297111 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2025You know Trump's long list of obvious and likely misdeeds. It's time for actual investigations. www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...thebulwark.comIt’s Time for the States to Start Investigating TrumpDemocratic-led state governments can hold the aspiring autocrat’s feet to the fire. 20672198 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I'd be curious to know who much it cost the American taxpayers to flying generals in from all over the world so Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump would have a captive audience to witness their weird and dangerous witlessness live. 50852081353 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 30/09/2025Fox is showing viewers footage of vandalism from 2020. The White House is touting misleading statistics on violence. Trump’s allies are telling his base that the left is a dire threat, and even he is buying it. www.pbump.net/o/how-trumpw...pbump.netHow Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the leftIt is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T... 481407447 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialCáitKate @cait05.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Losing your mind! You are not alone! @daniellemoodie.bsky.social with her friend, talks about how to manage the trauma of this Republican Regime. The New Phase of Chaos: Can We Stay Sane in a World Gone Mad? youtu.be/B8Qq1-UdxRk?...youtu.beThe New Phase of Chaos: Can We Stay Sane in a World Gone Mad?YouTube video by Danielle Moodie 1205 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Government shutdown, farmers needing to be bailed out, troops in the streets, country bitterly divided, revolving door of appointees, Putin getting coddled, constant chaos … must be another Trump term. 1093219744 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career. 350107002397 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...newrepublic.comTrump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026. 19735421113 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/09/2025"In this sense, the courtroom becomes less a venue for justice than a stage for propaganda, not a place where evidence is weighed but a theatre where narrative is manufactured to reinforce Trump’s hold over his movement." 24814 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2025Hundreds of people who were once detained at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, have disappeared from government records. We speak to a reporter and an advocate about what we know. 14259142 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialLobsterlen @lobsterlend.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Everything old is new again. 051 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialJim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Just a little suggestion if they’re gonna replace Biden’s portrait at the WH: www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...mediaite.comJim Acosta Wants Trump Portrait Replaced With Epstein Pic In Next White HouseJim Acosta ripped Trump for trolling Biden with a portrait of an autopen, and said the next president should replace Trump portraits with Jeffrey Epstein pics. 25703149 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/09/2025On the ICE shooting. 1. It's terrible. 2. Too many disturbed people have access to too many guns in this country. 3. Too many political figures use incendiary and dehumanizing rhetoric. By far the most significant of them is the president. The fish of political violence rots from the head down. 22663671560 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Donald Trump isn't just the stupidest American to become president; he's the stupidest American to become famous. 2202640540 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.barharborstory.substack.comSigns Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National ParkThe Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. 30884506 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 23/09/2025bingo 🎯 322173544 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2025everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air 334241949 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.nytimes.comWashington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting 22196882433 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/09/2025When government intimidation and corporate cowardice meet, free speech dies. Boycott ABC and Disney until they stand up to Brendan Carr’s censorship. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...open.substack.comBrendan Carr’s FCC Power Play: How One Weak Man Threatens America’s Free SpeechAfter Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks on the Charlie Kirk shooting, Carr used FCC leverage to pressure ABC—showing how quickly constitutional rights can be trampled. 2622854881 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialCheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 12/09/2025that was always the plan, right Donald? 28427 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429... 12989463438 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/08/2025He’s wrong about everything, and thinks he’s right about everything. Hard to tell which is worse. The war will end when Russia decides no longer to fight. The US could make that happen with a few simple policies. Instead the Trump administration offers ridiculous analysis and pathetic excuses. 1112503654 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children." 481219403 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃 2100260278608 0
Reposted by @laskyj.bsky.socialJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening. CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175... 601972900 0
