Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24mTrump: "They viciously attacked the reflecting pool. Cutting it with probably box knives. Knives or box knives. Uh, boxcutters and uh, it's almost fixed now and finished." 18842886
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2hMarkwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball as he takes questions about the latest ICE shooting 7563913937
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14hI’ve been studying violence and politics for a loooong time. My last book — “The Field of Blood” —was about the use of physical violence in Congress. So you can bet I’ll have a lot to say… 816345
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...nytimes.comFort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon SaysIf carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history. 3362442980
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20hWhoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary. 1921505822
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialBill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 15hJust to be clear: we are fine in Minnesota. We are not being taken over, though there are more rabbits in our yard than some years. Also we still need to address creeping bellflower. But otherwise all good. Don’t need rescuing or another murderous occupation. 191085199
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 18hI know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text) 481084280
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19hI've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 16157601397
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19hNext up: caravans of immigrants. Never fails. 1313527
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19hthis is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something 1136123313627
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21himagine if Joe Biden had posted this 2001384290
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page. 451741281
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thank heaven someone finally asked the question: "How do you define socialism?" Because this REALLY ISN'T IT. Sheesh. "Socialism" to Vance is -- random things I hate. 2423260
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yikes… local Georgia outlets in the tank fudging the graphs for @ossoff.bsky.social opponent Mike Collins🤔 (and Scoob-Doo😬) 2952926791
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026NEW: Social Security is a sleeper 2026 campaign issue. Senate candidates like Talarico (D-Texas), Turek (D-Iowa), El-Sayed (D-Mich.), Osborn (I-Neb.) are calling to lift the payroll tax cap to avoid a 22% benefit cut. The shortfall hits in 2032, or six years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...nbcnews.comSenate candidates run on raising Social Security taxes for higher incomes to prevent benefit cutsSocial Security is projected to dip into insolvency and force a 22% benefit cut in 2032, or less than six years, meaning the class of senators elected this year will have to address the issue. 1115852
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 249157613617
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJason Dogwood 💙 🏳️🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Matthew Shepard was twenty-one years old. He was gentle and kind. On this night in 1998, he lay tied to a wooden fence for eighteen hours under the bright Wyoming stars. Not for any crime he committed. He lay there, alone and cold, simply for existing as a gay man. 981295510
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/10/202610 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world” 1431015364
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How about democracy. How about we save that thing that came from Greece 1021024
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAnnette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh, well… 1255
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialLuke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In our intv Tillis claimed he didn’t stop Hegseth because of committee norms and criticized our focus on the “atomic level.” Hegseth’s ascendancy has been felt on a very personal level by the family of members of those soldiers that died in the Iran War. 148619
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them. 22137412322
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJosh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Our first General Election debate is TONIGHT at 7PM. I’m fighting for Iowans. She’s fighting to enrich herself and her billionaire donors. Excited to share my common-sense prairie populist vision on the debate stage tonight. Hope you tune in! 17395113
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper 561299354
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJoaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Donald Trump will be in San Antonio tomorrow. I invite him to visit the Dilley Trailer Prison, and see for himself the trauma he is inflicting on children and babies, some as young as two months old. 914450
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White House officials are going to regret taking this ridiculous sh*tshow on the road. He's going to do more to hurt the Rs than help them as he stumbles into key battlegrounds in the coming weeks. 3628051
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialJohn Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 29662134
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...cookpolitical.comA Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift LeftFour weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a... 1063763977
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 21751862283
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026Trump: "We've used the military a little bit in my second term. All for peace." 191685174
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed. Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior. 982023409
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners. 341933237
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.” 432188915689
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialConnie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today is the first day of early voting in Ohio! We just voted at Franklin County Board of Elections. What a warm welcome from everyone working there. True public servants. If you are voting today, please share your photo in this thread. Photo by Jacey Schank. 2583896
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity. 32352891458
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialKat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is beyond embarrassing. 62877072242
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Blanche wants @katiephang.bsky.social Epstein suit tossed as a "generalized grievance" Too many Americans want the files, so nobody gets them? Katie's job is to share things with the public, that's the opposite of a generalized grievance Release the files!x.comMeidasClips (@MeidasClips) on XKatie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the e 602885878
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wasn’t there something else that he did which was really, really evil? 1493122482296
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialLady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Political Cartoon of the Day by Jeff Danziger. 14728199
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall. 16542591771
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A simple, factual, and effective message. 309116852879
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Do they know that? 5592599
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Susan Collins cannot be trusted with voting on our next Supreme Court Justice. She voted for the three justices that overturned Roe v. Wade. And she's going to do the same damn thing if Alito retires unless we win this election. 10828257
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators. 51071332
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialMeg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich. 21556671
Reposted by @leora52.bsky.socialCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The people who can't even keep lettuce and eggs safe are 'actively monitoring' the plague outbreak in Russia. 641816510