Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853432189
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years. 27450111863
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program 9333611460
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialStars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.stripes.comWest Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit saysAdam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says. 49077443703
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialHome of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org. 29821457
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 346124884630
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 521873618
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5441381127
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here's what the AI chatbot Claude had to say about the AI security "deal" Trump and tech executives signed today. 😅 910233
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Utah banned SEVEN more books from all public schools yesterday, bringing the total number of state-sanctioned bans in the state to 44. More than half of those bans happened in 2026. 02222
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing 24595155
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialAndrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 29/09/2026This stopped me cold. POWERFUL. #SheShed 🎥 IG: imitationbyjerell 511166602
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialDr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On the ground at the epicenter of the measles outbreak, the clinicians doing the lifesaving work told us who they’re relying on: their colleagues, local health departments and state officials. Just as revealing was who they didn’t mention. 618770
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialTammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 25/09/2026The human toll of this war is more than any of us could've imagined. Eight servicemembers across the USS Lincoln Strike Force attempted to take their own lives—and we wouldn't have known unless we pushed for answers. It's long past time for a public hearing on Trump's war. 3118538
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bill Nye needs your help sending a Texas teacher to the U.S. Senate! To join our Teachers for Talarico Coalition, sign up here: act.jamestalarico.com/signup/talarico_coalitions 141018396
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialUCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This weekend the NE US is facing a strong, rare Sept Nor'easter. Wind damage & coastal flooding (worsened by sea level rise) are expected. In this 2025 blog, UCS’s @marc-alessi.bsky.social, explains how nor'easters are being influenced by warmer oceans, courtesy of climate change.blog.ucs.orgHurricanes, Nor’easters, Subtropical Storms! What’s the Difference?Different types of storms explained. 02114
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialDr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Behind the rhetoric around measles are real patients, families and clinicians carrying the consequences. This week, I traveled to rural Pennsylvania to hear directly from doctors at the center of an unprecedented outbreak Their stories deserve to cut through the noise—and remind us what’s at stake 23738276
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.socialnbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 23435632002
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comSupreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purgesThe decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order. 25522931338
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social. 13442751561
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s almost like they did not mean it when they said they would go after criminals only. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u... 516059
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialCynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More) @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's the 5th anniversary of Heartdrum, an acclaimed imprint featuring heartfelt, groundbreaking & unexpected books highlighting the present & future of Native peoples & strength of young Indigenous heroes. We've published nearly 50 books with more to come! #KidLit @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social 43514
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.social🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As a disability advocate I’m heartbroken by this. Please for the love of everything you hold dear, vote blue in November. Republican policies, their shenanigans and their hand picked court jesters are harming the most vulnerable amongst us. Check your registration! Register! Get out the VOTE! 21638371
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 25/09/2026“The Test” tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test > They have debased themselves in public by following something completely off the rails marking themselves as obedient Tante hits the nail on the head in his explanation of why tech execs make these wild statements tante.ccThe TestJensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa... 085
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialAunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 24/09/20261. Fuck Cornell 2. Fuck the Tompkins County District Attorney 3. It’s open season on women & no one gives a fuck. 4. Women are no where near angry enough. #AmericaHatesWomen www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...cbsnews.comFormer Cornell University student sues school, 7 fraternity members over rape allegationsCornell University and seven Chi Phi fraternity members are facing a lawsuit over rape allegations. 511968
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Still no statement from DoorDash after ICE shot one of its drivers, Wilber Garces Perez, while he was making a food delivery in Austin. Silence confers tacit approval and is an act of complicity. $DASH 03610
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialkamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ICE was in Morristown, NJ today! They took people on their way to work! Trying to feed their families! And where is Congress? Not at work! They were sent home by Mike Johnson. We cannot be an isolationist country! Your vote is your voice! #ProudBlue 📹: morristown.unfiltered/IG 38474356
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... 7288108
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Paramount-Warner Bros merger: “This settlement appears to pave the way for yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence” 791367499
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47271643220
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialUnion of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/09/2026UCS’s Julian Reyes analyzes the Trump administration’s continued attacks on forestry research, federal land management agencies, and the scientific workforce that supports effective decision-making. A must-read for National Public Lands Month. Read his blog: act.ucs.orgWhat Teddy Roosevelt Knew and Trump Doesn't Get: Public Lands Need Science US Forest Service founders Gifford Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt would be rolling in their graves knowing what has become of the world’s largest wildland fire research organization, the very institution they helped build. Teddy Roosevelt helped establish 230 million acres of public lands dur 13021
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialThe Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Join THE LIBRARIANS and Penguin Random House this Wed, Sept 23 6pm at the MLK Jr Memorial Library in D.C. for a FREE screening & conversation. A post-screening panel will follow. Join us for this impactful event in our nation's capital - register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-librar... 074
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comEmpire of GriftFar-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction. 10129631317
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“The response to Trump’s attacks on these outlets should be for every news outlet to boycott the Trump White House. They don’t need to stand there to do their reporting. See how Trump likes it when no legitimate news outlet shows up for his tantrums and lies.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-trump-c...americaamerica.newsIs Trump Collapsing?A Saturday Prompt 1472369695
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/09/2026We cannot let history forget what happens when a federal government uses law enforcement to terrorize innocent people. And let me say to any agent or administration official who thinks we've forgotten or that their cruelty will go unchecked: Illinois remembers. 572859606
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"The volume of hostile communications led the bench to create its own internal system for tracking people responsible for multiple threats, supplementing the U.S. Marshals Service, which normally handles judicial security..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge WarnsIn a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.” 211292454
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialWilliam K. Cody @williamcody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The entirety of the Trump regime's commitment to & involvement in the deportation of CHILDREN is absolutely sickening & should disgust any decent human being. THESE ARE KIDS. They didn't get to choose their lives. Humiliating & torturing them should be obvsly very, very wrong to all decent people. 2116
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Disney and ABC said in a court filing that FCC Chair Brendan Carr has made clear he is carrying out Trump's specific directives ‘aimed at curbing speech critical of the administration,’” Reuters reported last week. The regime has been targeting Disney ever since this happened 👇 23417
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I was trying to figure out why Trump banned Politico from the White House along with CNN and MSNOW. Now I get it. This fascist regime can't have media outlets in the building that reveal to voters how Trump and Hegseth gifted our military technology to the Chinese.politico.comHill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong KongThe incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China. 521409743
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialBluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Blues Brothers Band 😎😎 w/ 'Joliet' Jake Blues and Elwood Blues, aka (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd), Live at SNL in 1978 #blues #harmonica #bluesharp #bluesmusic 🎶'Soul Man' 2114784969
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialBryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Biased AI Decides If You Get Healthcare Under the new Medicare model, third-party AI companies earn more by denying care to patients. Mehmet Oz did it, despite calling prior authorization “a pox on the system” at Senate Confirmation. Anesthesia Optional? www.austinchronicle.com/news/ai-now-...austinchronicle.comAI Now Decides if Texas Medicare Patients Receive Certain Types of Care • The Austin ChronicleAI Now Decides if Texas Medicare Patients Receive Certain Types of Care 22191165
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/09/2026This is how an authoritarian regime attempts to silence the free press. Trump is step by step trying to strangle the Bill of Rights and tear up our Constitution. If anyone still doubts it, wake up! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comCNN, MS NOW, Politico say journalists blocked from White House after Trump announces banPresident Donald Trump said Friday he would block MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House grounds. News outlets and press advocacy groups condemned the move as a violation of the First Amendment. 2430498
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump does CNN & MS big favor by putting it so bluntly. Government discrimination on the basis of viewpoint is virtually always unconstitutional: “Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access…after Trump announced a ban on three news organizations because of reporting he disliked.” 30536125
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws. 29172271876
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialAjuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse... 12619214
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... 311497388
Reposted by @ltrippo.bsky.socialTammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 19/09/202622 of our servicemembers have been killed in Trump's illegal war. Not 18 like we were told. The Pentagon hid four more heroes' deaths from us for months. Congress cannot let them get away with this. I wrote a bill we can pass to stop this egregious playbook immediately.washingtonpost.comMore U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publiclyOfficials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database. 19305105