Reposted by R. J. MacReadyDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S. 24606219
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time. 1107131094666
R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As if we needed more examples that demonstrate what we (Minnesotans) already know: that Emmer is a hypocriticial POS. 010
Reposted by R. J. MacReadySchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How did we ever get along without snipers looming over a cemetery? 1430851
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This all feels like Last Days of Rome stuff. Trump has totally lost control of everything. 1721536
R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If I just stop spending $500 a month at the grocery store, I'm saving $500 a month! That's just math! 010
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026You can become a journalist to be a TV star or to join the elites or to write an American canto or you can become a journalist to challenge power and advocate for the powerless. 1179283
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Built over decades, destroyed by Iran in days. This national security disaster is one for the history books…and all on Trump and Hegseth.militarytimes.comThe devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warningOpinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes. 517466
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The UN’s International Maritime Organization says around 6,000 seafarers aboard roughly 400 ships are still stranded in the Persian Gulf, unable to safely exit through the Strait of Hormuz. This is Trump’s problem now, right, as America “owns” the Strait? 820964
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The FIFA Peace Prize winner, everyone. 2530150793395
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And if it was just diplomacy, why have an intelligence chief and no actual diplomats? 1320721
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Spoiled child Trump will smash things if he can’t get his own way.nbcnews.comTrump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovationsThe DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.” 106831311
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026standard. SCOTUS allows Trump to continue to create literal facts on the ground while they 'consider' his his meritless challenge. nothing is more important than reforming the court and ending its corruption. 43883278
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026My sympathy is reserved for the victims of harm not the facilitators of harm. 5151250
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026shorter trump: we're reducing tariffs to reduce the price you pay for ordinary stuff 🤔 1917640
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026What folks miss is MAGA doesn't care if people think Trump cheated for the 1900th time. What worries is the image of an 80 yr old man wildly dependent on a clincially fangirlish 30-something who he appears to use as a kind of human emotional support blanket as his faculties & political power fade. 942306530
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Senior IRGC official General Mohammad Reza Naqdi: “Victory is not enough. Iran wants revenge for Khamenei, and the Basij has been ordered to expand operations abroad.” 1414355
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have a public exhibition displaying downed aircraft from the war, including a US F-15E and several MQ-9 Reapers, as if the humiliation wasn’t enough already. 1834992
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"Elon didn't kill anyone, he just cut foreign aid" shut up shut the fuck up, Hitler didn't personally execute 6 million Jews either, if you knowing enact a policy that results in mass death, you are responsible for the mass death. 2345
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026RESULT in #MN02: The Democratic primary to replace Rep. Angie Craig (who is running for Senate) was won by a progressive candidate to her left: state Senator Matt Little easily prevailed in a three-way race that drew a lot of spending. 8889130
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🚨🚨Trump loses again. His endorsed candidate - Mike Lindell the pillow clown conspiracy theorist - goes down to State House Speaker Demuth who will get her ass most likely kicked by Klobuchar this Nov. Trump who reportedly recently cut & by ran in a catering truck doesn’t appear to have the juice. 0348
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyRep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Doctor here 👋 There's no new evidence that supports this. He's just making up policies that would cost families more and make kids less safe. It's expensive and it's dangerous. 67524
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMatt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Of course! www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...cbsnews.comMinnesota State Fair named nation's best by USA TODAYUSA TODAY has confirmed what Minnesotans already know well: our state fair is the best in the nation. 092
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/08/2026This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent. 731895493
R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 29/07/2026How do their heads not explode or get struck by lightning? 🤷 000
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 27/07/2026Colored boxes are days that included time at his properties this year. The ones with dots are rounds of golf. Hardest working president in the president business. www.pbump.com/projects/gol... 1024870
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Honestly, there has never been a leader of any country ever as stupid as this one. Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country." 44527109
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/07/2026Fuck this guy forever. Hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest people have already died because of his casual cuts and so many more are doomed. He is one of mankind's most evil figures. 483214716
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Might also be worth pointing out that the other wars had troops in action. (Venezuela wasn’t a war it was an extraction.) In Iran, service members are dying *at their own bases* because the higher-ups are too incompetent to protect them. 324940
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it. 623127212765
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026🔥 Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “ICE is not about the southern border… This is not about protection. This is about control.” 9034391073
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Performative cruelty is the weak person’s attempt to appear strong. 74966204
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed. 6846511272
Reposted by R. J. MacReady◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up 11144721282
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Damn, I thought I'd lined up an interview with arch coup plotter Rep. Scott Perry in which he'd have the chance to explain/argue/prove his claim that j6 and the coup plot never happened. Alas ... 32701125
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This answer from Rubio illustrates the stupidity of the Trump administration. It’s now in the Premier League of countries that disregard international law, with small boats in the Caribbean, the War itself… Reporter: “Can the US and allies guarantee freedom of navigation in the Strait?” 1/ 19418
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The Iranian delegation humiliated Vance and Witkoff in Switzerland. They made the US team wait, turned up after the media had gone, then refused to shake hands. This is also how you know who is winning and who is desperate. 427850
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Trump’s favourability in Italy is a micro-penis size 7% so the last thing Meloni would want is a photo with him. 1534152
R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Oh man, this is so sweet, it's like taking a glucose tolerance test! 010
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026He tore up Obama's JCPOA that kept Iran from having a nuclear program, then launched a war because he said we had to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear program, then told Americans their suffering was worth Iran not getting a nuclear program but now says Iran has a right to nuclear program. Sure. 861691601
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?" 468321006926
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026And just to reiterate, this is not a “deal”, as Trump claims. It’s a memorandum of understanding which sets the terms for a further *60 days* of talks. 12415120
R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Trump's not helping beat the "secretly gay" theory with talk like this. 020
R. J. MacReady @macreadything.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I find Trump's lack of selfawareness to be hillarious. 410
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 505180177369
Reposted by R. J. MacReadyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Sure Jan gif. TACO. 5834952