Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16hthis really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 191952586
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19hThey can, & should, also defund the Supreme Court itself, until such point as the Wizard in Robes decide to start following the laws & Constitution again: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 1136290
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialOwen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 18hOnce again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers 312247
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9251993183
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein. 7340121110
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal 412452577
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep. 5474104
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188033845
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor. 13638341785
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 2821991231
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035901148
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMatthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove offevanstonnow.comFederal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston NowPolice chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved. 39566453498
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If I were still in the wh press pool, it would be such a no brainer (tho it’s not like I ever was granted decision making power): no one go until this is lifted and if you do, you are no longer a member of the WHCA 501133210
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom. 2546812219
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity. 221376
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialScotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing. 1016366
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialdaniel sieradski @self.agency · 11/09/2026x is owned by xai which is owned by spacex which is taxpayer and 401k holder supported so now practically the whole country is guilty of facilitating child sexual abuse material thanks to elon musk 126781
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058572040
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars: 1122449936
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialLunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“Think I give a damn about what this Piker guy is saying when the richest Nazi the world has ever seen is bankrolling the destruction of America via the Republican Party?” — how every Dem should answer questions about Hasan Piker 6909195
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/09/2026the thing about every major figure in this administration is that every single one of them is an irredeemable piece of shit and the thing about the next democratic congress and next democratic presidency is that they absolutely must treat these pieces of shit with all of the respect they have earned 252463353
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAndy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 31/08/2026I think this is my first time getting a close look at Trey Gowdy and how is this the news, how is this not a Disney movie about a puppy kidnapping ring. His haircut was done by the villain team at Pixar. Come on now. How. HOW? 3462370
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153109082686
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert 311940355
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialRussell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025This is what you’d expect in a dystopian film set in the near future. Shitty cyber-esque graphics, insanely dark fucking policy, unbelievably Bratz-ass Homeland Security secretary, maybe put some little flying cars in the background. 36748147
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives. 14584492880
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country. 111674233
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099453826
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If we all just agree to disavow this one guy they are lying about being an antisemite they will be satisfied and stop there. 869481
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Something else - and no, I’m not making an original point here — that endlessly infuriates me about the trump administration’s siege of Springfield Ohio is that the Haitians are there primarily because they were invited there, largely by local conservative political and business leaders… 252681582
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialRoby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen. 181257572
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialFuturism @futurism.com · 27/08/2026This is insane.trib.alPolice Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Thema man was charged with three felonies after he cut down a 3D-printed "decoy" Flock camera, which was set up by police. 421059368
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026US judge declines Minnesota’s effort to force Texas to extradite ICE agent aje.news/3ipkxq 127024
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Once again rules about patient confidentiality are weaponized by evil people - RFK Jr. can lie about his victims with impunity but those telling the truth are barred from saying anything to refute him. Politico (RFK's child murder accomplices) dutifully type it up as "feud" 4468105
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 25/08/2026Illinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight. www.wired.com/story/the-co...wired.comThe County Prosecutors Who Became ICE InformantsIllinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight. 6272146
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry. 423263933
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialZito @zeets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Worked out my anger about the craven dismissals of the 2020 protest movement over at The Nation www.thenation.com/article/acti... 2413100
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The kids these days will hardly believe this, but a mere decade ago, we had a presidential election in which effectively the only issue on the table was the security of communications at the highest level of government. 652947762
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialNerdy Attorney @nerdyattorney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“That’s wildly unlawful,” my brain screams before I remind it that I studied constitutional law in the Before Times. 4721
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The people who brought you the Iraq War, attacks on health care workers, January 6, and the evisceration of scientific research and foreign aid by AI-worshipping hacky sack twerps want accountability for that scary era when people cared about racism, sexual assault, and police killings. 217550
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Nothing to see here, folks. Just the president of the United States standing outside the White House and advertising for a private company after it gave him a campaign contribution. 1292652721
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialScreamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Abolish ICE and salt the earth where it was allowed to growchron.comDHS taunts detained Padres coach in fiery social media post"NOBODY is above the law, and he will remain in ICE custody pending removal." 22576131733
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026one thing we should not unwind when this nightmare is over is the department of war thing. they should keep calling it that. let it be a richly ironic and deeply shameful reminder of our insane, murderous belligerence 2387886
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The guest of honor at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. 2123972
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Some reporter should have a mic in Sen. Thune’s face tomorrow wherever he is. Make the Republicans own or denounce this lunacy. 211339266
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I kindly ask that we collectively stop grading the literal president of the United States and the man who effectively is the GOP on a curve 311224170
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP. 26785272477
Reposted by @marcushbert.bsky.socialTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism 5546821398
