Reposted by Maria HarveyMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court. 13047151758
Reposted by Maria HarveyRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026all over the world, these guys are just exact xerox copies of each other. in this case, "istvan" is pronounced "JAYR-id"ft.comViktor Orbán’s son-in-law defends fortune as Hungary’s elite face backlashPrime minister has been accused of favouring family and friends, but István Tiborcz insists he does not benefit 19476642050
Reposted by Maria HarveyAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle... 315140253362
Reposted by Maria HarveyAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2026This is ok tho 1174289058002
Reposted by Maria HarveyRep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 09/12/2025In the richest country in the history of the world, you should be able to afford to see a doctor when you get sick. But Republicans are doing nothing to stop rising health insurance costs or to help people pay them. Republican indifference will have deadly consequences for our people. 54689190
Reposted by Maria HarveySimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/11/2025If I had the opportunity, says Judge Michael Luttig; "I would tell the Chief Justice that he is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America. That's what he is doing." For anyone concerned with what remains of US democracy, this is a must listen podcast. 7383134
Reposted by Maria HarveyGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/10/2025The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...doomsdayscenario.coThe only check-and-balance that actually matters 62964376
Reposted by Maria HarveyAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago 359266306424
Reposted by Maria HarveyJimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 17/10/2025Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18 579119334969
Reposted by Maria HarveyCharlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It's a Joke. Until It's Not. open.substack.com/pub/charlies... 1924654
Reposted by Maria HarveyGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that. 1575313997893
Reposted by Maria HarveyMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2025“Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comLower Than CowardsThe surrender of America’s elites 522101517
Reposted by Maria HarveyTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2025This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now. 25165402353
Reposted by Maria HarveyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Scott Jennings and Ben Shapiro are currently both sitting at a panel table on CNN, not OANN. Seems like a pretty good barometer of where things are in this country. 😕🇺🇸 2274731908
Reposted by Maria HarveyAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe. 716169586284
Reposted by Maria HarveyJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior. 525213386713
Reposted by Maria HarveyNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I have a hard time believing that voters really care about crime when a plurality voted for a convicted criminal who committed serious crimes against the country and vowed blatant lawbreaking in office. I believe voters care about this subject, but “crime” is not quite it. They mean something else. 811224220
Reposted by Maria HarveyLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...open.substack.comGovernors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period.A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives. 29888643513
Reposted by Maria HarveyWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 06/08/2025We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding. 292243680
Reposted by Maria HarveyJon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The Roberts court will be considered the most shameful in American history. 1532748846
Reposted by Maria HarveyTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Good job, US Senate 1221607279
Reposted by Maria Harveyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2025"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included 7268911219
Reposted by Maria HarveyJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...nytimes.comKennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts 1488270449029
Reposted by Maria HarveyChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data. 15896658114554
Reposted by Maria HarveyGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Musk’s winter blitzkrieg on this once-proud democracy’s Constitution, laws, and traditions leaves behind a trail of institutional wreckage and bureaucratic damage that will take the country decades to undo — if it’s ever able to rebuild successfully. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/with-coup-...doomsdayscenario.coWith Coup in Shambles, Musk Signals Retreat — Leaving Wreckage In WakeA fresh dispatch from the embattled capital of Washington, D.C., by William Boot 33565168
Reposted by Maria HarveyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/05/2025This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.apnews.comDeep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to comeAmericans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. 2829441129
Reposted by Maria HarveyKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025From the comments: “I would not qualify for the COVID vaccine under these new regulations, but… I regularly visit my octogenarian parents in their retirement home, I work with young children… I should be able to get the vaccine to help minimize transmission and keep those around me safe.”nytimes.comF.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines 20503152
Reposted by Maria HarveyA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity. 13876002195
Reposted by Maria HarveyRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT. 436151815070
Reposted by Maria HarveyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Parades here, ethnic cleansing there — both headlines on the same day. Very on-brand. @cnbc.com @nbcnews.com 13439511082
Reposted by Maria Harveyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2025this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service! 293152524280
Reposted by Maria HarveyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025NEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed! 24849242441
Reposted by Maria HarveyEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 08/05/2025⚠️Tariffs On Medications Will Make America Sick We might soon see Trump WH impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals—patients will suffer and die. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that these tariffs are coming in the “next month or two.” What will this mean?progressive.orgTariffs On Medications Will Make America SickWe might soon see the Trump Administration impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals. U.S. patients will suffer. 38664302
Reposted by Maria HarveyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social 961261457779
Reposted by Maria HarveyRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 30/04/2025Trump owes his presidency and freedom to due process. Now, he’s shredding this foundational constitutional right for everyone else. Commentary from @swin24.bsky.social ⤵️rollingstone.comTrump, Who Owes His Freedom To Due Process, Is Destroying It for Everyone ElseDonald Trump owes his presidency and freedom to due process. Now, he says America can’t give everyone a trial — no matter what the Constitution says. 461204309
Reposted by Maria HarveyKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Jeff Bezos is a decidedly unfit owner for the Washington Post if this is all it takes to get him to fold. Profile in non courage. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/w...cnbc.comTrump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff costAmazon founder Jeff Bezos has cozied up to President Donald Trump since the Republican won a second White House term. 48466581345
Reposted by Maria HarveyJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Maybe instead of worrying about "wokeness" Elissa Slotkin could go to the Port of Los Angeles and show America what Trump's policies are doing. www.thebulwark.com/p/dear-democ...thebulwark.comDear Democrats: STFU About “Woke”And go take a look at what’s happening at the Port of Los Angeles. 4450378
Reposted by Maria HarveyJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/04/2025No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong. 676109963508
Reposted by Maria HarveyNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15/04/2025There was a time when a foreign dictator imprisoning people from America would be the target of a missile strike. Now this. One of the most shameful images in Oval Office history. 37445125
Reposted by Maria HarveyGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz. 1273201074981
Reposted by Maria HarveyGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Once you get into business with the Mob, you can never get out. 15359511326
Reposted by Maria HarveyRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported. 12134351212224
Reposted by Maria HarveyGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Trump does care about the pain, chaos, and turmoil he’s causing—in the following sense: He loves it. It makes him feel powerful. 884164813053
Reposted by Maria HarveyGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A perfect example of how tariffs increase prices on things that don’t have tariffs on them. 1092246646
Reposted by Maria HarveyAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Another unvaccinated child has died from the measles in Texas. There are over 600 cases in the US right now. Letting children die to a completely preventable disease is absolute insanity. 1081172164720
Reposted by Maria HarveySantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/04/2025I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election. 9843291706
Reposted by Maria HarveyZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Donald Trump should not have the power to unilaterally torpedo the global economy. The fact that he does is a testament to the breakdown of our constitutional order. www.vox.com/politics/407...vox.comThe real reason Trump is destroying the economyTrump is imposing ruinous tariffs because American democracy is no longer strong enough to stop him. 18584131
Reposted by Maria HarveyGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/04/2025He’s virtually psychotic. 4532336385159
Reposted by Maria HarveyRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Turns out prosecutors didn’t buy Mace’s story about being brutally assaulted by an activist who shook her hand. 834145322943