Sign in

Marc Bandman

@mbandman.bsky.social
514 followers 314 following 3.2K posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Marc Bandman @mbandman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who’s tired of the Kelces all over TV? ✋
000
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
rollingstone.com
Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
43973361
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18/09/2026
FCC approves foreign owners for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros.
latimes.com
FCC approves foreign owners for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros.
Royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi will own nearly 50% of the equity of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery
91624
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026
Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
cnn.com
House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
14126751071
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?
1192028618
Marc Bandman @mbandman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The FCC may try to restrict truth on broadcast TV but fortunately there’s plenty of other media outlets. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
youtu.be
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
011
Marc Bandman @mbandman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Simple-minded Trump blathers on, repeating himself ad nauseum. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Canada approves latest Gulfstream business jets after Trump tariff threat | CBC News
Federal regulators are giving the thumbs up to Gulfstream G700 and G800 business jets in a move that comes weeks after new tariff threats from U.S. President Donald Trump over the planes' status in Ca...
000
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Another Christian conservative. This keeps happening.
31438651386
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The US currently gives more military aid to Egypt than to Ukraine. Why?
33380134
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“.. In April, Mr. Trump fired his Navy secretary for not moving quickly enough on building the battleship of his dreams.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
45293132
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
22672984310343
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"The other commissioner who approved the Paramount merger, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, and his wife sat in a private skybox with Paramount CEO David Ellison and other executives from Paramount and CBS. Such seats sold for $125,000 a ticket..." www.propublica.org/article/para...
propublica.org
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
20334901755
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"
887279029763
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/06/2026
🚨 NEW: "Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefited from his policies" Tom Bergin and Koh Gui Qing for @reuters.com
reuters.com
Trump reports more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures
U.S. President Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefite...
45687397
Reposted by Marc Bandman
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/06/2026
Nehls on how House GOP will make case for affordability back home: Nehls: What are you talking about? I'm gonna get me lobster tails. Some nice rib eyes. Reporter: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford that? Nehls: Maybe not. Maybe they don't work as hard as me.
310491454233
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Noam Ross @noamross.net · 23/06/2026
Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪
grant-witness.us
Overdue Grant Renewals at NIH and AHRQ – Grant Witness
The government’s delays renewing in-progress research are leaving researchers in limbo.
4201138
Marc Bandman @mbandman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Well done.
000
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14/06/2026
UFC Gives Trump Crypto Venture An Interest-Free Loan— 1. UFC gives World Liberty cash 2. World Liberty gives fighters USD1 3. World Liberty invests UFC’s cash in Treasuries and pockets the interest.
theguardian.com
UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company
Some fighters will receive bonuses in ‘stablecoins’ issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial
50926502
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Trump administration extracted a payoff from Bosnia's government in exchange for getting the Bosnian Serbs to okay a cross-border gas pipeline: Bosnia gave the contract to a US firm run by Trump lawyer/2020 truther Jesse Binnall and Michael Flynn's brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
How an obscure MAGA-linked firm lined up $1 billion in Balkan energy contracts
President Donald Trump's official and personal interests are colliding yet again.
12204136
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Cecilia Vegas confirms she was fired today as a CBS 60 Minutes correspondent.
05531
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.
37879143024
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From the just released transcript of today’s closed door hearing in the Broadview case
291323304
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New: DOJ has a long history of setting robust internal controls to ensure taxpayer $$ is responsibly & legally awarded to deserving victims. That’s all missing from the Trump IRS settlement $1.8B anti-weaponization fund. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com
DOJ Anti-Weaponization Fund Lacks Safeguards From Past Programs
The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund lacks the rigorous controls that typically guide programs compensating victims out of litigation settlements or congressional mandat...
919885
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
3. Trump purchased between purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell Technologies stock on February 10. During an economic speech in Georgia nine days later, Trump told the audience to “go out and buy a Dell computer,” saying the company made “phenomenal products.”
21793315
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
2. Three more SMOKING GUNS in Trump's new 113 page financial disclosure. Trump purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron stock on March 25 (also unsolicited). The next day he called into The Five, said he had just met with Micron's CEO, and called Micron "one of the hottest companies."
17842302
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18/05/2026
“True Christianity is represented by the party, and the German people are now called by the party and especially by the Fuehrer to a real Christianity…The Fuehrer is the herald of a new revelation.” - Nazi politician Hans Kerrl, quoted in Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 392.
911554
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A perfect match for the conduct of secret police in totalitarian regimes across the planet. But Markwayne approves.
89652
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
471917845
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”
27515275
Reposted by Marc Bandman
New York Fed @newyorkfed.org · 01/05/2026
Pssst. It's us. The New York Fed is here on Bluesky. Make your way to the front of the line to become one of our earliest followers. And feel free to repost! It's not really a secret!
66326
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/04/2026
I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...
healthpolicy-watch.news
Ghana Rebuffs US Health Deal – But South Africa And Zambia Struggle Without Aid - Health Policy Watch
Ghana has become the latest African country to reject the United States’ terms for bilateral health assistance, particularly the requirement to share
191126557
Reposted by Marc Bandman
NBC News @nbcnews.com · 27/04/2026
The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean kills three people, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command.
nbcnews.to
3 killed in latest U.S. military strike on alleged drug boat in eastern Pacific
At least 186 people have been killed since early September in the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters.
112522
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
919294
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/04/2026
If you live in Virginia, tomorrow you have a huge opportunity to make it clear to the GOP that if they want to win, it won’t be by changing the rules and redrawing maps. At least, not without a fight. Vote YES on the redistricting vote, and push back!
8659211799
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
15096054148
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
501643575
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump’s pollster released a poll two days before Hungary’s election that showed Viktor Orban’s far-right Fidesz party leading 43-37. Instead, the opposition Tisza party won 53-38 and secured the 2/3 supermajority needed to unravel Orban’s authoritarian regime
Wikipedia summary chart of the preliminary Hungarian parliamentary election results with roughly 99% counted. The pro-democracy Tisza party won the proportional representation vote 53-38 over far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party and secured a two-thirds supermajority of 138 out of 199 seats. Fidesz won just 55 seats, and the fascist Our Homeland Movement party won 6% of votes and 6 seats. Tisza won 93 of the 106 single-member constituency seats and 45 of the 93 party list seats.
519959
Marc Bandman @mbandman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This guy does the funniest impersonation of Trump I’ve ever heard. Wait, wut, this is the real one?
000
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
789163247757
Reposted by Marc Bandman
The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/04/2026
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket.
bit.ly
Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket.
433988
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New reporting reveals Trump plans to use $15 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pay for an arch named after himself in Washington, DC. This is the same Humanities Endowment funding that DOGE cut from any project that mentioned DEI.
21206137
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
One month ago.
2894190988
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
oh good Lord Kentucky House impeached a judge, saying she abused her authority & was biased in favor of Black defendants their evidence? the judge's statement acknowledging the state's pattern of charging white defendants with lesser offenses and giving them better offers than defendants of color
screenshot of 3 paragraphs from the quote-skeeted article. last two sentences of first paragraph are highlighted in green. excerpt reads as follows:

While Republicans at least gestured toward accountability in their case against Goodwine, they made clear that their impeachment of Goodman was about her rulings. Goodman, a Jefferson County circuit judge, was impeached by the Kentucky House on charges that she abused her authority in certain criminal sentencing and civil rulings. Much of the petition, submitted by former state Representative Killian Timoney, is related to Goodman’s statements about racial disparities in the justice system—for example, a case in which she noted a “clear pattern of disparate charging decisions by the Commonwealth in which white defendants are charged with lesser offenses and given better offers than defendants of color.” Timoney’s petition charged that statements like this are evidence of Goodman’s bias in favor of Black defendants.

The petition also alleged that Goodman gave out criminal sentences that were too lenient, and that she was overly skeptical of claims by lawyers representing the University of Kentucky in employment discrimination cases. Lawmakers pointed to six specific cases that were later reversed by the conservative Kentucky Court of Appeals that they said demonstrate bias.

Before this year, Kentucky has only impeached two judges in its history. In 1806, the House impeached and the Senate removed Judge Benjamin Sebastian for receiving a foreign pension, and for his part in the “Burr Conspiracy” to push states in the then-southwest of the country, including Kentucky, to secede from the United States and form an independent nation. In 1916, the House impeached Judge J.E. Williams for misusing public funds, but the state Senate did not remove him. Now, a century later, the Senate will consider whether to remove Goodman from office, too, for her crime of being too conscious of systemic discrimination.
191030438
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is not who we should be—but ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe he’s taking criminal aliens off the streets. It’s a lie www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
nytimes.com
ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
441919752
Reposted by Marc Bandman
David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Grossly inappropriate for the Secretary of Defense to send from his official government account, DOD official seal attached. What message does this send to our many Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, and other troops? Or to the non-Christian Americans he's supposed to protect?
47665125
Reposted by Marc Bandman
ResistLikeAMF! @pats73.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
War Profiteers are TREASONOUS SCUMBAGS!! #Trumps2Gitmo
14815
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
From Bloomberg: “The world’s most important price for real-world oil barrels surged above $140 on Thursday, the highest since 2008.  Dated Brent, the price of shipments bought and sold in the North Sea, reached $141.37, surpassing levels seen when Russia invaded Ukraine.” #economy #energy #markets
13371122
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
You’ve got to be kidding: “The immediate fault here lies with Europe.” www.wsj.com/opinion/nato...
wsj.com
Opinion | Bomb Iran but Blow Up NATO?
It would be the height of folly and help Moscow, Tehran and Beijing.
1112115
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:
DUAL NATIONALITY AND ELECTION
RICHARD W. FLOURNOY, JR. (1921)
142516803
Reposted by Marc Bandman
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...
35077013490