Reposted by percussion rinsejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5hi think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy 1363258420
Reposted by percussion rinseGeoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The first thing a Dem Congress does is pass a resolution saying the President is not immune from any prosecution, and remove it from SC jurisdiction. 855671
percussion rinse @mcdeconstruction.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@pianow.bsky.social @mattharmon.bsky.social Watchlist has disappeared from Yahoo fantasy iphone app. still appears in web browser 000
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking. 26993250
Reposted by percussion rinseMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Seems obvious that JD Vance or a close aide is a key anonymous source for this NY Times story. Vance apparently wants NYT to help him create the impression he's blameless in the war. Note that NYT does not say Vance declined comment. Surely he was contacted, considering the story is all about him.nytimes.comBehind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War (Gift Article)Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly. 51687200
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governorsNew York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm. 651412608
Reposted by percussion rinseAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us. 812136903347
Reposted by percussion rinseAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/08/2026This is what the fake "free speech" advocates have built: an administration that harasses critics. Produce research showing the expensive National Guard deployments didn't lower crime? Get sued by Trump's lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...nytimes.comTrump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a CriticIt was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment. 431325488
Reposted by percussion rinseJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I see we are continuing the majority's pattern of "SCOTUS nominally defers judgement in a way that, for every practical purpose, gives Trump what he wants." 15900187
Reposted by percussion rinseMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The problem with Woke 1 was its lack of proportionality. That's why everyone who tweeted about how racism is bad should be sent to the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o... 1142351215
Reposted by percussion rinseNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The U.S. president frequently threatening to bomb various countries—adversaries, partners, whatever—is bad. The fact that they react with “sure, buddy, whatever” is bad. Throwing away international credibility to posture for a domestic audience and assuage the president’s feelings of inadequacy. 27764155
Reposted by percussion rinseBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Immediate grounds for impeachment and removal under any previous modern president. Six million people live in Colorado. 372173652
Reposted by percussion rinseAndrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 13/08/2026This will reduce potential sortie capacity something like 40% and put unexpected cycling strain on reactors which were not designed for it. Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage, if you care about such things as readiness or reliability or lethality or whatever 982116627
Reposted by percussion rinseWulftrax @wulftrax.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Quick reminder that the U.S. Department of Defense has failed seven financial audits. 18656222
Reposted by percussion rinsedell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it 2848131287
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Incredible that the center-left habitually chides progressives for forgetting the "ancient wisdom" of politics and then watches as they're beaten by the most basic organizing: campaigning in public, finding volunteers, canvassing. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...nytimes.comThe Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 MidtermsProgressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed. 30706125
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective. 1455039928
Reposted by percussion rinseThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/08/2026Interior officials have been spotted routinely shredding documents and using disappearing Signal messages, in clear violation of the Federal Records Act. trib.al/C3ehaQvtrib.alInterior Dept. Officials Are “Terrified” of Leaving Written RecordThree staffers say they regularly witness Interior officials shredding documents and using disappearing Signal messages. 33395253
Reposted by percussion rinseQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026People are criticizing me unfairly, such as for my actions and their inevitable consequences 2243915577
Reposted by percussion rinseMelissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a batshit response to attacking candidates who are winning primaries and elections, when the other side is fascists. If you think you have more to lose from lefty candidates winning office than MAGA's continued destruction, no one should take you seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...nytimes.comModerate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant LeftOne moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism. 1121292312
Reposted by percussion rinseSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace. 682216847247
Reposted by percussion rinseJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/20261. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states. 4615881011
Reposted by percussion rinsePeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy 1486571703
Reposted by percussion rinseredstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Let's all sit with the fact that the president wants to jail some random person who is self-evidently innocent. It's not surprising, but it's amazing that much of the media is almost completely disinterested in this fact. 922369
Reposted by percussion rinseNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face. 10380123
Reposted by percussion rinseAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comThe Coming Food-Stamp CrisisA looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year. 361888759
Reposted by percussion rinseBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...nytimes.com‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead. 22182742839
Reposted by percussion rinseMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Bennie Moreno is making a scene so the SEOs pick this up instead of the fact he did absolutely nothing against his former son in law that burned his daughter with scalding hot water and likely broke his two year old granddaughters collarbone 12699210
Reposted by percussion rinseSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here. 1014155955
Reposted by percussion rinseJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases. 121002367
Reposted by percussion rinseBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In a less deranged version of our country, skies full of smoke would inspire us to bold climate action. There’s an American majority that loves blue skies & air we can breathe more than fossil fuel profits. 231127248
Reposted by percussion rinseJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026So the guy DOJ has put in charge of charging antifa “domestic terrorists” is himself one of the j6 boys … 171229461
Reposted by percussion rinseChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court. 20779641863
Reposted by percussion rinseMichael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · 14/06/2026could not possibly be happier for karl-anthony towns. this team was his basketball destiny. this run would not have been possible without his sacrifice. great player, better person. 625631
Reposted by percussion rinseSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 10/06/2026.@eggerdc.bsky.social: "So thoroughly poisoned are the minds of Trump’s base voters by now that they no longer need to see even pretend evidence to believe his claims that this or that election are rigged." Read the latest Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comGet Ready for November’s ‘Stop the Steal’Republicans’ reactions to the Los Angeles mayoral race preview their reactions to the midterms. 16364107
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026At the risk of stating the obvious: when reactionaries say elections are "rigged," what they mean -- in their hearts, in their guts -- is that their opponents are illegitimate and it only counts if they win. That's what they've always meant. 251335278
Reposted by percussion rinseAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to DiscriminateAlabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won. 16470772776
Reposted by percussion rinseSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Essentially the media’s position is they’ll underplay Trump’s cognitive impairment as long as he’s still good at blowharding. 925929
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/06/2026Scott Pelley is a hero, and it really makes you wonder: where has this spirit been? In other media figures, other executives, other people who have seen these oligarchs degrade everything of value in this country? Why is it so striking & unusual for *anyone to fight back*? 29536120
Reposted by percussion rinseRep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 30/05/2026There is no world in which this is okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵notus.orgSamuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury DepartmentPhilip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department. 27754312217
Reposted by percussion rinseCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative promise of the internettheatlantic.comThe Feeling of Control Slipping AwayAI is causing a crisis of agency. 14397115
Reposted by percussion rinseDave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/05/2026"He was the kind of tech commentator anti-talent who makes a smooth and remunerative career for himself by being enthusiastic about gadgets while seeming think-y and writing at a low fourth grade level." — @rusty.todayintabs.comtodayintabs.comWho Is Nick Bilton?Edward Bulwer-Lytton just sent me a telegram from hell that says: “WOW THIS GUY SUCKS AT WRITING STOP.” 34515
Reposted by percussion rinseThe City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 27/05/2026NEW: An investigation by @thecity.nyc, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.projects.thecity.nycWe Found 430 ICE Street Arrests in the NYC Area. More Than 93% Targeted Latinos.An investigation by THE CITY, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented… 18303201
Reposted by percussion rinseMicah @rincewind.run · 21/05/2026a world-historic midterm walloping - with republicans losing in places they never dreamed were at risk - is a necessity at this point we need Rs to realize that if you're going to lose your job because of trump one way or the other, you might as well lose it for telling him to go to hell 12855115
Reposted by percussion rinseSteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 21/05/2026Michael Flynn, who has already received a payoff, twice pleaded guilty to felonies in open court, as part of the Russia scandal that was not at all "fake" or "phony." He’s a hopelessly ridiculous example of a “victim.” tinyurl.com/67yt87te In related news, Byron Donalds just isn’t good at this. 36605184
Reposted by percussion rinseAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The Capitol Crawl, the protest that marked the difference between public support for the ADA and apathy, was about visible discomfort. The discomfort of disabled people having to haul themselves out of wheelchairs and up burning hot steps for access, yes, but more specifically, viewers’. 427194
Reposted by percussion rinseDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime. 317127284845
Reposted by percussion rinsePhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation” 16676592267
Reposted by percussion rinsemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026it's not like the political media can't make a big issue of this stuff when it wants to. see the coverage they gave to Rev. Wright while Obama was running for President despite Wright being less close to Obama than Loomer is to Trump and Wright's comments being much less offensive than Loomer's. 6593105
