Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21hI for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 855241875708
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19hThe fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades 24870591876
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026Senator Eric Schmitt is a fucking clown. He didn’t just ask Jack Smith if he was in Atlanta; he did a whole ass posterboard presentation trying to play gotcha, and it backfired because he doesn’t know how to fact-check. Missouri, do better! 3742813669
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 531848611
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSenator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes! 2512252216229
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAll In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down how a GOP senator tried to use a supposed Atlanta Hawks game to prove Jack Smith secretly colluded with Trump prosecutors—only to learn the texts were about the Iowa Hawkeyes game he attended 700 miles away in Maryland.youtube.com'COMPLETE DOOFUS': GOP’s Jack Smith ‘smoking gun’ CRUMBLES over Caitlin Clark gameYouTube video by MS NOW 51688178
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee. 2984546981
meka72esq.bsky.social @meka72esq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Another reason not to trust these specific people to save college basketball. 000
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 273128172107
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head... 822504405
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 28/09/2026 I love how everyone is just a criminal of varying degrees www.wgcu.org/top-story/20...wgcu.orgTrump VP hopeful Byron Donalds’ ex-wife shares her story, says what he’s doing is 'super-dangerous'In an exclusive story, The Florida Center for Government Accountability's Florida Trident reports that Trump VP hopeful Byron Donalds’ ex-wife shares her story, says what he’s doing is “super-dangerou... 25315
meka72esq.bsky.social @meka72esq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yes yes and yes. I see why she doesn't have a presence on Bluesky. She can't handle the truth and, apparently, neither can @ms.now. Viewers have repeatedly let the channel know how they feel about her show and talent. Meanwhile Joy Reid, Katie Phang and Tiffany Cross are gone. What's wrong here?😑 000
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialkevin @musingsbykevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Katy Tur is the most inept journalist(?) in the world.....Why is she still on @ms.now ? She is horrible and her questioning techniques lack congruence with the interview. She stumbles and bumbles searching for a question of substance but never gets to that point. MS NOW should have kept Katie Phang! 252
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At least the acolyte didn’t get a second season bsky.app/profile/wash... 1539749
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Briefly detained” = beat half to death 7549271649
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ossoff: Did you see this business about Don Jr.‘s wedding in the Bahamas? Where he received, apparently, a cash gift from a Russian oligarch connected to the Kremlin? This man, Kremlev, was apparently in China with Putin two days before he flew to the Bahamas for Don Jr.’s wedding… 502168505765
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Welch: Kash Patel has got access to an official plane. So he goes to Nashville to see his girlfriend. And he does it because the standard that is being set by Donald Trump is: You can do what you want. It’s a real degradation of the kind of service orientation that the FBI has been so proud of. 832530782
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Welch: These bombs have been dropping on Gaza. And right now in Gaza, 92% of the people in Gaza live in a tent or under plastic shelter. We’ve destroyed it with our bombs. And that Netanyahu policy that Trump has totally aided has got to end. We cannot be sending 2,000-ton bombs over to Israel… 511762578
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026Because what he’s doing is constructing a binary of causality that does not actually exist That these schools are bad because of their students And your daughter is case in point 32488
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026When Black people that do not like black people are lending you credence You are in the ideological endgame 236131
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026If Thomas Chatterton Williams agrees with you there is something foundationally wrong with your argument 61037112
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026You came to the school and discovered the school was under resourced… ran back to the New York Times and told America this school is under resourced and my daughter struggles with long division Now Thomas chatterton Williams is in France saying “i told you so” 223731
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026The first thing the Trump administration did was initiate disinvestment in higher education 117514
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026Let me tell you something daddy Stop helping white people justify their continued abuse of voucher programs and systemic under resourcing of public education 230530
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026White people don’t need anymore help in justifying disinvestment in public infrastructure 325326
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026He’s literally building a fortified bunker, now an arch that holds major weapons, and controls the military and nukes. He has zero plams to leave, people better wake tf up 1801758652
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialGovernor Andy Beshear @govandybeshear.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Kentucky’s HBCUs have opened doors and created opportunities for generations of Black students and families. Simmons College of Kentucky and Kentucky State University continue that legacy by strengthening communities and helping Kentuckians build a brighter future through education. 24011
meka72esq.bsky.social @meka72esq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Actually that NOT in the constitution as that would be viewpoint discrimination. I’m sure he was jumping up and down when faux news was lying about PBO being born in Kenya (what happened to all the things being found on the birth certificate btw?). Is he putting 🐍 above the constitution? Seems so! 000
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comWhat the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return RevealsA previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover. 15138461800
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 19/09/2026That would presuppose solidarity 533337
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026MS NOW reporter and WABJ member Akayla Gardner was denied entry into the White House grounds and asked to hand over her badge. 35578214
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialit's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Rep.Shontell Brown #NationalRegistrationDay is here. Check your registration and make a plan. 55832
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/09/2026“In court documents, the Trump administration has argued that once someone is deported to a foreign country, it cannot control what that government does.” Yes, that’s precisely the problem.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportations (Gift Article)Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 2186
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialSamuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New at @jssreligion.bsky.social. We asked Christians what actions help build the Kingdom of God on earth: we find the more Christians affirm Christian nationalism, the more they deprioritize charity & justice while prioritizing Christian statism & evangelism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 109032
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialCongressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 18/09/2026We know private equity’s playbook: slash and burn, roll up industries, use power to raise prices, squeeze every possible profit while making services worse. Proud to support this bill to get PE out of our doctors’ offices. 725044
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/09/2026Patients want to know that decisions about their health care are being made by doctors, not by Wall Street investors. If we’re going to lower costs and un-rig the health care system, we need to stop the corporate takeover of medicine. I’ve got a bill to get the job done. 34812188
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is bad analysis, I'm sorry. He "unearthed" NOTHING. The bigotry and racism have been here. He knew this because he was and is a racist bigot himself. 1657979
meka72esq.bsky.social @meka72esq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This has always been okay. White students with “lower scores” are admission worthy but Black and Latino students are not. Go read the Michigan Law School appellant briefs. 000
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And to be clear: This is what happens when you take ALL race out of equations. There end up being more Asians. Just wait until the backlash to immigrant Asian Harmeet Dhillon making that the rule throughout the US. 517028
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The weird thing abt the Bo French scandal is while people lambaste his gutter racism, they DON'T point out his attack on UT was basically a demand that less qualified white people be admitted over Latinos and Asians -- a demand for affirmative action for white people. 14481122
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Judge Cooper issues order requiring 30-days notice before any "demolition" of the main Kennedy Center bldg. Also seems to grant plaintiffs discovery into the Kennedy Center demolition posterboards Trump was photographed looking at. 14301116
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 18/09/2026The Florida GOP didn't respond to a request for comment about Rawson’s involvement with the League of the South, attendance at Unite the Right, white supremacist donors, or the post he appears to have made on X advocating lynchings. Nor did the national GOP.talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives... 15419
meka72esq.bsky.social @meka72esq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Should’ve kicked his ass all over the stage, really. 010
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialFifty @chrislablee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why I was never upset with Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. If anything Will should have stomped him out on that stage 012
Reposted by @meka72esq.bsky.socialZaquelle LaBelle @zaquelle-labelle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The rent is too damn high??? 001
![MINUTE ORDER: Plaintiff's [84] Motion for an Emergency Hearing is hereby DENIED. By September 23, 2026, Defendants shall a file a detailed status report, supported by a sworn declaration from a knowledgeable representative of the Kennedy Center, on the "temporary closure" and emergency repairs described in Defendants' [86] Response and Mr. Floca's [86-1] supporting declaration. Further, the parties are reminded of Defendants' representation to the Court in the companion case D.C. Preservation League that they will "inform Plaintiffs and the Court if there is any change in the Board's plans that would constitute a reversal of the Center's position that the building will not be demolished and that no new structure will be constructed." Joint Meet & Confer Report (Aug. 28, 2026), Case No. 26-cv-981 (CRC), ECF No. 62 at 2. To avoid any confusion on that score given more recent events, the Court hereby ORDERS Defendants to provide such notice in writing to Plaintiffs in both cases more than 30 days before the implementation of any changes to the scope of the project plans presented to the Court in D.C.
Preservation League, including but not limited to any "demolition" of the Center's main building.
Finally, Plaintiff may seek discovery regarding the subject of their [85] Notice of Supplemental Authority to the extent permitted by the Federal Rules and the Court's scheduling order. SO ORDERED. Signed by Judge Christopher R. Cooper on 09/17/2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vrmx2e5gsi23srsy2n7vljvb/bafkreibyhoihwkog5j3buaeesgtfei5ajd5ht6vdbdwwo27frdqmelvxbi)
