Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls. 1203420823
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed. 915367125923
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things 208155453421
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House 1248162999453
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Democrats can just run this clip as an ad 261041252
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2025About to be the family that owns TikTok. 40551231895
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says. 29476311558
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/08/2025As of now, the authoritarians are winning. 5460984
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/08/2025200 days into Trump's term, where are we? In the race between Trump's authoritarianism and efforts to resist it, authoritarianism is ahead. And while there are hopeful signs from the public, the chance of effective resistance is, for now, being fatally undermined by the capitulation of the elites. 1603773931
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o... 12553959913763
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Three democratic members of congress who were sworn in this January have died in the first four-plus months of the session. 16343041016
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Because the constitution says you can’t 41987901736
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2025this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions 1458225194606
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025“President Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that he did not know whether it was his job to uphold the Constitution” Should lead every newspaper and broadcast in the country and you should raise this with your neighbors and coworkers. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...nytimes.comTrump Live Updates: 'Meet the Press' Interview, Pope Image and Arts Grants 26528156
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker 574277308589
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now. 9474503114357
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship. 84794292379
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger. 21560991604
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/04/2025👇👇 9343705911350
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here? 18843435511060
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.social𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Benghazi this shit. Make this Senate investigation last months and drag them in for questioning every day. 516225804514
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialRick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration. 11313854710059
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialSenate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 25/03/2025WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥 13550112169
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025Circling back on this… 19256408314706
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S. 14772375210966
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialKen Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025We need your help to win the Wisconsin and Florida special elections in April. Text VOLUNTEER to 43367 to find out how to join us. 56919469
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/03/2025How is this real life? 6495140852
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/03/2025🚨 We need you to call your Democratic senator ASAP if their name is on this list. Tell your senator you will have their back if they do the right thing and vote NO on the extreme MAGA spending bill that would give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government: indivisible.org/resource/cal... 13016991093
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment." 5653206248277
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Trump & Vance are monsters. Just absolutely shocking to bring one of the leaders of the free world into the Oval Office and dress him down to demand he thank Trump for Trump's greatness, while this actual leader tries to protect capitalistic democracy from Trump's flailing autocratic petrostate boss 19450801191
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.nytimes.comAndrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes. 665107203628
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025We are already at the ‘purging the generals and replace them with loyalists’ part of the Trump second term, just five weeks in. Totally normal. Not dangerous at all 1263221750
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025The courts have no actual enforcement power, even the Supreme Court, which lies with the DOJ and other entities controlled by Trump. You see there this is going. No where good. 701179173
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialchristiewells.bsky.social @christiewells.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comThe Logic of DestructionAnd how to resist it 42848484
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialJim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope. 801212696727079
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialCarmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A thought that hasn't left my mind for a while now: Did we all watch all the same WW2 movies because there was clearly an enemy and it seems a lot of people's idea of the bad guy did not allign with the actual villains but instead they were...idolizing them? 1845445512
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialHarry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him. 18482000310566
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialBrian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Trump just literally eliminated an Executive Order to reduce the price of prescription drugs. They are ripping you off, personally. They never gave a shit about the price of anything. 20670381995
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence.” “Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.” — Jeff Bezos, in an op-ed in some newspaper that’s dying in darkness, Oct. 28, 2024 1043710698
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/01/2025no. for the next four years your job is Stop Bills 12970101
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The case for a Shadow Cabinet – a positive form of opposition. snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cab...open.substack.comShadow CabinetA Positive Form of Opposition 1402167716
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025The new Republican House began with an obvious lie advanced in the service of Christian nationalism, so we’re off to a great start 15149061281
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/12/2024i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...politico.comTrump's transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data. 607194615751
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialElizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 19/12/2024As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵 13534641116
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Dear Dems, Keep repeating this and loudly so they can hear it at Mar-a-Lago: President (not) elect Elon Muskmedia.tenor.coma cartoon character with the words again again i love repetition below himALT: a cartoon character with the words again again i love repetition below him 39687135
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Trump’s first term was a study in the capitulation of the Republican Party and conservative movement. Apparently Trump’s second term will be a study in the capitulation of…everyone else. 1112450431
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12/12/2024A lot of the people who believe Trump are not engaged at all with the fact-based media -- if you're only absorbing Fox News, Megyn Kelly pods, and TikTok, you would have no reason to doubt him 9808
Reposted by @melissacangi.bsky.socialStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Somehow, after all these years, the sheer vacuousness still floors me. 3433183593