Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialGaspard de la Nuit @corvid.bsky.social · 10/01/2026The rest of the world is already less likely to travel to the US. Who wants to endure the entry process? 2698
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Gifford: This ridiculous rhetoric by the president—it’s going to impact every single American because it makes them lose faith in us. That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back. 21543341202
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones. 7474504611542
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force. 17863828512207
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2025Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy." 469262897531
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialSkeggox @skeggox.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Thanks, knew that already. Only interested in action items against the authoritarian fuckwits, please and Thankya. 061
mempto.bsky.social @mempto.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Yes we know. I’m not sure why you need to write these pieces. We know. 000
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 14/10/2025Things to do in the future: 1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague 2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again 3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch 486143543058
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2025Tim Walz: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business ... the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Donald Trump is the one with government interference." 483868842
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California. California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today! 272161304896
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2025The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.propublica.orgFive Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public SchoolsThe Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn... 17485285
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialvicpescocostanzo.bsky.social @vicpescocostanzo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025I hope these ICE agents lose their qualified immunity and get sued personally for millions of dollars and lose their pensions, homes, future earnings and all savings. apple.news/AdtIkSD3DSuG...apple.newsLA car wash owner sues for $50m after being slammed and detained in Ice raid — Guardian USRafie Ollah Shouhed, 79, a US citizen, was held for 12 hours after sustaining broken ribs and a traumatic brain injury 36686189
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2025Klobuchar: "When I questioned AG Bondi during her confirmation hearing, she assured me that politics would not play a role, that they would make independent decisions. That is not what this is. This is a vengeance prosecution. It is not about the law." 90085942401
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025"The climate has always been changing" -- played a clip of himself warning about climate change in 2016, EPA chief Lee Zeldin now dismisses it 65072082158
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff." 12313545210933
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 02/08/2025One thing I did this week in my newfound unemployment is I dropped my kid off at an art class and then walked to the library, picked out a novel and plunked down in a comfy chair and started to read it. This is a pleasant thing to do, it turns out. 894168216
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/08/2025if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe 127123121992
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Two can play that game. 1920279596214
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025“A turn away from everything decent” 18596402816
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialmolly taft @mollytaft.com · 30/07/2025NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —wired.comScientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their WorkA new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED. 6238171886
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Mamdani: We are reminded no matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation. 233159063229
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialJeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 30/07/2025We live in a backwards, upside down world now. 313720
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2025A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya. 29171192854
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialDr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here. 398163265339
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/07/2025From prosecutor to senator to vice president, Kamala Harris has always been for the people. I know her next chapter will be no different, whatever shape it takes. 427133751905
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Trump’s Texas gerrymander would give Republicans nearly 80% of seats in state where he got 56% of vote This is direct result of John Roberts & conservative SCOTUS majority gutting Voting Rights Act & refusing to stop blatant partisan gerrymandering www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTrump’s Texas gerrymander Is supercharging a new war on democracyTexas Republicans just unveiled a shocking plan to give their party five new House seats. 53947493
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly? 962154004941
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state. 132102571845
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Russ Vought: “We wish to destroy government as you all know it, including medical research and universities, and we will crush Democrats to do it“ Schumer: “Please be our bipartisan partners so we can be maximally bipartisan and pretend things are normal” 815740
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/07/2025A judge in DC has ruled that the Trump administration has to stop violating public disclosure laws. This is about the administration's efforts to take over Congress' power of the purse & altho the opinion is 60 pages, what the judge has to say is worth your time. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... 9045231470
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialNorman Nicolai @nnicola.bsky.social · 21/07/2025It’s not the Unitary Executive. It’s the REPUBLICAN Unitary Executive. The same court that’s letting Trump dismantle the entire Education Dept. wouldn’t even let Biden’s Education Dept. forgive some student loans. This is a partisan SCOTUS enabling a dictatorial GOP presidency. 35210
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialjtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 21/07/2025What are the chances Roberts would do such a “remaking” at the behest of a Democrat president. 0%. -50%. Zilch. That tells you that he’s not motivated by the constitution. He’s motivated by partisan politics. Shameful. If there’s any justice he’ll be held to account for this in the annals of history 0334
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialTom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 21/07/2025There is no Roberts without Leonard Leo. There is no six-three Catholic Christofascist majority without Leonard Leo. Leo spent 35 years and $600 million creating a court to do exactly what it is doing. The 20th Century was wrongly decided - heresy to be undone. medium.com/@thcarter123...medium.comLeonard Leo & the Stained Glass Curtain He’s Hiding Behind“Pay no attention to the roly poly bat faced boy behind the altar” 45428
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/07/2025JUST IN: A federal judge rules that the Trump administration must reinstate a policy to provide lawyers to people who are deemed mentally incompetent in deportation proceedings. It was terminated without a legally persuasive reason, Judge Ali finds. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0451115... 251854523
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Constitutional crisis is here 637147075191
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/07/2025“What America is witnessing is a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship,” Peter M. Shane argues. That project is the work of Chief Justice John Roberts:bit.lyHow John Roberts Built the New American PresidencyThe country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible. 1772110832
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2025really important to emphasize that roberts' view of the executive branch as comprising a single individual is literally contradicted by the text of the constitution itself 287108402990
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong." 572284627020
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/07/2025Nancy Mace gets wrecked by a community note 718251836979
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 08/07/2025They’re now explicitly opening the door to government subsidized political church operations. It’s part of their theocratic coalition strategy.nytimes.comI.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit 1210938
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...newrepublic.comCongress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever ImaginedIt’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget. 407109073963
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/07/2025New in PN: Trump gutted the weather service. Then Texas flooded. "It might seem obvious that a botched disaster would implicate Trump. And yet, for some 50 years, Republicans have been trying to convince people that government only harms and never helps."publicnotice.coTrump gutted the weather service. Then Texas flooded.It's a brutal reminder that in disasters, we need the federal government. 1342626830
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/07/2025BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...nytimes.comMedical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice 220112023405
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The American Academy of Pediatrics has sued HHS Secy Kennedy for dismantling what they call a long-established vaccine infrastructure. Claims are brought under the Administrative Procedure Act, which means that despite SCOTUS's decision in Cava, there could still be a nationwide injunction here. 6940351160
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy. 1688373748469
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 03/07/2025I just want to say thank you to everyone on our side who reached out to lawmakers and tried to keep this from happening Evil won today but evil won't win forever 49854115
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025Jeffries: "Every single one of the signatories voted for a House bill that undermined the clean energy economy, noted that it would hurt their own constituents, voted for the bill anyway, and the begged the Senate to make it different. That's not how we should be legislating in the US House." 482718638
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot. 384289676740
Reposted by @mempto.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Luttig: There is nothing that John Roberts is not aware of. He knows everything that’s going on. The Chief Justice has said, you, the Democrats, are every bit as responsible for this as the Republicans. That’s offensive. 19135421113
