Reposted by MichaelBrosiusKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I’ve never liked Gavin Newsom so I appreciate that he’s done all he can to tank his presidential chances. Maybe go punch a baby just to seal the deal? 921919116
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Between the minds of Shawn McCreesh who wrote this whimpering piece of Trump defense, the editor who approved it and the executives who produce such trash with a succession of mindless zombie "journalists".... the diagnosis of our malaise is served..... 000
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's not immediately clear to me why Laura Chung laura.chung@nytimes.com or @Laura_R_Chung on twitter is even at the @nytimes; after all.... observations like "It's not immediately clear...." Do we really need them? 000
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Depraved, craven idiocy from the @nytimes.com : "Ms. Hearst was a scion of California’s equivalent of a royal family." There's no equivalent of a "royal F'ing family" in California or any other godforsaken American state: take your goddamned rag and wrap some rotting fish with it! 100
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Because we’ve seen this movie, we know how it ends, which is a politician in robes who is following Trump’s orders on most major questions.” - @blumenthal.senate.gov Every single Sen Democrat should be committing to blocking every Trump nominee to any federal court.nbcnews.comSome Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under TrumpDemocrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If they get it, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he has thought about retirement. 0165
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026THE @nytpitchbot.bsky.social HAS TAKEN OVER THE @nytimes.com, completely !!!!!!!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...nytimes.comFacing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded AdsThe president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money. 010
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Moderate” Democrats like Tammy Duckworth & Rahm Emanuel are already laying the ground for this exact scenario with their “don’t impeach anyone & just get back to work” messaging. 615718
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible. 1435671
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And let´s all remember it was Ed Rendell, Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and his wife, who sent their lackeys out to campaign against Democrats and for Alito´s confirmation...... the one time when Democrats were putting up a fight. 010
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comSupreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito saysDespite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits. 25745501341
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Tucker Carlson’s frustrated bafflement when confronted with basic things like “the UK’s GDP is larger than Russia’s” and “in 1994, Ukraine, Russia, US, and UK signed a treaty called the Budapest Memorandum” shows the state of Putin apologetics. Without lies and conspiracy theories, it falls apart. 526359
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it. 019536
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf. 1152074127
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard. 582242581
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But not a basket of them. That would be beyond the pale. 18316
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida 68993742187
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whether it’s Donald Trump asking his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard on his hamburger, both men have made unusual requests 1671784
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Since taking office, Ken Paxton has spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on luxury travel, including to: — China — Israel — India — Italy — Malta — Taiwan — Albania — Greece — Palm Beach — South Africa — Dominican Republic — 25 trips to California — The 2024 Kentucky Derby 871245596
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah, Mike Pompeo. Lol..... @columbiasipa.bsky.social You´ll wake up ten years from now, maybe. It won´t be pretty..... 000
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusCross-Posted News #TheyLiedToYou @crosspostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Martyrs today, via Qadeyah. #Gaza #TheyLiedToYou 012
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...documentcloud.orgFormal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche 1421184597
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusloreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here is a map with data where you can search federal funding cuts and the Trump regime’s negative impacts on communities across the USA lostfunds.orglostfunds.orgLost Funds — $177 Billion GoneTrack the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court. 133
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusTom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 01/10/2026With respect to the brilliant Dunning and Kruger, the phenomenon should be renamed “The GOP Effect” 0152
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I stopped reading after the lie in the first sentence: "Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing." "<only> by writing"? Literally, no one thinks this. Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. 1318632
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's not just that it's a false dichotomy. It's also that "culture wars" is yet another example of how we are only able to discuss Every. Single. Topic. In. 🇺🇸. Politics. using the talking points & terminology of the right. We & the media are under no obligation to do that: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 15116
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again. 39804191
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 30/09/20264 years ago, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle vacated Biden’s airplane mask mandate: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Now, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle says vacating rules is likely unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I wonder what changed! Grab 1: Then Grab 2: Now 629693
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it. 512533
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178125222683
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusLarry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Meet Capitol Hill’s new poster-boy for RANK INCOMPETENCE: ERIC SCHMITT tried to carry out a big gotcha moment against Jack Smith predicated on rank incompetence Dude, for starters… the NBA Atlanta Hawks and the University of Iowa Lady Hawks Basketball teams are not the same. 51615203
Reposted by MichaelBrosius#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Trump proves a 50-year-old theory about 'stupid people' wrecking society #AlterNettwp.aiwww.alternet.orgTrump proves a 50-year-old theory about 'stupid people' wrecking society 1124
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”ballsandstrikes.orgThe Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court NeededSCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it. 9674205
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party” 312228
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Gonna tell the kids this is why it’s called the show me state. 131
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice? 102966354
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The most bizarre thing about this idiotic, embarrassing line of questioning by Eric Schmitt is that it’s totally irrelevant Even if Jack Smith went to a basketball game in Atlanta-he didn’t-there isn’t even a scintilla of proof that he met, much less conspired with Fani Willis 35 days 1031889367
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusPaul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Because of course, telephones don't exist. zoom doesn't exist. signal doesn't exist.... 🙄🙄🙄 2142
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Need more Katie Britt? Here she is, in all her glory! (Loved that look on your face as Schmitt went down, sweetie.... finally, some authenticity) Although.... lol 020
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026really worth watching the whole thing play out... 1111534312
MichaelBrosius @michaelbrosius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What´s with the illustrious jurist Katie Britt using the word "biased" as a noun? Kind of sticks out like a sore thumb in the midst of your passionate faux uninformed outrage, sweetie, and if we´re gonna talk about "agendas......" You need some acting classes. 010
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2636210085726
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 151047260
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This piece by Rod Ferguson is the strongest indictment of Vanderbilt and Yale's reports on the state of academia. It's a dense piece, and takes close reading. criticalnoise.org/tragedy-at-v...criticalnoise.orgTragedy at Vanderbilt – History of the Present 34516
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Seriously. That’s no cartoon. 1103091980
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just a reminder - here was the news from yesterday re alleged voting fraud committed by non citizens in NV. 26933
Reposted by MichaelBrosiusJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SCOTUS delenda est. It is democracy, or SCOTUS. They have made it very clear that there is no other choice. Expand it, reverse its worst opinions, and then ruthlessly strip it of jurisdiction. Don't trust an expanded SCOTUS in the long run. 05318
