Reposted by Michael MarkmanUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/10/2026🔴 Unable to halt Ukraine’s advance on the front line, Russia is intensifying missile and drone strikes against civilians and critical infrastructure. Ukrainian forces have reclaimed 176 square kilometers in Operation Vivaldi, prompting the Kremlin to turn to terror tactics against cities. 19305140
Reposted by Michael Markman💙💛Deranged Pixie 🏳️⚧️ @edwardreese.bsky.social · 21hThis morning I couldn't get to my office - last night russians fired a drone at a bridge connecting two banks of the Dnipro River in Kyiv. Most likely, I will be trapped in my district for a while, because they've just done it again. The bridge is closed. #UkrainianView 1/2 32016
Reposted by Michael MarkmanMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10hThese hideous Trump ads are outright theft from the taxpayers and election misconduct at the same time. $20 million in OUR MONEY spent on Illegal ads glorifying the would-be king. And his co-conspirators told him it was OK.nytimes.comTrump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims. 28572219
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10hIf USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide? 224476
Reposted by Michael MarkmanWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15hWhat could go wrong? Everything. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comMusk-led war commission triggers alarms in PentagonTwo of the Defense Department’s biggest contractors will help lead a project that could directly benefit them. 37440151
Reposted by Michael MarkmanJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14hremember the real rocket docket is when Republicans have to jam another corrupt justice on to SCOTUS in three weeks. 2944895
Reposted by Michael MarkmanMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14hWhen a rapist sticks up for other rapists it's called a professional courtesy. 37245791636
Reposted by Michael MarkmanJohn Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 16hI find it absolutely disgusting and reprehensible that Jonathan Ross has still not been charged with any crime in the cold-blooded murder of Renee Good. What a moral failing of our country, our government, our system of laws and justice. 011
Reposted by Michael MarkmanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15hIn his new book 'Profiles in Cowardice,' Jacob Weisberg devotes his final chapter to John Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b... -Preening to be seen as another John Marshall. -Destined to be known forever as this era's Roger Taney. 1428574
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14hHow could those ads NOT be illegal? Argh! presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-polit…presswatchers.orgThe political equivalent of Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue | Press WatchTrump using tax dollars for a campaign commercial should trigger every thinking American, even White House political reporters 89724
Reposted by Michael MarkmanGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19hNew Fox poll of Texas has Talarico +7 with registered voters and +2 with likely voters. This is striking: *He's winning half of working class *In mid-60s w/Latinos *Winning 22% of non-MAGA Rs (!) The kicker: Non-MAGA Rs *disapprove* of Trump New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2161...newrepublic.comNew Fox Poll—a Disaster for Trump—Rattles Fox Anchors: “Wake Up!”They were freaking out on Fox News Friday morning over a new Texas poll. A look at the internals shows they had every reason to. 54889213
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19hThis actual *reporting* was utterly buried in the Time article that accompanied their feeble and shameful Trump interview: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... This is terrifying, even by Trump standards!ms.nowTrump reportedly sought input from Musk’s AI chatbot on military strikesThis was almost certainly the first time in U.S. history that a president consulted an AI chatbot about a provocative foreign policy gambit. 1013475
Reposted by Michael Markmanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22hnot that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 24659631108
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I ❤️ WaPo readers so much! wapo.st/3TX3acS 18315
Reposted by Michael MarkmanScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026AI investments will average about 3.6% of GDP annually between 2025 and 2032. Van Nieuwerburgh calculates that, using a 10% rate of return, the industry would need to generate annual revenues of about $3.7 trillion by 2032 to recover these costs (growing from its current levels of about $200bnbrookings.eduFinancing the AI buildout | BrookingsAI's data center boom could demand 3.6% of GDP in annual investment through 2032—financed increasingly through debt structures that mask real risk. 22815
Reposted by Michael MarkmanScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Getting ready for a reinvigorated Iran War just in time for Thanksgiving. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three accompanying destroyers left their port in San Diego earlier this week and are expected to arrive in the Middle East by the end of November. ft.trib.al/ZzidYwcft.trib.alUS deploys thousands of troops to Middle East as Donald Trump weighs strikes on IranAircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt expected to arrive in the region by the end of November, a US official says 66636
Reposted by Michael MarkmanScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Justice Dept sinks at The Reflecting Pool 939794
Reposted by Michael MarkmanGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No one who isn’t a Nazi should be on Xitter 0265
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The people who run our government are are obsessed with appearance, unfamiliar with blue collar work, and worship President McCheese 1048157
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The President is unable to stay awake during Oval Office press conferences 821558290
Reposted by Michael MarkmanCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237681243
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pod Reco: The most impressive interview with a Democrat I’ve heard this cycle. If Dems win big, what must they do? Clear strategic thinking from @slotkin.senate.govpodcasts.apple.comElissa Slotkin Spots a Big Warning Sign for Trump’s GOP | Command PostPodcast Episode · Bulwark Takes · October 1 · 22m 000
Reposted by Michael MarkmanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right? 1342993524
Reposted by Michael MarkmanBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tennessee's bumbling executioners, as they tried in vain to kill Christa Pike last night, stuck "at least 7 needles into her left arm. "One of them appeared bent when it was withdrawn." Now, Pike is in critical condition and is - yes - "receiving lifesaving medical care" Gift link wapo.st/4j02JJ6wapo.stChrista Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution, lawyers sayA lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed. 96927
Reposted by Michael MarkmanMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dictator Move of the Day. 5295137
Reposted by Michael MarkmanMediagazer @mediagazer.com · 01/10/2026Sources: Disney plans a TV restructuring that is expected to result in more layoffs and consolidation of divisions as it pivots from linear TV toward streaming (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink 133
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Tennessee’s attempted, but botched, execution of Christa Pike was an extreme display of cruelty and the latest reminder that the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment." I'm with @amnesty.org. www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...amnestyusa.orgAfter Botched Execution Attempt, Tennessee Must Commute Christa Pike’s Death Sentence as a First StepThe death penalty is a violation of human rights, and no government should have the power to carry it out. 812244
Reposted by Michael MarkmanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Calling Vance "the most ordinary man imaginable" is so softly savage, you have to admire it. 382470362
Reposted by Michael MarkmanFrancis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I just learned that the chancellor of the NY State board of regents is Lester Young, Jr — son of THE Lester Young. 384
Reposted by Michael MarkmanScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Still one of the five most consistently underreported stories of 2026. Corporate media are afraid to talk about it. bsky.app/profile/chen... 13015
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Translation: “Send me to lose to the Redcoats, send me to lose to the Communists, send me to lose to the Islamists. Send me." 010
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is half-baked but I feel like there is a sort of ambient belief out there that holding the richest people in the world accountable for horrifying crimes is sort of unthinkable, meaning impossible to actually achieve. Do not like. 913728
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Are the awful stories that @theatlantic.com insists on publishing stopping you from reading the good ones? 000
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mary Geddry reminds us that Schmitt’s stunt successfully buried the big story: Jack Smith has the evidence of Trump’s J-6 crimes.marygeddry.comThe Wrong Story Went ViralA Senate hearing became a basketball farce while Jack Smith testified about serious crimes and the rule of law. 011
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026File under FFS. (Although, at this point that file is bursting at the seams.) 000
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Here’s hoping we get another couple of days of ruthlessly mocking Senator Schmitt before he scrolls off the page. I’ll be watching him like a hawk. Or a Hawkeye. Or a Seahawk. With my eagle eyes. 000
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can we start a MAVA movement? Make America Vaccinated Again. 000
Reposted by Michael MarkmanProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)propublica.orgThese Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ... 47902390
Reposted by Michael MarkmanThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/09/2026Trump threatened the Center for American Progress (CAP) with a $5 billion lawsuit for reporting that the National Guard deployed in D.C. had failed to meet their purpose of reducing crime. Norm spoke with CAP CEO Neera Tanden on the latest @americanprogress.bsky.social @neeratanden.bsky.socialcontrariannews.orgWhen Trump Attacks Free Speech, We're All in DangerTrump’s assaults on the First Amendment are not limited to the press, and the press isn’t the only group with the respon 623394
Reposted by Michael MarkmanThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026Donald Trump’s handpicked board has spent all the money the prestigious institution has. trib.al/ueMXjmEtrib.alNew Details Show Trump Is Running the Kennedy Center Into the GroundDonald Trump’s handpicked board has spent all the money the prestigious institution has. 138348
Reposted by Michael MarkmanThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026The president signed his name right above the obvious error. trib.al/fQ1OmJetrib.alOnly Trump Would Spell United States Wrong in an Executive OrderThe president signed his name right above the obvious error. 168925
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you know your Bible, you know that anointing with oil is how the Prophet Samuel designated Saul as King. The Hebrew for anointed one is “מָשִׁיחַ” (Messiah). The Greek is “Xristós” (Christos). What’s this guy saying? 110
Reposted by Michael MarkmanCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 14726651203
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths. 371709278
Reposted by Michael MarkmanDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dear @nytimespr.bsky.social: How do you square this article, which stenographically recounts and amplifies DHS lies, with this policy statement? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... 35621
Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have only one complaint to make about @markjacob.bsky.social. His posts are so good. I want to repost every one of them. You can save me that anguish by following him and reading them all for yourself. 000
Reposted by Michael MarkmanCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11470912039