nostromo-ripley.bsky.social @nostromo-ripley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026www.youtube.com/shorts/_vGon...youtube.comAuto-Tune the Pam Bondi Hearing So That It Transforms Hootin and Hollerin Into A Sonorous RhapsodYouTube video by schmoyoho 000
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity. 4138159778
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 639126124416
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Damn. 🔥 “.. Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 491546517
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/01/2026Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)wsj.comExclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With DefianceIn an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging. 61789402740
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 23/12/2025From a federal prosecutor who reviewed the Epstein flight logs: 26728
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/12/2025FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times F: Not a 600% cut L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now 366699182369
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I wish someone would ask Trump what a 20 dollar drug will cost after he reduces it by 600%. 451009117
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialJonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 06/12/2025NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... 22552122353
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie... 11026951516
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/12/2025Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors." 622183546558
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/12/2025“.. The US lost an average of 4k private-sector jobs per month over the last 3 months (ADP data), the first 3-month decline since the 2020 recession.” - Bilello 24395178
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 28/11/2025Donald Trump has a fondness for bluffing, putting profits ahead of values and a might-makes-right worldview. Sadly, history abounds in examples of doomed peace agreements based on such principlesecon.stThe wrong sort of peace leads to the next warDonald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history 0237
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/11/2025BREAKING: The suspect who is alleged to have shot two National Guardsmen was from Afghanistan and WAS GRANTED ASYLUM BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN APRIL, 2025! www.cnn.com/us/live-news...cnn.comLive updates: Washington DC shooting leaves two National Guardsmen shot | CNNTwo members of the West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, DC, today, according to the state’s governor. Follow for live updates. 86349
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 24/11/2025maybe i am going insane 154179833832
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/11/2025absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed 76173481818
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime. 194120813722
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/11/2025The Biden administration had an open investigation into Epstein’s coconspirators. This past January, Trump killed it, fired the prosecutors, and stole the files. 17950285
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.com60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. 611469705
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 12/11/2025NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.propublica.org“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent TroopsAfter reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading. 14734421652
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.” 27387782850
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025 48903303
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAmy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 05/11/2025Trump has decimated Republican support in one year. EVERY county in both Virginia and New Jersey has moved blue, some by double digits! LFG! 739591
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/10/2025Trump: "I said, 'put it all into one bill and if we get it done, we're done for four years.' We don't need anything more from Congress." 2291114443
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/10/2025Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior. 26746971776
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme. 77816333
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/10/2025Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026." 2001444831
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialMichael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Article:nytimes.comFear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk 131226318
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 22/09/2025Donald Trump claims to have ended six wars in six months and has been angling for a Nobel peace prize. Americans are less convinced of his diplomatic prowess, as our polling shows econ.st/4mUl20Yecon.stDonald Trump’s approval ratingFollow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump 94314
nostromo-ripley.bsky.social @nostromo-ripley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025www.politico.com/news/2025/09...politico.comTrump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers sayMore than 60 ambassadorships don’t even have a nominee, while diplomats are told they’re being evaluated on their “fidelity.” 011
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2025No law authorizes the president to designate something as a domestic terrorist org (only a foreign terrorist org), so it will be interesting to see what law he invokes here (if any). “Domestic terrorism” is more of a concept than anything with a legal underpinning. 1122074505
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Everything old is new again 24542146
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 18/09/2025There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this. Just an administration of posters, basically. 1346033997
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/09/2025Trump wants us to grow accustomed to unnecessary military presence in our communities. We cannot allow this to become the new normal. Hear the full interview with @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on the latest ep of The Contrarian Pod: contrarian.substack.com/p/the-autho… 421478
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Growing evidence that this is the most corrupt White House in history. Trump has tripled his net worth based on corrupt, illegal crypto schemes. Trading access to the White House and national security secrets for foreign investments that make money for him and his advisors. 47791342
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/09/2025Time to break out the chart 1667762413
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025There's no reason to have a conversation about political violence based in rhetoric rather than data. I don't need to note that every bomb threat on Election Day in 2024 was a MAGA bomb threat. I don't need to mention January 6, Paul Pelosi, or the two dead Minnesota Democrats. 5586201
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I understand MAGA is insisting the signature isn't Trump's but the WSJ piece nicely shows how the signature matches other letters he signed. 672073528
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 08/09/2025Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ 1051892651
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?" 52734641256
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Trump's massive raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is huge news all around the world. But in the US it's barely even reported, much less discussed and explained. Something fundamentally wrong with US media. 722874971
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Finally, a Republican Senator who isn’t afraid to stand up for our core moral values.👏 841413249
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Trump asked Zuckerberg how much he’d invest in the U.S. Zuckerberg replied: “umm at least $600 billion through 2028.” Moments later, a hot mic caught him saying: “I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with.” 68655232
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialConrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 401818890
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2025US stocks vs. rest of the world: worst underperformance since 2009. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social @dailychartbook.bsky.social 10024981021
Reposted by @nostromo-ripley.bsky.socialGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 28/08/2025Where is Trump’s attention to this matter? 1452806880
