Reposted by Patrick GirouxDaniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 12hWelp. Hold that thought. Taylor Calheira just earned Sporting KC its first penalty kick of the 2026 season. Yes. It took 28 games for Sporting to earn one. #SKCvPOR 021
Reposted by Patrick GirouxHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16hThey have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach. 141210352
Reposted by Patrick GirouxAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 20hZelenskyy approval rating: 54% Trump approval rating: 32% 1122560565
Reposted by Patrick GirouxAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side 2417114463989
Reposted by Patrick GirouxTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon 2839861464
Reposted by Patrick GirouxKansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 07/10/2026Gov. Laura Kelly backs Kansas Democrat for US House, wades into Iowa governor’s race | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #kslegkansasreflector.comGov. Laura Kelly backs Kansas Democrat for US House, wades into Iowa governor's race • Kansas ReflectorOutgoing Gov. Laura Kelly endorses a Democrat in Kansas' 2nd District congressional race and she taunts the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Iowa. 23112
Reposted by Patrick GirouxNieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiPbuff.lyChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoonsOpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists. 30424293
Reposted by Patrick GirouxNews to Remember @moments2remember.link · 04/10/2026Robert De Niro has a message to share. The November is our time to shine at the polls. Fuck those ICE goons and just get there. 18669181
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17158761199
Reposted by Patrick GirouxSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 03/10/2026So much corruption. So much betrayal. So many conflicts. So much greed. No real plan to lower your costs. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 3936088
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" 413362
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMeg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 30/09/2026Five years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...nytimes.comFive years ago, the NWSL was in crisis. Thanks to its players, it’s flourishing (Gift Article)Amidst a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the NWSL, players faced a difficult choice. The action and change they forced saved the league. 419370
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him. 752710363
Reposted by Patrick GirouxNPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026The power and responsibility to protect this free press is in the hands of the people it serves: you. In a precarious time for press freedom, the existence of public media isn’t something we can quietly take for granted. Power a free press that is only accountable to the public: n.pr/3VxNBIZ 32696227
Reposted by Patrick Giroux Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026Claude making a scientific discovery 182100482
Reposted by Patrick GirouxLoud Light @loudlightks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026What’s on your ballot this November?? Check it out. Also update your registration or get someone registered at ksvotes.org 🚨 0106
Reposted by Patrick GirouxRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“'You don’t live here,' the crowd shouted like they were in a basketball arena...” kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...kansasreflector.comUS Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas ReflectorU.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa... 10433921187
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda. 291083300
Reposted by Patrick GirouxSporting Kansas City @sportingkc.com · 27/09/2026Key to a good night's sleep: 3 points & a clean sheet 😴 2201
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDrew VanderPloeg @alvanderp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As @anabnos.com said on the H&A discord, I think it’s telling that in two consecutive games Andre Luiz has made the opponent’s left side defenders(and teammates in general) lose their heads within 45 minutes. 0101
Reposted by Patrick GirouxSporting Kansas City @sportingkc.com · 27/09/2026An eventful first half ⏸️ 0111
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDaniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The red card rightfully stands. Hector Herrera grabs Calheira by the throat. Now Calheira gets a yellow as play restarts. Halter gave him the ol' purple nurple. #SportingKC 031
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDaniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026GOAL. 2-0 to #SportingKC. Calvin Harris somehow redirects a pass from Luiz into the roof of the net. 141
Reposted by Patrick GirouxKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now 293693877
Reposted by Patrick GirouxStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Coming around to the idea that the biggest priority for Americans interested in keeping liberal democracy alive for the next several decades is whole scale reform of the Supreme Court and the judiciary. We can't afford to have Reconstruction 2.0 hampered by the SCOTUS like Reconstruction 1.0 was. 526562
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.comFrom 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada FizzleIt was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare. 341459559
Reposted by Patrick GirouxKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The contempt order kind of writes itself, no? 371053116
Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social talking about KC Current on @kcur.org Up to Date right now. 040
Reposted by Patrick GirouxNPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. n.pr/4d56tVLn.prWarren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census dataDemocratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. 7492136
Reposted by Patrick Girouxmikeeoj.bsky.social @mikeeoj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"...WaPo investigation.. the Office of Remigration's...the agency is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their country of origin." Vote. 37731
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMs. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fort Hays State University, facing a major budget shortfall due to federal and state policies, seems to have made a decision appalling to anyone who cares about paleontology or rural Kansas. #ksleghayspost.comSternberg Museum future in question" /> By CRISTINA JANNEYHays PostAn employee of the Sternberg Museum of 32515
Reposted by Patrick GirouxScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253350
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... 6226691083
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMichael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump's July financial disclosure is live. While serving as president he had time to trade nearly 1200 times in the market during July. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...extapps2.oge.gov 13187105
Reposted by Patrick GirouxRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47271643220
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMike @mikedkuhn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So the press conference is on YouTube and in full context this comment from Wicky feels even worse. #SportingKC 021
Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So many highs and lows at Sporting Park last night. I’ve never witnessed a first half like that. 000
Reposted by Patrick GirouxDaniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The final whistle blows. #SportingKC coughs up a 3-0 half-time lead. 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Union. The team made no adjustments to what the Union changed in the second half, and after each goal, the team seemed to panic even more. #SKCvPHI 071
Reposted by Patrick GirouxElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I talked about Trump as a “family annihilator” yesterday on the show. He will destroy everything that he cannot control. 815461
Reposted by Patrick GirouxRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It just never ends. 28250021652
Reposted by Patrick GirouxJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026691410
Reposted by Patrick GirouxAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026Abdul El-Sayed: "When I said with Jesse Watters that I'd rather have good roads and good schools than have a billionaire make a second billion, I know that resonated with a lot of folks who might not agree with everything else I had to say." 262610500
Reposted by Patrick GirouxKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”nytimes.comRFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.” 382342982
Reposted by Patrick GirouxMeg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 17/09/2026wow they really did the thing 415411
Reposted by Patrick GirouxKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light. 412168293
