Reposted by peppermintpatty18Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty) 99295372447
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/08/2026The SAVE Act continues to fail in the Senate — and now lawmakers have left town until mid-September. “It’s too late for them to enact any voter suppression or election subversion legislation for it to have [an] impact for the 2026 midterm elections,” Marc Elias says. demdock.com/3T3Owjg 21689191
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 615123434576
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Blanche, GTFO! www.againstallenemies.net/p/blanche-gt...againstallenemies.netBlanche, GTFO!"I'm His Lawyer...WAS His Lawyer..." 16687159
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/07/2026He should just appoint someone. 926111812609
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. They’re not reporting it. If I’m Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it. 505143984301
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026He never deleted it. 858282656930
Reposted by peppermintpatty18The True American @thetrueamerican.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I have thoroughly enjoyed the World Cup. I have loved cheering for the US team. Then that fucker intervened. Yes, the red card was excessive, but I would rather lose because of it than win because Imbecile called FIFA. The joy is gone. Now we’re the bad guys. He destroys everything. 1084143802802
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Supreme Court must be reformed or dismantled at this point. It's a rogue body filled with 6 right wing extremists who want to replace democracy with a white Christian King. If a politician doesn't support Court reform then they arent the leaders for this moment. Step aside. 27567111784
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you. 36370883082
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State." 404130754432
Reposted by peppermintpatty18🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Stephen Colbert closed out the final episode of The Late Show with an emotional performance of “Hello, Goodbye” alongside Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney symbolically switched off the studio lights one last time to the Ed Sullivan Theater. 🥹🥺 429123503009
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Thanks, Supreme Court. You're waking up the majority and radicalizing us. You're becoming more illegitimate by the day. Bring it. 31894872031
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comSCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent rulingThe ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout. 1294130386216
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one. 303126104011
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Gotta indict Matt Gaetz now. Sorry, them is the rules. 452029462
Reposted by peppermintpatty18David @david414.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Apparently the democracy isn’t as strong as we thought. 994179133833
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day. 225143962714
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/03/2026✋ #PresidentPedoPutinPuppet 1867190515975
Reposted by peppermintpatty18JeanSand - Keeping It Real @jeansand.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day. 438192978983
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Sanders: People can't afford health care. People can't afford childcare. And this guy, in addition to giving tax breaks to billionaires, now wants to spend another $200 billion on a war that should never have been fought. 11643391229
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/20261/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. 410156054783
Reposted by peppermintpatty18The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think." 217193276512
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse. 462129173595
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack. Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections. 511181766443
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy. 27890972421
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The Senate must immediately return to session to vote on a war powers resolution. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to continue an unconstitutional, illegal war with Iran. 30922215
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I can answer this one. The president of the United States is dangerously psychotic and no one in his political party will say it, nor will 95% of American media. 541119253556
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...youtube.com"Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… 25167502838
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/02/2026We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase. 961209586064
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/02/2026The US deficit is approaching ww2 levels as a percent of GDP. Because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that GOP voted for. We are spending more on INTEREST than on anything else including the military. This is a time bomb, and the GOP is responsible. Fiscal conservative my ass 26865432064
Reposted by peppermintpatty18M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Agree 💯% With Rick Wilson....... 26341481662
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors 9504416616771
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Name them shame them 5994000811456
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Keep up the pressure. Or else they will cave. 711264393
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Things are so bad I’m reposting Rand Paul 939281
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty. 582174038855
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026Keith Ellison talks about how is son is a veteran who works in healthcare in Minnesota "When he was at work today and last night, he said, 'My colleagues were crying. They took this hit to one of their own very personally.' He said I did too." 423135756
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Tim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026@hcrichardson.bsky.social One of the ways I resist and make my voice heard is to make art. #AlexPretti died not only defending a woman from thugs, he died defending rights we all have as citizens of this country (at least for now). 1920775
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now." 13324260913701
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Minnesota is the best of us. 651421569580
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/01/2026Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American . 873268306756
Reposted by peppermintpatty18Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Call your representatives today and demand they stop ICE’s abuses of power: (202) 224-3121 16240321730
Reposted by peppermintpatty18The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/01/2026Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.bit.lyUS citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless searchFederal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions. 31261633221