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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 18h

This is not ‘deportation’. It’s trafficking. 😡

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 19h

25th Amendment would be handy right now.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Taxpayer money. My money spent on this crap..

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can that please be the headline for the WSJ and NYT? Just so the markets can read his stupidity on the front page?

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💯 agree. Dissolve SCOTUS and start over.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Helping our enemies every hour of every day

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🙏🏻 It will be interesting to see how she responds.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

True. Unless that judge is Aileen Cannon.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Former FBI agent Michelle Ball secured a 50-page confession detailing corruption in Congress. Then the FBI fired her, and trashed the case. Her fight back: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-fbi...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The cruelty is so horrific. I hope she can rest while we continue to fight.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Next up, Washington DC renamed to Trump City.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Voting him out in CA the first chance I get.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Run to his MAGA buddies at SCOTUS is the playbook.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This guy never paid for anything in his life. Mobster.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A clan of predators, supporting revolutionary allies from illiberal parties and nations, and getting rich in the process. A must-read @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on this new, far worse United States.

administration's reckoning, he had two strikes against him: First, de Moraes's court was trying Bolsonaro; second, he had provoked the ire of Elon Musk, Trump's largest election donor. De Moraes "needs to leave," Musk said, comparing him to Voldemort, after de Moraes threatened to fine X and ordered it to block accounts accused of spreading disinformation.
The crisis was novel in other ways too. In normal times, the Brazilian government is reasonably well connected in Washington, regardless of who runs either country. The tenth-largest economy in the world, Brazil cooperates extensively with U.S. law enforcement and regional organizations. Yet at this crucial moment, with billions of dollars in the balance and Brazil's sovereign democracy under attack, Brazilian officials suddenly found that nobody in the Trump administration would speak to the formal representatives of their left-leaning president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Brazil's ambassador to Washington found herself isolated. The foreign minister, a diplomat who had known U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for decades, could not get through to anyone. A junior official told me that even his graduate-school classmate at the U.S. Treasury would not answer his calls.

A truce was finally arranged, multiple people told me, with the help of Joesley Batista, a billionaire whose meatpacking company does business in both the U.S. and Brazil, and whose American subsidiary had donated $5 million to Trump's inauguration (more than the contributions of Amazon, Meta, and Google combined). Batista had no official government role, but his money may have given him the clout to influence Trump's meetings with Lula at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, and at a summit in Kuala Lumpur, where the two elderly populists, each with grievances against their respective establishments, hit it off. The tariffs were reduced.
The détente was temporary. When I visited São Paulo and Brasilia this past spring, the State Department had just appointed a new senior adviser on Brazil policy. Before working for the administration, Darren Beattie founded Revolver News, a website that promoted the "Fedsurrection" conspiracy-the belief that federal agents were behind the riots on January 6, an obsession that would naturally appeal to Brazil's election deniers and displease the elected president. When Beattie asked to visit Brazil for a minerals conference, the Brazilian government refused to grant him a visa, in part because it suspected that his true purpose was to visit Jair Bolsonaro,

Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the
world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more.
Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don't want to build long-term relationships.
They don't care about America's reputation.
They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fascists. ‘Smaller’ would be a coffin.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He needs to be removed from office asap.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nearly every $500 ACA rebate headline reads like they were written by the Trump admin (and barely any story mentions that upwards of 90% of people on the ACA would not qualify for these payouts.) Here's one headline that works: newrepublic.com/post/215281/...

Trump Tries to Raid Treasury for Obamacare Rebates as Questions Swirl
Donald Trump claims Obamacare rebate checks will be sent out soon—but he won’t clarify who’s getting the money or where it’s coming from.

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Altogether Ooky Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

After escaping the rubble of the WTC, Trump barely had time to get aboard Flight 93, lead the uprising against the hijackers, and parachute to safety.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

MacFarlane: He's in the rose garden tonight, eating fine beef, eating a three course meal out on the patio, the hamburgers cost $6 a piece at the grocery store. Right now, the box of sugar cereal, which sometimes is dinner, $6.

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persisted2020.bsky.social @persisted2020.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Will Apple & Google go along with this too??

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