Reposted by Piatto DelgattoChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7hA dual "Hatch Act found dead." / "Oh, they're really worried about South Carolina? They're so cooked." moment 622046
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7hMeanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful. 931152346
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 8hBREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl 8640311082
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10hPretty clear that the Trump admin's "Civil Rights" department is actively seeking to force schools to segregate further and deny more Black students. 7206101
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 10hGOP consultants are falling over each other to make the most dire pronouncements about the party's midterms fate. “If the bottom continues falling out like it has been, this will be worse than 2006,” a nat'l GOP strategist says. Dems gained 31 seats in '06. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...talkingpointsmemo.comDesperate GOP Scrambles to Defend Once-Solid Red SeatsWorse Than 2006? Republican political consultants are practically falling over each other... 1011021
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11hAlthough @cnn.com & @politico.com have not yet sought to enjoin Trump’s ad hoc exclusion of them from Air Force One & the Oval Office, their reply brief in the White House press pass case signals that they likely will, & previews arguments they’ll make.… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1/3 27932
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted RanksThe civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said. 451171489
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 12hConservative Harvard Law prof @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social on Justice Alito: “[O]riginalism … is becoming a zombie creed that functions more as a shibboleth than as an actual guide to conservative constitutional decision making.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comZombie OriginalismSamuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant. 69224
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoWIRED @wired.com · 17hTo follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.buff.lyElon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It DailyTo follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. 320084
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoSophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Got a weird one for you guys tonight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comElon's fans erect 50-foot statue outside his company townA studio promising "art so epic it will raise the birthrate" gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk's Starbase. 10633674
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Something is wrong with this guy’s wiring www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 2031049
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18hI'd be such an asshole to warlocks if I was a wizard. That's cool that you sold your soul to learn magic, I just went to grad school and now can do everything you can, but everyone has their path. 2239034
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They listened to me. There is now more chart. 615533
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 18hneeded to visualize SCOTUS ideologies ... Claude 1.1-shotted this with a screenshot of variable names (I had to fix the macro for titling size options) 171
Reposted by Piatto Delgattoemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20hI've been meaning to do a post, but all these pressers violate DOJ's pre-election rules, which Todd Blanche swore were sacrosanct when he represented someone charged over a year before an election. 4352148
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being. 11534245
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Attys for Olympian & exonerated Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn write 25-page letter to Inspector Generals of DOJ and Dept of Interior seeking investigation of circumstances of Hearn's arrest, detention & indictment. ... 1/2 www.democracydefendersfund.org/wp-content/u... 625972
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The president would not only be likely committing a crime but inducing voters to commit a crime. "If payments were in fact made, voters who had made their decision 'in consideration' of receiving such funds might also face [criminal] exposure under Section 597."justsecurity.orgAuctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law. 13300106
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office. 19362140
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9459343393
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAlexa @alexakoenig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And for our full report, with a foreword by a former immigration judge, who became a first-hand witness to the cruelty and potential illegality of this program: humanrights.berkeley.edu/architecture...humanrights.berkeley.eduThe Architecture of Cruelty — U.S. third-country removal agreements, 2025–2026Since January 2025 the United States has concluded third-country removal and asylum-cooperation agreements with 35 countries. A Berkeley Human Rights Center investigation into what the paperwork says ... 085
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoSPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Polish government destroys Russia's paid influencer Tucker Carlson for his promotion of the idea that Europe should've surrendered to the Nazis in the same way Tucker has surrendered to Russian money. 26124
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 06/10/2026The Ebola virus is spreading to new parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and exhausted health workers can't keep up. Read more: bloom.bg/3Vv0nYW 📷: Daniel Buuma/Getty Images 01612
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026The coin has features a small emblem with a horse’s head emblazoned over crossed swords and the phrase “NE QUIS EFFUGIAT,” which is Latin for “So that no one will escape.”talkingpointsmemo.comChilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ HumansEditor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday... 104525
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged. 941336443
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...newrepublic.comFox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge. 50839212
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026sadly the huge leaps forward in machine translation are likely to deprive us of such reliable gems as "dry" and "fuck" in Chinese using the same simplified character or my all-time favorite "Racist Park" (which was also an accurate description of the park, as it happened) 26694129
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoDustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026These are the tactics my grandpa’s couriers used to distribute resistance materials under Nazis 074
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoGwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The latest ICE arrest wave targets ppl with "withholding of removal," a status that means an immigration deemed they'd be in danger if deported to their home countries. The Trump admin is now pushing to deport them to third countries. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...thecityreporter.nyc'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country DeportationImmigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion. 310066
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/10/2026insane that he keeps doubling down on this -- and on the conditional in particular, which polls terribly www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-27... 39475103
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because. 12452132
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gotta say until you read the actual motion it's not clear just how rabid the Greens' positioning is. The motion calls for the end of the State of Israel. 2239690
Reposted by Piatto Delgatto👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every South American election recently has basically been: Jesús Marx Bonaventura de Corruption (Alliance to Not Kill Puppies): 48.9% Pedro Sanchez-Hitler (Reform): 50.01% Geraldo Demonslayer (Bitcoin Liberation Front): 1% 524871
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/10/2026Bolsonaro surged to a surprise lead over Lula in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, making him the overwhelming favorite to win the runoff and take Latin America’s heavyweight nation sharply to the right. Read more: bloom.bg/4djzRYx 📷: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg 91010
Reposted by Piatto Delgattojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man" 392470189
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin 6677154752
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoSven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany 51767269
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Interesting thing about this is not just does it have an obviously Nazi-influenced aesthetic, but look at the colors. All of the colors are washed out and slightly grey-toned, because the color palette is based on poor-quality color photo film from the 30's and 40's. It didn't really look like that. 53911
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show. 44624319
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.nytimes.comHow Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 49737251
Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I understand the purpose of this, but it seems like a bad idea on balance. blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...blog.arxiv.orgFair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit PolicyarXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a… 000
Piatto Delgatto @piattodelgatto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kansas. GOP feels like it needs to shore up the *Kansas* senate race. 010
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoAntigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People don’t realize how serious the situation is. 371460361
Reposted by Piatto DelgattoRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 8335143