Reposted by PJAAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hI for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 777214535034
Reposted by PJAElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12hNow seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil 37975305
Reposted by PJAryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13hit was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible 18692108
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13hif you take seriously Musk’s stated beliefs i don’t think there is any plausible explanation other than door #2 1034114
Reposted by PJAThe Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 16hAgain, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job. 361104221
Reposted by PJAChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13hPretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 44286681934
Reposted by PJASubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice? 102930347
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19hit's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing 151073168
Reposted by PJAryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19hoh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 161988482
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21hDevelopments in the Hunter story were, after 2021, generally covered with the exact same scandalous tone and cadence as reporting on like, Watergate (because they didn't like Biden and wanted scandals to hurt him) 628420
Reposted by PJAAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21hI have a new example to use next time I need to do my rant about how signature matching is woo-woo pseudoscience that has no good place in how we run elections. 211617
Reposted by PJARadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22hThese ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 331598467
Reposted by PJAMicah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?! 422869562
Reposted by PJAJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 24040151042
Reposted by PJAdr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way: 118241
Reposted by PJAMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Surprised the signatures aren’t aligned to form a picture of a teenage girl 1493
Reposted by PJAMark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies. 26877249
Reposted by PJADom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran 921882373
Reposted by PJARadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD. 5182439436
Reposted by PJAThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Straight to jail. Right away. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...arstechnica.comTrump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experimentVendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible." 0329
Reposted by PJAKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s not unusual for a wartime president to ease up before a domestic election but usually they’re smart enough not to announce that it’ll start again as soon as the voting’s done. 22807178
Reposted by PJAMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not 7065641330
Reposted by PJAMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.cbsnews.comTrump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegalPresident Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa... 721787474
Reposted by PJAemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I can't wait to hear Matty Taibbi wail about censorship. 28815165
Reposted by PJATrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 24/09/2026I could point to a dozen more instances and data points today that tell us just how screwed the Republicans. But here's my favorite: Suddenly-vulnerable GOP Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas calling out...ICE! #KSSen 1961683
Reposted by PJARadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote. 461367337
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884017697
Reposted by PJAAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now 1004405563
Reposted by PJAAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones! 642313436
Reposted by PJABy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... 7288108
Reposted by PJADante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026AG Bonta, the goal was for you to not allow massive media consolidation in the hands of autocrats and their acolytes, and you're announcing the terms of how they bought you off. You can't sell that here. 313940
Reposted by PJAElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Did you give them the third option, high gas prices and maybe Iran still gets a nuclear weapon and US credibility and military power is decimated? 515031
Reposted by PJANoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it is literally impossible to imagine donald trump doing this. because he is actually an antisemite who has contempt for Jewish people. 954060
Reposted by PJAjesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Matt Yglesias: ban trans people from pumping gas 1404
Reposted by PJAtweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 443182752
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026All Im really asking the mainstream political media to do is to cover Trump with the persistently negative tone they use to report daily on Hasan Piker 231653221
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It would be cool if they covered the literal top Republican donor for the second cycle in a row being an Actual Nazi as being as important as they covered Piker saying Mao had some good ideas bsky.app/profile/mcke... 3749113
Reposted by PJADan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don't really follow politics 392834589
Reposted by PJAMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The White House Correspondents Association is about to send Trump a strongly worded dinner menu 759589
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions. 333177252
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103801921
Reposted by PJAAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Reminder that the Children's Hospital of Philly is also the one whose leadership sought to meet with their senator, John Fetterman, about "vaccines and Medicaid cuts" last September, and he was less than enthusiastic, per WSJ 7390115
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867241670
Reposted by PJAStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 17/09/2026This is why I agree with @nberlat.bsky.social that Dems should impeach him, and I’ve little patience for the cynicism from some who argue it’s a waste of time or that Republicans will obviously save him. Make Senate Republicans own up to these crimes on the record. 35012
Reposted by PJAe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/09/2026"People are mean. And they're strangers, or they're not accomplished themselves, and then they can do insults," she said. "It makes me angry." ma'am, the fact that nobody has been as mean to your grifting, worker-abusing, customer-killing son as they should be is actually a major social problem 522311
Reposted by PJADenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a lot of “if i can’t have you no one can have you” energy in this whole trump-kennedy center thing 823233
Reposted by PJANorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026BREAKING: We have updated the Court with the latest developments in Trump's apparent moves to demolish the Kennedy Center  The EXISTING INJUNCTION prevents demolition The Court has ordered the government to say what the hell it is doing by 10 AM @repbeatty.bsky.social, DDA & WLG will fight this! 19637891239
Reposted by PJADr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed. 221091363
![WSJ:
Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
[followed by snippets of a text conversation between Fetterman and an aide]
FETTERMAN: Why do I have to keep meeting with chop
AIDE: Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
FETTERMAN: Well I'm not... I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gljcmclsvuebhhnvpa2rwvjr/bafkreierwo2f2kwnvh6wmzyn75lyze2kstgsvo55pb5po76hz2pivgpd5q)
