Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12hThe "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1132873512
Reposted by PJAJoshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 12hThe President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants. 472189615
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's 312286594
Reposted by PJA🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Allowing Iran to destroy some (most?) of our bases in the Middle East, which we are now going to abandon sounds like something Fox would make up about Obama 214637
Reposted by PJABrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 152478726
Reposted by PJAAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 411037213
Reposted by PJAKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?" 23556771298
Reposted by PJAAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"You can't fire the president." Actually you can. You voted the wrong way on that, too. 613315
Reposted by PJADave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects. 672397
Reposted by PJADave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7737701085
Reposted by PJASean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 06/10/2026Republicans are constantly getting busted for abusing children because they believe in it, ideologically. Their electorate votes for child abuse, their legislation enables child abuse, their electeds commit and flaunt their child abuse. Child abuse is as central to the right as tax cuts and racism. 411231
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed 472166284
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Al Franken in his pre-harassment Senate memoir said that it's an amazing job, and it's pretty clear that Senators aren't doing it until age 100+ because it sucks 220
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I mean, plenty of stuff has gotten sacrificed on the altar of Congress wanting to go home early for vacation. 000
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah, maybe, though I don't think there's anything stopping a party from doing a 24/7 talking filibuster as is? I guess my sense is that it could have been a worthy thing to try back when there was still a fairly common belief that the filibuster had some value to express an extraordinary objection 000
Reposted by PJARadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That Hemingway quote about hunting men is alarmingly common in police culture. I've seen it on police union merch and on t-shirts and other swag at SWAT competitions and policing conferences. 728063
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423358711
Reposted by PJAThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Friendly reminder that Megyn Kelly was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly and STILL this is how she, and women on the right, treat rape victims. 931369351
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Same as with Bush and those guys, it will be politically advantageous to the next incarnation of the GOP that Trump is so toxic that they have to move on from him 000
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One of the best things that happened to the Trump era GOP is the fact that those guys were so toxic and (also that many of them considered Trump so toxic) that Trump could run against them and present himself as an opponent of "the swamp." 170
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is a reassuring fantasy among those who have critiques of unfettered left-wing governance that right agrees with these critiques and will temper the left when in power. But the contemporary right isnt that, it's an apocalyptic doomsday cult that lives in an alternate reality. 3641132
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973722438
Reposted by PJADon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power. 561573348
Reposted by PJAPaul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR 12590138
Reposted by PJAYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026been reading regime change and I had either forgotten or not realized that the initial justification for the ongoing national guard occupation of DC was that big balls got beat up by teenagers. 1667398
Reposted by PJAPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026incredible to take days saying you’re verifying doe’s identity and then be tricked by a clearly fake court website 261634150
Reposted by PJAHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026Not beating the allegations that all his regular spots need to be labeled like it's a taxpayer funded federal nursing home. 1158567
Reposted by PJAMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK. 29573137
Reposted by PJAGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...clip.cafe 1992659771
Reposted by PJAWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The article notes that Makary drew “strong applause” for saying “The real battle is not between left versus right. It’s between people who are lying to you and people who are trying to tell you the truth.” But that’s NOT true: The destruction of public health is a right-wing project. 1042759
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was just happy I got to see the movie in a theater, honestly. I didn't view the rerelease as a "director's cut" so much as a companion piece, and I sure hope that's how everyone else viewed it. 000
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The premise of the movie seems to be "imagine that left wingers behaved like we did...then people would hate left wingers, right?" 0110
Reposted by PJAAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026what's crazy about this premise is that local businesses in minneapolis hated the ice raids, made it clear they hated the ice raids, lost a ton of money because of the ice raids, and were generally quite sympathetic to the people telling ice to get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/will... 221175216
PJA @pja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026John McCain winning his "war on pork" was among the most damaging things that happened to modern politics 1262
Reposted by PJAAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I 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 895255166037
Reposted by PJAElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Now 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 511341417
Reposted by PJAryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026it 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 18722110
Reposted by PJAjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2026if you take seriously Musk’s stated beliefs i don’t think there is any plausible explanation other than door #2 1035814
Reposted by PJAThe Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Again, 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. 441198252
Reposted by PJAChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty 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. 526101832230
Reposted by PJAJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice? 102966354
Reposted by PJAmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it'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 151093172
