Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025To anyone who wondered, what could go wrong if we elected as president a highly volatile, deeply dishonest, simple-minded cretin with a revenge fetish, the answer is THIS. All of THIS. 403206124923 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialRandall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 08/06/2025From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Rubio’s claim that it’s ‘a lie’ that people have died from foreign-aid cutsThe secretary of state rejected convincing evidence documented in news reports and by disease modelers. 41564783083 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/06/2025We're no longer the leader of the free world. We're no longer a beacon of democracy and justice. We're no longer the land of opportunity. We're no longer a nation in which no one is above the law. Our myths about ourselves are killing us. What to do? davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-are-not...davidrothkopf.substack.comWe Are Not the Nation We Thought We WereWe must see through our myths about ourselves if we are ever to aspire again to greatness 2162635878 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism” 6865388915537 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay. 442225993376 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past 804507599667 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Hello, Congress. Are you really going to go along with this tariff fiasco? Use your power. 469191634208 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt. 1078332699337 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"Unlike Biden, I will put these assholes in jail where they belong" is something Democrats in 2026 and 2028 need to campaign on. 215233 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025 522406501 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22/03/2025An enterprising Democrat would recognize an opportunity to accuse the president of being soft on crime. 34114 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Elon is attacking somebody falsely and egregiously because they are a real astronaut 438110652561 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...newrepublic.comMusk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA LieWe can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people. 20258682434 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Good god Republicans - it’s not worth it. Your country, your ethics, your self-respect, your soul - selling all of them for what? To keep your job? So no one yells at you? Why? 431021139 0
polycarp.bsky.social @polycarp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...huffpost.comElon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee. 010 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialTim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH 7835891467 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialJules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 08/02/2025I really can’t stomach this video of the geriatric “opposition party”, proving themselves physically and fundamentally incapable of entering a government building because Elon posted a skinny Nazi doorman in front of it. Like… they’re lecturing him?? I’m so fucking sick of these spineless slugs. 4566884 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.wired.comThe US Government Is Not a StartupElon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken. 1213482954 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025It was sadly inevitable... In the midst of the hasty work done by Musk and his teenagers, who are not trained to be sensitive to NATIONAL SECURITY concerns nor likely care about them, they just likely outed many intelligence agents, putting them at risk and destroying their capabilities. 3189 0
polycarp.bsky.social @polycarp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Can someone explain to me like I’m a 5 yr old why Musk hasn’t been arrested yet? 000 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialCajun AF Team Normal @cajunasfuck.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Yeah that whole democracy dies in the darkness thing. That’s a lie. This is some broad daylight shit here. 420030 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Democrats, this weekend is D-Day. You must go out tomorrow, take up as much space in media as possible, get in front of cameras, shout at the top of your lungs. None of this "egg prices!" stuff either. The narrative has to be "Trump and Musk are seizing the government and pursuing retribution." 331273349 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Lol this photo should be used in every story about him from now onthedailybeast.comRFK Jr. Pops a Very Suspicious Pouch as He Rants About MAHATrump’s nominee for health secretary stealthily put something in his mouth and appeared to move it into place with his tongue during his confirmation hearing. 3833365 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/01/2025A thought: Donald Trump fired the head of TSA, illegally fired the entire Aviation Security Advisory Committee, put a hiring freeze on FAA air traffic controllers, and is trying to get other federal employees (including air traffic controllers) to quit. 1201349527 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Maybe regulations and keeping qualified, experienced people in their positions is a good thing for the United States and our safety and security. But, I guess it's more important to destroy the "woke mind virus." 492651403 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialVittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025New from me: OPM, basically the government's HR, now includes people with backgrounds at Musk's companies at its highest levels. And while the takeover of USDS as DOGE has gotten a lot of scrutiny, the changes at OPM have been much much quieter. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...wired.comElon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel ManagementSources tell WIRED that OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. 83513295 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialVittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Also if you're someone at a tech company or within the government and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at velliott88.18 1410941 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 29/01/2025The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to help treat victims of traumatic injuries.wired.comThis Blood Vessel Was Grown in a Lab With Real Human CellsThe FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to help treat victims of traumatic injuries. 524445 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Where, pray tell, is the appropriation for a federal worker buyout? One constitutional abuse after another just to render the government inoperable. 2344882 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question. 25388061884 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Does anyone notice how all the headlines about Trump's flagrantly illegal actions and orders simply describe what he's doing, and rarely even mention that it breaks the law? The newspapers and news outlets have given up on the idea that the law even exists, apparently. 481226232 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2025POTUS is shutting the US government down, except for immigration enforcement and military activities. That’s the story. He’s shutting the whole government down. He’s closing up every aspect of the United States operation, except the parts with guns. 663025919 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The same people who tell you that there’s no way around the 2nd amendment allowing everyone to own whatever firearms they want, including functioning imperial fighters, will say that the 14th amendment is very complicated because “thereof” used to have a different meaning or some other nonsense 111425 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Couldn’t say it better. 310131 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialPoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Dude. I'm Pissed. youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...youtube.comWhat The F***?!YouTube video by PoliticsGirl 1835199518041 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25/01/2025TL;DR: There’s no new intelligence. A China hawk lab leaker took over the agency and decided to make this the position, with “low confidence.” How unexpected. 13251761336 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I’m trying to think of a reason someone would fire Inspectors General that doesn’t include corruption. 771448307 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2025I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people. 1515312234126 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/01/2025“The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump ousts at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purgeThe dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general. 79977102117 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialFarGone @fagone.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Elizabeth, it requires a 30 day notice! Have you told those 17 watchdogs to hold tight, resist, don’t leave, show up on Monday ? Maybe the Supreme Court ??? Has Chuck done anything yet??? I’m up yelling,yet I have no power. You guys hold the power! DO SOMETHING! STOP SOCIAL MEDIA BITCHING!!!! 922824 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/01/2025How is “this directly conflicts with federal legal requirements for removing IGs” not a part of your subhed? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 12945181117 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialDan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Better late than — no, actually. Worthless late and fuck the fuck off. 3247835 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2025But her emails 1212255710 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Anyone who ever again suggests that the GOP is the party of the police or the party of law and order should be laughed out of the room. There has never been anything like this before in modern US history: the president pardoning people who we all saw on live TV assaulting police. 792924632 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 16/01/2025Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocoltcrn.chMark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT ProtocolEntrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S. TikTok ban, which will go through on Sunday unless paused by the… 972314444969 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 16/01/2025#ASEAN 101 15112 0
Reposted by @polycarp.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2025Duckworth: "I think he personally is a compromised individual whom our adversaries are watching and digging the dirt on, and this makes him someone who's vulnerable to our adversaries." 251108232242 0
