Reposted by JACK2024emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The perfect post to make a person sad that Popehat blocks them. 1521636
JACK2024 @pulie2011.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Class, does anyone want to diagram the problem in this statement? 020
Reposted by JACK2024Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025A "concept of a deal," which has no details except that the 10% tariffs will *not* be lifted. Please do not report this as a serious announcement of an actual agreement. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comTrump announces trade pact with United KingdomIt is the first of dozens of deals the administration wants to make with trade partners around the world. 710938
JACK2024 @pulie2011.bsky.social · 08/05/2025www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...404media.coElon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On XElon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X. 010
Reposted by JACK2024The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Trump's rage is finding new heights as Jerome Powell continues to refuse the president's demands.thedailybeast.comTrump Rages at ‘FOOL’ Fed Chair for Defying His DemandsThe president stepped up his name-calling after Jerome Powell spoke about tariff “uncertainty.” 4325
Reposted by JACK2024HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/05/2025These days I'm actually more interested in the leaking itself than in what they are leaking. The guy is really hated. 3632
Reposted by JACK2024ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Class 2 Republicans haven’t faced a Republican WH midterm since 2002, and that was a rare incumbent-party positive environment for a midterm. 1331917
Reposted by JACK2024Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 09/04/2025🚨 SCOOP: Acting IRS chief Melanie Krause plans to quit after the agency agreed to share confidential tax info with immigration officials to aid in deportations. She also clashed with DOGE over plans for IRS's future & orders to cut staff. **Three IRS leaders have quit since Trump took office.**washingtonpost.comIRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration authoritiesMelanie Krause is the third leader of the tax agency since Trump took office. She clashed with Treasury officials over taxpayer privacy concerns. 672404909
Reposted by JACK2024Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 08/04/2025UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening. 5824151308
Reposted by JACK2024Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 08/04/2025media.tenor.coma man in a christmas sweater says " that 's what you get "ALT: a man in a christmas sweater says " that 's what you get " 510110
Reposted by JACK2024Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 08/04/2025The 2023-24 RLS and other Pew Research Center polling find that the Christian share of the adult population, after years of decline, has been relatively stable since 2019. And the religiously unaffiliated population, after rising for years, has leveled off – at least temporarily. 0101
Reposted by JACK2024Senseidai2547❌👑 @senseidai.bsky.social · 08/04/2025For an educated man, Shady Vance is a fucking idiot. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraudThe vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud. 1412861
Reposted by JACK2024Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Elon Musk installed Starlink at the White House. He's blurring the lines between his businesses and the federal government. NEW TODAY: @repshontelbrown.bsky.social and RM @connolly.house.gov are demanding the details.fedscoop.comHouse Oversight Democrats demand details on White House Starlink installationReps. Gerry Connolly and Shontel Brown say there are “considerable red flags” with the use of the Elon Musk-owned internet service. 1149
Reposted by JACK2024emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Lots of people demanded shadow hearings from Dems. There's one ongoing on DOJ's attempt to undermine rule of law. www.youtube.com/live/CZ042e1...youtube.comBicameral Spotlight Hearing on Trump’s Pro-Crime, Pro-Corruption AgendaYouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary 241199407
Reposted by JACK2024Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications. 8053780612261
Reposted by JACK2024Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/03/2025NEW: Trump has signed an executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block… Details of the order TK 2641141406
JACK2024 @pulie2011.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Guess that goes for Trump and all his minions in January 2029 000
Reposted by JACK2024Sahara Stevens ❤️🇺🇸 @sahara-stevens.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Here is a video of domestic terrorism in America. #NeverForgetJanuary6th 541375611
Reposted by JACK2024Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025New—NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro just sent an email to all staff letting them know the Office of Technology, Policy + Strategy, the Office of the Chief Scientist, + the DEI + Accessibility branch in the Office of Diversity + Equal Opportunity would all be closing. "Embrace the Challenge." 62491209
Reposted by JACK2024Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Cops burst into women's restroom accusing cis woman of being a man after Walmart employee calls police. Are we great yet? www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/cops...lgbtqnation.comCops burst into women's restroom to remove butch lesbian, accusing her of being a man - LGBTQ Nation“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops.” 901059408
Reposted by JACK2024Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Every government on the planet should be unwinding relations with Musk owned companies. He is a threat to your national security. 813214692
JACK2024 @pulie2011.bsky.social · 10/03/2025popular.info/p/veterans-a...popular.infoVeterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubiclesAs part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun... 000
Reposted by JACK2024Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025NEWS: Dilan Gohill, the Stanford student journalist arrested while covering a pro-Palestinian protest and building break-in, will NOT face criminal charges, the DA's office just told me. University officials had pushed for him to be prosecuted. Developing story... www.cjr.org/news/dilan-g...cjr.orgProsecutors Drop Case Against Stanford Student JournalistDilan Gohill was arrested while covering protests on campus last summer. 512234
Reposted by JACK2024Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This continues to be going exceptionally badly for DOJ, which can't seem to give a straight answer to the judge's questions here: "We’re now 12 days in ... You can’t answer me whether any funds that you kind of acknowledged are covered by the court’s order have been unfrozen?" 1083104421
Reposted by JACK2024Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Judge: "I don’t know why I can’t get a straight answer from you. Are you aware of an unfreezing of the disbursement of funds for those contracts and agreements that were frozen before Feb. 13?" DOJ lawyer: "I’m not in a position to answer that." 1083229513
Reposted by JACK2024Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge who ordered the unfreezing of USAID contract spending is voicing frustration as a Trump administration lawyer repeatedly refuses to say whether they have actually taken any steps to implement his 12-day-old order. 44495802264
Reposted by JACK2024Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/02/2025In case you missed it, the Trump administration is making an end run around the court order that unfroze NIH spending: by not allowing NIH to place notices in the Federal Register, it has stopped them from holding any grant evaluation meetings. Basically, there’s no way to evaluate grants right now.npr.orgNIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research fundsThe National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies. 513782
Reposted by JACK2024Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Happy Presidents’ Day! Let’s aim for 100 weird facts about presidents, presidential elections, and maybe even vice presidents. 1. Lincoln and Washington are — as far as I know — the only two presidents to have been sculpted topless. (But please send others if they exist!) 67606117
Reposted by JACK2024George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today. 25977491913724
Reposted by JACK2024Joseph Mead @josephwmead.bsky.social · 17/02/2025You should all pay your taxes bc it's the price of civilization (and it's the law), but if the government can disregard the acts of Congress that spend money, why should the people who pay the taxes adhere to the acts of Congress that supply those funds? 1124
Reposted by JACK2024Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Fitting in that he’s lost executive function 061
Reposted by JACK2024Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17/02/2025Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... 1072471996
Reposted by JACK2024Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them. 214312429431288
Reposted by JACK2024Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Historically, members of Congress have jealously guarded their own power and prerogatives, standing the line even against presidents of their own party. But this Republican Congress just bent the knee immediately, without even a word of protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o... 1472559640
Reposted by JACK2024Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Nothing is a surprise. He keeps digging 18967541056
Reposted by JACK2024George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Reposting this for no particular reason this morning. 762304478
Reposted by JACK2024Eugene Belitsky @jhenyabelitsky.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Man, as a kid from Queens, Spidey was always my favorite superhero and, after reading this, I was really worried that I'd be conflicted watching a Spider-Man series where Spidey is voiced by a MAGA tool. Well, I watched it for a bit, and it sucks. Conflict blissfully resolved. 031
Reposted by JACK2024Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Here's your lede: With bodies still being fished out of the Potomac River, Donald Trump went on a partisan, racist and entirely unsubstantiated rant today, blaming diversity hiring and Democrats for Monday’s calamitous collision between a passenger jet and a military aircraft.. 591887547