Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment." 12775681858
Reposted by Persistent BroadMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.kffhealthnews.orgAI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health NewsA Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign... 191215570
Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026The president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans 162837231116
Reposted by Persistent BroadTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/10/2026James Talarico: Ken Paxton has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him. It's time that he mans up, steps on the debate stage, and answers the public's questions. The people of Texas deserve that. 211257323
Reposted by Persistent BroadAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap 122770811801
Reposted by Persistent BroadPortland Frog Brigader @sheilabane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026THE ALT TEXT 791100110
Reposted by Persistent BroadKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.washingtonsun.comTrump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by TaxpayersNewly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations. 17520731035
Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron 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 907258566134
Reposted by Persistent BroadMother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026“It’s very easy to judge things from the outside....They’re getting global sympathy by getting us to hit things."motherjones.comPalantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strikeThe AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children. 113388158
Reposted by Persistent Broaddarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world 592118382
Reposted by Persistent BroadAxios @axios.com · 20/09/2026President Trump said today his proposed "triumphal arch" in Washington, D.C., will become a dual-use facility housing snipers, drones and ammunition storage.axios.comTrump's proposed Washington arch to become sniper, drone facilityThe president is now framing construction of the arch as a national security issue. 705931
Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also 69140231029
Reposted by Persistent BroadRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/202675% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch. 26332241088
Reposted by Persistent BroadRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It just never ends. 28250011652
Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026it's amusing that JD Vance went all the way to Iowa to campaign for Republicans, only to have the most prominent Republican on the ticket in the state stiff him because he's so toxic 1232787613
Reposted by Persistent BroadCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you're worried and confused about the AI crisis but don't understand all the lingo and concepts, I'll put the essence of all this in simpler terms. Forget the actual tech reasons for a second. You should really be worried about the lack of transparency combined with incompetence. (thread) 1738198
Reposted by Persistent BroadCNN @cnn.com · 11/09/2026The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that exposure to rabies appears to be on the rise across the country. cnn.it/4iq2d6J 216529
Reposted by Persistent BroadKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles 3952571043
Reposted by Persistent BroadSeung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026WASHINGTON (AP) — Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.' 442498608
Reposted by Persistent BroadKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary. 43898962090
Reposted by Persistent BroadAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm. 13975911650
Reposted by Persistent BroadKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Under Trump, protected wild horses are going to slaughter. A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.nytimes.comUnder Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction. 1461147775
Reposted by Persistent BroadChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/08/2026The timing… Congress blocked enforcement of a food-safety rule designed to help the FDA quickly trace contaminated food back to its source. Until July 2028. 1421358900
Reposted by Persistent BroadKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026These questions have now been asked of Blanche repeatedly & he gives the same bullshit answer each time. Here’s an idea: How about we ask Blanche direct and pointed questions about his noncompliance with court orders from Judge Sullivan compelling him to provide unredacted Epstein Files? 80089432712
Reposted by Persistent BroadCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com 149078692941
Reposted by Persistent BroadRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...projectsaltbox.comContracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term FacilitiesContracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work 69891845156
Reposted by Persistent BroadRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026To be fair, maybe they actually *meant* "Untied States"? www.wired.com/story/the-ju... 1733568997
Reposted by Persistent BroadCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The US Supreme Court ruled today that Black votes are worth less than other votes. 58537210
Reposted by Persistent BroadSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/04/2026I'm not saying that another Warren Court will fix everything, because it won't. We'd need Landback and reparations for that. But I *am* saying that the Warren Court's mantra, "we should apply the Constitution to give the most people the most rights possible," was good and we should do that again. 558693
Reposted by Persistent Broadjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process. 232136473783
Reposted by Persistent BroadRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...nytimes.comWhy Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline 19856132865
Reposted by Persistent BroadThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social 664198415646
Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is. 14725698516890
Reposted by Persistent BroadQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/03/2026My father came to the U.S. with $30 and a belief that your worth isn’t defined by where you’re born, but by what you build. That promise is under attack. On April 1, SCOTUS will hear a case challenging birthright citizenship—putting countless families at risk. Here’s what’s at stake.open.substack.comIf Birthright Citizenship Falls–The American Experiment FailsOn April 1 the ACLU is going to the Supreme Court to defend the Constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship–here is what you need to know 20543891684
Reposted by Persistent BroadMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people 11461861077
Reposted by Persistent BroadChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it. 24983159013633
Reposted by Persistent BroadAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2026it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually" 361150713885
Reposted by Persistent BroadChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/03/2026If you lost your job because of DOGE, this will enrage you. They built a whole-ass crusade around “DEI,” then sent a staffer into a deposition who couldn’t even define it. Justin Fox’s and his assignment was to help flag grants for elimination based on a term he struggled to explain under oath. 🥴 25121501023
Reposted by Persistent BroadDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 07/03/2026CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime. 23474863923
Reposted by Persistent BroadChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for). 1638193116026
Reposted by Persistent BroadKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran. 21563071978
Reposted by Persistent BroadJulie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...open.substack.comPrince Andrew's ArrestAcross the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter 1895335137771
Reposted by Persistent Broadcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/02/2026idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them 864952794
Reposted by Persistent BroadCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Pam Bondi had a choice today. She could hold pedophiles accountable or she could protect pedophiles. She chose to protect pedophiles. She chose to protect people who raped children. 501323384
Reposted by Persistent Broadlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell 20490792531
Reposted by Persistent BroadPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med... 71337171373