Reposted by Jeremy RamseySpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10hIn 2002 White House chief of staff John Sununu improperly spent $1.4 million (inflation adjusted) of public money on personal travel. It was top of the news every night for a month & Sununu was forced to resign. If the reporting is accurate, that's half as much as Paxton spent. 02613
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyNPR @npr.org · 09/10/2026The company says Russian operatives used its AI chatbot to update their bosses, shedding light on influence campaigns previously not attributed to Russia. n.pr/47JmrBOn.prOpenAI caught Russians and Iranians using ChatGPT for influence campaignsThe company says Russian operatives used its AI chatbot to update their bosses, shedding light on influence campaigns previously not attributed to Russia. 514163
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You know what’s really bad for your health? Not having health insurance. Come January millions of people will lose Medicaid because of Trump’s signature policy while Rodgers is comparing us unfavorably to a country with universal healthcare. 722252
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not something a civilised country does. The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.washingtonpost.comFort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. 175602145
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyVoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026The Georgia Senate debate turns personal: Mike Collins calls Sen. Jon Ossoff a “trust fund kid who’s never had a job in his life.” Ossoff says, “Mike Collins is a bigot.” 46411
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump's plan to lower diesel prices: Take diesel from farmers. Give it to truckers. Make farmers pay more. Declare victory in the midterms newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…newsletter.platypuseconomics.comAmerica Doesn’t Have a Shortage of Red DyeThe president’s new diesel order knocks down the wall between two pools of fuel, but does nothing to refill it. 29490172
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be. 161969393
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ossoff is giving a master class in how it’s done 210012
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Democrats, Independents, Republicans (including self described MAGA) are in rare agreement: they want serious regulation of AI. 14824
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026BLAS: “.. Once again, I had to update the y-axis as the cost of oil freight (Persian Gulf to the Far East) climbs further. Now at >$1.4 million per day.” @bloomberg.com @javierblas.bsky.social ⛽️ 12363116
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Vice President JD Vance should be asked about his relationship with Curtis Yarvin every single day. Yarvin has a lot more influence than some leftwing streamer. 1112347
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't believe that Americans won't work certain jobs, but the reality is that the domestic labor supply largely does NOT want to do backbreaking farm labor; and the wages required to fill the positions could be so high they'd bankrupt farms competing in a global market. 1220638
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity. 19501297
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Andrew Egger: “We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: It’s genuinely amazing how little Trump tries to hide his own mob-boss style.” The best part of the story is how Guilfoyle, conscious of the fact that what she's doing is a crime, obsesses over not leaving a "paper trail" for prosecutors.thebulwark.comOur Big Fat Greek Bribery ScandalKimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption is shocking, damning, and—by now—chump change. 37326
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is exactly right. When Trump - in the one out of a thousand times - gets misread or misinterpreted, he *runs with it*, because it makes his critics look obsessive and stupid. Firehosing people until they freak about everything is the strategy, and it works. 1616617
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/10/2026Ten years ago today, the 'Access Hollywood' tapes were revealed. How has our politics changed, and how hasn't it? www.thebulwark.com/p/access-hol...thebulwark.com10 Years After the ‘Access Hollywood’ TapeIn retrospect, it marked the end of the gender politics debate. 0194
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyFr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick ... but here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb.” ... He makes $30m a year by making people sick. 2419
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyJohn Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026While in Greece, Rubio bristles at questions about ethics concerns related to Trump’s ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle 0111
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Trump will not respect the election outcome. What a shock. bsky.app/profile/atru... 34826
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Mike Rogers is worth about $14.6mn and he lives in a multimillion dollar beachfront condominium in Cape Coral, FL—not in Michigan. The price of coffee or beef doesn't phase him. bsky.app/profile/head... 810759
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyFr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In 2025 a judge in New Orleans accepted a $765,000 home as a gift from her then-fiancé who had stolen $712k from COVID relief funds. She then wanted to jail the reporter who discovered the gift ... with a law that had been repealed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comA New Orleans judge wanted to press charges against a TV news station. But it hadn’t violated any lawKimya Holmes relied on a repealed law to force WWL Louisiana to remove details of a gift she received from a man accused of pandemic-relief fraud 3338
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this? 551782537
Reposted by Jeremy RamseySpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I can't imagine a more antidemocratic thing for a president to say than "I can do whatever I want." 3278
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026💯. My first thought as well. 1217616
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyRick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...citizen.orgTrump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen 9441255
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6625511249
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe. 25915170
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyFr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The GOP & Fox are REALLY trying to sell the story that the Strait of Hormuz is open & therefore the high fuel prices MUST be a conspiracy. But there is a live tracker for the Strait that shows an average of 10-20 crossings a day. Before Trump's war it was 140 daily crossings. ... Facts matter. 25313
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes 23785269
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The main thing about these "Paxton Private Conversations Just Leaked" stories is that they show how much even people who are his ostensible allies want to undermine him. 2417
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability 522311837
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Below-average-paying industries account for 50,000 of the 46,000 total private sector jobs added in September. In other words, above-average-paying industries shed about 4,000 jobs. And this has been the state of affairs for years now" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 01511
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wasn’t there something else that he did which was really, really evil? 1494122552299
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026More evidence that the people making essential national security decisions for the US are airheaded and easily excitable. This is not a sober response. 54918
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/10/2026In April 2024, Joe Biden and the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack, Brett McGurk writes. In an excerpt from his new book, McGurk details the tense scene inside the White House:bit.lyHow Biden Averted a War With IranIn April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack. 25518
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it. 18824198
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyDon 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. 561574348
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oligarchy is ridiculous, part 247839 5584094
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyJoe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Also, pretty clear HBO Max is using AI to translate its show descriptions into UK English, because look what they call John Candy… 251046228
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There's almost nothing on which I agree with Mike DeWine. Yet his fundamental decency as a human being is impressive. DeWine attended the funeral Saturday of Pierre Damas Bel, a young Haitian man who died by suicide in Aug after his family said he was bullied for wearing an immigration ankle monitorcleveland.comOhio Gov. Mike DeWine mourns Haitian man at Springfield funeralOhio Gov. Mike DeWine said and the country lost someone it needed when Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide after being bullied over an ankle monitor. DeWine and his wife, Fran, attended Bel's funeral on ... 68728
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Old enough to remember when the media freaked out over Jon Ossoff making a brief mention of Natalie Harp 1642672
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026According to NASA: Arctic sea ice area/volume are shrinking by about 4.7%-12.1% per decade, with a total loss of over 50% since satellite records began. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing roughly 261 to 264bn tons of ice pa. The Antarctic Ice Sheet sheds approximately 130 to 135bn tons of ice pa 213361
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjgyoutube.comWe Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan CollinsYouTube video by ProPublica 13924387
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties 26912
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyJohn Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 43019
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Stop the Steel? Iowa approves $1.36 billion for foreign-owned steel plant in swing district less than 2 weeks before early voting" www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-st... "The incentives roughly amount to about $777,000 in credits per permanent job over 10 years, a hefty price tag by any standards" 1217
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press 14322
Reposted by Jeremy RamseyKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience. 833826555