Reposted by Plimsoll MarkBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent. 318128693009
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today. 23592998216230
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This is a desecration and an abomination. First he posts an AI video of himself wearing a crown dumping shit on the heads of Americans, then he starts tearing down part of the White House for his Mar-a-Lago style ballroom. 69454491827
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This is insane. “It won’t interfere with the current building. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of," Trump said in July. “It’s my favorite. It’s my favorite place. I love it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comWhite House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroomThe president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. 73842421603
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14/10/2025Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler. This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...politico.com‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chatThousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape. 23495260
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025We need to have a conversation about the fact that Donald Trump has legitimately lost his fucking mind. 1472379405
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkSteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 02/10/2025This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress. Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...msnbc.comTrump offers Qatar, which gave him a fancy plane, a NATO-like security guaranteeWithout bothering to go through Congress, the president signed an executive order this week vowing to defend Qatar in the event of a foreign attack. 31522268
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes 2451204836426
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane 14685961517525
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025What should happen: Hegseth impeached. Military has to focus on real threats. There's a flashing red light in Eastern Europe. Another in Taiwan Strait. Groups like Al-Qaeda still out there trying to figure out how to hijack airliners and build bombs. We need military leadership focused on readiness. 415233
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear. 14158101699
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand. 12673162313403
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkDavid S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/06/2025- Religious exception rulings apply only to the plaintiffs. - Environmental regulations continue to be enforced despite rulings against them (just not against plaintiffs). - and on and on. The left has to use this decision, not just criticize it. It'll be chaos, but that's what the Justices get. 5255021343
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkDavid S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs. 436194206186
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/06/2025San Diego showing up ✊ 13994161729
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/06/2025San Diego SHOWED UP! I’ve been here for 30 years and have NEVER seen anything like this! #NOKINGS 208105201978
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/06/2025Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings 312300795554
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2025“.. empty containers have been piling up at the Los Angeles-area seaports .. the idea that a sudden reversal in tariff policy or even a spate of framework agreements to work towards eventual trade deals will instantly put the global supply chain back on track is mistaken.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social 531742587
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 01/06/2025In just a matter of hours we saw ICE abduct a woman as her husband watched crying and another woman who cried for the children she wouldn’t be able to pick up from school. This is being done in the name of keeping this country safe. Those women? They’re not the ones making this country unsafe. 3421138
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Can we just fix the airports and work on planes crashing? 1874199693911
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkBarbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I don’t think non-USians understand the significance of Cardinals from all over the world selecting a US American pope, especially someone who was close to Francis. It’s meant to be a direct rebuke to the current US administration, not another US grasp at power. 911884286
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkRobert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988. 420171875373
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 06/05/2025They are terminating the precise generals they deem most likely to refuse illegal orders from a fascist king-president. Textbook dictator stuff. 017524
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs. 8448131902
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 29/04/2025ICE is now cracking down on CHILDREN. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have now been ordered to target children. They are hunting unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide, aiming to deport them or criminally prosecute them. CHILDREN. ICE is also… 25424801384
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025FLEXPORT: “.. In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide.” #SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸 29975442398
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Coal is a dying fuel. Coal plants are being decommissioned at record pace. Industry is moving on, trying to bring it back is madness. Natural gas is a transitional fuel to get us to the next level. The next level is cheap, renewable sources such as Solar and Wind energy. Invest now or die. 421187209
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 15/04/202521% of US adults are functionally illiterate. More than half of US adults read below a sixth grade level. At least as many cannot define genocide under international law. 1438082
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Hello, Congress. Are you really going to go along with this tariff fiasco? Use your power. 469191634208
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin 272175383763
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025To all who say our elections are rigged and no longer matter... I hope tonight's win gives you pause. Americans will fight in one of two ways, either with or without violence. The difference between them is "hope". As long as there is hope, we will be civil. When there's no hope, it gets ugly! 1348659
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/03/2025It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future. 875170994652
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Trump wants to set rules for the way states run their elections and wants DOGE to audit voter databases. DOGE. Not an independent entity - his cronies. Mike Johnson is talking about eliminating district courts. These are not actions you see in a Democratic Republic. 16845231522
Plimsoll Mark @reginaprospect.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Check your student loans! My PSLF account disappeared on Friday. 020
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/03/2025(Punchbowl) - Extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts would boost the national debt by almost 50% when measured as a percentage of GDP and increase the deficit by around $4 trillion, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/article/fina...punchbowl.newsCBO: Extending Trump tax cuts would boost deficit, debtThe analysis comes as Senate Republicans are set to huddle with the Senate parliamentarian’s office to get guidance on the “current policy baseline.” 52692298
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJulius Kim @juliuskim.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This, right here.. 453215435831
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Steve Bannon says they're working on abolishing term limits so Donald Trump can run again in 2028. It's like we said they were going to try to do this. 120792202
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/03/20251/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...joycevance.substack.comDeportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends.Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m. 26458641827
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I don't think it's a coincidence the person with the most courage to take ownership for a failure is also the person I probably blame the least 144137452334
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12/03/2025You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.” This is where we get the 'sibling.' And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.” Over time, it came to mean "close friend." Now it is something we share w/ close friends... 'gossip.' 171009111
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2025@juliadavisnews.bsky.social: "Don't think for a second that aid to Ukraine was stopped because Zelensky didn't wear a suit or disputed Vance's 'stories' that originated with Russia-funded bloggers. Trump was going to do this all along, and the Russians knew it. 'Trump is ours' remains their motto." 24370281941
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Mass firings, shutting down critical services, blowing up our alliances, crashing the markets, encouraging inflation... These aren't the actions of a political party aspiring to get reelected. These are the actions of an authoritarian regime that does not intend to honor elections ever again. 417109183456
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkDaddy Dolphin @adamboyle.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Today ranks with 911 and Pearl Harbor. But this time it’s from within 552485374
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away. 10044239910831
Reposted by Plimsoll Mark🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 15/02/2025He who violates the laws of a country can never be its savior. 211023256
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems. 233146112584
Reposted by Plimsoll Marksouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of. 10997642052
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkJane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Most of us have used Global Positioning System (GPS) for navigation & we can thank Gladys West for creating the foundation for GPS. She used her mathematical & programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth. She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame. 186112793469
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency 36919561119987
Reposted by Plimsoll MarkLiz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny. 1003280676434