Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialBill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 4hi think it's pretty damning on the last decade of The Democrats that a guy can go "actually immigrants are good" and it's viewed as a remarkable act of political messaging 412121
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4hThese ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 281353397
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23hrenaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid 1323630471
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22hScoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee. 2854158902
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22hFBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...doomsdayscenario.coThe Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part IIA quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality). 311386487
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 22hMarc is lying to you. Marc wants to pretend that two working parents equals rich when for most Americans two working parents, or working single parents, means living paycheck to paycheck. Affording to live on one income with a stay at home parent is privilege. That’s affluence. 06514
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 23hI think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false 19754145
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 23hJesse gave him a single, simple line to read and RFK improvised a full confession while tossing his wife in front of the wheels. 1850291
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23hThis is among the most under-covered stories in America — Israel is now holding *THREE* young Americans in prison, and no mainstream media is touching it 017897
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialMeredith Rose @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026So, fun fact: ever since 1994, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" campaign stunt, Congress has had a SERIOUS problem with subject-matter expertise and institutional memory. It's why Congress has such a deep and complicated relationship with lobbyists. 1/ 718859
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 14992248
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23hUniversal Daycare is a staggering boon for working parents and for kids, it is among the greatest blessings of living in New Mexico in this time, and everywhere else should be so lucky. The whole point is to make stay-at-home a choice, not obligation, so everyone can have full lives as full people. 418835
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 333121994505
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2600206885615
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong." 32864641398
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 29/09/2026Jail time comin'wsj.comExclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television AdsWhite House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law. 1415621
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on televisiontalkingpointsmemo.comRuss Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding CongressProgramming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say... 88441
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news. 201268411
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialroad.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, has since deleted his profile. It's not the first time a politician has been caught out by the exercise app's tracking and mapping features. road.cc/news/cycling... 921070
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.aljazeera.comSatellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal warGoogle Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. 21682405
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026fucking reallythehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 672146708
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“We’re finally going to finish Reconstruction & do what we should have done after Watergate, Iran-Contra, & January 6” 2253483
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc... 2253383829
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head... 822503405
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOP Allows Rape Gangs To Wild Out On Colleges 27415
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026Trump on Canada: "Lake Ontario is now Lake America. They're gonna come in and they're gonna say, 'Sir, we are sorry.'" 356693157
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep 562041372
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAndy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...cnn.comKFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN PoliticsBo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game. 19344147
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...404media.coHumans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're HorrifiedHuman contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI... 14647336
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this. 634253324
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor. 1136518885
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"Authoritarian, conservative, and reactionary networks have been among the principal drivers of the surge in distrust, conspiracism, and anti-scientific sentiment." Yes: contemporary polarization is driven by a deliberate campaign to destroy trust in core institutions & epistemic standards. 523448
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i... 14634192
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4953791188
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026This is the second ruling against the illegal recision of Solar For All money. In a country with rule of law in effect, that would be it -- the money would be restored. But we have to ask ourselves whether Trump will simply ignore the ruling & if so whether there will be any consequences.utilitydive.comFederal judge restores $7B Solar for All program, says EPA illegally axed itA Trump-appointed judge said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not convert the funding into “a lump-sum amount subject to EPA’s discretion.” Defendants acted contrary to Congress’ intent and with “no... 6303100
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialJason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid 123194733
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As a reminder, she’s the Secretary of Education not the Secretary of Labor 1171676265
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Facts Not unprecedented though.. The French monarchy was trash forever, but it was high bread prices that finally got 'em. 624727
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialtomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.alternet.orgRepublicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate. 1441788850
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it 59182761858
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs. 1262051492
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 641105981964
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026Trump: "Super Intelligence - SI - I don't call it AI anymore. I call it SI because it's a much better name. It's a much more accurate name, because when you say the other, that means it's fake. 'Artificial' means it's fake & it's not fake. It's just very strong intelligence...it's much more elegant" 429830165
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147361722
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now 271213289
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 19950261
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal 412452577
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352246763
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.apple.newsThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood ReporterThe Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing. 763614943
Reposted by @regularuser000.bsky.sociallowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026troy jackson is actual evelyn normielib 715013
