Reposted by David RiecksMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16hTrump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country. 57973502161
Reposted by David RiecksLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91935530
Reposted by David RiecksShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"how many times have I told you not to wear my shoes" 4705
Reposted by David RiecksAaron 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." 32864821402
Reposted by David RiecksDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026besides his general conduct, the most embarrassing part of this is a guy from Missouri not knowing another midwestern team's name 1123123
Reposted by David Riecks🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am convinced they are arguing for regulatory capture because most of their products if exposed would show that the worst breeches were just vibe coding and human malfeasance 15218
Reposted by David RiecksAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026But prosecutors need to communicate with the public more.” END/ 5963116
Reposted by David RiecksAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/ 201761385
Reposted by David RiecksJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The bond yield story just keeps getting starker. 49519142
Reposted by David RiecksDianaTripper @tripperday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump has tapped Airbnb executive to launch the made-for-failure rollout of a hair-brained scheme to manage all government services through one AI powered website. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comTrump Administration Launches AI Tool Aimed at Streamlining Government Online ServicesAmerica.gov website will test the administration’s ambitions to improve the online experience for citizens. 134
Reposted by David RiecksJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The 2028 election may create "an historic opportunity for Democrats to establish a 'New New Deal,'" writes @davidrlurie.com. The challenge: building "a broad and resilient" coalition to lead us out of our political and economic crises. Yes please. No infighting. 🙂 www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...publicnotice.coWill Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin. 2235190
Reposted by David RiecksJonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 29/09/2026If Trump bulldozes the Kennedy Center, it's all Mike Lee's fault. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comUS senator blocks bill to ban Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center without Congress’s approvalMike Lee objected to the safeguard against the demolition of any presidential memorial Congress designates 12310
Reposted by David RiecksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong 3422447553
Reposted by David RiecksKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s really great that Eric Schmitt wasted everyone’s time because he can’t tell the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, meanwhile people in Missouri are struggling to pay for utilities, gas, groceries, housing, and child care. 541291334
Reposted by David RiecksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020 19466411830
Reposted by David RiecksKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 614417
Reposted by David RiecksMark Zuckerberg's Jet @zuckjet.grndcntrl.net · 29/09/2026Mark Zuckerberg's G650 Landed in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. 062
Reposted by David RiecksPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Watching Schmitt in the Senate today, I thought of this speech as well. 2116124
Reposted by David RiecksThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1759202235
Reposted by David RiecksAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026Schiff is up. Apologizes to Jack Smith. “My colleagues have attacked you, but NONE of them have tried to deny what happened on January 6th. They attack you because they don’t want to address the facts. The Barr DoJ sought toll records without a peep from my colleagues.” 1/ 7357091464
Reposted by David RiecksHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile? 2938659
Reposted by David RiecksAaron 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: 2609207465633
Reposted by David RiecksMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the moment right before the rake hits your face 1754035
Reposted by David RiecksDee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My absolute favorite part. Jack Smith smirking after they rapidly lowered their poster that made absolutely no sense. This is one of the best "look at this dumbass" expressions I've seen in a minute. So satisfying. 456338
Reposted by David RiecksSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.” 813793664
Reposted by David RiecksSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 60867141499
Reposted by David RiecksMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh my fucking god, you have to watch this. eric schmitt just made himself the main character. 961920236
Reposted by David RiecksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor 2733065786
Reposted by David Riecksemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The money Trump stole from taxpayers to make illegal ads came from CBP. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...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. 16315147
Reposted by David RiecksMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026anyway, the world is catching up on is that the Senate is full of a bunch of weirdos who are not ball-knowers. 5617
Reposted by David RiecksAlice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Behold, the world's smallest cow 815830
Reposted by David RiecksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!) 2861500255
Reposted by David RiecksSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The other delicious thing about this is the possibility that Vance thinks that he can be Trump--i.e., get people to perform for him on television as a substitute for vetting them for important jobs. 2314
Reposted by David RiecksMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.meidasnews.comGOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His FaceEric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes. 973115493001
Reposted by David RiecksJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 29/09/2026Some old school Wikipedia here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sc... 551084
Reposted by David RiecksThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/20264. Second, they remind everyone Trump is the president, even though he won't be on the ballot in November. (His net approval on the economy among indie voters is 99 points underwater, according to CNN.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHd...youtube.com'Stunning numbers': Enten evaluates Trump's new polling lowYouTube video by CNN 35012
Reposted by David RiecksThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/20262. What the president is doing is using tax dollars to air commercials created for his 2024 presidential campaign. With them, Donald Trump hopes to move voters against the Democrats in advance of the midterms. They are illegal. They use public money for partisan gain. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comTrump administration begins airing 2024 Trump campaign ad in latest taxpayer-funded messagingThe Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the ... 27624
Reposted by David RiecksThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/20261. Yes, the White House is calling them "public-service announcements." They are not. A public-service announcement promotes policy, like anti-drunk driving laws. 624066
Reposted by David RiecksThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/09/202611. Trump is not surrounded by smart people with guts, but instead bootlicking pricks. With the price of diesel burning up the economy, the White House deputy chief of staff nevertheless thought it would be productive to post this video over the weekend. (It appears to be AI.) 14915
Reposted by David RiecksEric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"beyond a reasonable doubt" 03913
Reposted by David RiecksI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026“These self-righteous crones are a pestilence, a plague upon Western society, a group of doggedly ignorant feminist/chauvinists playing out their personal psychodramas on the world stage whose antics, if unchecked, will inevitably lead to the fall of civilization,” he wrote.”wired.comA Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western CivilizationKurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting. 119024
Reposted by David RiecksDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To be honest, "Idiocracy" understated the kind of threat stupid government poses. 62948172
Reposted by David RiecksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 682274549363
Reposted by David RiecksJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Watch the returns on November 3. The worse they are for Republicans, the less the “heir apparent” talk will make sense. Maybe that is why Vance seems so personally desperate .. It’s his own political career that is hanging by a thread. And, as of today, it looks ready to snap. 714635
Reposted by David RiecksZed @behindthebluemotel.com · 29/09/2026Photography is the intersection of knowing how to see, and knowing how to use a contraption to capture that. Both sides require constant practice and exercise to stay in shape. Not every photo will be a great photo but no photo taken with intentionality is ever wasted either. 0174
Reposted by David RiecksThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com ) 8740561228
Reposted by David RiecksThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is crazy. They are laughing at us. 32815317
Reposted by David RiecksAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026this really picks up at the 26 second mark 401406310
Reposted by David RiecksKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is not something you say if you actually like education or children 1522462383