Reposted by Robert the SpruceDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Dang they really got a category for everything 203285765477
Reposted by Robert the SprucePete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.substack.comA Terrible Thing Happened to My FamilyEven in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone. 1979230036647
Reposted by Robert the SpruceTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026actually laughed out loud 1633234
Reposted by Robert the SpruceTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Whoa, my disdain for bitcoin farms has finally put me in a place where Bluesky... mostly agrees I...I don't know how to process this 4540715
Reposted by Robert the SpruceTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology. The queen of all vices: Pride. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comPope James David Vance the FirstThe vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV. 1733171768
Reposted by Robert the SpruceTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026There was amazing restraint and heroism by the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department on Jan. 6, 2021. They were viciously attacked by rightwing extremists and rioters incited by Trump. 191229191
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAnonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Exactly this. Disband the organization, which has strayed so far from it's mission of finding terrorists post 9/11, and prosecute everyone who planned this or partook. There is no other way. This should have happened for government criminals 20 years ago. 1285
Reposted by Robert the SpruceKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/01/2026This is exactly right. They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now. Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade. 1013669996
Reposted by Robert the SpruceCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 11/01/2026The Trump crime family needs a secret police force to carry out their mass deportation goals. This authoritarian agenda requires violence, and they’re deliberately recruiting sadists who enjoy hurting people. And this is still the beginning. It’s headed to a dark place. 6600123
Reposted by Robert the SprucePaul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 06/07/2025That last line hits hard 92129464599
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Another candidate has now declared, and he’s a friend of ours… @liraforcongress.bsky.social He’s a great guy. www.liraforcongress.comliraforcongress.comJohn Lira for CongressMarine Corps combat veteran, San Antonio native, and lifelong public servant John Lira is running for Congress in Texas’s 35th District. With over 25 years of service to his country and community, Joh... 1106
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 06/12/2025This is the democrat who just declared his candidacy for our new district. Show him some support. Help us help him. www.votejohnnygarcia.comvotejohnnygarcia.comHOME | Johnny Garcia For CongressI’m Johnny Garcia — and I’m running to be your Congressman for Texas’ 35th District. 2125
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 06/12/2025SCOTUS just approved a gerrymander that moves Lisa and I from a solid blue district to a R+10 district. We will now make it our life’s work to flip that district blue. Trust me… Texas republicans don’t understand the can of worms they just opened. 👊 48214
Reposted by Robert the SpruceGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org 522212288245
Robert the Spruce @robertthespruce.bsky.social · 13/10/2025New artist! open.spotify.com/track/4QYAHG...open.spotify.comGarden of Eden 000
Reposted by Robert the SpruceDecoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I just got one of those texts warning me about my EZ Pass balance. It really worried me since I’ve NEVER owned a car. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪 2240422
Reposted by Robert the SpruceDecoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷♀️ 71480592540
Reposted by Robert the SpruceDecoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Decoding Fox News does NOT have a large donor. I’m not in a program that gives me a stipend or travel expenses. I’m supported 100% through Substack subscriptions, Patreon supporters and small amount from Facebook and YouTube ads. No single supporter pays me more than $25 a month 2450273
Reposted by Robert the SpruceBrosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This has been stuck in my head for hours because of this post 1479
Reposted by Robert the SpruceTammy Golden @tammygolden.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Bury him in his golf course near Ivana. No I don't care if he's not dead yet 1028528
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025So basically DOJ was flagrantly violating the court’s order, as Sotomayor notes (her dissent was before this came out), but this is even worse: It’s a coordinated effort by top DOJ leadership to ignore court order; to mislead lower court in filings; to deflect on another agency; then to cover it up. 713301987
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Sotomayor’s dissent is flabbergasted that the government had been blatantly violating the court’s order up until that point, and then had been misrepresenting to the court who was responsible for it (saying it was DOD, not DHS) 2/ 92444549
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/ 10690463082
Reposted by Robert the SprucePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 25/06/2025The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.washingtonpost.comOpinion | ‘Criminal immigrant’ means whatever the administration says it meansTrump's deportation goals are being met by targeting non-criminal immigrants. 39829370
Reposted by Robert the SprucePolitico @politico.com · 12/06/2025House Dems are demanding that Noem testify before Congress after Sen. Padilla was detained by federal agents at her DHS press conference in LA.politico.comHouse Dems demand testimony from Noem after Padilla handcuffed in LA“If it can happen to Alex, it can happen to ... anybody,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez said. 1495193064460
Reposted by Robert the SpruceComic Sands @comicsandsnews.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Christy Walton, one of the heirs to the Walmart fortune, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times to promote the "No Kings" anti-Trump protests—and MAGA is furious.comicsands.comMAGA Now Calling For Walmart Boycott After Heiress Funds Ad Promoting Anti-Trump Protests 2202
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I honestly think it’s time for some Dems to start dropping f-bombs. On national television. Let’s start acting like the crisis this is 884186092932
Reposted by Robert the SpruceRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Hi! This (below) is where most of my writing happens now. Subscribe for free or more (link in top menu & everywhere). General note: If you have a question/objection to a skeet, good general practice is to check to ensure it's not addressed downthread &/or in the piece, if there's a link. You know?lifeisasacredtext.comLife is a Sacred TextLife is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory. 2348860
Reposted by Robert the SpruceBolts @boltsmag.org · 10/05/2025Floridians were preparing new initiatives on behalf of Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, and other issues on the ballot. But a new law makes these efforts a lot tougher, threatening volunteers with investigations and criminal punishment. boltsmag.org/florida...boltsmag.orgA New Crackdown on Ballot Initiatives Unnerves Florida OrganizersThe new Republican law threatens volunteers with more investigations and criminal punishment, even as Ron DeSantis faces allegations of illegally meddling in ballot measures. 27379162
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025This part 8143834512022
Reposted by Robert the Sprucefeminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025You get that ICE isn’t really about immigration, right? Do you get it now? You do, right? Surely you do.axios.comTrump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident"There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said. 11454124
Reposted by Robert the SpruceJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/04/2025here's today's post: "Bill Maher is very sad because you hate him. boo fucking hoo" — read the room, asshole. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —bit.lyBill Maher is very sad because you hate him. boo fucking hooread the room, asshole 2462293301
Reposted by Robert the SpruceNature is Amazing ☘️ @amazingnatures.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I just found out how mama and baby koala is weighed and it’s just the cutest thing everrrr 27215
Reposted by Robert the SpruceLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025This is important! But I’m not giving SCOTUS any credit until it gives this teeth. bsky.app/profile/reic... 452148429
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/04/2025IMPORTANT: Sotomayor, in the dissent, emphasizes that all 9 justices believe that the Trump administration cannot do what it wants to do: shove people onto a plane with NO due process. They openly told the DC Circuit they were going to do that if they won. On that issue, they lost. 1072907823
Reposted by Robert the SpruceMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The hearing for US Institute of Peace vs Kenneth Jackson et al with Judge Beryl Howell starting now. I'm listening via phone. 392992536
Reposted by Robert the Sprucem @keptsimple.bsky.social · 17/03/2025you should lose your law license for saying something like this in a public forum 764855525
Reposted by Robert the Sprucesouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It also more clearly establishes that what’s going on here is human trafficking. 331415388
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Let me explain it for you. The people on that plane weren’t criminals. They were a publicity stunt. If the planes turned around and brought them back, this would have been made clear… so, the planes were not brought back. Now they have been disappeared. 22310
Reposted by Robert the SpruceKellalena @kellalena.bsky.social · 16/03/2025That’s gonna leave a karma. 114973
Reposted by Robert the SpruceGil. @amadorlicea.bsky.social · 17/03/2025As a father of a daughter I find this era absolutely horrific. I see her as a person with infinite potential and self determination. While I understand “community standards” and the importance of those restraints, I would love to punch this pedo. in the face. This is not normal. 717129
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It infuriates me that almost the entire focus of everyone regarding this is the legalities and whether the administration will adhere to a court order… When the reality is that HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE JUST GOT DISAPPEARED TO A RENDITION SITE IN EL SALVADOR AND WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE! 1115
Reposted by Robert the SpruceOrpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 14/03/2025I missed this when it happened, just came across it… And it is DELICIOUS. Eminem led an ANTI-TRUMP chant at a concert after the Zelensky debacle at the White House. A thing of beauty: youtube.com/shorts/UoX8W...youtube.comEminem says f Trump #eminem #zelensky #trump #donaldtrump #rap #rapmusic #trending #politics #musicYouTube video by DMC_Visi 06421
Reposted by Robert the SpruceAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451 1011307857834
Reposted by Robert the SpruceMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025YESTERDAY: "There is no substitute for Starlink." --Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product. TODAY: "We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink." --Eutelsat, a French satellite company. 606159654021
Reposted by Robert the SpruceTrifid Duane of Canada🍁🇨🇦 @trifidofcanada.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Trumpcession due to Trumpnomics 36719
Reposted by Robert the SpruceThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/03/2025Over $1.75 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market today. Trump owns all of this. 31579442030
Reposted by Robert the Sprucewhattheactualf.bsky.social @whattheactualf.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Musk is a coward and disturbed individual. 🦋 1166
