Reposted by Roguejsmith𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/10/2026Trump’s kiddie accounts let billionaires dump shares they can’t sell fast enough, then lock the tykes in for five years, so it’s really less a savings plan than a bailout with crayons. 791224544 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithLaura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut. 242125727 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus. 573944887 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8041921740 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 361741737 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Stop stop stop treating this $5k check thing like it’s real. It’s just…not. 732132802070 0
Reposted by Roguejsmithmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one? 653132938 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895854674 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive. 622874719 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331301631 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithHelene Meisler @hmeisler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I know Grassly is old but do you think he knows who is in charge in the 3 branches of government now? 1001371216 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It’s a searing indictment of the media that the family business run by the US president had *hundreds* Of bank accounts closed by Capital One based on suspicions that they were involved in money laundering And-especially since Trump is a convicted felon-it barely registered as a story 36959496 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's a healthcare economy, and the rest of us are just living in it. 1192223658 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States. 12433261239 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Highly usable post from last year 140138753853 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board. 25066892674 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Just want to say that @jaketapper.bsky.social wrote a book on the wrong candidate’s dementia and that should be obvious to every American. 268100871967 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithThe Doctor @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."- Sir David Attenboroug 6859741372 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is. 102125747356 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026<all together now> Immigration is our superpower & anyone who actually cares about American power, hegemony, & prosperity in the rest of the 21st century should be on the ramparts screaming for more, not less, immigration. Let them come. bsky.app/profile/mcop... 9529145 0
Reposted by Roguejsmithjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms. 391144502916 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts 196133256750 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Employers spend almost $1.7 billion a year hiring union-busting consultants and law firms to stop their workers from organizing for better wages and working conditions. Imagine if they spent that money on their workers instead?epi.orgU.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidanceKey takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining 23059842298 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did. 4336901281 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Do you hear that? I think I hear Fox News prepping a lot of "news stories" about trans kids in high school sports. 301277230 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it: youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pgyoutu.beThe Chicks - Not Ready to Make NiceYouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live 423341772 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/06/2026More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump’s golden ballroom have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion. Corruption at its finest. 942562920 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it. 311991453 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse. 1063636674 0
Reposted by Roguejsmithmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Yes. Very similar to plans for education, the GOP vision for healthcare is three tiers: The rich still enjoy science-based medicine, but privatized and exclusive Middle class gets woo and psuedoscience Poor get nothing - denial of medical care to them serves as a means to discipline the middle. 16840229 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to u like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to u like this. 1553208446413 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMark Zandi @markzandi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy. 321601618 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd 6426031618 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Kinda burying the lead here, NPR 712526898 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/05/2026It really is no mystery why conservatives like this guy. He's made a mockery of all their stated policy principles, but none of them ever had any real policy principles anyway! They see themselves in him: seething. Whiny. Endlessly aggrieved. That's the core of it all. 682343458 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The United States is not at war for purposes of the War Powers Act clock, but is at war for purposes of characterizing dissent or opposition as treason. Got it. 281733417 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/04/2026I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all." 12262161362 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024. 5818201 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/04/2026listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss" 623750784 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2026Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene." 176101803132 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16/04/2026We did a lot of reading on the Just War Doctrine when we were making "The Good Place." tl;dr "I want that oil" is not one of the justifications 171018111 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithChristopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026A quick historical context for the whole "WEAK on Crime" thing. Ever since the 1960s, conservatives and moderates have always been able to paint their opponents as weak on crime by simply saying it. Voters always buy it. Journalists cover it as true. He's simply doing what always works. 16423 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/04/2026When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology. 261741437 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Calvin Duncan, a man imprisoned for 30 years before he was exonerated, won an election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn inapnews.comLouisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated manA New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker... 8128141412 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war 12869002459 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithPeter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...nytimes.comHegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders 351204548 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithNBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2026NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.nbcnews.comHegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officersThe defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the B... 69961293206 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Since Liberation Day, a year ago today: * US foreign direct investment is lower * US factories employ 89,000 fewer people * US goods trade deficit is UP 2% @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n... 12826601147 0
Reposted by RoguejsmithCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Poland PM: 🇵🇱 12744601395 0
