Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Are we great yet? 1608154275586
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.social𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025Crazy how long this conversation has been going on 27177965131
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialBiggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Your School House Rock moment...... 333308645067
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialBrian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure. 386205907220
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/05/2025I don’t even know that it serves anything or anyone to note that Stephen Miller is ranting about “unelected communist judges,” other than observing it’s another item on the 1933 list 20697150
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/05/2025First, never believe anything he says. Second, why is he giving his political rally speech to graduating seniors? 61551631275
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Reuters: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY 27247801762
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 01/05/2025Under the current system, Americans are already spending $5 trillion a year on health care - read: $50 trillion over the next 10 years. So this is actually a bargain. 261027261
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 30/04/2025We can't rest until government is restored as an instrument for the people, not our homegrown theocrats, kleptocrats and oligarchs. 484111802697
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that? 430138144692
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go... 16885333711418
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/04/2025"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...nytimes.comElon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New CostsAn expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year. 37454892017
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Do not obey in advance to a wildly unpopular one term president who is currently fighting wars on multiple fronts for seemingly no reason 19995052275
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t... 567142636575
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/04/2025JUST IN: The MeidasTouch Podcast Tops Charts for Third Straight Month with 107.3 Million Downloads—More Than Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, and Ben Shapiro COMBINED, per Podscribe Data 452204003389
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialInformed politics @informedpolitics.bsky.social · 22/04/2025This isn’t just a humanitarian issue, it’s a setback for science too. 27955301
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch 504285727903
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialPatty Kennedy @pattykennedyart.bsky.social · 22/04/2025AG Bondi is ignorant of our Constitution & wants to bar anyone who isn't Christian from our Government. Our Constitution clearly states, Article VI “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States". This is our AG for crying out loud! 1731312385
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this. 323115144332
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 18/04/2025BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed. 181132973450
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialHelen121 @helen121.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’. Applicants hailed from Johns Hopkins, NASA, Columbia, Yale & Stanford. Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging “with worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts". www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comNearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status 17576187
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"46% of Head Start funding goes to rural areas, often in places without any other child care option..." www.axios.com/2025/04/16/h...axios.comAdvocates worry over possible cuts to Head StartThe decades-old federal program provides childcare, nutrition assistance and other services to the nation's poorest families. 29567792267
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialScott Hebert @scottjhebert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"I wouldn't go walking the streets calling myself a CEO." - Toni Storm just legit dropped my jaw! Yup, best in the biz. #AEWCollision #AEWmedia.tenor.coma woman applauds in front of a sign that says dynamite on itALT: a woman applauds in front of a sign that says dynamite on it 2788
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!! 16728587920067
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social 762323077630
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Not the same indeed. 482342537092
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialTokyo Sand @dhstokyo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025How bad are things in America? Davis Brooks—the conservative, former editor at the Wall Street Journal—is saying “it’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising.” 1053892
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Peru’s former President and First Lady have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering. The orange felon with 34 felony convictions committed sedition, insurrection, espionage, treason and fraud and instead of being sent to prison he was sent to the White House. 1082857880
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker 574277358590
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialφαυʅ ∞ 🇺🇦 ∞ #𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩 #𝙉𝘼𝙁𝙊 ₁₃₇ @dereume.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Good morning #BlueSky!💙😁 And now a message from China: #JDVance 658109482635
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.usatoday.comGay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's reportNow a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador. 537174418099
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialIndivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Travel advice from the EU - get a burner phone? 524849
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/04/2025In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home. 1248326239257
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2025We haven’t reached bottom yet. Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity. 958319575606
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem? 15785158214595
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory 34426409513656
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2025According to IRS estimates, the internal sabotage by DOGE has already cost the U.S. Treasury more than $500 billion in revenues that otherwise would have been raised by April 15th. But it doesn’t stop there. DOGE is also in the process of closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.talkingpointsmemo.comDOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax DivisionI didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t... 24547932341
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging... "An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comTrump administration orders half of national forests open for loggingAn emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production. 127051573105
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid. 195171924723
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 08/04/2025 24793533812
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2025NEW: The Venezuelan military says it has raised its alert level following the discovery of an alleged U.S. plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict.miamiherald.comVenezuelan military on alert, says it fears U.S. will use tensions with Guyana to invadeVenezuelan military claims the US is getting ready to invade and increases its alert levels 59264243212
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/04/2025In most societies, the rich and powerful acceded to the rule of law solely because they realized that, as soon as ordinary people feel they’re getting screwed without any chance of peaceful redress, that’s when you get the pitchfork-wielding mobs. 601135732606
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/04/2025ah, yes, the ole “keep a habeas petition in your pocket just in case you get disappeared” theory of due process 154122372350
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The dumbest people are destroying us. That makes it even more painful. 398144002033
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 300216025830
Reposted by @rowdy-mike.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/04/2025when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for 845305045179