Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.social DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 13hThis is clearly not acceptable 65178932658
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash. 581933695
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialIndivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 12hwww.commondreams.org/news/nationa... @commondreams.org @aclu.org The DC Board of Elections is responding to complaints of National Guard troops stationed outside a ballot drop box. “Armed troops do not belong near ballot boxes,” the head of the District of Columbia ACLU told Common Dreams.commondreams.org‘Affront to Democracy’: Trump's National Guard Troops Seen in Front of Ballot Box in DC | Common Dreams"Armed troops do not belong near ballot boxes," the head of the District of Columbia ACLU told Common Dreams. 0117
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4053390710247
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You could argue that few Republicans are as obviously in deep with Nazis as Mike Collins, but all of them are sponsored by Elon Musk, the greatest promoter of Nazism since Adolf Hitler. 315834
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters." 11543321289
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate 24678461891
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Collins has his head down through all of this, presumably mapping out what he’ll be doing as a private citizen next year 783097441
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 456171362633
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family. 613631805
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“That’s my family” isn't an alibi, it’s a confession of where your priorities lie.😏 774423
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialOGBobbyJoshson @jawalker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He’s going to absolutely turn out the Black vote. We’re tired of people treating white supremacy as a second order issue. Shit is life and death for us. 359228
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialThorpe Langton @mspdawg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just a reminder how much Tom Emmer has debased himself for power: 581111268
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 408173864588
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026I'm going to do my damndest to cover the El-Sayed/Rogers and Ossoff/Collins debates simultaneously tonight. If you appreciate my effots on big news nights like tonight, please take advantage of my 5th anniversary special and sign up for my newsletter. Paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.publicnotice.coSubscribe to Public NoticeSign up for independent, incisive coverage of US politics and media, right in your inbox five times a week. Click to read Public Notice, by Aaron Rupar, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousan... 241124247
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead. 1326012658
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Supreme Court enabled that violent movement via United States v Cruickshank (a decision that Roberts #SCOTUS later echoed in Trump v United States [worth reading @leahlitman.bsky.social's Lawless where she lays this all out. pp 96-97, 139] 17924
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 16659651449
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialDebbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 0105
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8449301787
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 8536752201
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialGary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity. 511513398
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialseason of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 08/10/2026strongly believe leo should excommunicate vance + court members for even countenancing the firing squad stuff. 133553
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Let me make it a little bigger for the folks in the back… VOTE FOR ME NOV 3RD! Make your plan to vote today at AngieNixon.com/vote. Change can’t wait, Florida! LET’S GO! #AngieForFlorida 512494586
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 08/10/2026Pretty dishonest for Puck to describe Supreme Court expansion as an "unpopular position that could motivate the GOP base and alienate independents" when *the very same post* cites a poll finding support for expansion at +6 overall and +12 among independents puck.news/the-dems-cou... 1021035
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialMike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 08/10/2026Trump’s economy is so terrible that he’s throwing measly checks at voters. With many Americans living paycheck to paycheck, $90 isn’t going to cut it. We need to end the war with Iran and bring prices down NOW.apnews.comTrump announces $90 payments for seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections for premium costsPresident Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections. 484
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialRep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 08/10/2026Trump might’ve swapped out who’s paying for his campaign TV ads, but he still spent taxpayer money to cover the cost. He must give taxpayers a refund. 0195
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Judge Sorokin orders vindictive-selective prosecution discovery & disclosure of grand jury minutes for Ksenia Petrova, the frog embryo researcher. "Credible showing [she] was prosecuted due to her status as Harvard-affiliated researcher & J1 visa holder." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 8854261
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialDrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026IMO, This is the whole ballgame. Money corrupts absolutely. Josh Turek: "We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both." 20867249
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialSonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026MAGA: “Democrats hate Trump because he says what he means!” Trump: “I wouldn’t care if Iran bombed Los Angeles and San Diego.” MAGA: “That’s not what he meant!” 511158296
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialJenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.) 121217163
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026Everybody's loving this clip, for good reason, but it should remind everyone that cities therefore have an obligation to build enough housing that all these marginalized and outcast people can come and afford to live in them on minimum wage *without* becoming homeless. YIMBY! 453059234
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work. 515332312
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 07/10/2026Unionized journalists and product engineers at The Inquirer secured a new contract that includes AI protections, raises, and changes to healthcare coverage. inquirer.comPhiladelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections 223438
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption? 699236198540
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6659181176
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law 742476
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994652974
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026And I do hope, honestly, Ron Howard makes a movie about Springfield. We cannot move past what JD Vance did to his own constituents, an ongoing political pogrom, to get the power he now has. 1596
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialhelchose.bsky.social @helchose.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"The doctrine that the strong dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies." Yes. 07012
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialX&der @x---factor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s great! I would also watch Jake tapper tell miller “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” This phrase should be like everyone’s second bumper sticker after “you’re weird”. Insane to even try to entetain these people 0152
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026See, I think it's one of your best 1151
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026FDR v. Stephen Miller 42413168
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Among the seats DCCC added to Red-to-Blue list is Justin Pearson's race in TN. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comHouse Dems target six new seats — that Trump carried by an average of 16 pointsThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s political director told POLITICO the party could end up with as many as 240 House seats after Election Day. 832868
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Post and video explaining how Boutros invoked Trump v. US. emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/d... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyG...youtube.comDOJ is invoking Trump v. US in an attempt to dodge accountability for the Broadview 6 caseYouTube video by emptywheel 06311
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Levin: People then said, “Do you think you can take out a fascist just by voting, just by organizing? You think that’s how this works?” Yes, that’s how this works. If they can do it in Hungary, we can do it here. 583085877
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialDavid Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president 441551361
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Polarization Is Not the Problem." The paragraph below says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social It's starting to get attaction. So read the rest, and let me know what you think. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 22361125
Reposted by @rwlelboknw.bsky.socialJacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A historic 96-mile protest march is underway, as faith leaders make the multi-day journey from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the Mojave Desert, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUo...youtube.comFaith leaders make HISTORIC 96-mile pilgrimage to protest ‘EXTREME CONDITIONS’ in ICE detentionYouTube video by MS NOW 15924325
