Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15hNot a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio 562521506
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialSen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 14heven if they *are* the worst of the worst, you've already caught them. they are in a cage. they are asking the court if they can please stay in the cage instead of getting airdropped into a worse prison in a country where a dictator winked while promising not to abuse him in exchange for cash. 216713
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialSen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 14hthis is so boring but it is incredibly frustrating to see the supreme court be so malevolently silly about third-country removal. there is no balancing of equities that could possibly favor the government, which already HAS THE DETAINEE IN JAIL. are they ordering too much room service? 349161
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 202026612
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning. 2013479536
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Maybe I'm missing something, but I still don't get this. Schmitt was saying Smith went to a Hawks game. His evidence was texts that mention "Jack" but not from Smith (and the Hawks does not have a 109 row). Yes, Smith went to a Hawkeyes game, but Schmitt did not present any evidence of that. 12566374
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i’ve been busy most of the day but i’d be remiss if i didn’t mention eric schmitt, who took a faceplant so hilariously legend that even the NYT couldn’t sugarcoat it (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u... 601499257
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 340123254558
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/09/2026What if we just ate them instead?nytimes.comWashington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes. 131439
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How it started/how it’s going 753785688
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit. 11928167
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days. 144555911629
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Actual headline in today's WaPo. 1681433220
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯 420039
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"Authoritarian, conservative, and reactionary networks have been among the principal drivers of the surge in distrust, conspiracism, and anti-scientific sentiment." Yes: contemporary polarization is driven by a deliberate campaign to destroy trust in core institutions & epistemic standards. 523448
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialMark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies. 26877249
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad. 711443362
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026The fraud is that they are paying for insurance ... but not using it? Who exactly is the defrauded party here? 69954127
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump's tirade at the media for boycotting Xi's arrival actually gives away the game in an interesting way: He basically admits straight out that he badly needs the media's attention. In some ways he's powerless without it: newrepublic.com/article/2158... 16692129
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 43261563143
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth. 472696774
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352249764
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins 804142948
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Referring to the Chinese president, the host asked “If you were president, would you throw him a big dinner?” “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” Trump declared. “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburger.” 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jak...mediaite.comJake Tapper Digs Up Clip of Trump Mocking Obama-Xi State Dinner: ‘Get Down To Work’CNN’s Jake Tapper aired an old clip of President Donald Trump blasting then-President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in 2015. 991783596
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026Class solidarity.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 642162612
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026When you elect more Democrats, they try to pass climate policy. When you elect more Republicans, they try to block climate policy. This is not Democrats' fault. Republicans make their own choices & are responsible for those choices. They are not helpless victims of the way climate activists talk. 328243
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.time.com 1033363
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The racist thing. The most racist thing he can think of is “the kind of thing Trump likes to do.” 541262191
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188063851
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/09/2026"Taxes," and "inflation," and "the economy," do not mean to the median voter what they mean to wonks. To the median voter all these words just mean, how do things feel to me? What are the vibes? How do things seem, generally? 511215
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialpleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am glad, at least, that we have someone admitting on record "yeah, I don't agree with him about the 'love your neighbor' stuff, that's not the Christianity I subscribe to." Usually it's not so blatant 936949
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialpleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Imagine being this thick. It doesn't even occur to her to actually process the words in question, because then she'd realize that same-sex bathrooms are the norm now. It's just a mishmash of buzzwords the right hates 1029925
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialpleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Boy, I wonder who was responsible for all this negative rhetoric. The sixty-two-year-old retired white Republican just can't figure it out 433730
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026a bill which provided a strong footing for civil liability and punitive damages that attaches to Flock itself as well as the civil jurisdiction in question would do wonders for reining this kind of thing in. 9515110
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So Politico is a threat to national security because they quoted CBS reporting. The original CBS reporting is not a threat to national security, because Trump likes Bari Weiss. 132294
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case. 251195426
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026The call was coming from inside the couch 922236644
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434439784
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones 1112650634
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Former Trump supporter in media and/or politics? Opinion discarded. It's that easy and nothing of value will be lost. You helped create the dumbest stove-touching in living memory. Sit there and shut up while we try to clean up after you 111343175
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026this is a genuinely crazy story 11955291177
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827881161
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026At core, they do not believe democracy *should be allowed* if their side isn’t guaranteed to win. And that becomes the inescapable problem. 13758122
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Republican judges are fucking insane and unsurvivable in the long term 15725118
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Your kid not wanting to talk with you because you're a giant piece of shit is not a political problem for the rest of us to solve. Look inward. 61835157
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference." 7620159
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