Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting. abcnews.com/Politics/tru... 1451175636
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/05/2025its genuinely incredible that the government has been taken over by vandals, thieves, and bald-faced liars and the media is more or less reporting on them like they're normal heads of state 703983698
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 22hThis money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up. 241263389
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22h"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad. 1024047705
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 23hSeems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing. 1755152
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 22hJackson: "healthcare is hard for most people, and you made it worse by advancing the OBBBA" Collins: "I had to go without health insurance. In 1994. When I was running for governor" Can't have the choice put in starker terms than that, Maine! 511215
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialSean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting: 2373486900
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026Trump's must-run orders have prevented several fossil fuel power plants from closing, costing ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars, even though those plants are barely running, because their power is not economic. A pure example of large public cost for narrow private benefit.subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: Trump rescued these fossil fuel power plants. Americans are paying for it.The must-run orders have kept alive aging generators that are costly to run — and produce plenty of pollution. 110443
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7737611082
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797113016
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes. 271334232
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 43958943735
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice 15942204
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 05/10/2026It's what explains why Musk runs roughshod over environmental or consumer-safety laws, and Meta thumbs its nose at corporate-tax laws: experience has taught them to expect no punishment. It's elite impunity in practice: when you're a star, they let you do it. 219970
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialEncinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is impeachable. Saying "we'll sacrifice San Diego", that's impeachable. bsky.app/profile/atru... 021
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026Due to Trumpian changes in federal policy: "Households will pay an additional $920 billion for energy between 2026-2040 – about $6,500 cumulatively per household across that period and $640 per household in 2035." Much more in this @energyinnovation.org analysis:energyinnovation.orgEconomic, Consumer Cost, Pollution Impacts of Federal Energy Policy Changes In 48 U.S. StatesFederal energy policy changes will harm all 48 contiguous U.S. states through higher energy bills, lost jobs, and worse air pollution. 18946
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 931782489
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 441669495
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Greatest myth in modern political discourse is that partisan division is a result of ideological bubbles. This isn’t the case! Conservatives have dominated every aspect of our society for 40+ years. We know exactly what they believe because we live with the consequences bsky.app/profile/gaiu... 539762
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?nytimes.comThe Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open. 15335106
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events 19824144
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDrew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie 171233294
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$. 341618444
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201835908
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20462932896
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it. 15842198
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237871251
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026TIRED: Defund the police WIRED: Defund the police widows and orphans 12477205
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443847913
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions". 13978229
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio 592585518
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026even 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. 217213
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this 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? 350162
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 192036615
sailorpsy.bsky.social @sailorpsy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'd ship the bind operator `::`. It even kinda works like a pipeline, where `this` is the pipeline's input to each function. 010
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. 2013486539
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. 12166474
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... 601508260
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" 346124874630
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. 1314712
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How it started/how it’s going 763801697
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @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. 13931166
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. 144656051644
Reposted by @sailorpsy.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Actual headline in today's WaPo. 1681439221
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." 🎯 420340
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. 523748
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? 69955127
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... 16691129