Reposted by S FaustCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i... 882698957
Reposted by S Faustdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8hi would think the secretary of state might be a little more informed about possible corruption with the us ambassador to greece or at least a little curious 2260895
Reposted by S FaustAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11hwhen we published the following years ago, team trump vehemently denied our (accurate) reporting that trump had been privately saying he wanted partial videos of executions for like psa campaigns or some shit www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comTrump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White HouseThe former president wants to expand the use of the death penalty, and expand the federal government's options for carrying out death sentences. 14296118
Reposted by S FaustDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8hThe last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comFort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. 53458168
Reposted by S FaustDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8hThis is shameful. It speaks to a character that enjoys turning power into violence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comFort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. 65551111
Reposted by S FaustAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8hTom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail" 5551419408
Reposted by S FaustMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8hIran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this. 1727169
Reposted by S FaustMicah @rincewind.run · 12hthe reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 7486472064
Reposted by S FaustGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 13hMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 660165193785
Reposted by S FaustBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9hRubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill. 621344352
Reposted by S FaustEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8hOf course Hesgeth and his warped concept of strength is behind this bsky.app/profile/robe... 611610
Reposted by S FaustGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9hAnd 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics. 15998260
Reposted by S Faust🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 8hI can’t stress enough that swatting should be treated like attempted murder 0297
Reposted by S FaustBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8hThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening. 351535372
Reposted by S FaustDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10hThe American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers. 22851195
Reposted by S FaustProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15hRFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS. 16350200
Reposted by S Faustemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10hSarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against emptywheel.net/2026/10/08/s...emptywheel.netSarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against - emptywheelBy bullying the EU to withdraw funding from the Disinfo2026 conference, Sarah Rogers engaged in the kind of retaliation DOJ had assured Judge Boasberg they would not do. 012662
Reposted by S Faustjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15hcome 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states 2085506833
Reposted by S FaustSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13hIs it good when you admit your military strategy is timed to elections? 1635273
Reposted by S FaustAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13hmy main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber... 1501752240
Reposted by S FaustAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15hFCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination" 6551535617
Reposted by S FaustCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026This is the most 2026-ass lede. Perfect encapsulation of the entire era. 15521102
Reposted by S FaustDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Guillfoyle was pretty clearly trading on her connection with Trump to solicit payments in order to help a Republican donor get the IRS to quash a tax dispute. Massively corrupt! We used to take this sort of shit seriously! 14693136
Reposted by S FaustDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper... 11607134
Reposted by S FaustRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive. 231922483
Reposted by S FaustThe Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tropical Storm Isaias is strengthening steadily and it appears on a course for the Gulf Coast between Biloxi and the Big Bend of Florida, with special focus between Mobile & Destin. We break down the expected evolution and impacts as expected this evening. Below or at theeyewall.com.theeyewall.substack.comTropical Storm Isaias appears destined for somewhere near the Florida PanhandleFolks, especially between Mobile and Destin and perhaps just east should be preparing for a landfalling hurricane Friday night. 23914
Reposted by S Faust#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/10/2026In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social 26478198
Reposted by S FaustMike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic. 563156478
Reposted by S FaustJoe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 08/10/2026Among Eric Deters’ other hobbies: Getting arrested for chasing his nephew in his pickup truck. 415121
Reposted by S FaustProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)propublica.orgHow UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at RiskUnited used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due... 23878506
Reposted by S FaustJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The top three stories in tonight’s newsletter really say it all jessica.substack.com/p/congressio... 517660
Reposted by S FaustDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 1131984525
Reposted by S FaustThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Damn. What an icon. RIPnews.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 51337323
Reposted by S FaustTexas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/10/2026“Adrian should have had access to a process that was independent, trauma-informed, and transparent.” Featured: Months after this soldier's tragic death, his family still has questions. Not just about how he died, but whether he got the legal rights he was owed as a sexual assault whistleblower.texasobserver.orgA Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower ProtectionsAdrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him. 0198
Reposted by S FaustPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects 532864586
Reposted by S FaustAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb 90858381746
Reposted by S Faustbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101141244654
Reposted by S FaustDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026🎥 NEW: ICE never wanted you to see the internal documents it released last week. Why? It went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents to target nonprofits for registering voters. Marc Elias explains how deeply ICE has become involved in elections under Trump's second term👇youtube.comICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun DocumentsYouTube video by Democracy Docket 6255129
Reposted by S FaustMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time" 282980667
Reposted by S FaustMary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Texas reproductive rights advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing its much anticipated maternal death report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027: Background here: www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...texasobserver.orgA ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State's Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After MidtermsAdvocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing the annual report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027. 312349
Reposted by S FaustThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“I can do whatever I want” says the guy who denies dozens of sexual assault allegations. 561597327