Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2025"Barbie acts interested as old white guy complains." - the template for all RW media 621030152
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c… 460137865700
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialThe Meggles Art @megglesart.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Let's make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause. (1/3) 223447
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either. 28347781050
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Evergreen: 81811412
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today 16260302239
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Hey DOGE! 671968353
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025The cost to repair D.C. streets after Trump's upcoming military parade could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials. 1321653601
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Both Rubio's tweet, and the response, are remarkable artifacts. You have a Secretary of State tweeting right wing talking points to defend Neo Nazis, and the country where Nazis originated telling him to sod off. 913787982
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Family separations are back. As some of us warned they would be. Utter cruelty and deception here from Trump and ICE: 611188306
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic." 1243298817256
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025We need to stop wondering if Trump will defy federal court orders. He’s already doing it. He’s defying federal court orders as we speak.👇 1320043
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22/04/2025The last guy to show off his military access by sharing classified military intel with unauthorized people on a consumer chat app, Jack Teixeira, will be in prison until 2036 371941582
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.” 301492369
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side. 4560332327794
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2025Leavitt: "The president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth ... this is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change you are trying to implement. Secretary Hegseth was nominated because he's standing up for the warfighters." 8211836280
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.” 143136113767
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Btw I’m pretty sure the three DoD staffers who got fired earlier this week were the sources for this story. One wonders what other tea might be spilled in the coming week. 351705309
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Dem leaders and operatives saying “focus on pocketbook issues,” completely miss that due process *is* a pocketbook issue. Tourists, students, investors, citizens all depend on rule of law. Just because lawlessness is state-sponsored, doesn’t mean it ain’t crime, and crime is bad for the economy. 421553407
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it *does* seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison? 181109622507
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role. 35959671604
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/04/2025This is the story. The entire deportation strategy is a massive perception management operation on the American people (in addition to being illegal) 631497475
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18/04/2025Thanks to Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE agency, music documentaries relying on government funding are being killed. "It’s pretty disastrous.”rollingstone.comDOGE Went After Arts Funding. Music Docs Are Paying the PriceTrump, Elon Musk, and DOGE's cuts to art funding are killing planned music documentaries, including ones on folk hero John Henry and jazz. 17021
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/04/2025made-in-China MAGA merch getting hit by Trump’s tariffs (H/T @saadia---m.bsky.social ) 731933617
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialTrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 18/04/2025Donald Trump on the campaign trail: "I'm going to lower your prices on day one." Donald Trump in office: "Actually, you're not paying *enough* for eggs." 34840187
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2025REPORTER: Do you agree that the Constitutional does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders. Do you agree with that statement? TRUMP: Well, you're gonna have to speak to the lawyers. 146793213
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialMedia Reeducation Camp @bellboy905.bsky.social · 17/04/2025In other news, @nytimes.com editors remain unconvinced that earth-shattering stories like this are alarming enough for the front page.abcnews.go.com'Homegrowns are next': Trump doubles down on sending American 'criminals' to foreign prisonsPresident Donald Trump told Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele he wanted to send "homegrown criminals" to El Salvador next and encouraged Bukele to build more prisons. 0102
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 17/04/2025Unconcealed authoritarianism, straight from the White House. Anyone who demands they prove that an accused person is a terrorist must be, themselves—you guessed it!—a terrorist. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject this pigslop. 0479112
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialCara Pelletier @scaradactyl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city. 607238634594
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Again, every single day I discover a new reason to hate this soulless fuck. 1463478443
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/04/2025New in PN: SCOTUS puts constitutional crisis in America's Easter basket "Thanks to the Court’s fecklessness, the judiciary is now back on a collision course with a Trump-shaped iceberg. But this time, instead of planeloads of faceless migrants, the case involves just one man: Kilmar Abrego Garcia."publicnotice.coSCOTUS puts constitutional crisis in America's Easter basketInstead of a chocolate bunny, we get the president openly defying a court order. 351308289
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialLincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/04/2025Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!” 1209361419292
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I'm going to have to add a paragraph to this book on the Civil Rights Division in the 1960s that informs readers that, originally, the CRD fought tirelessly for diversity, filed countless lawsuits to secure equity and showed up at segregated institutions to demand inclusion. 10568124
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialPeople For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025If you’re charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump personally helps bring you back to the US. If you’re a working-class father of three charged with no crime, Trump says it’s not “up to” him. 4270105
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official. 356111785391
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025HOLY SHIT I DID NOT CATCH THAT LAST PART 13827267
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/04/2025If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than: Tesla in 2024 & 2022 AT&T in 2021 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Amazon in 2017-2018 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich. 17067671745
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/04/2025We're thrilled to be nominated for two Webby Awards in the Social Impact & Podcast categories. Help get us across the finish line & celebrate our work from the past year! We would be very grateful for your vote! Best Social Video: bit.ly/4hVapIc Best Podcast: bit.ly/4llJ4C7 281686184
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialMatt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13/04/2025NYT is actively participating in a campaign to put the first draft of history through a funhouse of mirrors and warp all perspective. 1038186
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1) 13580333949
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/04/2025The measles outbreak in West Texas didn't happen just by chance. The preventable disease ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.bit.lyMeasles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the USThe measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs. 511258547
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors. 387156652908
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2025The dream is dead 1864209103943
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025Breaking News: The Trump administration defied a judge’s order to provide information on how it intended to bring a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Friday afternoon.nytimes.comTrump Administration: Live Updates and Latest News 67331101
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Again, you can tell who the Good Guys are because they’re the ones getting caught sneaking into elementary schools, lying that the kids’ parents sent them. bsky.app/profile/prem... 10948781275
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Wow. This is from a Trump II State Dept appointee, Tibor Nagy, unloading on the DOGE shitshow as a "stage production which combined elements of a tragicomedy with the Twilight Zone." Again, this is a Trump guy talking. www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinio... 733111833
Reposted by @slayball.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?" 18464250813435
