Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 23373691219
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026OAN: "The GOP chair of the GA Peanut Commission backs Ossoff ... Donald Chase said Ossoff has his vote, adding he likes to support people he believes in. Chase said he's still a conservative R, but claims character matters, and he wants someone in the Senate who will take the institution seriously" 682895601
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get" 276129272522
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Kimmel to Mamdani on his cordial relationship with Trump: "How did you do that, and can you help me?" 211124157
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Mamdani in response to Kimmel asking him to send Trump a selfie of the two of them: "I love you, but I love housing more" 603385553
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17hNew in PN: Will Dems offer a New New Deal? "Today's situation — in which the economy continues to grow but working Americans have an ever-shrinking share — has been a long time coming. But Trump’s nihilistic policies have put the lie to the Reaganite promise of prosperity through assaulting govt."publicnotice.coWill Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin. 40523151
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 16hRepublican closing argument: "we crashed the economy to start an unending war, re-elect us please" 9505103
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 16hProtecting child predators, facilitating extra-judicial murders, jacking up everyone's prices through tariffs and military misadventures all so that Donald Trump can get rich and he doesn't yell at you is a hell of a closing message. But totally on brand for Mr. Johnson. 31875236
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16hWarren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'" 22085412759
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16hI don't even want this malignant sociopath talking about nuclear strikes on cities, much less having the authority and capacity to personally order them. Which, um, he has. 33866140
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialMona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 15hPay attention guys And spread the word .. 29547142
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15hJack 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" 318114864237
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15hthis really picks up at the 26 second mark 401380303
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere. 28811168
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14hThis is just crazy. 21843219
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hJohn Kennedy keeps asking Jack Smith questions about his wife. Smith repeatedly tells him he's not going to talk about his family. 3772708553
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hactual questions from John Kennedy to Jack Smith: "Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? How about the Easter bunny?" 4171395410
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 14hTrump just illegally stashed away about a billion dollars, which even the GOP is pissed about, and he’d have to do more than a thousand times to have enough to pay this out 17710
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 14hGenuinely thought this was a one-and-done thing and he’d moved on so everyone would forget he said it 2941971
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hholy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong." 31060941325
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13hWe are pushing back on Trump's cruel Orwellian immigration tactics. I just signed a package of bills to strengthen transparency, accountability, and oversight of federal immigration enforcement in California — including a first in the nation ban on shock gloves.youtu.beGovernor Newsom Signs Bills Protecting Immigrant CommunitiesYouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom 824954
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13hTweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape. 926550636
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14hme on how we know Trump doesn't have a magic button to win the midterms because he keeps thrashing around looking for a magic button. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-woul...everythingishorrible.netTrump Wouldn’t Promise Cash If He’d Rigged the MidtermsHe doesn’t have a plan. 1128765
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hLMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020 19063131755
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hthis gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty) 85083292189
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit. 601917400
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialSam Kamin @sjkamin.bsky.social · 11hIndeed bsky.app/profile/amyk... 0195
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h“Knowing my Midwestern sports” The deepest cut. 351314223
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialKevin Wardrop @kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com · 12hThey can't even begin to put into words WHY they do it, can they? 2639266
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12hwow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor 2402823716
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 12hAaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes. 1232596507
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12hAfter forcing us to pay $120 BILLION more for fuel because of his idiotic war with Iran, Donald Trump is now rolling back fuel standards so new cars get even fewer miles per gallon. This is a massive wealth transfer from working Americans to oil companies. 1425199
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 11hTrump's America.gov chatbot really is SUPER INTELLIGENCE! 86714
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialJamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 11hFrom WSJ - The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports, the people said. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television AdsWhite House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law. 612762
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 11hHah! @helenkennedy.com is all over this, and it’s fabulous: 18914
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 10hUnsurprising News: Recent polls show that support for Republicans is continuing to drop Jen writes all about it: contrarian.substack.com/p/dismal-po… @jenrubin.bsky.social 07211
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialThe Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 10hSure folks on Bluesky know this but most normies out there have no idea just how deep their conservative neighbors are into their alternate reality. They do not live here on earth with us at all. 1948687
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10hFunniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him. 712438325
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12hvicarious cringe for a Republican Senator, that's new for me also really humanizing for Jack Smith tbh who has a very natural reaction to whatever the fuck this is 3795779
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12hIf your media consumption is stuff like this, Schmitt just scored a big win. bsky.app/profile/atru... 1031535
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialDan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 10hI hope we get some real reporting on how this came to happen. Did Schmitt know it was a lie, but believe that Smith somehow wouldn’t be able to disprove it on the spot? Or was it that he really just jumped the gun in the most idiotic possible way? What was with them yanking away that placard? Etc. 72786108
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialDag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 10hAre data centers about to become very popular? 17888154
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10hCan't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years. 42968161641
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10hFox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself. 451278231
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9hJust a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15). 1112313597
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10hthese look more and more like late Brezhnev, late Chernenko photos 281043182
Reposted by @spicalight.bsky.socialAri Cohn @aricohn.com · 9hThe dig at the Senator from Missouri about knowing Midwest sports teams was pretty savage. Gotta respect it. 311027162
