Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 12hIf we had a nickel for every time a Republican regretted a vote in support of a Trump initiative or nominee, we'll all be rich. 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comHe Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him OutDan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon. 16472218
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Here we go... Stephen Colbert's ‘Lord of the Rings' Movie Paused by David Ellison After Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger I wonder why 🤔 www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/10/4/…worldofreel.comStephen Colbert's ‘Lord of the Rings' Movie Paused by David Ellison After Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger — World of ReelBad news, Stephen. Your archnemesis has struck again. Ellison has hit pause on Colbert's LOTR movie. The film was originally rumored to begin shooting shortly after ‘The Hunt for Gollum.’ 99746
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned. 32163681619
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ryssdal is, of course, correct here. My question: why we aren't making a bigger stink about the fact that our government is doing everything it can to ensure that we use EVEN MORE oil everyday? 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The kids are alright. It's our job to do everything we can to build an economy where every kid can grow up and thrive. 7947231073
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." It will be interesting to see if CNN and MS NOW hosts and guests will denounce their own respective managements for accepting this advertising. 000
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This performance from Kennedy shows me that (a.) he's an idiot, and more importantly that (b.) he must have been a terrible attorney because there is no logic behind these questions. He THINKS he's nailing Jack Smith to the wall, but there is no there there. 100
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The beauty of the English language is that it evolves constantly, in response to the needs of its users, and pointedly NOT governed by an authority. 000
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Red Wine and Blue Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social 15325
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Persuasion isn't about saying "I told you so" - it's about bringing people together to make things better. 1312204364
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This post is a response to a post showing video of Ken Paxton acknowledging that the only reason Republicans get elected is that the Supreme Court allowed super PACs to buy elections. I'd say Elizabeth sums up the situation perfectly. bsky.app/profile/team... 000
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials. 21035741304
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...youtube.comMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 25667174511
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Right now [Taiwan is], you know, fine. It's just moving along.” = I’m okay with whatever Xi decides to do to Taiwan. 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here is the opening paragraph of the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan that the six MAGA justices just overruled, to their everlasting shame: www.headsupnews.org/i/203459883/... 10198124
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽 11927821385
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm expecting the State Department to declare Amnesty International a terrorist organization any minute now. 021
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Please let one of the few reporters left in the White House ask the latest person doing the press briefing why the hell Trump wore leather gloves to greet Xi? 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country. 14249462220
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great piece on Marketplace today about the unintended consequences of Trump's and Bessent's calls to ban exports of diesel fuel. If only the president and his cabinet had experts they could call on for sound economic advice! www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...marketplace.org"Not such a good idea": How banning diesel exports to lower prices could backfireSome senators and governors are calling on the Trump administration to temporarily ban diesel exports to boost domestic supply. Experts say it might not work as well as they hope. 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/20269/21/26 101 freeway in Encino A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. Silencing it is fascism. PERIOD. 15294222853
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This thread comprises unmitigatedly sleazy, disgusting gossip. I love it. 010
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, this is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox, where you get halfway to your destination, and then you get halfway through the remaining distance, and then you get halfway through the remaining distance, and then you get halfway through the remaining distance, and you never, ever reach your destination. 000
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026God this is going so well. I haven’t laughed this hard in so long! 807111052745
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am watching The West Wing again. It's fantasy, but seeing it from my current vantage point is shocking: people in the White House trying to get the census right, hoping to use a budget surplus (!!!) to pay down the debt and shore up Social Security, working to get legislation through Congress. 100
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Having demonstrated that bombs in the hands of losers don't win foreign wars, Trump is now moving on to demonstrate that bombs in the hands of losers don't win over the people of one's own country. 000
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Waiting for the announcement of the Eye of Sauron being installed at the top of the Washington Monument. 011
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The White House Correspondents’ Association should’ve boycotted Trump when he revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials They should’ve boycotted when he sued the NY Times They should’ve boycotted when he insulted all the female reporters Instead, they honored him by letting him speak at their dinner 981440505
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great example of how elected officials should be interrogated—Oops! Sorry! I meant "interviewed." 000
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comWhat the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return RevealsA previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover. 15138421796
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So, basically you're saying that they hate America, as conceived. Yep, that's sounds about right. 010
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This! Please White House press corps (or, rather, what’s left of the White House press corps), walk out! (Also, anyone who counts should be out of the Pentagon, too.) 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/202625 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right. 310146464674
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough? 1772976590
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Dear President Trump: You're supposed to TOLERATE news media you don't like. Counter "fake" news media if you must, but you should put up with them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! A Concerned Citizen 000
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellJohn Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Census Bureau tells staff not to talk publicly about its new rule, which would dramatically shift how the survey is conducted and redistribute political power from blue states to red ones.talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New RuleLeadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external... 26341247
Reposted by Steve O'Donnelljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867241672
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oklahoma, where I live, has similarly restrictive abortion laws. 000
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026News from January 2028: A U.N. panel found that the U.S. military may have committed war crimes in its undeclared war against Iran in 2026. The Pentagon is still investigating. 000
Reposted by Steve O'Donnellkamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Having a visual of how much debt we're in is always helpful as looking at $40 Trillion seems incomprehensible. And to think, with all this waste, we could have healthcare, free school lunches, affordable housing, etc. 1 red cup = $1 Billion! Get out and VOTE! #ProudBlue 📹: yobencohen 32981590
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Donald Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had, and it's not even close. 19869242
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This Ann Telnaes cartoon just about sums up Trump’s efforts to “save” the Kennedy Center. 000
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/09/2026TODAY: The Senate is expected to take up a bill that would turbocharge Trump’s corruption. There is absolutely no good reason for any Democrat to support this legislation. Email your senators and demand that they vote NO on the CLARITY Act.act.indivisible.orgUrge Your Senators to Oppose and Stop Trump's Crypto CorruptionLast year, the House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), a bill disguised as “crypto regulation” that actually serves the billionaires and bad actors at the center of today’s crypto chaos. This bill d... 12593294
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Part of the problem may be that our representatives in Congress simply cannot imagine corruption this bold and comprehensive. Support reporting from The New Yorker. 010
Reposted by Steve O'DonnellNew York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Today, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's attack on mail-in voting. This victory protects one of our most fundamental rights – the right to make your voice heard at the ballot box. Now, I encourage all eligible Americans to get out and vote — and vote early. 617348
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Our government is breaking laws in attempts to find lawbreakers. Physician, heal thyself. 010