Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 1hgorgeous framing of the idea that the increase in divorces in the 70s and later was not obviously a huge net good for society as well like no no you're right, before the 70s marriages were perfect, totally equal, the lower rate of divorce was definitely not due to massive structural disincentives- 627436
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16hSomething unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 20040021810
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16hUnder Trump, more than 500 Americans have been grabbed off the street and sent to DHS concentration camps. Many have been filmed screaming that they are American citizens. DHS doesn't care; they just toss them into detainment until some family member or lawyer is able to prove their citizenship.projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 313876
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” Levyrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17ha little louder for the cheap seats in the back 2137731344
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyEngadget @engadget.com · 2hDon't make Aaron Sorkin tap the sign.engadget.comThe Social Reckoning is a timely reminder that we shouldn't trust Meta - Engadget 072
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2hThe most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858... 1071543167
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevySteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2hTeam Trump is effectively saying it misappropriated $11.5 million in taxpayer money, but they're promising not to misuse any *additional* funds. That’s nice, but there’s still the matter of the money that the White House already (and illegally) took from us. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.nowWhite House rejects calls for reimbursements on publicly funded campaign adsDemocrats Team Trump’s gambit as the “theft of public resources,” which comes with the expectations that the money must be paid back. 58030
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyEngadget @engadget.com · 1hSynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies.engadget.comGoogle's AI detection website is now available - Engadget 031
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyCongresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15hThe Trump administration wants to use marriage and birth rates to determine what cities receive federal funding for transit projects. This is beyond dystopian. www.politico.com/news/2026/10/06/ba…politico.comTrump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit fundingThe federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit. 87230
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyTina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 17hThe LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s... 621048340
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 5820101458
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyBolts @boltsmag.org · 17hMany states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.boltsmag.orgIn an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - BoltsA change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers. 512774
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 15hThe President is now telling crowds to "let" a foreign adversary "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego. These comments are downright crazy. We need to stand up to this deranged lunatic in the White House. 59551153
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17hMore than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th 12542052141
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade 44476361814
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11hI would absolutely give up my entire career and lose my job before I’d let the moron president publicly lobotomize me like this. These dumb DOJ hacks are drone people, barely recognizable as thinking humans 623420
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 10hI think it’s unconscionable that we are willing to move heaven and earth to find money for stadiums, but seemingly incapable of doing the same to prevent the closure of schools. My constituents are outraged. They are right to be. There’s still time to fix this, but we’re going to need to lock in. 13852167
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 13hSorry, I know it’s been talked about to death, but Trump threatening to ‘let’ Iran bomb two cities within radiation poisoning radius of my actual house is genuinely insane. 1625148
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15hTroy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing." 13178512076
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14hTranslation: Donald Trump's efforts to abolish the Education Department are under independent investigation. 15687171
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAll In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 14hTrump may have found a “solution” to the taxpayer-funded ad controversy, but shifting the bill to his Super PAC raises a whole new problem.youtube.comTrump’s taxpayer-funded ad ‘solution’ comes with a major catchYouTube video by MS NOW 55725
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMother Jones @motherjones.com · 15hIn 2024, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws...a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book. @smencimer.bsky.social reports: bit.ly/3TEJcnd 1119665
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAll In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 14hTrump’s comments suggesting Iran “take out” U.S. cities are already putting frontline House Republicans on the defensive in some of the country’s toughest races.youtube.comVulnerable Republicans forced to answer for Trump’s ‘take out’ San Diego, LA jab YouTube video by MS NOW 41319119
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hHere's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out" 25165121750
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hSUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 1232187624332
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hTroy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened." 9951461350
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes 23768267
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21hThe Hell's VIP Section is currently full. Please make other arrangements. 2243221634
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyThe Verge @theverge.com · 20hThe AI creep is seemingly ubiquitous in customer service jobs now. In reporting this story, @gabydvj.bsky.social heard from movie theater workers, baristas, and Apple Store employees, all of whom have had customers ask for products or features that don’t exist. Read more: buff.ly/4togSFP 47918
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20hwww.ms.now/news/reflect...ms.nowAttorneys for David Hearn call for probe into Reflecting Pool vandalism caseIn a letter to the inspectors general of the Justice and Interior departments, Hearns’ lawyers demand answers as to who is responsible for the “gross incompetence, negligence, and misconduct.” 23949227
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20hIt's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 16942711879
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevySteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 20hTime will tell what, if anything, comes of Russia’s public-health threat, but the issue offers a timely reminder: Putting the U.S. system in the hands of unqualified cranks and charlatans who’ve decimated our public-health infrastructure really wasn’t a smart idea. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.nowAs Russia confronts a new public health threat, Team Trump doesn’t inspire confidenceWe’re suddenly reminded why it’s unwise to put a nation’s public health infrastructure in the hands of those who cannot manage it responsibly. 36622
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026"Just come here the legal way" was always light years easier said than done; now they aren't even in the same galaxy. 2291101
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAll In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Donald, here is the gauntlet, here's the challenge. I think you are too afraid to come to Michigan because you know when I beat your candidate, and you came, I'm actually beating you,” says Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, “I dare you to come.”youtube.com‘I DARE you’: El-Sayed says Trump is ‘too afraid’ to campaign in MichiganYouTube video by MS NOW 915938
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.propublica.orgHow ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 HoursThe reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. 7953842350
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026Katie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the existing redactions and withholdings to stand as a matter of law. He's saying what he has done is legally sufficient. And I am here to say, hell no, it is not." 25398783162
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” Levyshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461915435
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevySouth Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 06/10/2026Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso, suspended after his arrest on allegations he molested a young child, said he still “intend[s] to win” the November election. And the Palm Beach County Republican Party endorsed him today. Via @miamiherald.comsun-sentinel.comPalm Beach County GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuseSuspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso said he has not abandoned his campaign, nor has the local Republican Party abandoned him, even after his arrest on child sex abuse charges. 40322185
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026to be clear, they’re arguing that because Trump appointed himself to the Kennedy Center board and then made himself Chairman (a position never before held by a US President), the fact that he is also President renders all of his communications *as Chairman* subject to Presidential privilege. 114338
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026The Trump administration is still ripping migrant families apart — now, with a quieter tactic. It is a deception that hinges upon one word: “unaccompanied” motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 616274
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyTom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Check me, but I believe in those last two years of his second term the GOP also refused to confirm all but one of Obama’s appointees to the appellate courts, too. So not just SC. Then Trump came in and marveled at why Obama “left” him so many vacancies. 14911
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026100% true. I think it’s valid to eliminate everything he’s done this term on that basis. No one has amended the Constitution. It’s still in there. 0161
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026Also, Trump is an illegitimate president because of the Fourteenth Amendment. That is reason enough to put up maximum obstruction for any nomination. 2191
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can you imagine any other...ah, nevermind. Should be leading news for a week, a month, a day? But, nah, nothing. The President of the United States openly talking about taking out major American cities and the millions that live in them. 70816267
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyMarc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US With nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC.politico.comPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the USWith nearly 3,900 reported cases, the nation is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, according to the CDC. 415128
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyRadley 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. 25596933005
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyThe Verge @theverge.com · 06/10/2026It’s a risk multiplier for storms and floods. www.theverge.com/science/1005...theverge.comThe planetary wave headed for California isn’t what you think it is It makes existing risks worse. 0162
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevySteve Benen @stevebenen.com · 06/10/2026The White House said Trump’s super PAC will start paying for its propagandistic campaign ads “moving forward.” But what about the millions of taxpayer dollars that have already been misused? Where’s the refund? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...ms.nowWhy Trump unexpectedly reversed course on taxpayer-funded campaign adsThe president is taking a step toward resolving an ongoing election-season scandal, but there are plenty of unanswered questions that need answers. 1911931
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” LevyThe Verge @theverge.com · 06/10/2026Apple’s revamped parental controls are surprisingly difficult to enable if you have multiple Apple devices. The company says it's working on improvements. www.theverge.com/tech/1005193...theverge.comI can’t use Apple’s new Screen Time controls because my son won’t update his MacBookKids: 1 Screen Time: 0 2245
Reposted by Gutt “EPSTEIN” Levy404 Media @404media.co · 06/10/2026Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.404media.coLawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media CoverageSenator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers. 271301474