Reposted by Susan ChumskyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling 7413973769 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Conley sucks, but maybe she's catching the blue wave 100 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20652451426 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKai Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dems need to commit to finding every one of these renditioned people, repatriating them with full citizenship and reparations. They can use the money from nationalizing Elon's companies and zeroing out DHS/ICE's budget 316930 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat. 351720571 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks. 12741357 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Did Bonta get ANYTHING from Ellison? Because the 30-films-a-year deal that is being reported has been promised for months, and the "editorial board" overseeing CBS and CNN means nothing without teeth. To me it sounds like Ellison threatened to move Paramount out of CA, and Bonta and Newsom folded. 1744899 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The slime has oozed from Opinion section to News. Thank you, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeff Bezos 000 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But the ballroom really is a bunker to help him fight to stay in office 010 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But the promise isn’t just to tear them down, but punish everyone who did the work. Liquidate companies. Strip the private assets from executives of the demolition and construction firms. And start telling them it’s gonna happen 318127 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyAnne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026amazon search thing where you want to look at books by, for example, David Roberts, and it shows you every single bloody book by everyone called "David" or "Roberts". Tried the traditional enclosing full name in quotes. Tried clicking on HIS ACTUAL NAME as author of another book. No dice. FFS. 141374 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trump's nominee for special counsel of the United States wrote "I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time," intensifying the need for every elected Democrat to go on Sunday morning shows to denounce Hasan Piker. 6993120 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026During the Biden admin some residents, fired up by right-wing anti-FEMA conspiracies, threatened and harassed FEMA workers. One supervisor advised those workers avoid danger. In the throes of the disaster, that superviser apparently overstepped 150 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The more the media cast the Venezuela operation as a 'success,' the more they encourage Trump to menace the Middle East and move on to Greenland and Cuba." 000 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/08/2026Last year, six huge companies got $83 BILLION in federal tax breaks. Meanwhile, Americans struggled to afford groceries and doctor's visits. Let that sink in. 1352681943 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/08/2026Basically Musk hijacked billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to go to affordable fiber optic broadband, and instead gave it to himself for slower, more congested satellite broadband he had ALREADY PLANNED TO DEPLOY anyway My June piece in The Verge, if you missed it:theverge.comElon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.” 7265121 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Meanwhile, Darline Graham's Republican runoff opponent is a traitor. 313242 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026context if anybody missed it bsky.app/profile/kohn... 6/ 217023 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Rabid opposition to medical leave FOR OTHERS has always been a through line in Mitch's career. Amazing compilation from @juddlegum.bsky.social and the @popular.info crew open.substack.com/pub/populari...open.substack.comMcConnell, out sick for two months, voted against medical leave 23 times since 1985Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized on June 14 after suffering a fall that left him unconscious. 000 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A public health system at full strength catches threats when the risk is low and an effective response is easy. A weakened system finds outbreaks late, when they are big and much harder to stop. 0163 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yes, the vendor is the primary customer, but when a pop-up asks for my data, it's trying to bring me in, too--for no reason that I can see 000 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Those "similar things" are extraneous to any e-commerce transactions. These apps might help sellers, but I don't get what value they bring to consumers 000 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I gave Shopify a fake phone # and date of birth, and it let me transact. For a few months after, whenever I tried buying stuff online, it kept intrusively popping up and asking if my fake info was real. I ignored. Hasn't popped up in a while 010 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Serious Q, Jeremy: What does Shopify do that's helpful to consumers? The vendor sells us the product, the shipper tracks and delivers it—why do we want another company requesting our private data and horning in on the transaction? 200 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This group, Big Tobacco, is great! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...edfringe.comWheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets 000 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Susan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...newrepublic.comWhat Susan Collins Just Did on Trump and ICE Should Worry All DemsShe voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding. But now she’s taking credit for a new bodycam commitment from ICE. Democrats can’t let her get away with this. 47874291 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A reminder to those with short memories: A move toward more progressive policies among Dems is actually a return to party roots. Today's "centrists" are vestiges of a Reagan-lite shift in the Clinton & Obama-era econ policy. And fwiw, Biden understood, his econ polices were most liberal in decades. 827884 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMicah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing 6879721584 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Murdoch and his NY Post have been a cancer on our city for more than a generation 000 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/07/2026putting an overt white supremacist on your cover in 2026 is certainly a choice, @economist.com it's not journalism, it's weird agitprop fused with pseudo-intellectual infotainment so MBA hustlebros and brunchlords can ignore ethics and pretend to be informed I'm utterly fascinated by the art form 411519 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Like the first season of The Apprentice, when Trump snatched the win from Kwame Jackson (whom he referred to as an n-word) and awarded it to a white male medocrity 150 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The admin has proposed a new rule that would make it much easier “to fast-track projects that destroy, or cause irreversible damage to, our historic places, with virtually no public oversight.” @timothynoah.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2132...newrepublic.comTrump’s Latest Plan to Sell Your History Out From Under YouThe administration has given a regulatory green light to miners, oil drillers, and Trump himself. 000 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It’s giving FIFA Peace Prize. 17831169 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Please Streisand the shit out of this. Dolan is evil 000 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyJess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 15/07/2026If I hear someone say “meeting in Bronx” I will kick them in nuts 871741204 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison. 282015413 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026harpers.org/archive/2018... 332965949 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Donald Trump cannot cancel elections but he can try to make it harder for people to vote and easier for the GOP to cheat. That includes misuse of the federal government and inciting his MAGA mob of election vigilantes. We need to be ready to send up and protect elections. 9435751350 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend. 1129291558 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 07/07/2026She made her name with misleading coverage of the bogus IRS "scandal" during the Obama admin 270 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is my fav Obama-with-kids moment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gISG...youtube.comObama Vs. Kid SupermanYouTube video by The Uptake by Bridgemakers 110 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/07/2026On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born 7513171 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026One day when my dad was growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he saw Melvin James Kaminsky on the street. Mel looked sad, and my dad felt bad for him so he offered him a cookie. Brush with future greatness 030 0
Susan Chumsky @susanchumsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Greenspan's greatest achievement was convincing the political word that speaking incomprehensibly about the economy was a mark of genius. Also I had no idea he'd married the great New York School artist Joan Mitchell. I guess he liked his wives named Mitchell. 010 0
Reposted by Susan ChumskyKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment. 310170585142 0
