Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 12hCan someone please kick Teddy Cruz in the nutz so he could actually have something to scream about? His fake outrage is channeling Lindsey Graham's worst moments and is an embarrassment of gaslighting riches. 000
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 12hTed Cruz working his mouth like an insufferable "Harvard Debate Man". Just totally misleading, maliciously duplicitous, and 100 percent infuriating as he mewls endlessly trying to score FOX News points. He seems extraordinarily worried about subpoenas for phone toll records. I wonder why? 000
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 13hJohn Cornyn, once again demonstrating he will do what he can to help cover for Trump's crimes (Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case and Trump's involvement in obstructing the investigation) and that he's also a dumb-dumb. 000
Reposted by Talos_XLIVemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17hThe Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History from @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-bigges... 1619673
Reposted by Talos_XLIVSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16hWhich is ... what, exactly? 118987116
Reposted by Talos_XLIVSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December? 711309254
Reposted by Talos_XLIVCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound. 642334456
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026America would be better off if Trump just . . . stopped. 020
Reposted by Talos_XLIVThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026Donald Trump’s attempt to ban reporters from the White House is “a preview of what to expect over Trump’s remaining time in office—especially if Democrats take control of one or both chambers of Congress,” @qjurecic.bsky.social argues.bit.lyThe Two-Year Temper Tantrum to ComeTrump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era. 910731
Reposted by Talos_XLIVSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's my update on the flood of right-aligned polls into the battleground Senate races - 36 polls, 14 states, 7 pollsters, 15 days. 25420
Reposted by Talos_XLIVEric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 24/09/2026In a report released this week, GAO said the FAA isn't doing enough to prevent hackers from interfering with aviation communications channels: www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2... 064
Reposted by Talos_XLIVDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This tiny fix solves a problem you never realized you had, and once you see it, it makes perfect sense. 561745647
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dance, Susie, dance.static.klipy.comMan in Tutu Does a Happy DanceAlt: Man in tutu doing a crazy dance. 000
Reposted by Talos_XLIVRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As litigation foe, Trump is a moving target. Yesterday, 4 days after Trump tossed 3 news organizations out of the White House, DOJ attys concocted post-hoc bases for his having done so & claimed to offer post-hoc chances to challenge the ousters. 1/6 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.comResponse to motion – #16 in CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-03287) – CourtListener.comRESPONSE re 2 MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order filed by STEVEN CHEUNG, SEAN M. CURRAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, SUSAN WILES. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit CNN Letter, # 2 Exhibit MSNOW Letter, # 3 Exhibit P... 36023
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🤮 Would not surprise me if Crimin' Ken has MAD information on his estranged (soon to be ex) wife that he keeps in his pocket for emergency purposes. These two deserved each other. 000
Reposted by Talos_XLIVRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026#ELB: Missouri gerrymandering: you’ll get whiplash from the speed of the SCOTUS reprimand electionlawblog.org/2026/missouri-g… 0253
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is so familiar. But I know my old girl "lies" and ignore her pleas of "I'm starving!" This is why she weighs the same at 17+ as she did at 3–4 y.o. Please don't let your cat become obese; it's as bad for them as it is for us. That said, Kevin surely deserves an Emmy or an Oscar. 050
Reposted by Talos_XLIVWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Get out of my bunker."washingtonpost.comTrump says he’s banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White HouseThe president has a history of feuding with news organizations and has at times tried to ban them and their journalists. 1213
Reposted by Talos_XLIVMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/09/2026"The power of this office is crazy" Yeah, we're gonna fix that. 4306
Reposted by Talos_XLIVKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There's always room for new angles on the madness of King Trump, so this account of his "portfolio reasoning"—where he approaches the US as a personal real estate holding whose value he's seeking to increase—is fine fodder. But he's clueless about how to do that, as his dismal career would suggest. 0131
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026😂It's better to laugh at this "you can't be serious" situation than cry. 000
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Has no clue he's unintentionally distributing the contents of the Trump playbook from a mirror universe. Attaboy, Cletus! 010
Reposted by Talos_XLIVemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Washington Sun (formerly NOTUS) going for the gold. 725642
Reposted by Talos_XLIVIra 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Trump will also impose tariffs on the Sudetenland. 032
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🤣Nice. I'm sure I'll have plenty of good company working to help make things better for folks and not worse. @eleanor.lockhart.contact I don't know how you (or accounts like Stancil) put up with far more, far worse things. *If I meet you there, I'll be sure to say "Hello!" and shake your hand. 152
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hey Aaron, at least the flying monkeys at the RR47 keyboard upgraded you to "gutter trash" from "sick, deluded freak". Progress! p.s. Thanks for your tireless, near-Herculean, efforts documenting this eff'd up trainwreck of an administration in video clip format. 000
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is the way. Thank you, Mike. You're a (principled) street fighter when it comes to this stuff. 110
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026(Humorous) football fanmaxxing. Respect the dedication. 010
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This just hit my TL. It's simple, very to-the-point, and I like it a lot. Definitely worth re-sharing right now as political ratfucker season has started in earnest. 010
Reposted by Talos_XLIVellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 11/09/2026I can’t fucking believe all of you want to give Ken Paxton six years in the Senate by using trans people’s outsized cultural impact to get celebrities and other influential figures to kill Democratic momentum, when trans kids in Texas are BEGGING you to support Talarico What is WRONG with us? 215132
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Is it really that hard for journos to follow up when legit Qs are brushed off with Trump bullshit? When he does this, repeat the Q more firmly: "That didn't address the Q. Again, what are your ideas on how to pay for this $1.3 trillion proposal?" Repeat as needed. Expose him and/or his con. 021
Reposted by Talos_XLIVAleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.transiticsnews.comI’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids. 9164162555
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ellie speaks the truth (a good follow, BTW). I trust that the vast majority of decent people within the mainstream Democratic "Big Tent" will see through Reed's dangerously misguided(?) efforts and not amplify her sabotage bullshit nor abandon trans folks. 0151
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm just not ready for this to become our reality. Fortunately, I will be dead long before fruit fly brains operate swarms of Amazon drones for package delivery or start manipulating stock markets. I do, however, see a pretty good t-shirt vendor opportunity. 000
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🧵Damn straight. Some people need to pull the heads out. It's shopworn, but that does not negate its essential truth: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good." If Talarico wins (🙏) and becomes some anti-trans reactionary in the Senate, I'll eat my hat with Ghost pepper sauce. —A Talarico Texan 030
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If he wasn't so overwhelmingly odious and criminally corrupt, I would not go here. But he is and so I will: I love that this Ben Sargent cartoon mocks Paxton's disturbing lazy eye. *IMO, he should have gone harder on "Abattoir" as well. 000
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Dogs also display obsessive desire to mark fire hydrants. 000
Reposted by Talos_XLIVBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating. 311241433
Reposted by Talos_XLIVemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Trump just gave a slew of pardons and commutations w/o announcing them. (I still suspect Roger Stone may have gotten a SECOND pardon in his first term.) This would have been Eagle Ed Martin's last hurrah. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/trumps-sec...lawyeroyer.comTrump’s Secret PardonsThe money and influence-peddling surrounding Trump’s second-term pardons have been much discussed. But less attention has been paid to another alarming feature: the secrecy. 6357167
Reposted by Talos_XLIVProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know:propublica.orgWall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — inv... 22613330
Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Thank you, Ms. Telnaes. This is savage, and I am here for it. I wish I had the time (and the guts) to drive up I-35 and plaster copies all around the American Airlines Center in Dallas. 000
Reposted by Talos_XLIVRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Direct link to our SCOTUS amicus brief in the USPS mail ballot case: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26...supremecourt.gov 4328