tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026DNC: We decide who runs. We’re the deciders. You vote blue no matter who. 030
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Trump's direct control over the DOJ is especially dangerous bc federal criminal law is completely insane and typically just reflects whatever mass delusion congress was under at the time the law passed. it leaves a huge toolbox of poorly written laws and draconian sentencing for Trump to play with. 114524
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/05/2026US Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer marched alongside far-right Israeli Finance Minister and Criminal Bezalel Smotrich. 1401331520
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class. 152129805103
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle... 20084672385
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere. 9955231619
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished." 16587601912
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state 112118902829
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 08/05/2026Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right? 332159610
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid. 7044611023
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialJulie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there. 1582701999
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAdam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes. 14671951421
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I really don't like this 25A medicalization talk. "Fail a mental fitness test"? That frames this as if it's some unproven possibility of a particular mental illness, which is totally irrelevant. I don't care what boxes he checks in the DSM-5. That he's unfit for office is not a medical diagnosis. 35904141
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Ilan Wurman is the legal Johnny Somali 1238825
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Big news: Gov. Spanberger signs bill making Virginia 18th state + DC to join National Popular Vote Interstate Compact States in compact now total 222 electoral votes, 48 shy of 270 needed for popular vote plan to go into effect www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...npr.orgVirginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become presidentWith Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means. 12624202
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialBrett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The PR guy at DoorDash is having a bit of a crash out 51473271142
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-… 251301187144
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 07/04/2026Republican leaders are a cancer that has to be eliminated from American society. 932166374
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/04/2026we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important! 11372871393
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialEd @notdred.bsky.social · 03/04/2026We gotta be real about this sentiment, it’s driven by concern-trolling rich people. They are fine with paying for their own child care and don’t want to pay taxes for poorer people to get child care either 16887154
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.npr.orgTrump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of itForeclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners. 611106715
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026So realtors gave $5 million to an anti-Steyer Super PAC, and now he's losing endorsements for condemning AIPAC. Got it. 79727
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026A lot of Trump voters I spoke to during the campaign were convinced the Wrong People were getting free stuff and that Trump would make sure the Right People (them) got it. bsky.app/profile/fact... 792246482
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over. The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too. This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it. 201442367
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 31/03/2026😱CORRECTIONS are CENSORSHIP. Requesting them is a CONSPIRACY. Jacob Siegel of Tablet is extremely angry that I requested corrections of the materially wrong facts (lies) ab me/ my work that appeared in his 📖 & were echoed by unwitting reviewers. He is mad that they corrected. So he emailed me. 2863590
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/03/2026Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX 28750872293
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The reason they want his politics to fail is that an anti-Zionism rooted in a multiracial social democratic humanism is genuinely in keeping with the traditions of the Democratic Party and American Jewry. They want the choice to be Nazis or them, so that we're all with them. 339970
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialMatthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Professor Moyn is pretty far down the list of commentators whose finger-wagging merits attention. Smart guy, lousy judgment. 8464
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This is a very important initiative and a possible way out of the Super PAC box that the party finds itself in. It leverages negative publicity in a measurable way to make outside spending toxic 415331
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/03/2026Trump has been bailed out of all his idiotic failures for his entire life, but this time he just might have gone too far. prospect.org/2026/03/20/i...prospect.orgOl’ Donny Trump Has Really Stepped in It This Time - The American ProspectIn Iran, he finally created a jam for himself it will not be easy to wriggle out of. 717550
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026"It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and isn't an imminent threat" holy hell that's a hell of a thing for the DNI to say 1023086780
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter: 180101473371
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/03/2026UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION 35860852145
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/03/2026Matthew Yglesias is poking fun at the White House finally realizing its policy is too unpopular to run on? The guy who spent all of 2025 and until circa February of 2026 arguing Democrats shouldn’t even talk about Trump’s immigration/deportation policy? That Matthew Yglesias? 482162318
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly 293067506
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan. 1605895685
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :) 8981562070
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/03/2026Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive. 18869722047
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/03/2026complete insanity 65285862151
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal. 240107503510
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/03/2026A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 27% of Americans approve of the military attacks. 43% disapprove. 2603983800
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/03/2026It's all so goddamned predictable. 10539106
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them. 733102421972
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Good job, New York Times. Directly calling Trump's case for war with Iran based on "false" claims that "do not hold up." In the headline, top of the homepage. And no hedging with "critics say." I don't think they ever did that in the lead up to Iraq, and rarely do anything like it for Trump's lies. 371491350
Reposted by @tenniscourtoaf.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review" 7357451388
