Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4hGiven that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible. 9889116
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 5hIt is good to hear Dems talk as if they are aware what trash these guys are spewing. 2538
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5hOssoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 19888332296
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 5hnationalize everything Elon Musk owns. 471810383
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 5hLarge scale organized crime depends on the scared silence of its participants 0444
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 6hIm a tired Democrat and it makes me feel something to see someone hate these fuckers like I do 123717
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialJon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 6hThat's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors. 25625167
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6hEl-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual." 882760745
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5hI genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people. 582228470
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7hjesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 390142302257
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6hTroy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong." 9464321846
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 6hOssoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists. 473101538
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6hThis is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 103050984
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6hthis country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence. 101081285
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 9hTo do this through a dissociative medium that already trains us to think of its contents as less real. As so much entertainment. So much content. It is not merely immoral, but the screaming, atavistic *absence* of morality--not coincidentally this defines Hegseth's entire approach to the Pentagon. 225231
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 9hThis is part of what makes executions so morally depraved. It is a sober calculation on the part of the state to engage in extreme sanction. In Hegseth's case, he's taking it yet further still. He wants a livestream where people can bathe in blood for pleasure. 428741
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 9hThis is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity. 411589494
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11hWhoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary. 1811427782
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7hICE has quietly launched a 45-day immigration crackdown in California ahead of the midterm elections, instructing its officers to “go after anybody.” trib.al/9oMFlt8 67162
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22hThe Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US. 45492943139
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🇺🇸‼️ Top Russian and US officials, including US Special Envoy Jared Kushner, have held talks about bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered gas to Germany before Russia invaded Ukraine, - Reuters 146320
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book. 8551141
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 35555143
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb 90858381747
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Trump suggests he wants to cut off almost all trade: "We're gonna very very self-sufficient very soon" 7401720525
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialTom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Your 1,384th reminder that the Supreme Court's grant of criminal immunity to sitting presidents was an epochal dereliction of duty. It needs to be wiped from the books as soon as possible. 931273
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Didn’t realize we were translating these from German 34804143
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAlt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 07/10/2026www.ms.now/news/trump-m...ms.nowTrump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decadesThe decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors. 88251
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialJMay🍁⚖️🏝️🏖️🪖🇨🇦 @bubbles9333.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Robert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuseRobert Morris, who started Gateway church, pleaded guilty in October to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s 1414591
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.motherjones.comStudy: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteersAfter tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience. 62592411
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One excellent remedy for the Male Loneliness Epidemic I haven't seen on the op-ed pages would be to bring union membership up to where it was in the good old days. This would also be useful for non-male loneliness, and other things. 03712
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps 23213176
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Big deal for Anduril, funnily enough shortly after CEO Palmer Luckey joined Hegseth’s new weapons group.cnbc.comAnduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after CEO joins Pentagon weapons groupDefense tech leaders are gaining sway in Washington in President Donald Trump's military reindustrialization push 36290128
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9659953427
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialAmanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The TV companies that took our tax money should send it back to the Treasury. It's stolen money. They have no credibility opposing gov't propaganda if they keep it. They should eat their mistake. But the end result here is that Trump still got free-to-him, taxpayer-funded ads. 1216345
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The Russian president has reason to believe that he has bought off Trump and his envoys with flattery, fake talk of “peace” and business deals.” anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/who-is-ame...anneapplebaum.substack.comWho is American foreign policy for?Definitely not Americans 411939
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity. 521440509
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialDonovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died. 501502233
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is more to drop on this story. What the Times does not mention is that Salus, the company that got an almost $1 billion no bid contract was also telling other contractors it could secure them govt contracts - if they were willing to hand tens of millions to her boyfriend, Corey Lewandowski. 116039
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Noem demanded personal control over all DHS contracts over $100K and should be held responsible for the waste and (likely) graft that followed, which conservatively ran into the hundreds of millions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-... 830056
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show. 44626320
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialthinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026tl;dr warriors fight for their own honor and to preserve a way of life in which they are at the top of the social hierarchy. Soldiers fight to defend the constitution of the United States. If you don't understand the difference you don't belong in power. 19214
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialBarbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026An excellent piece by Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social 0115
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialBetty Ann @vegavannah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Man, I think I would be able to tolerate all the evil better if it wasn’t being done by the most goddamn embarrassing ugly dumbest fucking losers alive. 041
Reposted by @theblandone.bsky.socialMaria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How to hold what harrows you www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/06/m...themarginalian.orgHow to Hold What Harrows YouWe are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffe… 0112