Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard 2495901781
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialandy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 17hEndless bullshit & hypocrisy. 'So there was no Biden “censorship industrial complex,” but there absolutely is a Trump one... & not a peep from those who falsely argued that it existed under Biden. How strange.' - @masnick.com How strange indeed. All BS all the time. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/m...techdirt.comMAGA Built The Censorship Machine It Spent Years Falsely Accusing Democrats Of BuildingThis is not a unique or new observation, but so many MAGA attacks on others are projection, claiming that Democrats were doing the very things that MAGA always knew they would do if they were in charge. We've certainly spent plenty of time talking about Donald Trump's myriad and non-stop attacks on free speech, and... 715438
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 9hfor real: get your ass to the polls, folks we’re gonna see some weird shit out there this year, you never know 141488254
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialJames Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 11hThat's an opportunity, and I'm trying to be optimistic that Dems will jump on it. Anti-corruption is a platform with a lot of independent and even GOP appeal, and it could be a bridge back to non-college voters. It has the added advantage of being intrinsically good--not just politically salient 162
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15hThey took Ilhan’s PASSPORT?! Um 362446596
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 10hHave to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship. 1422338688
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11hI think even the duller swing voters have a bleary sense that Trump and his goons are fuckin robbing us all blind 341063204
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11hThe denaturalization push against Ilhan Omar is so much worse than even previous abuses of federal authority and investigative power. It’s not just that it’s a targeted investigation, but that it’s an effort to achieve something that could NEVER possibly be legitimate. 855386
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13hso many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:newrepublic.comThe Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration SystemThe U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets. 51032345
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialMGT @pseudofootball.bsky.social · 12hFirst dem to say “return to normalcy” gets thrown into the volcano 48912
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14hJohn Roberts and four other Supreme Court justices have betrayed the U.S. Constitution. The checks are gone. Imbalance prevails. The American experiment in self-governance is imploding in real time. 1525557
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool. 183083831
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/10/2026IR theory, at least when I was in grad school, did not pay enough attention to leader *personal* interest as opposed to national interest in either the realist sense or domestic politics sense. 1234263
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 14/10/2026@citizensforethics.org lawsuit: "Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and envoy, is breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures." www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...citizensforethics.orgCREW sues to block Jared Kushner from acting as Trump envoy - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonJared Kushner is breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. 9252106
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026RFK Jr announces a new initiative to kick people off their healthcare coverage but insists it's no big deal because "they don't even know they were enrolled in anything. They never make a claim." 8512434863
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Anyone who hasn't made a claim on their auto insurance needs to ram their car into a mailbox or light pole right away, before these assholes come for your policy. 1128353
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026(6/X) and they'll wonder "what did media commentators think about this?" And we'll have to answer "Mostly they were more worried about woke." 1668266
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026(1/X) Yesterday, Trump posted a snuff video of a man being killed by a tiger and cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink. If a Democratic president had at any point done either of those things, there would have been big political blowback. For Trump, there will be none, zero, nada.... 29967192
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialSteve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Increasingly likely that if Texas does not go blue, it is because of stuff like this. This is the fundamental problem of American democracy at this moment--one party does not think that losing is normal and should be accepted. Democracy requires all parties accept electoral defeats. 9584205
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026In dollar value, the Venezuela oil scheme ($13 billion) is TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE worse than Iran Contra ($140 million, inflation-adjusted). It's impossible to overstate how much MORE corrupt Trump is than every single American who has ever come before him. We're completely without precedent. 424974
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion. 223080631
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026👇🎯 Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party” 0529
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm... 141129326
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison 432992534
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026What a fucking clown show 1547789
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026The president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans 162837231116
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialBrian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"The process is the punishment" has become a mantra during Trump 2.0. Now it's being applied to yet another case: The Justice Department's probe of the five major TV networks, including CNN, over supposed antitrust violations... 25312
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.forever-wars.comThe Dawn Of The Self-Funding PentagonIt's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil 461929741
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is some Robespierre shit. "Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue." 84412
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialKathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This story shows how Trump has exchanged our national security for bribes. Treasury imposed national-security-based sanctions on Russia-owned bank, VTB, in 2022 & 2025 to hinder "Russia’s ability to raise capital." But a few months after Sokolov paid $11 million to a Trump superPAC and ... 183
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/10/2026FYI, the fugitives Paxton was partying with were indicted for selling hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fake Covid tests.blockclubchicago.orgOperator Of COVID-19 Testing Labs Pleads Guilty For Role In $900 Million Fraud SchemeMohamed “Siraj” Sirajudeen admitted to paying a former Loretto Hospital executive millions for COVID-19 specimens that he used as part of a scheme to bill the government for fake coronavirus tests. 15698278
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 361805604
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialShola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the racism, fascism and violence at this rally should make those who have a conscience sick to their core 401037224
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It’s cool POTUS just made up a diplomatic agreement out of thin air and it’s like the 5th news item of the day 25905125
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It’s like writing up an Epstein profile and ignoring his sex crimes 12789183
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing. presswatchers.orgThe world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press WatchOur top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda 762954936
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialBrian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026FCC source tells me Brendan Carr has directed the agency to open an investigation following this letter from Sen. Bernie Moreno about "ABC’s political hit job on Anduril & the Trump family" 9318
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way. 1374803888
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The Plot to Enslave America 450992
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026So they’re torturing this guy. 312886996
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story." 482411305
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Judges whose orders are ignored by the Trump regime need to do more than complain from the bench. They need to throw people in jail. 58867264
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12/10/2026Oh does it raise serious questions, dude? Is that what it does? Are the questions both serious AND raised? Wow he really got out the baseball bat for this one 3720106
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialEAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There's a two-step anti-immigration people like to use where they'll argue on the one hand that they just want to enforce immigration laws and who could possibly be against enforcing the law? But then on the other hand, they'll do everything they can to make groups they don't like unlawful. 1413
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 12/10/2026Government actions to target specific racial or ethnic groups are a clear violation of the Equal Protection Clause---in the plain meaning of the text, in the original intent, any way you look at it. And the Trump administration openly confesses to racial motivations. 29630
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now. 8961851102
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is correct. The government’s assault on Somalis and Somali Americans is perverse and wicked even for this gang 51044199
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We saw this stuff constantly during and after Metro Surge here in MN; you see it in how Trump has stripped the protected status of Haitians. “You’re in a racial group we detest, but you’re an American or have a legal right to be here. No matter: we’ll simply change the rules, now you’re illegal.” 626844
Reposted by @timelser.bsky.socialDavid Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 12/10/2026This is what actual "weaponization of government" looks like 423961
