Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Like, by the time you are on week 6 and doing Bessent and treasury related bribery impeachment, you want John Q. Voter to be screaming "is *anyone* in this administration not a scumbag?" because the answer is 'no' and that's the lesson you want to impart, one impeachment at a time. 429328
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings. 36030
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026And here's the kicker: turning America's trillions into Canada's billions, moving fast and breaking America's tech-kings, fixing the defects in America's extractive tech exports? It's all *good for Americans*. 66/ 18210
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026And really, lied in a way that I've not seen in my lifetime. Not a case of, "Bush really, truly thought there were WMDs, even though there weren't" or a case of smudging something over. They knew this was insane, knew this guy was nuts, knew the danger and lied about it anyway. 421214
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialAngie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This is how the CDC honored Officer David Rose, killed a year ago in the domestic terror attack by a shooter who believed he'd been injured by a vaccine. Truly one of the most appalling things I have ever seen. 14434147
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question. 182622551
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Also worth sharing the top comment because this is 🎯 0172
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...nytimes.comSecret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity 521065308
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026God damn it if the handedness weren't wrong I would buy this duncraft.com/collections/...duncraft.comCascade DNA 32-Port Hummingbird Feeder | 23.5 oz Nectar CapacityAttract more hummingbirds with the Cascade DNA feeder. Features 32 feeding ports, a natural helical design, flip-top filling, and 23.5 oz nectar capacity. 051
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Secretary of Defense is… A - afraid of answering questions B - incompetent and unqualified C - a blowhard and an empty suit D - deeply damaging to this democracy Choose 4 44791159
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org 212751
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The US will almost certainly lose its measles-elimination status this year or next www.wired.com/story/anguis...wired.comAnguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles OutbreakThe state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again. 43621271
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/06/2026Dozens of children torn from their parents at the border have now been separated from their families a second time despite legal protections, an AP investigation finds.bit.lyTrump administration has separated dozens of children from their parents for a second time, AP findsAn Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge's order to reunite them. 4149112
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/06/20262 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP as of April 2026, as compared to January 2025 when President Trump took office. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/28/t...ccf.georgetown.eduTwo Million Fewer Children are Enrolled in Medicaid Since Trump Took OfficeChild uninsured rate likely on the rise Our state-by-state Medicaid/CHIP enrollment tracker now indicates that 2 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Pr... 54473284
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialClay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 23/05/2026One element to this I think is worth mentioning - and the one that has caused me the most general anger toward my colleagues at the DoD - is that this dishonor of women and servicemembers of color may have started with Hegseth, but it is maintained principally by active duty and civil servants. / 414158
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialmarybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The chair of US Commission of Fine Arts, in approving the proposed triumphal arch in DC, claimed that opposition to it was "due to a lack of understand<ing> about the history of such triumphal arches" Bit of an insult to those of us who really do know about triumphal arches! 518221
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It is straight up miserable that the Miles Davis centennial, which should be a national holiday, occurs during an administration where I could imagine it possible that not a single high ranking official gives a crap. 010
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me. 161300428
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...cnn.comVA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti | CNN PoliticsBecky Halioua, who was investigated after attending a vigil for Pretti shortly after his death, feels the VA probe is a “scare tactic” and an attempt to silence those “with the loudest voices.” 561488723
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialtnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Extraordinary, instantly canonical new albums of previously unreleased live recordings by Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, and Joe Henderson, now available thanks to Zev Feldman, Resonance Records, and Elemental Music: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comThe History of Jazz Has Instantly ExpandedNewly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large. 03311
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/04/2026This is real It’s being done in our name Congressional Republicans are okay with this 1682889747
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026SO, here's a screenshot of the Washington Post online right now and under the "politcs" section -- WTF? three of the featured stories are ssentially the same article, and then two of the remaining stories are also the same? Even stupid basic stuff is going to hell. 000
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying. 28584951821
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F 792350498
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6... 131560657
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Preparing for a Maryland blitz? ICE has been stockpiling vehicles and detention meals in Baltimorebaltimoresun.comICE is stockpiling supplies in Baltimore: food, vehiclesFederal procurement records show ICE’s Baltimore Field Office is requesting almost three times as many meals as its last order in September. 74138
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026DHS was taking criticism yesterday for holding a sick two-month-old baby. Today (after plenty of time to check into it), the dept is responding (multiple times, identical to the one below) not denying any of the facts, but just blaming the mother. 31815
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff. 857108085500
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Speaking just for myself, by now I've had my fill of efforts to "understand" people who have stuck with Trump. We know who they are. There are more of us than of them. Just have to make sure that diff keeps showing up in election results. (As it has in virtually all special elections so far.) 30677102
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/02/2026The federal government is just disappearing children. 9542244
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 29/01/2026www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... Oh, smooth fucking move, Mr. Rubio.washingtonpost.comRemoval of flags for fallen Danish soldiers at U.S. Embassy sparks backlashThere was no malicious intent in removing the flags, said a State Department spokesperson, who added that the flags had been replaced. 000
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialEileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases 20447982291
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it. 6362091344
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls. 1203423824
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles. 475220274436
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles. 12598232575
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets." 1/ 172600699
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 24/01/2026Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless. 13993101965
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 23/01/2026www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0... Refrigerator clipping articlewashingtonpost.comColumn | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICEAn image like this could once change history. Can one still? 000
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/01/2026He means white kids. 13577147
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Where are Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, the CEOs of the companies that helped talked Trump down from Greenland, ANYONE with authority or market power who can command a microphone and back up the brave citizens of Minneapolis, and say this is morally wrong and an existential threat to the republic? 68532
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours. 521881781
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?" 17023473711933
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 15/01/2026www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comMedical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording saysA fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3. 000
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office. 1455269188310
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialReuters @reuters.com · 25/12/2025Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBkyreut.rsKennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name addedA planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington. 541132195
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 20/12/2025This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that. 314343
transitionstate.bsky.social @transitionstate.bsky.social · 16/12/2025What's striking of course is they went ahead with it _after_ the Post broke the story a couple weeks back and they seemed to climb down.washingtonpost.comCoast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week. 000
Reposted by @transitionstate.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud. 781972480