Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialupsidedown25.bsky.social @upsidedown25.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Officer Fanone was tazered so many times he had a heart attack all while being threatened to be shot with his own weapon Fuck MAGA 112915
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialChris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker. 163199512107
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Hey @washingtonpost.com you say your new Kash Patel story has "not previously been reported." Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Feel free to correct. 476257906472
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Imagine if the entire DC media was reporting on Musk and Trump with the *ferocity* and *velocity* of WIRED these past three weeks. IMAGINE what we would know now that we don’t. 13967711350
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025As a prosecutor, we investigated cases where bad actors left themselves a back door in govt systems. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse suggests Musk’s team could “manipulate data, steal data, and leave back doors. Your privacy gone.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...nytimes.comTreasury Sought to Freeze Foreign Aid Payments, Emails Show (Gift Article)Trump administration appointees and allies of Elon Musk wanted to use the Treasury’s sensitive payment system to block payments. 21340421505
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Lieu: Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers release over 2 billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland.. this water was saved for the farmers for summer when they need it. So Trump wasted all this water that isn’t even reaching Southern California for a PR stunt 25270472455
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal. 1595513767116
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAri Cohn @aricohn.com · 07/02/2025In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation. www.dailydot.com/debug/aaron-...dailydot.comConservative film critic who called child trafficking movie a 'call to action' arrested for child molestationAaron Gleason is currently out on bail. 28078422554
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/02/2025I just want to thank multitudes of federal workers who have reached out to me with what’s going on in your respective agencies. It might not seem like much, but the simple act of reaching out is an act of resistance. So thank you 🙏 288346494554
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis. 818113973320
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialBeks @antifaoperative.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Texas evangelical church worship leader, Sean Aveilhe, has been arrested for raping a young girl who attended his church. www.click2houston.com/news/local/2... 2341698714
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This is what’s happening. Trump isn’t doing any of this. He is their patsy. He’s like the Governor in Blazing Saddles. Put the orders in front of him, sign them, look at boobs and play golf. They are destroying the government on purpose. That is literally the goal. 23135311282
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/02/2025New lawsuit: The AFL-CIO is asking a federal judge to block unelected billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing Department of Labor systems, which the union warns could give Musk sensitive information about investigations into his companies. 382491613
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialPatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025LOL if you believe this 6136936
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Klobuchar: What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale. *boo* Klobuchar: Ok. For any Republican Trump Administration person who wants to throw eggs at me because of that joke. You can’t because they’re too expensive. 34193711880
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Ruined the cover for a generation of officers. 29327105
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025McGovern: People voted for lower egg prices, not for a Middle East Mar-a-lago. People did not vote to send their sons and daughters into the tunnels of Gaza so that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump can build Trump Tower Gaza. 20286672269
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u... 9875211912624
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/02/20252 insurrections, same President. 827464816826
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025These people are fucking monsters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...nbcnews.comTrump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours noticeTrump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday. 32348601760
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 05/02/2025Last week, Elon Musk's staff illegally breached the U.S. Treasury payment system and gained access to millions of Americans' personal data. We're calling out Elon Musk to put on his big boy pants and answer some questions from the Oversight Committee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvv-...youtube.comCrockett Calls Out COWARD MuskYouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett 63290791988
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/02/2025Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today. It's the little things. Microdose hope. 996881589034
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis" 24885850413655
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish 1612620607723
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies" 16807000816900
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Just going to post this now before they change this all to say their mission is to defend Trump and Trump alone and that their values are vengeance, spite and favoritism. 42805235
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/02/2025If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have. 587104922980
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private. Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene. / more for Canadians 28050221653
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections. 12092221818
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025No. For Christ sake, no! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Should you take the Musk buyout? Here’s a test.How to decide whether the “deferred resignation” offer makes sense for you. 1415943
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 02/02/2025"I have directed BC liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states. Liquor store employees will be removing the most popular of these brands from government store shelves." -BC Premier David Eby 17746161020
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025So proud of becoming Afghanistan. 1114442
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits. 730212265767
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I am but one man but I will be paying 3x price or whatever for Dos Eques and Labat. Sam Adams is dead to me now. 792090160
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of … 561181896300
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This has been preserved by places like the Internet archive. 391080200
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are 829814298815990
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...snyder.substack.comThe Logic of DestructionAnd how to resist it 337108925188
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not. 754283186423
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 02/02/2025We’ve also been tracking more former Musk colleagues who have infiltrated the Government Services Administration: wrd.cm/3Cwx0MIwrd.cmElon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government AgencyElon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ... 514780
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I cannot tell you fucking dumb these statements are. The US govt spends a ton on contractors (including NGOs) to do stuff. Anything deemed not inherently governmental *by law* is legally required to be outsourced (see Circular A-76). This is how we have structured out govt forever! 1152980553
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025This is a national emergency: 20763660113103
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Trump is defunding the police.cnn.comFBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday | CNN PoliticsThe Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who investigated January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as... 711735454
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Genuine lol here @rusty.todayintabs.com. www.todayintabs.com/p/goodbye-ev... 750021
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025Chris Murphy: "Why did he come out so quickly to attack women and Black people for ruining the FAA? He did that bc he is very vulnerable. He has some big questions to answer bc the FAA has been in chaos since he took over. Elon Musk, his co-president, forced out the FAA administrator ... " 322118733247
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Welp, here we fucking go. This is how they’re gonna do the abortion pill ban: apnews.com/article/abortion-indictm… 47817253
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss 1764449735883
Reposted by @upsidedown25.bsky.socialOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 31/01/2025🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment. 22988194214192
