Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5hThere will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that. 162969955
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative. 393034793
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If only there had been an agreement in place already that was carefully negotiated over the course of two years…. 19525119
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797763047
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialSimon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months. 22932239
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026Georgia won’t let anyone give a voter standing in line water no matter how hot it is or how non-political they are. But 5 large from the president for voting his way? No prob! 9413113
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 30/09/2026We need a War on White Collar Crime 57425
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 6453622147
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent. 652700852
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 43361753162
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026I saw that clip circulating yesterday and thought there could be a completely normal, non-sexist, explanation other than the rage bait one. Grateful for this (really well-written!) peek into a loving family, sad she felt she had to write it. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...themomoftheyear.substack.comI’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night. 9528126
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution. 562269533
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If she’s your senator, let her know. 0367
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 13646362245
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies. 6540223
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialCongressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ICE wants to deport Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver who they just shot in Austin yesterday. The federal government can't shoot someone and then try to make them disappear to escape scrutiny. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez needs a doctor right now, not a deportation. 321220380
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends. 24948401996
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 2922031234
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque. 5146051229
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialScott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 805149193698
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I wrote up this story about my mom's survival from polio and its connections to world history, family lore, & current events: katestarbird.substack.com/p/a-family-t... We need to keep telling our stories of the world before vaccines — to prevent ourselves from having to live in a world after them.katestarbird.substack.comA Family Tree, Nearly Broken by PolioAs MAHA leaders call the polio vaccine a "fraud," an old family photo tells the story of the world before vaccines — and warns of the risk of forgetting. 9332119
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about 1193079905
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I didn’t anticipate Trump being able to do clearly articulate his desire to impose a presence of permanent occupation in DC through both architecture and state violence as clearly as he did here. 1124050
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 3225291032
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026my live fuel clock showing Americans now have spent $70 billion more on filling up with gasoline since March 1 (vs same period a yr ago) and $44 billion more on diesel (same dates) for a total of ~$114.2 billion spent over this time. 13443178
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Now do shooting. 45113
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How can safety and fairness in girl’s sports be the most important thing in US politics? How about school shootings? How about a thousand other things? 9547
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Also, a guy who destroys a federal memorial because judges won’t let him put his name on it isn’t a guy who will leave office because he lost an election. 830634
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialMrs. Beaverhausen @ghostmom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026 287134473506
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Iran war, the mass deportation campaign, the trade war with Canada, the affordability crisis, the Kennedy Center, the Epstein mess, the measles, Jr.’s Russian wedding, the embrace of Putin—is there not one GOP leader who has the guts to say this ain’t working? That’s a rhetorical question. 591540382
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialCaroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team." 20287702030
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2026Rep. Beatty on what Trump said on a call today about the Kennedy Center: "He wanted to blame me if someone died, if something happened, if the ceiling fell in. And I reminded him he has us at war and people are dying." 612684569
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A minor detail is missing from the headline. 1211162757255
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me. 430177973680
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2026Ossoff: "Here are Qs I have: is it the case that Kremlev was in China with Putin just days before he attended the wedding and gave what appears to have been a lavish gift to the president's son? And what are his ties to Russia's security services?...these folks are not just corrupt. They're clowns." 613619941
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you. 478200016147
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.social@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Campaign for what? No ideas... other than cowardice, subservience, and racism. 2187
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialoligarchssuck.bsky.social @oligarchssuck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Worst president ever with worst cabinet ever with negotiators who are serving Putin. 1057174255731
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialRichard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026BREAKING @propublica.org: Trump Jr.’s wedding this May was heavily funded by a Russian oligarch close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 1519381
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A pastor for Michael Whatley, the North Carolina GOP Senate nominee, opened with a prayer asking God to bestow "integrity and honesty." It was delivered by Pastor Daimon King, a registered sex offender twice imprisoned for convictions involving children. apnews.com/article/what... 97188564406
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... " 1375339668300
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059832392
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 361742738
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss) 844253862
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We keep telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin, rewarding Russia for its aggression, but they just won’t, explained corrupt non-govt US representative Jared Kushner. It’s very frustrating, he said, I really expected to get paid by now. Asked what Russia must give up for peace, Kushner had no comment. 31832259
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Trump administration smuggled a suspected paedo out of the UK.bbc.co.ukUS embassy child abuse images suspect flown from UK before police interviewThe individual worked at the US embassy in Vauxhall, south London, had diplomatic protection, despite not being a diplomat. 35329173
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialTim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Trump claims he’ll give 270 million American adults $5,000 each — or about $1.35 trillion. It may be less than that, though, after the president, his sons, his son-in-law and several senior White House officials take their cuts.static.klipy.comDavid Rose Says 'That's A Stretch' in Schitt's CreekALT: David Rose Says 'That's A Stretch' in Schitt's Creek 1518736
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Dear corporate media: In response to Trump promising every American $5,000 if GOP keep control of Congress, You should be asking Trump/GOP two questions: 1. Since GOP currently control the House and Senate, why don't they pass that right now to show it's real?! 2. Why didn't they already pass this?! 37443153
Reposted by @upstatedaisy.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Republican Socialists of America. 4212026510