Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Obviously the current White House is rather more than a four bedroom ranch home. Its actual title is the Executive Mansion. And that’s a fair description, a mansion. This is a palace, a very visible statement of monarchical intent. No Kings, no palaces. 84705189
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/07/2025Trump says Triple H and the rest of his sports commission "will be working on college football in terms of, uh, what happened. It's a mess. What they're doing with college football and the fans are upset about it. Players are being taken from team after team and traded around like playing cards." 301536100
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Fuck DOGE. 14828781190
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 31/07/2025A wasp nest with radiation levels 10 times higher than permitted under federal regulations was discovered at a site in South Carolina that handles nuclear waste. 70498135
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/07/2025And so it begins... Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]religionnews.comEvangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling(RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel. 19131111540
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Among the guests at Bove’s confirmation party was Jeffrey Clark. In 2023, Clark was criminally charged alongside Bove’s former client, Donald Trump, for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Today, DC Bar regulators recommended that Clark be disbarred. bsky.app/profile/anna... 26474145
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Oh boy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u... 26629224
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/07/2025JPMORGAN: “.. progress toward bringing both wage and price growth down to levels consistent with the Fed’s price stability mandate looks to have stalled. If we are right, tariff pass-through will push up US core CPI inflation to a faster than 4%ar in 2H25.” 1328383
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One of the most consequential things Trump is doing. Deserves as much attention as the Epstein mess. But good luck with that. He is changing the policy so that greenhouse gases cannot be regulated and climate change can’t be addressed. Trump is killing the future. 35740328
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Quiet part out loud — “The children's savings program included in Trump's (Trillions Transfer) is a back door for privatizing Social Security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday.” apnews.com/article/trum... 53594330
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Destroying everything in the name of the war of drugs and xenophobia. 48225
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche will now determine whether he thinks evidence against certain individuals is “credible” or not, and DOJ will not release those parts of the Epstein files. What’s released is whatever Trump’s criminal lawyer decides is credible. 2202745887
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialJen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza ... magnificent piece www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...nytimes.comOpinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza 11556193
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 28/07/2025“There is no way to feed 2 million civilians in a war zone when there are men with guns circulating around those civilians.” @tommalinowski.bsky.social on the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza. 1131499
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 28/07/2025"resolve dispute" is a bizarre way to describe extortion.nytimes.comHarvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up To $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute 1472856808
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialNicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember. 5037231203
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Not to mention that Ambassador Huckabee is an ordained “Christian” minister. 3922628721
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025You may very logically be wondering why in the hell RFK Jr. is dismantling the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a group of volunteer expert scientists who provide guidance for things like when to begin cancer screenings. It’s because he thinks the members are “too woke”. 1721662618
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialBlue Horizon @phds2.bsky.social · 25/07/2025For months, I have been saying I don’t trust the economic data from this lying administration. “REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED.” 78433
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The family values party. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/25/g... 41731101254
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/07/2025It’s pretty obvious they’re going to use Maxwell to absolve Trump so it would be wise for Democrats to get out there and remind everyone — she wasn’t a victim and she wasn’t merely an accomplice in luring girls into Epstein’s trap; she was also allegedly an active participant in these girls’ abuse. 18452351733
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/07/2025Former Attorney General Eric Holder called Trump’s DOJ “a totally different planet,” citing politicization and loyalty-based hiring. Still, he said it’s crucial for Democrats to stay in the fight.democracydocket.comHolder: GOP ‘Enemies of Democracy’ Must Be DefeatedRead more here. 19587153
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialRepresentative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 23/07/2025Yesterday, Wilmer Chavarria, a Vermonter & US Citizen, was held and interrogated for hours in the Houston airport by CBP agents. He's a school superintendent. So don’t try to tell us this is about removing violent criminals. This is how they use psychological terror to intimidate us into silence. 7824971120
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2025This is a human rights violation. Multiple detainees described a disturbing incident where dozens of men were forced to eat food they had been denied all day while shackled. “We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs,” — from a new Human Rights Watch report. 49580584256
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Spotted in Tallahassee… 319180215100
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialMatt Cohen @mattdcohen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025It's no secret that the DOJ has been sending letters to a bunch of states to try and get access to their voter rolls, but here's a first: For Oklahoma, the DOJ just straight-up called them to ask for voter registration information. No paper trail or anything. From Oklahoma State Election Board PIO: 17489206
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialMelissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025900 lawyers have never agreed on anything. 16673159
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025NEW at Bolts: Wyoming just became the second state to enforce a strict 'proof of citizenship' law. This is a MAGA priority since Trump amplified false claims about noncitizen voting post-2020, and it risks tripping up a lot of eligible citizens who don't have the right documents. Read on:boltsmag.orgWyoming Is Now Requiring Would-be Voters to Document Their Citizenship - BoltsOn the first of this month, Wyoming residents began facing some of the nation’s harshest rules when registering to vote, and additional barriers may still be coming. Wyoming became the... Read More 13210118
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 17/07/2025I’m old enough to remember when John Barrasso consistently opposed defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because CPB’s most important role is financially sustaining radio and TV broadcast infrastructure in places like WYOMING where private enterprise will not connect people to the world. 231751385
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialTom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · 16/07/2025👀✈️ Eswatini. Not confirmed, but likely people were transferred in Djibouti to military plane operated without visibility 58537
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise." 17362812039
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/07/2025EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...talkingpointsmemo.comContracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related... 39252922701
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialdavidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 16/07/2025Duffy does not know the most important facts about his own agency; no wonder he's giving entirely false accounts of New York City crime rates. 1196
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16/07/2025NEWS via Punchbowl “California House Dems are huddling w Hakeem Jeffries on the possibility of mid decade redistricting. Gavin Newsom has floated this as a way to counter GOP redistricting in Texas.” 2529043
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/07/2025“I hadn’t seen that kind of activation in the 22 years I’ve lived here. Nothing like it.” How ICE's arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes da Silva mobilized a Massachusetts townmotherjones.comHow ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town“We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.” 332195
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15/07/20252 tracks: 1. If 3d country gives U.S. diplomatic assurances that alien won't be persecuted/tortured: alien is deported (no process). 2. All other cases: if alien, without prompting, claims fear of 3d country, an asylum officer interviews him. If asylum officer rejects claim, alien is deported. 75213
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice. 9933853010187
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialtheglovesareoff.bsky.social @theglovesareoff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025No further comment required. 13496202
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/07/2025The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage” 184361591473
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Republicans backloaded some of the worst parts of the bill until AFTER the 2026 midterm elections in the hope people won’t notice, but now you know. Act accordingly! 18950
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025 418434
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Lawless all the way down. 313825
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/07/2025Maybe this is why they've been hiding the head of FEMA for a week. 56503105
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US 1058103172656
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Watch this to the end. 10943881250
Reposted by @whtru8n4.bsky.socialMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I wrote about covering the aftermath of the immigration raids in Venture County this week. Most of what’s on my mind in this piece is dark and angry—none of this should be normal. A man shouldn’t have died running for his life Thru all this, the community care in the county was a sight to behold. 13897301