Reposted by MishubitsyDan Mishkin @danmishkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Testimony by Jack Smith over the past year, assembled by @saletan.bsky.social to lay out the powerful case the special counsel would have made against Donald Trump in court. 0242
Reposted by Mishubitsycarolitaestmonnom @carolitaestmonnom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This explains why Trump sees things differently. It's not just the auto industry. Read the National Security Strategy. kevinboucher32.substack.com/p/canada-isn...kevinboucher32.substack.comCanada Isn't Turning to China. It's Doing Something Much More Dangerous.The fight over Canada isn't about trade. It's about whether a sovereign country can diversify its way out of dependence — and what happens to American power if it does. 031
Reposted by MishubitsyDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026It's not infrastructure week. In fact, there's a whole bridge to Canada that's not being used because of a petty dispute with Trump, which has ballooned into a leverage play around the US-Mexico-Canada agreement. Good report from @gurleygg.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/06/08/g...prospect.orgCanada Built a New Bridge From Ontario to Detroit. Trump Refuses to Open It. - The American ProspectWill the trade war leave a new bridge just sitting over an international waterway? 110752
Reposted by MishubitsyWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island! 7539343
Reposted by MishubitsyMark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll 123166575848
Reposted by Mishubitsyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The charge the Comey grand jury rejected pertains to this doc--prosecutors still want to use it to prove existing Count Two. Kash misleadingly declassified it in 2020 and declassified Durham annex this year. Kash is stalling on declassifying whole thing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 422476
Reposted by MishubitsyRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2025The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=sharedyoutu.beThe Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert ReichRobert Reich 362105313748
Reposted by MishubitsyAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I think this makes a good and convincing argument, particularly in the point made about the need to humiliate people being "honorific parasitism" in the way that rent-seeking is economic parasitismliberalcurrents.comThe Politics of HumiliationThe politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II. 18232
Reposted by MishubitsyThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17/06/2025Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995 608108643982
Reposted by MishubitsyMark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Canada’s military took on southern Kandahar province, which every single American I met in Afghanistan admitted was the toughest patch there was. One hundred and sixty-six Canadians died fighting a war provoked by an attack on U.S. soil, including my colleague Michelle Lang 37742218
Reposted by MishubitsyHadespuppy @hadespuppy.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Whenever I think on hope, I remember an old piece of LotR meta from tumblr on the importance of Estel, or irrational hope, and rarely fail to feel better. 714557
Reposted by MishubitsyThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social 20784073865
Reposted by MishubitsyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Trump isn’t just cutting off aid to Ukraine. He’s getting 3rd parties to cut off intelligence to Ukraine or refuse to sell critical intel data. It’s taking away UKR army’s eyes. He’s re-entered the war on Russia’s side, not with arms yet and in marginal ways, but affirmatively on Russia’s side. 411087371
Reposted by MishubitsyTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense. 9836541207
Reposted by MishubitsyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Trudeau: "We're probably gonna keep booing the American anthem. But let me tell Americans: we're not booing you ... we're booing a policy that is designed to hurt us. And we're insulted ... we're gonna fight. And we're gonna win." 558246933982
Reposted by MishubitsyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Trudeau: "What Trump said yesterday that there is nothing Canada or Mexico can do to avoid these tariffs underlines very clearly what I think a lot of us have suspected for a long time: that these tariffs are not specifically about fentanyl even though that's the legal justification he must use" 904105889
Reposted by MishubitsyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Trudeau: "They're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin- a lying, murderous, dictator. Make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite. But we will not back down from a fight...Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155b of American goods." 355150833952
Reposted by MishubitsyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically." 693296877681
Reposted by MishubitsyBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 04/03/2025In our internal polling, among Democrats likely to vote in the spring Supreme Court election, 1% approve of Elon Musk. How many disapprove? 94%. I’ve never seen *anyone* so loathed. 813425617
Reposted by MishubitsyCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second. 20245395536861
Reposted by Mishubitsyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/02/2025"they even reinvented the receipt with NFTs" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jhT...youtube.comTech Bros Inventing Things That Already ExistYouTube video by Patrick Boyle 08711
Reposted by MishubitsyGeneawac @genwacc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Pure delusion. Canada is not relying on the US. They are not a US territory. We do not subsidize Canada. It is an independent country. Someone get the old demented fool to his golf cart please. 061
Reposted by Mishubitsy🦋 Shadow Dancer 🇨🇦 🌊💙🏳️🌈🎶🌈 @shadowdancer73.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Love this from Denmark 4746081477
Reposted by MishubitsyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025The US voted *with* Russia against the UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine and demanding a withdrawal. Utter betrayal of country, allies, and principles.nytimes.comU.S. Clashes With European Allies at the U.N. Over Ukraine (Gift Article)The United States voted against a resolution, backed by most of Europe, demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine — a deep fissure between allies, and a sharp shift in American policy. 351436345
Reposted by MishubitsyPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews. 28381792037
Reposted by MishubitsyPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Nate Silver 🤝 Noah Smith Knowing nothing about the past, skimming Wikipedia and not doing the reading, and assuming they’ve invented a new way of understanding human history 731712161
Reposted by MishubitsySarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...commoncause.orgFire Elon MuskOur democracy cannot be held hostage by billionaires. Let’s restore power to the people and demand accountability from our leaders. 13677398
Reposted by MishubitsyJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/02/20251. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"popular.infoIn botched DEI purge, OSHA trashes workplace safety guidelinesThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an internal February 7 email ob... 45067183957
Reposted by MishubitsyAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11/02/2025So glad @gilduran.com explained this in a short video. Everyone needs to watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC62...youtube.com🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking TruthYouTube video by The Nerd Reich 13399209
Reposted by Mishubitsy🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This is such an important, readymade story. It's not just another Elonald lie. It's the lie Trump has been using to sell DOGE because there's no other example that justifies the massive corruption of his biggest donor assaulting the federal government for his own benefit. 014042
Reposted by MishubitsyMike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...open.substack.comThe Plot Against AmericaHow a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America 98832326
Reposted by MishubitsyPolitics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt. 7553230410544
Reposted by MishubitsyJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Why Justin Trudeau's speech was the right kind of nationalism. By me fallows.substack.com/p/what-the-r...fallows.substack.comWhat the Right Kind of Nationalism Sounds Like.Justin Trudeau gives an international lesson in leadership. 391875339
Reposted by MishubitsyGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...doomsdayscenario.coMusk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of GovernmentImagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now 34569033571
Reposted by MishubitsySecrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 27/01/2025There is nothing Christian about today's MAGA party. Journalists should stop treating it as such. 1214228
Reposted by MishubitsyAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/01/2025German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock left the government meeting, refusing to be photographed with Chancellor Olaf Scholz after his decision to block the allocation of a new aid package for Ukraine, - Bild. Instead of a thousand words. 1453809954
Reposted by Mishubitsyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025If Jack Smith provided new information on Trump's premeditation to call for violence in the middle of the election and no one noticed, whose fault is that? www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/07/l...emptywheel.netLefty Pundits Absolve Their Own Failures on Holding Trump Accountable for His Coup - emptywheelIn October, Jack Smith provided new information about Trump's premeditation to use violence on January 6. And most of the same people complaining that DOJ didn't provide more information on the case a... 926486
Reposted by MishubitsyAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I was 100% convinced this was not a real quote. I was also 100% wrong. Unbelievable. 5765398910
Reposted by MishubitsyCraig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Thanks @liannewildlife.bsky.social. Yes, 33 years in the making, Den of Spies is the real life spythriller abt the treasonous covert op in which the Reagan campaign sabotaged the 1980 presidential election by making a secret deal with Iran. www.harpercollins.com/products/den... (RTs appreciated.)harpercollins.comDen of SpiesThe explosive inside story of the October Surprise conspiracy, a stunning act of treason that changed American history. New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigat... 24724
Reposted by MishubitsyKittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Guess who wants this photo banned from the internet? Please like and repost! 😉😘 7732608811826
Reposted by MishubitsyWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/12/2024My latest. I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow. "Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News" thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...thelefthook.substack.comElon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger NewsElon Musk & J.D. Vance tweeted in support of the AfD Party whose racist, anti-immigrant ideologies are shared by a terrorist who just killed 5 people in Germany. Maybe it's not "economic anxiety." 24876043078
Reposted by Mishubitsyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Imagine if the headline read, "Trump wants to make it easier for the richest man in the world, who paid $250M to get Trump elected, to kill you." 29660249
Reposted by MishubitsyLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/12/2024"You’ve never beaten the first level of the game on bunny mode but are convinced you’d complete the entire thing easily if the difficulty went up to nightmare plus." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of...liberalcurrents.comA Disease of AffluenceTrump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite. 1623480
Reposted by MishubitsyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/12/2024What an amazing system 18537120
Reposted by Mishubitsyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024When you don't correct false claims like this, you effectively are part of a right wing propaganda campaign. What EVEN is the point of journalism if all you do is disseminate false claims invented by conspiracy theorists? 21661118
Reposted by MishubitsyJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024World’s richest man believes homelessness is a “propaganda” 84273851719
Reposted by Mishubitsyemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Almost the entire GOP is putting all their effort to ensuring that a drunk bigot who bankrupted two medium sized organizations gets put in charge of DOD's $800B budget. This is where the GOP's priorities lay. 521395327
Reposted by MishubitsyPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 09/12/2024🧵 🧵 Let's talk a bit more about birthright citizenship. An explainer thread. The start of the 14th Amendment reads as follows: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." 33534206
