Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 20hLike guys, the one thing you can’t do in Texas is blame democrats for statewide policy. Good or bad, the republicans did it. 528921
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It was the biggest story anywhere for 3 months in 2024 and now you cannot get anyone in the media to care about it at all 37321
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.nytimes.comHow Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 49738251
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You’re not just debating them, you’re debating a 24/7 firehose of information that floods every channel they listen to, with billions of dollars backing it, that affirms their gut beliefs, that were built on the basic assumptions America has made about other people. 430927
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialUnsanctioned Buffoonery (Dan) @offtheupright.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The best thing to do is to push them towards blaming the people who've been lying to them all this time. 0151
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026he’s a very minor player in this story, but dewine really is an unbelievable coward. unlike a lot of GOP governors, dewine very clearly *knows* all of this is wrong, but doesn’t want to stick his neck out about it. 641431
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If this were a scene from an Indiana Jones movie we'd say Spielberg went too far with his nazi characters 000
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pretty much the entire movie:static.klipy.comArnold Schwarzenegger as The TerminatorALT: Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator 010
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think @proptermalone.bsky.social called this pretty accudately: this is a 2004 to 2006 redux with Rs taking a culture war thing from the last cycle that sorta worked for them & leaning into that this cycle instead of actually speaking to voters issues & theyre gonna get kicked in the teeth for it 512021
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis— 621726695
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No question whatsoever. And the insult to injury is that the ENTIRE FUCKING MEDIA obsessed over the cognitive abilities of an old President for 3 months in 2024 only to drop it completely when it was far more obvious and dangerous. 08912
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026American factory construction inched down to the lowest level since 2022 in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 33% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone 212637
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialReconstruction 3 Enthusiast @squalortoballer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This happened with recall about voting for W after 2004. Massive disconnect between surveyed remembered vote and the actually results. 1391
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Blexas is a very, sincerely real possibility for the first time in my entire adult life. 010
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462218778
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i FOOLISHLY took aarons advice and read this and it literally looks like time magazine mixed up the order of the questions and the answers so nothing lines up or makes any sense 2747751
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist 26050821107
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy 1593961508
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months. 24232201599
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialWeedle @weedle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imagining a world where Trump blowing up a girl's school produces the same level of viral hatred and outrage on this website as a Sarah McBride interview does. 113021
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that 154891
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialvILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's so cool that our military is being run by a middle school bully from a low-budget 90s family comedy 219616
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped 1052680
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hahahahaha come on! If you ever wanted a better example of MAGA media presenting an alternate universe to its base, you'd be hard pressed to find one. 47774117
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialDrunk On Mystery, but like....Spooky @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To add: the new Atlantic article makes clear that Biden was actually doing all the things those people said he'd never do, and it didn't actually matter, which is something people called me a whole lot of antisemitic slurs for saying at the time. 54917
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well." 15861822204
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialMike Jones @mikepjones1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This. ”*Bill Kristol* of all people rejected Trump, and he rejected him loudly, and consistently, and with moral clarity and intellectual coherence. Apart from caring more about your career and paycheck than you ever cared about America, why couldn’t you do what Bill Kristol did?” 214015
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've reported first-hand on steel mills in Korea, China, Japan, Illinois, and Mississippi. This is 100% not going to happen. Disagree? Bet me. (Though I'm against online betting. It's just not going to happen.) 2521782541
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Notable that these moves involve usurpations of Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Could be good reasons that this sort of presidential unilateralism is illegal. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...wsj.comThe Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation HigherThe president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control. 826775
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing. 181988358
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This isn't really correct. When the thinkntankers envisioned [IRAN WAR] they envisioned ground troops and such. Not "reality TV criminal pretends to go to war but breaks oil markets instead" 000
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Correct. They kept T out of jail and in exchange all they got was the biggest political own goal of the last 20 years 000
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah but at least that one trans volleyball player at San Jose state got kicked off her team. 000
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Muscular Christianity” means that when when you’re glazing the serial predator president who deports refugee children, executes fishermen, and builds idols to himself, you TYPE REALLY HARD. 5172445438
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Joel Tenney is an Iowa pastor who gave the invocation for a Trump rally there in 2023. He's been to Mar-a-Lago and campaigned this summer with IA GOP gubernatorial Zach Lahn. He's got pics of himself with Trump and Vance. Oh, and also, he's an antisemitic white nationalist Holocaust denying Nazi. 16540209
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New York Times builds on the Haaretz report showing Netanyahu was warned by the UAE that October 7 was coming, but he never told the military and security services. He was happy to have Hamas in charge of Gaza and thought he could control it: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...nytimes.comNetanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai... 614258
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/09/2026The president who called American soldiers that died in war “suckers” and “losers,” is now hiding the number of service members killed & injured in his war of choice. Absolutely disgraceful.washingtonpost.comMore U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publiclyOfficials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database. 17651246
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So the latest "the party left me" rando to get a a book contract and series of fawning profiles is upset that people disagreed with her suggestion that...Democrats invest resources to flip a state Trump carried by 19 points? 1433939
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dems should revive the "he is for they/them" ads with pics from this dinner. 010
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comCat's Shocked Reaction with Heart EyesALT: Cat's Shocked Reaction with Heart Eyes 011
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Potash humor. @cnn.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/e... 17599144
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188113851
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“You might wanna sit down for this one.” Ex DOJ pardon attorney @lawyeroyer.com says the DOJ lawyer defending Trump’s media ban is a Hitler admirer. 48614307
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialScott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"President Donald Trump’s tariffs are supposed to bring manufacturing back to America. But a bicycle factory in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains shows how the levies themselves often sabotage that goal." 😯 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... 09333
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes, that's it. And, no, it's not more complicated. It's not complicated at all. People in elite media circles are siloed and they get stuff wrong as a result. 000
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 554902878
yaktuary.bsky.social @yaktuary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Spot on, and the reason polls are so eye catching right now is precisely because of the "and everyone knows it". That is what's different now from the last 10 years. 000
Reposted by @yaktuary.bsky.socialCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22/09/2026...in some cases they were even *switching* enrollees from one carrier to another w/out permission (to pocket the commission). HOWEVER, the Biden HHS Dept. cracked down on this in 2024 & Trump HHS Dept. cracked down harder last year, so the vast majority of this should already have been dealt with. 1626
