Reposted by Luke ZaleskiDaniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 12/03/2025I also have written about the many things you should insist be included in any spending bill prior to lending your support. It is a list of bipartisan legislation that would protect our constitutional system of separated powers. More than this is necessary, but it would buy us time.substack.comWhat Congress Should DoTen bills Congress should insist be part of any deal to fend off a White House power grab 120331
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiDaniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 12/03/2025I have written about why this dirty full-year CR would transfer congressional power to the White House and further empower Trump to dismantle what's left of our federal government, including the Defense Department (which you value so highly). A wrong vote now makes your future votes irrelevant.firstbranchforecast.substack.comDethroning CongressAmerica First Has a Playbook 328367
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/03/2025“Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” a public health advisor on infectious diseases at the CDC said. “If you want to get rid of me, you’re basically going to drag me kicking and screaming out of here.”motherjones.com‘Health Security Is At Risk’: Inside the Purge of HHSEmployees are grappling with buyout offers as public health crises mount. “Somebody has to stay to help clean up the mess that they’re most likely going to make,” one said. 8543211366
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Devastating www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comHis Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a DecadeA visit with a family in mourning 2642922579
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/03/2025MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Kremlin official says that a U.S.-proposed ceasefire would help Ukraine's military. 1312128
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMarc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025It's worth making people aware that's what's happening is from a very old and very recognizable playbook. This is a screenshot from It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis in 1935—I realize many were talking about this book eight years ago too but it, as they say, hits different now. Almost done! 23816
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025. 107374682171
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMarc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025What's up with rock at the Grammys? For @npr.org, I talked to several voters and Harvey Mason Jr. trying to figure it out: www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...npr.orgWhy are the Grammys' rock categories stuck in the past?At this year's 67th Grammys, wins for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a year when other genres showcased rising stars prompt questions about who votes for rock at the Grammys — and what needs to... 3273
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiLesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Democrats Are Acting Too Normal: In her response to Trump’s demented, lie-filled address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comDemocrats Are Acting Too NormalIn her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics. 1187
Reposted by Luke Zaleski𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/03/2025Look on the bright side. 284108832987
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiJim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Best line of the night from Fanone: “Jim, I love you… but f*ck you for making me watch that.” From the post-speech edition of “The Jim Acosta Show.” open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...open.substack.comPost speech wrap with FanoneWhat else can I say? Enjoy! 440240663062
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 05/03/2025 “More than a decade before Russia’s armed forces poured over the border into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin stood before world leaders and delivered a long, icy speech demanding a radical overhaul of the world order.” wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=13e9...wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.comPutin Played the Long Game. It Seems to Be Paying Off.More than a decade before Russia’s armed forces poured over the bor 24348136
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/03/2025Had enough. 2294674749
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 05/03/2025In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides. Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.comthelastamericanroadtrip.comThe Last American Road TripThe New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami... 1824258968
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2025Trump: "Tomorrow, tariffs -- 25 percent on Canada and 25 percent on Mexico. And that'll start." 4021276277
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/03/2025“.. Witness Trump’s bizarre pattern of threatening small countries and allies instead of adversaries — nations from Canada to Denmark and Panama. Whereas the US used to attract other countries by promising to enhance their safety and freedom, it now repels them.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 26621151
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Winners in the Building at the SAG Awards last night! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cloud nine. #SAGAwards #OnlyMurdersinTheBuilding 883991155
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiOlga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Can anyone think of a foreign enemy who could do more damage to America than Trump? Decimating agencies, military, siding with a terrorist state, threatening to invade US allies, stripping services from vets, ceding US power to Russia and China. 19495137
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal. Or if you have any other good stories. 27487982871
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/02/2025“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com 217156543385
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/02/2025About time. 203120782398
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiJulie @juliewb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025abcnews.go.com/US/former-pr...abcnews.go.comFormer Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested at US CapitolFormer Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested at the United States Capitol on Friday. 1122
Reposted by Luke Zaleskimomo❤️🔥 @preshaprincess.blacksky.app · 21/02/2025I miss the black ops 2 era of COD 2104
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiChristian McIntire @christianmcintire.com · 21/02/2025Update on the little cat thief. This is number 16 so far. 3222
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiBeingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This man's condescension is without peer.. 171
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Arrest them. Seize their assets. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide 40671822320
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiLink The Cat 🇨🇦 @linkthecat.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The GOP is going to have to reinvent itself after this shit show. WTF America?! Pull it together. Saying that with so much love (and fear). 0206
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Jesus christ, was I giving him ideas? 427305532565
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Where law ends, tyranny begins. 53574652114
Luke Zaleski @zaleskiluke.bsky.social · 16/02/2025They’re gonna fire hundreds of thousands of middleclass American public servants, gut regulations and oversight, give themselves an obscene tax cut and sweetheart government contracts, and replace people with AI and robots—and it’s going to magically grow the economy and save you 2277
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain 243202632504
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/02/2025This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts 58198220213877
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/02/2025They're taking inspiration from Woodrow Wilson who within a month of taking office in 1913 ordered the entire federal government segregated. They can't be as overt today so instead they're calling it anti-DEI but it's clear that it's resegregation by another name. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...calendar.eji.orgApr. 11, 1913 | President Wilson Authorizes Racial Segregation in Federal EmploymentLearn more about our history of racial injustice. 9766188
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/02/2025Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...washingtonpost.comSee inside DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEIDocuments detail step-by-step plans by the U.S. DOGE Service to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. Here’s what comes next. 10934411848
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years. State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who are infected are either unvaccinated or their vaccination status is unknown.apnews.comTexas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It's the state's worst in nearly 30 yearsThe ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases. It's the state's worst in nearly 30 years. 1811277493
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Imagine being so pathologically reckless and instinctively contemptuous of public service that you accidentally fire nuclear scientists 30354421723
Reposted by Luke ZaleskiPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted. 476179775644
