In my lifetime we’ve had to face that the previously completely unthinkable is the actual appeal for so many voters that wanted a power fantasy to punish the unworthy more than any other value. The way he’s screwing over half the US isn’t an eye-opening flaw to his base, it’s the entire point.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 8h ago

The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.

Every military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers

Crushing margins for Dems also demonstrates that people don't want to vote for more conservative candidates, so the center that moderates aim for will also shift.

For those he couldn't kill, he's trying to end their chances of living normal lives, as we've been tracking at @thexylom.com: www.thexylom.com/post/mozambi...

just as Americans are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, so are all their kids “temporarily embarrassed professional athletes”.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

The worst, most scarring thing about abuse isn’t what he does to you. It’s not even the knowledge that he would. It’s the things you do in response to ongoing threat, the humiliations folded up inside your soul long after the raging has faded to a surreal dream. The one I can’t forgive is myself.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

“Will you accuse Republican officials of lying when they are obviously lying” is a much bigger problem for the future of news under its current system of elites than how they handle invisible watermarks in fabricated imagery. Its fascinating to see them obsess over the latter and ignore the former.

Really been amazing throughout the process how “should the attorney general be a former personal attorney to the president who has overseen a bunch of failed political prosecutions” just does not matter at all to the entire GOP caucus.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3d ago

You’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

The fact that Democrats never even raised the issue, much less seemed to care about pursuing it, not only did us and the country no favors, but feeds into the GOP’s narrative that PPE were useless theater anyway.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

The DOJ’s entire motion reads as “look at us, we were innocent little babies who couldn’t have known otherwise, it’s all someone else’s fault.”

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: DOJ now says it was was snookered by Interior Department into indicting Olympian David Hearn when officials "clearly" knew of multitude of issues w/reflecting pool renovation by Trump's 'pool guy.' @USAttyPirro drops the case. More via @eperezibarguen www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

My sincere religious beliefs demand that we send people who defraud and lie under oath to prison.

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last wk.

Kim Davis told the court under oath she'd made no transfers over two thousand dollars in five years. Deeds show she moved three parcels worth over four hundred thousand to family members eight months before that. She wants the martyrdom without the debt.

Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d ago

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

When being president for all Americans in all states was at least a baseline given, this would’ve seemed tantamount to a new civil war, if a cold one. Now this cynicism infects everything.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

It should be illegal for radio adverts to include car horns, sirens, or anything else that might cause a driver to look around.

Organ donation should be the default. You should have to get a special religious waiver, and it should be easy and straightforward for you to withdraw. This sincere belief makes you ineligible for receiving, of course. Bodily autonomy for the living— including the right to suicide— not for corpses.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

With alt text for anyone who needs it:

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

open.substack.com

I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.

One thing that really depresses me is we never had space to celebrate the many many heroes of covid. So many people doing yeoman’s work to get us through that is at best forgotten or worse reframed as evil.

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.

I think it's good that Mamdani is Just Doing Stuff but more people gotta realize that it is not a matter of Will or motivation or whatever but because the NYC Mayor, as an office, is one of the uniquely powerful individual offices you can hold in the United States (seriously)

See: the “seven cities” (and a bunch more smaller jurisdictions) of Hampton Roads.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.

The reason NYC's consolidation of surrounding jurisdictions into one big city government was never copied was because *it worked* and the wealthy realized that municipal fragmentation served their interests much better bsky.app/profile/ones...

Bluesky:

in case it matters to anyone, the sentence that he replaced with ellipsis in his 4th graph is "Despite her telling him no multiple times, Moraff proceeded to have sex with her without her consent." if that's relevant at all

This isn’t even a very old tweet but I can tell I’m going to think about it all the time

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

someone <3

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

"marco rubio thinks chiang kai shek is a chinese god that grants him wishes" i say to myself, rocking slowly back and forth on the floor

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

i still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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How exciting— the time I spent on an Army base in Germany decades ago no longer bars me from donating!

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last wk.

If you can donate, please do. If you were previously not eligible to donate, the criteria have been SERIOUSLY revised: you are no longer deferred for spending time in England/the EU and the sexual risk screening has been replaced with a much more evidence based model.