It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Check out this tracker of the cost of the Iran War from Brown University.. Current per household cost exceeds $600. #stopallwars #peacenotwar #Iranwarofchoice #euniceforsc

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h ago

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

There it is!! Sen Cornyn (R-TX) says “there’s nothing we could do to rein in the president.” If impotent Republicans can’t rein him in then the Democrats will happily do it when we take back Congress in 92 days. We will reverse the #RepublicanMedicareCuts Spineless, cowards‼️

We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.

I Remember, Hope you do….

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty. Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states. over alleged caregiving fraud www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #HHS #CMS #OMB #Blues

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Overnight, this plane flew to Senegal to refuel and has now made its first removal stop, to Sierra Leone. This is very likely the third third-country removal to Sierra Leone.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d ago

The imminent flight that I mentioned at the end of this story has taken off. Sounds like it’s going to go Senegal - Ghana - Central African Republic, with the latter two being third-country removals. At least one of the immigrants being sent to CAR is from Nepal.

Hi I'm Sarah Taber and I endorse this message (No seriously, read it. This is the realest writeup on "wtf is going on in rural areas" that's ever been wrote.)

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Embrace American Gentry Thought www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Psst Shawn McCreesh — this is what journalism looks like.

Ricky Davila@therickydavila.bsky.social · 6d ago

Well done to the incredible Katie Phang and her fantastic lawyer for their tireless pursuit in forcing the MAGA regime to release more unredacted files that they have kept hidden. Now that is what I call journalism. 💙👊

WTF

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum

Turns out the guy who dragged Fauci as some selfish, social-climbing elitist because he dared write in his *private* diary about being invited to galas with famous people as a result of saving lives… is a guy who crowed that being a journalist is a cool career cuz you get to hang with famous people.

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”

The Fauci witch hunt. The Correspondents' Dinner. Same show: theater for a cult that needs a new villain every few years. Episode 1011: Why nobody's coming to save us but us. Plus the SNAP cuts quietly starving hundreds of thousands while being called "reform." www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...

Ep 1011: Not Sending Their Best - The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Episode 1011 argues that the Fauci witch hunt and the White House Correspondents' Dinner were the same show: theater staged to give a cult desperate for a villain someone new to hate. Driftglass and B...

buzzsprout.com

The extent to which the experience of Covid drove the Very Smart Boys of the media class bugfuck insane cannot be overstated. Their brains were boiled down to a smooth goo by having to stay at home with families they hate instead of sexually harassing interns at the office all day.

really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

HOMAN: I wouldn't say that mistakes were made. We'll see. BASH: Well, we've seen with our own eyes that mistakes were made. Deadly mistakes were made. At least 5 of them.

ICE ignored Judge Richard Boulware's order to release 17 people from detention. So he said it flat out: the government was rebelling against the law. Put sanctions on the table. 15 of them are free now. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

Already among US areas most threatened by climate injustice, a stretch of the "Great River Road" withdrawn from consideration as National Historic Landmark at the request of state officials, undermining efforts to preserve rich cultural legacies of Black communities. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

National Park Service withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration

WALLACE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection f...

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Did you ever imagine you'd see THIS in a suburban American neighborhood? It's the #RepublicanCostOfCorruption In Trump's America. It took place in Phoenix, AZ where Trump's #ICE thugs used flash grenades, an armored vehicle & a battering ram to abduct a young father named Alfonso Garcia Vega.

Heads up Iowa! Another corrupt House Republican who dodges questions about your healthcare except Zach Nunn is such a loser he used violence against a staffer. Disgusting. Vote this scum out in November.

The public doesn't understand how these people operate. That's why every book club in the U.S. shd read @mkonnikova.bsky.social 's The Confidence Game, a history of con artists. Also Babiak's Snakes in Suits. And Hoffer's classic The True Believer And @brianklaas.bsky.social 's book

Corruptible Who Gets Power & How It Changes Us | Powell's Books

A provocative and revelatory look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (for a while, at least) have had the upper hand--from the cr...

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Timeless. (First saw this four years ago.)

Why?

You are obligated to give insurance after hitting another vehicle. You are obligated to identify yourself when in uniform. You are an asshole for claiming TIK TOK lied to me. You are just assholes for being fascist ICE

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2w ago

When confronted by a terrified citizen demanding accountability after their car was rammed, a masked ICE goon hiding behind a generic "POLICE" patch barked back: "I don't have to answer any questions, ma'am."

Two national guard soldiers in uniform escorted their mother to her immigration hearing to prevent her from being kidnapped by ICE!

The modern elites are just like the old royal perverts of yore (still many royal overlap)... They are still procuring kids for these evil pigs.👹👹👹

Lavonne 🇺🇦@loveon9.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/ "While looking for a few originating sources of photos of Ghislaine Maxwell, I stumbled into my favorite kind of rabbit hole — a buried photo archive from Desmond O'Neill (1923–2003), who was a renowned British society photographer." "Every few pages brought another familiar face."

Trump is pursuing this war in the HOPE that Iran carries out an act of terror in the US. And even if it doesn’t, which I doubt it will, consider the possibility that Trump's people would fake one. Please consider this essay, written back in March. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

The Desire for Terror

And the defense of democracy

snyder.substack.com

Democratic senator proposes expanding Medicare to cover children This is the way! Gift link

Democratic senator proposes expanding Medicare to cover children

The approach represents a potential way forward on a priority issue for Democrats if the party regains power in the future.

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