The broader culture really goes way out of their way to refuse to understand just how fucking nuts a lot of your far right evangelicals have gotten, and its a major handicap when it comes to combating them
Snowden St.@snowden.st · 3d ago[swish]
Bad Horse
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A horse is a horse, unless it's the criminal mastermind behind the Evil League of Evil, of course. Watch your step or you'll end up like Wilbur.
Snowden St.@snowden.st · 3d ago
And this makes Polis look even worse for caving. Great move bonehead.
Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 5d agoThere’s fresh evidence that the White House hatched a scheme to punish an American state because it didn’t free a convicted felon the president likes. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” a federal judge said. “I’ve never even imagined something like it.” Why isn't this a bigger scandal?
cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is
29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · 5d agoHOLY FUCK MAN zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...
Pirro would also do well to remember the cautionary tale of the last known occasion in which a special grand jury tried to issue a report. Their report sharply criticized DOJ’s handling of the case. The scandal led to congressional investigations and a critical book by the grand jury foreperson.
I hope that every person involved in this spends years behind bars. It needs to be a priority for the next Dem administration to punish not only senior figures, but also the people who actually did the kidnapping, incarcerating, and torturing of innocent people.
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 2w agoToday in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
just throw them in prison. “if you do this kind of shit you’re going to prison” should be a very simple message to the civil and military service
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3w agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
Revising my repost to make clear that it's about Nicholas's assessment of their theory which is spot on. Not the nested screenshot which is unsourced and probably made up (it's from a frequent engagement farmer on the bad site).
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.
This all goes back to the A word - accountability. If Dems take control of any levers of power - either a chamber of Congress or WH - we need to see clear, concerted, methodical effort to impose accountability. If accountability for lawlessness is not part of any “Project 2029 (or 2027) Plan” then 🚮
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w agoThis is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
Fucking disgusting, yet somehow not at all surprising. 2026/2028 need to be about one word and one word alone: "Accountability" Liars and cheaters need to suffer publicly. We can't let this shit be normalized.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · last mo.This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Twitter was wrong about Platner, wrong about the Odyssey, wrong about pretty much everything, but you know, it really reflects the mood of the people, you know?
Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · last mo.An all time touch grass heat check and people addicted to dumbass social algorithms will prob learn nothing
The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.
Scrolling through a bunch of stuff tonight that could be summed up as "blah blah blah same old bullshit nobody cares"
Kavanaugh stop is but the work of a moment. Then you can just go about your day. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
Man Killed by Federal Agent in Houston Was Not the Target of ICE Search
nytimes.com
Reposting this today for no reason in particular.
Bad Horse@badhorse.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf it walks like a chud and quacks like a chud
The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Another half a billion of taxpayer money stolen by these assholes. Accountability needs to come swiftly.
John Hudson@johnphudson.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhite House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500m for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
I agree. A sick, deranged person did, indeed, vandalize the reflecting pool. Cost us millions, too.
With all the other 5 alarm fires burning, don't lose sight of this egregious attack on the first amendment. It's not the first time Rubio has tried this and won't be the last.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo agoFREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.
Because the people in this government are gleefully malevolent you naturally assume they are more evil than stupid but they're stupid first. They think everyone who came before, everyone who built the world they've benefited from, was dumb. People like Musk and Trump both have this idiot's disease
it is very hard to see trump signing the capitulation agreement if it demanded "no ballroom". that's an actual red line to him. not 300b. not bombing a school of girls. not defending iran's ballistic capabilities.
The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoRep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."
Yeah I don't believe anything Eric Trump says for a second. No way Cormier posted fake DMs on main.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2mo agoEric Trump says "this is totally and completely fake."
If only there was some indication, something in his past that would indicate he'd do such a thing. 🙄
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2mo agoSen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says Trump threw him under the bus. “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn says. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
Every single person involved in these murders must be tried, prosecuted and jailed. A pardon should be no object, as the pardon itself would be obstruction of justice in furtherance of the administration's crimes.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn the briefing, the high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
texastribune.org
THE FLORSHEIMS FIT FINE is the updated version of
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoJACOBS: I have one last question for you. Who won the 2020 presidential election? MARCO RUBIO: I'm not here to answer about 2020 JACOBS: It seems like you have an issue admitting facts, just like you couldn't admit the shoes the president bought you were too big RUBIO: The florsheims fit fine
The ultimate crime in their eyes is to refuse to pretend they're anything but what they are. The whole game depends on everyone being like "Weiss is taking an unconventional approach to the newsroom" instead of "Weiss is a hack brought by fascist billionaires in to destroy this division"