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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 24h ago

Oh my goodness

So, when Tillis and Cornyn leave office in January 2027 and Blanche decides to create the Anti-Weaponization Fund, what then? God I hate this timeline

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3d ago

JUST IN: Tillis confirms he is on board with Cornyn to vote yes on Blanche for AG, after Blanche renounces Anti-Weaponization Fund in writing & asserts that the waiver of any past taxes due is limited to POTUS, Don Jr., Eric & Trump Org. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Oh no, if only there was some way this could have been predicted … Polygraphs are a bane upon the federal hiring, criminal investigation, and national security process and should have been outlawed when NAS produced their study in the early days of the Bush administration

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AntiPolygraph.org@antipolygraph.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fraud Alleged in U.S. Secret Service Polygraph Contracting: antipolygraph.org/blog/2026/08...

It’s telling he went on Fox to say this One would think CNN, MSNBC maybe, but no. Know why? That’s not his audience

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 4d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

I always find it funny when Republicans say they’re the “Party of Lincoln” or “Party of TR” given it’s a tacit admission that the last time the GOP was great was when they had progressive leaders and policies

John Bolton's Mustache@jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 3d ago

National. Mental. Health. Crisis.

And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing I should add … BUT it’s super infuriating when you’re a 4.0 MAIR student with great references, a track record of work and volunteer experience to lose an LE internship to a rising college sophomore majoring in music whose mom is an Section Chief at HQ

Alan Cunningham@cadetcunningham.bsky.social · 3d ago

Also this - it’s amazing how it is really not an open process and so heavily fueled by having a friend in service, working for the agency as a contractor, or being a longterm servant’s child or relative

This. I am one of those people. It’s absolute hell to never receive even a response back Fast forward to me working in D.C. and finding out that so many postings get filled by contractors who have govt/military XP and had done the same job just in the private sector, so the announcement is for show

Patrick Meyers@pmeyers7.bsky.social · 3d ago

There are tens of thousands of talented young people, especially outside DC, who would love to join the civil service pipeline (not just in national security, but in many agencies) who will continue to run face first into the brick wall of USAJobs until something changes.

Why is it that I have never heard a legislator on the campaign trail talk about civil service reform or updating USAJobs for the current work force? That’s something not only active and ex-federal employees but prospective federal employees (including students, veterans etc) would want to hear

I want to say, this is why I don’t watch CNN or much cable news anymore RFK went on this because he knew he would find a great place and a poor journalist to be able to show off his “mettle” at dealing with the media, “fighting for the American people’s health”, and showing up liberals

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

RFK: "You are saying nonsense." Bash: "I am not saying nonsense, excuse me?…This is not productive. " RFK: "You're talking nonsense…You were scaring people." Bash: "Why are you saying that?" RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN." Bash: "Okay, stop."

Not just the next pandemic, but the next everything; the next natural disaster, the next attack, the next war, the next regulatory crisis, the next recession, it’s infuriating

Gail Helt@gailhelt.bsky.social · 4d ago

What scares people is realizing that their govt is full of unqualified people who are totally unequipped to handle the next pandemic if, God forbid, one occurs.

Remember, investigations, calls for BWCs or no masks are all pointless unless you are also addressing the root causes of this criminality - the culture of militarization and law enforcement in border security agencies and the disastrous 2003 implementation of DHS

Oversight Dems@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 5d ago

ICE agents are untrained, unqualified, and killing people on the streets. Oversight Dems will investigate every failure that led to these tragedies and hold agents and their leadership accountable.

Great reminder to never ever watch Threads again

Kenny Logins@kennylogins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What’s the phrase? “Money can’t buy class or taste”? This video sums that up; no matter the amount of money, it can never buy a person taste or knowing what works and what doesn’t in a room

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

Having just watched Rocky, I am truly amazed at how this movie won Best Picture and Best Director You’ve got it going up against All the President’s Men and Network; how did neither of those win but this did? Makes not sense whatever

Looks like Mark Lamb finally won a primary. He has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct -- a swinger lifestyle and sexting with women he later threatened -- but he is also MAGA, "constitutional sheriff," and an election conspiracy theory. He also has a track record of financial grifting.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mark Lamb is probably heading to Congress. The MAGA figure and former sheriff survived allegations that he was sending unwanted sex messages and won the GOP primary for a red House seat. Bolts profiled him in 2023 when he was running for the Senate: boltsmag.org/arizona-sher...

I never was a major fan of Alan Greenspan’s and I make that fact known here, but it’s pretty incredible how Zoomers and definitely Alphas don’t know the name of the man who made it impossible for them to obtain wealth open.substack.com/pub/alanthec...

Speaking Ill of the Dead

With Alan Greenspan’s death, the financial world and society at large has shown a desire to revere the industry’s giants – and forget problematic legacies.

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I never want to hear from Republican voters again about wanting to end forever wars It was bullshit in 2024 and it’s even more bullshit today

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump allies believe the President has now exhausted most options to exit the Iran war and are now “afraid” a longstanding, unpopular, expensive conflict is inevitable, causing major anxiety about GOP chances in midterm elections.-Politico

To all Democrats running in this midterm cycle: You still think we can reform this? This type of behavior you think we can handle by bills, decrees, and dictums calling for reform and accountability? Get real

Katiesaurus@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 2w ago

"When she gave her information to ORR, the agency asked her to come to an office for a DNA test, she said. ICE agents were waiting to arrest her. Three months later, she’s in a Louisiana detention center awaiting deportation, while her daughter has been in the Texas shelter for over seven months."

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

This I bought & read a first time book by a retired Marine SGTMAJ on war crimes investigations and DM’d him on LinkedIn to tell him how fascinating it was. He offered to sign my book and it remains one of my great reads of last year

Dr. Syntax@drsyntax.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've said this before: Scholar friends, if you read an essay, chapter, or book that you like please DO tell the author! I can't tell you how much these notes mean to someone who feels like they are alone and simply writing into the void.

Does anybody else get insanely angry whenever a politician or candidate says “I’m not a politician” Like we all know you are. Otherwise you wouldn’t be running. Honestly, I’d want an operative who knows how to get everybody to work together, just actually stands to their values That’s it

This is the standard now. This is the standard for border and immigration enforcement And honestly, it’s been the unofficial standard for years now, only now individuals care about border security policy. And still, people think ICE abolishment/USBP-CBP reform is too much That’s ridiculous

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w ago

The ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told the AP. https://to.pbs.org/4fKe0dl

Earlier this week, James Talarico unveiled his border security and immigration policy, calling for more agents/immigration judges and more funds for surveillance technologies I like Talarico, but this left me super disappointed

As if this wasn’t bad enough, let’s ignore that it’s potentially the 101st leading this charge Whose bright idea in the Pentagon was it to give that job to them?

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George Pearkes@peark.es · 3w ago

The Pentagon is evaluating combat dropping the 101st Airborne into Cuba.

We need to categorically reject the calumny that Graham was blackmailed so he cozied up to Trump. The evidence is clear that Graham freely and volitionally chose evil. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Lindsey Graham Chose Evil

Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going.

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All of that - her hesitancy, the overwhelming documentation, everything - of course still isn’t enough to keep some progressives from saying she’s a plant It’s shameful and absolutely disgusting. As a progressive, this is a problem we need to address

Liv Agar@livagar.bsky.social · 4w ago

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

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

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

An island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.