CaitBrie
@caitbrie.bsky.social
JD/MBA/Valkyrie. NYC/Helsinki/Asgaard. Freyja is my Vanir name. “She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half heaven half hell.”
Looking forward to seeing Ohio's Republican senators -- the one currently running for re-election and the one currently running away from his daughter's allegations of abuse -- respond to this Max Miller address.
This made my morning coffee. Actually had me dancing with my morning coffee.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d agoI’m going to tell y’all’s kids that this is Charlie Brown & Friends.
This. Plus Harris basically is a normie institutional democrat so it may be breaking thru as an issue.
Micah@rincewind.run · 5d agothis is extremely good, not because I think Harris is likely to be the nominee again but because this is how expanding the Court becomes table stakes for everyone who wants to run for President
100% spot in. “Susie the Concerned” is mostly concerned about herself. And the press coddles her bc she helps them with their false equivalencies of normies on the right.
Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 5d agoTwo lines jumped out: "The vote cut against her well-cultivated reputation as a moderate Republican" Yeah, false rep abetted by too many in media "in the years since, she has appeared to hold grudges against people who criticized her vote" Yep. Vindictive and ruthless and why media coddles her
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
If someone cornered you at a cocktail party and said something like this, you wouldn't just try to get away from them. You'd bounce from the whole event because wtf. But elected Republicans get up every day and say unhinged stuff like this in Congress and I honestly do not know how to unfuck this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoRep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"
2/ And I say this with cognizance that many of these phrases are loaded and can be more emotive than policy based. But I think the overall point stands.
Today's edition of our 'Sure, Jan' Newsletter Now Cornyn’s Talking About a Potential Delay in Blanche Vote talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Now Cornyn’s Talking About a Potential Delay in Blanche Vote
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told reporters on Tuesday that there’s a chance...
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100% accurate. Except I don’t have mixed feelings because I read the Times and avoid all things Bari.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.I think this is really a bet that Trumpism is not in its End Stages and lives on and flourishes with JD Vance, which seems like a bad bet
Sad that even relatively normal Republicans have to participate in this anti constitutional hate speech.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. John James: "Thank you Mr President for coming back to Michigan, where you won three times" (Trump in fact lost Michigan in 2020)
Mr Signal Guy doesn’t recognize his own stupid self own. A reason I just love these clips.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
They should’ve turned off the mic and the lights.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHere's a long cut of Trump's widely panned, low energy WHCD speech, starting w/ his vile joke about Collins - “I thought Kaitlan really made it big w/ a big new sponsorship. But then I informed her it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney" - & ending w/ him donning a Trump 2028 cap
NYP reports on Mamdani's success at getting criminals to self-deport from NYC. nypost.com/2026/07/23/u...
Exclusive | Jared Kushner’s father is leaving New York City over mayor, first lady’s ‘antisemitism’
“I don’t want to pay taxes and live in a city with a blatantly antisemitic mayor and his antisemitic wife,” Charles Kushner told The Post.
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Just because DOJ are withdrawing the subpoenas doesn’t justify issuing them in the first place. And not every small or independent new outlet has the firepower of the NY Times.
Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump prosecutors surrender on NYT reporter probe: “The subpoenas issued by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton on July 10 are the latest instance of the Trump administration seeking to force journalists to divulge their sources.” Via Reuters
Non-snark query: Opinion pages and talk shows groan under the weight of righties—Karl Rove, Frank Luntz, Stephens + Douthat, this guy, half the people on TV—who have "warnings" and "constructive tips" for Dems. Does this ever happen the other way? Dems published on, "here's what GOP needs to do"?
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
Endorse. Less "watch me dunk on Ezra, Matt, Stancil, Atlantic." More "check this out, it's good work that you might not have seen."
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2w agoA proposal: let’s bring back some of the traditions that made early Twitter so good and see if we can’t both grow this place and grow accounts worth following. I suggest #FollowFriday be brought back with enthusiasm
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.
The no new fed mandates is my biggest takeaway from Trump’s rant last night. That doesn’t mean he can’t announce mandates before the election. We’re not out of the woods yet
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Fed Mandates electionlawblog.org?p=157434
