as a black kid, you learn early you have to be 2x as good women know this too.
Kris F@rgrhelper.bsky.social · 22h agoWhat Peter doesn’t get is that women fully understand they must be prepared to beat the standard.
Cat Brodeur
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Famously photographed by all the best DC metro speed cameras; always caffeinated for your safety
Kris F@rgrhelper.bsky.social · 22h ago
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2d agoGenuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoOssoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.Measles Cases in the US Reach Highest Number in More Than 3 Decades jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
the scale of it is genuinely horrifying, no matter how much of it faceplants zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...
Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections
Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
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Alexander Howard@digiphile.bsky.social · last wk."You can plainly see Trump’s old 2020 [ #Authoritarian ] playbook at work again, but this time using a whole-of-government approach to tamper with the midterm elections on the front end & then discredit the election results on the back end. – @davidkurtz.bsky.social Deceive, deny, disenfranchise.
The pro-segregationists in the Trump admin—which is to say, the entire Trump admin, reallly—notches another win for racism. 😡
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last wk.This is so wrong www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Even Dolly’s sound checks for radio shows and podcasts were adorable.
Remember that time Mitch McConnell died and they just pretended he didn’t so they could keep collecting checks? Should make for a quirky HBO comedy someday.
nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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"...no one would try this hard to take your vote away unless they were desperately afraid of the outcome of a free and fair #election. Whatever else you do, make sure you #vote. Let’s be the result that they’re afraid of. We’re the cavalry." @joycewhitevance.bsky.social #midterms #USPS #voteblue
I Doubt You’re Surprised
There’s a whistleblower addressing the USPS plan to implement Trump’s EO on mail ballots
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“Time and again [SCOTUS] leapt in to short-circuit the normal process to allow Trump to break the law, on the theory that saying no to the president is grave emergency.” 😥😥😥 @lizdye.bsky.social tells us that the SCOTUS dumpster fire has already burned us into a crisp. @atrupar.com | Public Notice
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoNew in PN: Trump begs SCOTUS to let him unleash midterm chaos "Multiple courts have ruled this is wholly illegal. And yet, no one knows whether SCOTUS's MAGA majority will again leap in to ensure he's able to violate the law. This is not how functioning democracies *go*. Or at least, not for long."
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
If Nancy Pelosi had repeatedly told reporters she had no idea what was going on around her, the coverage would have been unsparing and vicious.
I’m telling you - the default position of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of being found out, and fear of the American people.
Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
nytimes.com
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
Grotesque
Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 2w agoCan't get numb to this: it's frightening how Trump et al have normalized lawless behavior by govt officials. US govt cruelty to immigrants is not remotely new, but people like Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, moved the Overton window on accepting scandalous outrages. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
another thing I hate about this is people die from bad economic policy, including senseless tariff wars. It’s just a fact that if you fuck with nation’s economies for no reason beyond spite and brain drainage, you are pointlessly causing economic harm & cost of living increases that do hurt or kill
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3w agoBecome a @zeteo.com if you want and can to read the whole thing here: zeteo.com/p/its-a-huge...
Well, with it no longer being HOMES, I guess the new Great Lakes acronym is SHAME. Pretty fitting honestly!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoHoly shit — the purpose of this Trump event is to announce that he’s changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” It will be interesting to see which if any institutions and companies go along with this
i think if you walk into court saying "unless our demands are met we will blow up the kennedy center" you should just go directly to jail
Before an emergency hearing, the Kennedy Center's board threatens to demolish it
A lawsuit seeks to block President Trump's name from going back on the center. The center's board warns that if renovation plans don't go forward, it may be demolished.
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Awed by this DOJ filing in the "can Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center" litigation in which the DOJ lawyer uses the phrase "conflicts of interest" to refer to, like, the fact that parties to a case have different goals. Borderline illiterate stuff. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
