Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

Bri has had an unbelievably devastating few years; she deserves whatever help and grace we can offer

Bri Traquair⁷@brileigh85.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m still about $800 short on rent this month, and I’m really afraid of getting evicted before I have colostomy surgery on the 17th. Venmo is faster (rent is due on the 5th), but either is so helpful. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Brianna-Tr... GFM: gofund.me/f071c1d0f

We got headlines about Joe Biden having Parkinsons and being mentally unfit in the big papers for months. One of Trump's own buddies gets on TV and says The President is crazy and doesn't know what he's saying sometimes and has impulse control and it won't move the needle

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

Right: no managed, orderly decline here. We’d rather plow into it head-first, like a bull in a china shop.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

if El-Sayed wins it will be by flattening Stevens in Scholten's district, among other things

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.

Sounds like something that in otherwise scenarios would lead to ungovermability, but we have the most well behaved macro level partisans in human history

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I knew Jay Clayton in passing when I was a young attorney. His actions are shameful. He’s a disgrace to the legal profession.

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · last wk.

Jay Clayton signed off on several abusive subpoenas to @nytimes.com reporters in violation of the DOJ's own policies — now he's confirmed as director of national intelligence. With people like him in office, we need a federal shield law for journalists more than ever:

Jay Clayton signed off on several abusive subpoenas to @nytimes.com reporters in violation of the DOJ's own policies — now he's confirmed as director of national intelligence. With people like him in office, we need a federal shield law for journalists more than ever:

Now confirmed as DNI, Jay Clayton is threat to press freedom

If Clayton is willing to break DOJ policy at Donald Trump’s request and then lie about it, what will he do now that he’s in charge of an incredibly powerful surveillance apparatus?

freedom.press

I mean, your kids won’t ever be able to buy a house or afford a college education, but Trump needs 250 Escalades, so suck it up peasant…

This is going to be one of the ugliest things the United States has done in my lifetime

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

it's probably bad that the world's richest man is extremely, visibly deranged, maliciously unwell, and also a Nazi

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

What the fuck is wrong with you? China gets to occupy Tibet, a sovereign nation, as a treat?

isla@demomolos.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m all in on Tibet being put in the prison of Chinese sovereignty, Taiwan’s business men and hawks can be a part of it too.

It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.

I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges

Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

tiffany nailed it as perfectly as possible.

Imagine the round-the-clock outrage -- not just from Fox, but the rest of mainsteam media -- if Biden or Obama placed propagandist words into the mouths of dead soldiers just before their dignified transfer of remains.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

This is really, really, really bad. I spoke to two mothers who lost food stamps who are eating less in order to feed their kids and still struggling to give their kids enough nutritious food www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps

New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.

thenation.com

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

every regulatory hurdle is designed to drive people out of programs they desperately, desperately need the fraud that matters is happening in fucking wall street, not food banks

Andrew Russeth@russeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...

"I introduce myself as a Catholic nun, I tell them I went to Mass this morning for you, and I'm not a hearing officer, I have nothing to do with the whole process, I'm here to accompany you, to go in with you if that's OK," said Sister Kuhn. "Most days I go, there are unaccompanied minors.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sister Rose Kuhn, who accompanies children forced to go to immigration court alone, “has seen 14-year-olds told they are mature enough to handle their case by themselves and file their own paperwork.” www.globalsistersreport.org/migration/mi...

“You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.” heatmap.news/daily/worryi...

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

heatmap.news

Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

Congress rejected some of Trump’s proposed budget cuts. OMB is making them anyway.

President Trump and the Office of Management and Budget are accused of violating the separation of powers by attempting to unilaterally withhold funds that Congress specifically appropriated.

thehill.com

Taco Bell does not grow lettuce. This is on Taylor Farms.

Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1

“David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.”

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement 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, according to c...

apnews.com

"First, strip the executive of the massive powers that have accumulated over the last century. Second, make the powers retained by the executive subject to greater oversight with real consequences for abuse." What to do after Trump:

After Trump: Proposals for a Post-Authoritarian America

How Democrats can lead the charge for a new Reconstruction—if they can avoid becoming what they defeat.

lnk.thebulwark.com

I don't file for mileage reimbursement when I drive to Cedar Rapids.

Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 3w ago

"On Thursday last week, Secret Service agents groused among themselves as they prepared to deliver another perk to Vice President JD Vance’s family: join a military helicopter crew to fly his young son to his golf lesson." Marine Choppers to take the kid to a golf lesson