If you were wondering what happened to Russia's active measures assault on the United States with the aim of undermining its democracy, world power and global standing . . . Well, it never stopped. (Follow @olgalautman.bsky.social to keep up to date.)

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦@olgalautman.bsky.social · 22h ago

Russian-born American businessman Konstantin Sokolov gave $11M to MAGA Inc. and donated to Trump’s ballroom. He was recently tapped to lead Trump’s $201M TRIPP+ investment fund. @luchkov.bsky.social and I dug into his past and found that his former partner worked for Oleg Deripaska.

Happy to join others in this election cycle to mobilize voters to put a stop on the US's authoritarian slide. (Go to @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social for more opportunities to canvas voters.)

🌊❌👑🐸❌🧊 Target Majority NYC: An Indivisible & Swing Left Group@targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social · yesterday

What a fabulous Saturday #GroundTruth canvass with some of the best conversations we've ever had! Now we have more teams out again today! Thanks to all our friends from @jh-indivisible.bsky.social and other groups who joined in <3 @swingleft.bsky.social

As someone who has critiqued the @nytimes.com for at times for soft-pedalling its coverage of Trump (and it does), worth remembering that yes also, it was clear-eyed & warning the country's citizens of what Trump would do more than much of the media. Yes, spot on. And with appropriate font size.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last mo.

They were spot on. This was The New York Times Sunday Opinion section on October 27, 2024.

This is Ukraine's reality. It is the result of Trump's and the US's betrayal of Ukraine. US b/c the Republican majority in Congress could have acted w/ legislation to provide Patriots & accelerate production. But it is Trump who made sure Ukraine was denied defense of its skies.

24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social · last mo.

💔 A residential building in Kyiv is on fire after a Russian drone crashed into it.

We underestimated the danger of this EO. But it told us everything we needed to know: Trump ordered the national government to create a list of all citizens & to confer rights only to those on its list. It was an authoritarian order. That SCOTUS didn't reject it on its face is itself most alarming.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.

President Donald Trump's executive order, signed in March, calls on his administration to create lists of eligible voters and orders the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists. Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia sued to block the order.

The only way to save America is to enshrine Dolly Parton.

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social · last mo.

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

And the refrain: "Elbows up from shore to shore" (worth the listen). The damage Trump is doing to the U.S. is unprecedented and incalculable. By the end of Trump's term, it will indeed be America Alone. (Unless of course what Ratcliffe was doing was establishing a formal entente w/ Russia.)

CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦@corrina.sheshed.rocks · last mo.

🇨🇦 🎶Oh, we’re going to a trade war… They thought Canada would fold without a fight. Instead, we rally side by side🍁 Never mistake Canadian politeness for weakness. We can say “sorry” AND stand our ground🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp #SheShed

Truly, do not forget. Remind others of what Trump did (incl. musing about injecting bleach in a nationwide press conference). Push back on disinformation (Fauci didn't fund a bioweapon; he based his recommendations, which were sound, for how to combat it on the best science at the time; etc.).

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

True.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

No, one can't. These should be the stories that grace our front pages every day: the injustices and human rights violations being perpetrated by ICE every day. cc: @nytimes.com @usatoday.com @washingtonpost.com @wsj.com @inquirer.com @chicagotribune.com @latimes.com

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yup, it is. This is what you get when you marry the realist school of international relations with corruption. Indeed, it was always the most realistic marriage.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2mo ago

This is nuts Anyone taking bets on whether Jared Kushner profits from this Saudi nuclear deal? WHAT SHOULD CONCERN US ALL Saudi Arabia could enrich uranium on its own soil under weaker safeguards, and they’ve already said if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, they’ll build one too. What could go wrong?

That Blanche even got to the nomination process shows how far gone we are as a country (actually, how far gone Republicans are as a party). Thanks to @riseandresist.bsky.social for being there to pressure the New York Bar Association to do the right thing.

Rise and Resist@riseandresist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‼️DISBAR BLANCHE‼️ July 22, 2026 New York City Bar Association Rise and Resit calls to disbar U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Over 100 former federal judges have filed ethics complaints citing conflict of interests, and politicization of the Department of Justice.

It is hard to convey how significant the political & social messages Peter Magyar is sending the public today. Hungary was never monocultural; it is & always has been multicultural. Yes, truly historic. The response shows it. Listen & watch to the end. A message also for here: Change is possible.

Palma Polyak@palmapolyak.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Truly historic & moving scenes from the inaugural session of the Hungarian Parliament. A children’s tambura band from a tiny village playing a folk song often described as the unofficial Roma anthem. MPs were tearing up & so were many more of us watching. After all those years of hate. 🎥 telex.hu

Sam Alito, a week ago: "vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South.... '[T]hings have changed dramatically' in the decades since the passage of the Voting Rights Act" #SegregationSam #JimCrowJohn

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Speaker of the House in Alabama calls on the courts to “overturn the 14th Amendment.” This is the same legislative body, a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps in the Milligan case. x.com/austinpratt_...

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

Yes, it was. They really didn't hide it. Ever.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 5mo ago

THIS WAS ALWAYS THEIR PLAN Gut the Voting Rights Act… then move fast to erase majority-Black districts across the South completely. 📌 Louisiana, 1 in 3 people are Black 📌 Mississippi, 2 in 5 people are Black 📌 N Carolina, 1 in 5 people are Black 📌 Tennessee, 1 in 6 people are Black

WATCH: Last night I had the chance to sit down for an extended conversation with Jon Stewart to talk about the state of voting rights & democracy in this country. Class was very much in session! Thank you @thedailyshow youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

Sherrilyn Ifill - What Happened to the Voting Rights Act? | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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True. And let's remind ourselves that our Third Founders (King, Randolph, Rustin & so many others) made clear the struggle for Black freedom was (& is) a struggle for everyone's freedom, for liberty & justice for all, for fulfilling America's original *stated* ideals. 1/

Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

When there is no accountability, there is repression & lawlessness. Every repressive action of this administration has been challenged, but there is no accountability. Nota Bene to all candidates: If you don't think this is an issue to campaign on, you're missing the thread.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Jonathan Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the arm, head, and chest, is back in both an administrative and investigative capacity, facing virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight." newrepublic.com/post/209615/...

Truly, putting someone in a "news analysis" chair that lied so easily about government murders, lawless detentions and generalized brutality is shameful. #CNN already diminished itself out of adoption of a misguided "both sides" business model. Imagine what will happen if Ellison owned it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Tricia McLaughlin is trying to make the transition from professional liar for Trump to cable news talking head. Here she is on CNN just now.

Yes, but understand where we are: (1) Trump has successfully made the judicial & investigative depts. of govt. into agencies to repress opponents; (2) he has succeeded in obtaining political indictments; (3) he has yet to succeed in obtaining convictions. We *are* two-thirds there. #VoteThisNovember

Art Candee 🍿🥤@artcandee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Kash Patel talking about the "investigative prowess" into the single seashells post by James Comey and his subsequent indictment made me snort laugh. What a total embarrassment.

One could be utterly astounded at this lack of attention given how clearly Trump's regular "chats" with Putin are connected to Trump's abandonment & betrayal of Ukraine in clear contrast to broad voter sentiment in favor of helping Ukraine.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For all the studious, self-serious, resource-sucking attention on every utterance from the president, I'm surprised this one very unique, very consistent tic of his hasn't had more attention: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Any account of diGenova that doesn't mention his corrupt representation of Dmitri Firtash loses the real thread of why he is being appointed to oversee this investigation. He was part of breathing life into the conspiracy theories from the beginning.

Lincoln Square@lincolnsquare.media · 6mo ago

As the 2026 midterms approach, the Trump's Justice Department is twisting procedural rules and ignoring expired statutes of limitations to breathe new life into old conspiracy theories. Read the latest from @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social for Lincoln Square: open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

This is the pinnacle of our upside-down world.

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Yup.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

When SCOTUS acted b4 to overturn states' violations of basic rights asserted in the federal constitution, its rulings superseded state sovereignty as "the law of the land." But now SCOTUS violates basic rights asserted in state constitutions. That contradiction can't be whisked away & must be faced.

David S. Cohen@dsc250.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Big abortion win in PA today - the ban on Medicaid funding is unconstitutional! AND there's a fundamental right to abortion! We won! (Though this Commonwealth Court opinion can be appealed - we'll see what our AG does.)

Reminding: the US agreed to the G7 commitment *not* to lift sanctions on Russia regardless of higher gas prices. The US quickly violated this agreement. Now, Bessent announces that the US will continue to suspend sanctions on Russian oil a 2nd month. The US's word means nothing---except for Russia.

Eric Chenoweth@ericdchenoweth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Good for the G7 countries. But don't expect the U.S. to stick to such an agreement. Indeed, expect the U.S. to do what it can to make sure its illegal war against Iran aids Russia's illegal war against Ukraine.

Nota Bene: This is the consequence of normalization. Even legacy media decline to report salient facts affecting all Americans: a principal US negotiator is beholden to a foreign power seeking to manipulate US foreign policy. BTW, it's Witkoff, too, & both seek more foreign money to be beholden to.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

If we learned one thing from Hungary, this is how to campaign in 2026. cc: DNC (btw, get a Bluesky account).

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

@timothysnyder.bsky.social has led several fundraising campaigns to help #Ukraine survive Russian aggression. He asks now for a new campaign to help it defend against Russian air attacks. With the US under Trump abandoning Ukraine, consider donating to #SkyDefense. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities

The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.

u24.gov.ua

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has fired wave after wave of missiles, bombs, and drones at Ukrainian civilians—at their homes, businesses, water supply, & energy infrastructure. Please join me in raising funds for defense equipment snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defense