If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

Sometimes, I worry that my hating Donald Trump (even though I'm neither transgender nor a witch) takes away too much of my time that could be devoted to hating Ted Cruz.

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

Trump says he brought in “$21 trillion” of investment vs. “less than $1 trillion” under Biden. Actual business investment: $14.5 trillion under Biden, $6.7 trillion so far under Trump. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Minnesota Republican state Sen. Bill Lieske: "Back in the day when the measles vaccine didn't exist, measles was a joke! ... yes, there are increases cases. How many of those are actually resulting in deaths? Are they just going home with the sniffles? Back in the day, people had measles parties."

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

Trump lied. Again.

Sick fucks. There is no bottom.

Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 3w ago

Trump and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" is promoting its pink Bible for Breast Cancer Awareness month in October. No mention of any proceeds going to charity. $74.99 preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Next Trump Press Sec.:

She will always be remembered as one of the all-time greats.

Robert Kagan, who served in the State Department in the Ronald Reagan presidency, said, “The United States doesn’t have a foreign policy now. The United States today is a predatory criminal enterprise. Our allies need to wake up to that reality quickly.”

This is disgusting, but not unexpected. The Trump administration is putting their thumb on the scales for Putin, despite the fact that it’s Russia violating the energy ceasefire. 

Susan Collins is the leading write-in candidate in Oregon.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

A Republican super PAC trying to influence a crucial Senate race in Maine spent thousands of dollars running an attack ad in the wrong Portland, targeting voters thousands of miles away in Oregon.

The DOJ has never been perfect. There has always been plenty to criticize. But the DOJ today, after not even two years of Trump, is a rotten shell of what it once was; untrusted by sizeable portions of the federal judiciary, hollowed out at the core, and run without principle.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 3w ago

We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

Thank you @adamserwer.bsky.social for the fullest account of what’s actually dangerous in higher ed right now. State censorship at incredible scale. And for particulars of expert history framed as ideology I note @sethrockman.bsky.social on the block here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

The state now controls what professors can teach.

theatlantic.com

Any book can be ruined by adding II.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word Moby Dick Pic

Especially if they manage to hold Congress.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · last mo.

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

Nailed it ⛽️ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

Well, Repubs like Gaetz heard that Dems want public transit and Twitter took it from there.

“‘Now it will be easy,’ [Joseph Goebbels] wrote…‘to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, 314

Last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba, where seven or eight of them remain.

The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

motherjones.com