Mary Joy
@maryjoy.bsky.social
Teaches (law and society, political theory at SLAC in New England) and bakes. Occasionally writes on all things related to conservative movement.
Anna Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social made wise suggestion we deal w/ chaos of current admin by staying in our lane. This is smart advice but I also like to know other people are watching this admin & sometimes to verify "yeah, that really happened." Here is a long list of trackers I find helpful:
Jon Husted looked this mother in the eye, and promised he wouldn't vote to cut her daughter's health care. One week later, that's exactly what he did.
the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 6h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
The GOP creates disasters and then rebrands and everyone pretends it's real:"it's a compassionate conservative party now," it's a "worker's party now." Dems have to answer for stuff that happened in 1972 but Trump doesn't have to answer for stuff that happened his first term.
hannah gais@hannahgais.bsky.social · 4h agoThis feels like the very predictable outcome of Tucker Carlson's anti-Trump pivot: he's doing it to run in 2028.
“It’s a severe cautionary tale about the hazards of privatisation. The government created these men, especially Elon Musk. And now these welfare kings want to pull up the ladder, want to destroy the very system that made them." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
While the child care sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, investor-backed chains grew by 8 percent, not by adding new capacity but by acquiring existing chains and independent programs.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 8h agoincreasingly it goes to private equity firms that buy up daycare businesses open.substack.com/pub/zero2eig...
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
katemanne.substack.com
I couldn’t be prouder of the movement we’ve built in mid-Michigan. Thank you, Ambassador Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam, for your years of public service and all your hard work on the campaign trail. While tonight we celebrate, there’s still much more work ahead.
The entire Republican Party, and a chunk of the Democratic Party, have a direct interest in convincing you that conservative wins are a mandate and anything else is not.
I have a student jumping through months of hoops with IRB to ask people questions and these guys can just run engagement experiments?
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 23h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
The conflict of interest and behavior described in this story by @coreygjohnson.bsky.social would have been the scandal of the year a decade or two ago. Now I wonder if it will even be picked up by other news organizations. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
propublica.org
I have a student jumping through months of hoops with IRB to ask people questions and these guys can just run engagement experiments?
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 23h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Veterinarian Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. In an exclusive interview with The Post, Dennison-Gibby details what happened that day.
Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken
Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.
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Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.
Everyone is so mad about a misleadingly captioned video clip. Rage bait.
Cornyn is saying there is nothing they can do to stop Trump from talking "he likes the fund." Then he says about fund: "the fact of the matter is it's dead." I don't think it's dead. Trump and Blanche will try to resurrect it but this defeatist "the senator is saying all is lost" is not accurate.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I've been reading about Herrera for a couple months (bad for America, good for my paper) and somehow missed this....
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor @texasobserver.org, I did a deep dive into Brandon Herrera, a gunfluencer and now Republican congressional nominee who has spread memes associated the extremist Boogaloo movement and rationalized lethal violence against people with certain political beliefs. www.texasobserver.org/brandon-herr...
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
When the President of the United States has his bank accounts closed over concerns about money laundering and it barely makes a ripple in national politics…
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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James Talarico tells Rachel Maddow that if Democrats win the Senate seat he is running for, "I think we can build the political will to restore the Voting Rights Act." Watch:
The problem with trying to explain how much porn, violent misogyny, has permeated GOP is you sound like a crazy person. There is a GOP House candidate who calls children “c*m trophies.” Royce White campaigned by calling women “c*nts” and got 40% of vote.
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 5d agoWrote about this. www.offmessage.net/p/andrew-tat...
I’m assured by the Dobbs opinion that making “Dobbs permanent”means states can ban surgical abortion if it’s not a violation of their state constitution and electoral majorities agree. Surely this is what the nom for Attn Gen means? He’s not a lawless activist.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
So Tillis and Cornyn thought the 1.8. Billion dollar slush fun was so bad, that they will be willing to confirm the guy who came up with it. Huh
The FCC has no business deciding who is a journalist and what counts as real news. We cannot allow local stations to become collateral damage in the FCC's political games.
'A putz': Michael Steele slams Trump FCC Commissioner's latest ABC attack
YouTube video by MS NOW
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