Melissa Miller aka No Malarkey
@melissamiller.bsky.social
Former Republican. Always Never-Trump. Self funded a tiny little PAC that helped defeat my MAGA Congressman. You can have my democracy when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. #T1D
Opposition to deficit spending is a fundamental plank of the GOP platform... that applies only when Democrats are in the White House.
In Trump’s Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little Action
The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.
nytimes.com
Good thing Iran doesn’t fire drones and missiles at traffic through the Strait.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19h agoBIG - U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released a new video update from Adm. Brad Cooper, announcing that U.S. forces have cleared an international shipping channel of mines and declared the Strait of Hormuz open.
Israel is now stopping children in Gaza from even flying kites. Israel announced it would strike areas where kites are flown and force residents from their homes. @premthakker.bsky.social breaks down the psychological war being waged against Gaza’s children. Subscribe to zeteo.com
Everyone in the White House frantically googling what hydronym means.
Holy shit, they're trying to teach incels how to talk to women
Putin ended up driving Ukraine into deeper integration with the West - and he may be helping transform Ukraine from a country Europe must defend into a country helping Europe learn how to defend itself.
Inside Ukraine’s Breakthrough Missile Deal
The new defense cooperation agreement with the U.K. is less about the war now than about European security for the next generation.
lnk.thebulwark.com
We must not allow these evil weasels to bribe their way back into the fold.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h ago“.. Meta Platforms and others are writing big checks for Democrats ahead of the midterms, according to people familiar with the matter, a counterbalance to the tens of millions they gave to the White House ballroom and Republican initiatives.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Head of the FBI now putting forward fake information
Fubar 🇨🇦@captainfubar.bsky.social · 23h agoThis story is absolutely running wild on social media, however it's not actually true. It's a 20+ year old editorial standard about how they can only cite experts as using that definition, not journalists themselves The Trump admin basically now has a Russian-esque troll farm to parrot fake info
The Supreme Court did NOT rule on this They said they need a final rule to reach the issues, & that they're neither approving nor disapproving what the president has done We stopped his last EO w/ our partners & @democracydefendersfund.org & @CampaignLegal.org will stop this one! @CNN.com -TN
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of its new rule restricting mail-in voting Thursday night. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal judge blocks Trump's anti-mail voting order again, citing risk to states and voters
The judge found that voting rights groups and Democratic-led states are likely to succeed in showing USPS lacked authority to impose new federal requirements on mail voting before the 2026 midterms.
democracydocket.com
Nothing to see here, folks! “The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred to as the “spy sheikh” is a major shareholder backing a new U.S. bank the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture is preparing to launch…” www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
A man and woman embrace as ICE and FHP detain her during an immigration stop in Fort Myers this morning.
Push Canada far enough and they could close the St. Lawrence seaway? You know the canal that allows ships to bypass - Niagara Falls? 100% of that waterway resides in CANADA?
This is really not the point but there's literally an Ontario, NY.
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · yesterdayThe name Ontario was derived from the lake and it was used to refer neighbouring land over a century before both the confederation of Canada and the independence of the United States.
Worth reminding yourselves what europe and the US fairly uncontroversially considered to be genocide then, especially when your favorites have regular meltdowns over the use of the term today
Reuters@reuters.com · yesterdayBosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide, has died, Serbian TV reports reut.rs/4qG64Pe
even if we assume that it is ethically obligatory to permit secession upon a majority vote, in no Confederate state was there a majority in favor of secession. not one.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19h agoExciting news everybody: so long as you change the name on the tin of your empire, it is suddenly not imperialism for you to violently reconquer the people you used to control, it's just sparkling anti-secessionism. Tankies, man, wow.
An American pit bull was gifted to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky by U.S. boxer Terence Crawford. The puppy named Freya is the granddaughter of a dog that survived Russia’s brutal occupation of Bucha in 2022, Zelensky said.
Why Zelensky is cuddling a very good girl named Freya
Pictures of the Ukrainian leader holding the baby pit bull with a symbolic name have proved a truth universally known in politics: If you want to get noticed, get a puppy.
washingtonpost.com
CENTCOM this is the fifth time this month you’ve declared the Strait open
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19h agoBIG - U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released a new video update from Adm. Brad Cooper, announcing that U.S. forces have cleared an international shipping channel of mines and declared the Strait of Hormuz open.
The right’s sudden belligerence toward Canada is some straight-up “we have always been at war with Eastasia” shit. Leader has said they’re the enemy. So it’s time to manufacture the outrage.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhite House official Peter Navarro agrees with Steve Bannon that Canada is now a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party" "Vancouver is now big Hong Kong," Navarro says
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 27 AUGUST2026 🇨🇦 OH CANADA 🇨🇦 DEAR CANADIANS MARK CARNEY DOUG FORD WE SALUTE YOU & SANE AMERICANS STAND BY YOU FROM MARK CARNEY "The old relationship we HAD with USA is OVER" This clip from Doug Ford Premier Ontario, POWERFUL It will always be LAKE ONTARIO Our ALLY
The future of Parton’s Imagination Library has become uncertain due to the quiet machinations of Republicans in the Midwest that have sought to unravel public funding for the cause. trib.al/2GdEf6P
is this a safe space to say I would have no idea who Hasan Piker was if not for Democrats distancing themselves from him? Like a full election cycle of Streisand Effect'ing
I’m not sure “1 out of 212 House Dems supports this policy” conveys what this person thinks it does about Dems
Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · yesterdayLOL @ the Democrats. These are your heroes?
I find it strange that Democratic political candidates are being asked about Hasan Piker, while Republican political candidates have *actual staff* who are white nationalists.
One of the deaths was a baby who was too young for vaccines. The other condition that led to that child's death was the fact that they were a fragile newborn infant. Mehmet Oz can go to hell. 
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · yesterdayOz is claiming that the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania might have “had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time”. This implies that 1. It’s okay if kids with comorbidities die of measles. 2. That they would have died anyway so nbd.
LOL... "let me poll test that and get back to you"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agoLisa Demuth's streak of being unable to answer basic questions like a normal person continues
No, he’s not a Democratic hero at all. Nobody likes him. He’s not even running for reelection.
Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · yesterdayLOL @ the Democrats. These are your heroes?
We just won a court order blocking the Trump administration's new rule that would have allowed the USPS to interfere with mail-in voting. States are responsible for processing our elections, and the USPS does not have the authority to decide who can and cannot vote by mail.
"...dwarfed by the overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement" A US judge temporarily blocked the Postal Service from enforcing key parts of new restrictions on mail-in ballots, pausing rules designed to carry out President Trump's directives ahead of the November midterms buff.ly/MJRlmNk
