The fact that this country allowed ANYONE to get this powerful is scandalous.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 9h agoVery evil stuff
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 9h ago
Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...
How to win friends and influence people…
Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · 2d agoNEWS A preservation group just alerted Judge Reyes that Trump just attacked her on social media right before today's hearing in the East Potomac Golf Course case. Context: Judge Reyes received death threats last year after ruling against Trump. Background buff.ly/3eV0JHT
![The United States Department of Interior [sic] wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course. They have an absolute right to do so. It’s as simple as that! The judge on the case is a crazed lunatic whose courthouse tapes will reveal, may be insane? The tapes have been blocked from usage by the judge. The random golfer bringing the ridiculous lawsuit has ZERO STANDING! The experts at “Interior” are allowed to do this First Class renovation “as of right.” They do not need an approval. Work is
scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY! The finished product will be World Class,
and bring income and great prestige back to D.C. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/bafkreie523l622ckiq2qaj4ms75bcyupchz6szcaw4is2yvkyuxq4llx6i)
Trump is the one who filed this lawsuit. Now he refuses to participate in discovery while his sons and daughter duck discovery subpoenas.
Aside from invading the country, of course.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · yesterdayInvasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine
I was trying to think about what this reminded me of - and it came to me. It’s like a brilliant attorney conducting an ace cross-examination. Truly artistic. So impressive.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
Absolutely vicious.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago“Videos of the attack, verified by The Times, show that the photographer, Heidi Levine, 63, who was wearing body armor with large press tags, was trapped behind the settlers. They began to beat her with bats and sticks, kicking her as she was prostrate on the ground” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/w...
I guess it’s payments in exchange for Putin’s bot traffic to help Republicans…
Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · 4d agoPlease everyone call your reps about this. Most of them don't like it either, but they may think you don't care.
Protecting our overlords…
Eric Lisann@ericlisann.bsky.social · 4d agoDOJ leaders intervened to protect Meta as Zuckerberg has played a core role shaping Trump’s agenda to counter backlash over the safety of AI. The Trump DOJ has retreated on a wide range of corporate investigations inherited from the Biden era. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Great…
Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 5d agoThe use of AI in political ads is not evenly distributed: “More than 80 percent of the ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees” #midterms #AI #ads $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
A judge has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City over its sanctuary policies, rejecting the federal govt's claim that the city's policies violated the Supremacy Clause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum & Opinion AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim – #79 in United States v. City of New York (E.D.N.Y, 1:25-cv-04084) – CourtListener.com
Memorandum & Opinion AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim
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And it has worked.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d agoAhead of the 2024 election, @andykroll.bsky.social got his hands on some secret tapes of Trump's budget director, Russell Vought. One thing Vought said hit Kroll like a ton of bricks: that he wanted to put government workers “in trauma.” Listen to this episode: https://propub.li/4yO4q11
This is criminal.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d agoDr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
The federal government has seen an exodus of scientific experts and alarming shifts in policy that place Washingtonians’ health at risk. In Washington state, science still matters.
Trump promised Ukraine Patriot missile replacements and then failed to deliver them, rendering Kyiv vulnerable to the Kremlin's ballistic missiles. Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense system, leaving it more vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks.
Exclusive: Ukraine runs out of Patriot defense missiles, leaving it more vulnerable to Russian attacks, source tells CNN | CNN
Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense system, leaving it more vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks, a source familiar with the situation told CNN on Thursday.
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This is a fascinating case. I agree with the Court of Appeals. www.forbes.com/sites/leslie...
AI-Generated Video Of Dead Victim Upends Arizona Manslaughter Sentence
An appeals court has tossed the 10-year sentence of a man who shot another driver, citing the unreliability of an AI-generated statement from the victim presented in court.
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Our intelligence agencies concluded that Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in 2020, just as they found he had in 2016.
