Pet Charles
@petcharles.bsky.social
Wants to be startin’ something • Heliocentrist • Third Amendment supporter • Sucker/Loser • Hates loyalty oaths & vermin • Shining up my battle apple • Soft spot for bearded terriers • Sic semper Krasnov • RSN diaspora
All these corrupt toadies glommed onto Trump because they misread 2024 as a permanent national shift: The future was MAGA. Now they're like cartoon characters who ran off a cliff and realized there's nothing under them. Me and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2140...
CBS and Bari Weiss may have created their own biggest competitor. Reports say journalists fired from 60 Minutes are planning to reunite with former exec. producer Bill Owens working bring on Scott Pelley, and other former correspondents/producers. This is how you do it.
A Trump-appointed federal judge just ruled that all federal controls on the sale, use, and transfer of fully automatic weapons and silencers are unconstitutional. That's why. Silencers and automatic weapons on our streets. What could go wrong?
Federal regulations on firearm silencers, some guns cannot stand, judge rules
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that some federal gun restrictions can no longer stand after Republicans last year zeroed out the taxes that justified their constitutionality. Congress rel…
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LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/david-elli... CNN reporters were not amused by David Ellison's op-ed in the NYT.
![The piece was "insulting," one CNNer told Status, adding, “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS. You can’t just write an op-ed and erase that.” Another CNNer said it was obvious to them Ellison "says whatever is best for him to get the merger through."
"The thing David Ellison seems to be missing is the wild mismanagement and disrespect that Bari [Weiss] has displayed at '60' and CBS," a third CNNer told Status. "These people just simply do not know what they are doing. We see it. And we don’t want it here."
Indeed, several CNNers said that Ellison's stewardship of CBS News had caused them to lose confidence in his ability to run a news organization and sour on his repeated assurances about respecting the independence of newsrooms. In The Times essay, Ellison wrote, "I understand that promises from an executive in the middle of a merger invite skepticism. So judge us by the year we just had."
But the last year at CBS News has been an unmitigated disaster. Most notably, Ellison allowed his handpicked news chief to take a sledgehammer to "60 Minutes," firing multiple correspondents and senior executives from television news' most prestigious broadcast—in most of the cases, without ever stating a cause for the dismissals. Beyond that, Weiss' tenure has been defined by her expunging those she is not ideologically aligned with, presiding over the worst ratings of the century for flagship programs like the "CBS Evening News" and "CBS Mornings," establishing a cozier relationship with an overtly corrupt White House, and sending employee morale cratering to astonishing lows.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicybrw5xm7wnrleduxjtlfwlrcvjzs7qwwjijswwlluzh5x67iadi)
🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
🤯 Max Miller's interview with Tapper is an utter trainwreck 🤯
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UFC Freedom 250 event was a $30 million financial loss It did not dent the company’s bottom line: Total UFC second-quarter revenue still surged, bolstered by a multi-billion dollar broadcast deal with Paramount. White said he would never do that kind of event again. @anntelnaes.bsky.social
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 4d agoTrump’s Much-Hyped UFC White House Event Ended Up Losing the Company Tens of Millions
Among the first pieces out post Blanche vote, this essay argues that the "deal" that sealed his yes vote was a completely empty arrangement that left Trump with all he had before. open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
Blanche and Trump Snooker Cornyn and Tillis
The Senators got a piece of paper. Blanche got out of committee. Trump got everything.
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NEW REPORT: Senator Wyden says @MarshaBlackburn “declined to support Wyden’s effort to subpoena Epstein bank records” + “refused to cooperate with his investigation into financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking”— as she claimed to care & blamed Dems🤔 www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
This doesn't get rid of the settlement that establishes the fund. That would require Donald Trump's sign-on, and he made it clear he wants the fund. All this does is rescind the DOJ's order establishing the fund. Trump can still go to court and demand the fund because the settlement remains.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 5d agoNEWS: Todd Blanche says he is rescinding his May 18 order establishing the “anti-weaponization fund”
Hard to keep track of the number of times he's declared victory in his illegal war-of-choice. #86-47
So Tillis and Cornyn’s position is that the slush fund and IRS immunity is disgusting, illegal, immoral, and unethical but they are willing to confirm the man who agreed to it as Attorney General of the United States as long as he takes it back.
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
Then cut me a check for all the money I paid into it, including interest. So we can’t retire and will be forced to work until our last breath? Shameful. 😡
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump admin policy that requires Medicaid recipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to work in order to be exempt from new work requirements. www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-...
Court lets Trump admin force some terminally ill patients to work for health care
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients with terminal di...
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Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
Trump dropped Lindsey Graham's phone number AGAIN during his eulogy. Who wants to give it a shot?
Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
Here we are in 2026 and this song is just as relevant now as it was when it was created. ‘Stop, Hey What's That Sound’ Buffalo Springfield Released December, 1966
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: You can’t say that you want to make sure sex offenders and sex traffickers are behind bars and then vote for him. Every vote for Blanche is really a vote against survivors. If Thom Tillis wants to call, I’m happy to talk to him. We’ve been trying to get in touch
