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Sarah Posner

@sarahposner.bsky.social

Contributing writer, TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sarahposner Host, Reign of Error podcast: https://www.axismundi.us/podcasts/reign-of-error Author, Unholy More: https://www.sarahposner.com

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h ago

Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Casey Michel@cjcmichel.bsky.social · 4h ago

My new book is officially here! UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY looks at what oligarchy actually is, and how we got here, and where we're going—and how wealth inequality in the US threatens both democracy and national security alike, and has led directly to the resurgence of empire. Pick up a copy now!

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Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 20h ago

Expect her minions in DC media and Maine media to dutifully portray this as a bold move when it's the same old story if Thune needed her, he'd have her. See, for example, Brett Kavanaugh Any Hill reporters who uses "🚨 Breaking News" on an expected Collins vote is pretty much on her comms team

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 20h ago

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

Sarah Posner@sarahposner.bsky.social · 20h ago

They'd already been saying they wouldn't prosecute under the FACE Act for abortion clinic violence, but did use the FACE Act against the MN anti-ICE protesters at an evangelical church

Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20h ago

This is a big fucking deal, if true. (He could be posturing.) Blanche also promised that the DOJ is dismantling the FACE Act, the law that protects clinics from violence. Subscribe to AED to find out what it all means—I'll have the full story in the newsletter, along with the rest of the audio.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · yesterday

This is what a decade of Trumpism has encouraged -- a GOP gubernatorial candidate in Colorado who's unsure of how many people he's killed but positive that his Jewish opponent is a tool of Satan. These people were in the tent before, but the rest of the party seemed embarrassed about them. No more!

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

David Kurtz@davidkurtz.bsky.social · yesterday

About a month ago, it emerged from upstate New York that DHS was targeting online critics of ICE by trying to force them to sign a heretofore unheard of “Warning Notice” admitting that their criticisms were unlawful. Now the WSJ reports that those cases ... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics

ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...

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Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The @nytimes inexplicably continues to assert that "the Justice Department ... gave [Trump] the audit protection as part of a deal to end the lawsuit." Nope. It wasn't included in the "deal." It's a unilateral--and blatantly unlawful--decree by the Acting AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

Weird for NY Times to give David Ellison space to lie about Paramount-Warner. News "requires independence" and must "answer to the facts...not any party or cause"? He's done the literal opposite with CBS. Nonpartisan with a mix of views? Larry Ellison spent over $45M helping elect Trump in 2024.

Justice Connection@justiceconnection.bsky.social · yesterday

As Senators vote today on Todd Blanche’s nomination, they should heed the unprecedented warning from more than 1,200 DOJ alumni that he poses a grave threat to the department’s independence and the rule of law. They should reject Todd Blanche.