Old Dog
@the-old-dog.bsky.social
Old soul Scandinavian in New England. Hockey, labs, lakes, craft beer
I’m SHOCKED to learn Trump’s flunkies Kushner & Witkoff (beholden to Russian oligarchs, Dmitriev, Abramovich, Putin etc) have no pull in Ukraine. SHOCKED I say! And the Russians are saying it out loud! 😅 🗑️
Julia Davis@juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 15h agoMeanwhile in Russia: state TV's pundits and experts complained about American and European politics and demanded for Russia to be shielded and protected by the international human rights organizations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZChb...
Headline edit: Trump's discredited prosecutors...
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 21h agoBut this is the top story online right now.
You know how I keep saying the Times paywall is basically a rattling trapdoor over the demon realm? Well
“Socialists are not people of character. They are parasites.” Dave Ramsey, whose Batman villain-style offices are next to I-65 in Franklin, encourages a woman not to leave her daughter’s money bc they don’t agree with her politically. (Dave gets financial incentives from the state of Tennessee…)
Pleas make sure everyone can read this. Republicans Are Trying to Hide These Health Care Cuts www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/o...
Opinion | Republicans Are Trying to Hide These Health Care Cuts (Gift Article)
Republicans are taking deliberate steps to make health care less affordable.
nytimes.com
RFK Jr says he supports ICE & he’s now partnering with Stephen Miller on an extraordinarily evil, cruel, & deeply amoral MAHA/MAGA scheme to kidnap kids, torture them in concentration camps, & traffic them out of the country I’m so tired of people telling me to “find common ground with MAHA.” WTF?
ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ@infrequently.org · yesterdayStephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
"No enemy has done more to dismantle US alliances than Trump". Further, no enemy has done more to dismantle the US than Trump.
Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · yesterdayCompletely unhinged and beyond pathetic. This directly undermines US national interests and core principles (ones it used to have), leaving the US weaker and more isolated. No enemy has done more to dismantle US alliances than Trump
Karoline Leavitt is getting glowing reviews of her performance as press secretary when she dodged, attacked, and obfuscated for the most part. A few examples of the lies we heard: claiming the US spent $50M on condoms for Gaza, calling the Epstein files a 'hoax,'
NEWS: Trump promised gas under $2. Now he tells Americans getting crushed by $4 gas that "it's okay" and he "won't apologize" because he wanted to start a war with Iran.
Trump Tells Americans Paying $4 for Gas to Suck It Up for His War
"I'll never apologize"
meidasnews.com
So we have partisan political police in the middle of a work day attending a political rally in uniform. Looks like Nuremberg in 1936.
As you watch ‘Long Island’s Finest’ hoot & holler behind Trump, smiling at his insanity like it’s free sausage & peppers day at Joey Calzones. Remember, it took them 30 years to catch the Gilgo Beach killer. He was a Nassau County architect who had worked on Trump 40 Wall St.
"It’s a new DOJ, and the first signs are no good," I wrote in last night's piece at Law Dork, "The presumption of irregularity." www.lawdork.com/p/the-presum... Today, more bad signs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoNewly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
Repeat after me: The stock market is not the economy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "The economy is doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street"
US: We want to wait, let economic damage accumulate. Iran: Sounds good! Iran (turning to others): So, anyone want to talk about a post-US regional security arrangement? Pakistan: Sure. Turkey: Okay. Oman: We were a no, but now a yes. Qatar: Sure. Saudi Arabia: Ugh, fine. Dammit. Iran: Cool.
Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% “Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.” — Bilello
Remember JD Vance's confidence that illegal immigrants were driving the housing crisis? We now know that mass deportation isn’t helping lower the costs of housing - and appears to be driving it up. The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
‘A Slaughter in Our Industry’: Home Builders Say ICE is Destroying Their Business
Construction workers are living in fear, not just that they could lose their jobs, but that they could face harsh immigration enforcement, whether they are here legally or not.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Nothing says “election integrity” like the President personally redesigning the elections.
"The new emphasis on small-dollar fraud comes as the administration has issued pardons and commutations to white-collar convicts, pulled back from criminal cases against multinational corporations and dropped charges against wealthy executives." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Trump’s Justice Dept. Targets Smaller Fraud Cases (Gift Article)
As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California...
nytimes.com
“.. there’s no denying the current erosion of his position,” writes Noonan. It’s “not only that the conflict is dangerous and unresolved, or that his attempts at diplomatic resolution seem half-baked, but that almost six months in, he seems utterly out of his depth ..” www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
Fox polls this summer have Trump favorability cratering in states w/big Senate races: Maine 39-60 Texas 45-54 Iowa 42-55 North Carolina 40-59 With independents it's...wow: Maine 23-73 Texas 18-78 Iowa 24-67 North Carolina 24-74 On the pod, we dig into the numbers: newrepublic.com/article/2143...
Fox Hits Trump with Brutal Polling as Aides Privately Soothe His Anger
As Trump’s numbers keep sinking in states with tough Senate races, a Democratic strategist explains the grounds for cautious optimism about flipping the Senate—and what could still go wrong.
newrepublic.com
Phang: Well, the FBI handwritten notes implicate Donald Trump. And I don't think it's a secret why they're doing this dance at the DOJ, to not release them
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million. That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
5th Cir., by Judge Oldham, just straight-up lying about mail ballots. Held: plaintiff-organizations (mostly) lack standing to challenge Texas' S.B. 1 (2021), which imposed new limits on mail ballots and ballot harvesting. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
This is hilarious. No, really. Except maybe hiring Bari Weiss- a person with no news experience to run a news organization- this more than anything says David Ellison and the Paramount board do not know what journalism is at it's very core. They should not be trusted with CNN. What a joke.
TheDesk.net@thedesk.net · 4d agoParamount is weighing the creation of an independent board that would oversee CNN and CBS News in order to ease concerns about the company's acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery and any supplemental influence on the editorial directions of both outlets.
Pointing a live weapon at someone’s head is a threat to murder them. Gangs of heavily armed soldiers are doing this to US citizens, who have done nothing wrong, secure in their masked anonymity that they will face zero consequences. Tyranny is poison for all Conservative & Liberal Americans.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 5d agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
“It’s going to take us a little while to fabricate a case against an innocent guy.”
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4d agoJUST IN: AG Todd Blanche says Congressional referral over alleged contempt of Congress by former NIH chief Anthony Fauci will take DOJ a while to reach a decision. Blanche: "Certainly won't be anytime soon."
