Call me Trixie
@trixienorton.bsky.social
Writer and editor interested in history, health care, politics, MST3k and Rifftrax, old movies, books, more books, and all the books. I block Al Franken apologists and people who ask "Are you AI?" when they can't answer an honest question.
If Biden had been wearing some weird device, reporters would have asked questions about it. But the White House press corps fears Trump, so they don’t ask about this or the spackle covering his bruised hands.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoTrump has some sort of large contraption around his waist again today that makes him look vaguely like a centaur while he stands
Whoa, these were two of the biggest H1-B sponsors!!! A third tho is Oracle... Which is NOT being punished this way, guess why?
CNBC@cnbc.com · 4h agoU.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green-card labor program in foreign worker crackdown
Watching our press and political culture refuse to take racism seriously as the core motivation of Trumpism is like watching a hospital full of doctors refuse to say the word "cancer."
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
K🤦♀️𝘝@kv417.bsky.social · 2d ago“Rubio makes trip to Greece in bizarre bid to warn against Western civilization "decline" Source: TAG24 NEWS share.newsbreak.com/jshhz94s?s=i16
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 5d agoJUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
Kylie Cheung@kylietcheung.bsky.social · 3h agoThe narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:
Perhaps you've never heard of the Donald J. Trump & Donald John Trump National Gold Medal for Creating Gold Medals Award.
If they were so worried about this they wouldn't be destroying education and they'd give af about the affordability of higer education. This is just more xenophobic propaganda. This admin is telling kids you don't need college, go be a plumber. Nothing wrong with being a plumber. Just sayin.
The far-right's favorite "intellectual" says the quiet part out loud.
If this story is true, police are threatening the lives of her family. "The threats escalated after a swatting incident, during which a false report that “someone was killing people in the house” prompted police to point weapons at her boyfriend, brother and father Tuesday evening."
wileyquixote25.bsky.social@wileyquixote25.bsky.social · 5h agoDespicable dirtbags
“I've seen secularists bemoan greater Democratic comfort with religion as a kind of erosion of church and state from the left. But they miss the point…It is purposefully and strategically countering a dangerous ideology rooted in a form of Christianity.” @hollybfletcher.bsky.social with a must-read
Holly Berkley Fletcher@hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 6h agoThis piece was inspired by @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @robertpjones.bsky.social new books and argues for a messaging strategy tailored specifically to white evangelicals, probably the most influential bloc in our politics and 1/3 of Trump's coalition. www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
Ban the Trump Organization
Trump Organization sought to bring in nearly 200 workers on visas in 2025
President’s family business requested at least 184 foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago, Virginia winery and two golf clubs
theguardian.com
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 5h agoMicrosoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, JD Vance says
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoVance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."
FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"
I've got the quote for this, unfortunately. "Women quickly learn that rape is only a crime in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is not set at the level of experience of women's violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men." - Judith Lewis Herman
They're so desperate to make AI happen in everyday life that they're promising 3 days work weeks & think folks forgot that they dragged their workforce kicking & screaming back to the office for 5 day work weeks despite said workforce letting the company know remote work was better & healthier.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h agoThey think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?
"Trump moved the ethical line" perfectly reflects the collaborationist thought processes of NYT. No he didn't. The ethical lines were the same before as they are now. It's the collaborators who have moved the lines—but to be clear, they never had any in the first place.
An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
nytimes.com
Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
thebanner.com
“At least 26 senators, more than a quarter of the chamber, hold data center-linked investments … Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose data center investments total between $2.1 million and $8.6 million, takes the number one spot.” 👀
The 5 Senators—Including Maine's Susan Collins—With The Biggest Investments In Data Centers
Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting Senator. We found 26 Senators with at least $7 million in investments tied directly to the data center buildout, including Sheldon Whitehouse an...
forbes.com
Will Mandani AOC and the DSA support or oppose the president's plan to bomb wall street and the major banks
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoReporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
wild that centrists are doing "are the wacko libs intolerant for cutting off their conservative parents" discourse on the same day we find out a dem congressional candidate got violently raped while campaigning
Trump Cancels Enforcement Against Corporate Criminal Defendants www.citizen.org/news/trump-c...
Trump Cancels Enforcement Against Corporate Criminal Defendants - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration has to date canceled enforcement actions inherited from the Biden administration against 205 corporations,…
citizen.org
In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
It’s completely insane that we had a gigantic media shitstorm about political violence and it wasn’t about how MAGA is rife with violence.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · yesterdayHorrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
"Except this paddleball, and this lamp..."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump on trade: "In a little while we won't need anything from anybody"
“More than a dozen emails sent in 2012 and 2013, allegedly between Epstein and former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, suggest the two had a relationship... “‘Drinks tomorrow my house 530?’ Kotick allegedly wrote on April 29, 2012.” I’m just saying, these aren’t good people.
Epstein Files Reveal Gaming Connections, Plans To Buy Activision Stock
Jeffrey Epstein was apparently interested in owning a share of Activision because of Call of Duty.
gamespot.com