Victoria Love
@victorialove.bsky.social
Patrick Skinner: “The guardrails don’t work if you take them down”. Timothy Snyder: “Don’t obey in advance.” Me: “What you allow is what will continue. And those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit (or defend) atrocities.”
So weird that we've been having state dinners at the White House for more than 150 years but suddenly we "need" a ballroom. 🙄
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24h agoLauren Wright: What price would you have been okay with for a secure location for the president to host world leaders? BTC: I-DON’T-CARE about Donald Trump hosting world leaders. I couldn't care less.
The flex of a guy who’s never pumped his own gas lecturing you about the price of it.
Trump launched the Iran war with a grandiose video talking about regime change and destroying Iran’s capabilities. Six months later, he’s proven to be so weak that the US can’t even keep the Strait of Hormuz open. An absolutely resounding defeat.
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
Our troops are exhausted and our adversaries are watching Trump pull back and divert our forces toward Iran. With no end in sight. We are increasingly less and less safe under this President’s incompetence.
US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships.
apnews.com
Insane that this has been normalized and is probably not even gonna crack the news.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoNewly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
Trump is fine with you paying more for gas because of his war that we’re getting nothing out of. While he gold plates DC. “When you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4, it’s okay… I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing.” #BlueWaveIn80Days
Useless ideation . Two Word Reacts™️ #art #IntellectualAbsurdism #poetry 😏
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d agoSocial Security turns 91 today, but thanks to rising inequality it may not live to see many more birthdays. I used to be a Social Security trustee — here's how we can fix it without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age.
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
Dumping buckets of water on ice agents wearing shock gloves.
1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
The difference between Europe and the U.S. is that they've gone through this shit before, and any leader that tries what Fuck Face is doing to this country would be run out quicker than you can pour yourself an espresso.
imagine a world where humans barely knew anything about science and the sun is suddenly blotted out. i think you would legitimately believe in practically anything because of an eclipse.
Feed the sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln—and then bring them home—you incompetent, useless TV talk show chatterbox twit.
I saw my 16 year old daughter on her hands and knees in the back yard this morning. "What are you building." "A Scale model of The Hadron Collider 1:20000 scale." "Oh. Ok. Do not make any black holes, or anything like that." "THEN WHAT IS THE POINT!"
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 5d agoToday in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The catering cart memes are doing me in ☠️😭 Please add any I missed in the replies. We need this laugh.
I cannot get my head around how anyone can support him, let alone work for him.
Latest piece is out. Too much of the discussion is about replenishing US military stocks. The truth is that the US military was failing before this and would have lost a war with China as it was on Feb 27, 2026. It needs to be remade, not reconstructed as it was. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Replenishing Stocks Will Just Recreate A Failed Military
The US Military Must Be Remade--Not Reconstructed As It Was
open.substack.com
