Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social) reposted
What Epstein records have not been made public?
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view profile on Bluesky Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social) reposted
What Epstein records have not been made public?
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social)
This is the key. I have no confidence in the FBI files since this regime has had ample time to doctor them.
Victor Ray (@victorerikray.bsky.social) reposted
Gift article because I encourage everyone to read this account of SEAL Team 6 murdering a group of North Korean fishermen in a failed espionage mission that was hidden from Congress.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Watching brave Ukraine citizens prove every day that they are more than worthy of my support. Slava Ukraini
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
My god.
Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) reposted
During a lightning round at an event tonight, Bari Weiss asked Amy Coney Barrett to describe each of her colleagues with one word. Answers: Roberts: Chief Thomas: Laugh Alito: Grandfather Sotomayor: Lively Kagan: Analytical Gorsuch: Out West Kavanaugh: Sports Jackson: (long pause) Actor … Broadway
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
That long pause really says it all.
James (@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social) reposted
Every single day we find a new way to commit national suicide that I would not have thought possible a week prior.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s bizarre that so many groups ignore his pattern of turning on supporters the instant he doesn’t need them anymore. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_M...
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Grim.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Making each other laugh is a big part of why my husband and I are about to celebrate 27 years together.
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Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life.bsky.social) reposted
The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
jen 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) reposted
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
So the Trib is in favor of turning the US Military into an occupying force, Constitution be damned. Good to have that on the record.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) reposted
Anyone who participates in what appears in context to be a proposed military occupation of Chicago “because crime” will be doing something that is illegal and is obligated not to do that. That’s all I’ll say.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social)
Texans, take note; this change starts in January and is set to run for 6 years. Washington, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Arizona are the other states affected.
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!
Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted
What’s funny to me… 3 days ago Joe Biden was down to the ice cream shop with the grands Meanwhile… Trump look like he on the make a wish list
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
My god, what hateful ignorance. Even if it *was* primarily transmitted through sexual conduct (which is a lie), the epidemiology of AIDS should have shown that bigotry is a serious threat to public health. But eugenics freaks welcome any disease that disproportionately affects people they hate.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Not Austin. Midland.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/j4iuG7StmPc?...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite youtu.be/mgiCechWNCo?...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
They never take responsibility for anything. It’s always Democrats’ fault.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s odd…
Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) reposted
I’m gonna teach you guys a really useful phrase: “My bad, I don’t know what I was thinking. Deleting this.”
Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted
Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) reposted
What is going on here?
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social)
Risked a lot to live like humans Locked up beaten and defamed No one said it's gonna be easy Plenty tough and union made youtu.be/l8gKZpiYAO8?...
Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Lol "We ask everyone to respect Mayor Giuliani's privacy and recovery, and refrain from spreading unfounded conspiracy theories,"
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Dan Nexon (@dhnexon.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
And that gets at a larger point. Competitive authoritarian regimes benefit from reduced social trust — which is why they actively try to destroy it.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
I love this for them
Caleb Crain (@calebcrain.bsky.social) reposted
This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks: media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve seen enough. I’m cancelling my Wired subscription because I don’t believe this was an innocent misstep.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember this quote, and I recognize the Game. Really disappointed in Wired. Y’all should retract the story.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social)
It’s been a rough ten years, but I’m surprised folks haven’t picked up on this familiar phrase. Learn to spot a r@tfucker when you see one, y’all.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Because we’ve seen this movie before. Same tagline and everything.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Just “raising questions about ethics in independent media?” Now why does that phrase ring a bell…
Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) reposted
NEW: The Texas Republican lawmaker who blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander suggested “shoot, shovel and shut up” as a way to deal with immigrants — a comment that could boost legal efforts to block the state’s map. From: @jenrice.bsky.social
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything’s bigger in Texas. Including concentration camps. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Rinse and repeat www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) reposted
The extent to which these companies assume by default that they are unimpeachable and can do this stuff without any fear of meaningful consequences is reaching truly impressive heights. Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
More tk www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
They’re shutting down Alligator Abu Ghraib, but www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...
Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted
People be like “RFK jr is out of step with the medical mainstream” HE IS NOT A MEDICAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
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Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
“With our new virtual servant program, you can have the blackness and the subservience that you need without the uncomfortableness of having to talk to an actual black person”
Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) reposted
More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.
Jeff Sharlet (@jeffsharlet.bsky.social) reposted
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) reposted
hmm. one of the creators mentioned in that Wired piece about liberal donors funding influencers strongly disputes most of the assertions www.instagram.com/reel/DN3xSpI...
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.
Jacqueline Sweet (@jsweetli.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation. "There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Rinse and repeat www.texastribune.org/2025/08/28/t...
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
Anyone who assaults a police officer in DC will be charged with a felony. Especially if they do so during our forthcoming military funeral for Ashli Babbitt. by Jeanine Pirro
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Our situation has not improved
Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted
“Democrats pay influencers” Russians… pay Republican influencers RUSSIANS!
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t recall Fed Soc objecting to Leo’s machinations. Did I miss something?
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted
Not an exaggeration. If anything, this understates how unhinged the video is. It is, quite literally, five white guys talking about how to free the states from the burdens of the 14th Amendment so churches can effectively be given ownership over "gangbangers in Baltimore."
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
Olivia Messer (@oliviamesser.bsky.social) reposted
Prosecutors say a ministry — in Texas and beyond — exploited victims by controlling their movements, forcing women to take Plan B emergency contraceptives, and threatening unpaid workers with “eternal damnation.” 53-year-old David Taylor calls himself “Apostle.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/27/r...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
WOW Congrats!
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
Jeanine Pirro is such a failure when forced to work in the courts and not just on TV that she *cannot* indict a ham sandwich. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
I was not expecting this raucous thread to hit so deep.
Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) reposted
If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics
Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) reposted
UPDATE: It looks like @mississippifreepress.org will be able to continue posting to BlueSky through Buffer. But that still doesn't help all our followers in Mississippi who can no longer access BlueSky and may not use a VPN. So sign up for our newsletter: www.mississippifreepress.org/newsletters/
Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves.bsky.social) reposted
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social)
Texan here, and this is not an exaggeration. Our state GOP went full MAGA, then an apocalyptic Christian Nationalist faction seized party control after a fierce internal power struggle. These people *want* to kick off the End Times. The time to fight is now.
Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social) reposted
Peter Thiel to give four lectures on the "biblical Antichrist." Among the "religious thinkers upon whom Peter will draw" is Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
crazy, what is it about lisa cook that might have led the white house to baselessly accuse her of mortgage fraud in order to force her out of her job?
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Whiteness is their religion.
ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) reposted
wokeness was our social immune system. maybe you got hay fever now and then but better than dying of 9000 opportunistic infections
Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted
Setting aside the glaring racism and ageism, what I see here is fear. Fear because "elderly white hippies" are (or at least could be) a major threat to fascism. They have more time and money to burn than most other groups. And they have less to lose in going out and protesting tyrants.
Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) reposted
if you've never seen a guy try to sound tough while whining about getting his ass kicked by 90 year olds, check this out
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s angry that his efforts to provoke violence have failed. Now Pirro’s begging armed extremists to come to DC so she can get all the credit.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
He should probably avoid windows
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Tweeting through it
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally.
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
Liz (@atliz.bsky.social) reply parent
The trail she’s talking about is not easy to lose someone on, but DPS is up to the challenge
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….” A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam www.12news.com/article/news...
Alex Wild (@alexwild.bsky.social) reposted
Kudos to TX House Rep Collier for not playing along, and letting the world see the violent illegitimacy of the Texas state government.