Jen Grünwald (@jengrunwald.bsky.social) reposted
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Jen Grünwald (@jengrunwald.bsky.social) reposted
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
👀 apnews.com/article/paxt...
James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) reposted
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
* TRUMP REVOKES KAMALA HARRIS' SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION -- CNN @reuters.com
Mar Hicks (@histoftech.bsky.social) reposted
🤢
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
You mean like republicans have done for my entire life?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what they want at EVERY LEVEL. The economy, government, and socially. They want the absolute power to pull levers in every facet of our lives.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social)
At greatly inflated cost, no doubt.
Will White (@googlyelmo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Marc Elias for US AG 2028!
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
🙄 Any thoughts about the lawless regime in power or just tone policing Dems?
Alex Kaplan (@alkapdc.bsky.social) reposted
New: At a Gateway Pundit conference, former Trump attorney Peter Ticktin said he “wouldn’t be very surprised” if there’s “an emergency called” before the next election, as "it's necessary." "And with that emergency, we're going to be able to turn the tide.” www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) reposted
SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
You’ve had this pointed out repeatedly, but my dude the “lib” voters handed cuomo his ass. The libs did what you want and you still can’t take the win. What kind of message are we to take from that?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
These are the people who have been cawing about socialism and big government for at least 4 decades, right?
Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted
But if we abolish the police, who will come to your house when you're out, shoot your security cameras and your windows out, break your front & garage door door down damaging the foundation itself, trash all your shit, then say Oops wrong house lol, leaving you with the repair bill
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
She also denied wrongdoing in the interview — wrongdoing SHE was convicted for. Why anyone listens to her is beyond me.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
What even are the other branches for at this point? And if we get a democratic president, how will the court manage to go back on all of these rulings?
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Rangappa: Do you believe that Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty? Ferguson: Yes Rangappa: She denied her guilt the interview. Ferguson: Most criminals lie, newsflash. That's, like, not shocking. Rangappa: Then why on Earth would you believe anything she said?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a low bar, but I’ll take it. At least they’re stating the obvious in plain terms — more than can be said for most in media right now.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
What a stupid waste of time and energy.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok but the Beatles kick ass and so does she 🤷♂️
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
And we add another driver of increased consumer cost to the list…
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
IMO, it would be enough if they helped to safeguard peoples’ rights. Require warrants for searches, ensure ice agents properly identify themselves to ensure public safety. It’s still awful what the admin is doing, but you don’t have to impede the feds in order to ratchet down the Brownshirt regime.
NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) reposted
BBC reports that ahead of the closed-door talks, a large map of Ukraine was placed in the Oval Office possibly to pressure Zelensky. It was positioned opposite the presidents’ table once journalists left, with Ukraine’s eastern regions marked in pink as under Russian control.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
Immigration officers open fire during vehicle stop in San Bernardino
Alan Elrod (@aselrod.bsky.social) reposted
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) reposted
Years ago I passed a law requiring presidents to keep the public informed about how and when their taxpayer dollars were being spent. The Trump Admin shut it down as part of their war on transparency, but the courts ordered them to reverse course. A small but important victory.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.” This is who Trump is sending into our cities to terrorize Black & Brown communities. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNZldGb...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Kinda seems like they’re making his point about the bring fascists for him.
Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) reposted
What's so clear here -- and so terrifying -- is that these cops view themselves as Trump's goons and know that Trump will let them get away with anything. www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social)
Ok, it’s actually time to abolish ICE.
Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social) reposted
Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics
News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) reposted
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... fcuk this and throw anyone in dC office who played a part in this out
Chris Sommerfeldt is on vacation (@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social) reposted
ICYMI: Juanita Holmes, Mayor Adams' Department of Probation boss, hired her niece to a senior post — and pushed out a DOP veteran who refused to back the hire. This is part of a pattern of alleged nepotism rankling DOP under Holmes. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/06/s...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Because he has a base of unmovable sycophants.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Yea ok.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey Siri, who was the Dem party leader in the senate from 2020-2022? Hey Siri, who is the Dem party leader in the senate now? Ah.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
And it can’t just be a priority for a democratic president. This has to be a priority for a democratic Congress to codify protections for democracy, rule of law, and our rights.
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@longtimehistory.bsky.social) reposted
ICE grabs high school student out walking his dog—leave dog behind in traffic. Agents joked "Thanks to him, we get to drink this weekend"—laughing he just made them $2,500. First tied dog to a tree—then cut collar off & let him run loose in heavy traffic on Sepulveda Blvd.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social)
On the other hand, Republicans in Texas may see this as a quickly closing door of opportunity.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus christ
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus fucking Christ.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Their energy/money would be much better spent building a media machine to push a significant number of Americans toward reality. As it stands a disturbing number of American live on a garbage media diet and it shows. Beating down right wing narratives matters more than marginal lefty squabbles.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Give me a fucking break. Facts don’t care about your feelings, Chuck.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure sure sure
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Sucks to suck, bootlicker.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t catch federal felony charges if there’s a pardon on deck.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response. She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans sure are pulling out all the stops to wield the government against Texas Democrats. Warrants, FBI, court processes. Not a second wasted. Goes to show that if they *wanted* to bring Epstein's clients to justice, they could. They just don't want to.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Put his name in the headline
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re in an area with a GOP congressperson, be sure to call their office and tell whoever they have picking up the phone how OUTRAGED you are about this betrayal of our BRAVE BOYS IN BLUE. Hide your power level and avoid libbing out. If they think you’re left of Pinochet, they’ll ignore you.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
We love our veterans, don’t we folks?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
So I wouldn’t pay extra for separate Hulu, but you think I’m going to pay extra for Hulu within Disney? 🤔
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
If republicans put half the energy into good governance that they put into searching out controversy, we would have one hell of a country.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sorry, what??
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait they did the whole thing in Hawaiian? That’s pretty impressive.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Huh?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social)
Incredible stuff. These people should be embarrassed.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
So many citations needed here. Wow. Maybe you should have run this through ChatGPT.
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Rare chuck W, you get a pat on the back today. 👍
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
Check out the difference between what John Durham included in his unclassified v classified report about what Hillary said about his conspiracy theory. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly how does the governor have the authority to remove an elected mayor?
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) reposted
Elon Musk’s DOGE generated some $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government in the first six months of the year.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
They have downgraded her sex offender status to move her to a minimum security facility. The next logical step is a commutation or a pardon. If you have any information on that, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous as always. Please share widely 🙏 www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah yes. Firing BLS staff because you don’t like the numbers they produce. Very normal stuff in a democratic society.
Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) reposted
Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
We love our free speech, don’t we folks?
David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) reposted
Motherfucking wind farms…
Philip Bump (@pbump.com) reposted
Hell yeah, we’re doing Ground Zero Mosque again.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
I would like to see the math in this. Also, if one corner points toward Mecca, doesn’t that technically mean two corners point toward Mecca? Kind of feel like dude is underselling the conspiracy a bit.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
So he’s on record that he remembers this girl specifically eh… pretty much rules out the plausibility of the “I don’t recall” defense in the future..
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
You’d better understand why MTG wants what she wants before you start counting her as an ally in this issue.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought the other countries were paying the tariffs?
Sko Hayes (@skohayes.bsky.social) reposted
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Misled? Or lied to?
mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted
trump take social security
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure if a bot or what but… no?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
God damnit. We’ve had enough conservative New York assholes move here already…
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Grand jury transcripts? That’s just what they used to secure an indictment, right? Surely that is a much more limited set of materials than ALL of the evidence?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
🙄
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe you should talk to some scientists rather than a guy with economic motives to downplay climate change.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social)
A tiny percentage of men are violent, so we should dismiss all of them out of hand. Cool cool cool.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, in that case.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh thank god, trade deals with Bahrain…
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Let’s be a little fair. They’re holding their feet to the fire on a single issue which has no real relevance to the daily lives of practically any Americans..
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Pathological liar meets mental decline…
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
How does such a pathetic group of whiny babies become the picture of masculinity for so many people? Embarrassing.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that not the country we already have?
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
We now know that an “830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community. For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
This is from the part of government that sees budget increases every year?
chuckabear.bsky.social (@chuckabear.bsky.social) reply parent
Riiiiiight…