Wow, would love for an actual journalist to ask Trump what he thinks of Lutnick betting big on the tariffs being thrown out, and making a fortune. Also wonder if Trump kids--and Trump himself, through them--are doing the same thing.
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Wow, would love for an actual journalist to ask Trump what he thinks of Lutnick betting big on the tariffs being thrown out, and making a fortune. Also wonder if Trump kids--and Trump himself, through them--are doing the same thing.
#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
they’re so close
I dunno, they’re always happy to accuse their peers of having not run quite enough stories about Biden being old.
Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Times has consistently reported that Trump attacked the tariff ruling by "HIGHLY PARTISAN" court but doesn't point out the 7 in the majority include judges appointed by both Bushes and Reagan, and 2 of the 4 in the minority are Obama appointees. Not partisan. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
it wasnt covid restrictions that turned people crazy, it was a group of immoral cynical right wing media grifters who took advantage of their scared followers to get clicks and subscribers and make money
they’re all this guy
What an original thought.
I won’t. Not directly.
I guess 12 likes was a pretty good indicator when everyone had like 42 followers
When I first signed up, we really learned the meaning of “posting into the void.” Back then, if a twoot got 12 likes it would automatically be added to the trending column.
We’ll never recreate that brief golden age when we had a few million users, most of them good posters, and an ethos of blocking rather than engaging but it’s still so much better than all of the alternatives imo.
And less annoying
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
Or Twitter’s gamed algos. That’s a really active effort to create an ideological echo chamber
Yeah that’s a hard pass. If we’re gonna go that way, it should be The Rock.
I love Blue Sky. It’s maddening that a bunch of pundits made trashing it a mark of seriousness.
Any argument that a social media platform run by an unhinged white supremacist is inherently better than anything else short of taking a knitting needle in the eye seems to be based a flawed premise.
That was Nate Silver’s sock puppet
Not the only one
Happened really fast too. He went from being the supposed scourge of pundits to one of the laziest pundits out there in like a year or two
It’s a weird obsession. What a fucking loser.
Larry Sabato says that crime is the Dems' Achilles heel and they need to talk about prices. The Dems can "complain" but too many hate crime and cities and don't care about democracy. I guess we have to let the police state happen while we drone on about eggs. Can't walk and chew gum apparently.
The right is pushing this narrative because it’s the only place they can blame liberals — their actual goal — and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
And an edit button
Hell, I can’t even imagine unironically beginning a sentence with “kids today”
Imagine being a billionaire who can do whatever he wants and then choosing to spend all your time whining about stupid shit.
And thanks!
I’m gonna bring it up next time I’m in there and get him banned if I see him again.
Gonna get him banned if I see him again. “clothing and tattoos with offensive messages and clothing that may present health or safety hazards or damage club equipment, is not allowed.”
Who is concerned? Crackpots? The same people who hate medicine everywhere?
I will if I see him again.
I thought about it but I don’t know that they can really do anything
There’s a Nazi at my gym.
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I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage
After the hearing concluded, w/ DOJ's Drew Ensign allegedly clear of what Judge Sooknanan had ordered, DOJ failed to file its req'd 4p status report. Sooknanan orders DOJ to show cause why they failed to do so—and to file. She also orders plaintiffs to file a status report by 6:30p. (corrected)
The 4th twoot in this magical thread is almost too perfect to be real
I think the odds of him being remembered as a Good Samaritan are quite low.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.
I think we all cried enough when we learned that he continues to be very much alive.
Whatever the dumbest, sleaziest possible circumstances could be, that’s what happened.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if the woman in distress who flagged him down was in fact a hooker who was in the car with him when he crashed.
I’d bet good money that he was driving drunk.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
True but I tend to think it’s a choice.
I dunno. That’s often the case with stuff like trade policy but I’m pretty sure he knows LA wasn’t on fire.
CSA had purple potatoes this week. They’re pretty!
Fucking Hell. I guess that’s what happens when your bosses bribe the fascist-in-chief and then cancel their top-rated late night talk show to appease him.
He could have cited so many facts that fly in the face of her propaganda and at least made her work for it.
This is the program that’s infamous for having on far more Republicans than Democrats. And they just let them say whatever with minimal pushback. There’s no real incentive for these people to not tell truly egregious lies any time they talk to the press.
She says, “that city would have burned down if left to the devices of the mayor and the governor of that state” O’Keefe says, “You said LA wouldn't be standing if not for these federal deployments?” Then she just repeats the claim that there were widespread “riots and violence” and he lets it go.
Tomatoes taste better than ass for around 7 weeks during the summer.
The parody stuff could last a while cuz it’s entertaining and fills a vacuum but voters will look more closely when the primaries get closer.
Sure, and a vast majority will do the same regardless of how they feel about it now. The potential issue is that our elections tend to be decided by tiny margins in a handful of states.
As it stands, I just think a lot of people on the internet are very weird.
If I were slightly more paranoid, I might think that the sudden appearance of a bunch of dedicated pro-Newsom accounts calling me clueless may be an example of less than genuine social media activity.
Is that where they keep the Chapo guys between podcasts?
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
I lived in CA for 10 years, which is a longer flight to visit mom than Costa Rica and Belize and about the same as Portugal.
Belize has to be on my list. Great diving, which is something I’m looking for. Going to Costa Rica in Nov and Portugal in April.
Yeah he is but he’s also made saying stupid, maddening nonsense for hate-clicks central to his (highly lucrative) business model.
And I’d trade our shit for the shit going on in other highly developed democracies any day.
We don’t know how long it’ll last but I definitely won’t live forever.
‘Imagine if this were happening in a foreign country’ No, I’m imaging expatriating so this shit would be happening in a foreign country and I could wake up in the morning without all this stress.
the response, no doubt:
Like imagine if Kristen Welker put this pic up and asked some wingnut how they’d feel about finding this man in a women’s restroom and then, after he sputtered for a bit, revealed that he’s trans and her guest has given him no other option unless he wants to break the law. It’d be educational!
Now is three years out and I don’t know why Pritzker wouldn’t be considered moderate. Assuming he runs, Beshear will also excite a lot of Dems when the time comes.
Use a visual aid if that helps. These bigots are legally requiring that this dude uses the ladies’ room. And yet they’d murder him if they found him in there.
I wish that just once someone would point out that these clowns, who don’t acknowledge the existence of trans men, are in fact the ones forcing men into women’s spaces.
I’d say Trump created the dynamic where any prominent Dem who shows some spine is gonna be seen as a contender three years out.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Yes, or they can look to Pritzker, who’s on offense against not only Trump but also the movement he represents. Newsom absolutely accepts and validates their lies. The danger is that other Dems would take away the idea that throwing trans people under the bus and being “tough on crime” is the way
Yes, only some Dems. But in this case they happen to be the ones who are most likely to donate, canvas, volunteer and influence other voters.
The reality is that he’s awful, and candidates get lots of scrutiny during a primary campaign. And I dunno about others copying him. He’s captured the moment by parodying Trump. It’s funny and creative but now it’s been done.
He’s captured the Zeitgeist with Dems in 2025 but I kinda doubt he’ll be a strong contender 2 years from now. bsky.app/profile/josh...
It’s not a matter of people not meaning it. It’s that perceptions will shift when Laura Loomer or whoever accepts the GOP nomination. There’s good evidence for this. Polls often show a 3rd party candidate at like 10% six months out, respondents aren’t lying about their intent but then they get 1%.
Given the stakes, it seems self-evident that Dems should go with someone who’s at least acceptable to the entire coalition. Sorting that out is what primaries are for.
If Newsom manages to get nominated after alienating a big chunk of the base then people will hold their noses and vote for him. Meanwhile, the fact that people say they would never vote for him in 2025 is an electability argument against him in the primaries. So keep that up.
The Louvre of Bluesky, but for good posts
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The press should refer to these things as “memos.” Or social media posts. Executive orders direct federal agencies to do things consistent with the law. Like many others, this isn’t an executive order. If they didn’t call his brainfarts executive orders, maybe he wouldn’t find them so appealing.
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…to vote when Dems are gonna be highly motivated and Trump won’t be on the ballot. TX may’ve made 5 blue CDs red but they didn’t create new voters, they shifted them from safe districts, making them a little less safe. In a wave, if Dems are more likely to brave long lines, this could all backfire.
Trump has no power to issue such an order but if history is any guide, red states will comply and then Trump will cite this to try to get Congress not to certify winners from the blue states that refuse. That will almost certainly be a bridge too far. It’s also pretty risky to make it harder…
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
I was given a 24-hour suspension here for posting my dream scenario for how it will happen.
Sigh. And in a Dem controlled state too. These people are fucking stupid and horrible and, as always, for sale.
Oscar=silver fox #dogsofbluesky
I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.
Your dad was Mario Cuomo.
