These are the exact type of guys that are always complaining that they get screamed at on Bluesky. 77k followers and he barely follows 50 accounts. He is not here to engage in discourse.
These are the exact type of guys that are always complaining that they get screamed at on Bluesky. 77k followers and he barely follows 50 accounts. He is not here to engage in discourse.
Hate when I randomly have a stroke immediately after the (completely unrelated) most harrowing day of my life.
The Dobbs decision leak was Josh's scoop. They are buddies and have similar worldviews and political interests, which is why Josh reports and comments in the ways that he does.
Senator I regret to inform you that we are part of it.
Love our political system which takes a few months to say that the executive deploying the military to a city is illegal.
Ok this is almost as stupid as all the jokes we were making lol
He also wrote, after reading "Wuthering Heights," that he doesn't "usually read books written by women, and here I was reminded why." His takeaway from "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" was that he was "most glad that the gypsy was hung, as women need to learn to appreciate more than simply looks."
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
You can be sure Trump has filled administration with lunatics like this, who are impressed by Hitler's writing but hate reading books written by women.
Repeat after me: "They can't do that. Don't listen to anyone who tells you they can."
"The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111
I simply do not believe that if Joe Biden had fomented an insurrection that led to the strokes/suicides of capitol police in the immediate aftermath, that you would be tsk-tsking this type of statement. Not that you care about the double standard because you are a fascist sympathizer and enabler.
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The "Donald the dove" takes from various anti-interventionists might have aged worse than anything.
#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...
Immediately afterwards Trump sent his personal lawyer to negotiate with her. In exchange for a cushy prison upgrade and a delayed pardon (just wait), she’d make some lying statement no one believes but crucially STOP GIVING INFO TO WSJ. And that’s why there have been no follow ups.
Trump is in countless Epstein files. So why is the only one reported his “wonderful secret” letter? Because the leak didn’t come from DoJ. It came from Ghislaine Maxwell. 1/
Alito leaked Dobbs cc @joshgerstein.bsky.social
lotta headlines this AM *TRUMP’S LA TROOP DEPLOYMENT VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW, JUDGE RULES
Good thing for the president he's eased up & is not planning any future deployments, especially in the face of local & state opposition
*TRUMP’S LA TROOP DEPLOYMENT VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW, JUDGE RULES all the 🍿 today
Hate when I die of a heart attack immediately after the (completely unrelated) most harrowing day of my life.
In fact it's unreasonable to opine that it did not.
Btw you gotten any good leaks from your buddy Sam Alito lately?
Lol you are such a pathetic hack. No wonder you work for this pathetic fascist rag. bsky.app/profile/olbe...
Access journalists confuse “access” for “transparency”. Sure Semafor/Politico/TheHill/Axios/NYT have “access” to Trump, but they learn & tell US nothing important or meaningful, just get fed disinformation to amplify to US. They are, at best useful idiots, but really willing collaborators against US
Almost as many people were shot in Atlanta and Chicago has 4x as many people. Georgia's repub governor has his mansion right there in the middle of Atlanta.
If the president claims unlimited impoundment power, then there is no point in Congress negotiating with him over spending.
*US PULLS TSMC’S WAIVER FOR CHINA SHIPMENTS OF CHIP SUPPLIES
In the parallel universe where Harris won, Trump is coming up on sentencing in his coup case too and news media has reached a fever pitch in demanding that Harris pardon him "for the good of the nation"
they’re all this guy
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New story w/ @hilaryburns.bsky.social: A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
This was $12 at the beginning of the year
You give him too much credit. He's just a dolt.
Ben Smith is barely a sentient being
Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them
Ben’s answer to a yes or no question was fifty two words long and none of them were yes or no
Yeah I don't actually think Smith is cowardly. I just think he's very dumb.
The extent to which a lot of pro-Israel people (myself somewhat included) have become disillusioned to one degree or another with Israel is entirely the result of Israeli decisions.
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith — co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times — if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S. Good question.
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
There probably is a lesson in the fact that Obama shepherded the most left-wing piece of federal legislation since the Great Society, over opposition in and outside his own party, and is chiefly remembered by the left now as a do-nothing moderate.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
Part of the reason im convinced so many US news publications are primarily ideological, rather than "motivated by ratings/clicks" is so few have pushed back in any way whatsoever against X and Meta throttling outgoing links.
When's the last time you asked someone in the White House about the bruising on his hands or why they insist on the obvious lie that it's from shaking hands? When's the last time you asked for accurate health records instead of flattering lies that would make Kim Jong Un blush?
Have you considered asking questions and insisting on responses?
Ah, our savvy and sophisticated WHPC (including and especially the NPR correspondents) laughingly tell us that there’s no particular reason to question the president’s physical well-being. And their followers (ex-journos to wit) heartily agree.
Somehow our diseased information environment has produced the net outcome that *the pandemic is considered a political problem for Dems*, not the party that lied about it & got people killed at every juncture. The party that tried, but not perfectly, to save lives, is being forced to apologize.
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
Trump's finally done it! He's finally standing up to Vladimir P!
I just think that the proportion of tweets you send about the impending doom of electoral democracy vs how much blue sky and progressives suck is very telling of one’s priorities, and from the outside you gotta wonder about the incentives and incidences that landed one at said ratio
“How will we know when we’ve lost our democracy?” The short answer—when we have to ask if speaking up against government injustice puts us in danger, and have to debate whether it is easier to appease than oppose? This is the line we as Americans are quickly approaching…..”
Just going to keep saying it, it is remarkable (you can still be shocked without being surprised!) that the rest of the Republican party has decided that blatant corruption and enrichment off the office of the presidency is legal for this one guy
Yes and Jeffries is better on Palestine than Trump
Where did this picture even come from? Not from pool photogs obviously. Has there even been any verification it's from today?
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
It helped in that instance that Kate Middleton doesn't actually matter.
If I had a nickel for every time...
The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
When they said they didn't cover Biden's age and health enough, they meant Biden's specifically, not old presidents in general.
Where are you on this one, @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social?
It’s funny, Alex Thompson just won a prestigious award from the WHCA this spring for his courageous and intrepid reporting on Joe Biden being old and he hasn’t done anything noteworthy on the guy who is actually president. www.axios.com/press-past-r...
Alex Thompson is the worst of all of them. Tapper has convinced himself he's "doing the right thing." Thompson just revels in being a partisan hack.
Don't let Alex Thompson off the hook.
Jake Tapper does not care about Joe Biden’s age, he just personally dislikes him as has for decades. Politico does not care about Biden’s health, they just wanted Donald Trump to win.
Where have you gone, Jake Tapper, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. (Woo woo woo)
Questions: Why haven’t we seen clear, verifiable videos of him the last few days? Not even from sources friendly to him? Where’s video of him giving a thumbs up with some MAGA hat wearing fanboy? Why isn’t he speaking out on video “owning the libs” who thought he was dead?
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
Russia is taking about as many casualties as the U.S. did in the entire Vietnam War every two months.
Hannah Arendt: If “given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness”
Still with stroke face
I know it's just one aspect of a much larger problem, but the fact they won't even let grown adults go to a pharmacy and get vaccinations should be setting off so many alarm bells.
Theory: new hair plugs. Will walk outside with a hat in but needs around two weeks for the scabs to heal. Obviously I would prefer something more severe.
Hi @jaketapper.bsky.social @brianstelter.bsky.social @isaacdovere.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social you guys were big boosters of Tapper's book. You had a lot to say about coverup of presidential health issues! Thought you'd want to look into this!
This picture to me is one of the most interesting of the Trump era. It’s effectively without precedent for Trump to be tieless and wearing a hat in the Oval Office. And it’s the day his bruised hands go viral. So what else is going on with Trump?
cc @mtsw.bsky.social
More walking to the car!! Sir, you have walked to the car with an open mouth and a stilted gait probably better than any other President who was dying while in office, probably since Garfield!! Bravo sir, the Libz will be devastatingly owned with this performance.
wait where is his hair lmao
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
You may have not seen this but Richard Nixon is alleging that our current president is not writing his own posts at the moment.
Happy Labor Day
News outlets should send their medical correspondents (the ones who are actual doctors) to the White House on Tuesday - and every day after that - to ask him questions about his health, hand bruising, if he’s getting lasix infusion, etc etc
Numb hits it - if you don't think this site is interesting its because you haven't followed interesting accounts and expect the app to push content into your feed. This is old-school interent where you have to do some minimal work.
Sure would be great to have friends right now. Too bad we showed them all we want is extortion. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
so hey uhhhhhhh bars stayed open because the government wanted to keep them in business and not piss off conservatives. Schools *also* stayed open in that *they were functioning* and switched to online. At no point did schools just stop teaching, to be clear.
Where is @jaketapper.bsky.social and his buddy Alex Thompson?
China didn’t take it. America gave it away.
Much like the Epstein stuff, “where is Trump” has crossed from Glonzo into praxis.
Russia has redeployed forces from Sumy and Kherson for a new offensive in Ukraine. (War Unit Observer)
The lynchpin of the administration's FP is that it will be relatively easy to separate RU from China and thereby weaken China.
I watched it in Trump I, and found it nearly unbearable, but not bad-unbearable, excellent-unbearable
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Your reminder that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson wrote a book and hijacked a network for weeks promoting said book with much thinner evidence for cognitive decline than Trump shows every morning.
