Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Rex Huppke (@rexhuppke.bsky.social) reposted
As a Midwestern MAGA voter, I’m glad to see President Trump laser-focused on the issues that concern me most: sending the National Guard into Washingtxon, DC, and making sure the White House is covered in fancy gold. I’m sure he'll release the Epstein files later. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA math.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
CNN: An auto parts maker in Detroit just had to layoff 100 workers and shut down a warehouse. The owner specifically blamed tariffs. STEPHEN MIRAN: It's always convenient to blame political changes when your business fails
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
a sarcastic Bernie Sanders: "Why not? When you get bad news, fire the guy who delivered the news. I think that's sensible policy."
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
But he has a sharpie.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
In a Trump universe.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
So hammering the final nail in the coffin that used to be the US. Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Announces Sweeping New Tariffs for Much of the World www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Does that mean he will get a Trump promotion soon.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
So more cuts to government services to pay for this?
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
I think he doth protest too much.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
They love the the in educated math challenged.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure. They just want to ensure their sale goes through. Extortion works.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Beyond sick.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
What the ever-living fuck? These are fourth Reich tactics. Justice Dept. Demands Patient Details From Trans Medicine Providers www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/h...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
My oh my. Sounds like something a “dicktator” would do. The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Because her boss is featured?
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
The cost to move the shuttle is estimated to be as much as $400 million.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Plan is to kill them in the heat.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
One could heat a house with the grease in his hair.
jimmythudpucker.bsky.social (@jimmythudpucker.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
In the Army, we called these 'seagull visits' - Fly in, squak alot, sh#t all over the place, and then fly away.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!
veronica biancalana 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 (@vero1986.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
No one should come to the USA for World Cup matches. You are not SAFE HERE.
Larry Tenney (@larrytenney.bsky.social) reposted
Courage Is Contagious * 50501 - Feb 2025: 67 protests; 72,000 protestors * Hands Off - Apr 2025: 1,400 protests; 5,000,000 protestors * No Kings - Jun 2025; 2,200 protests; 13,140,000 protestors @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org and more
NBC News (@nbcnews.com) reposted
An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
So they tackle a US senator in LA but are quite civil in Minnesota.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
It is called Blue Sky. Not X.
Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET (@patti3333.bsky.social) reposted
This sign Worthy of reposting All day long Project 2026 🎯🎯🎯🎯 🎯 Tomorrow NO KINGS LET'S SHOW AMERICA 🇺🇸 Kudos to this fine fellow making this sign
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
She declared war on California.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds she is planning on attacking the state.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?
Outspoken™️ (@out5p0ken.bsky.social) reposted
“Border patrol came without a warrant to my family’s business. They took my cousin who is a US citizen. This happened 6/12/25 at 4:33pm” 👇🏼 Naty2023 TikTok
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Senator Padilla is a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. Why would she possibly know who he is?
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
A nobody? I guess a person with 2 followers show know.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Like that will ever happen. She’ll probably get a bonus. Nah. DT keeps all the money for himself. Maybe they’ll increase her hair and makeup budget. That “smokey” eye and the hair extensions don’t happen by accident.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmm. Secret Service doesn’t recognize sitting senators.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Sad thing is many of us didn’t choose this shit show.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
How much they are spending on those horrible ads of hers is criminal.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
What we’re seeing in L.A. isn’t an insurrection—so why federalize the National Guard? Why the threat of using the U.S. military against civilians? We’re not there yet—but we’re closer than we think. Watch this Project 2025 reminder until the end. Then view everything happening through that lens.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
But carrying a Confederate flag is just fine.
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
We’re deeply disappointed in much of the U.S. media. Grateful, however, to international journalists who are telling the truth.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Standoff in California Over Immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Umm. Think about it. Where was George Floyd killed?
Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) reposted
The Trump administration is targeting people complying with the law, not dangerous gang members. Exhibit #13,430
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
While Stephen Miller publishes the faces of the judges that struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, his own goons in ICE refuse to show theirs out of fear of being publicly identified. If our judges are brave enough to face MAGA threats with their faces showing, ICE should not hide behind masks.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
They just want you to die sooner.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
The Gestapo.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
Crime pays www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Would it be to much to ask if we had an accounting of functioning brain cells in head?
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
But he is a white male. All that counts.
Biggie (@biggienotsmalls.bsky.social) reposted
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” — Voltaire
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Oooh. Dirty air. Every MAGA’s dream
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
And cut health care. Perfect.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
And get in line to kiss the ring?
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Tubby. Is. An. Ass.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
If a MAGA says it— it must be true.
John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social) reposted
Wow. Listen to Bruce Springsteen kick off his European tour, talking about what is happening here.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
This is just so disgusting.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
You seriously can’t make this shit up. Trump says Hollywood 'dying'; orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it - www.reuters.com/business/med...
The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) reposted
Exclusive: The Pentagon inspector general has expanded an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military plans to a second Signal chat that included his wife and brother
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
Fun Fact: In 2023, 40% of domestic freight tonnage moved by truck was related to imports. So where are those truckers going to work? Oh right. In the millions of new factories that are going to sprout up overnight.
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
when you think about it rfk jr. is the pinnacle of the american dream because in what other country can an ex-heroin addict who didn’t go to medical school and gets his science from 4chan become the authority on public health
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
If you've ever found yourself thinking, 'That can’t be constitutional' after one of Trump’s executive orders or deportations, you're not wrong. This piece breaks down the five core constitutional principles Trump has taken a wrecking ball to, so we can better fight back against the threat he poses.
WIRED (@wired.com) reposted
SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
This from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social is very worrying and also important
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Musk’s DOGE cuts helped his companies avoid over 2.37 billion dollars in legal liabilities, a new Senate report states. #MomSky #Voices4Victory
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Twelve years of Lutheran schools. Same thing.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
What a lying POS.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Choosing a red state. Big mistake.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/d... My reaction: FU. Have they forgotten about the lies and name calling in the MAGA campaign?
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Bringing Kent State to a city near you.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
Instead of finding fraud DOGE actively promotes it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/b...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like Foxconn. Huge promises. No delivery. None.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
So who is willing to make huge investments in the US? Certainly no foreign investors. Like it or not, in order to thrive as a nation, we have to be part of a global economy.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder how many of these people voted for him. Hope they realize they contributed to bringing down the economy.
Purple Teacher (@peaceandteachin.bsky.social) reposted
Trump committed another impeachable offense. His latest scam involves the meme coin he launched right before inauguration. He invited his top buyers to dinner at the White House. Not only is the coin a scam, he is making money off the Presidency. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/AuCDqCb2BRPe...
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Soon to be pardoned by felon47. Maybe a Hegseth replacement? (Just joking. Or maybe not.)
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Soon to be pardoned by felon47. Maybe a Hegseth replacement? (Just joking. Or maybe not.)
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Soon to be pardoned by felon47. Maybe a Hegseth replacement? (Just joking. Or maybe not.)
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social)
www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
I have to assume that Kristi Noem had $3,000 in cash because she had just sold children to a human trafficking ring, and it would have been $10,000 but she had just made a drop for some Fentanyl that she was on her way to pick up.
Moni (@monicz.bsky.social) reply parent
Please. Coming in May.