Murmesa
@murmesa.bsky.social
created December 29, 2024
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Teri G (@terilg.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein victims' lawyer: While we have seen the documents, you haven't. When you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. The American people deserve to see everything. Evil flourishes in the darkness. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES!
dadsaidstop.bsky.social (@dadsaidstop.bsky.social) reposted
Crypto is not a “good investment”. It is part of an oligarch strategy to destroy communities and states, while making people totally dependent upon those wanting to enslave us. Crypto is a scam, not a currency. It’s like buying a gun and pointing it at yourself.
Jay Perk (@johnathanperk.bsky.social) reposted
Project 2025 did NOT anticipate Black people staying home like we are now. Black Americans are holding this country together by a thread and most of white America is so busy flailing and accusing us of being selfish, y’all don’t even see how our strategy is keeping you safe.
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.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
Find the River
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social)
Beach Fluff..
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
yes he absolutely is .... John Roberts Is Responsible For America’s Embarrassing Gerrymandering Mess talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/john-ro...
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
Two things can be true, Bolton sucks and the FBI should not target the president’s enemies
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) reposted
This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) reposted
Gun rights group FPC doesn't seem to be a big fan of the Supreme Court's decision that curbed universal injunctions: www.firearmspolicy.org/fpc-warns-of...
Anonymous (@youranonjd.bsky.social) reposted
“We have fought in three different wars since the last time we raised the minimum wage.” Graham Platner wants to take Susan Collins Senate seat in Maine, & he wants to End Oligarchy. He has our attention. It’s not an endorsement. But the U.S. might want to support fighters vying for MAGA seats.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "We're gonna change the laws. We've got liberal judges. We've got liberal laws. Everything is gonna change ... President Trump knows what he's doing."
Japanese American National Museum (@jamuseum.bsky.social) reposted
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Joshua Kolb (@joshuakolb.bsky.social) reposted
As ppl look for transparency & accountability we’ve put together a comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes @justsecurity.org It’s a “tale of national disgrace” spanning 3 decades www.justsecurity.org/119137/timel...
Stephen Soldz (@ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social) reposted
Those Democrats who are telling us that the midterms will save us are lulling us into disaster. Elections are important, but only when accompanied by an enormous mass movement. Otherwise, the elections won't matter.
SCOTUSblog (@scotusblog.com) reposted
In 1793, the Supreme Court told Georgia to pay up on an old Revolutionary War debt. Georgia’s reaction? Threaten to hang anyone who tried to enforce the ruling.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Holy shit.
Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) reposted
Talent isn't rare. Throw an apple & you hit someone with talent. Perseverance? rare. Work ethic? exceedingly rare; the willingness to grind. Being able to endure the scorn, rejection & privation a life in the arts dooms you to in the United States is unicorn-scarce. But talent? Talent is everywhere.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
P.S. I know...I know, "Trump and SCOTUS don't care about the Constitution." If 100 million plus Americans are going to allow the president, vp...and nine SCOTUS members decide it can be tossed out...then none of us.... 100 million plus Americans...deserve the freedom we've enjoyed.
More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
By the way I know a lot of you think that's not a serious assault but I SAW the video of that CBP agent trying to catch Dunn after getting hit with that sandwich and he was STRUGGLING like when I try to climb a third flight of stairs, look up the eggshell skull rule
JohnXuandou (@johnxuandou.bsky.social) reposted
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
Tough on crime. www.rawstory.com/amp/ghislain...
The Sons of Liberty (@sonsofliberty.bsky.social) reposted
Hol' up…I got a plan. ~AdminMatt
Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter.bsky.social) reposted
Who needs to cook the books when you can disappear them?
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Welp
DemCast USA (@demcast.com) reposted
Virginia Giuffre fought for survivors until the day she died. Her abusers still walk free. Her story must be told. Honor her life by making sure the world hears it. open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
808fan.bsky.social (@808fan.bsky.social) reposted
A quick & important read for anyone interested in the justice process within nation states. It's a great mini-history of the FBI, how it became trusted & why those guardrails may have collapsed. What to do next is a question that's crucial to the survival of the USA as a nation that values justice.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
Abbey 8647 (@abbeyarletto.bsky.social) reposted
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
Every racist & brutal system has been “laying about like a loaded weapon” (Korematsu, Justice Jackson) for a moment like this. Racism & inequality is the gateway. And it is the infrastructure that will hold up the worst of this authoritarian regime. GIFT LINK www.wsj.com/us-news/ango...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
REPORTER: “One of the accomplishments you listed was from the Inflation Reduction Act… which you voted against.”🤔 NANCY MACE: *loses her shit on the reporter, calls her a ‘raging leftist’, babbles about conservative women being president* tldr: Mace is unhinged and unfit
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
Boom.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Every day
Good Boy (@goodboy.bsky.social) reposted
Jesus it is *pathetic* for a corporation to get dog-walked like this. I guess when you wanna be walked it's different, but still...
Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) reposted
They erased us from the textbooks. I’m putting us back in the story. They buried our truth and hoped we’d stay silent. ERASED isn’t a book—it’s a weapon. Read it before they ban it. Share it before they silence it. Get your copy now. stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Chris Labarthe (@chrislabarthe.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Reminder that the title of this immortal pic is Saving Private Equity
More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
Well that’s on Penske for not having a term in the rental agreement “YOU agree VEHICLE will not be used to transport the beetle-browed Gestapo thugs on ethnic cleansing sweeps”
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
“When a friendly wonk like Hassett goes along, that’s a warning. It shows how easily a mild-mannered bureaucrat, by resorting to political spin in the context of a purge, can become a cog in an authoritarian machine.” Spineless in the service of Trump is no virtue. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) reposted
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted
Sure, on the one hand, this will make people worse off and contribute to climate change, but on the other hand it means higher demand on the energy grid which raises electricity prices for us all! 🥳
Ron Hacker (@ronhacker.bsky.social) reposted
This about covers it.
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
I see why he bankrupted casinos.
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
Deploying military forces inside the US for domestic law enforcement is bad, un-American, and illegal under an 1878 law reauthorized in 1956, 1981, and 2021. I said the few hundred Marines deployed in LA as part of ICE raids looked like a trial balloon. This memo indicates they plan to do much more.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Drowned out: While Texans beg for help, the GOP redraws the map to cheat. The purpose of the special session wasn’t about flood relief. It was about stealing elections. Let me make it plain: Over 100 dead. Flood victims plead for help. Republicans were busy rigging maps for Trump.
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
France, UK, Canada, Portugal, Australia, Andorra, Australia, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, San Marino, Malta, and Slovenia will recognize or formally back Palestine as a state at the UN this September. #3E #FreePalestine
Alex Hern (@hern.bsky.social) reposted
Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
Wow
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-...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
UPDATE: Trump has officially fired the labor statistics commissioner because the numbers were bad. 1984
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
I drive by these fields daily. These workers are superhuman with how quickly they pick these fields.
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
America in a nutshell.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
The amazing thing about brave people speaking out is that it inspires others to do the same by creating a permission structure. Since I published this article 4 hours ago, I've heard from multiple sources confirming what's in it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) reposted
Sorry, no: Lawyers who defend stripping birthright citizenship from 150,000 infants a year deserve to have that held against them. Forever. We should shame every lawyer who defends this egregiously unconstitutional cruelty. They are a stain on the legal profession.
Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) reposted
"Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor" in SDNY. "Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell."
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted
Billionaire Marc Andreessen writes that his “cohort of citizens” mostly put up w/ discrimination—even though it was “now aimed at us”—as a “cost for prior American bigotry”, but that the “summer of 2020…shredded that complacency. And so now my people are furious & not going to take it anymore…” 1/
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important. @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/the...
Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted
Getting Kristi Noem to do her job instead of photo ops
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
The files are in Ivana’s casket in Bedminster.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
Instead of raising a principled objection to stop it from happening, Murkowski suggested she would try to work in the future to make the very thing she just allowed to happen less bad. Don't forget when it's out of the "news cycle."
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Did you catch it? Bad Bunny dropped his Nuevayol video on the 4th of July, supporting immigrants and throwing shade at Trump. That’s how you use your platform.🔥
Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted
In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
“The Trump Justice Department has dismissed the narco-terrorism indictments against two leaders of MS-13, enabling them to avoid American justice and be repatriated to El Salvador…sending high-ranking criminals in back overseas so they can avoid prosecution.” www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/trum...
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
the whole story is worth reading, and the implication is that as Bezos got a personal trainer, divorced, sought a celebrity lifestyle *and* felt like he was mistreated by the Biden administration, his views about the purpose of the Post evolved accordingly www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jonelle (@louiseplease.bsky.social) reposted
We have arrived.
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually what they said is they can violate the Constitutional right of anybody unless they deem it a major question. Nationwide business, regulatory, or individual rights they support…probably okay.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Similar thoughts from a law prof last year. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor
Office of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander (@nyccomptroller.bsky.social) reposted
ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
Apologies, it is arbitrary because they are not also fining the businesses.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree. I don’t like the arbitrary nature of the administration’s enforcement only against migrants rather than the businesses that exploit them for cheap labor.
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
A green card does not make you a permanent citizen. It provides for lawful permanent residency that may still be revoked by the government.
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
Folks, it’s free. Learn. Please.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
Pause for a moment to process this; ICE is arresting literally 1,100% more immigrants with no criminal records than in his first term.
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) reposted
I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted
Three years ago today, Trump's far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans' federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was one of them. Today, share her story. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Amanda Becker (@amandabecker.bsky.social) reposted
" I can't believe that this is happening in America," Park told NPR in an interview prior to his departure. "That blows me away, like a country that I fought for."
Eric Geller (@ericjgeller.com) reposted
"[Principal Associate Deputy AG Emil] Bove 'stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what' ... 'Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you" and ignore any such order,' according to the account." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) reposted
Just a reminder going forward... (cartoon from 2003)
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) reposted
REMINDER: Obama admin and US allies had reached a deal with Iran to ensure they would not develop a nuclear weapon. But in 2018 Trump ended that deal at the request of Netanyahu. This is 2018 article from Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...
Robert Ferry (@robertferry.bsky.social) reposted
Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.
Murmesa (@murmesa.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you mean “illegal” US strikes?
Ezra Levin ❌👑 (@ezralevin.bsky.social) reposted
I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
“You would never know, as The New York Times churns out its usual policy-option thumb-suckers, that the United States is well down the road to dictatorship at home. That is the context in which a war with Iran will occur.”
Blue Eyed Hexe 🇺🇲 (@blueeyedhexe.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Whoa "You would never know, as The New York Times churns out its usual policy-option thumb-suckers, that the United States is well down the road to dictatorship at home." Not what I expected from a fellow MSM property, but DAMN this is so important to understand right now. The MSM is failing.
Rafe Meager (they/them) (@economeager.bsky.social) reposted