Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
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view profile on Bluesky Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Brad Johnson (@climatebrad.hillheat.com) reposted
The fathers, sons, mothers, daughters abducted by Trump's Big Balls Goon Show are then held indefinitely in dire and inhumane conditions. One bean burrito a day for food. 90 people in a room with no beds. No bathing for a week. #bigballsgoonshow
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
altNOAA 🇺🇸 (@altnoaa.bsky.social) reposted
The oldest fossil evidence shows that humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and would have had dark pigmented skin to protect them from intense UV rays. So if you're a believer in "God," and believe man was created in his image... then it stands to reason that God is a Black man.
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman (@rabbijill.bsky.social) reposted
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
MORE: Sparkle Sooknanan is still awake -- and she wants a fourth status report from DOJ. The judge orders the government to update her when all putative class members have been returned to ORR custody.
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
JOY2U2 🤣👀💋🦋🍒🍷🌈✒️🏳️🌈♥️ (@lookingforjoy.bsky.social) reposted
Dumb and Dumber
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Julie Zebrak (@juliezebrak.bsky.social) reposted
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Ali Velshi (@velshi.com) reposted
“What independence means is that the technocrats at the Central Bank use economic reasoning, data” to achieve economic goals, says Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. ‘Americans need to worry’ about political interference. It’s “a recipe for runaway inflation.” #Velshi
💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 (@northjules.bsky.social) reposted
Mood when your vertebrae is in tact.💃🏾🕺🏿
Larry Glickman (@larryglickman.bsky.social) reposted
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
Luca Migo ❌👑 (@victinibcn.bsky.social) reposted
Washington DC today: Veterans protested today in front of the National Guard! Awesome 🫡
Captain Mark Kelly (@captmarkkelly.bsky.social) reposted
President Trump is cutting services for veterans across the country. @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social and I both served in uniform and know firsthand how much our servicemembers sacrificed. That’s why we held a veteran town hall in Raleigh — to hear from them directly and fight back together.
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social) reposted
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted
Mainstream Media isn’t reporting about the children who have died that ICE Gestapo snatched! #iceout #arrestnoem #arresttrump
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET (@patti3333.bsky.social) reposted
fortune.com/2025/08/30/r... And Corn Farmers Financial Presipice Sigh ...they voted ...now this WTG Are we great yet ?
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker
shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) reposted
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
Rep. Mike Levin (@levin.house.gov) reposted
Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.
Jesse : 💙💙💙 (@journeyled1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Thanks Bek. @itsbek.bsky.social @sassysister27.bsky.social @sassydenise.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @pdxeleven.bsky.social @gizmosspace.bsky.social @therealzanetta.bsky.social @gwenie.bsky.social @filosia.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @jacqueline321.bsky.social
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew (@amandasmith.bsky.social) reposted
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
Sam Jones (@samjownes.bsky.social) reposted
Did Chicago’s Mayor just become a new hero of mine? YUP!
KellyK🌺 (@azkellyk.bsky.social) reposted
Netanyahu’s office tried to use Cindy McCain to prop up their false narrative that adequate food is flowing into Gaza. McCain: “I stand by what I said—there’s not enough food getting in. It simply isn’t enough to be able to do the job, stop malnutrition and starvation.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p...
sharonfisher68.bsky.social (@sharonfisher68.bsky.social) reposted
A Blue View 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@ablueview.bsky.social) reposted
It's The Guns Stupid #ABlueView 🧵1/3 #GunWorship #GunsProtectMyth #GoodGuyMyth #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl
Melissa Jo Peltier (@melissjpeltier.bsky.social) reposted
“On top of that, we’re training our warriors to take over the gardening & landscaping jobs they’ve now forced open!”
Sarah J. Jackson (@sjjphd.bsky.social) reposted
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Teri G (@terilg.bsky.social) reposted
Trump is turning US Park Police into lawless Gestapo www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
aslynn is autistic actually (@audhd-psychnp.com) reposted
AND anyone who DOES have professional background in medical or science would NEVER be accurate or wise to assert that they can diagnose something like this just by walking past them which is a roundabout way to say BASED ON VIBES
AuntBunny (@auntbunny.bsky.social) reposted
This is the judge that stopped Trump from deporting 600 Guatemalan children! God bless her! Beyond evil!!
Leigh Harrison Helberg (@leighhelberg.bsky.social) reposted
Donald Trump can't win the 2026 midterms fair and square - so he's trying to cheat by calling up his cronies in red states and asking for seats. California: YOU have the power to stop him. Vote YES on Prop 50 to defend fair elections and STOP Trump's election rigging.
Michael Kagan (@michaelgkagan.bsky.social) reposted
What passes for good news - the govt says it followed a court order. But note: At least the second time today the Trump lawyer Drew Ensign claimed to not know about a court order. Which the government can know about by checking email.
Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-20...
Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
He was sentenced to 63 months in prison. One of the longer sentences. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/t...
Mark Zaid, Esq (@markzaidesq.bsky.social) reposted
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted
Trump’s legal strategies in Texas this summer show a win-at-all-costs mindset that is trampling legal norms, said one legal expert. “What is truly incredible is the extent to which the GOP has fallen in line.” With @texastribune.org
Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social) reposted
1 September 1881 | Czech Jewish woman, Laura Kussiová, was born in Kolin. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She did not survive.
Firehawk (@firehawkjw.bsky.social) reposted
The entire Republican party is a bunch of lying, spineless, cowards! 😂🤣
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
Targeting firefighters while they work. Dragging children from their beds in the dead of night. MAGA will go to any length. We’ve said it before, eventually the monster comes for us all!
The Democratic Coalition (@thedemcoalition.bsky.social) reposted
This is gonna be a big week for the Epstein survivors. Tell Congress to demand answers now!
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
We're still awaiting a status report from the plaintiffs on their understanding of whether the class members have been deplaned and moved to ORR. (Possible they were waiting for DOJ's status report before filing.) bsky.app/profile/anna...
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Ian Carrillo (@iansociologo.bsky.social) reposted
A BBQ place in OKC has this big Trump mural outside next to the parking lot. It keeps getting defaced. Last night someone spray painted the word PEDO under Trump's face. I think these are the restaurant owners/workers removing the graffiti.
KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) reposted
This is what failed Republican policies look like. #VoteThemOut
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
James Stroud, who is one of at least 21 FEMA employees, put on leave after signing a letter criticizing Trump’s disaster preparedness, discusses the culture of fear within the agency. “One thing that is underreported is the day to day agony and humiliation we’ve been suffering this whole time.”
Jen Keane (@zenbuffy.bsky.social) reposted
Dear America. It's the guns. Love, Everyone else. Credit: Philip Labes www.instagram.com/philiplabes?... www.tiktok.com/@philiplabes...
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD (@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social) reposted
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) reposted
What a — excusez mon français, s’il te plait — a government shitshow of unfathomable proportions
butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted
In DC, where mainstream media at? #dc #arresttrump
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
In the 21st century, how could you order up ethnic cleansing and genocide without a little crypto and AI and real-estate speculation sprinkled on top? { gift link } wapo.st/4g2eATo
Unicorn Riot (@unicornriot.bsky.social) reposted
Former US Attorney, Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, has been charged with misconduct by the DC Bar for concealing and altering evidence during the J20 trials. New info from that hearing has revealed collaboration between Project Veritas and law enforcement. unicornriot.ninja/2025/newly-r...
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
Rheum Cat (@rheumcat.bsky.social) reposted
“The CDC you knew is over,” @drdemetre.bsky.social said. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 (@alcappuccinoit.bsky.social) reposted
Many years ago, I attended an exhibition hosted by the Smithsonian Institution on the kind of art Nazis found to be acceptable, which dovetails nicely with what our current crop of Nazis is doing to the Smithsonian. The past is prologue. www.si.edu/exhibitions/...
K.C. Banx (@kbanx.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is exactly why State AG's need to be gathering all the evidence they can against Bondi, Noem, Patel, RFK Jr., and other top federal officials for their crimes against the people, and assisting Trump in his crimes. Trump pardon or not, they can all be convicted on State level charges.
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
More name changes afoot… Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
realKyleKeegan (@realkylekeegan.bsky.social) reposted
“If she wasn’t my granddaughter I’d be dating her.”
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted
I would read a whole series of reports like this on each individual federal goon. They all deserve a profile.
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
auntmeme (@auntmeme.bsky.social) reposted
RFK, Jr., Secretary of Health & Human Services,is the epitome of mentally ill. His behavior is completely out of control along with 47. These 2 need a hospital, real doctors and good medication. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #VoteBlueforOurFuture
@Loudmouthkid62 (@loudmouthkid62.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Conflating bad character and lack of a moral compass with mental illness is wrong and dangerous for people with mental health issues. I think RFK Jr. is an evil man. He’s a predator, he’s power-hungry, he lacks empathy. Maybe he’s a psychopath. His work is leading to people’s deaths.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Actually, he thinks that he is the state, and that everything should be controlled by the state, as long as he's the state.
Maca Iglesias🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸 (@rotterdamvvg.bsky.social) reposted
MAGA Republicans continue to get burned in their town halls for lying about the Big Brutal Bill being good for Americans. Watch Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) get called out on “higher wages and lower taxes.” The People: “Higher wages? Stop lying!” America is taking back its power and rising! 🔥🔥🔥