Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
If I was going to hire someone to rig elections I’d give him the title of Chief Election Integrity Commissioner.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
If I was going to hire someone to rig elections I’d give him the title of Chief Election Integrity Commissioner.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
10 points for the title of the essay.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
If I lived in Florida I’d go out at night and paint rainbows fucking everywhere.
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
Saying you need an AR-15 to hunt is like saying you need dynamite to fish. Stop the nonsense.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Who could’ve predicted…
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
*hear
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Wish he could what the European leaders are saying about him behind his back.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
How big of an @$$hole do you have to be to do something like this!!!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
RIP American Party, we hardly knew ya.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Next to go will be in-person voting.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Fool me once…
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why real Presidents have their summits AFTER the deal has been finalized by a team of professional diplomats and negotiators. Trump has no self awareness of his limitations. His narcissism thinks he's the expert at everything.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
"The mission will be funded at the federal level.” WV thinks Trump is going to pay them back for cost of deployment. LOL
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t wait to vote for this!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
We don’t miss her and would very much appreciate it if you didn’t mention her name again.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, a new record low!!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
What could go wrong ?
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Final nail in the coffin of American tourism and the American economy?
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
My guess is they got a lot of blowback from all the “Christians” who think a fertilized egg is an actual person.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
No, he’ll just move on to new outrageous scandals. By the end of August people will wonder “Epstein who?” He’s the world’s most slippery man. Just when you’re sure you’ve got him cornered…
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
If I were her I'd retire from politics (with my middle finger clearly displayed) and make a boatload of money with richest California law firm I can find.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Best time to deny a false accusation is when everyone is looking.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Great research and analysis! Thank you.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
The administration with 10,000 scandals is accusing the administration with zero scandals of a scandal. Yea, sure.
Beth ✨️🇺🇸🇺🇦🎶🎸😸🍅🥓🌍💙 (@beth989898.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"May"? Don't need to be a genius to know the people joining most likely will be of the ilk that stormed the Capitol building and have a 'vigilante' bent.
Anders Åslund (@andersaslund.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"the challenge for the US today is China’s rise as a technological and scientific superpower. If it is to respond, the US must co-operate with its allies, devote far greater resources to scientific research and welcome talented immigrants — the exact opposite of what Trump is doing."
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
His narcissism makes him think he can wave his magic wand and pharmaceutical factories will appear all across America overnight.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Xenophobic Nazi fear monger.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Racist moron!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
All those transgender-bashing State and Federal legislators out there must be so proud. Fuck the lot of them.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
What load of fanatical horseshit!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA will get over this like they did with every other betrayal.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
While high energy lasers have an upfront cost, the per-use cost is almost zero and the supply of "munitions" is limitless and immune to the vulnerability of wartime supply chains.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
It will be a brief “future” since high energy lasers plus AI will quickly render drones and missiles obsolete.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
6.1 hours? That stat smells like he just pulled it out of his ass.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
A day late and a dollar short?
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
"While most people spent the budget fight fixated on health care policy, I suspect that in a year we will consider this legislation to be the moment that Trump created his own internal security apparatus."
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine thinking that one of the problems in this country is that some states treat their chickens too humanely.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Every Russian knows what it means when someone “falls out of a window “. Dissent and disloyalty will not be tolerated.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
How does it make sense to spend such huge sums of money trying to lock up and deport the very workers that our economy depends on? JC these people are stupid.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
God forbid he should want to do something about our tragically high infant mortality rates.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus Christinarowboat, what the fuck is wrong with these people? Picking random people up off the street and sending them to Sudan is just fine???
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
That has certainly been true in the past but I’m not sure it still is. As a policy,“Getting the weapons of war off the streets of America” polls well and could potentially bring out a lot of voters. The NRA isn’t the all powerful force that it once was and Americans are truly sick of the carnage.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s a pretty impressive answer.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
McRibs are back!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone in the San Fernando Valley has already started filming “Massive Ordinance Penetrator”.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Once again, time to kick the dust off this 2017 cartoon.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Every day a new grift.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s exactly what we’re worried about!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
#nokings As far as the eye can see. Front of the march reached Civic Center before the last of the marchers had left Delores Park.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
San Francisco
The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) reposted
In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/fOpI1NU
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
As if the last 80 years never happened.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
George Washington was an activist.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Half a century of Republican economic policy has been based on an economic theory that was discredited shortly after it was proposed.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m old enough to remember the Republican tax cuts under Reagan, Bush, and Trump1 and every time they claimed that the tax cuts would pay for themselves and every time they added significant amounts to the deficit/debt. Every time they claimed the CBO was wrong and every time the CBO was right.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably means some rookies will get some playing time and good for them.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
We need some real leadership here. Momentum needs to be steered away from violence that plays into Trump’s playbook and towards true nonviolent protests. We need the likes of Sanders, AOC, Pelosi, and Newsom to lead a huge silent or candlelight march, something that is conspicuously nonviolent.
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
Trump isn’t waiting for chaos—he’s engineering it. This National Guard move in LA isn’t about order. It’s bait. He wants a flashpoint big enough to justify invoking the Insurrection Act. Wake up. This is how power grabs start.
Walter (@walterkatz.bsky.social) reposted
“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Josh Zingher (@zingherpolisci.bsky.social) reposted
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
You say that like you are unaware that there were more than enough red state, anti-abortion Democrats to squash that vote.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjqxGMv8/
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Since when is that illegal?
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
Fool me once…
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)
👇👇👇
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
So immunity from judicial contempt proceedings is NOT a big issue?
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Alcatraz?
David Pepper (@davidpepperoh.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 🚨 Smoking Gun A 🧵 It’s a pretty simple rule of thumb. The forces attacking democracy have been at it for years. They know the gameplan. Which means they know exactly what conditions enable their long-range plan to succeed. 1/
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
This simply because the old guard of the GOP is long gone. They were either primaried from the right or retired knowing that was their fate.
Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted
The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," where as the top 1% have more money than at any time in history, according to a new analysis. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...
Transgender World (@transgenderreport.com) reposted
For those who have not looked into the complexity of biological sex, here is an illustration from Scientific American that presents the main points. #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #intersex 1/2
Transgender World (@transgenderreport.com) reposted reply parent
You might argue that the many variations of "biological sex" represent statistical outliers, but statistical outliers like intersex and transgender people are also real people who deserve respect and protection. trans-express.lgbt/p... 2/2
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Yea, I thought the same thing when I saw that clip. Told my wife that Pritzker would be a great candidate and she said: who?
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Real Christianity is so hard; group think is so much easier.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
A Mere Solicitor (@ameresolicitor.bsky.social) reposted
“Biological Sex” turns out to be a fiction created by out of touch lawyers:
Matt Shuham (@mattshuham.bsky.social) reposted
Re: U.S. CECOT detainees, the main q is NOT 'did they ever allegedly commit a crime?' Rather: Is the US allowed to deliver them into lifetime imprisonment in a notorious Salvadoran prison camp without charge, trial, sentencing, or consideration of international/asylum/anti-torture law? Clearly no!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Safe to say the markets would respond badly to that news, really badly!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
My first question is: what time is the broadcast?
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Since you are in the process of BUYING equities, why would you want the prices to be high? Consider yourself lucky to be getting such good deals.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted
This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
We ignore the warnings coming from the bond market at our peril.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
Since Trump tweeted that “now would be a good time to buy” they can all claim that they were trading on publicly available information.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
That was so all his friends who bought in before the announcement could claim they were trading on “public” information.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s trying to win the Industrial Revolution.
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s definitely a strong contender for the Stupidest Person in Congress Award. Gezz Louise what a moron!
Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent
But we buy so many bananas from them and they don’t buy any from us, how is that fair?