Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
This is good, very, very good.
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view profile on Bluesky Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
This is good, very, very good.
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
he's running out of bull shit.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Susan Collins could do something but instead she ponders.
Eric Champnella (@echamp.bsky.social) reposted
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious. Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Beyond the grift, this is gross. What kind of "scent" does a fat, quarter-pounder eating, toupee wearing slouch emit that someone would pay $200? It's almost like they're saying, "what else will these MAGA assholes purchase." I'm sure it's MAHA compliant.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
This song has much relevance now.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
Hit repeat:
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
So much for “2 weeks”. Will the media EVER learn?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
U.S. warplanes strike three Iranian nuclear sites in sweeping attack.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy is a mean man.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
What should be a showcase of the world’s greatest soccer players will be a police state of arrests if we don’t take a stand with our Republican congress. Are you ok with this state? Collins, Cassidy and Murkowski. Time to talk? I can help.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
How awful it is when military leaders allow troops to shape and support “politiical” opinions in group settings. Everyone should decide how to vote but asking young soldiers to support the president when they will be asked to fight US citizens in the future is an undertaking that has no precedence.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sure he’s in on the uptake.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Brian, beyond being one of the most beautiful and successful US vocalists (bands) ever, appreciated competition (Beatles) and their competition made amazing music. Pet Sounds was a response to the Beatles and he responded in such a classic American way. Love you and your musical sense Brian. RIP
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
What we say and do now will determine how our children will participate in this democratic experiment moving forward. We owe them the ability to decide their future. Trump is destroying, for his own benefit, what took millions and generations to build. It’s time to stop this Republicans. stop!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Love his valor and this is a shame: democracy is waning and we must do whatever it takes to neutralize the current authoritarian takeover. Everyone must participate and be vigilant.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s insane they report this as an immigration issue rather than what it is; an assault on the constitution’s freedoms of free speech and freedom of assembly. Where are our elected officials?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
While things are wildly upside down with hate and despotism, I take you back to some great fake news from April Fools Day, 1985. Sidd Finch, one of George Plimpton’s greatest tales: www.si.com/mlb/2014/10/.... One of a million things great about the US.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Couldn't agree more. What a nightmare
Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov) reposted
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t forget Rubio. He loves hate!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller is the antichrist. I didn’t know we would have a chance to meet him but I am so relieved to know he is nothing but a racist, immigrant hating Christian.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Right on. While this appears productive it will likely fund more oligarchs. That’s what they do.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
He'd make Rubio and Miller do it. He's too lazy.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not sure if I feel better that they are TRULY stupid as opposed to intentionally destructive. Going to be a long and deadly storm season.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
He's part Benedict Arnold and part Joseph Stalin. Cruel traitor.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
This is insane but makes sense. Maybe Sesame Street could help?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe they need to get some crayons and a coloring book?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
trying to keep us distracted from his crimes against America.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
liar
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
At least he need small gloves.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
When things look bleak friends overcome!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
No shit. Thanks.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Florida should enjoy benefits being stripped from citizens to give more money to southern Florida millionaires. Glad they’re sharing. Thanks MAGA.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
Time for the highwaymen!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Crazy thing is, if our own jackass (Trump) decided to double down on their jackass (Putin) he’d get a victory that would make him a hero which is the only thing jackass 1 wants? It would cost him less and he’d be considered some international genius even though that was always the plan???CRAZY
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Then they should be kind enough in their big baby bill (BBB). It’s hard to find more ways to fuck over kids but they found them. Good luck you reprehensible pricks! Maybe the senate will be more responsible for children.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s fucking crazy! #handsmaids
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
The thing is, there is such a small, unaccountable group behind this. Miller, Vought, Rubio; all of which serve his Majesty. We need a vision for what is better for America and a place for them to read and learn the Constitution with the others they send to penal colonies.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
So sad where we are, especially knowing that lies are the fulcrum of power these days.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Let’s assemble to show the world that we still stand for democracy and the rule of law!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
This would mean that for the first time since Russ Feingold represented the state, Johnson is able to do something to help, rather than hurt Wisconsin citizens. Bravo Ron. You still suck!
Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted
When someone as evil as Dick Cheney openly calls the orange felon the greatest threat to the United States, you know we are in some terrifyingly serious shit.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope Harvard overwhelms this administration with legal challenges and lawsuits. Stephen Miller is a man of supreme evil who is the architect of all of this retribution.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would someone who doesn’t read even need a library?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
Great podcast and love the distinction Matt Seligman makes between Optical Authoritarian = trump vs substantive authoritarians = miller and Vance. Excellent insight.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
"The limits of tyrants is prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress" - Frederick Douglas - Sobering but clarifying article on the madness of King Trump.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
Three observation in the post 100 days: 1: Trump is all about profit and grift in the open - 2: with no congressional firewall/independent justice dept intervention that intervenes we need 3: a vision for how this country becomes again, a beacon of hope for the world. Let’s get to work, right?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree and Vought and Miller need to understand that some random 2025 manifesto will also lead a future justice department bringing justice to those families that were deprived due process! We are the United States!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Be vigilant!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
He has no knowledge about what makes America great.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Excellent and scary article. Truly one of the most despicable humans on the planet (along with Stephen Miller).
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
They will stop at nothing short of the destruction of the rule of law. He is a supremely dangerous and vengeful man like Miller and Vought.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, you are serving the public Congressman Frost and I appreciate your ethics. I wish others would follow your lead. It's disgraceful that members of Congress put their own fortunes ahead of those they serve.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
A man of pure, unadulterated evil.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
He's also a key author of Project 2025. Fascist Criminals, all of them.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
This is his watch and his turn in history to defend the rule of law. People follow leaders and he must lead us back to the underlying principles of the Constitution.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
She is the worst Trump sympathizer. She hasn't had an original opinion since 2015.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Those hands would be ideal working in a factory with tiny parts.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump needs to focus a little more attention on his comb over. He has let his guard down a lot recently in exposing the fact that he is bald.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
The masks make them like the modern day Ku Klux Klan.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I would NOT want to be this guy when Trump fires his ass in August. He certainly makes the top 10 list of the most despicable humans on the planet.
Patti Stoll (@pattistoll.bsky.social) reposted
What terrible timing! Just when the dumb-as-a-doorstop Republicans are trying to encourage white people breeding a WHOLE LOT more, first they destroy IVF possibilities, then they make it super expensive. Yay, brain-dead Republicans. I see extinction coming. www.seattletimes.com/business/tru...
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
The administration's war on children is just heating up.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
And HE, will line his pockets with everyone's doll money.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Let hate rule. These guys (and Amy Coney Barrett) know all about that.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
"holy shit. you guys are fucked."
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like they are all interviewing for jobs after Trump fires them later this year.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I do smile knowing that even little Stephen Miller, will one day cross his master and be turned out of the White House and he will have to make his way in a mean world he helped to create like all his other colleagues.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
It's hard to believe the same guy in charge of the last economic calamity is starting a new one just because he can. Now I need to buy more paper towels and lysol wipes before RFK's health crisis starts later this spring...
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Just wait until Christmas.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I think she should try. Ossoff will smoke her.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
I hope Susan Collins isn't as impressed with Frank Bisignano (SSA Nominee) as she was with Elon. This guy's plan is to destroy Social Security. Please vote no. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/u...
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
This won't stop Paul LePage, the original MAGA governor from Maine, from running for Congress.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
the president’s policies will carpet bomb the economy and ruin millions of lives but don’t worry, he and his failchildren will come away from everything as rich as ever
Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) reposted
Really, really suspicious that Elon Musk’s companies are leveraging a lot of new deals internationally… during a time when other countries feel enormous pressure to appease our leadership to cut trade deals…
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Reminder for those who seem to have forgotten: We don’t have kings in America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/george-washington-would-have-thrown
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
This will be just one of the stark realities Americans will face in the coming months as Republicans pave the way to fleecing all lower income Americans of their health and welfare.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course he'd say he did not know. He can't read so that makes sense.
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
The administration just hasn’t been able to find those thousands of criminal aliens they claimed were rampaging throughout the nation. Like so many other themes Trump campaigned on, the plague of immigrant crime was a fiction. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-immi...
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
Are people sick enough to want more children separated from their parents. This cruelty is unimaginable. wapo.st/4d0U9EB
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
These hateful little guys must really live in an echo chamber if they think taking on their biggest enabler will give them more power. Don't kick a sleeping dog.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social)
I can't imagine a more incompetent lineup of government destroying sycophants (well, maybe we need angry Stephen Miller in the photo). wapo.st/42YHVrO
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything he and Russel Vought and Stephen Miller have done so far is awful but the thing I find most difficult to reconcile is why would one of the laziest people in the world want to create more work for himself by consolidating power?
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't wait until Stephen Miller is a regular guy again. If he is able to enjoy just a fraction of the difficulties he imposes on his victims I would pay to watch that reality television show.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
This is Susan Collins boy doing what he's great at doing; killing Americans. Thank you!
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
But this one goes to 11…
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
But this one goes to 11…
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Trump was reaching in to grab the governors bottom but his hands were too small to see.
Thomas Paine 2.0 (@robertgcole.bsky.social) reply parent
He is a grifting dollop of fecal matter.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters