MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) (@mariaevaj.bsky.social) reposted
Thank God, so many got in line
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory | Fortune share.google/rh9K8rzbyZrp...
Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) reposted
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" — Chicago will not comply with Donny’s police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
Jennifer Shin (@jennifershin.bsky.social) reposted
I'm a little late with this one, but I had to share because it's too funny not to 🤣🤣🤣
Madz (@madz123.bsky.social) reposted
What is WRONG with people? What kind of arsehole supports this? SICKENING
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
Here's the decision in VOS Selection, the tariff case. Before yesterday, we knew it was headed to SCOTUS. It's still headed to SCOTUS (but will go into effect in October if SCOTUS doesn't act by then). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jay (@pescado70.bsky.social) reposted
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social) reply parent
Haven't forgotten about him. He can share a paddleboat across the river Styx with the orange man as far as I am concerned.
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Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
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Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) reposted
Expect collisions.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
The US National Guard. We’re looking for a few good janitors.
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bluebell49.bsky.social (@bluebell49.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
He is obviously conflicted. Poor poor Rubio🤣
J H (@jpjh88.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Why does Rubio always look like he can't stand his life, yet he goes along with all of this? Trump must have some really juicy dirt on him.
Dr. Marina Archer (@drmarinaarcher.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
this is what mass psychosis is like this is what happens in CULTS where ppl adjust and adapt to whatever situation fits their survival *in the group* if they cant or don't want to leave it is a radical transformation of "reality" like a Stockholm syndrome by group
Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Abrego Garcia just renewed his bid for asylum. Keep fighting!
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
GOLDMAN DESK: “.. Majority of investors are bullish on Nvidia's upcoming earnings, yet retail speculation has faded compared to the past.”
Humans Against MAGA (@kevin1987bsky.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Since CNN went both-sides ways, they've been as useless as Fox is complicit.
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Gamma Donna (@gammamadonna.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Pathological lying and manipulation are not restricted to psychopaths. What makes psychopaths different from all others is the remarkable ease with which they lie, the pervasiveness of their deception, and the callousness with which they carry it out.” • Robert Hare, “Snakes in Suits”
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
COLLINS: Why it is only blue states or cities that the administration is targeting? BURGUM: When you look at the top 20 or 25 largest cities in this country, virtually all of those are the ones that have crime issues and are run by a particular party
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
The Iowa Senate seat that Democratic candidate Catelin Drey flipped tonight has been in GOP hands for 13 years. Not anymore.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
Senator Amy Klobuchar (@klobuchar.senate.gov) reposted
The Fed was designed to be insulated from politics to maintain the stability and credibility of our financial system. The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.
Charlie Sykes (@sykescharlie.bsky.social) reposted
What can we do? Where is the pushback? Well, ICYMI, here is what it looks like. So I thought I would do something I rarely (if ever) do… share the whole damn thing. No snark. No spin. Just the whole speech. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted
Correct Bernie! RepubliKKKans Haven't believed in Science FOREVER......
JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy (@progavalanche.bsky.social) reposted
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fight is everyone’s. We can’t allow the 47 regime to use deportation as a weapon to punish dissent & terrorize families. If they can do this to any one person, they can do it to any one of us. Stand up, speak out, resist. #FreeKilmar social.demcast.com/s/AB4J25Qi
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Catherine Zoltan (@catherinezoltan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Steve Witkoff trying to sell Donald Trump as the head of Hare Krishna today is over the top. I've seen enough for today.
California Cossack Fella 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 (@lashatumbai7712.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
One of Xitkopf's hands wasn't getting as much of a workout, I suppose. Problem solved. :-/
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social) reply parent
He really gets in there.......
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 says that a president can fire a member of the Federal Reserve Board only "for cause."
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
This. 100%.
The USA Singers (@theusasingers.bsky.social) reposted
Greed is the root of all evil. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted
This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
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Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 (@kojamf.bsky.social) reposted
🤘🙂☕ stevenwilhelm555 Steven
RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
New Jersey Attorney General Platkin: As I sit here today, I don’t know who is in charge of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in my state…
2028 Blue Wave 🌊🌊💙 🇺🇸 (@2028-bluewave.bsky.social) reposted
Every day we don’t talk about it, is a win for him. NEVER stop talking about: EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) reposted
DC statehood now.
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) reposted
IS TRUMP DYING, OR IS HE JUST FINE? And why doesn't the media fixate on HIS health crisis 1% as much as it did and still does about Biden's? Plus his terror invasion of Chicago? It's about Pritzker and Trumpstein GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/3577zkn5
Black History Database (@blackhistorydb.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@crockett.house.gov) reposted
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social) reply parent
Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@andyheppelle.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The dishonor, corruption, criminal convictions, cruelty, lies, lifetime of bankruptcies and failed relationships should have shown voters who he was and yet here we are.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficking victim who accused the Duke of York of sex crimes, wrote an autobiography which will be published posthumously later this year. Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17. She died by suicide at the age of 41 in April.
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted
Kristi Noem and her squad of geniuses are painting the American side of the wall black—apparently to keep us from escaping.
Saneman (@saneman.bsky.social) reposted
Another successful meeting between 2 crooks....
Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) reposted
flip.it/SWXdGS IT’S REALITY SHOW FICTIONAL CRIME WAVE TIME.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
New in PN: @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump's teetering economy "The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness. Nobody knows what the tariff rates will be in six months. That means a lot of cash sits on the sidelines."
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
(🚨) The seventh book in the NYT-bestselling Proof Series is PROOF OF DEVILRY: THE CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN. It is so large and robustly sourced—it’s a 600-page epic—that it’s being released in three parts (on 8/17, 8/24, and 8/31). Below is Book One.
Ellen Nakashima (@ellenwapo.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Leftist Connection (@leftistconnection.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans' push for gerrymandering is doing exactly what the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to stop. Thank the Republican SC. Ever since their ruling in Shelby County, Republicans have changed laws to stop Black and brown people from voting. Republicans are racists.
Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. (@admiralstav.bsky.social) reposted
This is an incredibly comprehensive and accurate view of the sweeping malign activities of Vladimir Putin by a brilliant, first hand observer, @markhertling.bsky.social The Trump administration would be wise to pay close attention to this litany of evil. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-alwa...
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
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soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
Call it out, shame the cowards. youtube.com/shorts/GCcdd...
Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) reposted
Pentagon confirms my story on Mexico attacks
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
Stop coddling fuckups. youtu.be/A25YlUOYpUg?...
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social) reply parent
The Russians have abducted over 20k kids in the occupied region skippy. That friend shit is over.
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
MELIUS: “.. data centers could consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, tripling from 2023's 4.4% “.. the availability of power is going to be everything for tech investors.” (And, one might add, consumers.)
Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) reposted
flip.it/pRCqEt
Grey Parker (@greyparker.bsky.social) reposted
Trump's war on expertise is going have consequences lasting decades. Arson is easy. Building is hard.
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, a totem pole that has a basement deep enough to be impervious to nuclear attack.
soapboxmusings.bsky.social (@soapboxmusings.bsky.social)
The Dunning-Kruger is becoming a terminal illness in Conservative media. youtu.be/MetueJ_uelQ?...