J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
48? That's like two girlfriends for Bill.
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view profile on Bluesky J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
48? That's like two girlfriends for Bill.
Kerry Reid (she/her) (@kerryreid.bsky.social) reposted
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm laughing entirely too hard.
Alex Ip 葉清霖 (@alexip718.com) reposted reply parent
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) reposted
The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
Justin Ferguson (@auburnobserver.com) reposted
wait so this is the Bill Belichick who coached in the NFL?
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social)
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Catch Me If You Gary
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
You're clearly not familar with the AI gap year.
Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) reposted
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) reposted
for Oakland residents: what’s being done in your county
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social)
I don't want to brag or anything, but I've had a new phone for a month and just dropped it for the first time.
Soren Spicknall (@sorenspicknall.bsky.social) reposted
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) reposted
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 (@indivisiblechicago.bsky.social) reposted
No Trump troops in Chicago! No ICE! Rally at Chicago's Haymarket Memorial #WorkersOverBillionaires #NoTroopsInChicago
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy can't stop talking about good looking men.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool a zombie is starting at quarterback.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social)
If you ever believe you hate Nate silver more than anyone remember that Nate silver hates Nate silver more than anyone.
Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! (@malena.bsky.social) reposted
Did you know that the real crime problem...the real violence problem is in red states, not blue states? Watch Governor Newsom school Trump & push back!
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment reut.rs/4newN2y
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
They're a state sanctioned street gang.
Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) reposted
DEVELOPING: ICE agents in Los Angeles are nothing but state-sanctioned thugs. One sprinted from behind a fence, tackled a protester, and the pack unloaded on bystanders with “less lethal” rounds. Then they dragged him across 4 lanes of traffic like prey. This is organized brutality.
Kathleen Bush-Joseph (@kathleenbush.bsky.social) reposted
Facts on immigrants & crime: My Migration Policy Institute colleague Ariel put out an explainer that is perennially helpful so am resharing that here www.migrationpolicy.org/content/immi...
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like Donald's brain.
Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) reposted
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
Marc Fischer (@marc-fischer.bsky.social) reposted
It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
Germany and France have announced a joint European early-warning missile defense system, JEWEL, which integrates space-based sensors from the Odin’s Eye project with advanced ground-based radars.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
Illinois is now the number one state in the Midwest to work in. This ranking reflects our work in making Illinois the best state in the nation to do business, raise a family, and thrive.
Scott Smith (@canaansdad1987.bsky.social) reposted
Looks like trump lied again. Imagine that. #USDemocracy www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
I read this as France is sending troops to Ukraine.
Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted
euroweeklynews.com/2025/08/27/f...
Chicago Sun-Times (@chicago.suntimes.com) reposted
Hundreds gathered at a Chicago pro-labor demonstration and slammed Trump’s plan to send federal immigration agents and potentially National Guard troops to the city. The protest is a part of a series expected to stretch throughout the country.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not your friend, but only drew Harwell would know there are that many porn sites.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Would be nice to live in a country where corruption was a bad thing.
The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) reposted
After its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency Monday, the Trump family notched as much as $6 billion in paper wealth.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.
Ari Cohn (@aricohn.com) reposted
These people are unrepentant racists but also too cowardly to use the slur they so desperately want to.
Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ (@ashleylynch.bsky.social) reposted
I guess if you're in a major city in a blue state, you have to start thinking about how you're going to successfully vote with the actual military attempting to prevent you. Because that's why the military is being moved into cities right now. They're being pre-mobilized to prevent voting.
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
An 11-year-old boy who was shot while playing the “ding dong ditch” prank in Houston on Saturday night has died, the authorities said.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 (@rweingarten.bsky.social) reposted
Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve
jen 🌻 (@bunnibytz.bsky.social) reposted
"The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Accurate. His brother was a teacher.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not British, but the uk desperately needs to abandon the labour party.
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they don’t like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social)
Is Giuliani dead?
Bryan Knowles (@brykno.bsky.social) reposted
4 days until the NFL season kicks off! This graphic has the 13 players with the most approximate value wearing the #4 jersey. How many can YOU name? Fantastic, four.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
What bezos has done to the post is criminal.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you imagine how many times Rudy farted on his way to the hospital?
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
That guy should be making my pizza pie. After he washes his hand.
Dan O’Sullivan (@osullyville.bsky.social) reposted
I decided to try looking up the security guy the Giuliani accident statement was attributed to, Michael Ragusa. I was not disappointed.
David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
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.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
His spine wasn't in use before the accident.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨🚨🚨 This video is just over an hour old now. The judge’s order to halt of the deportation of 600 children to Guatemala was upheld - for now! The person who made this video was threatened. Details on the following post.
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?
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Bibi is a monster.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) reposted
Martha Raddatz wrote one of the most important books about the Iraq war. Now she attacks decorated combat solders on behalf of a draft-dodging dictator.
Katherine the Sixth (@luigithirty.bsky.social) reposted
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Sooknanan: And if you don't know or can't find out [whether the children have been deplaned], a time estimate on when the agencies can confirm would be helpful. Because then I can ask you to file a status report.
Aura Bogado (@aurabogado.bsky.social) reposted
I know there’s a lot going on but in June ICE took custody of a U.S.-born citizen in Chicago, Illinois and handed him over to a private contractor, which confined him in a hotel without a phone or other form of communication for five days. The city and state aren’t ready for what’s coming next.
unraveled (@unraveledpress.com) reposted
This includes info regarding which Lake County hotels agents may or may not be using in the coming weeks. Thank you! 💜
Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted
The entire strategy of the Trump administration is Nazis lying about vibrant cities to gullible Americans who live in rural areas
The TRiiBE (@thetriibe.com) reposted
“I love this city fiercely. It has given me every good thing in my life. It has given me my children. It has given me my friends who are now my family. It has given me purpose.“ thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Here's the complaint filed late last night. One of the named plaintiffs is as young as 10. Judge Sooknanan already entered a TRO to bar the removal of named plaintiffs, and a new TRO just hit the docket for the larger putative class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Ed Poole (@edpoole1975.bsky.social) reposted
These demonstrations outside asylum hotels are terrorism. They are designed to terrorise. They involve violence against civilians for political reasons. That is terrorism. Not pating planes. Will the government act, or are they too gutless?
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social)
Donald was too much of a fat pussy to go to Vietnam. But 60 years later he's going to do a Vietnam in Venezuela.
JIM (@jimlo-hi.bsky.social) reposted
Read "U.S. cruiser seen crossing Panama Canal as warships sent to Venezuela" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-66RnocJG/U...
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Republican congressman hints that a U.S. attack on Venezuela is imminent.. "Can't have an election if we're at war...."
David August (@davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy) reposted
The United States in the last 8 months has threatened to invade, or invaded: Canada Mexico Panama Greenland Denmark Venezuela Los Angeles Washington DC Chicago Baltimore Philadelphia Boston And many others. potus and kegseth plan to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. This […]
Ônibus Espacial Soviético ☢️⚡🚀 🇧🇷 🇷🇺🇮🇷🇨🇳🇿🇦 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@danielocl.com.br) reposted
NO WAR AGAINST VENEZUELA
Rachel Cohen (@cohen489.bsky.social) reposted
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
That little pussy twerp miller wrote this post.
Emissary Of Night | ليلى (@diplomatofnight.com) reposted
Worth thinking about how Chris Van Hollen, hardly a ultra left-wing firebrand, has accumulated a ton of credit over the last few years from the growing pro-Palestine constituency of the DP by simply 1) Demanding that there be justice for Shireen Abu Akleh, 2) Demanding that US law is adhered to.
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted
Not sure that JD Vance is ready but confident he’s rested.
Andrea Pitzer (@andreapitzer.bsky.social) reposted
People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.
EV Curve Futurist (@evcurvefuturist.com) reposted
The battery boom has begun 🔋⚡️ 2024: 69 GW storage added, +66% YoY. Growth looks more like smartphones than power plants—modular, fast, unstoppable. With costs still falling, 2025 will likely surge another 60–70%. The fastest-growing energy in history? Batteries + solar. #BESS #Lithium #Solar #LFP
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
Name the hotels.
J.J. (@thetellurian.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he has an ice cream social on the real day of joy.
Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 Dallas, TX: ICE kidnapping outside of a courtroom. 1/2 TX govt display of “family values.”
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
Jesse (@jesseltaylor.bsky.social) reposted
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Lecia Michelle (@leciamichelle.bsky.social) reposted
Sign up at your CVS or Walgreens and check one of the boxes for a preexisting condition. They don't verify. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/h...
James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) reposted
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities