Is Bluesky only filled with tankies? Or are they mostly Chinese and Russian bots to help fuel our own internal divide now that we've left Twitter? Would their followers even care if they were?
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Amazing: ABC's new challenge to Trump's corrupt use of FCC to censor the network cites TRUMP'S OWN TWEETS AND STATEMENTS as evidence that he fully intended to punish it for its reporting and viewpoints. On the pod, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains all this so well: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Trump Blurted Out Openly Corrupt Plot to Censor ABC—and It BackfiredAs Trump’s sordid pressure on ABC comes back to bite him, a legal expert explains why the network is in a good position to withstand Trump-MAGA bullying—and how this case will likely play out.newrepublic.com
“ABC put out its formal response to the FCC’s review, and it’s scathing stuff. I’m going to read one line. ABC says, “The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: Accommodate the administration’s view of what news coverage should look like, or pay the price.”
Greg SargentTrump makes his corruption open and explicit on purpose: It helps normalize and numb people to it, and puts our institutions on notice that they need to bend the knee to him. Check out this exchange with @leahlitman.bsky.social on this point: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Trump: "If we're not in office our country will be invaded at levels that make Spain look small time. That's gonna be a talking point for the midterms."
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
literally impeach him just for this
Murshed Zaheed“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
Trump: "We're gonna hit them very hard. I can actually say that because there's very little they can do about it. They've already apologized. But we've gotta smack them a little bit."
French police have ordered the expulsion of pro-Kremlin propagandist Xenia Fedorova. “Her behaviour undermines the fundamental interests of the State” and her presence in France “constitutes, for this reason, a particularly serious and current threat to public order.”
LibérationXenia Fedorova, ancienne patronne de Russia Today France, vit et travaille dans l’Hexagone depuis dix ans. Son avocat s’est vu remettre un arrêté ministériel d’expulsion ce mercredi 29 juillet. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/BOl
Xenia Fedorova, ancienne patronne de Russia Today France, vit et travaille dans l’Hexagone depuis dix ans. Son avocat s’est vu remettre un arrêté ministériel d’expulsion ce mercredi 29 juillet. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/BOl
Senator Bernie Moreno -- who refuses to comment publicly on his daughter's allegations that her ex-husband physically abused her and her daughter -- tries to shame Dr. Fauci for not listening to right-wing cranks and Fox News pundits. He even asks: "You can't even look at them?" You first, coward.
Aaron Ruparlmaooooo -- Bernie Moreno asks Fauci to apologize to Laura Ingraham (who is standing behind Fauci) and other right-wing grifters
Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.
Aaron RuparMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
Joni Ernst asks Fauci if it was really his plan to persuade Trump to try to slowing the spread of covid, as though her question is a gotcha and that was a bad course of action
This shows the gap between GOP & Dem. messaging. The Republicans NEVER stop pressing their false narratives. They bang the drums over & over. The Dems make their case & move on. They should have been non-stop pummeling Trump for Covid (and 1/6) for years, never letting anyone forget these sins.
Aaron RuparMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
The Supreme Court invited exactly this when it held that the president's attempt to conduct "sham" "investigations" was a core executive power immune from all regulation, including criminal prosecution, in Trump v. United States.
Deborah Pearlstein"Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them....One government document said that 'POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6pm press conference.'"
"Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them....One government document said that 'POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6pm press conference.'"
Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey, New Filing SaysThe demand suggests the intense personal involvement of President Trump in investigating one of his longtime critics, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.www.nytimes.com