jakeofnotrades.bsky.social

Musk knows that investigations will show that he disrupted Ukraine's access to Starlink and that Ukrainians died as a result. The penalty for that, at a minimum, is Starlink will be nationalized. This is why he's lashing out.

Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social

as I keep saying, he will give them no choice

Sleepy Don

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump stops talking and immediately starts dozing off

In today's episode of This Isn't Difficult All she had to do was ask him: "Are you going to overturn Roe." If his answer was anything other than an unequivocal "no" then she should have shown him the door.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Susan Collins on Kavanaugh: "I'm very disappointed in his his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was no way for me to anticipate that."

This needs to get boosted. Get the word out there and give Bree the feedback she needs on this.

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

Huh, my mother just told me she was checking her registration and she got dropped. Is that happening to a lot of folks in Minnesota??

OK, this is hilarious.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Jon Ossoff has spent more money on makeup -- and by the way I wear very little and I do it myself. Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. Because if you don't put a little on, you look a little bit like a dead person. I don't want to look that way. But he goes full bore."

Would really like to see someone ask him this question: Why do you keep hiring wildly unqualified people to work in your administration?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I told Katie that in my opinion she was treated very very unfairly by the news. Let's call it the fake news. I said, 'Katie, do you need this? I don't think you need this.' We're talking about doing something. I want her to have a good life. She's being brutalized by the media."

Even if Crowder won this lawsuit, damages would be about $3.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

So, looked it up and Crowder does seem to have a trademark on "Change my mind" for "internet webisodes." But for there to be infringement, there needs to be a likelihood of confusion on the source, and does anyone actually think those others were associated with Crowder?

If you watch closely you can see Johnson's hair turning grayer in real time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "

motherjones.comPete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industryCo-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

We're going to be drawing and quartering soon aren't we?

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

aljazeera.comUS opens antitrust probe into TV networks halting Trump coverageDepartment of Justice says it's investigating whether the White House press pool's decision violated antitrust laws.

The only way for DOJ/Trump to win an antitrust suit is to claim that the presidency is a for-profit enterprise.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

Department of Justice says it’s investigating whether the White House press pool’s decision violated antitrust laws.

Not sure this is correct. GOP Senators know exactly who Trump is, and they know exactly how ghastly all of this is, but they lack the courage to do anything about it. They're cowards. Each and every one of them.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.

Kremlin spokesperson Donald J. Trump makes his case for Putin.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

Is anyone in the press going to ask him who's working on this project?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We will pass a truly great healthcare plan that will stop all payment to big insurance companies"

to.pbs.orgWATCH: Vance says Microsoft is being suspended from green card program for H-1B visa workersPresident Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas as it accuses the ...

Aaaaaaaaahahahahaha... All that sucking up did them no good whatsoever. Also, this is awful in at least ten different ways.

PBS News@pbsnews.org

President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas as it accuses the company of fraud. https://to.pbs.org/4rS5Epk

This...... is not the definition of socialism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

Just to be clear, he did if fact sic the DOJ on all of these people. There were no prosecutions because there were no crimes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

Anyone know what's up with the woman in the red dress?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Who is "we" here?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "This is the golden age of America. We're doing numbers that nobody ever thought were possible. We're doing the biggest numbers economically that we've ever done in the history of our country."

"It's very expensive for our Nation where you have high and dangerous steeples to reach, like churches and municipal buildings." Never heard that argument for ending dayling savings. Steeples. Have I missed something?

Nikki McCann Ramírez@nikkimcr.bsky.social

Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning

hollywoodreporter.comMichael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

Interested to hear from @franklinleonard.bsky.social about this. We had a chat about these two some time last year, after your interview came out, where I questioned whether things would change at WB in this political environment.

Phil Nobile Jr.@philnobilejr.bsky.social

The team that brought in SINNERS and WEAPONS. Genius move. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

ballsandstrikes.orgThe Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court NeededSCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

Hey @pbsnews.org , You've regularly been interviewing people from SCOTUSblog on the NewsHour. Maybe time to rethink that. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

This may be the first time anyone ever described Liberty and Hillsdale as "premier higher ed institutions."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Enter a new core of cadets. To meet this critical need we are partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including LSU, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University, and Hillsdale College."

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

Maybe Pete should consider dialing back his testosterone intake.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

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Is anyone in the press going to follow this up with "the intelligence community agreed that Iran was not close to getting a nuclear weapon"?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon"

Yeah, dude. Now do Russia. Then the US.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio: "Anything that had a chance of making money in Cuba was controlled by the Cuban military and the Cuban communist party to line the pockets of a handful of individuals at the expense of the entire country"

Old man can't distinguish between tax revenue and profits.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

GOP: Socialism is bad. Also GOP: this thing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Seems important. This Cornell story isn't even making the news, but we keep hearing about trans athletes.

Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social

I paid my life insurance premiums for the last three years in a row and never filed a claim. Obviously fraud. We are governed by morons.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

chicagotribune.com‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges

This argument should count for exactly nothing because none of this changes the fact that she charged people with crimes she knew the didn't commit. She attempted to throw innocent people in prison. As prosecutorial misconduct goes, it doesn't get worse than this.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com

‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges

chicagotribune.comTrump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees

I mean, they aren't even trying to hide it.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com

Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees

Maybe don't pay the bonus until they complete the probationary period? Just a thought.

John in Western New York@johnwalczak.bsky.social

So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.

nbcnews.comElon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”

21 Sept

SCOTUS: Money is speech protected by the 1st Amendment, so Congress can't limit campaign contributions. Normal people: So the obscenely wealthy get more speech than we do? SCOTUS: Right. Yeah. That's the holding.

#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com

Elon has already spent over $5 million backing Ken Paxton. Nearly all of it is filling Texans' feeds and mailboxes with vile anti-trans slop. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

18 Sept

The manatees were unnavailable for comment.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tells boat owners they can now "go slightly faster than 10 miles an hour, like 120 miles an hour if you're crazy. But you can go as fast as you want, and we have that order -- it's all signed, sealed, and delivered. So congratulations ... it's common sense" What could possibly go wrong?!

This also made me laugh out loud. Two in the same night and I haven't had a drink. Yet.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

My dog ate one of my AirPods if anyone wants a new dog.

This made me laugh out loud.

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I lose around $10,000 a year on food. I'm just going to stop buying food. It's very simple.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If we lose $50 billion a year with a country, and we say 'we're not going to trade with you anymore,' we don't lose $50 billion a year. It's very simple. Right?"

He's slowly turning into a potato.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tonight in North Carolina (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

I'm gonna be so fucking rich. I'm just gonna stop buying things. Things like food and water. Wealth like no one has ever seen before.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If we stopped trading with every country that we have a deficit with -- which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do -- we would make at least $1.5 trillion a year."

Manchester United wants to make a deal so badly. They keep calling me. They want me so bad. They want to make a deal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "That war? That war is gonna end very soon. Watch. You just watch. Trump was right about everything. You watch. They're getting decimated. And they want to make a deal so badly. They call. 'We want to make a deal!'" (Note the total silence from the crowd)

"Mutilization." Well some things don't change.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "They voted in favor of transgender everything, taxpayer-funded mutilization"

axios.comHouse passes Russia sanctions billThe vote was 262-159.

16 Sept

Quite a day.

Lauren Ashley Davis@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The House passed a sweeping Russia sanctions bill Thursday, sending the long-awaited legislation to President Trump's desk. www.axios.com/2026/09/16/h...

nytimes.comU.S. Charges Five Men in Russia-Backed Assassination PlotsThe defendants, three of whom were members of the Russian intelligence services, tried to recruit people for surveillance and murder for hire in the United States and other countries, prosecutors said...

16 Sept

Did not see that coming either. What is happening?

Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social

U.S. Charges Five Men in Russia-Backed Assassination Plots www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u...

16 Sept

Did not see that coming.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats@houseforeign.bsky.social

Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov announced he will not clear the Trump administration’s proposed $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel due to concerns that those munitions would not be used in accordance with U.S. and international law.

15 Sept

Computer software does not think. It does what it's coded to do.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Yes, AIs think. You can read their thoughts as they have them. AI companies hide the AI’s thoughts because other AI companies might read them and use those thoughts to train their own AIs. This is all very strange and astonishing science fiction territory but it’s real.

15 Sept

Renovation work can't begin unless his name is on the building? I mean, is there anyone who thinks this makes sense?

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

Trump says the Kennedy Center won’t be renovated unless he gets his name on it.

14 Sept

This accusation is a pretty ugly straw man. The simple fact is that a lot of people are struggling financially and therefore can't afford any more subscriptions. "No news for the poors" would be obnoxious on its own, but the rest of this contrived bullshit is offensive as hell.

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nass.orgVoter Registration Status | NASSNot sure if you're already registered, or need to update your information? Select your state in the drop down menu to check.

9 Sept

Checking your voter registration status is especially important in red states where they are purging voter roles. Please check your registration status.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social

CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION This is *very* important where there's been obvious voter suppression, but also generally a good idea. Check that you're *ACTUALLY* registered here ⬇️ & then check again every 1-2 weeks. Pls ask others to do the same! (Not registered?➡️ www.nass.org/can-i-vote/r...)