Puddleglum

Puddleglum

@oakspuddle.bsky.social

I pretty much hate social media, don't really intend to post much at this point, not in it for followers, just here to browse news and interests. 🚫MAGA, unrequested lists. These are some dark and crazy days for the US, try to stay sane, good people. ❤️

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Puddleglum
@oakspuddle.bsky.social

Every American should be required to read this. We should all be in the streets, we should all be doing something, and if we can't think how to or what would really stop this, we should forgive every Reich-bound German. Spread this one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.comBanished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation dealsAfter a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

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Molly Knight
@mollyknight.bsky.social

Who wants to tell Hakeem Jeffries that Mamdani would beat him by 30 points if they ran against each other lol

HuffPost@huffpost.com

The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.

huffpost.comTop Democrat Seems Sour After Mamdani-Backed Candidates Oust House IncumbentsThe House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.

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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social

I'd like to shout out prison litigators, who perform the vital yet thankless task of protecting constitutional rights behind bars. They are in the trenches fighting to secure basic decency and safety for a deeply vulnerable population whom most would rather ignore. It's courageous and heroic work.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social

Really bad grant in the Supreme Court's orders list—the justices will consider whether this individual👇had a right to sue federal officials who denied him proper medical care in prison. Preparing to take another (possibly lethal?) bite out of Bivens. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Puddleglum
@oakspuddle.bsky.social

NYT appears to have scooped this, just now: "Live Updated June 20, 2026, 11:43 a.m. ET6 minutes ago Mideast Live Updates: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Hormuz Iran’s military command blamed the U.S., saying it failed to prevent Israel from violating the cease-fire in Lebanon." hahahaha

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

propublica.orgMore Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food ProgramRepublican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

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Sean McL
@smcl.bsky.social

Replying to @keptsimple.bsky.social

also for people who think "pasteurization" is some convoluted chemical addition, rather than just "heating it up for a while"

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

fun to see that most of what is in cheetos you would find in any decently stocked pantry and that the more "exotic" ingredients are just a few starches and food colorings

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Puddleglum
@oakspuddle.bsky.social

Just ducked my head into Paramount stream to see what's happening on the White house lawn so far. Two Latinos in a cage fighting for Trump and his cronies and lackeys. Hunger Games. Watch at home on State TV. 🤮

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Shipwreck
@shipwreck75.bsky.social

Basically, see you all in 60 days when this starts back up

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

Al Arabiya reports the proposed U.S.-Iran (MOU) deal includes: • A 60+ day ceasefire • Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days • Phased sanctions relief tied to resumed Iranian oil exports • Continued nuclear negotiations during the ceasefire • A halt to hostilities across all fronts

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

Imagine if Nixon had demanded that the Watergate burglars receive a massive taxpayer reward and that all future investigations into him and the whole cabal be blocked forever. Sounds bad? Well, things are much worse than that today.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Sigs you are living under a personalist regime #3: The inner circle has free rein to pillage. Lawbreaking is ignored, pardoned or rewarded, as long as you stay loyal. Conflicts of interests rules no longer exist. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

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CREW
@citizensforethics.org

If you thought Trump was corrupt before, it just got *a lot* worse. The DOJ just expanded the absurd settlement giving him a $1.7 billion slush fund to ALSO bar the IRS from pursuing investigations into him, his family and his businesses. That's a huge, unconstitutional giveaway to Trump. 🧵

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David Simon
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

He's not leaving, folks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Between the drone-proofing, missile-proofing, & drone capacity, we can have all sorts of military -- I hate to use the word snipers -- but we have great sniper capacity. It's built for our snipers, not enemy's snipers. And bc of the height we get a very clear view of everything all over DC."

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Doug Lindner
@douglindner.bsky.social

Obama calls for no political prosecutions, no political pardons, no politicizing the military, and no presidential bribes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

OBAMA: A good policy that I'd like to see followed is that the president shouldn't have a bunch of side hustles that companies and foreign entities can invest in COLBERT: How much of that is just jealousy that you didn't think of selling sneakers?

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

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Mark Jacob
@markjacob.bsky.social

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "For the first time in more than 50 years, we now have reverse migration. A beautiful thing actually."

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Irie DC
@iriedc.bsky.social

My reaction to the lede is "just alcohol"?!?

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social

“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated…A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.”🚨🍸🥃🍻🍺

theatlantic.comThe FBI Director Is MIAKash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits. Yes, $30 million per HOUR. All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

theguardian.com$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis findsExclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn b

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ElieNYC
@elienyc.bsky.social

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments

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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social

Donald Trump: he‘s just like us (losing his mind at the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions and posting his way through the emotional turmoil)

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Schooley
@schooley.bsky.social

They look like they were created in the same lab.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Ogles: "The next bill we're working with the White House on is to put more teeth in the denaturalization process so that we can start denaturalizing these people like Mamdani who came into the country under false pretense, and kick them out of the country"

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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com

Here's preview of the end of the current US administration

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.