Randy Carpenter

Reporters who have access to people like Vance, I beg you: The necessary follow-up is "That's a pretty serious charge. Can you give us A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE of El-Sayed expressing 'anti-white racial bigotry'?" Asking for specifics from people like him is a magic accountability tool. Use it!

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

So readers: We've offered today a small overview of thousands of documents NYT collected as part of reporting for this story--just a tiny fraction shared here What is clear? Documentation matters. Transparency matters Accountability matters. Thanks for reading www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

If you’re thinking of buying an Audi, don’t forget that an Audi executive appeared at a Trump rally this weekend to try to boost an American dictatorship. Make your car-buying decision accordingly.

"The plausible techno-dystopian future we’re staring down is not one where a digital demon kills us all, but one where we... concentrate immense wealth and control of information in a small number of tech-industry figures whose personal interests do not align with the public interest."

I'm sorry, was working in a unionized paper factory or sawmill back in the pre-OSHA 1960s "meaningful work?" Stop romanticizing jobs that most of you here on Bluesky wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole and a full HAZMAT outfit

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

This was always going to happen. My guess is that Trump will issue a blanket pardon for every political appointee. Signaling a move like this will embolden his underlings to disregard and break the law. And that's the point.

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Americans were upset about inflation, so they threw out the leaders who oversaw slowing inflation, opted for a candidate promising to raise prices faster, and got what they voted for.

Trump ran for president to give himself immunity from his many crimes, increase his net worth exponentially by obscenely profiting off the presidency, and ensure that he could get away with cheating on his taxes in the past, present and future. Oh, and to build a ballroom.

America can have an oligarchy or a democracy—but not both. When Democrats next have national power, they must restrict the political power of billionaires, even including the so-called liberal ones that help put them in power. trib.al/UbF2XAk

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

A cartoonishly evil, openly bigoted, serially lying, highly unlikeable enemy of democracy. Almost certainly a criminal many times over. Way-too-deeply embedded in the US government and national security architecture. And with none of the protections of elected office. Bring it hard and do not stop.

Imagine how much different this statement would look if Abdul El-Sayed had said it instead of Trump.

The leader of the Republican Party supports murderous anti-American war criminal Vladimir Putin. Will Republican candidates be repeatedly asked if they denounce Putin? The Republican Party's biggest donor also boosts a German Neo-Nazi party. Will Republican candidates be asked if they denounce AfD?

“Antisemitism here is the symptom rather than the disease—a product of a communications medium and a cultural milieu that produces death threats and slurs as a form of carcinization.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-native-l...

typically great stuff from @goldwagnathan.bsky.social on how indulging in the libidinal lust for slurs and dehumanization crosses ideological lines--and yet sets us all on the same dark path

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Stop the Lindsey Graham rewriting-history fest. If he had been alive, and Trump had waived sanctions on Russia, he would have done what he had always done for the last 10 years--back Trump to the hilt, without reservations. Ukraine meant nothing to him compared to Trump.

it makes my blood boil every time there’s a bullshit tech demo and everyone goes back to “oh that scamp elon has done it again” he’s a vicious monster out to ruin the lives of millions of people who don’t deserve any of it and he should be treated accordingly

Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

1,000 years from now, teachers will struggle to explain to their students how at this time in history, we found literally the most despicable human being in America and made him the most powerful person in the world

Trump may as well start loaning out the US military to the highest bidder. As long as he talks about it at press conferences and doesn’t show any guilt, the media will apparently not be able to detect that it’s extraordinary, scandalous corruption.

New — Mike Huckabee's family company is offering $5800+ trips to Israel, so tourists can meet "top Israeli officials," even while he is the Ambassador to Israel. Plus: he promised his Huck PAC would go "dormant" if he became ambassador. That didn't happen. Over the past 2 years, it's raised $4.5M.

Me every day for the last two years: Republicans are corrupt, incompetent, cruel buffoons who should be stripped of power and, where appropriate, prosecuted Me, occasionally: Democrats need to be better on this issue Bluesky Dems: WHY DO YOU THINK REPUBLICANS HAVE NO AGENCY YOU IGNORANT TWAT?

Can't get numb to this: it’s still absolutely shocking, if totally unsurprising, that Trump is actively helping Russia and harming Ukraine.

We've lost track of how very un-ordinary ICE's current reign of terror is. We’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable and shocking to us just a short time ago. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

My cross-exam for the new press secretary: If Kimberly Guilfoyle had to go over an alleged $100K ask, what about the president who made $2B in year one? Over $1B from crypto while 1M lost $3B on his meme coin ++ Gulf money & Kushner deals The grift is astronomical @ms.now👇 -TN

Trump and Musk are doing everything they can to try and force Ukraine to surrender to Putin while Musk spends over $300 million to try and buy the midterm elections to maintain total power. The American government under Republicans are on the side of evil. Vote them out.

The Trump White House and Hegseth Pentagon have been burrowing Musk more into the US national security architecture, along with other techno-fascist oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey. A Dem-led Congress should review and expose it, and with a future president undo as much as possible.

Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Unprecedented corruption

This piece has a lot of other data, too, detailing how Trump and tech are trying to buy power despite their unpopularity. Take a look!

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This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.

Trump is openly siding with Putin, blaming Ukraine's self-defense rather than Russia's aggression for the war, and telling Ukraine to surrender. Worth calling it out every time. But hardly new. Ambushing Zelensky in DC, aping Russian propaganda, and insisting it's Ukraine's fault was March 2025.

Note that he doesn't say this about the other President in the conflict. You know, the one that was the agressor. Trump wants a Ukrainian president that is willing to surrender to Putin, because he's on Putin's side.

The Deleted Tweets of the New White House Press Secretary www.thebulwark.com/p/katie-zach...

has been true from day one, but always worth reminding: Russia bought an American president. and got the Republican Party and "conservative" movement as part of the deal.