Ryan McBride

Maybe I'm back? Either way... links in the profile to support independent journalism and analysis. 🤝

NEW via Semafor: Trump's FBI has opened a leak investigation into Joe Kent, the former top intelligence official who just resigned in protest over the Iran war.

GARCIA: It was clear from the minute it started that the attorney general is trying to evade the subpoena. We asked her that question. Multiple members asked. She would not respond. She said she'll continue to follow the law. That is not a response

AOC: I think we know without a doubt that this is a war of choice—that Donald Trump has initiated all of these hostilities, killing American service members and innocent Iranians alike, and for no reason. He has a different reason every day.

Trump doesn’t think he needs Congress. Beyond the fact that Trump himself and his regime are a bunch of authoritarian grifters, this lies on the chest of every member of Congress.

Yeah so this seems really bad.

The president’s spokeswoman going on the president’s daughter-in-law’s interview program to lie about the effects of her efforts to strongarm other media outlets into changing a report damaging to the regime would be very recognizable to anyone who’s lived under authoritarianism.

Yeah no shit. That's what they want. Any and all groups of people who are not white men are not seen as equal in the eyes of this fascist regime. Another atrocious piece of legislation to set us back 100 years.

GENEVA (AP) - UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war. @apnews.com

The Trump regime has gutted the US government. THIS is the fallout. They don’t give a fuck about veterans.

More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted: More and more rot.

150 US troops injured. 8 severely. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Agreed. We should already have moved on from fossil fuels.

Incredible LOCAL journalism. Please SUPPORT your local journalists!

Also according to @dropsitenews.com, it appears the US double tapped the school. We massacred them.

We are fighting Israel’s war. Trump got duped like the fool that he is to fight an authoritarians war. Hegseth has said as much. They aren’t hiding it and they don’t care to. The US government killed 150 children, and US soldiers have been killed as well. What a fucking nightmare scenario.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

As casual as it all seems sometimes, seeing a sitting senator say this shouldn’t go unnoticed.

Our own federal government is ABANDONING American citizens as they conduct an illegal war.

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Uh oh. YouTube is down.

SCOOP: Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7. theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...

ICYMI:

youtu.be/TjZXzNo30BI?...

BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein BALINT: Weak sauce BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution-- BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*

Getting your eyes dilated is such a weird experience. I’ve been getting this done for like 20+ years and every time I’m like ugh okay fine let’s do it. The drops lasts just long enough to be annoying, then it seemingly fades and half of your day is gone lol.

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

There is so much more than we already know and what we know should be impeachable. Trump is one of the most disgusting people to ever walk this earth.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Criminal. We are so far beyond the pale and yet Trump continues to occupy the White House.