Lough Talt
@loughtalt.bsky.social
“There now lives an American with more global followers than he has, and it happened in an instant.”
Trump upstaged by Leo XIV
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
Trump upstaged by Leo XIV
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
The art of dealing with Donald Trump? Don’t fight him alone | Jonathan Freedland
This week’s trade deal is a boost for Keir Starmer. But a lasting win will only come by joining forces with other nations to resist the US president’s entire destructive agenda, says Guardian columnis...
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“There now lives an American with more global followers than he has, and it happened in an instant.”
Trump upstaged by Leo XIV
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
Trump upstaged by Leo XIV
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
A wishy-washy president
May 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A wishy-washy president
Not a racist or misogynist administration
Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Not a racist or misogynist administration
“It’s hard to understand, because these people have everything. But what they want is beyond that. They want to not be accountable to anyone. Because what they want is absolutely everything.”
A sharp, clear appraisal of our doomsday oligarchs by @naomiaklein.bsky.social
A sharp, clear appraisal of our doomsday oligarchs by @naomiaklein.bsky.social
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“It’s hard to understand, because these people have everything. But what they want is beyond that. They want to not be accountable to anyone. Because what they want is absolutely everything.”
A sharp, clear appraisal of our doomsday oligarchs by @naomiaklein.bsky.social
A sharp, clear appraisal of our doomsday oligarchs by @naomiaklein.bsky.social
Francis’s First Miracle
Putting Trump in his place
Putting Trump in his place
May 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Francis’s First Miracle
Putting Trump in his place
Putting Trump in his place
He has no empathy
Or compassion
For the weak, the poor,
The downtrodden
He is the opposite of meek
He worships gold
And money
He hates immigrants
Journalists, judges
He’s mean and sometimes
Even cruel
He’s no Pope
Or compassion
For the weak, the poor,
The downtrodden
He is the opposite of meek
He worships gold
And money
He hates immigrants
Journalists, judges
He’s mean and sometimes
Even cruel
He’s no Pope
May 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
He has no empathy
Or compassion
For the weak, the poor,
The downtrodden
He is the opposite of meek
He worships gold
And money
He hates immigrants
Journalists, judges
He’s mean and sometimes
Even cruel
He’s no Pope
Or compassion
For the weak, the poor,
The downtrodden
He is the opposite of meek
He worships gold
And money
He hates immigrants
Journalists, judges
He’s mean and sometimes
Even cruel
He’s no Pope
To paraphrase Nixon:
“Non-plausible deniability”
“Non-plausible deniability”
May 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
To paraphrase Nixon:
“Non-plausible deniability”
“Non-plausible deniability”
She understands that silence is complicity and acts in consequence.
She understood how democracy can be overturned via the democratic process and reported in consequence.
The broligarchy whispered in the Guardian’s ear to get rid of her and the Guardian complied.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Read her
She understood how democracy can be overturned via the democratic process and reported in consequence.
The broligarchy whispered in the Guardian’s ear to get rid of her and the Guardian complied.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Read her
Springtime for Hitler
It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.
broligarchy.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
She understands that silence is complicity and acts in consequence.
She understood how democracy can be overturned via the democratic process and reported in consequence.
The broligarchy whispered in the Guardian’s ear to get rid of her and the Guardian complied.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Read her
She understood how democracy can be overturned via the democratic process and reported in consequence.
The broligarchy whispered in the Guardian’s ear to get rid of her and the Guardian complied.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Read her
Laziness is the original sin of libertarians:
Due process? Naa, too much work.
Medicaid? Naa, too much work.
Democracy? Naa, too much work.
DEI? Naa, too much work.
Thinking before posting a picture of yourself as Pope right after a beloved Pope dies? Naa, too much work.
Due process? Naa, too much work.
Medicaid? Naa, too much work.
Democracy? Naa, too much work.
DEI? Naa, too much work.
Thinking before posting a picture of yourself as Pope right after a beloved Pope dies? Naa, too much work.
May 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Laziness is the original sin of libertarians:
Due process? Naa, too much work.
Medicaid? Naa, too much work.
Democracy? Naa, too much work.
DEI? Naa, too much work.
Thinking before posting a picture of yourself as Pope right after a beloved Pope dies? Naa, too much work.
Due process? Naa, too much work.
Medicaid? Naa, too much work.
Democracy? Naa, too much work.
DEI? Naa, too much work.
Thinking before posting a picture of yourself as Pope right after a beloved Pope dies? Naa, too much work.
You could the same about anything, shoplifting, tax dodgers, heart patients, vaccination programs, the millions of medical interventions. There’s nothing libertarians hate as much as work, they even hate the thought of somebody else working. Trials? Naaa. Medicaid? Naaa. Doing your taxes? Naaa.
Trump: "The courts have all of the sudden, out of nowhere, they said, 'maybe you have to have trials.' Trials. We're gonna have 5 million trials? It doesn't work."
May 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You could the same about anything, shoplifting, tax dodgers, heart patients, vaccination programs, the millions of medical interventions. There’s nothing libertarians hate as much as work, they even hate the thought of somebody else working. Trials? Naaa. Medicaid? Naaa. Doing your taxes? Naaa.
“You are taking on an old Jewish woman, I’m not leaving”
@emilyjaynef.bsky.social
@emilyjaynef.bsky.social
🧵
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
May 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“You are taking on an old Jewish woman, I’m not leaving”
@emilyjaynef.bsky.social
@emilyjaynef.bsky.social
“Putin’s biggest problem, though, won’t be solved by convincing women to carry their pregnancy to term. He’s created a society that Russians no longer want to bring children into. Getting them to reconsider will take more than government checks and pink banners.”
Anna Nemtsova for @theatlantic.com
Anna Nemtsova for @theatlantic.com
Russia Is in Demographic Free Fall. Putin Isn’t Helping.
The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.
www.theatlantic.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“Putin’s biggest problem, though, won’t be solved by convincing women to carry their pregnancy to term. He’s created a society that Russians no longer want to bring children into. Getting them to reconsider will take more than government checks and pink banners.”
Anna Nemtsova for @theatlantic.com
Anna Nemtsova for @theatlantic.com
The White House proposes the US president for Pope
Pope Donald the 1st?
Pope Donald the 1st?
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The White House proposes the US president for Pope
Pope Donald the 1st?
Pope Donald the 1st?
“Putin’s quest for immortality stands revealed: he has not achieved Russia’s greatness, but only ruin – the destruction of countless Ukrainian, Russian, and other lives, sacrificed like the retinue of a dying pharaoh to accompany him toward his inevitable final death.”
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
Putin’s Genocidal Quest for Symbolic Immortality, Part 6
The ruin
substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“Putin’s quest for immortality stands revealed: he has not achieved Russia’s greatness, but only ruin – the destruction of countless Ukrainian, Russian, and other lives, sacrificed like the retinue of a dying pharaoh to accompany him toward his inevitable final death.”
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
Artificial Intelligence
May 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Artificial Intelligence
We are digging our own grave and jumping in it
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We are digging our own grave and jumping in it
We are digging our own grave and already jumping in it
Senate Republicans voted to kill an EPA rule limiting the seven most hazardous air pollutants emitted by chemical plants and other industrial facilities.
Inhaling even small amounts of these pollutants can cause brain damage and cancer.
How is this Making America Healthy Again?
Inhaling even small amounts of these pollutants can cause brain damage and cancer.
How is this Making America Healthy Again?
May 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We are digging our own grave and already jumping in it
“First with the disproportionate power of money and the wealthy who have it, then with attacks on the free press, the control of information, the weakening of checks and balances, suppression of dissent, surveillance of the population, and finally the normalization of repression.”
@theatlantic.com
@theatlantic.com
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
www.theatlantic.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“First with the disproportionate power of money and the wealthy who have it, then with attacks on the free press, the control of information, the weakening of checks and balances, suppression of dissent, surveillance of the population, and finally the normalization of repression.”
@theatlantic.com
@theatlantic.com
In Trumpsy-Turvy USA, the Civil Rights Office recast to persecute non-binary people, non-Christians and non-Conservatives.
Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are fleeing the arm of the agency that defends constitutional rights, which appointees intend to reshape to enact President Trump’s agenda.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In Trumpsy-Turvy USA, the Civil Rights Office recast to persecute non-binary people, non-Christians and non-Conservatives.
Reposted by Lough Talt
ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
April 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
Reposted by Lough Talt
"In one of her first acts, Dhillon changed the mission statements for many of the division’s sections to align with Trump Executive Orders with titles such as 'Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,' 'Keeping Men Out of Woman’s Sports' and Eradicating Anti-Christain Bias.'"
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"In one of her first acts, Dhillon changed the mission statements for many of the division’s sections to align with Trump Executive Orders with titles such as 'Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,' 'Keeping Men Out of Woman’s Sports' and Eradicating Anti-Christain Bias.'"
Putin’s plan for the destruction of the US from the inside is working better than even he envisioned
US at tipping point for return of endemic measles
The United States is at a tipping point for the return of endemic measles a quarter century after the disease was declared eradicated in the country, researchers warned on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Putin’s plan for the destruction of the US from the inside is working better than even he envisioned
‘The courts have not been as easily intimidated as Congress by Trump’s attempts to consolidate his presidency into an authoritarian regime unbound by the Constitution and the rule of law.’
@adamserwer.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
@adamserwer.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
Trump Administration to Judges: ‘We Will Find You’
The attorney general’s message to the judiciary is clear.
www.theatlantic.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
‘The courts have not been as easily intimidated as Congress by Trump’s attempts to consolidate his presidency into an authoritarian regime unbound by the Constitution and the rule of law.’
@adamserwer.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
@adamserwer.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com
Reposted by Lough Talt
Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
For Trump, denial is not just a river in Egypt
Is Trump living in an alternate reality? @katiephang.bsky.social breaks down how Trump's claims of dealmaking are unraveling in her final open for the #KatiePhangShow
April 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For Trump, denial is not just a river in Egypt