@rubysmom55.bsky.social
Reposted
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are vandals of humanity’s progress. They are arsonists and nihilists who seek to take, not explore.
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/vandals-of...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/vandals-of...
Vandals of humanity's progress
Three years into writing every day about something, I don’t yet feel like a writer, but I have become familiar with the rhythms of the craft.
steveschmidt.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are vandals of humanity’s progress. They are arsonists and nihilists who seek to take, not explore.
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/vandals-of...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/vandals-of...
Reposted
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Reposted
Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ"
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
Someone made the point - I think Adam Kinzinger - that the problem is it’s one thing to refuse to murder someone if ordered. It’s another to refuse an order where you yourself don’t have the full context and couldn’t possibly - but someone above you does/did
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Exactly. The operator isn't getting an order to "kill these drowning men," they're being told "strike grid coordinates XYZ"
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
The people who *know* need to be held accountable, and that's pretty senior.
Reposted
Amen
What annoys me about all the talk of the icc is that these are americans committing crimes under the american legal system, so we need to charge them under the american legal system at the earliest chance. We shouldnt offload the responsibilities of trying these criminals to the rest of the world
Pipe dreams don't change things. I've said point-blank that I think what happened in the boat strikes is a war crime, but I don't think "let's hand over US officers to foreign courts" is a winning Dem message, even if it makes people on Bluesky feel brave and virtuous and good about themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Amen
Reposted
Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
"The Order Was to Kill Everybody."
Pete Hegseth's murders. And our War Crimes President.
charliesykes.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
Could we seeTHE kitty? Lily pic please 🙏🏼
Be like the kitty!
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Could we seeTHE kitty? Lily pic please 🙏🏼
Reposted
The US spends over a sixth of our GDP on healthcare, far more than other similar countries.
America wasn’t always such an outlier, though – back in 1970, we had more similar spending levels.
America wasn’t always such an outlier, though – back in 1970, we had more similar spending levels.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The US spends over a sixth of our GDP on healthcare, far more than other similar countries.
America wasn’t always such an outlier, though – back in 1970, we had more similar spending levels.
America wasn’t always such an outlier, though – back in 1970, we had more similar spending levels.
Reposted
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.
Reposted
That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
Reposted
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall while war breaks out between the pro-filibuster Republican senators and the president and his loyalists. This would have produced a better and more democratic ultimate outcome.” The Atlantic
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall while war breaks out between the pro-filibuster Republican senators and the president and his loyalists. This would have produced a better and more democratic ultimate outcome.” The Atlantic
Reposted
🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It feels like America isn’t taking the idea of a third Trump term seriously — that’s terrifying.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
It feels like America isn’t taking the idea of a third Trump term seriously — that’s terrifying.
Mistakenly assuming that an inevitable “return to norm” is on the horizon is a big reason why we’re here.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It feels like America isn’t taking the idea of a third Trump term seriously — that’s terrifying.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Dispatch from Chicago: Broadview detention center’s dirty secrets are now out in the open
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #ICE
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #ICE
Dispatch from Chicago: Broadview detention center’s dirty secrets are now out in the open
The appalling reality about filthy conditions at the ICE detention facility was aired in federal court in Chicago this week.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Dispatch from Chicago: Broadview detention center’s dirty secrets are now out in the open
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #ICE
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #ICE
The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained www.epi.org/publication/...
#immigration
#immigration
The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained
Introduction It is often underrecognized how much population aging is currently reducing the growth rate of the U.S. labor force and will continue to pull it down in coming decades. The share of the p...
www.epi.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained www.epi.org/publication/...
#immigration
#immigration
Reposted
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
Reposted
“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”:
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”:
Reposted
“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”: https://theatln.tc/LNqNkLuT
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”: https://theatln.tc/LNqNkLuT
Reposted
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
As the opposition, are/will/can we be prepared? @radiofreetom.bsky.social @indivisible.org @commoncause.org @50501movement.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us @thebulwark.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
As the opposition, are/will/can we be prepared? @radiofreetom.bsky.social @indivisible.org @commoncause.org @50501movement.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us @thebulwark.com