Sandy Skipper
@sandyskipper.bsky.social
(Retired) HADD Inc. National Director, Consumer Advocacy & Protection. Progressive #PeopleBeforeProfits Opinions expressed are solely my own. #EndForcedArbitration
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State media making stuff up to fluff Trump.
It's like when FOX breathlessly reported that Trump had given us the weekend, or that he was working in D.C. when he was in Palm Beach. They just say whatever they think will help him.
It's like when FOX breathlessly reported that Trump had given us the weekend, or that he was working in D.C. when he was in Palm Beach. They just say whatever they think will help him.
Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
State media making stuff up to fluff Trump.
It's like when FOX breathlessly reported that Trump had given us the weekend, or that he was working in D.C. when he was in Palm Beach. They just say whatever they think will help him.
It's like when FOX breathlessly reported that Trump had given us the weekend, or that he was working in D.C. when he was in Palm Beach. They just say whatever they think will help him.
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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This is a constitutional crisis.
SCOOP: Mario Díaz-Balart, a top House GOP appropriator, tried to add guardrails against pocket rescissions to an appropriations bill — something Democrats have been wanting for months
But then Russ Vought intervened, and Díaz-Balart quietly got rid of the provision
www.notus.org/congress/mar...
But then Russ Vought intervened, and Díaz-Balart quietly got rid of the provision
www.notus.org/congress/mar...
A Top Republican Wanted to Reclaim Congress’ Spending Authority. The White House Stopped Him.
Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, a top appropriator, tried to add guardrails from ‘pocket rescissions’ in an appropriations bill. But then Office of Management Budget Director Russ Vought talked to him.
www.notus.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is a constitutional crisis.
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For all the people alarmed by the rapid rise in the national debt, the Biden Administration tried hard to raise taxes on the wealthiest, and SInema crossed over to join the 50 R Senators so there weren't votes to take a step back from oligarchy. She's a big part of how the super rich got richer
Kyrsten Sinema can fuck all the way off.
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For all the people alarmed by the rapid rise in the national debt, the Biden Administration tried hard to raise taxes on the wealthiest, and SInema crossed over to join the 50 R Senators so there weren't votes to take a step back from oligarchy. She's a big part of how the super rich got richer
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In a related story, Jamaica about to be pounded by the most devastating hurricane on record.
Having the regime pushing fossil fuels to please campaign donors is going to kill a lot of people, destroy a lot of homes, kill species
Having the regime pushing fossil fuels to please campaign donors is going to kill a lot of people, destroy a lot of homes, kill species
A hostile Trump administration has put offshore wind into reverse [via @yalee360.bsky.social]
A hostile Trump administration has put offshore wind into reverse
Most East Coast projects are doomed.
www.motherjones.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In a related story, Jamaica about to be pounded by the most devastating hurricane on record.
Having the regime pushing fossil fuels to please campaign donors is going to kill a lot of people, destroy a lot of homes, kill species
Having the regime pushing fossil fuels to please campaign donors is going to kill a lot of people, destroy a lot of homes, kill species
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He hates when anyone asks a hard question, and lashes out vindictively. And having openly said that he was giving Argentina this money to influence their election on behalf of his buddy, it's hard for him to segue to "they're all going to die without this money"
October 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
He hates when anyone asks a hard question, and lashes out vindictively. And having openly said that he was giving Argentina this money to influence their election on behalf of his buddy, it's hard for him to segue to "they're all going to die without this money"
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I wish that there had been unprecedented spending opposing the gerrymandering in red states, but I guess no rich people felt that their interests were imperiled by it.
The unbelievably expensive battle for California's congressional map
The unbelievably expensive battle for California's congressional map
With weeks to go, Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting measure has drawn almost unprecedented spending.
www.motherjones.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I wish that there had been unprecedented spending opposing the gerrymandering in red states, but I guess no rich people felt that their interests were imperiled by it.
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Literally nothing too big or small for him to lie about
October 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Literally nothing too big or small for him to lie about
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No Kings in Maryland!
October 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
No Kings in Maryland!
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NEW REPORT from me tonight:
Trump’s Behavior Could End Up Helping Those He Is Targeting
A former prosecutor who fielded claims of vindictive and selective prosecution by Jan. 6 rioters weighs in on what the DOJ is doing today.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
Trump’s Behavior Could End Up Helping Those He Is Targeting
A former prosecutor who fielded claims of vindictive and selective prosecution by Jan. 6 rioters weighs in on what the DOJ is doing today.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
Is Anyone In Trump’s America Safe From His Wrath?
A former prosecutor who fielded claims of vindictive and selective prosecution by Jan. 6 rioters weighs in on what the DOJ is doing today.
www.huffpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
NEW REPORT from me tonight:
Trump’s Behavior Could End Up Helping Those He Is Targeting
A former prosecutor who fielded claims of vindictive and selective prosecution by Jan. 6 rioters weighs in on what the DOJ is doing today.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
Trump’s Behavior Could End Up Helping Those He Is Targeting
A former prosecutor who fielded claims of vindictive and selective prosecution by Jan. 6 rioters weighs in on what the DOJ is doing today.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
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DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughling is now claiming that Debbie Brockman was arrested for "assault on a federal law enforcement officer" because she was throwing objects at a Border Patrol agent.
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
trib.al
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughling is now claiming that Debbie Brockman was arrested for "assault on a federal law enforcement officer" because she was throwing objects at a Border Patrol agent.
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Techbrahs are not normal.
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
wapo.st
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Techbrahs are not normal.
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I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.
Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
October 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.
Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Incredibly important thread here
Post 1/5
Nation's Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in the Letitia James Indictment.
NACDL "unequivocally condemns the federal indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James," calling it an "untenable breach of institutional independence."
Nation's Defense Bar Condemns Apparent Politicization of Justice in the Letitia James Indictment.
NACDL "unequivocally condemns the federal indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James," calling it an "untenable breach of institutional independence."
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Incredibly important thread here
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Stephen Miller is the most powerful White House aid in memory because Trump is the weakest and most befuddled President we've seen
Key thing here is the idea that Stephen Miller and others are absolutely thrilled that Trump has lost a step, since it makes him easier to manipulate:
Pritzker to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump says a lot of crazy things. I genuinely think there's something wrong with him. I wish his family would intervene... I don’t think anybody around is going to do it bc they’re benefiting from his dementia"
Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...
Full interview: newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Stephen Miller is the most powerful White House aid in memory because Trump is the weakest and most befuddled President we've seen
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RFK Jr went to an elite experimental day school in Watertown MA, a known hotbed of hunting and shooting.
RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.
September 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
RFK Jr went to an elite experimental day school in Watertown MA, a known hotbed of hunting and shooting.
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A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation apnews.com/article/coll...
Privacy and civil rights groups urge US colleges to end campus surveillance to protect protesters
A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups is calling on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection in order to protect student protesters from government ...
apnews.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation apnews.com/article/coll...
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It's a Saturday in August, which is a great time to look at how X's Community Notes fact-checking system is handling recent dubious claims regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
www.conspirator0.com/p/community-...
www.conspirator0.com/p/community-...
Community Notes, Epstein, and Maxwell
A brief look at recent X Community Notes regarding the Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell case
www.conspirator0.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's a Saturday in August, which is a great time to look at how X's Community Notes fact-checking system is handling recent dubious claims regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
www.conspirator0.com/p/community-...
www.conspirator0.com/p/community-...
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Per filing, the government on Thursday offered to deport Abrego to Costa Rica if he agreed to plead guilty.
Then, on Friday, Abrego was released from criminal detention.
ICE immediately informed his counsel that it intended to deport him to Uganda.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Then, on Friday, Abrego was released from criminal detention.
ICE immediately informed his counsel that it intended to deport him to Uganda.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Per filing, the government on Thursday offered to deport Abrego to Costa Rica if he agreed to plead guilty.
Then, on Friday, Abrego was released from criminal detention.
ICE immediately informed his counsel that it intended to deport him to Uganda.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Then, on Friday, Abrego was released from criminal detention.
ICE immediately informed his counsel that it intended to deport him to Uganda.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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BREAKING: Another federal court ruling finds that Trump's efforts, in effect, to kill unions in the federal workforce was likely illegal regarding the Defense Dept's education facilities.
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
BREAKING: Another federal court ruling finds that Trump's efforts, in effect, to kill unions in the federal workforce was likely illegal regarding the Defense Dept's education facilities.
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Yeah, this is fucking bad, Bowser.
I don't know about you, but I've had to cancel days off or vacation many times for things less important than "the authoritarian takeover of the city I was elected to manage"
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
D.C. Mayor Heads to Martha's Vineyard as Trump Takes Over City
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser took off for Martha's Vineyard amid President Donald Trump's federal takeover of the nation's capital.
www.rollingstone.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yeah, this is fucking bad, Bowser.
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After the shooting at CDC, Sen. Blumenthal is calling for HHS Secretary Kennedy to fire Dr. Robert Malone — whose Substack posts and other writings are objectively unhinged and tinged with violence — from ACIP and restore the expert panel Kennedy gutted. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
August 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
After the shooting at CDC, Sen. Blumenthal is calling for HHS Secretary Kennedy to fire Dr. Robert Malone — whose Substack posts and other writings are objectively unhinged and tinged with violence — from ACIP and restore the expert panel Kennedy gutted. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...