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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 2h

Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 3h

It sounds like he’s saying there won’t be paychecks unless you let Trump be king.

Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 5h

In their own words is kind of damning

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 5h

Leopards would never eat my face if I did exactly what they wanted, eh?

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h

The DeVos’ Grand Rapids is apparently living Mamdani’s socialist parade

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 5h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Unsure how many times I have to repeat it, but health care shouldn’t be for-profit.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 1d

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 6h

The contrast between Vance’s beliefs and those of the pope do not make Vance look good

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, it’s hard to explain away that the guy is on tape accepting 50k in cash from undercover officers but Vance just wants to keep saying that he has no idea what is going.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 6h

They fundamentally misunderstand government and leading. It’s like people who think war is just about fighting and not about logistics.

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a misunderstanding of the world

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17h

It’s the inequality

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 6h

We should start targeting trust in Russia

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 9h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

The truth about the administration’s threat federal employees won’t get paid when shutdown ends. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 7h

Doesn’t look like Portland is burning

Three frogs standing in the street with snipers pointing guns at them from the top of a building

A small crowd of protesters with gunmen on the roof of a nearby building

A third photo of a small crowd with law enforcement on the roof

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 7h

Today’s “One First” looks at how #SCOTUS and its defenders have responded to criticisms of the Court’s behavior in Trump cases either by knocking down straw men or by attacking the critics—without meaningfully defending what the Court is actually *doing*:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party—and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing—or why? And even if the answer is somehow “yes,” does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it’s doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices’ minds of “defying” the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months—let alone all five of them. I’d love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven’t been—and won’t be—holding my breath.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 7h

Ideally, this would open some discussion about wtf is up with this tactic in general.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 17h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 7h

Good news

Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 18h

I am curious to see what she does tho.