reichnekov.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

submitted 1 day ago • 7155 comments

Leonard Leo, perhaps the man most responsible for the federal judiciary's lurch to the right - including the SCOTUS right-wing supermajority - is now apparently a "sleazebag" in Trump's eyes. 🤷‍♀️ In 2023, @andykroll.bsky.social led a massive deep dive on Leo for @propublica.org :

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

BREAKING: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order seeking to ban the use of federal money for NPR and PBS.

submitted 5 days ago • 144 comments

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

submitted 10 days ago • 182 comments

Wow

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

until I was in my early 20s I thought the world was made up of a multiplicity of discrete entities and not a single absolutely infinite substance

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

CBS News President Wendy McMahon says she's resigning because "the company and I do not agree on the path forward." CBS' parent company is trying to settle a lawsuit with President Trump. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

laughing nervously: uh ... wtf??? (The SG + Trump administration is trying to dismantle even MORE of campaign finance law - and allow MORE massive spending in politics.)

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone, according to a statement from his personal office.

submitted 14 days ago • 199 comments

it is almost as though in societies where the capitalist mode of production prevails, increases in labor productivity are effectuated for the sake of increasing rates of surplus value extraction and capital accumulation

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.

submitted 17 days ago • 1283 comments

UP FIRST: The Supreme Court will hear historic arguments over birthright citizenship today. And, House Republicans are working to advance Trump's "big beautiful bill," but there is division over policies.

submitted 17 days ago • 47 comments

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

submitted 23 days ago • 566 comments

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

submitted 41 days ago • 248 comments

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

submitted 42 days ago • 364 comments

Another alternative to "scientific consensus" @mbarany.com suggests "convergent understanding" My e.g. 'This is our convergent understanding based on decades of research, debate & critical testing, and supported by substantial lines of diverse evidence' yep, nice suggestion #hps #philsci

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

In a new memo, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ will allow for subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to get information and testimony from journalists.

submitted 37 days ago • 220 comments

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

submitted 39 days ago • 119 comments

A transgender teen cannot change his name, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in an opinion that repeatedly misgendered him and referred to him as a "minor female" and "young girl." Both parents backed their son's request for a name change. buff.ly/8VifmBK

submitted 39 days ago • 24 comments

Every time the Justice Department tries to claim the military isn’t actually banning transgender people, Pete Hegseth tweets that it is. This is likely to come up at oral arguments at the DC Circuit Court of appeals — conveniently scheduled for tomorrow.

submitted 41 days ago • 247 comments

Chuck truly is a prize-winning rhetorician. So inspiring.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.

submitted 44 days ago • 365 comments

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z

submitted 45 days ago • 223 comments

The Mississippi Legislature’s newly redrawn Mississippi Senate District map does not follow court orders to strengthen voting power for Black Mississippians in DeSoto County, a unanimous three-judge panel ruled on Tuesday. buff.ly/TtjzkLv

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump administration has drafted a memo to Congress outlining its intent to end nearly all federal funding for public media, which includes NPR and PBS, according to a White House official who spoke to NPR.

submitted 47 days ago • 188 comments

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

submitted 48 days ago • 150 comments

The Mississippi Humanities Council funds book events, museums, historic sites, the Mississippi Freedom Trail markers and hundreds of other projects annually. About 70% of MHC’s funding comes from the federal government. The Trump administration just cut it all off. Read more: buff.ly/66tkhX1

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

submitted 51 days ago • 493 comments

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

submitted 51 days ago • 192 comments

these people would excitedly share their exclusive interview with influential disruptor Joseph Goebbels

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Almost immediately after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled, Syria came under attack. Israeli airstrikes have hit several hundred times since December. Syria's new leaders are starting to speak up.

submitted 52 days ago • 28 comments

Last year, Sen. Polk introduced a bill that would have required three Mississippi universities to close, but that bill failed. He also killed an effort to restore Mississippi’s ballot initiative in 2023, saying he feared voters would use it to repeal the state’s right-to-work law.

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner

submitted 53 days ago • 76 comments

The Mississippi Legislature’s 2025 session is over, but lawmakers could soon return to work in a special session after the House and Senate failed to adopt a budget before the regular session ended on April 3. Gov. Tate Reeves says he will call lawmakers into a special session.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

A federal judge has ordered the Trump White House to let Associated Press journalists return to the Oval Office and other spaces to cover news events, ruling it was unlawful to block the news service in a dispute over its choice of words.

submitted 54 days ago • 70 comments

#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent vacates Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 55 days ago • 706 comments

In a 25-hour speech decrying what he described as Trump's "grave" threats to democracy, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man from New Jersey, gave the longest U.S. Senate floor speech in U.S. history—smashing the record Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond set with his 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

submitted 62 days ago • 374 comments

Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?

submitted 64 days ago • 136 comments

A Turkish student living and studying lawfully in the U.S. was arrested by federal immigration officers. A lawyer explained to NPR some of the basic rights people have in such a situation.

submitted 65 days ago • 41 comments

A lawyer who represented SpaceX looks to downsize a federal civil rights watchdog that enforces anti-discrimination laws.

submitted 66 days ago • 25 comments

WATCH: A new investigative collaboration from @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and ProPublica explores a transnational online network of extremists accused of inciting acts of white supremacist terrorism on the messaging platform Telegram. They called themselves Terrorgram.

submitted 68 days ago • 14 comments