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

"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1494 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1144 comments

This dumbass. Good lord. Bring Back DEI. Hire competent people. This isn't a game, MAGA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 69 comments

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth shared the Houthi attacks in a second private signal chat that included his wife and brother. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 660 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 1 day ago • 905 comments

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that. Oops! Day one funding freeze Oops! Ebola Oops! Nuclear security workers Oops! Bird flu Oops! PEPFAR Oops! HHS firings And on and on and on... Now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 664 comments

AG Pam Bondi's politically appointed DOJ attys losing any credibility with district judges. (From Judge Amy Berman Jackson's order yesterday, temporarily blocking CFPB reductions in force.)

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired 1,400 of the agency’s 1,700 employees; medical debt and student loans will now be deprioritized. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h... #BlueSky #MedSky

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

WOW. SCOTUS has BLOCKED the administration from deporting class members under the Alien Enemies Act until further order of SCOTUS. This is the case Boasberg couldn’t issue a TRO in earlier because he didn’t have jurisdiction. I’m honestly shocked.

submitted 2 days ago • 225 comments

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent

submitted 2 days ago • 668 comments

NEWS: The Senate has learned Federal Election Commissioner Allen Dickerson, a Republican, is stepping down at the end of April, per a senior official with knowledge. This would "break" the FEC, one commissioner shy of the voting quorum required to enforce campaign finance law

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 3 days ago • 8526 comments

Mack Truck announces layoffs — due to truck orders that have been “negatively affected by .. the impact of tariffs.” @penncapital-star.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social penncapital-star.com/briefs/mack-...

submitted 2 days ago • 376 comments

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 696 comments

In a filing Wednesday evening, Jefferson Griffin — the Republican candidate seeking to overturn the North Carolina Supreme Court 2024 election results — asked the state appeals court to disenfranchise more voters by expanding the number of ballots included in the state’s cure process.

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals just issued a decision demanding due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia “The government [seeks] to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process..This should be shocking..to the..sense of liberty that Americans..hold”

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

SARA EISEN: What evidence is there of corruption? WARREN: He announces tariff policy, says there's no exceptions, but "I talked to Tim Cook." Really? E: Shouldn't he? W: "Great deal available for Tim Cook" E: It's great for Americans who have to buy iPhones W: No. It's great for one company

submitted 3 days ago • 413 comments

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” the court said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 3 days ago • 384 comments

This isn’t America First—it’s America alone. People don’t realize the path Trump has us on. While he waits by the phone for Xi Jinping to “negotiate,” Xi’s out making moves—touring Asia and cutting deals with European leaders to make China less dependent on the U.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.

submitted 3 days ago • 710 comments

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 3 days ago • 253 comments

Sen. Chris Van Hollen after being turned away from the prison holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "I do intend to keep at this until we ensure that Mr. Abrego Garcia has his rights to due process, which is what the courts of the United States have called for."

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

100 days ago today, Southern California was engulfed by some of the most destructive wildfires in recorded state history. Some of the most vibrant communities in all of California were devastated.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

By saying in public that she's really shook, Murkowski is being more honest than any other Republican senator right now. Not not heroic, but she's braver than her peers, and it's a start.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

🧵 Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said this week that the threat of political "retaliation is real" under President Donald Trump as she expressed concerns about the administration's policies. While speaking to nonprofit leaders on Monday, she was asked about her message to Alaskans who are afraid.

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in death of UnitedHealthcare CEO www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Temu and Shein are raising their US prices next week

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 4 days ago • 1871 comments

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

submitted 4 days ago • 337 comments

Despite a court order, Donald Trump is still refusing to allow journalists from the Associated Press into the White House press pool. This is a direct assault on the First Amendment, free speech, and freedom of the press.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

submitted 4 days ago • 341 comments

Senator Chris Van Hollen is speaking live from El Salvador, where he just met with the Salvadoran VP: www.youtube.com/live/pYZPzHy...

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

Trump illegally deported Kilmar to a foreign torture prison and is defying a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling requiring him to “facilitate” his return. Taxpayers are paying El Salvador to keep him there. This is un-American, unconstitutional and unconscionable. Trump must return him now.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 5 days ago • 1156 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 6 days ago • 1652 comments

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

submitted 5 days ago • 1965 comments

My latest about how Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina and how it could usher in a new era of unprecedented election subversion. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

submitted 5 days ago • 235 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 5 days ago • 994 comments

Whew! Sen Chuck Grassley’s town hall should be a wake-up call for Trump & Republicans. Voters want Kilmar García brought home — and they’re pissed Trump’s thumbing his nose at a Supreme Court ruling. This isn’t “tough on crime,” it’s lawless, un-American trash — and folks know it. This is Iowa!

submitted 5 days ago • 381 comments

"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

submitted 6 days ago • 685 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

There will be more cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. More illegal deportations. More mistakes. And they’re laying the groundwork to deport American citizens - permanently - to El Salvador’s prisons. It’s not hypothetical. Republicans must join us & draw the line. Or watch our democracy disappear.

submitted 5 days ago • 280 comments

Karoline Leavitt is a liar, propagandist & accomplice to a criminal regime. “There is never going to be a world in which [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is going to live a peaceful life in MD because he is a foreign terrorist & MS-13 gang member,” she said w/o evidence about a man who's committed no crime.

submitted 5 days ago • 913 comments

Millions fewer tourists are visiting the US under Trump, according to new data. This could cost the economy nearly $90 billion this year.

submitted 5 days ago • 303 comments