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

Watched Monty Python & the Holy Grail tonight. Remembered my dad took me to see it with him in the theater and cried laughing at the moose credits. Nothing had ever been made like this movie before. It’s still great even after seeing it dozens of times.

submitted 19 hours ago • 289 comments

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

submitted 1 day ago • 1173 comments

Fact-check: True

submitted 1 day ago • 385 comments

every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

submitted 10 hours ago • 1343 comments

Slotkin has been awful this week. First, the Reagan stuff & repeating the Pundits' Harris nonsense. Now with the household analogy. But also, the media must do better. Stop parroting the authoritarian party's talking points. Debt/GDP came down under Biden. What kind of unserious question is this?

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

“The Trumpists are no longer in their majesty. They control the executive, the Parliament, the Supreme Court and social networks. But in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads.” — Claude Malhuret, to the French Senate (March 4, 2025).

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

This is flatly illegal. The plain text of the law says that any person who works for any 501(c)(3) nonprofit is eligible. There is ZERO authority for limiting eligibility based on the work such nonprofit does. They WILL lose the lawsuit. Even so, this is making so many people’s lives harder.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there! Give your music a bath with this handy guide.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Let's Create "Town Hall Night in America" washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/07/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

The meme that the polls are worthless and usually wrong has done real damage. The polls and political data journalism have their flaws, but if they go, you're not going to like what comes next.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

If the Biden administration had done this, it would be deemed proof of the Democrats' hostility to religion. But Trump is doing it, so his Christian allies turn against Christian ministries and gut their ability to serve the poorest of the poor. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I remain stunned that we don’t have a half dozen Democratic senators competing to see who can be the biggest thorn in Trump’s side.

submitted 3 days ago • 158 comments

There’s no opposition party, just a few brave voices in a sea of vichy cowards bsky.app/profile/greg...

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

NATO is already done. The United States of America is now an ally of the Russian Federation, and an adversary of European democracies.

submitted 3 days ago • 524 comments

We are not going to sit around and normalize the things Donald Trump and his Administration are doing. Because the things he’s doing are not normal and, in many cases, are not legal. That’s why he’s losing in the courts, in Congress, and in our communities.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

President Trump says rates of pediatric cancer are way up, but his incompetent fanatics on DOGE fired my guest tonight, Dr. Lauren McGee, a remarkable pediatric cancer researcher who was sacked from NIH as part of Musk’s Valentine’s Day onslaught.

submitted 4 days ago • 112 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 4 days ago • 2026 comments

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

submitted 4 days ago • 486 comments

The Texas Democrat stood, shouting, as the president addressed a joint session of Congress. After refusing to retake his seat, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered Rep. Green removed from the chamber.

submitted 4 days ago • 255 comments

For years, I’ve been droning on that “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party.” Tonight, with feckless media broadcasting the lying fascist & feckless Democrats doing nothing while the lying fascist lies, this has never been more clear 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Pete is right—Trump's lie and Elon Musk calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme is the Republicans laying the groundwork to destroy it.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 269 comments

This is an opinion piece that evidently meets Jeff Bezos' new test for supporting "personal liberties and free markets." Support pro-democracy independent media.

submitted 7 days ago • 1624 comments

She voted for 18 of 19 Cabinet nominees. She's free to resign, or switch parties at any time. Otherwise, no one wants tweets from her right now. She's shamefully enabled the fascism at every point & she, Collins, & the other supposedly "moderate" Republicans are exactly why we are here.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

Deserved

submitted 8 days ago • 511 comments

Boycotting the SOTU is a bad idea. Show up and find a clever way to protest—like Pelosi, AOC, and others in the white suits. React in real time and change the public perception. Then go on TV and social. Show we’re willing to stand up to this clown for the American people who are getting screwed.

submitted 7 days ago • 80 comments

www.mojo4music.com/articles/new...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve always been skeptical of folks who say Trump is a literal ‘Russian asset’ or that Moscow has ‘kompromat’ on him, and the Russia obsession hurt the Dems in term one… but… how does anyone explain this? Justify this? How? t.co/ie1nWaL8ot

submitted 8 days ago • 594 comments

This is exactly what a frightened abused wife would send to her family about her abusive husbands actions at thanksgiving, because he’s checking her phone It’s sick and sad

submitted 8 days ago • 2254 comments

Tim Snyder brilliantly analyzes what this bit of Trump’s lunacy yesterday revealed: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 9 days ago • 1190 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 9 days ago • 2265 comments

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 295 comments

Once again, it was not a mistake by Kamala Harris to stand together with Liz Cheney in the 2024 election. It's neither Harris' nor Cheney's nor the Democrats fault that the entire rest of the GOP has collapsed into far right authoritarianism & the Romneys & Murkowskis & GWBs are cowards.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

submitted 9 days ago • 1958 comments

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

submitted 9 days ago • 825 comments

No words. The US spent somewhere north of 20T in today’s dollars on defense between 1948-89 —in part—to fight the Cold War against the USSR Today, the US admin staged a show of support for a murderous Russian dictator. And the real hero sat to the right of the man that’s betraying our country.

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

Might be the most shameful moment of this Presidency so far. Zelensky vs two of Putin's attack dogs.

submitted 9 days ago • 256 comments

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 9 days ago • 3410 comments

In a world where things mattered, today is the Goldwater-Rhodes moment. Alas, there appears to be no one left in the Republican Party who cares about the law, Constitution, national security, or our international credibility. And this is not a problem, again, that Democrats can solve by themselves.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 10 days ago • 579 comments

RIP Gene Hackman - One of the most influential screen actors ever. There was nothing he couldn’t do. His work was searingly truthful and often brutally honest -he never let you off the hook . Not afraid of ambiguity- a lost quality these days . Lucky & grateful to have share screen with him.

submitted 10 days ago • 428 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 12 days ago • 975 comments

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

submitted 11 days ago • 598 comments

RIP, WaPo. Just the saddest screenshots to get. An absolute abandonment of the principles of accountability of the powerful, justice, democracy, human rights, and accurate information that previously animated the section in favor of a white male billionaire’s self-interested agenda.

submitted 11 days ago • 163 comments

After the disturbing news this morning about the Washington Post's opinion section, Democracy Docket sent out the following. If you want to support its commitment to pro-democracy news, information, opinion and analysis, become a member today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

submitted 11 days ago • 188 comments

Still cannot believe we spent all of November & December talking about how it was <checks notes> Harris/Walz & The Democrats who <checks notes again> lost touch with the political center & Real Folkz & ignored Kitchen Table Issues. Congrats everyone. Truly, well done.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments