josephs795.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Trump's Threats to the Constitution Are Happening in Real Time, Not (Just) in a Third Term www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/31/t...

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

This is a great thread and also an example of why Bluesky should add “Show this thread” at the bottom of a post when it’s part of a thread. Unless the poster says it’s a thread — and often writers don’t know when they start that it will become one — the reader has no idea there’s more.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Reminder: Trump was on the path to getting the due process Le Pen just did (which also took years, even w/o Presidential immunity) until John Roberts intervened. John Roberts was singularly responsible for delay, John Roberts was key vote that created 2 more years of delay.

submitted 15 hours ago • 63 comments

I know I shouldn't be surprised but it is incredible how swiftly abortion was pushed out of the political conversation the minute the election was over

submitted 2 days ago • 260 comments

We went from a friendly, respected, prosperous country to an aggressive, despised, bankrupt country in two months.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Honesty, Humility, Integrity: Pete Hegseth Fails to Meet Standards He Claims Trans Service Members Lack www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/30/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I'm still gobsmacked that the media is calling "signalgate" the first scandal of Trump 2.0. You mean bringing in an un-elected billionaire and a bunch of teenagers to ravage the govt. isn't one? Abducting students off the streets isn't one? Threatening to seize Greenland and so much more? WTF???

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

This penalizes hard working Americans.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

It all boils down to the fact that elite pundits find lefties annoying, because they make moral demands. Whereas the right's appeal is in giving them permission not to give a rat's ass about human rights.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When is the media going to admit what is right in front of their faces? Trump is losing it. Politico ran an article today that demonstrates it in fine detail but it's never directly addressed: digbysblog.net/2025/03/29/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Are we great again yet?

submitted 2 days ago • 791 comments

Will return to this thought. But the notion that USG chooses not to do business w/law firms or foreign companies that choose to seek diverse hires says that the SINGLE GREATEST SELECTION criteria is not, are you best suited to do the job (merit), but do you support segregatation.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Ronald Regan and Rubert Murdock destroyed the USA.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

“Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?” Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing. My latest for Zeteo, read/share/subscribe:

submitted 3 days ago • 275 comments

The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home theintercept.com/2025/03/26/s...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.

submitted 4 days ago • 120 comments

Worth pointing out that Trump's CIA director John Ratcliffe, who was in the Signal group chat, and who ludicrously tried to defend it in Congress this week, was confirmed with the votes of 21 (!) Senate Democrats. Ridiculous.

submitted 4 days ago • 189 comments

I just learned about "The Narcissist's Prayer" (hat tip new video by @contrapoints.bsky.social). And boy, the Signal scandal really shows how this is also just Trump's entire PR strategy.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

submitted 6 days ago • 1149 comments

'Emptywheel' on Why Trump NatSec Team Should 'Resign in Disgrace' After Signal Chat Debacle: Today's #BradCast Guest: National security journalist Marcy Wheeler of @emptywheel.bsky.social FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15346

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

Again, these fucking white men simply refuse to take personal accountability, ever.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer: 1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA 2) What phones were everyone using 3) What kind of security do those phones have 4) WHERE were they using those phones 5) What else is on the phones 6) Why was Joe Kent included

submitted 7 days ago • 334 comments

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

submitted 6 days ago • 793 comments

Classic Trump: he lies & feigns ignorance and then reporters allow him to change the topic. No one else is given this leeway. Imagine if everytime Biden had been asked about Hunter he’d said ‘Sorry, who? I know nothing about him. First time I’m hearing about any of this. Next question?”

submitted 6 days ago • 141 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 7 days ago • 859 comments

Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.” We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous: www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Anti-choicers hoped Dobbs would end abortion. Instead, the abortion rate went up. I spoke with researchers Carole Joffe and David Cohen about why. This story is about heroes: everyday people who filled the gaps to get women the care they need. www.salon.com/2025/03/25/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: Today the 3rd Circuit Court enjoined the @post-gazette.com ordering the company to — upon request — immediately restore the health care it illegally took away in 2020, and bargain with us. This is an enormous win and the most consequential day of our entire strike.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

Grow the fuck up.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Look s like even those required to defend the law cower and kiss the king. We are NOT ok.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

It's telling that men found liable for sexual assault are so fixated on fantasies of "invasion" by immigrants. Perpetrators whipping up paranoid fantasies where they're the "victim." www.salon.com/2025/03/23/d...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 9 days ago • 4526 comments

AOC: We need to be taxing the rich on the floor of the Congress We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress

submitted 9 days ago • 714 comments

34,000 people showed up in Denver yesterday to hear Bernie and @aoc.bsky.social. What did they say about it on last night’s news? 🦗🦗🦗

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 10 days ago • 3525 comments

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

submitted 10 days ago • 1303 comments

AOC: Do you know which coloradans did vote to cut medicare and jack up health care cost? Every single Republican representative from Colorado. Don't you worry, I was just at Gabe Evans' district, and 11,000 of his constituents would like a word

submitted 10 days ago • 206 comments

The potentially crippling defamation verdict against @greenpeace.org — which hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves — appears to be a classic example of the trend in “Murder the Truth.” Powerful people and companies are weaponizing the law to muzzle critics. dankennedy.net/2025/03/21/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Note, this is particularly acute at Social Security. As Judge Hollander notes, in other lawsuits (notably including Treasury, where Marko Elez was a key point of contention), DOJ has named the DOGE boys. They're not here (reportedly, SSA is where Elez ended up).

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

submitted 10 days ago • 275 comments

Remember this all the time!

submitted 12 days ago • 388 comments

Yes. He'd be more subtle about it.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

I believe he’s right. Dems are never going to move the needle by being mildly left of center.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 601 comments