melchev331.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

New in PN: All the laws flouted during SignalGate "There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."

submitted 1 day ago • 465 comments

If they're this careless with their own personally identifiable information, imagine how careless they are being with yours.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 3 days ago • 519 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 4 days ago • 54 comments

BREAKING: Trump is having a full-blown meltdown on Truth Social—this time over a painting of him displayed at the Colorado State Capitol. He’s lashing out at the governor, claiming the portrait is “distorted.” It’d be a real shame if everyone saw it… and shared it.

submitted 6 days ago • 799 comments

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

submitted 4 days ago • 224 comments

Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.

submitted 5 days ago • 241 comments

NEW: "This is an extraordinary moment and it requires extraordinary vision and actions. We must stop viewing political life through the lens of American politics as we have known it, and adopt the viewpoint of dissident movements in autocratic states." A roadmap: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Senior officials in Trump’s admin—Waltz, Hegseth, Rubio, Vance—accidentally added the editor of @theatlantic.com to a signal chat detailing plans to attack Yemeni rebels, a conversation that should never have occurred on that platform. Wild, reckless, incompetence www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Yes. Let's fucking go. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

Maybe the Trump administration should just stop violating the law?

submitted 8 days ago • 617 comments

This is insane

submitted 9 days ago • 3972 comments

He can drag a Sharpie across anything he wants, unless it's a goddamn bill passed by both houses of Congress, the Department of Education isn't going anyway.

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

It's kind of impressive how perfectly Chuck Schumer is not meeting this moment. Like he brought in punch-up writers to heighten and refine how badly he's botching it.

submitted 12 days ago • 361 comments

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

submitted 12 days ago • 758 comments

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

submitted 13 days ago • 2325 comments

Here’s my response to Donald Trump lashing out at me today at the DOJ: Me & my colleagues at @sddfund.bsky.social are going to litigate & win even more!

submitted 15 days ago • 180 comments

I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.

submitted 15 days ago • 115 comments

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

submitted 15 days ago • 499 comments

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 17 days ago • 2710 comments

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 20 days ago • 452 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "Every time you see Tom Homan, every time you see Kristi Noem... understand that they are taking attention, focus, dollars, and real resources away from actual drug enforcement, trafficking enforcement, and actually going after and trying to investigate really harmful activity."

submitted 22 days ago • 431 comments

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

submitted 21 days ago • 71 comments

I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

submitted 24 days ago • 551 comments

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

submitted 24 days ago • 220 comments

The more you know. #JointSession

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

🚨🚨🚨KEVIN, WE NEED YOUR HELP!🚨🚨🚨 Did you see us wearing sassy colors at the State of the Union? We sure stuck it to Drumpf! BUT WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR DONATIONS TO BUY MORE OUTFITS*

submitted 25 days ago • 152 comments

warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out

submitted 25 days ago • 1307 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 2805 comments

Pretty much sums it up

submitted 28 days ago • 233 comments

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

submitted 28 days ago • 98 comments

The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump

submitted 28 days ago • 1524 comments

"More distasteful than President Donald Trump’s incessant lying is what the lies indicate: After years of yelling that the 'Russia hoax' was a witch hunt, Trump is now openly colluding with Vladimir Putin." ICYMI @ninajankowicz.com on Trump's Russia disinformation:

submitted 28 days ago • 95 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 29 days ago • 108 comments

I think we have to agree that JD is such a sniveling little bitch.

submitted 29 days ago • 682 comments

“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”

submitted 29 days ago • 583 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 31 days ago • 475 comments

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

submitted 33 days ago • 130 comments

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

submitted 33 days ago • 808 comments

Our coup got coupier. Our authoritarianism got more authoritarian. And of course this is stupidity as a battering ram against what is legal and constitutional, because they weaponize stupidity.

submitted 39 days ago • 36 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 40 days ago • 8171 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 41 days ago • 268 comments