The state of our (super divided, prolly doomed) Union, everybody
25.02.2026 22:53 β π 361 π 99 π¬ 8 π 7@jmarkwrite.bsky.social
Mark Wright, marketing writer. Former journalist. A blue dot in red Texas. I believe in democracy and separation of church and state. Shameless left of center champion of rights.
The state of our (super divided, prolly doomed) Union, everybody
25.02.2026 22:53 β π 361 π 99 π¬ 8 π 7This is the worst case scenario occurring at almost all turns.
- Tased and struck over misunderstanding
- Stays in jail for a year because of slow wheel of justice and ICE fears
- PD screws up in releasing him
- Border Patrol release catastrophically screwed up
- PD blows off missing persons report
U.S. I LAW DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld
This is an all-timer in headlines where the use of the passive voice obscures a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM with the basic premise of the story
26.02.2026 03:16 β π 985 π 180 π¬ 39 π 21Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
26.02.2026 03:01 β π 1644 π 351 π¬ 20 π 11This has nothing to do with fraud.
The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorneyβs Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.
NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Trumpβs tariffs cost families $1700 last year. Most of those tariffs have been declared illegal. Trump's going to refund Americans their money, right?
Wrong. If there are refunds, itβll be to companies that raised your prices due to tariffs. Americans wonβt receive a dime.
Meanwhile Nick Shirley, the dipshit MAGA influencer who started this whole racist panic about fraud at Somali-run daycares, is saying βEXPOSE IT ALLβ in response to a deeply antisemitic video about βNew Jerseyβs Jewish Invasionβ
26.02.2026 01:36 β π 493 π 172 π¬ 21 π 49Itβs going to be nice when Marshall loses his senate seat to Democrat Patrick Schmidt in November.
26.02.2026 01:56 β π 540 π 78 π¬ 22 π 3You know that line about not my circus, not my monkeys?
Well, that's my rep, and he's got some monkey business that he can't explain.
Democrat turnout is way higher than Republican turnout in the primary, I'm hoping he won't be for much longer
I truly hope that House Republican leadership protecting a sexual predator like Rep. Tony Gonzales for the rest of the year ends up costing them 5 more seats in Nov. They should be asked about this relentlessly every single day until heβs gone.
26.02.2026 00:47 β π 3597 π 948 π¬ 64 π 26I need to familiarize myself with their explanations for showing up in the first place.
25.02.2026 03:57 β π 139 π 6 π¬ 6 π 1Responsibility and accountability are two very different things.
With this latest admission, his previous denials and what is alluded to in the Epstein files...it's quite likely that the richest man/philanthropist in the world was significantly compromised.
In a functioning civil society, an institution as big and as influential as the Gates fdn would be subject to an independent review of foundation activities during the time in question to understand if and how much Epstein and his illicit acts/motivations were commingled with Gates fdn strategy.
25.02.2026 16:51 β π 21 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0They're trash, just like their Dear Leader.
26.02.2026 01:47 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rightsβfull stop.
26.02.2026 02:21 β π 3125 π 883 π¬ 56 π 21Very much not the point but listing sex at birth on a document meant to identify you right now is utterly useless from a security standpoint. but of course this is about cruelty and forced outing of queer private lives.
26.02.2026 02:22 β π 1165 π 263 π¬ 8 π 9Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
26.02.2026 01:11 β π 3506 π 1618 π¬ 14 π 29A woman who has accused both Trump and Epstein of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor decades earlier gave four interviews to the FBI. Summaries of three of those interviews were not released with the Epstein files. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
25.02.2026 18:01 β π 1606 π 623 π¬ 72 π 25The Ayatollah dumbass is talking about died in 1989. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
26.02.2026 02:30 β π 1864 π 479 π¬ 207 π 30As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. Itβs often said you never know when youβre living through history, so let me assure you: thatβs whatβs happening now.
26.02.2026 01:30 β π 6877 π 3539 π¬ 51 π 188βThe woman told the agents she still had the photo on her phoneβ¦ She gave the agents permission to take a photograph of the image but asked them to crop out Mr. Trump. When asked why, her lawyer said that the woman βwas concerned due to fear of retaliation,β according to the F.B.I. memo.β
26.02.2026 02:33 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan: "It rings pretty hollow when what they are doing is essentially hurting some of the most vulnerable people in our state"
26.02.2026 02:34 β π 1499 π 314 π¬ 41 π 12Sen. Chris Murphy: "A year ago, Donald Trump told us that he had obliterated β that's his word, obliterated β Iran's nuclear weapons program, only to find out last weekend that Iran is now just a week away from getting a nuclear weapon."
26.02.2026 02:37 β π 129 π 37 π¬ 4 π 5Are trans rights a kitchen table issue yet, @governor.ca.gov?
26.02.2026 02:13 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This is unbridled fascism and it must stop!! π€¬π€¬π€¬π€¬
26.02.2026 02:00 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Some election officials believe voters should prove their citizenship and show ID before casting a ballot β but even those in support of such initiatives think Trumpβs SAVE America Act takes it too far.
Itβs βeffectively creating a poll tax on people,β said one county clerk. βItβs a huge barrier.β
yβall donβt need me to tell you this but this is plainly unconstitutional under any remotely rational reading of the constitution
26.02.2026 01:46 β π 1006 π 233 π¬ 9 π 6oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.
25.02.2026 12:51 β π 21841 π 6018 π¬ 1342 π 458Nearly a dozen FBI agents who worked on the Mar-a-Lago stolen classified docs espionage case have recently been fired by the MAGA regime.
The cover up and retaliation tour continues by the most treasonous diabolical criminals in American history.