@babblesd.bsky.social
Unapologetic progressive. 🍉🍉🍉
The incompetence is staggering. To have 4 votes and not even legal experts can figure out what the recommendations are is wild (I’m not positive either- the meeting was profoundly incoherent)
19.09.2025 22:27 — 👍 99 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 2
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
11.09.2025 04:15 — 👍 23177 🔁 6163 💬 338 📌 109Getting sick of the term “political violence” when a public figure closely aligned w/one ideology or other is a victim. ICE is also political violence. Armies are also political violence. Not sure of my point - just wish for a term that doesn’t immediately wall an act like this off from all the rest
10.09.2025 19:54 — 👍 703 🔁 135 💬 10 📌 4"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
06.09.2025 00:55 — 👍 1440 🔁 279 💬 71 📌 35
In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions.
In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.
Mens rea.
06.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We're absolutely leaderless Yesterday Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader and, by default, the leader of the Democratic opposition to the Trump regime, said this: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people." For the past several months Trump and the Republicans have been shredding the Constitution in unprecedented ways, building concentration camps, and sending out a literal secret police force to disappear people without cause or hearing. In just the past few days Trump stated, as if it's unassailable fact, that he is a dictator and that anything he does is, by default, legal. Not an hour before Jeffries said what he said above, Trump said that he is going to send more troops into cities all over America, ratcheting up the fascism afoot to even greater degrees. That has been confirmed by Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who announced that Trump has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, where they will soon be deployed to target Mexican Independence Day celebrations on September 16. I understand that politicians of Jeffries' ilk spend about 95% of their time listening to colleagues and consultants who decided, in 1997 or something, that the word "bipartisan" is some sort of talisman that ensures political success. But to say such a thing, now, when the wheels are coming off, the engine is on fire, and hostile troops are being used to subdue American cities for authoritarian ends is about the most out-of-touch and tone deaf thing imaginable.
Jeffries and others who want to pretend that what is happening right now is completely normal have absolutely no credibility. Jeffries himself has, in the past, called Trump a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people." Just three days ago he said "Republicans are psychotically consumed by revenge" and that "these extremists are unfit to govern and dangerous to the American way of life." But now he wants to find common ground with him and with them? Via legislation despite the fact that Trump has quite clearly decided that Congress doesn't matter anymore and that he has no interest in dealing with it? We cannot believe people like Hakeem Jeffries when they say they understand the gravity of this moment, because regardless of their occasional lip service to it, they don't act like anything particularly bad is happening. Because, I suppose, nothing bad is happening to them, personally. This is why Democratic politicians poll so terribly. This is why people are so despondent. We are in an existential battle for the Constitutional order, and we're currently losing it, badly. Yet the general putatively in charge of that battle uses the exceedingly little amount of time the national media affords him to talk about how we need to find common ground and resume business-as-usual with the hostile force he himself admits are dangerous and unfit to govern. It's always been harder to maintain democracy than it is to impose authoritarianism, but it's impossible to do so when those charged with defending democracy don't seem to fucking care.
I pissed off a bunch of people being mad at Chuck Schumer this morning so I suppose I should share what I wrote about Hakeem Jeffries in today's newsletter.
That and, of course, all the usual baseball and other bullshit. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
24.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 10825 🔁 3732 💬 203 📌 129
Bernie's Correct! ! RepubliKKKans
Don't care about Ordinary People !
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett.
They need that kind of fire.
24.08.2025 17:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
23.08.2025 18:19 — 👍 23827 🔁 6267 💬 97 📌 255
Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...
21.08.2025 00:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some hopeful news ...
The decision to proscribe Palestine Action was a shameful one by the UK Parliament
novaramedia.com/2025/07/30/h...
Mainstream Dems yelling at people, telling us we MUST vote for the Democratic candidate next time when party approval rating is historically low and they're ACTIVELY UNDERMINING the most popular Democratic candidate we've seen in over a decade is the most fascist, blue MAGA shit I have ever seen.
31.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Disgusting.
29.07.2025 22:17 — 👍 10267 🔁 3577 💬 480 📌 188They're literally trying to kill 2 million people and @senatorwong.bsky.social is breaking down the parts of a death plane into lethal and non-lethal.
That's the West in a nutshell. Silo everything. No accountability. Nothing is connected to anything else. Detachment to exist with barbarism.
30.07.2025 01:44 — 👍 12970 🔁 3794 💬 1117 📌 245
Governments should not bail out speculative development models but invest in non-market housing, preserve affordability and ensure public subsidies serve long-term public outcomes, write noted B.C. experts in this open letter. 🏘 #canpoli
29.07.2025 15:24 — 👍 208 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 6
This is horrifying. A U.S. citizen violently taken down by federal agents in a grocery store parking lot — despite telling them he had an ID, a Social Security card, and a birth certificate. His family says Angel Pina was hospitalized and suffered a a concussion.
This is horrifying. A U.S. citizen violently taken down by federal agents in a grocery store parking lot — despite telling them he had an ID, a Social Security card, and a birth certificate. His family says #AngelPina was hospitalized and suffered a a concussion. x.com/AttorneyCrum...
30.07.2025 11:15 — 👍 234 🔁 105 💬 9 📌 6
A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
This picture was taken July 10th. Every one of these ghouls is personally responsible for what is happening in Gaza. Do not let them off the hook! These people are monsters.
29.07.2025 05:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The Director of National Intelligence of the United States stood at the White House today...and read information that came from Russian Intelligence...without ever telling people that that's where that information came from."
www.youtube.com/live/YN5nyjg...
Conspiracy theorists used to believe themselves to be a small group possessed of secret knowledge. A little over a decade ago many started to see themselves as vox populi. In the age of social media it tilts in that direction because of majority illusion.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Palestinians dying from want of food and water is unacceptable, says Erdogan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinians-dying-want-food-and-water-unacceptable-says-edrogan
24.07.2025 11:50 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Rep. Sara Jacobs is one of the top 15 wealthiest members of Congress. She is set to introduce legislation today that would—if enacted—work against her own self-interest by increasing her own taxes.
“I think of it as taxing trust-fund kids, to create a trust fund for all American kids.”
