Public lands – the Republican scam (described in Bluesky posts)

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA.All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

Eric Holthaus (@ericholthaus.com) 2025-06-17T20:00:43.849Z

Public lands are just that: public, and owned by the taxpayer. Republicans want to auction them off to the highest bidder to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Hell no.

Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) 2025-06-16T18:37:34.399Z

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Janessa Goldbeck (@janessagoldbeck.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T21:12:55.820Z

Trump lies about the “trade deal”

Holy crap. The US-UK trade deal is a blank sheet of paper and only Trump signed it. (Genuine screen grab).

Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T00:13:56.113Z

I assume everything Trump says is a lie unless somebody credible confirms it is true.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T00:17:14.357Z

Trump is targeting Democratic cities in blue states

How about big cities in red states? This is very partisan but Republicans won’t object.

🚨 Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize mass deportations from Democratic-run cities.apnews.com/article/trum…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-06-16T03:24:49.049Z

Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T01:45:40.280Z

“Attacking cities is a useful, coded way for Republicans to demonize areas with significant minority communities. That way, they can pull attention away from how right-wing policies hurt red states and instead focus on made-up boogeymen.”

David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T14:52:32.639Z

The right wing can’t accept that protesters are not paid

They don’t understand that people actually oppose their disgusting policies.

Have you seen the MAGA propaganda around the #NoKings marches held across the county? MAGA claim all the millions of marchers were paid. Not by Soros but by the CCP, Chinese Communist Party. That we are all communists 🤣🤣 They can’t understand we fight for Democracy FOR FREE #Propaganda

KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T15:29:40.656Z

DC Craigslist parade ad.Seat fillers needed for “attendance perception.”You’ll be provided:-RED hat-GOLD accessories okay-fast food lunch-$1,000 paid in 🤡 cryptoPOC & ethnic groups encouraged to sign up for maximum perception (& arrest spectacle, probably)Y’all please don’t be this dumb.

Lisa Reyna Loe (@lisaloe.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T14:26:41.981Z

Trump is really leaning into his lie that the protesters in Los Angeles are being paid by some nefarious force

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-10T22:38:52.841Z

"Speaker Johnson recently dismissed angry voices at Republican town halls as "paid protesters." That’s a convenient excuse-but it’s a lie. People showing up, demanding answers, are real constituents, many of them lifelong Republicans, who are frustrated and scared." – Former IL Rep Adan Kinzinger

Andrew Levesque (@andrewlevesque.bsky.social) 2025-02-27T19:06:47.856Z

Bluesky posts onTrump’s latest pro-Putin lie

I hope someday we find out why Trump is so pro-Putin. I think he owes Russia money. Just a guess. I don’t think the pee tape is real (though I wish it was).

Fact check: Russia was removed from the G8 for invading Ukraine

Andrea Chalupa (@andreachalupa.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T16:40:40.550Z

Russia did not invade Ukraine in 2022 because the G8 kicked Russia out.The G8 kicked out Russia in 2014 *in response* to Russia forcefully taking Crimea from Ukraine.The timing and rationale is well documented. It's not in dispute. It's just that the US president is a Russian-sympathetic liar.

Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T15:58:53.729Z

The G8 became the G7 after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and was suspended from the group.Stephen Harper was the prime minister of Canada in 2014.

Robson Fletcher (@robsonfletcher.com) 2025-06-16T15:57:24.337Z

Trump’s parade was a waste of money

There are much better things the money could have been spent on.

“I hope you do not think I am going soft on Trump if I tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed the entire parade,” Max Boot writes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…

Washington Post Opinions (@postopinions.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T03:05:28.533Z

It’s still a poor use of federal funds. Let’s see if Trump really reimburses DC for any damage to the streets.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T03:12:56.216Z

New York’s Pigeon Fest

Thousands of people gathered on the High Line in New York on Saturday for Pigeon Fest, inspired by an artist’s sculpture and an appreciation for the city’s most resilient birds. The highlight for many was the pageant. See more photos. nyti.ms/4e5R2vD

The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-06-16T17:57:22.009Z

prior post:

Trump’s white nationalist policy – remigration

“The State Department plans to create an ‘Office of Remigration’ … , a department official told Axios *** In Europe, the concept of remigration calls for the mass deportation or coerced repatriation of non-white immigrants & their European-born descendants.” 5/30/25 1/ http://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/s…

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T05:16:03.761Z

Glad that @gregsargent.bsky.social isn't letting the "remigration" issue slip through the cracks. Pay attention, y'all.

Karen Attiah (@karenattiah.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T14:56:20.459Z

You may not have heard about the concept of remigration and Trump’s affinity for it and there’s a reason why:

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T11:33:05.359Z

Short thread on remigration, along with the link to which I referred above:2/

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T23:10:43.920Z

Schumer still doesn’t get it

What is he doing to help? He should be replaced as minority leader with someone who will do more to fight back against Trump.

I joined 8,000 environmental leaders to push back on Trump's “Big, Ugly Betrayal."The GOP plan raises taxes on energy, increases costs for families and businesses, and kills hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs to give tax breaks to billionaires.We won't stop fighting back.

Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) 2025-06-13T22:20:43.165Z

What did you do? Write another letter?

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T22:21:40.352Z

A "strongly worded" letter. Get it right. 😂

"I DISSENT" (@getinformed23.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T22:22:39.080Z

Mike Lee, Bernie Moreno and more right wing liars lie about the accused Minnesota assassin

He is a Trump supporter, not a Marxist. They know better and are lying.

It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T19:56:10.662Z

It's impressive how the Republicans like Mike Lee who cape as the most "principled, moral, and historically informed" of the bunch turn out to be the most shameless, lying propagandists.

Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T18:01:46.819Z

What we know about the Minnesota shooting suspect: cnn.it/4l03ZcK

CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-06-15T02:48:36.313Z

Elon Musk blames Melissa Hortman’s murder on “the far left”

Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T19:35:41.613Z

Adam Kinzinger on Scott Walker

After the murders in Minnesota, Tim Walz called for "grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency." Some Republicans chose a far uglier course.Take the increasingly unhinged Sen. Mike Lee, for example. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo…

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-16T15:59:22.764Z

MAGA knows the killer was one of their own. They lie and say he was a Democrat because the truth makes them look bad. It’s not about facts. It’s about poison. Lie fast, lie loud, and count on people to forget the correction. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. What matters is how it feels to their base.

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 (@jasondogwood.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T12:15:02.193Z

You may wonder why Don Jr. and a few Republicans in Congress are calling Boelter a leftist when people close to him say he was a Trump and InfoWars fan. #Misinformation is most effective when it is early. It gets harder to convince someone to change their mind as time goes on.

Joseph Menn (@joemenn.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T20:13:46.534Z