Even more posts on Republicans and sex crimes

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

JLRay (@jlray.bsky.social) 2025-10-05T15:35:16.381Z

Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexual assault of daughterJohn Jessup to resign as commissioner in Hancock, Indiana, and faces prison after guilty plea over incident in Las Vegaswww.theguardian.com/us-news/2024…

Angels In Velvet (@angelsinvelvet.bsky.social) 2025-08-22T01:45:22.613Z

“Former South Carolina state lawmaker Robert John “RJ” May III has agreed to plead guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material.”

Juan Escalante (@juansaaa.com) 2025-09-27T20:35:08.290Z

GOP Charleston County Judge James B.Gosnell Jr., arrested on child sex abuse material charges, held in jail. Bond denied.A flash drive was found with sexually explicit photos & videos of minors, including infants & toddlers.#USDemocracy #Voices4Victoryabcnews4.com/news/local/c…

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 (@tommasinaresist.bsky.social) 2025-09-21T18:31:15.299Z

Thomas Pynchon’s “Low-lands”

I have been thinking about Thomas Pynchon a lot recently since his new novel will be released on Tuesday, October 7th,

Here are the front and back covers of a literary magazine, New World Writing, from 1960 that included Pynchon’s “Low-lands”. The story was later included in his 1984 collection Slow Learner. The story includes the character Pig Bodine who also appears in Pynchon’s novels V. and Gravity’s Rainbow.

The Trump administration violates the Hatch act with web pages and out of office messages about the shutdown

They are lying too.

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T07:52:02.596Z

Whoa! Employees at the SBA received a template for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.🚨 A clear violation of the Hatch Act

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2025-10-02T14:02:54.319Z

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.Version of original on left, updated on right:

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T13:46:32.418Z

The Supreme Court lets Trump do whatever he wants

The ignore laws and precedent to give Trump a blank check.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p…

Matt Ford (@mford.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T21:19:51.146Z

My reply has over 300 likes and some good comments

Why doesn’t the Supreme Court save us time and tell us if there’s anything Trump isn’t allowed to do? I bet they would even approve of him shooting someone on 5th Avenue. Alito and Thomas would blame the victim for being in the way of the bullet.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-09-26T21:34:32.566Z

Budget agreements with Trump are worthless

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use.How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) 2025-09-27T15:37:39.737Z

Any budget agreement with Trump is now worthless. He’ll do whatever he wants and his Supreme Court (R) will support him.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T15:43:22.373Z

Crockett: "What assurances do we have if we entered into an agreement with these Republicans that they wouldn't go back on their word and just say, 'Oh yeah, we'll sign off on a rescissions package'"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-02T01:47:53.289Z

Are they dumb or lying?

Trump and his officials sometimes say they don’t know about something they clearly should have heard of. Are they dumb or lying? I think they are lying. They just don’t want to offend their bigoted cult or discuss things that would make them look bad.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-09-17T17:02:04.017Z

I think he’s lying and does know about Roof. He wouldn’t want to criticize Roof because it would probablyupset Trump and his bigoted supporters.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T23:36:30.716Z

Terrible AP article

The fact that Trump’s allegations are bogus is important! Don’t bury it.

It takes the AP until the eighth paragraph to point out that the evidence appears to undercut Trump's fraud claims. That is pathetic. It should be in the first paragraph.apnews.com/article/supr…

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T16:39:00.477Z

My comment on the AP’s post of the article:

Your article takes until the eighth paragraph to point out that Trump's allegations about Cook appear to be undercut by documents. This should be much higher in the story. If there is no fraud, Trump has no basis to remove her.

Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T16:47:20.114Z

Polls show a continued decline in Trump’s popularity

Trump and his authoritarian rule are unpopular

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 http://www.economist.com/interactive/…

G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-09-16T16:01:42.848Z

Assume polling is going to be bouncy these next few weeks but in the Economist/YouGov weekly track Trump's job approval with adults went from -13 (41-54) last week to -18 this week (39-57). He's -50 with independents, 19-69.

Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2025-09-16T14:14:45.098Z

The poll also finds that 67% of voters disapprove of the way Trump is handling the cost of living- up from his already very high disapproval on the issue this summer. The cost of living is the number one issue for voters across the country.

Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin.bsky.social) 2025-09-13T03:04:34.064Z

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s popularity is sinking in a swing Pennsylvania county.Trump won Bucks County by less than 1 percentage point last year after Biden narrowly carried it in 2020.

Politico (@politico.com) 2025-09-11T15:25:51.553Z

3 tracks out this week showed Trump dropping and at his lowest point this year: Econ/YouGov 39%-57% (-18) down 5 pts from last weekCiviqs 41%-55% (-14) down 2 pts from last weekAP-NORC 39%-60%(-21) down 13 pts from last monthThis dictator shit ain't play well with voters.

Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T18:49:41.686Z

Americans disapprove of President Trump’s performance on crime by a 10-percentage-point margin and oppose him ordering the National Guard to cities by a four-point margin, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-09-19T14:00:50.270910886Z

YouGov/Econ has Trump's net approval at -35 with Hispanics and young voters — as bad as he's doing with post-grads http://www.economist.com/interactive/…

G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-09-17T14:17:08.880Z

Trump administration members have housing issues too

They are hypocrites

Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers. Via Reuters

Michael Derby (@michaelsderby.bsky.social) 2025-09-05T21:23:27.700Z