D.R. Bartlette

D.R. Bartlette

@drbartlette.bsky.social

Writer and muckraker. I have friends everywhere. Subscribe to my Substack for deep dives into political history: https://substack.com/@delanirbartlette

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Good for Washington Co for telling Chump's goons to fuck off. Interesting that Pulaski Co was the only other County the DOJ wanted to "supervise." For those not in AR, Washington Co is home to the UofA, and Pulaski Co is home to the capital & a large Black community) www.4029tv.com/article/wash...

4029tv.comWashington County declines DOJ request to send election monitorsThe Washington County election commission voted NO Monday to a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to put election monitors in the county's polling locations.

I really want to hear the "romantic" story of how these 2 met & fell in love. They've never mentioned it. But maybe that's because Melania was purchased from Epstein. IDK, I just think it's interesting their only connection is via Epstein/Zampolli.

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Today, planet Earth is a little darker. NGL, I'm a little emotional about this.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I couldn't agree more.

Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social

HR 1: The Damnatio Memoriae Act of 2029 Everything Donald Trump did as President was illegitimate and is null and void unless re-authorized by a majority of Congress. Oh SCOTUS complains? Well 3 of you are fake, and 2 are being impeached for corruption.

When talking about Chump, PLEASE stop saying "we have 2 more years of this." NO. We must demand & expect that he will be impeached and removed as soon as the new congress is seated. #8647 #impeach

Does anyone else hear him speaking and think you're in a Twilight Zone episode where some hateful, unfunny washed-up comedian got a "Rocky Valentine" style wish, and we're all just trapped in it like extras?

In #Arkansas, Tom Cottonmouth must be desperate. My YouTube has been flooded with anti-Halley Shoffner ads, with scary VO and stock/AI images, accusing her of being "radical" and using clearly edited sound clips of her voice. This all they got???

A lot of hate is getting thrown at Americans for not "doing something." Like we're lazy or cowards. 1. Lots of people are resisting; it's just not being shown on MSM. 2. Europeans have no concept of how HUGE this country is. Getting to DC would require lots of money & time most ppl do not have.

3. But mostly: comfortable Europeans and Canadians cannot FATHOM just how brutal it is here. Homelessness is just a paycheck away for most of us. 4. We have essentially armed troops with 0 oversight occupying our cities. Not just ICE, regular popo. Remember what we protested in 2020?

I'm thinking of starting a Substack. The two things that I feel I need to do a deep dive into are: 1. The GOP's investigation of the Clintons in the 90s, as an example of how to *really* play hardball, and 2. The origins of Citizens United (the org and the case). Anyone interested in those topics?

Ordering this book ASAP. He's not the only one to have been warning us about Chump being essentially a Russian agent. Remember, on the debate stage with Hillary, when he directly asked Russia to hack into her emails? And then they did? Remember how Paul Manafort, the man who helped Russian puppet

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social

Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit. HowRussiaWon.com

Viktor Yanukovych get elected president of Ukraine, then volunteered to run Chump's presidential campaign? And the secret meetings between Chump's campaign and Russian operatives? And on and on...imagine if a Dem politician had this many ties to, say, Cuba?

Look, I'm not trying to shit on folks with which we have common cause. I'm just pointing this out in the hopes that the "small government" folks will begin to see that regulations are exactly what gives us, the people, a say over big corporations.

I, and others, have been screaming about this threat for years. Right-wing paramilitary orgs calling themselves "militias" stockpiling weapons, making bombs, doing combat drills - and engaging in terrorist attacks against their enemies. But because the GOP runs cover for them, they get away with it.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

“Homegrown” digs into American extremism—and argues it’s far more familiar than we let on.

#uark faculty, staff, students: take the commuter survey and share it with others! I hope you'll join me in asking for more buses and better amenities at stops, as well as more info at stops. We have invested a lot into info at parking lots, so we should have at least as much info at bus stops.

Same old story.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

This is one more thing taking us closer to civil war. (But I say let him go to Mexico. I bet he'll get a really warm welcome there!)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is refusing to extradite a federal officer wanted in Minnesota on assault charges tied to an on-duty shooting during January’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, a new lawsuit claims. on.wsj.com/3ScnYML

This is so fucked.

Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins.bsky.social

Fuck. At 4:31AM. By a vote of 50-49. Todd Blanche—Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney—now runs the Justice Department. Before dawn, in a nearly empty chamber. That’s how you confirm someone you can’t defend in daylight.

This hits close to home for me. Back in the 90s, my ex was constantly harassing me for custody of our son. One of his tactics was to call DHS on me, accusing me & my family of SA-ing our son & would always say that we're "Satanists" even though we don't believe in www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...

rawstory.com'Should scare all of us': Bogus tip that hit Buttigieg's twins rattles expertA leading child welfare law expert says the investigation that led Michigan authorities to briefly separate former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg from his 4-year-old twins was built on shaky ...

Satan. We're Wiccans. But not being Xtian, lighting candles and casting circles, that was enough. I was under constant fear of an intrusive visit from DHS. Finally, when he sued me for custody a 2nd time - w/ a Xtian nationalist judge nominated by Mike Huckabee - he won. 2 yrs. later, our son came

back to live with me because his father had abused & neglected him. So this has been a thing for ppl like me and Pete for a long time. While pretty white Xtians like Ruby Franke get every benefit of the doubt, every 2nd chance, folks like us get the boot heel. I'm glad Pete got his kids back.

While I agree with @gregsargent.bsky.social and so many others on this, I'm not seeing any acknowledgement of the role that red state governors have in implementing Chump's will. Several of them - incl. AR - already turned over their voter rolls. What are they doing with that data???

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

It's no coincidence that Trump went nuclear on John Thune to pass SAVE Act just as GOP is detoriating in generic ballot. Latest polls are striking: Fox D+7 Pew D+6 Emerson D+11 On the pod, @ariberman.bsky.social is so good on Trump's coming effort to steal midterms: newrepublic.com/article/2134...