Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastpork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 10/10/2026we gotta raise taxes. a lot. 21264181
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 143143906192
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastAnthony Reimer @areimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Great Depression was one of the worst things to ever happen to the people of this country. There was pain and suffering on a level none of us can imagine. It also activated a dormant labor class that fought back against the oligarchs of the 20s and built the strongest middle class ever built. 2526
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastbrent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026American decline in a single sentence 3468
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is basically the same shit Kevin O'Leary was peddling that prompted a defamation lawsuit and a bevy of corrections by Fox 981845373
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago 511775284
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What happens for Omaha sheriff? for county commissions in Ohio? for what’s left of Florida school boards? Those matter so much! We already got answers in local elections over the last year (think the PA counties last year, Whittier this spring). Can Dems keep it up? 424230
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastvolunteer for your local land use board @thenewjerseyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What if I told you, political parties are good actually?liberalcurrents.comMeet the DemocratsThe party is not an abstract cabal powered by fever dreams, but a living, breathing coalition held together by a ceaseless grind and people with the will to face it. 2112
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.statesman.comAttorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash deliveryA Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody. 25376673462
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastaltamahaha.bsky.social @altamahaha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Always was, the "red state/blue state" paradigm was always an excuse not to do lomg term work, as was most of dem strategy post 08 1502
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!" 24386741395
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastonion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports 7375802172
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastNate Tice @natetice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026endzone angle is just gorgeous. 4321
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...jewishvoters.org 281087248
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone. 14799302523
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastTom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop. 3346841900
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026a nazi pedophile that loves data centers is fully funding the republican partys midterm efforts 552405480
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there. 146142232079
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved” 20591023163
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here? 1003262539033
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers. 66116982329
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We had an unprecedented shift toward absentee balloting during the pandemic and we should have a far more precedented shift to in person voting now that Trump's fucking with the mail 1735979
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026In fact if there's one political message that should reach everyone on Bluesky, the website for Democratic politics obsessives afraid to leave their own house, it's that you should vote in person this year. 18673114
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastDavid Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Yes, and the 2015 Obergefell ruling, which established same-sex marriage in 50 states, was 5-4 and only happened because Obama won in 2008 and appointed Kagan and Sotomayor, before he even announced his position change. 27416
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten. 401203274086
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy. 301943568
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4645481568
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers) 61919560
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/08/2026If Ossoff had said "Natalie Harp" not many people would've noticed. Some politics name. Hear those all the time. Who cares. But saying just "Natalie" makes it sound like gossip you should hurry to decode so you can explain it to your friends. My senator is using the power of lore dumping 73628275
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m… 158223506262
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason. 13681101290
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters. 1303613785
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastInsideEVs @insideevs.com · 20/08/2026It's almost time to say goodbye to range anxiety.insideevs.comGeely Is Testing A Solid-State Battery With Over 621 Miles Of Range. It Could End Up In A VolvoVolvo's parent company will begin rolling out ultra-high-density solid-state EV batteries in 2027—and the Swedes could be a test bed. 1430055
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The US Navy is considering renaming the future USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier honoring the Black sailor who became a hero during Pearl Harbor, and have discussed naming it after Trump instead, CNN reports. 7227267
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Rory McIlroy might be the only living person who hates LIV Golf more than I do. 1703481441
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/08/2026This is part of my "minimum standards" requirement. None of this "the past is behind us, let's move forward" shit. More of the "this country will never do this again, and I'm going to make sure of it." 7868175
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the best part of all of this is that Ossoff just opened the door. He never said anything beyond "travel with Natalie." They're the ones who wandered in like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. 312061303
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiast🚲 @bicycle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"QueensWay supporters produce other dishonest arguments, too. They insist, for example, that the MTA thinks QueensLink will cost between $5.9 and $8.1 billion. The MTA actually calculated that the project would cost only $1.9 billion to construct."nyc.streetsblog.orgOPINION: Mamdani Is Making a Catastrophic Mistake on QueensLink - Streetsblog New York CityMany residents of Queens have supported the QueensLink project that would extend the M train from Forest Hills to the Rockaways. Yet on May 22, the Mamdani administration renounced the project and thr... 143
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastGarbage Opinion Enjoyer @opinionevaluator.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It’s because they think imperialism means “I am in charge” rather than “I have carefully lined up interests and balanced inputs and outputs such that i have a plurality of influence”, and are too stupid to realize that people like them being put in charge is what causes every empire to fall. 330623
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026take note of which media outlets run with this "ossoff attacks women" framing — they are our enemies, Trump's enablers who try to help him rule over us like a king 6832133
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Many people think this but it's not true! Data centers are a small rounding error compared to agriculture. And it pains me that this is the case as a golf hater but golf no longer consumes meaningful amounts of water as most courses in the southwest have switched to graywater irrigation 232291240
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE 984771787
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 17/08/2026It's happening. 36641
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 17/08/2026The aspirational car culture among NYC's middle/lower-middle class is so financially draining. The last thing an underemployed 24-year-old living in the South Bronx with $150,000+ in student loans and credit card and personal debt needs living in a seven-person household needs is a 2023 SUV!nytimes.comHow a Student and Gig Worker Lives on $11,400 in the BronxRichard Sencion, 24, cobbles together funds from delivery jobs and bartending gigs while searching for more permanent work and living with his parents. 614011
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I have to say it does seem like, "the president and his wife are separated because of his very public adultery and now he's sleeping with an aid who is fifty years his junior" would be a bigger story in most admins. 561478238
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is 5948421129
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiast👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/08/2026Academia and its millennia long history would not exist without autism and adhd send skeet 26770127
Reposted by gargoyle enthusiastpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Enjoying the bluesky speed camera debate 1333637349