Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.social@GBDinExile @gbdawkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Solid work here. 0597
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt. 5554461315
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialNicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's incredibly weird that so many people demonize socialism when socialism is what so many aspire to in retirement. Medicare (ideally) = not having to worry about medical payments after retirement age. Social security (ideally) = universal basic income after retirement age. 1138274
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The thing about this is that as a Paxton campaign gambit it's incredibly stupid and more likely to backfire than help...but as a play within GOP-aligned media it's surely a big success. The GOP has many problems, but a key one is that way too many party actors aren't driven by electoral incentives. 1443899
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer. 371851511
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity 563529422
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This "Talarico was at a mental health institution" just took off, based on nothing. Here is the former US Ambassador to Germany, and acting Director of National Intelligence, talking about something he knows nothing about: shame. They will admit no error, b/c they keep being rewarded for lying. 2440979
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/10/2026In case you aren't knee-deep in the latest MAGA conspiracy theory, this is a response to the "bombshell" that James Talarico spent the past week-plus secretly seeking treatment at an Ohio mental health facility, and a GOP operative broke the case with a late-night phone call. 541194249
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026One (bloody) silver lining to ICE's egregious behavior and equally egregious lying, is that perhaps the public as a whole--and hopefully the media at a bare minimum--will increasingly accept that police are not "just-the-facts-maam" objective sources. 37711
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Remember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling? 4609221
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty. 11280791665
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11/10/2026Twice he's asked about the risk of creating a martyr. Twice his answer is "no one has to watch it." Which is, obviously, not remotely an answer to the question. 471190234
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off. 1615121004042
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor? 63677022450
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?" 261819422
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/10/2026no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt 272163472
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialdigby @digby56.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump said today that he may change the name of the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean to “Trump Ocean”. You'd think he's just trolling but since he's regularly "renaming" bodies of water, he may actually do it. It's one of his dumber stunts but he seems to really enjoy making his stooges go along with it. 87014
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/10/2026The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor... 2686322
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialdigby @digby56.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He's hated him since the first impeachment and he's hated Ukraine generally since Rudy convinced him that Hillary Clinton had colluded with them to push the Russia scandal. And we know he really digs Vlad. 915242
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 337601340
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump is pivoting hard toward Russia in the run-up to the midterms, urging the removal of a democratically elected head of state in Ukraine while helping the dictator who launched an unprovoked invasion. 24359100
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New documents reveal Ken Paxton has grown his net worth up to $27 million since taking office. His yearly salary is just $153,000. 11426091111
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 1140781329
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit 10549811208
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Again—again and again and again and again—conservatives make it clear that claims about being “tough on crime” are not about actual public safety, but social control. Again and again and again and again. Yet the insincerity of their claims is all too often glossed over or ignored altogether. 05012
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?npr.orgAs Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behindThe cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed. 421264640
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialJoe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026MLB sped up the game with a pitch clock and then got back to three-hour postseason games by inflating ad breaks. 2325
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up. 241297406
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship. 210805330
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The photo sits atop a story about how he’s blatantly exploiting his office for personal gain, corrupting the federal government to an unprecedented degree, and no one is even slowing him down anymore. And this is his only response. 21732137
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback 504152557
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t. 17158791199
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/20264) and IF that is the case, the solution isn’t to go on TV and decry the program, but quietly do the detective work to catch these companies at their game, and send their managers and owners to prison. 557849
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/20263) the only logical argument here is if insurance companies are signing up fake customers and then taking the government subsidies for that coverage, while paying out no claims. IF that is happening, it would be business/corporate fraud, not consumer fraud. 1269874
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/20262) insurance fraud, from a consumer point of view, consists of filing fake or excessive claims, not paying premiums and then making no claims. Where’s the payout? 767564
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs. 1262050492
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352251767
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director. 571119153
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"He wants the election to be a referendum on how you feel about trans issues while trying to make your local community louder, more polluted, and more expensive with nothing in return." 218886
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Straight up confessing to war crimes now. 381421369
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Mike Johnson sending the House home to avoid a vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment is a cowardly disgrace…and another reminder why these anti-democratic, pro-war, pro-Trump, Epstein file coverup enablers and Republican failures need to be sent home permanently. 832743839
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's difficult to overstate how quickly and thoroughly the U.S. economy would tank if he were to do this, and it's terrifying to imagine that no one in his circle has the guts to explain that to him. 57908168
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120713348
Reposted by @abyrdinthehand.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026i hate this thing they do where they pretend like they are fulfilling some long and pent up demand. just own that you’re engaged in naked idolatry 1664598701
