Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMatt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 5hA livestreamed execution isnt about justice. Its about helping people enjoy inflicting and witnessing pain and violence while not feeling bad about those feelings because its construed as justice 3175
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialSMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 4hThe man had his five year old in the car. Why wouldn’t he try to get away from men running at him with guns drawn? 217543
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 6hFour days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2 9440193
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5hNew open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 10654238
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I should add that this isn't even about *this case.* He's just randomly complaining that SCOTUS used "transgender pronouns in its official caption" in a case from June. 27319
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol. 7074232979
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 301372340
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialBen Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@sunraysunray.bsky.social, @mikejbeggs.bsky.social, and I are in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today with an essay adapted from the first chapter of The Blueprint, explaining why opposition to capitalism has to come attached to serious answers to concerns about the economic viability of transcending it.jacobin.comBeing Against Capitalism Isn’t EnoughSocialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better. 053
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJohn Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is an absolutely phenomenal analysis. And everyone should take a moment to read it. Asking ourselves ‘what does this exercise of state power mean?’ is an essential analytic frame. 1114
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026WTF. Even I am just seeing this now. 191089370
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 17966731944
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialgoof_off_artiste746393@yahoomail.com @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra 322202452
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now. 11525156613422
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492761780
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 457172562658
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 10849151470
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDavid Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“That’s the problem, Mike. It’s not just that you hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” Ossoff said. “It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...talkingpointsmemo.comSomehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate DebateRep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won... 101027191
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 417177434665
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Looking at different videos of police confiscating protests signs, it seems to me that the signs that are confiscated all point towards police brutality. It is now officially verboten to not only protect oneself from arbitrary police repression, but also to call it out. 113628
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026State censorship’s little dilemma: In the above video you see that police approved - and chuckled over - a protest sign saying “Macron, fuck your teacher, not ours.” (referring to Brigitte Macron). Now we learn that Macron is furious it appeared on public service TV without Channel 2 apologising. 112026
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Judge Sorokin orders vindictive-selective prosecution discovery & disclosure of grand jury minutes for Ksenia Petrova, the frog embryo researcher. "Credible showing [she] was prosecuted due to her status as Harvard-affiliated researcher & J1 visa holder." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 8855261
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 808206174610
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialPeter Marino @mondium.ai · 08/10/2026The massive increase in the quantity of absolutely everything, starting in the mid-18th century, went on long enough to convince everyone that growth was simply a new permanent condition and obscure the fact that it was more likely just an extreme, but ultimately discrete, burst of change 1241
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026“We want people to come in the right way,” they said — and then barred every entry except a hatch labeled “white South Africans only.” 516650
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Trump says people who say 'artificial intelligence' instead of 'super intelligence' are "THE ENEMY." This follows government targeting of AI critics as foreign agents, which I reported on here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think... 2020346
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru... 3282735673
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Leaked audio of Ken Paxton revealing he wants to cut programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: “Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending… Suck it up.” 57603391
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 991901677
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it 4541341004
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive. 331790546
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialWill Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Modern rent controls aren't as damaging, and blending evidence of old strict rent controls with the modern versions just confuses the issue and leads to presenting a misleading "consensus" that doesn't really exist. 57514
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialLaw360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic... 331159440
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572215204192
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 411038213
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Amen to this whole thread It is absolutely impeachable, and I would say unconstitutional 315022
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base 2526430908
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6625601253
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 20958552
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh brother. 34470491009
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government. 26947390
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 632682927
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797633046
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man" 392472189
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs. 432583362
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialReason Magazine @reason.com · 04/10/2026It's been months since Alex Pretti was killed. Across Minneapolis, however, it can feel as though little time has passed. buff.ly/UqwIjHrreason.comMinneapolis activists used encrypted group chats to outmaneuver ICE. Now the feds want to prosecute them."I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason. 111736
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialLisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests. 20769159
Reposted by @acraigbray.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this? 461465324
