ada-killjoy.bsky.social @ada-killjoy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Any data about those of us who still have SNAP but our benefits were reduced? In CA, my EBT benefits just got cut in half ($292 to $146) because of changes to the utility deduction (SUAS) in the income formula. 000 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend. 1129291558 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I never had a teacher believe in me like this. 295300726 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026It’s an escalation of the very American “I smell smoke in the car” and “I feared for my life” 312228 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious 183936685 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Sorry to be ungracious but I am just not going to tolerate any "who could possibly have seen this coming?" revisionism on this 31772124 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialBrooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum. 6351871025 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with. 7066431679 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Unless you personally know and have fought alongside a politician or they have a long, long, loooooong track record, you can’t just embrace them and then deflect every attack or scandal. These people don’t deserve your trust, only your suspicion. This has to change and it has to change fast. 835374 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialMaeve, Scary Anarchist @maeve.bsky.social · 29/06/2026No, you can't get people fired for supporting BDS then turn around and pretend you're anti-genocide. 1835 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialAaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The fact that Wiener reluctantly shifted his official position tells you a lot about how the political context has changed, and how Wiener is adapting to that; the idea that it's his "real" position required a lot of credulousness to even entertain. 26614 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialmady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 16/06/20262026 is the year we find out that billionaires took secret society conspiracies as a challenge Epstein in 2016: "peter thiel LOVED the secret society idea he has done alot of work on the concept. all failed so far" Guess he found out how to make it work? 3476115 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026I think conspiracy may be a bad frame for right wing election denial because what they’re really expressing is a belief in is the idea that non-white people shouldn’t be able to vote. 472765775 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 04/06/2026what do you call mass detainment camps that kill the people who stay in them 2933811128 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Not even a criticism of Becerra in particular, but in general, the total collapse of ambition in American politics remains one of the bleakest ongoing trends. It's just a competition between gangsterism and pensionary politics. Nobody believes in the future anymore. 421026208 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialLocal Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 29/05/2026If "equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis would be the end of the state of Israel" then what does that make the state of Israel? 12512133 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay" 282321576 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/05/2026A very strange thing about our legal system is that that your average unhoused person has a much better grasp of the true nature of law than do most of the lawyers, scholars, and legislators. 420031 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialMarty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to). 3647971650 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 07/05/2026And a significant reason for this is that to do otherwise would require inferring several other conclusions that would warrant a form of politics that a lot of very powerful and comfortable do not want to see nor think about. 3440129 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Imperial solidarity - we can’t bear to be too hard on Israelis (or Russians) because we know on some level we deserve the same 48321 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026Pretty much repeating Buckley’s defense of Jim Crow in his debate with Baldwin, without even realizing it, because this thinking is endemic in the culture. 13606196 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this. 181569416 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court. 162075572 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice. 6758601710 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/04/2026Sanist language is quick offhand language for lazy people. That's all. 172 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/04/2026If you're just depressed or anxious with a therapist, you've never had a crisis & never will, I see you as a neurotypical experiencing the natural effects of stressful life circumstance, chiefly capitalist burnout. 162 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/04/2026The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke. 261408364 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 21/04/2026“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill” 224294 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026A big chunk of people jumped into full-fledged reactionary politics because this was their preferred approach to COVID, and they were denied the opportunity to inflict it upon people poorer than them. 39830 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Oh, the feeling of being an ex evangelical and watching people unfamiliar wonder if evangelicals will turn their backs on a false prophet who steals their money and abuses people. 1429850 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/04/2026I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on 461890548 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialGwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Would love for there to come a day when it didn't feel necessary to regularly trot out personal trauma just to get people to maybe consider that sexual misconduct is a foundational part of political culture in this country. 537553 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so." - Adorno 1254 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialGregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 08/04/2026American decline is due, in large part, to the persistent efforts by rich people to ensure that their own progeny retain wealth and power no matter how stupid and lazy they are. 131350238 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026Bitch it's called slavery & native genocide! Y'all was massacring & torturing as chattel the majority of the people in the country for the majority of its history! Become what? Become where? It always was! 05314 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026While the @nytimes.com occasionally covered NYC's many civil rights protests, the paper didn't see a systemic problem in NYC. 10 yrs after Brown, Black activists called for a city-wide school boycott February 3, 1964. The NYT editorial board lambasted it as “violent” “unreasonable and unjustified.” 241884 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object. 6265651938 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/03/2026Team sleep before 10pm in your 40s. 1451 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026I remember being shocked & aghast at a claim that disabled people aren't on the streets because they wouldn't be able to survive. This simply belies reality. Disabled people are far more likely to be displaced from housing, & life unhoused is disabling. Homelessness is a disability justice issue. 413249 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Jesus god almighty you’d think people would get tired of spending ten years saying the fascists can’t do this or do that and then watching them do exactly what they claimed they couldn’t. 625652 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This facility was opened by Obama. I say that not to downplay what’s happening now but to emphasize that family detention was horrific from the moment it began. 221161352 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 21/03/2026a fun fact that I will never tire of is that the brits cooked up the idea of a “vote of no confidence“ specifically to ditch the govt that lost the war against the US colonies, which is why our constitutional tradition doesn’t benefit from their innovation 52606518 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026Suicide prevention is not telling suicidal people to call a number for cops to take them to the psych ward. It’s being community for people. People suffer alone. You abandon your sad & mentally ill & lonely friends because they bum you out. We’re the ones with the duty of caring for each other. 10546224 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse 142777464 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/03/2026hitting the same target twice is for killing emergency responders, and for making people afraid to help those who have been injured or maimed in a previous strike the US did this to a schoolhouse 218173 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading 25965232 0
Reposted by @ada-killjoy.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/03/2026As a person who was raised in evangelicalism, I have a hard time explaining to people that evangelicals seriously worship death and want nothing more than the literal end of the world. It’s not a performance. They desire the literal end of human existence. 718647 0
