Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This Labor Day, ask yourself: Whose labor do I depend upon? Who depends on mine? 010
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Odd how US District Judge Jeanine Pirro is going to be fired for her single competent act in that role, one grounded in reality and the law 050
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 26/07/2026LA Dodgers ownership, in bid to make team easier to hate, visits WH and gifts Trump a World Series ring Proud to see that Mookie Betts blew the event off The chairman of the team, Mark Walter, owns a financial services firm that’s under federal investigation That ring was a good investment 120
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Everyone’s dunking on the WH lawn cage-match, but admit it: the symbolism’s perfect If today really is the day the Iran deal goes through, we’re celebrating what they call, in MMA lingo, the mullahs “submitting” Trump 030
Reposted by Andy DimockMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Of all the Donald Trump tweets Speaker Mike Johnson won't see, today's will be the one Speaker Mike Johnson didn't see the most. 20190311503
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 03/04/2026You’re not safer with a gun in the house “SecWar” Hegseth just lifted the ban on private firearms on military bases. Lethality! But most of it will be aimed at the gun owners themselves, or the people around them 030
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026America doesn't belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear — it belongs to us. We're taking to the streets again on March 28 to say NO KINGS. app.sosha.ai/s/8rj8IwBXapp.sosha.aiJoin me at the next No Kings Day 010
Reposted by Andy DimockRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on this day in 1911. The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze. Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety. 17561442328
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The scene at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware today: Six soldiers arrive in coffins. POTUS is sporting a USA baseball cap Head Ferret Maintenance takes precedence over the Dignified Transfer of Remains ceremony Trumps it, you might say 100
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Oh, Christ. Here we go again. Luckily, bombing Southwest Asia always works out great for us, and the people who live there 010
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Old enough to remember how much harder things were in the Cold War days You couldn’t just take phone calls in the White House from your KGB handler. You couldn’t announce them to the public in print, either 141
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Brace yourself for a wave of MAGA voices insisting that Portugal isn’t Europe 061
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Bari, stop trying to make Erika Kirk happen. She’s not going to happen! 050
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...theguardian.comTom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter 140
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Is it possible the Senate Dems are doing this because they know the Rs won’t honor the deal, so that the party in power gets 100% of the responsibility in the eyes of midterm voters when the crushing ACA hikes come through? 260
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Hegseth attacks body fat, declares open season for war crimes, announces the purge of non-white and female personnel Your mission? Go after your unarmed fellow citizens This spectacle is for the type of online man-child whose idea of soldiering comes from drunken rewatches of Zach Snyder’s 300 080
Reposted by Andy DimockJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox. 692077567
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2025An oversize Chevy pickup, festooned with the Stars and Stripes? Rammed through a brick wall, so that the driver can gun down people with an assault rifle and set the church afire? It’s a perfect tableau of America in our moment, somehow 232
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Because “Kinetic Strike” sounds way cooler than “murder” Like how bros love the terms “ballistic” and “tactical” Pair that with a snuff film? Goosebumps 032
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Why is it amateur hour with the FBI search in Utah? Because the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are, quite literally, amateurs Even if they were competent, flying out into the field to chase views and the press is nothing but a distraction for the agents working the case 010
Reposted by Andy DimockKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.” 732229756754
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 01/09/2025This Labor Day, ask yourself: Who depends on my labor? Whose do I depend on? 061
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Never fear! Todd Blanche (former Trump personal attorney and now, inexplicably, Deputy U.S. Attorney General) is on the case! Tom Hagen’s about to visit Frankie Pentangeli in federal lockup. He’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse 140
Reposted by Andy DimockAyJay @dcvet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Carl Sagan predicted this. He was truly ahead of his time. bsky.app/profile/saga... 09827
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Sure feels strange rooting for the Dodgers organization www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...nbcnews.comDodgers block ICE agents from entering stadium in Los AngelesThe MLB organization reportedly had plans to announce assistance for immigrant communities in L.A. today. 040
Reposted by Andy DimockTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th. 5536441219
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Are insurgents hitting ICE agents with RPGs? Is the CA National Guard taking casualties from IEDs and suicide bombers? No? Then why in hell is a battalion of Marines headed to LA? This ain’t Fallujah 011
Reposted by Andy DimockCalifornia Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 09/06/2025This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids 360186635265
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I’ll be there with my 1776 flag and attached “No Tyrants,” “No Oligarchs” pennants. They don’t own the flag of our Republic. I’m attending No Kings's event, “From Palo Alto to Sunnyvale: Historic 7x7k Rally on El Camino Real” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...mobilize.usFrom Palo Alto to Sunnyvale: Historic 7x7k Rally on El Camino Real · MobilizePLEASE READ COMPLETELY FOR DETAILS! NO KINGS DAY is a National Day of Action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. 7X7K is... 010
Reposted by Andy DimockRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only. 726189645493
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Habemus papam A 9th grader sitting in my class had a live feed of St Peter’s Square up on his screen. (He was supposed to be watching Romeo and Juliet) Over his shoulder, I saw the puff of black smoke I know this kid. Not the theological type “Did you BET on the next Pope?” Yes indeed! A wager 120
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 24/04/2025American citizens still have power as consumers Keep hammering. Your Tesla funds MAGA www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...nytimes.comElon Musk Vows to Spend Less Time in Washington as Tesla’s Profit Drops 71%The carmaker reported the sharp decline in quarterly earnings after its brand suffered because of its chief executive’s role in the Trump administration. 130
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 23/04/2025www.advocate.com/politics/tru...advocate.comTrump Administration to defund suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth starting in OctoberA leaked budget draft shows the federal government's plans to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services. 100
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/04/2025As for the whole Blue Origin/bachelorette spat, there’s one thing I know: anyone who leaves the atmosphere atop a rocket is risking their lives. The whole ‘lifestyle’ angle makes me grit my teeth, but what they did is more than mere tourism, if less than true space exploration. 111
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/04/2025arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...arstechnica.comTrump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”It turns out the FAA now takes no role in identifying who is an astronaut. 020
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I figured that this regime might kill me over the long haul. You know: air pollution, climate change, toxic chemical spills, bacteria-laced meat in the supermarket, mass shooters, preventable viruses, that kind of thing. But they may get me in July, the next time I travel by plane 000
Reposted by Andy DimockTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin. 66790102012
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 09/04/2025bsky.app/profile/npr.... Trump’s inner circle doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism, except as a weapon to cudgel this nation’s universities with. What they hate are dissenters and protestors of any kind. But watch this part, because it’s about more than the universities. 400
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 26/01/2025 It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair thehill.com/homenews/sen...thehill.com 040
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Most Americans oppose the sweeping pardons for hundreds of J6 rioters. Asked about the felons convicted of beating police officers, the first convicted felon to be a sitting president claimed, “Those were very minor incidents.” Violent crime isn’t unlawful when it’s aimed at his enemies. 030
Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 20/01/2025talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-...talkingpointsmemo.comElon Goes Full Sieg Heil In Clarifying MomentI was at the gym this afternoon when I saw out of... 020