Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDaniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's hard to imagine a world where Big Trouble in Little China was immediately and overwhelmingly successful (and didn't eventually become a cult classic.) But in the decades since its release, it's revealed itself to have much more staying power than its stiff-lipped adventure peers. 813425
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o... 9928641192
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114536111
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialJon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026While the world burns, and you pay more for everything, your tax dollars become the royal family’s wealth. Because it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook. 23866312
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415mol.imUS flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse imagesThe ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25. 111073004128
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDan Stirk @jdanielstirk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social, there’s some asshole on here stealing your bit 1147940
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the more interesting thing about this article, which was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others, is that it was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others. 4713146
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The thing people should know about ZZ Top is that those early records, like Tres Hombres for example, are the gold standard for how rock records should sound. Immaculately recorded records, true auteur stuff, albums that set out to be exactly what they are 562125210
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes 121126332126
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Sorry, but I don’t buy the argument that had the Biden admin tongue washed legacy media they wouldn’t have ratfucked him. If you believe that you haven’t been paying attention to the last decade plus. 35616
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 06/08/2026Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common. 2360262194
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 02/08/2026Just over 60%, thank you so much! Please donate or repost if you are able to. I really appreciate it. When you live outside the Acela corridor, you basically don't exist to Democratic establishment, sadly. 076
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialhoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social @hoipolloiboytoy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Always worth pointing out in observations like this is that the MSM takes their editorial choices from GOP leadership so make their choices on what to cover based on what the GOP wants the press to cover. 0192
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In short, there are valuable lessons we can learn about drones & interceptors & magazine depth & mine-sweepers, etc. But the key lesson is: no amount of tactical excellence can salvage strategic incompetence. Who lost the Iran War? The American voter did, that damn fool. And he ought to feel it. 111411259
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo... 37973541
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 442168581
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/07/2026“I live next to people who vote for Trump and smoke cigarettes outside my window while listening to Frank Sinatra too loud, that’s just called living in the real world, where other people exist.” www.liberalcurrents.com/there-is-no-...liberalcurrents.comThere Is No Such Thing as SocietyToday it is not revolutionary communists but so-called conservatives who wish to trample on human individuality in service of dreams of a remade society. 09531
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 02/07/2026tbh the problem with healthcare policy is just that healthcare is expensive to provide, and will only get more expensive to provide in the future as better therapies come out, the population ages, and the number of people who can pay into the system decreases. 3232
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2026as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places 241599195
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A very shrewd and insightful take on what happened in the NYC primaries. I really recommend it. theconnector.substack.com/p/new-yorks-...theconnector.substack.comNew York's Hollow Party WarsWhat last Tuesday's primaries tell us about weak Democratic institutions, organized challengers, and the limits of low-turnout victories. 710225
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken. 44690441643
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialPat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 30/06/2026You can’t reconcile Slaughter and Cook. It’s just the Supreme Court saying “we don’t want to mess up the world economy, but trust us, we’re principled interpreters of the Constitution.” My latest in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/slaughtering...liberalcurrents.comSlaughtering the Administrative StateThe Supreme Court's Cooked reasoning on independent agencies. 628769
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialCraig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Reminder: it is still *illegal* in the UK to rip a legally bought and owned CD to MP3 on your computer. But Google will likely convince the UK govt that every creative endeavour should be available for it to remix and regurgitate, entirely for free. One rule for the public; another for megacorps… 6484221
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialroko’s modern basilisk @girlpython.northsky.social · 26/06/2026this is also true of media consumption and culture more generally from roughly the same period, TV is centralized in a way that will likely never be replicated 2377
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 26/06/2026A lot of people assume that the housing market circa 1975-2005, when urban housing was cheap even without new development thanks to rapid sprawl and white flight, is the natural state of the world and not an historically anomalous period shaped by housing and transportation policy choices. 1259299
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Update — a top Trump aide set this in motion, as White House tries to get third-party candidates out of tight races. James Blair asked RFK Jr. to call the Iowa candidates because Blair heard they respected him, according to two people familiar with the matter. with @iarnsdorf.bsky.social 29342
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/06/2026A friendly empirical note for those losing it over progressive primary wins: ideological positioning barely explains Democratic vote shares since 2006. Turnout explains a lot. The party can run to the center all it wants. It won’t help if the base doesn’t show up. 13385112
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialChristopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 23/06/2026“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...advocate.comThe New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis findsA new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality. 0385115
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Clarifying Choices for Democratic Voters — Fight & Ideology Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/clari...talkingpointsmemo.comClarifying Choices for Democratic Voters — Fight & Ideology EditionThere was voting in New York state today and I had to... 57917
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialLizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...statnews.comEli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program. 2293091974
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/06/2026Interesting. Btw who’s the current president 2735
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system. 1105334528387
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 2053328563
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialSuzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The Trump administration is dismantling and destroying the Department of Education without Congressional approval, causing harm to educators, students, and families. This must end now. www.kxl.com/bonamici-ann... 425464
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/06/2026the feminist reading of "the patriarchal bargain" is a way of imposing feminist thinking on women who endorse patriarchy. "they're just trying to bargain for the best position they can get with the implacable evil." it refuses to take seriously the woman who says "the man ought to have headship" 218812
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialKay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 14/06/2026For the prophesy to be fulfilled, they're gonna have to find intelligent life up there on the moon, and we shall see The Canterbury Tales shoot up to the top of the best-seller list and stay there for twenty-seven weeks 151
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/06/2026the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in 171013168
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I keep having to be reminded that a core tenet of Trumpism is intentionally telling impossibly obvious lies, and enjoying making everyone else deal with them. 451717341
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/05/2026Trump skipped his son’s wedding then did nothing all weekend but post A true poster 2825853651
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialEternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 25/05/2026Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf 277843352
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/05/2026"We want accountability for the crimes of the Trump administration. We want accountability for the murderers of Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, accountability for the men and women building concentration camps, accountability for the crooks and billionaires looting our country blind."liberalcurrents.comProsecute These Corrupt Bastards!We can and must prosecute the degenerate officials and corrupt oligarchs and brutal thugs who would destroy our Constitutional system. 29137
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Jeff Bezos paid $0.00 in income taxes in 2007 and 2011, years when his net worth was $4 billion and $18 billion respectively. Otherwise, he pays an income tax rate of about 1%. More people should know this! www.propublica.org/article/the-...propublica.orgThe Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev... 7766309
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2026Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens." 792384778
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere. 9955221618
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Why are oil prices not higher? In short, America’s selling while China ain’t buying" "the US has responded by cranking up exports, while China has slashed imports" www.ft.com/content/ae62... 622286
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:stevevladeck.com227. "We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This"The Supreme Court has not only accelerated the race to the partisan redistricting bottom; it is directly responsible for the chaos we're seeing on the ground. 18835381262
Reposted by @adognamedboo.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs. 14770041919