Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026this iran humiliation is revealing so much about the US. you can actually see how military coups happen, why there's a 25th amendment, why wars should ever be wages at the whim of one guy (especially a world-class idiot). the rot and the sclerosis are now apparent to anyone who wants to look 132503324
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility 04222842
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialAndy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Any serious Democratic candidate for 2028 must commit to pardoning these guys on day 1. 310426
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialZach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 29/06/2026Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else. 131172268
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026As violent crime in America falls, especially in urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, homicides perpetrated by police officers skyrocket and American police establish themselves as the most violent part of US society. It seems to be a function of the legal doctrine of impunity.economist.comAmerican police killings are rising, even as murder rates fallMore aggressive cops are less restrained 34762384
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/06/2026musk is *uniquely* dependent on the federal teat to a degree that’s unusual even by the tech billionaire class, which is why a democratic house should make him public enemy number one: he’s a very big target who is extremely vulnerable, and they should make an example out of him 251417303
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialAbu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026ICE is evil. Full stop. 12914
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialMatt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Begging Democrats to resist the urge to bash Trump from the hawkish right, which only reinforces the very stupid discourse that enabled this very stupid war in the first place. 63853138
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialhilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026We live in an age of wonders which our government is inexplicably trying to destroy.nytimes.comEarly Research Suggests a Path to Predict and Prevent Lung Cancer 37121
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialAnchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning 94100843450
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/05/2026How about this explanation… even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways, and they know they’ll never be able to compete with that, and that their money will be worth less and less over time. 411548222
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026there's clearly a massive scandal in these GJ transcripts. And the public deserves to know what it is. 192171456
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa... 207110453977
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 13/05/2026I'm not so sure it's unwitting tho 03716
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10/05/2026anyone willing to tolerate MTG is showing they view her absolutely vicious persecution of the trans community as a minor character flaw 11831109
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialDr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026The WNBA consistently has the best politics of any American professional sports league 1664175
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialWendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028. 46101122820
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hakeem Jeffries can force an impeachment vote same day. If he refuses, any House Democrat can force the same vote, just a few days later. That's the only way to force an immediate debate on whether the danger Trump put us all in is tolerable. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...offmessage.netRepublicans Chose Armageddon Over Checking Trump—They Just Got LuckyIt can not be bygones and quiet relief. Democrats must try to remove Trump from power, even if Republicans block them, because he's shown he'll hold the whole world hostage. 433488
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Folks, the oracle is telling me if I attack Iran “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again". 1750075
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military 1348041302
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/03/2026over and over again, outright paid anti-trans activists are quoted in the Times as "concerned parents" or "concerned doctors". these are people who are paid to advocate against trans rights, and they are constantly white-washed by NYT news reporters. 1633135
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.social🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 24/03/2026All these pictures people are taking of un-masked ICE agents chilling at airports are useful, because later the identifying details like tattoos can be compared to photos of masked agents once they go back to committing human rights violations in the streets. 135693
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Seems like ICE agents have been ordered to go unmasked at airports. So, a good time to photograph as many of them as possible, so details like tattoos or how they arrange their pouches or patches can be matched to faces later after masked abuses.nymag.comICE Agents Are in Airports Now. Do You Feel Safer Yet?Federal immigration agents have been spotted at American airports after President Trump ordered their deployment amid TSA staff shortages. 4411173
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/03/2026“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...usatoday.comICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bolognaIn the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model." 12636112217
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life. 462498580
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am 103115552398
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026We obviously need Trump to be removed from power. Short of that we need the world to know that the majority of American citizens, and their representatives in the opposition party, can see that this is madness and are trying to stop it. www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarteroffmessage.netNo QuarterAnd not one more inch. 21417121
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialClay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Senate comity is going to destroy our country. These people are all in a little club together, and they care more about each other than they care about the people they serve. 18458101
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren. 17872782277
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 05/03/2026One aspect (among many) of this war that concerns me is the Islamophobic racism of the war’s supporters in congress and the media is somehow more callous and virulent despite low public support for the war. 1248
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialBen K. @benjaminkabak.com · 04/03/2026Pete Hegseth is absolute scum. This is a flat-out war crime. 19525
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/03/2026Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life. 25380412367
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/03/2026Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea... 701416519
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/03/2026literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back 18285411338
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib 1034324824
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialkrat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants 13591931370
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialDaniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 19/02/2026There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that" 271408365
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children" 251315671
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 16/02/2026AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating 5754001019
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 14/02/2026i'm older than the DHS and have never seen it do anything good for The Average American (whatever that means) in my entire life. i have seen it be a big racism lever that every administration loves to pull like that dril tweet tho 647086
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of... 5525791389
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2026i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means. 33592342835
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing. 11790572198
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is 15767861924
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet 265161665923
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 02/02/2026punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter 142065413
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about. 9976192305
Reposted by @airportbird.bsky.socialRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 29/01/2026 “An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Dems so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package” newrepublic.com/article/2057...newrepublic.comDonald Trump Is FrightenedTrump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place. 916786