Sign in

AJ

@aj5273.bsky.social
39 followers 31 following 287 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by AJ
Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Florida has the most U.S. Senators
1146255
Reposted by AJ
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Want to learn more about what made the Times like this? Check out my book: cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...
cup.columbia.edu
Making the Liberal Media | Columbia University Press
Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against... | CUP
1884
Reposted by AJ
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes
751181132
Reposted by AJ
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
good review and also, there is still something to be written about Sarah Palin as a key figure in creating the political space that trump seized just a few years later.
651199124
Reposted by AJ
Gillian (Jill) @youdontknowjill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of this. Well said, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
0168
Reposted by AJ
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Entire podcast!
2771
Reposted by AJ
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This conversation between @devawo.bsky.social and @perrybaconjr.bsky.social is worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7e...
youtube.com
Why AOC’s “Woke” Comments Landed With a Thud
YouTube video by The New Republic
510026
Reposted by AJ
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/defending-...
paulkrugman.substack.com
Defending the Bonds
I am reporting for duty
34494105
Reposted by AJ
Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
a4democracy.substack.com
The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
4635831215
Reposted by AJ
DRACULA FLOW @draculaflowbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Dracula Flow meme

I don't have any compassion for broke boys. Everybody has an asshole, most people have dick and balls. Go outside and get a bag!
05613
Reposted by AJ
DRACULA FLOW @draculaflowbot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Dracula Flow meme

The first time I smoked runts I coughed so fucking hard I started passing kidney stones. Then shat myself in front of the gang! There was scat all over the pounds we shipped out for the next thirty business days
0478
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How many times should you be allowed to be wrong as a professional politics take guy
000
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I told my friend diabolical lies was the only podcast I knew that was hosted by 2 women and he replied "maintenance phase"
000
Reposted by AJ
Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The promise of the internet is built on links. If you're looking for a platform that's 100% dedicated to sharing them, come check out what we're working on at Seabird. seabirdreader.com
seabirdreader.com
Seabird Reader
A new way of finding worthwhile writing and other media on the internet
611120
Reposted by AJ
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Cannot stop binging this podcast
podcasts.apple.com
Diabolical Lies
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Smart. Sane. Unbearable. www.diabolicalliespod.com
2025913
Reposted by AJ
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Excellent book.
217232
Reposted by AJ
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This was a terrific pod with guest Mark Jacob about the New York Times! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgVW...
youtube.com
Personality Crisis Episode 9: Mark Jacob on the NYT
YouTube video by Personality Crisis
39219
Reposted by AJ
the worst of all possible worlds @worstpossible.world · 06/04/2026
WEDNESDAY: it's Beast Week 2026. @junlper.beer and @birdrespecter.bsky.social from @killthecomputer.com join us to talk about Beast Games Season 2. Is it better? Is it worse? Does it actually resemble a TV show at this point? Find out in a couple days!
7767
Reposted by AJ
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/03/2026
TRUMP IN ONE SINGLE EVENT - "They won't be there for us" - "We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already" - "This isn't 'need'" - "If we need anything, they should be jumping to help us" - "We want them to come & help us w/the strait" - My attitude is we don't need anybody"
50857942098
Reposted by AJ
onion person @junlper.beer · 12/03/2026
i went on cancel me daddy, it was a lot of fun remembering how easily you can fail upwards in the rightwing sphere
961542
Reposted by AJ
SF Giants Bot @giantbot.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
🤖 SFGiants 🚨 TRIPLE PLAY! TRIPLE PLAY! TRIPLE PLAY! 🚨
04917
Reposted by AJ
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
951331143
Reposted by AJ
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My three-year-old was watching the Interesting Times podcast when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why are the trad wives always smiling?" And when I told her "Because they've been freed of the demands of contemporary feminism," she started crying.
1258642
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social As a Christian, I'm disgusted Trump would make the national prayer breakfast all about himself. Here's why I'll be voting for him a 4th time anyways
000
Reposted by AJ
kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/12/2025
The Devil You Know is an 8-part podcast series from the CBC and Sarah Marshall (host of You’re Wrong About…) about the Satanic Panic. “These thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found…” [cbc.ca]
cbc.ca
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. Even so, the narrative became embedded in our cultural memory, warp
628767
Reposted by AJ
🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 07/10/2025
his brain’s just fucking melted, man, pooling around in his skull and trickling out his ears
411369197
Reposted by AJ
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This is so good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk (E340)
Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 09/16/2025 · 1h 5m
731217
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was a vile human being who's life was dedicated to spreading hatred and mistrust of others. He made tons of money doing it too. The fact that he got shot changes nothing about who he was up to that point
000
Reposted by AJ
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Bring back the President's Physical Fitness Test?!? Clearly no one in the Trump Administration has listened to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social absolutely DEMOLISH it in one of the first Maintenance Phase episodes.
podcasts.apple.com
The President's Physical Fitness Test
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 10/20/2020 · 58m
315718
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I'm relishing in my sins rn
000
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
billionaires ruin everything for everyone all the time
000
Reposted by AJ
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Loser
301474150
Reposted by AJ
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
"In the secretary’s office are a half-dozen prints known as 'jumbos.' Typically these would be pictures of tanks or troops in battle. In Hegseth’s office, instead, are seven giant pictures of Jenny Hegseth, many of them showing her in the same pink dress."
nymag.com
Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary
As he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by him?
120877203
Reposted by AJ
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
New article in Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/p/trump-dest...
rollingstone.com
Making America Backward Again
Trump and MAGAnomics are wrecking the economy, dismantling democracy, and making America backward again, Paul Krugman writes
31981278
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
just want this pic of Elon out there
010
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
it's is evil to arrest innocent children and pardon actual criminals who give you money
010
Reposted by AJ
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Quite enjoyed this, by @skornhaber.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
1212515
Reposted by AJ
Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Conservatives since let’s say Reagan onward have been demonstrated to be antithetical to reality. The policies have failed miserably. Trickle down. Tough on crime. Just say no. And every social policy. Nothing has worked and it’s all garbage. Facts/reality are diametrically opposed to conservatism.
8651165
Reposted by AJ
Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/04/2025
First they came for the Hamasniks and, like, tough for them.
801190177
Reposted by AJ
Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is, I think, the single greatest problem with the media's coverage of the last nine years of US politics. Democrats are broadly assumed to be the adults in the room, and as a result, Democrats and Republicans are held to *wildly* different standards of behavior by the media.
311980440
Reposted by AJ
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
236233438269
Reposted by AJ
Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 14/04/2025
lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account
Series of Bluesky posts:

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
Some of the big ideas I've been associated with in my career:
1. Supply and demand applies to housing
2. People like politicians who take popular positions
3. Police help prevent crime
4. The Orange Man is bad
5. China's large population matters a lot for power politics

Matthew Yglesias (reply to above post)
@mattyglesias.bsky.social
I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.

The Gripe Gazette @gripegazette.bsky.social
Forgot to switch to a sock puppet account?

Large text on top from Felix Biederman’s Instagram account reading “sometimes you have to be your own biggest fan”
380161832503
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
president can send you to an El Salvador gulag with no due process and there is actually no legal recourse, scariest thing I've heard in a while
000
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
why are more people not talking about the 10% tariff on imports
000
Reposted by AJ
onion person @junlper.beer · 07/04/2025
i think about this post all the time
44911076660
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
ny times connections have been total crap lately
000
Reposted by AJ
The Cloister @the-cloister.org · 30/03/2025
Here at The Cloister, we enjoy spirited debates; this episode of @podsaveamerica.crooked.com with guests @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social is as good as it gets. We poured ourselves tea, got us questionable nibbles, and listened with piqued interest. We hope you do too. . #Abundance
youtube.com
Ezra Klein + Derek Thompson on Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Their Own Critics
YouTube video by Pod Save America
0384
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I am scared and sad
000
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
almost all powerful "liberals" care more about their own personal comfort than any of the beliefs they claimed to hold. The tidal wave of people folding to trumps blatantly unconstitutional demands prove this
000
AJ @aj5273.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
imagine the top government officials doing this shit during a Chinese invasion of Taiwan
000