Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Signing off, indefinitely. As Chris Geidner says, take care of yourselves, and each other. 000
Reposted by Andy Genzandykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done. 292120505
Reposted by Andy GenzDan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Tyler Owens with all time teach tape for Special Teams players at every level of football. 17737132
Reposted by Andy GenzJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 1773207927
Reposted by Andy GenzProject Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 13/09/2026On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, DHS posted a contract notice most people will never see. ERO ONE would give ICE the military intelligence apparatus that ran the war on terror, aimed at people in the U.S. I did this job for 20 years. Here's why it could be the next chapter of the deportation engine.projectsaltbox.comOP-ED: The $100 Million Hole in ICE's Deportation MachineA procurement notice describes the one capability ICE doesn't have yet: a standing near-real-time intelligence enterprise to turn its surveillance into target lists. 5160119
Reposted by Andy GenzMike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026Um. It was just months ago the DOJ claimed "become ungovernable" was an antifa slogan worthy of conspiracy charges. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFifteen people charged over alleged interference in Minnesota immigration crackdownProsecutors claim defendants were part of Minneapolis-based ‘antifa’ groups that ‘violently oppose’ law enforcement 111219282
Reposted by Andy GenzThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The easiest way to explain the future of US governance for your lifetime and mine is that Trump has taken us from “easy” to “difficult” permanently 9693114
Reposted by Andy GenzAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad. 352512636
Reposted by Andy GenzHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party. 192192711
Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I don’t know why I found this so funny, but I needed the laugh 000
Reposted by Andy Genzdan mentos @danmentos.com · 10/09/2026REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo 346475962
Reposted by Andy GenzJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith. 4347441003
Reposted by Andy GenzBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The thing with sports gambling is that seeing something on the lines once in awhile was fun it was like “oh here’s what Vegas thinks” but as soon as it became 51% of the fucking thing it ruined the entire enterprise 531713
Reposted by Andy GenzMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026On Germany: something I can’t stand is the idea that the Left and the Green parties haven’t offed arguments about the cost of living. They have! It’s just that they haven’t offered *hate*. The AfD have offered hate, that is their most passionate offering, that is primarily why they are thriving. 241053219
Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One way to see how awful slavery was is to recall that life in the early 1800s was grim and yet even then slavery was uniquely & unspeakably abhorrent. It was shorthand for the worst possible treatment imaginable *by enslavers themselves*, even as they justified/defended the Peculiar institution. 000
Reposted by Andy GenzGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026the way this article gives no details about the abducted driver or their condition or wherabouts feels deeply, casually cruel 141772284
Reposted by Andy GenzPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151711314
Reposted by Andy GenzBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Many of you have been asking what you can do to fight the Trump Administration’s depraved war on immigrant kids — like the ones separated from their families and held in federal detention that I’ve been highlighting in my recent videos from 201 Varick Street.theguardian.comRevealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custodyTrump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release 419978
Reposted by Andy GenzMicah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again 282982576
Reposted by Andy Genzderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie 1275207263992
Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Fun/interesting thread on two things that I knew little about 000
Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026When I worked in a closed restaurant kitchen, our boss explicitly said that the less the customers saw of us the better. He wasn’t wrong. 000
Reposted by Andy GenzMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Important to note that "consensual, mutually beneficial exchange" is basically "having an economy". 1242865
Reposted by Andy GenzDr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wait, the official US White House website is featuring an arcade style game in which a cartoon white man in a suit chases cartoon black and brown people, eats/destroys them, and changes them into orange-clad inmates!?! 64424182
Reposted by Andy GenzPatricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So … a few years ago, the architect of the Capitol built a few plastic ramps at the reflecting pool so ducks could get out. Some Republicans objected to the “use of taxpayer dollars” (which was maybe $20). www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/u...nytimes.comDuck Ramps Appear at U.S. Capitol, but Not Everyone Is Pleased (Published 2017) 19938228
Reposted by Andy Genzdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this is kind of stunning tbh 192096309
Reposted by Andy GenzDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up! 551664270
Reposted by Andy GenzRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction. 1162959672
Reposted by Andy GenzBen Feddersen @snoozebuttonben.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The most essential virtue of democracy is that it provides a way to remove people from power that doesn't require killing them first. The latter mechanism ensures rule by the most violent: a gangster state. Given the choice of being ruled by idiots or gangsters, give me the idiots every time. 5976
Reposted by Andy GenzAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For many years, ICE didn't have its own medical claims processing for detainees, running 3rd party medical bills through the VA's system. Last year, right-wing influencers convinced the Trump admin to abruptly cancel this contract. With no replacement, ICE specialized medical care has gone unpaid. 21775409
Reposted by Andy GenzAlexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ossoff invoked Natalie Harp as a means to characterize Donald Trump as not wanting to do his job. This was not an attack against Natalie. El-Sayed invoked Usha Vance to turn the bigotry within JD Vance's family that *JD* was willing to campaign on against him. This was not an attack against Usha. 320856
Reposted by Andy GenzChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...theintercept.comThe U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” 22661832176
Reposted by Andy GenzLSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I really think that the fundamental, ur-problem of the Court is that it does not consider itself to be a governmental body at all but rather something above, different, and more special than that. The only limits it recognizes are those to which it chooses, voluntarily and contingently, to submit. 642562
Reposted by Andy GenzBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you. 966135532214
Reposted by Andy GenzAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026the thing is, they are making it clear they dont want to do this and we are going to have to push them they are making it clear that they just want to win and then i guess the plan is to just sorkin everything back together and keep accepting those ai and kalshi checks 1030354
Reposted by Andy GenzProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It is really time to sue on the ankle monitor policy: it was issued as interim guidance rather than a notice and comment rulemaking. It also likely violates the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause. 6540146
Reposted by Andy GenzJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/09/2026It breaks my heart that it wasn't the ankle monitor that broke him—it was the way his college classmates treated him for having to wear It. Which says so much about the kinds of hatefulness that permeate American culture and that made it possible for MAGA to gain so much power. 281262435
Reposted by Andy GenzMicah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026washington dc is owed both statehood and reparations for what trump has done to them 10797171
Reposted by Andy Genzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026why would any agency abide an injunction knowing there is a decent chance the supreme court will lift it because the president is a special birthday boy? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by MailA report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections. 342480503
Reposted by Andy Genzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026looking forward to the presidential succession crisis of 2029 1091702211
Reposted by Andy Genzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy 1375202922
Reposted by Andy GenzJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026They‘d better name the bill that enlarges SCOTUS something like the Rebuilding Our Broken Executive Requires Thirteen Supremes Act, so we can call it the ROBERTS Court, not the Roberts Court, and immortalize the epic overreach and its costs. (I tried to make ALITO work, but failed.) 37816
Reposted by Andy GenzYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 06/08/2026if you want to support a solution for Haitians at risk of roundup and deportation to danger, tell your Senator to support S4814, which mandates designation of Haiti for TPS! It already passed the House. We need all Ds and many Rs to get this passed. support.refugeesinternational.org/a/urgent-con...support.refugeesinternational.orgUrgent: Congress Must Act Now to Protect Haitian TPS Holders in our Community 12212
Reposted by Andy GenzRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone. 38984424236
Reposted by Andy GenzLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We really need to stop referring to these machines as “dogs.” That’s a descriptor given to them as part of a years long PR campaign to normalize their presence in civilian spaces. They are marketed as mobile surveillance and weapons platforms. We need to call them that. 14471231
Andy Genz @ajgenz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026To expand on Katie's point: Trump's core belief is that all interactions are zero sum. It drives his personal life & his politics. Corruption, toxicity, violence, & persecution all flow from it. Moreover, because zero sum thinking is antithetical to communal living, in promoting it he hurts us all. 010
Reposted by Andy GenzGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights. 1827311356