Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more. 22361941012
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 25/04/2026“Yeah so we’re actually invading Pakistan soon! Nobody is supposed to know that, pretty cool, right?” said Patel, spilling his Don Julio as the bottle girl feigned interest in his long, rambling story. theonion.comBottle Girl Nods As Kash Patel Screams State Secrets In EarWASHINGTON—Smiling vacantly while the FBI director rattled off classified information over thumping EDM music, local bottle girl Tanya Page reportedly nodded along early Friday morning as Kash Patel s... 544495677
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2026hungary is certainly a model for the american right in the sense that it is a prime example of people who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven 212136255
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialOlivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2026When the edible kicks in just as Knee Play 2 gets going and it could be Franky it could be very fresh and clean it could be it could get some gasoline shortest one so all these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends 1399
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.nytimes.comOpinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump 2724934889
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored. 852862697
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Hey you ICE bastards let me draw you a map of your future 1343670
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The distinction between identifying as liberal, leftist, or anti-MAGA conservative functionally means literally nothing. It has basically no bearing on someone's commitment to sets of ethical values and their willingness to act on them as it relates to the current domestic situation of America. 1562671
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now. 4692412745
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Resistance Libs Were Right 1074093673
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/01/2026i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate* 89107091956
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/01/2026“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is” How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress 572067446
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Also: you CANNOT fucking pull a gun on someone while filming on your fucking cell phone. If as a LEO your judgment is the situation has reached the point where deadly force may be warranted & you need your gun out, not having your full attention on it is at BEST depraved indifference to human life 542699475
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay. 1372838957
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/01/2026absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary 382412603
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes. 15375927320088
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast. There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content. 221596280
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/12/2025more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment 1334349800
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public. 40145763270
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025All discourse is the same now. 201704280
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I was reading through the OP and some replies and if you don't mind me airing a grievance... there sure are a lot of people out there who seem to have a superiority complex about not watching videos and you do you but I stopped using the word "sportsball" for reasons. 2152818
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025"I, the much-detested sheriff, am going to tell this priest to take down his nativity display because it makes me, the guy kidnapping his parishioners, look bad" is the kind of thinking you usually see in like, 16th century England shortly before something called the War Of The Creche breaks out 217739
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialJustin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 08/12/2025NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.socialpropublica.orgTrump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records RevealThe Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ... 742545986
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law. 401944410
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/12/2025"An odd thing about the book—one that gives it an aloof, affectless quality—is that Nuzzi doesn’t seem to recognize that her collaboration with Kennedy was a grave professional betrayal." The story here is the sociopathic ethical violations. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One 1068293
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialTom Davidson @tomdavidson92.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Pope Leo absolutely cooking 3742201112
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally. 19434251094
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself. 131103822341
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025A fun fact is that contemporary political philosophy has something like ~no explanation for why democracy is something ordinary people would or should care about this much 481578226
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.mediaite.com‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay JonesLiberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat. 1542372638
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say 24832118
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialClassical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 09/10/2025 327376
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2025This 'cult of the operator' appears, to me at least, wholly unsuited for modern warfare, in which victory depends primarily on the depth of your political will, the effectiveness of your logistics, the advancement of your technology and most of all the raw quantity of steel you can put in the air. 161147111
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it. 4068431320
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows. 27163911210
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2025this is one of the problem with ideologies which rationalize the routine use of violence: you think you are attracting where violence is the means and the ideology is the ends. you are actually attracting people for whom the violence is the ends and the ideology is the means. 131216193
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2025John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us. 713315708
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/09/2025we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff. 6151211007
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialZach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 2304108
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service. 23899002768
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The far right is methodically securing direct editorial control of every major media and social media outlet in America, while Democrats scoff at the idea that this matters or that politics depends on anything more than who has the most popular kitchen-table agenda 515639
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Combine “Donald Trump backs away from almost anyone who challenges him” with “Donald Trump has suborned Congress, the Supreme Court, top law firms, universities, multiple media conglomerates, and the business community” to learn something interesting about American elites! 533779
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Kamala Harris said they’d do this and the press called her a liar and a fabulist. 211422324
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2025So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap 199183792673
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast 6172742142
Reposted by @asonge.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim. 10542321331
