Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2heven in a perfect world where Bsky did everything its critics wanted it to do, it would never have the advantage simply of being patronized by powerful people who create courtier networks around them 1514
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/10/2026Read it here - and pass it on www.levernews.com/bulwark-neoc... 25016
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026just laser focused on what voters care about 814823
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot. 1434194
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialKatherine De Chant @katherinedechant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excellent article, worth reading in full, but I particularly loved: "The urge to moderate is unfalsifiable and insatiable. If it doesn’t work, you’re told to moderate more." 0167
Reposted by @austereroberto.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 🧵 412114546111
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialWill Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and… 1637789
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 15/09/2026Next Thursday, @situ-research.bsky.social, Lawfare, @theintercept.com will host an in person screening + panel discussion of "Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Removal." With @tylermcbrien.com, @nickturse.bsky.social, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social, and Setareh Ghandehari.givebutter.comDeportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant RemovalA Screening and Panel Discussion of the Second Chapter of Deportation Inc. 05530
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialNazita Lajevardi @nazita.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So many Islamophobic and racist stories today, but the most recent one I've heard of is just mind bogging is LSAC blocking Iranians from taking the LSAT. www.law.com/2026/09/10/i...law.comIranian Students Prohibited From Taking LSAT Following US-Imposed Sanctions | Law.comThe U.S. Treasury Department announced the suspension of several general licenses in its Iran Sanctions program, including goods and services offered by the Law School Admission Council. 210359
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“.. Comes a few days after Fox parted ways with star talent Maria Bartiromo.” @semafor.com $FOXA www.semafor.com/article/09/0... 28485160
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I bet the NYT would've given Mamdani the same benefit of the doubt if he'd said he'd gone down to Ground Zero as a child to dig people out of the rubble. 882434491
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Schumer's daughter works for OpenAI. Gillibrand's son founded a new crypto exchange backed by billionaires. In case you were wondering why things are the way they are. 411378474
austereroberto.bsky.social @austereroberto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026@gilduran.com apropos of nothing in particular. 000
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialChance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 06/09/2026To be honest, I'm not surprised that Hochman ended up in the State Department. I wrote about his stint in Sen. Schmitt's office for @liberalcurrents.com last year and the trajectory was pretty evident then. www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen... 192
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialGil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/09/2026Got 'em: The @thebulwark.com added an editor's note to the review, acknowledging that the author's direct affiliation with the Foundation for American Innovation ("the foundation shaping the tech right," according to Inc.) created a conflict that should have been forthrightly disclosed. 491998425
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 04/09/2026Do I know anyone who does a lot of work on campaign finance 3181
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Defeat of anyone on the left is a National Story about Very Deep Political Realities. Defeat of anyone on the center or right is a quirky local-interest story that has no broader ramifications. Over and over. Like: 1000 national stories on Boudin's (strange) recall. ~0 on Krasner's repeated wins. 03712
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialJason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 02/09/2026No Democrat could get away with saying this, in any interview, in any venue, for even two seconds. They would be interrupted—instant pushback—from literally any journalist. 11678140
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 02/09/2026as a guy who actually strongly believes in electoralism, i am telling you that nothing that jeffries is signalling right now gives any faith that he's going to go for justice. forgive me for not presuming he's playing fifth dimensional baseball ball by hiding that under his sleeve. 3359168
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Superb @liberalcurrents.com from @saulausterlitz.bsky.social. why Yale & elite institutions are kissing ring of a fascistic government. One quibble: too much credit to Garber/Harvard. Professor/alumni organizing made capitulation politically untenable. www.liberalcurrents.com/bending-the-... 02611
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 01/09/2026“We each have our own annotated lists of surprise Trump lackeys. Mine includes Tim Cook of Apple; Claire Shipman, the former president of Columbia University; Jeremy London and Brad Karp, the chairs of law firms Skadden Arps and Paul, Weiss; and Shari Redstone of Paramount/CBS.”liberalcurrents.comBending the Knee at YaleWhy is it that Maurie McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously? 514942
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...nytimes.comHow Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department. 10917240
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026explicit endorsement of white genetic superiority from musk 55714100
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork. 57595891213
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame. 361856483
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026all of this is in a compounding relationship with the fact that they've internalised that the right represents the true volk & the left is effete, inauthentic cosmopolitans so even if they come to bsky, they react **so** much worse to criticism here than they do there 1455
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’m sorry. What? 36722187
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:data4democracy.substack.comThe Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ SideThis is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so. 642204762
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialMontana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 26/08/20266/ Happy to put it here: The promised $100B investment will fall far short. The promised minimal disturbance of the environment will be a joke. For the residents who are promised all will be well, it will be Boca Chica II. SpaceX won't create 3,000 permanent jobs. Not even close. 2271
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialProfessor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Justin Briley has a long and essential read on elite impunity: www.liberalcurrents.com/a-republic-o...liberalcurrents.comA Republic of ExcusesYou will not like it here and it will get worse until we get better. 031
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is Occam's Razor and maybe Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are interested in exploring this, since The Mental And Physical Capacity Of Elderly Presidents was, until recently, the defining issue of our politics and our time. 251207233
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 24/08/2026When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy. www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/he-was-…pbs.orgHe was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, was arrested after leaving his house to take his car to the mechanic, according to his wife, Argelia Aviles. She said her husband, a handyman in Key West, Florida, has a permit... 25497203
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialAnn Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This is horse as a senator territory 713636
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialMark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026 299177873390
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialAndrew @adhoffma.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The difference is the lack of “drumbeat coverage”. They report on these things once and then drop it in favor of more stenography. They absolutely can hound people out of public life, as they showed with Claudine Gay. But they like Trump and Republicans. 530220
Reposted by @austereroberto.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 @austereroberto.bsky.socialStars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East for the news organization. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... #Flashes 45332201
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 21/08/2026the thing about these bombshell stories coming out years after they happened is that all of the access journalists have far worse they’ve been sitting on and trying to sell 14882115
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026you may not care about the global rules-based order but it cares about you 14390105
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialkayarath.bsky.social @kayarath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026In the Never Trumpers' defense, assuming centrists Dems would roll over for you is an assumption that has been proven true time and time again. 022
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026> @daveweigel.bsky.social 38585371817
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialMedia Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Newly disclosed agency files reveal that FCC Chair Brendan Carr held extensive contact with conservative media leaders like Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch while running the regulatory panel.the-independent.comFCC chair’s meetings with Trump, White House and right-wing media revealedNewly released calendar logs show FCC Chair Brendan Carr made at least eight visits to the White House and held scheduled calls with senior officials 1015675
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 20/08/2026keywords (so far): Natalie Harp, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Jon Ossoff, Zohran Mamdani, Gretchen Whitmer www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfJ... join us, this is live right nowyoutube.comNatalie Harp Is the Most Powerful Woman in the WorldYouTube video by Liberal Currents 2165
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026>imperial concubine controls national security >court eunuchs are ceaselessly fighting for internal influence >the viziers are scheming over who replaces the leader >the leader fritters away all his time repeatedly replacing the grass on the lawn >the palace debt grows greater by the day 481710335
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/08/2026an important thing about this video is that you have to listen with sound on to get the full legal beagle experience 1227621
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialMill Street Research @millstreetresearch.com · 20/08/2026Yikes. The 30-year yield has already reversed the decline caused by Bessent's buyback announcement yesterday. And the 10-year yield is now 2-3bps higher than it was before the news. Very bad look: seems like a panic move, and effect hardly lasted 24 hours. Stock futures trading lower too. 910538
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026going to be absolutely infuriating when the press and the markets demand the next Dem president focus on reducing the deficit, going to be even more infuriating that they're going to be rightnytimes.comU.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge ContinuesPresident Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds. 34612
Reposted by @austereroberto.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging 1173463608
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Editor’s note (September 3, 2026, 1:10 p.m. EDT): In a response to this review posted to social media, Gil Durán, author of The Nerd Reich, has highlighted that the reviewer, Jacob Bruggeman, is affiliated with the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). Durán mentions FAI in his book, once, in a sentence that reads as follows: “This merging of tech and far-right networks—hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation, which Inc. later described as ‘the foundation shaping the tech right’—seemed like a live test of [Balaji] Srinivasan’s theory.” Bruggeman’s affiliation with FAI is an unpaid, nonresident fellowship (in other words, it is not his day job), and while it was mentioned in his byline beneath this review, we should have made a point of additionally disclosing it in a footnote like this.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/bafkreibcuvk2l4qvhmrnxzd3edhu6ncq3ljzmn42hpcijr6imlkimnowle)
