Reposted by AshDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026In the authoritarian mind, society is deeply and intrinsically hierarchical. Either they're above you, or you're above them. Either they have the liberty, or you have the liberty. You can't both have it. 242650
Reposted by AshHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hobo influencers doing everyday carry posts. "What's in my bindle?" 885142
Reposted by AshA. Sharpie @asharpie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There is no lie they will not believe as long as he continues to hate the people that they hate 626210
Reposted by AshA.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I for one will never, ever forget how quickly and easily American institutions and businesses embraced fascism when this loser took power 351221264
Ash @avid-ash.bsky.social · 19/08/2026No way, the “we only track cars” PR line was a complete lie?wired.comFlock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its CodeFlock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate... 010
Reposted by AshIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/08/2026Something I've noticed is that it seems like there's been a lot more diarrhea going on ever since we put a Greater Avatar of Diarrhea in charge of federal health services 351815235
Reposted by AshBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions 50105812736
Reposted by AshGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/07/2026I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics. 182054372
Ash @avid-ash.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Let’s give divorced power-hungry men access to a Dark Knight tracking system without requiring a warrant. What could go wrong? www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...404media.coCops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk PeopleThere have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people. 050
Reposted by AshGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/06/2026They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion. 2771811844
Reposted by AshJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity. 3676785898
Reposted by AshPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026has the new york times ever thought about doing a focus group with someone who has read a book 1686414675
Reposted by AshJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/04/2026Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization 8892122126
Reposted by AshBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas" 8864211211
Reposted by AshChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/04/2026The "duped voter" narrative is a comforting myth. If only we had better messaging. The reality is tens of millions of voters looked at a platform of mass deportation, ethnic cleansing, state violence, and the dismantling of civil rights, clearly understood it, and said, "Yes, that is what I want." 733577811
Reposted by AshLoudest Dog You've Ever Heard @fantasticmrshiba.bsky.social · 07/04/2026[the most spoiled people in the history of the world, sitting on a throne of skulls]: what if things were also bad for me 1735
Reposted by Ashcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/04/2026sorry if this seems harsh but I don't think the president should be allowed to post "a whole civilization will die tonight" and still be president 324745847
Reposted by AshOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026would you still love me if i was a wormhole 48613124
Reposted by AshDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one! 4145671291
Reposted by AshMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically. 614074807
Reposted by AshEd @ed3d.net · 21/03/2026I heard there was a secret cord You plug it in and you meet the Lord But you never care for OSHA do ya 71374269
Reposted by AshNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Medical experts say that if you contract pneumonia you should visit a doctor. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says you should just bathe in raw sewage instead. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust. 121488261
Reposted by AshNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21% 318135962929
Reposted by AshMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/02/2026One cool thing is how I've been lectured by conservatives my whole life about morals and civility and decency just so they can all line up to support a racist pedo 1462988
Reposted by AshWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026You have a whole ass base that wants the Democratic Party to fight like hell and they just aren’t represented. Schumer and Jeffries both need to go. They are no opposition. 57414
Reposted by AshAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason 318248165969
Reposted by AshOsita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 24/01/2026We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them. 523259347861
Reposted by AshHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Does anyone have any idea how we break the echo chambers? No Trump voter in my family will ever know what actually happened to Alex Pretti or Renee Good. They will believe the officers were justified. They will watch Fox News and that will be the end of it. 5525536570
Reposted by AshAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.” 135108072549
Ash @avid-ash.bsky.social · 15/01/2026“Tyranny”: income tax, mask mandates, fluoridated water “Law and order”: armed and masked federal paramilitary terrorizing civilians in their cars and homes 000
Reposted by AshRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The so-called party of free speech and small government is happily supporting armed, masked government agents conducting “show me your papers” stops and brutalizing U.S. citizens. Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out. Remember this. 15849921577
Reposted by AshJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/01/2026once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment 1754831882
Reposted by AshBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones. 7494505711545
Reposted by Ashjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026there is strange insistence — an implicit one — that fascism must be a coherent system 271443160
Reposted by AshLangdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America. 12762593019
Reposted by AshChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things 209155493422
Reposted by AshDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela 19999332535
Reposted by AshSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 03/01/2026In hindsight it was a bad idea to put a child molester with dementia in charge of everything. That’s our bad. That one’s on us 132447385
Reposted by AshDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 04/12/2025Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform. 532348549
Reposted by AshEssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 17/11/2025It does seem completely wrong-headed to argue that you can't call a fascist ideology "fascism" until after they've won. 11029
