Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11746921165 4.7K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/08/2026“Women who average more than 8.4 points, 2.3 rebounds, or 1.3 assists per game clearly have an unfair biological advantage over women who don’t, and we need to maintain a level playing field.” — Sophie Cunninghamtheonion.comSophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBAINDIANAPOLIS—Contending that the proposed restrictions were “common sense” and necessary to preserve the integrity of the sport, Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham claimed Friday that any ... 443942631 3.9K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026if you want a very exhaustive rundown of who didnt invent the sloppy joe i wrote it all down buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #140: Sloppy JoeWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a... 1434344 343
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Mitch McConnell is getting leg lengthening surgery. He plans to return to the Senate in October and 8 feet tall. 1934404263 4.4K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Obviously there are way too many hateful people doing it on spec but I really don’t think there are as many as it seems. They gotta pay people lots of money to trick lots of people into hating trans people. 3414100 414
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/03/2026I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable 292113292614 11.3K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026"The man who is really responsible for what we're doing -- I mean, in a legal, prosecutorial sense -- is our boss Stephen Miller." 23849591016 5K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17/03/2026Bezos’ ostensibly data-driven strategy for the Post is like he bought an orchard, discovered all of the money is in selling fruit, and ordered that the dead weight of the roots be dug up and burned.nytimes.comHow Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post 21980157 980
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Someone needs to send an ambulance to X 210162522915 16.3K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t. 830109753692 11K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us) And I'm having a difficult time dismissing itheise.deWD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold outHyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs. 72272811 2.3K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialAmelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein. 11373341412 7.3K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The fact that they’re running the full Kilmer Abrego Garcia playbook on a fucking five year old in a bunny hat…it was outrageous when they did it to Abrego Garcia. It’s monstrous here 127084 270
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump. 343156750 3.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Democrats are going to fund their own prosecutions. 8536124 536
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms 11893662617 9.4K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out 378268648137 26.9K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday 5352022824 5.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 28/12/2025Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not) 12838298 838
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/11/2025If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit 211118152006 11.8K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ... 510125734552 12.6K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialJessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 16/10/2025"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So @propublica.org did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer." www.propublica.org/article/immi...propublica.orgMore Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near... 4235128 235
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/10/2025State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy. 27827671368 2.8K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:thehandbasket.coICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home. 12375513215 7.6K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/10/2025"All it took was an international terror campaign run by the government to prove it's natural to be cis" 1029272 292
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday: 1312644732 2.6K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2025federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before? 226142315083 14.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialReuters @reuters.com · 03/10/2025Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfzttreut.rsApple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administrationApple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration. 140654541 654
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The perfect encapsulation of Politico. "Of course the White House is lying, but it's a pretty savvy lie, so let's see how it plays?" It's all a fun little game with no stakes to them. It's like they're recapping episodes of Real Housewives. 441273319 1.3K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialJonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 28/09/2025Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...cnn.comMan in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNNA 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others. 348114284300 11.4K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America. 18143390210487 33.9K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War 663373894 3.4K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialJoel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Just remember that even saying the most obvious things about how dude lived his life has gotten a number of people fired this week. And this is the normal course of things. Ain’t no backup. 5949113 949
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh? 259183985088 18.4K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2025As stated earlier by others, it does not matter what you post or do not post here. The right wing has their narrative they’re going to push, because they understand they are at war with democracy and that propaganda *works.* 13956091286 5.6K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy. 28793149810629 31.5K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 06/09/2025This is real, somehow 23042021053 4.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem? 402146414729 14.6K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2025“well this is certainly a bold departure from political norms!” as they are marched to the gulag 353072550 3.1K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2025just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day 27599721373 10K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 18/08/2025i just… i cannot even mentally wrap my head around how profoundly bad the media coverage of the dc situation is like if it was a crisis in a media market where reporters are parachuting in that’s one thing but these journalists are walking by troops and agents every day now …crickets 431180267 1.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/08/2025AOL To Discontinue Dial-Up Internet theonion.com/aol-to-... 233107423 3.1K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/08/2025the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back 289220425838 22K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/08/2025Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship 981146026427 14.6K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.social𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/08/2025Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices. 118092342492 9.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in July 2, 2020. She was charged by Trump’s DOJ the same day. Joe Biden did not become president until January 20, 2021. Do not let these Cons change the past. 371201492 1.2K
Reposted by @axolotlyourself.bsky.socialAlanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 31/07/2025NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months. 12236071879 3.6K
