Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15hRemember this guy started his post-Trump reboot by inviting a bunch of reactionaries onto his podcast so he could apologize for opposing them and tell them how much he thinks like them. 10499106
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 312205544
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026The New Yorker gets it: Gibney set out to "solve a mystery" with this film: “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” The answer: largely through a personal narrative that the film "does an excellent job of expunging." Exactly! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comIn “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” 335880
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 10/10/2026DHS has known for over a decade that immigration agents shoot into cars wily nily for no reason, or even specifically jump in front of cars to manufacture justification to shoot people. The shooting in New York on Thursday, Renee Good, so many others, it's by design. 115448
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialNoah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Systematically hiding the names of government officers is incompatible with democratic self-government 0145
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialJared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it. 691834638
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114862667
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 811206854622
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?wired.comElon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential ElectionsAmerica PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats. 642726936
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I mean why bother with all of this? Why even bother with the pretense of art and media? just hook an electrode up to the dopamine center in your brain and keep pressing the button like you're a rat in a fucking skinner machine. Go sit in a dark box hooked up to hoses forever 121241196
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492776786
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek. 14559121123
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 253162103707
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.social🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026this is so fucking sad 885118281441
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔 12866205
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The number of just cartoon level crimes that are eventually going to emerge when we can finally investigate is going to be incredible. 619031
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic. 563172480
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP? 211136364
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialCrits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 23/09/2026Our wobbly former gas station employee Kickstand is ready to find his own forever home! He has a mild case of cerebellar hypoplasia (“CH”), which gives him a cute high-stepping gait & sometimes he falls over when he gets too excited. He doesn’t have any problems eating or w/litterbox! bit.ly/4cOmi21 12670139
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412727722
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The people who'll laugh or shrug off the 'nuke Los Angeles & San Diego comment' are the same people who wanted Mamdani to not be at the 9/11 commemoration. 151317267
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797703046
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?” 991620454
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026A central pillar of the liberal worldview is that any deviation from the current order established by our oppressive status quo, regardless of ideological underpinnings is problematic. Passionately want All People to have rights? Basically the same as passionately wanting No People to have rights. 1424167
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Two successive governments laid themselves open to war crimes charges, beshitted their reputations and radicalised much of the populace against them because the American government demanded we assist this man’s atrocities. 618954
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This one hits hard. 7713572410540
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12530011790
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialScott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is as close as anything to the molten core of modern democracy: can legislators and laws bind executives? That question has been the motive force of a lot of revolutions, democratic collapses, and democratization 319659
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 297113394113
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462219777
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I am going to say what I've been saying for some time. If they succeed in restricting and criminalizing abortion pills, more people are going to die. ALSO, I think that the public is overly complacent right now. 124780
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026sciencebasedmedicine.orgDr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”. 15327
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it 161756246
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece: 31632213
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is among the most under-covered stories in America — Israel is now holding *THREE* young Americans in prison, and no mainstream media is touching it 0181100
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 312886640
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.zeteo.comFirst Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American TeenagerAbdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans. 8761378
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it. 8891227
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remember when the president of Cornell got so mad at some anti-Israeli-genocide protestors on campus he tried to hit some of his own students with his car? 141355261
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 6453582146
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info" 332556539
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I should add that in addition to being much funnier than anticipated--Musk is going to be intensely humiliated by this movie, it's going to attack the deepest wounds he tries so hard to conceal--it is also bone-chilling. I think he gutted USAID with DOGE to kill masses of people in the third world. 254101516
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14095442208
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.” 19789323
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234081271
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/09/2026well done youtu.be/6kZR638ARN8youtu.beHow Many Kids Did DOGE Kill?YouTube video by Adam Conover 217244
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialonekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes. 16469164
Reposted by @bane5252.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026$17 million! WTF? 16664194
