Reposted by Bashing on regardlessMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026He knows once he's out, everything he did will be torn down and removed. All the gold shit and stuff he named after himself will be gone. But a finished ballroom will be used by future presidents. He won't be forgotten like all the other losers. 131129
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵 301255508
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe White House Is Delighted With Events in Los AngelesBut Trump aides know there are real risks for the president if troops are involved in violence. 1819860
Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025It's not "crossfire" when it's one person who was *aiming* at your camera operator. 010
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessJonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“Be warned: Trump is expecting resistance. You will not be heroes. You will be the pretext.” 315938
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessjacki @jacki.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I don’t want a Joe Rogan of the left. I don’t even want the Joe Rogan we have. One is too many. We have too many Joe Rogans as it is. 2551268
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/05/2025Not sure why on every new Papacy we end up running through this phase of shock on discovering thst the Pope is, actually, a Catholic. 471908274
Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Mr Dutton, thanks for your time. No worries, I'll have no shortage of that after tonight. Your party must be disappointed with the result. Delighted, Brian, DELIGHTED. What? You really think that a party that wanted to WIN would make ME its leader AND jump on the Trump bandwagon? #auspol #binnight 081
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comTrump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to RussiaHis proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression. 1352329780
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago. 385165483291
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessjosh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 02/04/2025val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning 202126703694
Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025An actor who makes any movie better: Sir Alec Guinness. 010
Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025RIP Group Captain John Hemingway DFC, the last of 'the few.' Survived several mishaps as well as being shot down 4 times. Lived to 105. www.bbc.com/news/article... 020
Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025You can design one that's less susceptible to authoritarian incursion, and many places have such systems. 000
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Since I don't know who most celebrities are, to me entertainment headlines sound like: "Stranger is Wearing Clothes Made By Another Stranger." "Two Strangers are Now Dating Each Other." "Stranger Photographed Eating Strange Food At Unknown Restaurant." "Stranger Seen Driving Unrecognised Car." 3313
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025At 15:15 in the video here, President Trump says he's heard President Zelensky had admitted "he didn't know where half the money [US Aid to Ukraine] is." Via Politifact, it's another conspiracy theory pushed by Elon Musk. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2... www.c-span.org/program/whit...c-span.orgPresident Trump Signs Executive Orders in Mar-a-Lago 781727310
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAlex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump. A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...open.substack.comThe Rotting of the Conservative MindBritain's Tories bend the knee to Donald Trump and disgrace themselves 1726096
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/02/2025For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...theatlantic.comThe End of the Postwar WorldTrump’s cruelty and lies about Ukraine send a dark message to America’s other allies. 901567477
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2025yesterday? 80981134
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I’m George Takei and I approve of this message. 226914326829856
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessBashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The NATO big 'uns minus the US need to get together and plan to back Ukraine to the hilt, pronto. Don't waste time with the EU or wrangling other nations. Tell those to either get on board or get out of the way. 002
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I’m not sure you can spend the last decade painting anyone who still supports membership of a trading partnership as a traitor then pivot to “we must give the authoritarian invader of Europe everything he wants” and not expect a teensy bit of Quisling chat back, if I’m honest. 6649111
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025In case it hasn’t been apparent since 2022: Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader of the free world. 214037
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/02/2025A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway. 1682815506
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/02/2025To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost. 371747396
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The healthcare system of the nation that leads the world in medical research is now governed by cranks who believe in incantations and magic potions. Me in @TheAtlantic on COVID's 5th anniversary www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comWhy the COVID Deniers WonLessons from the pandemic and its aftermath 36655155
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/02/2025A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations. 216124213557
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 11/02/2025A fundamental story of the last decade is that a lot of basically incompetent people got fed up by competent people telling them they were wrong, constructed a more welcoming alternative ecosystem of competency cosplayers, and then somehow turned the whole government over to them. 241030318
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Just relentless insanity 902659502
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAnthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk · 07/02/2025That is excellent. Have you seen the John Fogerty one? 0267
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state. 1062889508
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The costs to American consumers are real. The concessions by Mexico are fake. How Trump lost his trade war - and how China won. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comHow Trump Lost His Trade WarHis on-off caprice has mainly disadvantaged the United States. 13471112
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/02/2025"America First" becomes "America Alone" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Price America Will Pay for Trump’s TariffsAlienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.” 811975591
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/01/2025“Toward the end of the November dinner, Trump raised the matter of the lawsuit, the people said. The president signaled that the litigation had to be resolved before Zuckerberg could be “brought into the tent,” one of the people said.” They’re in the tent now. Cowards. 55760238
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessDaniel Malmer @malmer.com · 26/01/2025No. The “CIA” doesn’t favor it, Trump appointee John Ratcliffe does. And, buried 14 paragraphs in: “The agency made its new assessment with “low confidence,” which means the intelligence behind it is fragmentary and incomplete.”nytimes.comC.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins (Gift Article)A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. 37845239
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It will change it a little bit in that these traitorous shitbags can now recruit and act again and the message sent to new recruits is that they can get away with it so long as Trump is in power. 45856114
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Look at this disclaimer. Fucking bonkers. 531148185
Bashing on regardless @bashingon.bsky.social · 31/12/2024It's now 1/1/25, so happy 124th birthday, #Australia. 020
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Here are the most appalling clichés of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time. 1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/ 1227579
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessPhuong Le @phuonghhle.com · 25/12/2024I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit 241537125
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Yes. It’s a narrative that infantilizes them. 4162376
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Typically persuasive stuff from Daniel Finkelstein: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... (non-paywalled version here: archive.is/IxquW) but its most potent value may lie in having attracted this comment, which captures the nature of populism in 2020s Britain even more eloquently than the column itself. 161
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessJon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 09/12/2024I'm sorry, but I couldn't unsee it. 332080599
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessAlex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Things Which Are True Concurrently: 1. Hunter Biden was given an extra dose of persecution on account of his surname. 2. Pardoning your son is a disgraceful move. 3. The whole thing is a great example of the "If the other team did it, what would you think?" game. 4243
Reposted by Bashing on regardlessTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Saw a tweet saying “the Barbour jacket is fast becoming a new overt symbol for the right” and wondered how anyone could send a tweet from 1952. 2221418