Reposted by Butscha BrownAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15mIt is nuts that you can’t even ethnically cleanse a voter’s entire family without losing that vote to Dumocrats, must be terminal cases of TDS 515723
Reposted by Butscha BrownMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 571214724184
Reposted by Butscha BrownAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20hI think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8245181680
Reposted by Butscha BrownStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14hRemember how we passed bills that would bar ICE agents from state and local employment as well as ban California law enforcement from doing side jobs for ICE, but then @gavinnewsom.bsky.social vetoed both bills because he's stupid and has terrible political instincts?sacbee.comGov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to bar former ICE officers from California jobsThe ambitious and sweeping measure was strongly supported by Democrats in the Legislature. 69227
Reposted by Butscha BrownJames Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Every GOP lawmaker believes this, by the way. It's just that most aren't dumb enough to say it where it could get leaked in an election year. 10635169
Reposted by Butscha BrownAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site 105073702
Reposted by Butscha BrownJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322942640
Reposted by Butscha BrownJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent. 231260412
Reposted by Butscha BrownGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If there were any good Republicans they would have left the party by now 925834
Reposted by Butscha BrownLaw360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic... 331158440
Reposted by Butscha BrownDr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...propublica.orgFour Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr... 51580240
Reposted by Butscha BrownMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Congrats again to Anthony Kennedybrennancenter.orgCitizens United, ExplainedThe 2010 Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations. 10413174
Reposted by Butscha BrownMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026HEADS UP: These are your pro-crypto Democrats - keep this in mind when you hear them opining on policy issues related to finance (and stories of corruption). www.politico.com/live-updates... 1010755
Reposted by Butscha Brownelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026this is just silly crank stuff. false consciousness but for women. weird and creepy and dehumanizing but fundamentally pathetic in its naked unseriousness. 1455
Reposted by Butscha BrownSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day. 532200388
Reposted by Butscha BrownMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets. 244139512482
Reposted by Butscha BrownStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The real damage that social media did to the dumbs was connect them to other dumbs who validate their beliefs. Dumb ideas used to get bounced against random people in some community who would ridicule that person. Now they get called genius by thousands of other dummies. 37511
Reposted by Butscha BrownDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026I'm not good at math, is $800 million a lot?electrek.coFedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in dieselIn a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from... 871728343
Reposted by Butscha BrownDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Almost or maybe exactly zero Dem ads (except ours) say Trump corruption or MAGA corruption or Republican corruption. They are all running against “DC corruption”and saying they’ll stand up to both parties. Absolutely idiotic strategy. 34813
Reposted by Butscha BrownKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10141991469
Reposted by Butscha BrownAnil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT. 511552292
Reposted by Butscha BrownMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard. 582242582
Reposted by Butscha BrownScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Friend of Putin oligarch Konstantin Sokolov makes a nice fat donation to Trump's ballroom project, and gets relief from Treasury Department sanctions in exchange. This is known as a quid pro quo transaction. It's a felony. www.esquire.com/news-politic...esquire.comA Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity. 18528333
Reposted by Butscha BrownMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"We are not part of any political movement. And we are not attempting to further any political agenda." - says a right wing political operative in #SCOTUS robe who gutted voting rights, abortion rights, gave a Republican President king like powers in attempt to lock in right wing dominance. (1/2) 44525138
Reposted by Butscha BrownTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAutopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the backThe report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest. 7723621271
Reposted by Butscha BrownPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” —Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution 15318115
Reposted by Butscha BrownSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 02/10/2026First the wedding, now the ballroom — “Trump/Russia” gets smellier and smellier.esquire.comA Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity. 56686333
Reposted by Butscha BrownRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down. 328110944310
Reposted by Butscha BrownWIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026DHS 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. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...wired.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. 515588
Reposted by Butscha BrownJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 502925795
Reposted by Butscha BrownWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443857920
Reposted by Butscha Brownjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy 1583963508
Reposted by Butscha BrownJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853452189
Reposted by Butscha BrownCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“.. The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat... 92559291
Reposted by Butscha BrownGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence. 381121361
Reposted by Butscha BrownMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Data center politics shouldn't be a complicated one for Dems: * Put the "Trump-oligarch alliance at the center of that story—and linking it to what people see and feel in their own communities" * Stop playing small ball looking to score token DC bipartisanship points GO. ON. OFFENSE vs Trump/Rs. 117357
Reposted by Butscha BrownEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Remember, everyone, Dem strategists say that “regular people” don’t hate Republicans the way urban college-educated liberals do, so they say D pols have to be bipartisan and moderate to win. (The error: D leaders could be working 24/365 to make the public hate Republicans, but they choose not to.) 3193
Reposted by Butscha BrownEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Every time a Democratic politician says “bipartisan” about today’s fascist Republican party it makes it more likely our children will live under American fascism. 15915
Reposted by Butscha BrownEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A competent opposition party would be relentlessly connecting Trump to the Republican Party w the goal of crushing American fascism for at least a generation. But the opposition party is not doing that. Their strategists are saying “heterodox” and “bipartisan,” their leaders are courting crypto $. 612742
Reposted by Butscha BrownRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all. 21893280
Reposted by Butscha BrownDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026HELL YES. I agree with every word of this. Hinojosa’s campaign has been disappointing. And the median Dem ad is actually worse and more out of touch than I’ve seen in five cycles of doing this. Dems can fight and win on all these issue areas. But they’re not even trying. 193
Reposted by Butscha BrownLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts. 22838166
Reposted by Butscha BrownThe American Prospect @prospect.org · 30/09/2026We are crying out for an overhaul of our entire financial system. There are few ways to make that easier than by taking the Silicon Valley oligarch class down a peg or three. prospect.org?p=145569 2298
Reposted by Butscha BrownJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comUS withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groupsThe Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog. 53849588
Reposted by Butscha BrownPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...newrepublic.comWhy Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy. 616460
Reposted by Butscha BrownCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't. 151824433
