Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5hMichael de Adder, Globe and Mail 14821
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 7hSEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice? 92645326
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After Eric Schmitt lied and was corrected at the Jack Smith hearing, the NY Times called it a “misunderstanding.” This might be fair if Schmitt had a record of honesty (he doesn’t) and if Schmitt didn’t repeat the same lie after the hearing (he did). What the hell is the NY Times doing? 69613210
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In Trump’s defense the reflecting pool has never more accurately reflected the state the country is in 37764233
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 20hGonna start using this when someone thinks they've dunked on me. 3569
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 20hMussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. He also plastered his image on everything and cultivated a macho, aggressive strongman image. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me 1433394
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21hIn the middle of a war? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comHegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranksThe defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said. 2617153
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿NOH8 Campaign @noh8campaign.bsky.social · 22hThe U.S. Department of Education has officially rescinded the 2024 Title IX regulations that extended federal protections to sexual orientation and gender identity, returning to the 2020 Title IX rule and stripping LGBTQ+ students of protections under federal regulations #NOH8 01812
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers” 293210175815
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI 932478654
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Thanks, I Hate It @thanksihateit603.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We elected Jabba the Hutt and no one can figure out why everything sucks. 2182
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More irony from Sen Ted Cruz: accuses Jack Smith of "weaponizing the Dept of Justice to go after political opponents" www.c-span.org/event/senate... (another cartoon from the archives) 531377
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026Republicans discover the microphone works both ways. 541788521
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days. 144655841628
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.aljazeera.comSatellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal warGoogle Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. 21683405
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A periodic reminder to avoid Zuckerberg and Musk products if you can! 000
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump is asleep at the wheel. The GOP is asleep at the wheel. How the hell do you THINK this is going to end? 000
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026this “i know something you don’t know” shit is something trump has done his entire life and it’s deeply inappropriate for any adult, let alone the president 720821
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A colleague came into my office to share that she had taken a slide I created (and which I am going to present later this week), dumped it into AI (for funsies), and suggested I use it instead. After I picked my jaw off the floor, I stumbled through a “great, I’ll take a look at it.” 1/x 110
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, THAT’S not ideal. 👀 Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.comEmbarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees. 100
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026These men are monsters and should be regarded as the flagrant bigots and propagandists they happen to be at every point. 2154
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail 04425
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't know who needs to hear this, but a country with a masked national police force which partners with countless local police forces to yank people off the street, disappear them into a detention gulag, and render them to overseas prisons without due process is not actually a safe country. 15916
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them. 25709104
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign. 4424139
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Elections—and our fate—rely on convincing the “gettable” middle. They are, by definition, fickle and fair weather. This means that the baked brain segment WILL get them in predictable cycles. We’re about to get them right now, but we should know by now that we will not keep them for long. 100
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026It's frustrating because everything you need to understand Trump you can get from watching him for 5 minutes. It's all right there. The falsehoods are just an extremely predictable outgrowth of it. It's just that the media shies away from clearly stating *what kind of person he is*. 1128547
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Which came first: Fox News or it’s audience? This chicken-and-egg question begs asking bc we tend to blame Fox (with reason!) for baking people’s brains, but one could easily argue the brains were already baked, and Fox just served up like any other mirror would. Nixon was a thing. And Jim Crow. 010
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"A demagogue who hijacked American democracy, just as the nation’s founders feared would happen, is devolving into a mad king before our eyes:" 29939
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And yet, despite being in Congress-with the power to do something about all this-Kennedy will take no action whatsoever to stop Trump 28483139
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWhy We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AIImagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation... 25952276
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On Planet Maturia, people in toxic relationships leave. Just because it would be hard, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. 000
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026I’d rather be annoying than oblivious. These days, neutrality looks more like surrender. 13651211242
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Seleucid Dreamer @smollusk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Republicans are evil and want to kill and terrorize millions but Democrats are annoying and that's worse" is so incredibly predictable the mating call of people who have never had any actual problems 245755
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106482514
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“On this immediate level of life and structure, myths offer life models. But the models have to be appropriate to the time in which you are living, and our time has changed so fast that what was proper fifty years ago is not proper today. The virtues of the past are the vices of today…. 100
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Raise your boys to be the ones who yell absofuckingloutely not when they see a man spike a woman’s drink. Tell them about what happened at Cornell and their job is to disrupt the group chat and call the police. Teach them that this is what being a man looks like. 430785
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026Sent from the US Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where ICE has expelled dozens of people with no ties to the country, where they are imprisoned in a government compound and pressured into chain refoulement. Many are queer asylum-seekers; homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon. 4348165
Reposted by BearPondBoy 🧿Rubberband Girl @rbrbndgrl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He spent the whole time showing Xi his toys. This wasn’t a summit, it was a playdate. 1264
BearPondBoy 🧿 @bearpondboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026To smother the flames, remove the oxygen. newrepublic.com/article/2158...newrepublic.comTrump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ HeelTrump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works. 000