Reposted by Ben CarpenterAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/01/2026if you vote for another cent for this you are a collaborator. this is a litmus test for every politician for the rest of my life 5054081281
Reposted by Ben CarpenterKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15928746321344
Reposted by Ben Carpenterthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026for too long, news has meant connecting viewers with facts, context, and expertise. but here at cbs, we are committed to making sure the news is just whatever you already believe.” 918538
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty 580395318669
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along 35898863727
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAnil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2025Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*. 92134164562
Reposted by Ben Carpenterpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides 373750952
Reposted by Ben CarpenterKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there. 18551481170
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/12/2025Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women. 9773362714
Reposted by Ben CarpenterThe Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service 627225956718
Reposted by Ben CarpenterRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible. 237228526517
Reposted by Ben CarpenterJason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12/11/2025So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes. 4247111166
Reposted by Ben CarpenterJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...cnn.comChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNNA 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit. 14686762326
Reposted by Ben CarpenterRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/11/2025How do we get more political things displayed this clearly so Republicans can’t lie to people about what they’re voting for 632946
Reposted by Ben CarpenterMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I see a lot of "ICE is doing this to even CITIZENS!!" responses, and… who cares if it's citizens. Who cares if it's people undocumented or here The Wrong Way. The lustful violence is incommensurate with any possible justification no matter the targets. They are evil. Fundamentally, biblically evil. 23805185
Reposted by Ben CarpenterJoe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 23/10/2025New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST 552113643283
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended 11898804533
Reposted by Ben CarpenterDaniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars. 118164545179
Reposted by Ben CarpenterPatrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika. 6394365510929
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature 228204206616
Reposted by Ben CarpenterRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it 12384519311355
Reposted by Ben CarpenterMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick. 571104512352
Reposted by Ben CarpenterRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025random but I actually noticed several hundred people ransacking a prominent Washington DC government building a few years ago, any chance we can get started with them? it was on video so it should be pretty easy to track them down 5588113
Reposted by Ben CarpenterMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it. 19560371187
Reposted by Ben Carpenterwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 08/07/2025whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...politico.com'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in MemphisThe company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. 2325501197
Reposted by Ben CarpenterNeil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is 150112205036
Reposted by Ben Carpenterorinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 22/06/2025You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country 4186494075
Reposted by Ben CarpenterChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/06/2025"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters. The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups. 382792642
Reposted by Ben CarpenterLeonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Amazing how many people will hear a police official say "If you throw a brick we will execute you" and instead of saying "We should get rid of the system that produces these fascist cops" they will say "Don't throw a brick, that's the lesson here" 423141
Reposted by Ben CarpenterJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes 97171254655
Reposted by Ben CarpenterKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser 8388402179
Reposted by Ben CarpenterTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/05/2025the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation 12275512247
Reposted by Ben CarpenterA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity. 13876002195
Reposted by Ben CarpenterChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this 907123212383
Reposted by Ben CarpenterAlex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 25/04/2025i wrote about the cold war between the pittsburgh pirates and their remaining fans, which has reached shambolic off-field lows lately and now threatens a more than century-old tradition of baseball in pittsburgh. read + share with friends and members of congress www.theringer.com/2025/04/25/m...theringer.comThe Pittsburgh Pirates Are a Unique Blend of BadWasting Paul Skenes is just the tip of the Pirates’ terrible ownership iceberg 1412532
Reposted by Ben CarpenterRiverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025new gender neutral greeting just dropped 136123042701
Reposted by Ben CarpenterSara B. @saraboboltz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody 168226515742
Reposted by Ben CarpenterHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all. 275163995945
Reposted by Ben CarpenterJose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 21/04/2025"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States. 2604153304213
Reposted by Ben CarpenterThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/04/2025An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument? 933176793725
Reposted by Ben CarpenterPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/04/2025Every person with a spectrum disorder has a more valuable life than RFK Jr, and every trans/nb person has a more valuable life than JK Rowling. You are a human with dignity and they are sunken demons 3884762744
Reposted by Ben Carpenteronion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025important context about the concentration camps in el salvador: 3134141113652
Reposted by Ben CarpenterPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"? 6876662384
Reposted by Ben CarpenterIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements 9864658011505
