Reposted by Big BrainWill Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 12hTop ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read. 614295690
Reposted by Big BrainAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The war in Iran is the reason gas is $5 and diesel is $7. Mike Rogers has been cheerleading the war since the beginning, calling it a win, win, win. I don't know about you, but when I fill up my tank I don't feel like I'm winning. 422722769
Reposted by Big BrainBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead. 1326016659
Reposted by Big BrainAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy." 753411677
Reposted by Big BrainTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Half a billion dollars in GOP spending does little to move polls - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comHalf a billion dollars in GOP spending does little to move pollsRepublicans’ massive money advantage has yet to reshape the midterm map, as Democrats keep expanding their ambitions. 4124
Reposted by Big BrainLaw360 @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... 331159440
Reposted by Big BrainAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing." 13783802215
Reposted by Big BrainBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 07/10/2026I can’t imagine spending any of my one precious life asserting that the president was misunderstood. 121420
Reposted by Big BrainProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6625511249
Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You have to be able to feel shame to ask the question he’s asking. Not enough people do, it seems. 010
Reposted by Big BrainI may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He'd let Americas enemies attack places he doesn't like because hes that monstrous and I don't think you can convince anyone otherwise. 1101
Reposted by Big BrainI may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It always bothers me that hed totally let Republicans in New York die horrible deaths because he's this petty. 2132
Reposted by Big BrainRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense. 19779245
Reposted by Big BrainRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It was removed in this design, leaving only the arrows, the weapons of war. This design also mimics the fascist designs of the 1930s. It was used during the "Send Me" tour where Isaiah 6:8 has been co-opted for military recruitment. All by those who claim Jesus as their king. 318634
Reposted by Big BrainMichael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.) 1991867710
Reposted by Big BrainHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop 7703117
Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Who fact checked this at The Atlantic? They didn’t look at his social media history? Really? Reallllly? Oof. 010
Reposted by Big Brainzenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup. 271841447
Reposted by Big BrainChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 06/10/2026The hits keep coming: Long Grove bridge struck for 77th time since 2020chicagotribune.comThe hits keep coming: Long Grove bridge struck for 77th time since 2020 266
Reposted by Big BrainRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback 504146558
Reposted by Big BrainRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🎶 He’s choosin Blexas I can tell 🎶 51548
Reposted by Big BrainAndrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Susan Collins has never cared about her constituents. She prioritizes her own needs over everyone else and it’s long past time that we kick her to the curb. 35814
Reposted by Big BrainHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Nebraska Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts urges Republicans to "get out and vote 10 times" 103113
Reposted by Big BrainElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026RFK Jr. shut down the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, MD last year and then decided to move it. Does anyone know if operations have resumed, as promised? They do a lot of really important work on high-risk pathogens.niaid.nih.govIntegrated Research Facility at Fort DetrickIRF-Frederick serves as a responsive and collaborative resource that facilitates multidisciplinary research to understand, treat, prevent, and eradicate diseases caused by novel, emerging, and highly ... 21397182
Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One came on yesterday when I was in MN during the Vikings/Miami game - we heard 3, maybe 4, FUs from people on the block when it came on. Loud FUs. I can’t say for sure they were watching the game & the ad elicited the FUs, but I’m guessing it did. 010
Reposted by Big BrainIt's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My mother-in-law, who hadn't been on a bicycle since the 1980s, visited us last year and we biked to toddler swimming class together. She's now biking 40 minutes to work everyday in Montreal because she has a separated bike lane the whole way there. 2269180
Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The bike lane situation in Montreal is so wonderful. It’s an amazing example of what can be. 000
Reposted by Big BrainJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a community note for the ages. 6659191176
Reposted by Big BrainKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.nytimes.comKristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She LeftThe Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show. 1211948951
Reposted by Big BrainRadley 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. 25797613043
Reposted by Big BrainGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/10/2026The theft and fraud and disinfo continue to gush out of these companies as an unending flood of excrement while they desperately point at imaginary Terminators on the other side of the room. 124287
Reposted by Big BrainNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026It's worth adding (and I really struggled with how to approach this in the piece) that the joke stealing AI comedian is apparently also an Only Fans model. So dudes are now paying money to consume AI generated adult content. This future is dumber than I ever could have imagined. 427524
Reposted by Big BrainNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 04/10/2026Tiffany Sloan is a joke stealing AI generated stand-up comedian that has amassed a following of 350K users on Instagram. AI is supposed to transform the world and it's doing it in the worst and dumbest possible ways. buttondown.com/natebowling/...buttondown.comThe Joke ThiefThe AI Powered Joke Thief (or Fine, Somebody Wants This) 24474142
Reposted by Big BrainC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For all the talk of Ai replacing creatives, the reason this "Tiffany Sloan" is stealing other comedians' jokes is because Ai can't write jokes. LLMs are built on anticipating what word or piece of information you're looking for and comedy is built on surprise. Also, Christ what a weird fetish... 2428756
Reposted by Big BrainDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Totally normal reaction by a country that has its opponent begging for surrender 613434
Reposted by Big BrainMichael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is all hands on deck! Pneumatic plague is airborne and nearly always fatal if untreated. Wiped out 150 million, half of Europe, way back when. Treatable with antibiotics, but we don't have enough antibiotics. Also from a lab in Russia, where they still have weaponized plague. Total nightmare.motherjones.comReports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcherSeveral hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined. 56525276
Reposted by Big BrainLou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I just did a google search for "Russian plague updates". That's where we are. 5131
Reposted by Big BrainDylan Hayward @dylanhayward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There’s a difference between sharing someone’s journalism and taking it to make your own content. I’ve had my work lifted multiple times by this content creator. It’s particularly frustrating when he talks about his views growing as local news fades away, while using the work of local journalists. 315444
Reposted by Big BrainOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10141581264
Reposted by Big BrainAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352223815
Reposted by Big BrainJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 16585217
Reposted by Big BrainStephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans 71230556
Reposted by Big BrainPunished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social) 8412161