Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialGary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hasan was paralyzed in the shooting, so as if this wasn't all bad enough already, sit with the image of him being executed while in a wheelchair for that extra frisson of barbarity. 511512397
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I 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... 8348021757
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 16659371445
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Everyone in Trump II deserves to be booed loudly and relentlessly every time they show their faces in public for the rest of their lives, but there is a whole other level of booing that should greet people who did less than nothing and then talk about how hard it was. apnews.com/article/thom...apnews.comRepublican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new bookRepublican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.” 2356670
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 843490628
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561451143
billnorton.bsky.social @billnorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Jack Smith Did Not Conspire Against Donald Trump While Watching Steph Curry Score 60 Points In An Overtime Loss To The Hawks - defector.com/jack-smith-e...defector.comJack Smith Did Not Conspire Against Donald Trump While Watching Steph Curry Score 60 Points In An Overtime Loss To The Hawks | DefectorThe most salient part of the accusation that Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt lodged against former special prosecutor Jack Smith in a Senate hearing on Tuesday is that it was wrong. It was ecstatically and... 000
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well to be fair this is what economically anxious voters in rural Michigan voted for. 1025925
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialJames 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.) 9853462189
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026he's bored and angry and all he wants to do is stand in front of a crowd of people cheering for him that's why he did the midterm convention, that's why he's doing this, and he's well beyond giving a shit how it affects any other republican candidate I love that for all of them 2770051
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins 351862192
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 38591562864
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sen. Schmitt not knowing the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes & spending government money to make a big chart he then takes down as his error becomes obvious is Vonnegut x DeLillo x Terry Gilliam in real time 631740
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 321164604671
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just got an ad for "trump" paid for by the "united states government" get this man the fuck out of my face 33107694
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I guess they don’t care so much about women’s sports anymore! 323151
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113092110
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 554903878
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026John Cornyn and George W. Bush are teaming up to make sure that Donald Trump gets the cronies, mediocrities and ideologues he wants in lifetime appointments to the courts. 28574143
billnorton.bsky.social @billnorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be...nytimes.comMy Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st centurySeverance, Deadwood, Andor and 7 more. 000
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If Democrats continue to focus on elite issues like the price of diesel fuel instead of on kitchen table issues like chem trails and racial purity, they're going to get walloped in November. 11854114
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man 8375791752
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms." 703493626
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'd like a reporter to ask voters their opinions on the Iran war and the extrajudicial boat killings. Then show them this photo of the defense secretary wearing a "THIS IS WAR" t-shirt as he runs the Texas A&M stadium steps for pregame PT today. Then ask the questions again 23599112
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialRobert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Have now been endorsed by both the Orange County Register and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for re-election this November. I will always fight for every resident, and make sure every city I represent gets the federal support it needs. Let’s go! 🇺🇸 310530
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron. 1953862610
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir. 10085531484
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialandykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done. 292119504
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjam @socialistboat.dad · 15/09/2026Reporters were discouraged from taking video of Mitch McConnell as the infrared autofocus mechanism of the camera "aggravates his Passenger" and "sets him all to scurrying" 031152
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Today Radley published Part 2 in his series on the case of Chris Duncan, focusing in part on a video of forensic fraud Michael West manufacturing the evidence used to convict him. It's truly shocking. And it's sickening to contemplate the years prosecutors relied on West to send people to death row.radleybalko.substack.comThe framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two“God doesn’t let innocent babies die for no reason. Somebody has to be punished.” 27421
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've seen them do it for whole seasons 1353324
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026his basic ignorance of the subject is evident in that he equates country music with white rurality. not only does he appear unaware of the diversity of rural america, but he doesn’t seem to get that the principle audience for this stuff is suburban and exurban 252021145
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality 1506184953
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialTom Ley @toley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026OK sorry but on what grounds would the DOJ be investigating someone's failure to adhere to a sports league's rule set? 5253
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026this is a man so hollow, pathetic and power hungry that he is actively trying to ingratiate himself with neo-nazi groypers who think he is a race traitor 16465171021
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’s amazing how “law and order” instantly softens into “thoughts, prayers and personal therapy” the second it threatens an R+5 district. 441202266
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026theonion.comTrump Claims He Was Falling ManWASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai... 412023316
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialScott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Going to toss a tiny pebble into the ocean here by saying this is completely insane and unacceptable and it's absolutely surreal that we tolerate it today and every day. 341359269
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.washingtonpost.comTrump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorialA new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery. 281449366
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie. 412127600
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Love to joke about the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack in American history. 60808140
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialFrank Zupan @fzupan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Good piece. @dennycarter.bsky.social gets it, and to reemphasize his point here, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social does not get it.badfaithtimes.comHakeem Jeffries Doesn't Get ItOr worse yet, maybe he does. 4356
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Hot enough today that I’m just hanging out in the grocery store aisle where they have bacon and breakfast sausage until Kroeger’s sends some of their jack-booted thugs, who do not believe in liberty, to deal with me 81718
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026eleven minutes, perfectly reasonable length for a slow song www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGo...youtube.comThe Low Spark Of High-Heeled BoysYouTube video by Traffic - Topic 21924
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases. 1586306846
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Arte Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 (the year after they won the Series) for $184 million. He then spent 23 years running them into the ground, let the stadium decay, wasted Trout and Ohtani, and sold for $4 billion. And the owners are crying poverty and threatening to kill baseball next year. 382131586
Reposted by @billnorton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the idea that the white house belongs to the president is so obviously contrary to the entire history of the building that it is laughable that ANYONE would take it seriously! 765173
