Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialJohn Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt @jjj123-05.bsky.social · 23hI imagine there's a parallel universe where they blame the rise of Jim Crow on how they hanged high-ranking Confederates and made them into martyrs. 0182
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 04/10/2026Several people in prominent positions in the DHS and DoD publicly state they do not believe the earth is old enough to agree with this dating. It's no wonder they're not interested in preserving it. 02918
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom" 7481189
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further. 312733
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...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. 1222857
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026@crampell.bsky.social tears apart Trump’s promise of $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms, noting they already control the White House and Congress and could send the money now if they wanted to. 24472114
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialDonna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you think things are tight now, wait until the Big, Ugly Bull take effect. You have no idea what’s coming! #momsky#sheshed 19252234
blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's a good thing fur Russians that Moscow and other Russian cities don't have rivers running through them. 000
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialJosh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Eternally grateful for the opportunity to continue doing something so ridiculous. 1551571
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialmiss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social · 03/10/2026reminder that we did this in the 70s and everyone hated it so much we went back to changing the clocks 8547
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialMatt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Its astonishing how much of American conservatism boils down to the vague but intense paranoia that somehow someone somewhere is getting something they dont deserve at your expense 1715322
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/ 231189542
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"They're struggling to find a remedy." The remedy is in the Constitution. It's called impeachment. 317139
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah, so what happens with our only job growth when a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts begin to kick in? 11283104
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialJulia Barton @bartona104.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"This law threatens that independence. It also puts us at odds with our partners at NPR, the Associated Press, and others who will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico.’” current.org/2026/10/wbhm...current.orgWBHM leader leaves due to conflicts with university licenseeWilliam Dahlberg said the “nail in the coffin” for his decision to leave was the expectation that the station follow the state's new Gulf of America law. 58518
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialLily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy. 11494170
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialWilliam Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🚨William Lawrence for Congress yard signs are back in stock! Pick up yours at our office 3024 E Michigan Ave between 1 and 8pm on weekdays or request a sign at the link below. 28222
blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 02/10/2026People shrug off these kinds of comments as doomerism. It's not doomerism to point out that the arsonists who chose this version of America are still among us with a nearly full can of gasoline and a full pack of matches. 000
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation. 9431136
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialWaycool Jr @waycooljr-62.bsky.social · 02/10/2026As someone in the industry, I can tell you they still believe it is Biden's fault, but that recovery is just months away. 0111
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026normatively it is treated as aggression in left spaces to say that this is sick behavior. i do not care. it is sick behavior. anyone not on the internet twelve hours a day knows this, and anything you have learned by watching pales in comparison to the fact that you have forgotten this. 438526
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it. 15841198
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right? 1362999524
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialstevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...journalofdemocracy.orgCompetitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of DemocracyThe United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile. 8544288
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialEboneezer Goode - FDT - Trump Broke America. @egoode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It was the first Republican Wannsee conference … there will be more. 1222
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1515364809
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialDaniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So infuriating to think back to the Rufo et al. CRT and DEI and Claudine Gay witch hunts and their protests that it wasn’t about racism, and then fast forward to today where he’s struggling with “the Indian Question” along with a literal publisher of fascist material—but it doesn’t even register. 2468
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...wsj.comFive Takeaways From Hegseth’s SpeechThe defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. 70922244
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialdepose schumer @glosson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i keep saying this and no one listens 27215
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money. 20679206
blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is as deep as Nazi ideology was. 000
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialAdam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government. 8359105
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242491133
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In many red states, it's simply a question of whether you can get Trump's endorsement. So we wind up with idiots like Eric Schmitt, Tuberville and Darline Graham, if she wins I mean, Georgia Republicans nominated Herschel Walker because Trump told them to, for G-d's sake. And he almost beat Ossoff 361603288
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21375802504
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I had avoided learning too much about the Cornell case but finally read Kate Manne's piece. I haven't taught in a college classroom in eight years but it all came back so vividly. So many women asking if they could close the door, they wanted to tell me something. 215915
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doingslate.comIt Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage. 151046261
blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just a quick reminder that the Republican Party has no redeeming qualities. 010
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialMary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 28/09/2026$24.49 a gallon for gas in Noatak. I don’t know how anyone can afford that. Alaska families are being crushed by the unaffordable cost of living, and Dan Sullivan keeps on voting for the war that’s making everything more expensive. Alaska needs change. 28498184
blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Never. Period. But I don't think the people who elected this regime thought there is any difference. Banality, etc. 000
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialAndrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vielleicht erinnert die internationale Berichterstattung die CDU daran, dass man mit der AfD keine gemeinsame Sache macht? Und dass es ohnehin unglaublich beschämend ist, so mit der Erinnerung an den Judenmord umzugehen?edition.cnn.comOutrage as East German town bans Holocaust ‘stumbling blocks’ | CNNThere has been outrage after a small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the ... 15019
blueontario.bsky.social @blueontario.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh, the force is always there, waiting. 000
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialYou Can't Govern Unless You Win @lngnstrt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mr Xi, would you like to buy the rest of an F-35? 041
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialSpookyManul @surlymanul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I was registering people to vote at an event yesterday, and a boomer woman came over to proclaim that while she used to be a feminist, it's no longer necessary because women won the fight and now have it better than men; no longer do we face harassment at work. And we can get credit cards. 24710
Reposted by @blueontario.bsky.socialRoldy @alwaysroldy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So was it wrong for the admin to gut those things already? If you can’t say that, why would anyone trust that you will say it in the future? 031