Reposted by bluepaper22The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7hSen. Ossoff: "Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen, just like Mike Collins, who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war. How is this war a success, Mike?" 421609324
Reposted by bluepaper22Sam @samd.bsky.social · 7hya know, I’ve given Crocket shit for refusing to explicitly endorse Talarico, but do you know who deserves more shit? Janet Mills. First, she runs the worst campaign of all time, basically gifting the race to the nazi tattoo guy. now, she is refusing to endorse Troy Jackson. tf is wrong with her? 281609134
Reposted by bluepaper22Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 11hLet's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note. 261615397
Reposted by bluepaper22ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name. 402392355
Reposted by bluepaper22Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but HEY GUYS IT’S THE PHONES. THE PHONES ARE CAUSING THIS. BLAME THE PHONES. IT’S THE PHONES stancilculture.substack.com/p/the-intern... 4928
Reposted by bluepaper22mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Among the elite media, there is a consensus that Trump is committing illegal extrajudicial murders of random Latin American guys in boats all the time, but if you say he might have also committed an extrajudicial murder of Jeffrey Epstein, the idea is treated like saying he rode a unicorn. 191199182
Reposted by bluepaper22Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026At some point a Republican is gonna tap directly into the misogynist id by running a campaign against child support payments. Not just promising to abolish them but full on "make those thieving b-words pay it back". He'll win young male voters by triple digits and be celebrated as a bold populist. 712723
Reposted by bluepaper22Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused." 6947411169
Reposted by bluepaper22VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh." 494200567
Reposted by bluepaper22Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/10/2026if you shoot guns enough (I do), you quickly meet this type of guy, who will tell you just how Excited he is for someone to break into his house so he finally has the excuse he needs to dump a mag into them [and this type of guy is unfortunately quite dominant in US gun culture] 44119795
Reposted by bluepaper22Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump." 23178111895
Reposted by bluepaper22Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office" 406116972530
Reposted by bluepaper22Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 511153703427
Reposted by bluepaper22Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens 1122266548
Reposted by bluepaper22Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is correct, and it’s not a close call. If he was repeatedly using the N word while demeaning black soldiers, no one to the left of JD Vance would hesitate to say that that’s impeachable. 29312
Reposted by bluepaper22JoyousPanther @joyouspanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I could not get myself to vote against Trump because Joe Biden failed in his biggest assignment: stopping people like me from not voting against Trump. 339348
Reposted by bluepaper22NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Democrats are terrible because their failures are what elected Trump, who I am pretty much okay with. 1148345
Reposted by bluepaper22A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska 81416319
Reposted by bluepaper22Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really? 784455652
Reposted by bluepaper22Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts: 17373061512
Reposted by bluepaper22Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it 1049392
Reposted by bluepaper22👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Brazil is strongly indicating that just beating the fascists at the ballot box is not enough. You have to ensure that the cancer of fascism does not return again. Hungary’s model may be better - put them *all* in jail and rip out their support structures root and branch. 26116
Reposted by bluepaper22jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973725437
Reposted by bluepaper22William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this. 542523376
Reposted by bluepaper22Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 05/10/2026On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs. 432583361
Reposted by bluepaper22Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026looking at lee jae myung and lula, guess voters have goldfish memory 1319623
Reposted by bluepaper22Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10142091473
Reposted by bluepaper22Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like I truly don’t understand how you could have been anywhere in the vicinity of Springfield Ohio even before the election and thought that he’d only go after “criminals.” Trump, Vance, and CO werent subtle in the slightest. I can only really conclude this was a lie the median voter told themselves 261183115
Reposted by bluepaper22Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment. 6878150
Reposted by bluepaper22Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We can talk about re-engineering government <after> we: - Restore all the NIH/NSF funds - Restore at the Dept. of Education Title VI/FLAS funds - Rebuild USAID - Hire back as many of the fired federal workers as possible & replace those we can't with new talent as fast as possible - Etc. - Etc. 1657393
Reposted by bluepaper22Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦♂️ 552169486
Reposted by bluepaper22brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026American decline in a single sentence 3468
Reposted by bluepaper22escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach 4369108
Reposted by bluepaper22Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare. 22684159
Reposted by bluepaper22BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026righteous among the nations 5986127
Reposted by bluepaper22Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 907258366129
Reposted by bluepaper22Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism. 552330299
Reposted by bluepaper22ashley (birthday week) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Andy Beshear forever, man 504512633
Reposted by bluepaper22James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1243240511
Reposted by bluepaper22Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026what an incredible response I will under no circumstances believe in blorida but god I would love to be wrong, angie nixon rules 91358109
Reposted by bluepaper22jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83125091891
Reposted by bluepaper22Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt* 2257985
Reposted by bluepaper22Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube. 941689261
Reposted by bluepaper22Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make. 13846232
Reposted by bluepaper22Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh, she might be going for Senate insteadaxios.comAOC test-runs a Senate bid in upstate New YorkShe says her goal is to "transform the state." 3250754