Reposted by Roy (Batty)Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.” 337163414227
Reposted by Roy (Batty) DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is clearly not acceptable 86299853357
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 148147796365
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026yeah I’m sold, this is the energy we need from our next president 934422
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong." 14390982666
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your Congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online, it's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors. 381426399
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Chris 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. 17261361498
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose. 301511180
Reposted by Roy (Batty)24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🇺🇦💔This is how Ukrainians spend their nights. In 2026, people are still forced to hide in subway stations just to survive the night. 69041
Reposted by Roy (Batty)e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be 331896555
Reposted by Roy (Batty)e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not 172428722
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8140321017
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This should not be read as a one-off Incident, this is a campaign strategy. An entire party telling its members that rape is not only not a big deal but is a legitimate exercise of power against your enemies 0104
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the thing to remember about the global far-right is that it is fundamentally a movement of unhappy freaks who scapegoat immigrants for their own inadequacies 364084
Reposted by Roy (Batty)kat claws @kat.meangirls.online · 05/10/2026100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D. 213538
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote. 10248741313
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was canvassing local businesses for a revitalization project not 2 hours ago, and the owners were still livid about ICE and telling me how much revenue they lost donating to mutual aid rent funds for immigrants in hiding. Every single business in Minneapolis has a sign like this, still: 643775
Reposted by Roy (Batty)rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the thing about court expansion is that the only way it can declare it unconstitutional is by defining itself in opposition to the new majority. if the new majority says "we are the supreme court" and everyone proceeds as normal, they are the supreme court. 1119216
Roy (Batty) @blzerk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That makes sense. I do think that expansion is a necessary step on the long road back to a healthy democracy, or some semblance of the rule of law. 110
Roy (Batty) @blzerk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah, I saw how Will started the thread, but then your back & forth focused on the constitutionality of term limits, so I was curious what your knowledgeable opinion of expansion was. Thanks for clarifying. Just so I understand, I think maybe you meant to say an amendment is necessary for equib.? 110
Roy (Batty) @blzerk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This whole erudite exchange is very convincing to my lay ears that you can’t do term limits without an amendment. But does it follow, as you both seem to imply, that the _only_ way to save democracy from the current Court is a (likely doomed) amendment? Can’t we expand the Court by statute? 110
Reposted by Roy (Batty)rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026right, yeah, i do not think that your p(doom) should be zero, just that the _solution space_ they have constructed occurs at the far end of a long series of bad inferences, leading, e.g., OpenAI to declare "there's no point in sandboxing our models because they'll just figure out a way out." 518714
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I went to the floor yesterday to ask the Senate to pass a simple bill - no ICE arrests at school bus stops. Let’s end this evil practice of purposely traumatizing kids. Republicans blocked the bill. And for insane reasons. Watch. 41651214
Reposted by Roy (Batty)MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/ 688264636053
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 526101982233
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Leaked audio of Ken Paxton: Q: Do you think Trump is a bit of a drag? Paxton: To be honest with you, when we did that midterm convention, it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Yeah. Not good. 45938325
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Senate Majority PAC @majoritypac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Adam Hoffman was charged with sexually abusing a child and was facing life in prison. Ken Paxton tried to give him a sweetheart deal with only one day served in prison. Ken Paxton is a danger to our kids and belongs nowhere near the Senate. 728493
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303194678
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly 231635450
Roy (Batty) @blzerk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just the Roman portraiture, I could spend a month there. But I am a sculpture nerd. 010
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEWS: More than TWO THOUSAND events have been registered so far with No Kings: Vote Early, making it the largest early vote mobilization in history. It's not too late to get your town on the map - submit today: www.nokings.org 12765266
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme... 1143548566
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein. 7240101112
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 6078462205
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Jon Stahl @aardvarkzebra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Science fiction author @cstross.bsky.social absolutely nailed it all the way back in 2023: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...antipope.orgWe're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary(This is the text of a talk I delivered at the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023. Note: early draft, contains some typos, I'll fix them next week when I get home.) 0267
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 591948468
Reposted by Roy (Batty)dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12771081697
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Farmers all over America finding out this was the decision they made in 2024. 1046367
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026Renee Good's mom: "I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect citizens -- innocents like our family and the others here. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness." 63551891462
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know. 252277916
Reposted by Roy (Batty)ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 412114546111
Reposted by Roy (Batty)David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He ought to be asked about this when he’s presented as a Democratic strategist. 581536418
Roy (Batty) @blzerk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think this experience (which my wife and I have had multiple times as well) just underscores how differently we all can perceive the world, even from the same cultural background. And no, I’m sure you look nothing like her! 000
Reposted by Roy (Batty)Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes 301634391
