Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Morning Bluesky. 2033266
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialGil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich” 741055395
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91320415
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy. 17842791278
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialJohn Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI will kill us all (IF we let it). Not talking here about rogue AI agents, I'm talking about rogue tech oligarchs helping to torch the planet with major new investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.bloomberg.comUS Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most NationsData centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF. 116577
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Going forward, the US National Science Foundation research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and Earth sciences is $110 million per year. Trump's illegal war with Iran cost the Department of Defense (i.e., the American taxpayers) $38 billion in the first 5 months, or $220 million per day.cbo.govEstimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against IranCBO assesses the Department of Defense's costs for the current armed conflict against Iran, as well as the conflict's economic and budgetary effects. 7361157
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In thisa piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I express the wish for a better level of public discourse around AI that doesn't leave us hanging on every word of the alleged tech gurus. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...thenewworld.co.ukApocalyptic AI fantasies are a stupid, annoying distraction from its real problemsThe people who work in AI are not gurus and most of their predictions have been wrong. Working in the industry makes them less reliable commentators, not more 713060
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 6539021326
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialWolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson) 8867032535
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMarina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 09/09/2026All the available evidence suggests Americans don't simply prefer to live in a car-dependent wasteland, & I wrote about it!! Our shortage of places where it's possible to walk to places is one of the most tangible but rarely voiced ways that we lack freedom & choicevox.comAmerica is built for driving. There’s hidden demand for something better.What can we learn from the European cities Americans love to visit? 15613
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialACLU @aclu.org · 02/09/2026Enough is enough. Tell Congress to put a stop to these illegal and immoral strikes at aclu.org/stop-boat-strikes- 471288533
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/09/2026“The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way.” motherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 15471106
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As if I couldn’t hate the orange felon more than I already do, over 60 trees which include historic Cherry Blossom trees were quietly cut down recently in Washington DC without court approval. I’ll never forgive anyone who supports this monstrous hateful destructive criminal. 588117983450
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science. 339163585426
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more. 522179907330
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/08/2026Miscarriage is not a crime. Abortion is a basic medical procedure. Legalize abortion rights in ALL 50 states. 411254357
bonleej.bsky.social @bonleej.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Abolish for-profit prisons, including ICE prison camps, end government contracts with GEO group and Core Civic. Abolish ICE is the beginning, our entire criminal justice system needs reform. 000
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles. 46345632309
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now. 482151045538
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialCongresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 16/08/2026ICE is using violence—and the threat of violence—to terrorize our communities and intimidate ANYONE who gets in their way. This lawless agency needs to be abolished. 05416
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/08/2026The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man 463475684
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture. 8761182639
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 528161984510
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15/08/2026we need more housing and more clean electricity and more clean transportation infrastructure than most people realize and we should go big and make enough for everyone. 28211
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350482753
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/08/2026"Your bladder has been upgraded to Toddler Mode™ and now requires emptying immediately before bed, forty-three minutes after bed, and once more at 2:47 a.m. simply because."mcsweeneys.netRelease Notes: Woman™ Version 51.0“Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relati... 2688
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialEveryone knows - now what? @delmasso.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Yes, also - 091
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot. 15561402411
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."npr.orgA veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suingMilitary veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home. 21208414
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/08/2026"I can’t believe people really used to consume media like this; it really spikes your cortisol. I just get all my favorite bloodmaxxing content streamed straight to the ol’ noggin." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...mcsweeneys.netIt’s Cute How Grandma Doesn’t Even Know How to Blood Tithe to the Data Lord“You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint e... 1356
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/08/2026New in PN: How everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruption "A Public Notice-American Doom analysis shows Trump is spending nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund his many renovation projects. Meanwhile, Trump and his family’s crypto schemes have raked in more than $2.25b."publicnotice.coHow everyday Americans are forced to fund Trump's corruptionOn top of his self-dealing, taxpayers are spending billions on his vanity projects. 1102246993
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Reminder: progressive is mainstream 614122814628
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer: 611084187
bonleej.bsky.social @bonleej.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Cancel your Amazon account today. You don't need it. 000
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Human flesh-eating screwworms brought to you in 2026 by Elon Musk and the Trump regime.arstechnica.comFlesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies. 216168
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/08/2026BREAKING: Bill Cassidy says he’s a YES on Todd Blanche, solidifying his legacy as the man who enabled RFK Jr. to wreak havoc on Americans’ health, and now the man who will let Blanche weaponize the DOJ like never before seen in history and cover up for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. 1143137884393
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialOrange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026FYI 19846207
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports. 135159414675
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall. 26889982117
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksandsarahkendzior.substack.comQuicksandGen X was right after all. 19385116
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 16154722521
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/07/2026With Ross Douthat moving to "60 Minutes," it looks like the Times is in the market for a new dipshit. Here's an all-timer from our archives to help ring the bell.buff.lyIn Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More DipshitsBy the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together th... 337283
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE. 3168172304
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem. 121664335
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/01/2026NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and CruelerA private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown. 8128061784
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/07/2026🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.austinkocher.substack.comICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest DataNEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day. 4516571138
Reposted by @bonleej.bsky.socialBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.thebetter.newsFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness. 10443164
