Reposted by Borg’s JurkenAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7655671085
Reposted by Borg’s Jurkendamniel spookradski @self.agency · 6hvideo h/t @missdiedra.bsky.social 220164
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenAlex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 16hI’m an early career scientist working in cancer immunotherapy, I will be looking for work sometime in the next few years, members of my union will almost certainly work in this center, and I am still strongly encouraging a NO vote. No single institution can efficiently use $4 billion. (1/3) 12515
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25594562947
Reposted by Borg’s Jurkenjamelle @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. 843431609
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 04/10/2026Imagine the largest football stadium you've ever seen. Imagine a child in every single seat, without exceptions. Now do that again. And a third time. That's how many kids the Israeli military has forced out of their homes under threat of death. Just in Lebanon. Just in 2026. 13826
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenMark 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 🤦♂️ 361339287
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 02/10/2026A Northern Territory body with ZERO full-time staff is the de facto national regulator for online gambling. Last year, Australians lost $36 billion gambling. @justinedavismla.bsky.social tells @ebonybennett.bsky.social about this extraordinary situation on Follow the Money 🎧 theaus.in/4jhnKz9 412484
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently. 10801404
Reposted by Borg’s Jurkenlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation. 5460171
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenTze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026OMG OMG OMG when I read the name of that Dutch NGO guy I immediately knew something amazing was about to happen to @fran4dunedin.bsky.social, but I totally underestimated how far the amazingness would go 912438
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenPeter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Worth remembering that if it costs the government $4.5b to reverse the gender pay tax, then it costs the women affected $4.5b to leave it in place. 618497
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenLyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Keen to see international readers' guesses for how 'almost extinct' before they click through 1611634
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026apropos of this latest round I will just mention that there has been antisemitism on the left since the beginning. the people who invented anticapitalism did so in an environment in which Judaism had been equated with bad economic practices for 600 years already. AND they didn’t know any Jews 820035
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenTom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"ABC's 7.30 aired 24 interviews with Israelis, almost all of them broadly supportive of Netanyahu. In other words, not only were Israeli perspectives aired six times as often as Russians - they were overwhelmingly pro-government. In contrast, Russian perspectives were overwhelmingly anti-government" 1247
Reposted by Borg’s Jurkenlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this? 591762234
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man. 111288187
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You will notice that at no point in this thread is there any engagement with actual Israeli policy, or the response of various Palestinian national movements, or how international law should be applied, etc, because it's mostly about his discursive enemies, rather than anything real or concrete. 1263668
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy. 34570203
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenAndré Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm a day later than I should've been, but those of you back home in NZ are now five hours ahead of me in Perth rather than four, and as is tradition I'm reupping my thread about NZ's innovations timewise If you got up for work at 7am today, that would have been 5:30am on NZ's original mean time 2198
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel you, Daniel L 434384681
Reposted by Borg’s Jurkenciel & the firmament girls @konkondragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026if trump goes through with his diesel export threats, my country is in bad shit. And I'm in "if I lose power to my apartment, I might be in actual life threatening heatstroke danger" territory. There's legitimately a small, but nonzero, chance that this kills me. 1308
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not 7065721333
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenHenry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I do think deporting people to countries they are not citizens of against their will should be a crime against humanity leaving aside that this all is bad and illegal under US law, there should be no version of this allowed ever 321567
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"It is perfectly honest to say, 'I chose a private school because I want the best for my kid, but it is also true that private schools are bad for society and do more to reproduce inequality than to remedy it." Great @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...hamiltonnolan.comPrivate Schools Are Bad for SocietyThe starting point for any honest discussion. 48896312
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22/09/2026GOOD. This kind of shit cannot be tolerated. 241974
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenAlan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants. 12302120
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenLyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you. 313530
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies. 6539223
Reposted by Borg’s Jurken🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In all seriousness, Polymarket being normalised in NZ politics is not OK, and whatever excuses Henry Cooke makes for why he's done so doesn't make it OK. We deserve a better standard of political reporting than copy paste horse race gambling. 28127
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/20261) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there." 681995365
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Is this a good time to bring up that Rod Dreher, in the middle of his personal essay about confronting the reality of his father's KKK membership, still couldn't help including a digression defending anti-miscegenation laws? 2537469
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenJeffery Simpson @jefferysimpson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Everyone knows you should adopt a car from a shelter and not buy one at a dealership. 17510
Reposted by Borg’s Jurkenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867231671
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...reason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4052372447
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenWill Neuhauser 🗽⚖️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱 @wneuhauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Israeli Defense Minister affirming Israel’s genocidal intent to rid Gaza of Palestinians. 063
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table' 211829242
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 16/09/202610% chance fleshlights will destroy all humans within the next decade 1183
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses 227131693349
Reposted by Borg’s Jurken👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026me: “that edible ain’t shit” also me, 45 minutes later: 17626113
Reposted by Borg’s JurkenPatty Cole @pattycole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“Voters can also request a postmark from the retail counter at their local post office to ensure they meet the deadline.” 616991
