Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Artisan Loaf 🏳️🌈 @artisanloaf.bsky.social · 5hpretty sure this will be just because he's not centred and getting more screen real estate, he looks like an equal in this setup. 021
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026in an insane world only the insane are sane 631741
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 341916392
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Skipped the Nazis, huh. 2705573911
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦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. 524101522219
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 30/09/2026‘No fatties, no trannies’; Hegseth exposes deep flaws in character and mental stability in horrifying Pentagon speech 2292
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why do so many Trump flunkies look like The Uncle Who Wears A Kimono 1046944
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Remorseful Republicans: I didn't vote for *this* Me: 513630
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil. 391392324
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 177124032656
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dale "Assman" Earnhardt @thorco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Out of curiosity I cut his body out in a photo editor and put that thing down flipped it and reversed it. He is somehow still the same shape, like some cursed Weeble Wobble 1048559
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦RandBall’s Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He looks like he’s trying to solve a murder in a town where candy grows on trees 462103199
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026one thing i think has gone genuinely missing in all the storms of the last few decades is that liberalism is not just some abstract theory of government, but a *personal ethic* that imposes demands of us even in our most everday lives an eerie balance of courage in oneself AND respect for others 19010
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office. 32800317
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I cannot emphasize enough how college students were 6 years old when Trump first entered the presidential primary. Our rising adults, our next wave have experienced nothing other than Trumpian Republicanism. That's it. That's the party. 12429106
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17% 132639478
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue 211468158
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remember a month or two ago & Trump gave that hyped speech about voter fraud & it got little attention, & within about 36 hours nobody was talking about it? This won’t be forgotten as long as it keeps running & reminding people that that hate him. 33711
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A sicko Trump TV ad paid for with your tax money. Criminals have stolen our country. Vote against all Republicans as we try to take it back. 2322377
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed 301991166
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026whenever people say “cancel culture isn’t real, it’s just facing the consequences of your actions” I think about all the people who were the target of the internet’s hate for things they didn’t do, or for things that had much more nuance. it can ruin lives, over things that often do not matter 221441
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive. 383901763
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1483896546
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026the authoritarian internationale is real and can hurt you 837372
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hazily remembered this today and it really is incredible how many things this guy Announces and Declares that are never heard of again. In a matter of hours it disappears from our collective consciousness, and almost certainly from his own, like a fart in a hurricane. 614818
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026gonna have some stuff out about this this week or next, but we should expect the resolution to "the iran war" to be "neither peace nor war." that isn't because of trump. it's because structural pressures are driving the entire world in this direction. the same thing will happen in ukraine. 6485
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.nytimes.comLaid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65. 762479762
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026It's not clear to me why Denmark is keen on signing an agreement with Trump that he clearly views as a first step toward conquering Greenland 1651364226
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Truest Meme 224656
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Increasingly resigned to the conclusion that a ton of people, possibly most, on the left as well as right, believe only in friend-enemy distinctions rather than universalized principles 21348
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Think about how these posts play out. Trump’s legion of weirdo cultists create these things. Natalie Harp follows these people. She saw this and thought Trump might want to post it. She printed it out & he told her it was great and she should post it. We pay her $150k to do this. 1281628421
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” The most efficient travellers are us on bikes. Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMathscientificamerican.comThe Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a BikeA famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom 5498143
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 20/09/2026From the official Dept of Education account on X, an endorsement of Bo French's racist tweet about Indian students at a University of Texas football game. Just awful. 46974250
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We really ought to sit with the fact that Verhoeven, three decades later, has to publicly say 'Guys, the one I made about the militarized society in nazi uniforms waging an expansionist total war against aliens they refuse to understand? It's about fascism' www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...hollywoodreporter.comPaul Verhoeven on U.S. Space Force’s ‘Starship Troopers’-Inspired Uniforms: “It’s Based on Leni Riefenstahl”The director of the 1997 sci-fi film, which has often been misunderstood, says the gung-ho soldiers who are its heroes "are fascists without knowing that they’re fascists. That’s the point.” 5369112
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Alex 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 Brian Kidwell 🧦Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“I have invented a moral philosophy that means that doing what I want to benefit me is actually morally superior to helping you” will never go out of style. 151
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“we did everything we said we would and it sucks, pls elect us again” 741358
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026You know who else thought one of their neighbors deepening their relationship with the EU was a hostile act? 411425
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026None of these guys will ever do the remotest soul-searching about what it might mean that while he may not be overtly racist like the people's he's describing, they talk about like Dylan Mulvaney exactly the same way they talk about Jews and so does he 0545
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A decade ago, if you aimed to predict Supreme Court decisions, which has proven a better heuristic? 1) Follow legal text and precedent according to a logically consistent judicial philosophy 2) Ignore or distort law to maximize GOP/right-wing power while mitigating risks of future court expansion 19893116
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Great system where the body with the power to declare, fund, and authorize wars can repeatedly vote "we don't approve of this war, stop it" and it has no effect. 741771
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"You see, the problem with all these foreigners is that they can't assimilate to our American Way of Life," the far right says about immigrants of color wearing cowboy hats, flashing Longhorn signs and hooting and hollering "Hook 'em horns" at a football game It's always been just White Supremacy 317432
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/09/2026trump and putin are both very alike in that they inherited huge material stocks from their strategic forebears in preparation for a major calamity and decided to take that and go to the casino, put it all on red, and now have no idea what to do since that didn't work 151003161
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 21446901282
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings 32988481559
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I genuinely think that a hugely underrated thing which poisons our politics is that a significant chunk of liberals just want to redeem their conservative relatives, and this has made them…incredibly naive. 28811
Reposted by Brian Kidwell 🧦🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This and Abu Ghraib and just the election of trump twice show us that there are monsters living among us, always, and they are just waiting for a chance to go hog wild. They cannot help it. Every time they are given an excuse they will do it. 1112