Reposted by pasta water drinkerProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6725191233
Reposted by pasta water drinkerRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition 671143835841
Reposted by pasta water drinkerautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something that shouldn’t be forgotten when the Trump 2 era ends is how many people with power and influence showed themselves to be completely craven 2616
Reposted by pasta water drinkerDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7737571082
Reposted by pasta water drinkerGil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment. 8591100
Reposted by pasta water drinkerDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have some thoughts on what should happen to this guy, should I say it? I shouldn't say it...*rally crowd cheering* should I though? 2816
Reposted by pasta water drinkerAnarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 05/10/2026Years ago I used to say that Elon would be remembered as one of history's greatest monsters because he knew he could solve world hunger and chose not to. Then he decided to make everything so much worse, deliberately. The scale of death he is responsible for is difficult to grasp. 324281
pasta water drinker @burss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026How about you follow your own advice and engage with what everyone here is saying? 060
Reposted by pasta water drinkerJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026A product like this has no pro-social function, and it doesn't need to be reliable. The existence of the tech creates plausible deniability to violate rights even when there is extensive evidence that it is wrong. This is the system working as intended. 127550
Reposted by pasta water drinkerMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is happening on steroids nationally 66629
Reposted by pasta water drinkerEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary. 321224399
Reposted by pasta water drinkerGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 293112934104
Reposted by pasta water drinkerDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You're gonna need a bigger chart 21741306
Reposted by pasta water drinkerHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026crylaughing at the thought of Mike Tomlin getting home after a long day of listening to Aaron Rodgers and just straight up dissociating for five hours in Minecraft  191743240
Reposted by pasta water drinkerCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Governor Pervert sides with the Perverts. He is the future of the party. 11695127
Reposted by pasta water drinkerRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes 11646160
Reposted by pasta water drinkerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes 181144134
Reposted by pasta water drinkerAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership. 191820548
Reposted by pasta water drinkerspooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this is it, the single worst take on music i’ve ever read in my life 2022312
Reposted by pasta water drinkerautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Despising the Nashville Industrial Complex and the insipid Nashville Sound is good, actually 4434
Reposted by pasta water drinkerAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653043276
Reposted by pasta water drinkerMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026reaching a point where everyone is simply too stupid to do strategic ambiguity 635242
Reposted by pasta water drinkerMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it might be take a few election cycles to find someone who can rally everyone like trump did but it doesn't really matter, there's no "fever" to "break," this is just who the party is now. it's why you can't simply "turn the page" on trump or whatever dumb bullshit the losers are pushing now 634931
Reposted by pasta water drinkerMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it 12857175
Reposted by pasta water drinkerBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The NFL has aired probably 200 Tennessee games in my lifetime in my area and I've sent every one of them to junk mail, Nigerian spammers have the same hit rate 41749
Reposted by pasta water drinkermaureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Jeffrey Clemmons, Ramos' campaign manager, told KVUE's media partners at the Austin American-Statesman that Ramos was detained while walking his dog at around 8:50 a.m. According to Clemmons, the state troopers, many who arrived in unmarked vehicles, did not show Ramos a warrant for his arrest.” 27045
Reposted by pasta water drinkerSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth. 472692774
Reposted by pasta water drinker29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ll save everyone the trouble of clicking: Trump got the “deal” by invading a sovereign nation, killing over 100 people (including many civilians), kidnapping the head of state, and threatening to murder the successor if she didnt agree to this “deal.” 1113
Reposted by pasta water drinkerDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195402207
Reposted by pasta water drinkerBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026my favorite running gag with Roger is that a.) he carries a gigantic amount of cash at all times for no apparent reason b.) on three separate occasions he has to use it to pay off an aggrieved employee he's just pissed off 122752
Reposted by pasta water drinkerAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is actually the dumbest idea anyone has ever fucking conceived of, the only thing that makes any sense is theyre running out of ideas to confuse the tech illiterate dementia patient politicians that keep showering them with taxpayer money 1438740
Reposted by pasta water drinkerbrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure. 51659488
Reposted by pasta water drinkerPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore 21259206
Reposted by pasta water drinkermaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164881220
Reposted by pasta water drinkerMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is functionally what it means to proclaim the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. 9623156
Reposted by pasta water drinkerZoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: Democratic Party leadership and national campaign organizations filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully threatening to send armed federal agents to polling places in the November midterms buff.ly/bAsOgfy Complaint: buff.ly/mFNuyKJ 327181
Reposted by pasta water drinkerBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors 81899409
Reposted by pasta water drinker#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I wonder why they're racing on Saturday instead of Sunday *Reads article* Oh. Oh no. www.racefans.net/2026/09/21/h...racefans.netHow to watch the 2026 Azerbaijan GP and why it is being held on a SaturdayIt's race week! The Azerbaijan Grand Prix will take place on Saturday with three Formula 2 support races. Here are the details. 210130
Reposted by pasta water drinkerLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early 11652931236
Reposted by pasta water drinkerHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026we have to stop imports because that's other countries stealing money from us, and we have to stop exports because that's other countries stealing goods from us at last we will throw off our shackles, no longer a nation plagued by trade 1257888
Reposted by pasta water drinkerThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"I'm worried about limiting the power to extradite health care providers who treat trans people" unreal 1332766
Reposted by pasta water drinkerGil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/09/2026Of the billionaires By the billionaires For the billionaires Newsom 2028 23480138
Reposted by pasta water drinkerNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841451676