Reposted by Captain EasychordSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11hThis is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths. 4868222
Reposted by Captain EasychordArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership. 193124797
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Werewolves is great, but on any given day, I could choose a couple dozen Zevon songs as my favorite... maybe last week, it would have been "Bad Karma"... maybe yesterday I would have taken "Gorilla, You're a Desperado"; maybe today I would take "Don't Let Us Get Sick"... 030
Reposted by Captain EasychordMorgan @mport25.bsky.social · 27/09/2026THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES HAVE CLINCHED A WINNING SEASON. FUCK BEN CHERINGTON AND DON KELLY. 0173
Reposted by Captain EasychordDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC? 822069319
Reposted by Captain EasychordDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In short: Giving US explosive diarrhea & measles is one of the key campaign promises that Trump has followed through with exactly as advertised. 0247
Reposted by Captain EasychordCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons 246242365627
Reposted by Captain EasychordJake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you're planning military operations around a political schedule, then you are by definition engaged in a war of choice. 1294
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 27/09/2026LOL... in fact LMAO at the Rolling Stone writer... I had never heard of this song and decades of being out of touch with the mainstream has taught me that there is exactly zero "cultural cachet" to liking weird shit that appeals to dozens of weirdos 000
Reposted by Captain EasychordNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421661463
Reposted by Captain EasychordSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Xi, an actual Communist leader who silences dissent, is slavishly adored by Trump. As for pretend communists in America, they are treated as enemies. I can’t wait for this sickness to end. 1062860679
Reposted by Captain EasychordAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/09/2026Imagine living in a place where you can complete basic tasks without relying on the automobile 624640
Reposted by Captain EasychordMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457541512
Reposted by Captain EasychordRAIL Magazine @railmag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026True fact: the airports in Mobile and Baton Rouge offer flights to the same 5 places: ATL, CLT, DCA, DFW, IAH From neither airport can you fly direct to New Orleans. You’d have to go somewhere else and backtrack. And yet people think “there’s an airport, why need a train?”🚆 36016
Reposted by Captain EasychordIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/09/202613/12 headline. No notes 9646126
Reposted by Captain EasychordRuss @russ41.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Reminder that we can (and should) loudly rejoice in fractures in the enemy's coalition without extending them any concessions in return. 0204
Reposted by Captain EasychordBob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is astonishing. Needs to be a day one investigation next year. 17553134
Reposted by Captain EasychordDoug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A tornado inside a hurricane inside a firestorm. Agenda-setters would allow virtually nothing else to be discussed on the natl level 13520143
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The best bathrooms in so many American cities can be found at the airports 000
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Missed out on tickets to tonight's Angine de Poitrine show... absolutely WILD to see them listed on the secondary market for $400 up to over $1,000 at one point 000
Reposted by Captain EasychordDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The United States has experienced prior low points when its hard and soft power seemed to be at a low ebb, but it could always count on its structural and network power as a source of strength. No longer. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-dollar...danieldrezner.substack.comThe Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To FallThe Trump administration is gutting the pillars of U.S. hegemony one by one. 38328
Reposted by Captain EasychordSilverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Stephen Miller’s perfect world. If only they would speak English in the film. 23111
Reposted by Captain EasychordDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m not a culture critic but this obsession with rebooting things is a sign of deep malaise. Let’s just cultivate new things. Nobody is going to be improving on Point Break.deadline.com‘Point Break’ Series Greenlit By AMC & France’s Canal+ From AlconThis comes after Deadline revealed in December that it was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller. 761459195
Reposted by Captain EasychordCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 11/09/2026The real legacy of 9/11 is what we see happening in the US right now. Organizations purportedly formed to combat terrorism are being used by a demented sociopathic president to terrorize the citizens of the US, and turn the nation into a white supremacist dictatorship. 15843263
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Republicans hate America - they'll wax poetic and wave the flag on 9/11 to make people think they love the country, but as soon as the folks behind the tragedy offer them a bag, they'll switch sides 000
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There was a time when we were a proper country 010
Reposted by Captain EasychordDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit. 776982171
Reposted by Captain EasychordJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit 7448781045
Reposted by Captain Easychordpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026this is not optional for democrats. there is no way back unless it happens 6666124
Reposted by Captain EasychordBrynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thime is running out for the world to wake up to the darkness that is the international fascist alliance. 46113
Reposted by Captain EasychordPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151691312
Reposted by Captain EasychordPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There's a concept in international relations, specifically power transition theory, called a "revisionist state." Basically, the idea is that a revisionist state will tear down the whole international state system because they think it's unfair to them personally. Sound familiar? 71470151
Reposted by Captain EasychordPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Trying to manage these people as if they're standard participants in a multicultural democracy misses the point, because they have no interest in multicultural democracy or being one component of it; they want a system that treats them as a privileged class lording it over everyone else. 61660231
Reposted by Captain EasychordSam @samd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026can someone explain to me why the media is trying to hold every Democrat accountable for something a streamer says but nobody cares about Elon Musk being in the Epstein files and posting racist shit like this nonstop as he funds every Republican politician 1935779
Reposted by Captain EasychordAnnieD @anniedemoranville.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We have lost so much ground to China. 042
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Try #1: boy born in the Amazon basin in 1388... died from dysentery at three months Try #2: girl born in the Bengal delta in 1914... died from pneumonia or influenza at three months Try #3: girl born on the Guinea coast in 1762 BC... died of malaria at age 38 after having two kids (one surviving)! 100
Captain Easychord @capneasychord.bsky.social · 04/09/2026it's like the cheat is throwing a lightswitch rave in DC tonight 000
Reposted by Captain EasychordJakob @jakobjarecki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I stand by COVID was the first time a lot of people had to spend time with themselves and were really unhappy with who they saw in the mirror. Rather than work on themselves, they went fucking insane. 1457
Reposted by Captain EasychordDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist. 14638391191
Reposted by Captain EasychordBrittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This reminded me of a line from @polphilpod.bsky.social's article: "If you live in a nice middle-class suburb, you don’t want to think of your neighbors as fascists who would have the state kill you if they could. Yet all the data in the world suggests at least some of them are."liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 317450
Reposted by Captain Easychordweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers. 65114862260
Reposted by Captain EasychordAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331331633
Reposted by Captain EasychordRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153109082686
Reposted by Captain EasychordKevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Breaking news via the @exposmontreal.bsky.social - #BaseballSky. 20892119
Reposted by Captain EasychordKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is correct, but also another reason why Democrats have to lean into accountability and oversight as hard as possible when they retake Congress. It's not just about punishing criminals. It's about making it clear to the country the depth of the damage done to ready them for the repairs. 1283715959