Reposted by CarlWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026You have really interesting things to say, but the way you post is very annoying. Could you change your personality so I could more easily engage with your content? 715010 150
Reposted by CarlAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true 314100202540 10K
Reposted by CarlTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line 15372591707 7.3K
Reposted by CarlWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them. they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret 344458650 4.5K
Reposted by Carlae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025absolutely nothing discredits “longtermism” more than how much of these freaks are only belatedly realizing how much of a mistake it was to bandwagon with Trump 1453768 537
Reposted by Carlpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Notice how Super Mario and all his supposed “enemies” are happy to get together and go go-kart racing? Wake up. It’s all kayfabe 7272811024 7.3K
Reposted by Carlstatic @static-prevails.bsky.social · 18/04/2025(through clenched teeth) issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding conservative columnists david brooks and bret stephens. you do, under some circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" 225231 252
Reposted by CarlOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now 5181661414 8.2K
Reposted by CarlGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime. 243157604414 15.8K
Reposted by CarlJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14/03/2025wow, r/neoliberal is really going off on Schumer 321506165 1.5K
Reposted by CarlBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight 182104322357 10.4K
Reposted by Carldell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025having been in many rooms where protests are initially orchestrated, i can say sights like this are a highly desired outcome. protests are inherently theatrical & part of that is triggering state actors to unwittingly adopt the role they were born to play. 11880571455 8.1K
Reposted by CarlKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/03/2025THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office. 298167174157 16.7K
Reposted by CarlElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones. Democrats: [wave placard] Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones Democrats: [strenuously wave placards] 18064881379 6.5K
Reposted by CarlPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 05/03/2025hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 12965642033 6.6K
Reposted by CarlAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point. The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math. Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public. 1119298244403 29.8K
Reposted by Carlrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/03/2025senator jamelle bouie, imo 2162252 622
Reposted by CarlRebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 01/03/2025In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job! 363174548 3.2K
Reposted by CarlSage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 27/02/2025damn dude that was incomprehensible but good luck with being divorced & sucks you’re in a k-hole or whatever 1021429106 1.4K
Reposted by CarlBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02... 701115153608 11.5K
Reposted by Carlsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61... 24660731273 6.1K
Carl @carlsomeone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025DOGE published their “receipts” and only fraud I see is DOGE fraudulently claiming entire value of Blanket Purchase Agreements that were averaging *way* less spend/year than the total cap implied. E.g. Dept of Ag was on track to spend $1.5M over 5 years on DEI, not the $25M DOGE claimed as “savings” 000 0
Reposted by Carlmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025i know there's a lot of data that making people who are members of a cult feel like credulous rubes just gets them even more into the cult but, with trumpism, i think the people we need to convince are not the cultists but the marginally attached low-info voters so maybe mockery is good? 4076967 769
Reposted by CarlMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 16/02/2025i am, for what it is worth, somewhat optimistic that this will all end terribly for these people. 3175061 750
Reposted by CarlMicah @rincewind.run · 16/02/2025a whole bunch of people seem to have decided that because Trump committed a bunch of crimes on the way out the door the first time that him returning to office with 49% of the vote is a mandate to rule as god-emperor forever no matter what he does this is craven and stupid and a huge mistake 111275176 1.3K
Reposted by Carl☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14/02/2025you hate john podesta for something something rigged against bernie crankery i hate john podesta for his key role in the decision to roll OFA into the DNC and smothering it instead of building AFO we are not the same 212313 123
Reposted by CarlTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025the perfect picture to illustrate what might well be the apex of plutocracy in human history 32662187 662
Reposted by Carlrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025the party first demands a monopoly on any kind of left-of-center energy and then screams at anyone who tries to harness it for anything other than responding to five hundred identical panicky texts every day during election season 729425 294
Reposted by Carlrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025it would be nice if every time there were a civil society organization which tried to do this, the party did something other than just hit them up for checks and then scold them for doing anything 852653 526
Reposted by CarlDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/02/2025The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years 17654541945 5.5K
Reposted by CarlPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services. 5762411166 6.2K
Reposted by CarlMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/02/2025“Elon got root access” is definitely going to wind up in court filings since that’s not what DOJ has been telling judges. Musk just quote-tweeted this, which seems like an admission they’ve been lying in court. 682288722 2.3K
Reposted by Carl🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 13/02/2025this is so fucking embarrassing, man, people got mad about burrito taxis and accidentally elected a guy whose favorite star trek character is boba fett 913243418 3.2K
Reposted by CarlWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The natsec blob’s anger over the Afghan withdrawal leading them to enthusiastically collaborate in tanking Biden’s approval to level it never recovered from is one of the dumbest fucking moves in modern political history. 71032165 1K
Reposted by CarlOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day 1124666582 4.7K
Reposted by CarlJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13/02/2025[leaning over to my seatmate in a nosediving passenger jet] you like string beans? guess what! thanks to donald trump's policies, they're about to get more expensive. donald trump promised to lower the prices of string beans, but he didn't. now you'll have to pay more for string beans than ever befo 262747325 2.7K
Reposted by Carlmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup 5649611230 5K
Reposted by CarlKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe. 337187092158 18.7K
Reposted by Carlmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025genuinely jarring to read one of these emails that has actual useful information instead of a fundraising pitch 181705216 1.7K
Reposted by CarlWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I think social media basically supercharges all of the normal human tendencies towards ideas that are emotionally affecting/appealing, while removing all of the traditional societal brakes on such things. 1044456 444
Reposted by Carlrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/02/2025the reason to systematically primary safe seat Dems in 2026 and 2028 is because they don't have the guts to do what needs to be done in 2029 even if they get the spine to do what needs to be done when under crushing pressure in 2025 332036333 2K
Reposted by CarlEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I am once again begging New York City to Eminent Domain every last Trump property in NYC and use it for migrant housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...nytimes.comNew York Got $80 Million for Migrants. The White House Took It Back.The New York City comptroller’s office, which first noticed the missing money, said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had unilaterally taken the funds from the city’s accounts. 202395451 2.4K
Reposted by CarlMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025One of the major changes versus pre pandemic is that people have way less of a social life and way more of an online life. Online is way more important than ever at the same time it's becoming a fetid swamp of gutter racism and misogyny, with no IRL backstops - especially for men 743269 432
Reposted by Carl28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025just gonna speak for myself that a decoupling of economic sentiment and reality doesn’t mean that I don’t think poor people are having a hard time — my issue is that some thinktank moron writing in Politico had a weirdly easy time infiltrating the online left’s thought process 1338645 386
![Musk: Well, President, uh, President Milei has a gift for me.
Schmitt: [hamming at camera] Javier Milei from Argentina, you guys know who that is, right?
Milei, a friendly-looking figure who resembles Bilbo Baggins right before he Smeagolifies, enters the stage carrying a chainsaw. He presents the chainsaw to the billionaire, who then waves it around unsteadily.
Musk: This… is… the chainsaw for bureaucracy. [pumps the chainsaw in the air] CHAINSAAAW!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4t2ziwnnescprzorvmrfduey/bafkreiaq5wpff25isb2ylypajpm57h5xlpb7ms6ws4fghayhnge2wqqbom)
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JOE LONSDALE: DOGE CAN'T BE STOPPED BECAUSE IT'S A VERY TECHNICAL TEAM
"I have mentors in the Reagan administration who came in looking for [government waste].
Those people were not technical.
When they went to the bureaucracy, and they asked questions, there are so many ways of obscuring and blocking and deterring.
Elon got root access, and he went to the tech systems themselves.
No one has done this ever.
No president had ever had tech people around](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreia5rv3as5tx7pjsbgvbtrbalwmfmzw3ulkifq7udaidlnupd75wvu)
