Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Clicked thru to make sure this was real. It is. Bleak shit! 040
Reposted by Chris SousaJames @duppyconquerors.bsky.social · 22/07/2025The very planet is trying to speed up to get to 2028 0524
Reposted by Chris Sousautopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18/07/2025It’s pretty bad when this whole episode, as funny as it is, brings absolutely zero relief. Nothing reverses the fact that someone of this magnitude of perversion, failure, and corruption easily ascended to the highest office on earth and destroyed everything around him in under 6 months. 1138762
Reposted by Chris Sousahilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"popular.infoThe secret to Baltimore's extraordinary yearThis April, Baltimore saw five homicides. 381508435
Reposted by Chris SousaKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/07/2025There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good. 984397769
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025i fucking hate seeing shit like this every morning 020
Reposted by Chris SousaBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think 4763071131
Reposted by Chris SousaJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 12/07/2025These DC bureaucrats need to learn how the world actually works: by having things handed to you because your dad was a Senator. 1345928684
Reposted by Chris SousaKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/07/2025There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsibletheguardian.comDozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses sayWitnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation 191520821
Reposted by Chris SousaLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Great reporting by @melbuer.bsky.social from the scene of a large raid at cannabis farms in California in which one worker was killed and a couple hundred others were arrested. www.welcometohellworld.com/a-life-was-s...welcometohellworld.comA life was snuffed out in the pursuit of a quotaHe was forced to make an impossible choice by the federal government 7424156
Reposted by Chris SousaKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12/07/2025This billionaire’s fortune is built atop research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and yet he seeks to destroy that agency and its investments in the scientific engine that has fueled our tech industry since the 1950s. And why? Because it tried to include more diverse scholars? 1152293713
Reposted by Chris Sousashauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/07/2025a literal cultbbc.comDetained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation planSpeaking from a detention facility in California, an Iranian immigrant says she believes "the good people will be released". 5949583
Reposted by Chris SousaCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/07/2025“.. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p... 20527551116
Reposted by Chris SousaDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The bare minimum for the 2028 candidate: - Pack the Court - bring back J6 and docs cases (they were dismissed without prejudice!) - Bribe takers and bribe makers jailed - DHS abolished This is the Wide Awakes minimum. You can quibble about timing and sequencing, but these have to happen. 2133538677
Reposted by Chris Sousahannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 09/07/2025The damage LLMs do to critical thinking skills, the fact that it encourages people to not do research for themselves while churning out poor quality data that people treat as a replacement for authoritative sources—those are the problems. That's going to do more damage than Grok sounding like 8chan. 28631114
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I've been staring at this sentence since this weekend. Why do we have to take these people, and the vapid and grotesque culture that created them, seriously? 010
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 05/07/2025100% true, and on top of that, there was a community of people who should have known better that treated him as a godhead and demanded that he play concerts as their birthright. It's amazing he lasted as long as he did 030
Reposted by Chris SousaElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Truly imagine if Mamdani had used the word “Shylock.” It would have quite literally destroyed his career and every org and leader calling him out would be making this into a month long news cycle. Trump? Hardly a peep. When you accept antisemitism from the president, you aren’t fighting it. 5753341296
Reposted by Chris SousaQueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Vonnegut - "The America I loved still exists at the front desks of the public libraries." 0297
Reposted by Chris SousaInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for. 1143681098
Reposted by Chris SousaMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/07/2025This is the direct consequence of no senior officials, let alone GWB, paying any legal, personal, or professional price at all for torture & Abu Ghraib two decades ago. Our polity completely fails at elite accountability, and so here we are, on the doorstep of full-on fascism. 191625429
Reposted by Chris SousaMatt Ortega @mattortega.com · 03/07/2025... and many of us said so at the time. Once again those giving warning are waved off as hysterical alarmists. Then proven right yet again. 320757
Reposted by Chris SousaBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 02/07/2025There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more. 10345201211
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025calling it now: there are a nonzero number of legal writers working on books about the Trump administration's defiance of the law that they have entitled: "Deny, Depose, Defend" 000
Reposted by Chris SousaTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill 207115583249
Reposted by Chris SousaMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025George W. Bush was a terrible President who might get a softened view from history given the outsized positive effect of PEPFAR. Trump & Musk will get the opposite, with cuts to USAID & PEPFAR crowding out their other evils due to the astonishing scale of harm. 429353
Reposted by Chris SousaKaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025In addition to many other important programs, IU Bloomington is eliminating its Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, one of the most storied and successful in the country. 2015181
Reposted by Chris SousaDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling: 6222811236
Reposted by Chris SousaMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 29/06/2025dems to rurals: “this is real america, not the dirty cities (ew). football, cornfields, county fairs. here’s a trillion dollars” GOP to rurals: “these degenerate druggy hill people will learn the dignity of work once we defund their schools and hospitals” rural elections: [dem🟦] 7% [rep🟥] 91% 784387712
Reposted by Chris SousaGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others 132415772
Reposted by Chris SousaThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/06/2025A breakthrough preventive drug that offers total protection from HIV was to be rolled out across parts of Africa this year. But the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts derailed those plans.trib.alPromise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws SupportA new drug that gives almost complete protection against the virus was to be administered across Africa this year. Now, much of the funding for that effort is gone. 521002494
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 25/06/2025A ray of sunshine this morning. A better world is possible 110
Reposted by Chris SousaJane @jane.meangirls.online · 25/06/2025they will never stop writing stories about these hogs 62056
Reposted by Chris SousaSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 25/06/2025seeing the first signs of Woke 2 088985
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988) 000
Reposted by Chris SousaAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ 300177555766
Reposted by Chris SousaJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11. 1101623355
Reposted by Chris SousaStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Fundamentally, American media culture places more prestige on being wrong cleverly than being right simply. They’ll spend 50,000 words sucking off a Nazi with a polysyllabic vocabulary before they interview the nice lady who volunteers at the animal shelter because she likes dogs. 202334359
Chris Sousa @christophersousa.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The thing about January 6 is that it worked 000
Reposted by Chris Sousajeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 17/06/2025jaimie branch was born in Huntington, NY on this day in 1983. breezy would have turned 42 today. 📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 9.30.17 (w. Luke Stewart) 07815
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