Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 3hunusual to see a single line item receipt outlining exactly who bought a politician and how much they paid 22892160
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6hThe way JD Vance says this, he is acting as if Abdul El-Sayed is an immigrant who should "show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything." Once again, it should be pointed out that El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan. 1962771650
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Micah @rincewind.run · 9hfor real: get your ass to the polls, folks we’re gonna see some weird shit out there this year, you never know 141483254
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7hYour occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can 492632566
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10hTalarico should end his at the San Jacinto River to show he's a ball knower. 1368278
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Micah @rincewind.run · 11h2. the supreme court is transparently a lever of power for the republican party at this point and both sides recognize it there are vestiges of the old respect for the institution but they're disappearing fast and this is gone even if we don't reform the court at all 465943
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Micah @rincewind.run · 11hwhat I hope this thread makes clear is two things: 1. expanding the court has real problems, and these are valid concerns 2. there are no good options left, and this is the best of the bad ones unless we want to accept a conservative supermajority for the rest of our lives 1676282
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11hTechnically our rapists are independent contractors 242119493
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 12hReally quite something that the most bloodthirsty demographic in the country when it comes to public executions are white Christians whose entire religion is ostensibly built around a figure whose claim to fame is defeating the Roman barbarism of... Public execution. 3269
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴404 Media @404media.co · 12hJonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to reveal what’s behind his extreme longevity, so we can live longer too. @beckyferreira.bsky.social breaks it down. Read now: www.404media.co/oldest-livin... 1528757
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 13hEither way the cat is out of the bag and now we know our countrymen were salivating at the opportunity to watch murder porn on livestream or at least defend the legitimacy of doing so and there’s no take-backs for something that obscene 52811
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13hWASHINGTON (AP) — Trump, after bipartisan backlash, says Pentagon won't livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter. 641267236
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h“The federal legal apparatus is working to strip the citizenship of a member of Congress and then deport her, because she’s from an ethnic group the president and his top aide despises,” is open executive-branch authoritarianism with no parallel in US history 6478148
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 13hSpeaking as somebody who used to recoil at court-packing suggestions, the reason these objections sound 10 years out of date is that the status quo does not seem distinguishable from a worst-case "race to the bottom". Recent SCOTUS rulings are already absurdly partisan. 611416
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15hpeople say they're tired of trump-bad content and want something substantive. you try to give them something substantive. the numbers come back and show that what the audience craves is a constant stream of trump-bad content. 873437
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15hmy most black-pill opinion is that most of what's objectionable about political media in the US is a consequence of the audience's revealed preferences. 361529196
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15hpeople say they're tired of the horserace and want policy. so you give them policy. and then the numbers come back and show the audience is, by far, most interested in 2028 horserace. 🤪 1599056
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 18hAnyways it's always fascinating to me that this narrative of Russian victimhood is dependent on entirely ignoring the agency of the Russians themselves, especially the oligarchic class who were the ones putting the country and the state up in the shop window and doling out the profits 526329
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 17hETERNAL GET FUCKED IDIOTS 323719
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/10/2026One of the weirdest things our supposed leftist writers do is assume the only way to get something is to buy it. Like you can get tons of new titles for free at the library. It’s this weird assumption that social nets, gov services, etc don’t exist, only capital-provided solutions do 4390991
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21hIt's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech. 462744650
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026demanding men and women disfigure themselves to serve a mad king is some thick writing 219125
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026static.klipy.comBrad Pitt in Fury: Hey, Shoot That GuyALT: Brad Pitt in Fury: Hey, Shoot That Guy 1714
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”cjr.orgNicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest. 12151501065
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026For the record, I agree that the current situation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe is potentially catastrophic and that open warfare between NATO and Russia would be a Very Bad Thing™ that we should try our utmost to avoid. But giving Russia a free hand east of the Oder does not actually solve this! 1140441
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/10/2026damn. wow. i had no idea. we should send more weapons to ukraine. 371423170
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Protesters heckle Pete Hegseth: "You're a fucking war criminal!" "The world fucking hates you!" 717538
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Shuffle @shuffleosint.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Meanwhile Trump and Musk cut access to Starlink for Ukraine because of *their* supposed breaches. Treachery. 0409
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708... 32642001900
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on. 181102288
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I don’t think it makes sense for a U.S. national broadcast news network to make decisions about what to air based on the foreign editor’s focus group of Israelis. 11740129
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the horse has been beaten to death and beyond but it's just staggering how low the standards are for this guy every week he finds a new, creative way to prove himself unfit for office and none of them mattered at all compared to the fucking gas prices 414315
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the President of the United States is posting videos of people being mauled to death by animals (both real and AI-generated) to his personal social media account i am sure the political media will turn this into a months long national discourse over his fitness to serve, right? 424527
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion. 223080631
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Elections have consequences and those can even be good 222247
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation. 17256741695
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party. 623547583
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I said holy shit out loud. 54012
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Alt Boo-reau of Lake-Monster Spook-tistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Why didn’t my enemy interrupt me while I was making a mistake? 542057267
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs 713602548
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026No worries Mike, we absolutely will not forget them. 2482
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years 614129740
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Republicans traded in a sturdy, high turnout coalition for an extremely fickle, low turnout one that can only be assembled by one guy that also somehow doesnt have downballot benefits even when hes on the ballot—& now that one guy will never be on the ballot again. Good luck with that going forward. 520621
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13/10/2026An annoying thing about this era is I can already tell that "Donald Trump: electoral juggernaught" is going to be this truism among the commentariat long after he's gone even tho his actual record is "middling performer save by efficient distribution who becomes an anchor on party during midterms" 923733
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing 70132184943
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Average American politician: of course I support a two state solution, no I don't support doing anything to achieve that. Why do you ask? Average Israeli politician: by my own hand, the two state solution will be shot and buried in the ditch of history 233856
Reposted by Cityinlead 🇺🇸🇨🇴Futurism @futurism.com · 13/10/2026"It suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms."trib.alEyebrows Raise When Elon Musk's Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers Linked to Bot FarmsCould Ukraine's destruction of Russian data centers really be impacting Elon Musk's engagement on his own platform? 04924