Reposted by Clint HendlerJohn Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 10/10/202632 years ago today, we held the launch party for DOOM II at the Limelight in NYC, a former church. Happy birthday to DOOM II, but also, happy birthday to the Super Shotgun, the be-all and end-all of many a monster. 591655339
Reposted by Clint HendlerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The working assumption about 🇺🇸 politics needs to be that we are going to have 20-30% of voters supporting far right authoritarianism, as is now true in ~every rich democracy. We can reform our institutions to ensure the 70% can govern, or we’ll always be one election from the fascists getting 51%. 59122
Reposted by Clint HendlerPete Hausler @petehausler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm fascinated by the the synchronicity of two consecutive posts that sometimes hit our timeline. the irony is amazing: a post about a revisionist Watergate movement, next to a post saying, "oh, hey, you can now bribe Trump directly by buying his meme coin to have dinner with him." 1116
Reposted by Clint HendlerMatt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 2332589
Reposted by Clint HendlerPema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.socialmotherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past. 14802352
Reposted by Clint HendlerNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026US military killed four more people today in a boat in the Caribbean, SOUTHCOM said this past hour. Military said intelligence confirmed they were involved in narcotics trafficking, did not share any of that intelligence/evidence. 1st strike since Sept. 9. x.com/Southcom/sta... 715185
Reposted by Clint HendlerUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stepped into this conversation. Have a blessed day 🙏 521847
Reposted by Clint HendlerMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/09/2026It’s true we shouldn’t expect state and local police to defend voters from ICE at the polls. But it’s not so much because it’s logistically tricky or because they’re scared or outnumbered or were told not to, but because they’re all law enforcement, and this is how law enforcement works.motherjones.comCops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have toHow democracy protection groups are preparing for Trump's worst. 622996
Reposted by Clint Hendlerlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today. 272159476
Reposted by Clint HendlerYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp. 35695176
Reposted by Clint HendlerTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026DSA should claim Mike Rogers is a member so people can cover his views 134521
Reposted by Clint HendlerYale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 25/08/2026Stuck in New Haven rush-hour traffic? At least there’s something worth reading along the way. 👀 Two 48-foot billboards sponsored by Indivisible Civics along I-91 and I-95 read: “Yale is failing intro to ethics by cutting a deal with Trump.” 🧵 1/5 22614
Reposted by Clint HendlerDemocratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all." 51811290
Reposted by Clint HendlerMother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/08/2026This week, Senator Ron Wyden demanded that Trump’s Customs and Border Patrol agency explain why it had “abruptly abandoned its own established administrative procedures” to lift a ban on sugar imports by Central Romana, the Dominican Republic’s largest plantation owner. 🧵motherjones.comThe high human cost of America's sugar habitLow pay, chemical exposure, and a life of debt. 412751
Reposted by Clint HendlerAndy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Passing the polling place, signs sprouting from the roadside, I saw a grandpa wearing an I Can’t Breathe t-shirt walking a kid into school, and so I introduced my daughter to “A Small Needful Fact” in the car line. 04913
Reposted by Clint HendlerDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I was just telling a reporter that most of the college presidents who have taken action have done so in the wake of moves from their faculty and other workers, not the reverse. Harvard is no different. 029873
Reposted by Clint HendlerDanny Blinderman @dannyblinderman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The endpoint of the "unitary executive". 3349
Reposted by Clint HendlerAbby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Something I didn’t include in the story: Rep. Miller expressed to the judge he was worried about making future court hearings over his CPO because Republicans have a “very small majority.” His lawyer basically told him to shut up. 28819243
Reposted by Clint HendlerDan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Leavitt can now resume her prior side hustle of putting her name on prefab op-eds. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTrump's new press secretary was paid for articles praising a con manBefore Guo Wengui was charged in a massive fraud scheme, his followers commissioned Karoline Leavitt to byline fawning op-eds. 1122096
Reposted by Clint HendlerYakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Total waste of money. They could pay a bunch of DSA factions 10K each to shit post against one another and get more results. 321784213
Reposted by Clint HendlerNina Martin @byninamartin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Dobbs was supposed to crush the pro-choice movement. But even as abortion *rights* have shrunk in red states, abortion *access* has expanded. This week at Reveal @amylittlefield.bsky.social @rebeccaggrant.bsky.social & I look at why. @revealnews.org @motherjones.commotherjones.comThe battle over abortion pills in post-Roe AmericaAbortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything. 15117
Reposted by Clint Hendlerghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026you gotta talk about Gloria here, right 919218
Reposted by Clint HendlerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Today in “Existential threats to American higher education that make one wonder why university presidents are so totally absent from the public square in defending our interests” bsky.app/profile/mcop... 27226
Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Fetterman bringing up Abdul El-Sayed without any prompting as he rants about Hamas… well, it feels like a tell, doesn’t it? 74610
Reposted by Clint HendlerHannah Levintova @h-lev.bsky.social · 28/07/20261/ Last summer, @acleek.bsky.social and I started getting emails from staffers of a company called American Healthcare Systems. They told us that their hospitals were in financial chaos and that they were struggling to care for patients. So we started digging: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos. 516593
Reposted by Clint HendlerLaura J. @elsiejay.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Cape Verde should get a trophy. If FIFA can make up a trophy for Trump, they can do it for Cape Verde. 41718
Reposted by Clint HendlerAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash. 153374837
Reposted by Clint HendlerElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard 16171151211
Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026We’ll see a game with a way above average number of crosses. 010
Reposted by Clint HendlerNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026To Yale: Appeasing fascists is never a good idea. Ask your history or poli sci depts. But appeasing fascists when they’re weak manages to be even worse. As wrong and self-defeating as Columbia’s appeasement was, at least they did it early when the fascists were running high. Have some integrity. 1023835
Reposted by Clint HendlerAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHow two punk icons are giving the Cramps a second life“If you lose culture," Henry Rollins explains, "the society dies.” 611704419
Reposted by Clint HendlerAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/07/2026A Danish journalist, Rasmus Svaneborg, asked NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: "You sit next to Trump while he talks about taking over Greenland or publicly humiliates Spain. Doesn't it affect your self-respect when you just sit there and say nothing?" 63790185
Reposted by Clint HendlerChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 08/07/2026If Betfair odds are a sure guide [ed. "they're not"] Count Binface is more likely to win the Clacton by-election than each of Norway, Morocco, Switzerland or Belgium is to win the World Cup 062
Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The Colombia and Swiss teams’ and fans’ differing preparations for field kicks illustrate a real divide between Catholicism and Calvinism. 010
Reposted by Clint HendlerTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.” 272089446
Reposted by Clint HendlerMatthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A younger USMNT played a better Netherlands side closer and tougher than this four years ago, and did so halfway around the world. Wonder what the biggest difference was. Any ideas? 5632625
Reposted by Clint HendlerAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year 268239923246
Reposted by Clint HendlerTim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026when they go low, we go hide 072
Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Following this up with “oh I’m still alive” was a choice. 040
Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026You can change the tournament format. You can hire one of the world’s most famous coaches. You can call your corrupt buddy and make a special plea. But no matter what, the US will go out to a low country in the round of 16. 141
Reposted by Clint HendlerACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Air to Ground Message: WORLD CUP SCORE PLEASE Area: Buffalo, NY, USA Type: Airbus A330-300 A: #a073d1d1fe0 F: #fa25a72d1e9 0157
Clint Hendler @clinthendler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Yes. Balogun didn’t ask for help from Trump, a man who doesn’t even want him to be an American. 050
Reposted by Clint HendlerAbraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I still don’t know how Platner would have ever been able to land a punch against Collin on the Kavanaugh vote. Trump would have gotten that seat. That isn’t the liberal lingering rage around that confirmation. It’s about the treatment of sexual abuse allegations. Messengers matter. 101