Reposted by Cole is writingThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/05/2025Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u... 32483443253
Cole is writing @colejohnson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025An absolutely piss-poor series from Draymond. Every time he had the ball in his hands he looked out of control. Hope Curry comes back and stays healthy next season. 000
Reposted by Cole is writing𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 12/05/2025Crazy how long this conversation has been going on 27178015132
Reposted by Cole is writingJohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 11/05/2025#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions.. 452143583910
Reposted by Cole is writingJeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...dailyprincetonian.comSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr... 1151721482
Reposted by Cole is writingCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 08/05/2025Today, we wasted time voting on renaming the Gulf of Mexico—a name it’s had for almost 500 YEARS. We’ve got folks losing healthcare, schools underfunded, and rights under attack. We’ve got real issues. Prioritize THAT. 2302383566
Reposted by Cole is writingNPR @npr.org · 07/05/2025President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR. This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country. Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change. 12839131142
Reposted by Cole is writingDr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 07/05/2025the Irish were considered subhuman, monkey-like, barbaric, before Britain engaged in the transatlantic slave trade. so initially race was never about skin color. it was about British power and dominance and later British colonial rule. 1622650
Reposted by Cole is writingDrew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 05/05/2025I keep my head down and turn out good work and I just barely made rent this month, but a lady calls a kid the n-word at a playground and she raises a half-million dollars in a week. I don't get the world, and I don't like it. We are surrounded by rotten dogshit assholes and they're thriving. 339134202157
Reposted by Cole is writingJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/05/2025My newest hustle is to sign onto foreign-produced films as a producer, I will do nothing except be the dude required make a film produced by Americans, my fee will be a mere $10k per film plus I get to be one of the producers listed for the "Best Film" Oscar, that's fair, hit me up, foreign dudes 1314520377
Reposted by Cole is writingAftermath @aftermath.site · 29/04/2025For no particular reason, let's look at how much money EA execs made recently aftermath.site/electronic-a... 211267410
Reposted by Cole is writingEmily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic 740270796669
Cole is writing @colejohnson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Watching Dillon Brooks choke on the defensive end in the clutch brings me so much joy. 000
Reposted by Cole is writingThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The Golden Age of Corruption www.politico.com/news/2025/04... 51285383646
Cole is writing @colejohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025There is quite possibly no NBA player I have ever loathed and prayed on his downfall more than Dillon Brooks. Bro has the most punchable face in the league. 000
Reposted by Cole is writingAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that federal authorities may once again seek reporters’ phone records and compel their testimony in leak investigations, reversing a policy that was designed to protect journalists from intrusive government efforts to identify and prosecute sources. 58598883273
Reposted by Cole is writingFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable. 1030239229690
Reposted by Cole is writingRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. 15664700912952
Cole is writing @colejohnson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Didn’t Harriet Tubman have narcolepsy? I’m pretty sure I learned that when I was a kid because, y’know…I read books. 020
Reposted by Cole is writingAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/04/2025Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen. She has been on a govt salary for years. Something aint right 30475704410728
Reposted by Cole is writingKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis 203150594142
Reposted by Cole is writingThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Facts matter 978163634180
Reposted by Cole is writingHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I think a lot abt how marginalized people are expected to be perfect just to be treated w/ basic dignity, just to access legal protection. But democracy can’t mean rights for the respectable few. It has to mean fair and just treatment even for those seen as least deserving. That’s the real test. 33310771
Reposted by Cole is writingRidley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid. 150250006732
Reposted by Cole is writingKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Back to our discussion about men using AI to make shortcuts on actual work… 818431
Reposted by Cole is writingMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten. 7554497112385
Reposted by Cole is writingKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/04/2025In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail. 2250382099242
Reposted by Cole is writingGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 05/04/2025The United States kidnapped an innocent man and sent him to a prison in a foreign country without due process, ADMITTED they were wrong, are leaving him there to be a slave and are now bragging about it. If you think this cannot happen to you, you’re incorrect. This is MONSTROUS. 112050
Reposted by Cole is writingBradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 05/04/2025He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it. 865273267828
Reposted by Cole is writingGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025A lot of "post-left" personalities like Brand claim they were pushed away from the left but were in fact drawn to the right as a means of escaping accountability for their own actions 10170331228
Reposted by Cole is writingKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Russell Brand has spent the past few years aligning himself with the American right as allegations of sexual violence were made public against him. He knew he would find defenders and protection among their ranks. That should tell you everything you need to know about what the party represents 75135372329
Reposted by Cole is writingCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social 550211785805
Reposted by Cole is writingVictor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.” This is how it’s done. 334194485325
Reposted by Cole is writingSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit. 365144252757
Reposted by Cole is writingAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2025Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries. 751398519862
Reposted by Cole is writingCarmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public 6443397410783
Reposted by Cole is writingAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes. 654247809424
Cole is writing @colejohnson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025There are junior sailors in training school with a better understanding of how to handle classified information than the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence. Let that sink in. 010
