Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 9hTotally banal observation, but I do think it’s a good thing that everyone in small Italian towns apparates at around sundown to hang around and say CIAO at each other in the town square while drinking coffee I think this habit is probably good for humans 3149338
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 10hcan't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people. 2579842419
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust: 1174171833
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026"You fucking war criminal!" -- Hegseth's talk is interrupted again 632131852815
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirePatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/10/2026Last night the President of the United States posted a video of a tiger attacking an unwell person (who was fatally mauled shortly afterward), then an AI video of himself befriending the tiger. Remember when Howard Dean yelled weird 532895406
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it 544741727
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMicah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026the biggest reason republicans are eating shit in every single debate is that their president is terrible and his policies are terrible and there’s no way to defend any of it that comes across in a credible manner and it couldn’t be happening to a more deserving group of candidates 221522161
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack. 6627291438
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law. 161454362
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics. 1035131293707
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDavid C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale. 8791621949
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan 1112593499
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireChicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Ms Rachel from the top ropes 58113313004
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuiremolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy 482598352
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid 422561751
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open. 5046431021
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative. 403105831
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10/10/2026“This concept demeans us both.” 4649150
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump's Revenge Tour Continues... 590147954824
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc... 412133798
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 151151416518
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMicah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026we are going to have to be prepared for these people getting even stupider and more vicious as power starts to slip through their fingers 432641372
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it. 241433316
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end. 10951169
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6338741407
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️ 15559551577
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency 1582216563
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose. 301511180
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4073529310621
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 285103572011
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 460175822696
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 511153873431
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirePaul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 229107872250
Colin Gilroy McGuire @colingilroymcguire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 010
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough. 471845328
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell. 801652577
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#otd in 1943, the F6F Hellcat shoots down a Zero for the first time over Wake Island. After one aviator shot down a Zero and survived an extended dogfight with 3 other Zeros, he’d remark, “you wouldn’t catch me flying around in anything else” 727725
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 843493629
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuirelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026you'd like to schedule a doctor's appointment? have you logged into MyHealthChart yet? Remember that MyHealthChart used to be Healbe. If you migrated your chart from Healbe Now or Healbe Epic, you are not eligible to make an account. Please make note Healbe Epic is formerly MyHealthChartRX. 762623314
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuiremtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One thing that Trumpism has made clear over and over again is that the global far right understands itself to be in a ideological alliance the helps itself across borders, and the center and left largely do not. 12614128
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that. 31986570
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026💯 10459722202
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gary 422101841875
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireCanuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol 354138744358
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuire4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Love this 👇 213152124356
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not great that Francis from Stripes is in charge of the military. 2931640
Reposted by Colin Gilroy McGuireJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026as I’ve become older and wiser, the death penalty is one of the things I’m really radicalized against. we only get one go at this and there are no circumstances under which the state should be allowed to use its monopoly on violence to cut that short. 932929