Reposted by CroakerJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 06/10/2026This is the type of unaccountable behavior from armed government forces that helped spark the American Revolution. It's what the founding generation wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to oppose. 🇺🇲 58125
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Didn’t we throw off the “lords” in 1776? Why do “freedom loving” right wingers want them back? (That’s a rhetorical question.) 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yeah but we’re still getting trickle down economics, right? [rubs hands together expectantly] 030
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If Republicans really want to bribe voters with their own money, use it to give them universal health care! 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026And Trump in turn has taught millions of young men the same lesson. 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026An even scarier thought is that this stuff actually appeals to a segment of terminally online young men, and the WH knows that. 011
Reposted by CroakerMike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947." 571966815
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Masked paramilitaries are allowed to shoot you through your door. They’re encouraged be open and honest about it. 000
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This kind of thing happens when you only do no bid contracts for your corrupt buddies. 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As his employer, I'm starting to question his work ethic. 081
Reposted by CroakerKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Chat, is it good when an aspiring authoritarian is purging the military leadership to install politically reliable generals (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...) 7332106
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Surely there is a simple way to pass the cost on to the American people. It’s the Republican scam… I mean way. The Republican way. 000
Reposted by CroakerRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone. 38984424236
Reposted by CroakerDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026So, let me get this straight, the US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion of their national assets, hails the billions it has already brought in and promises billions more... 671740608
Reposted by CroakerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents 474236438096
Reposted by CroakerWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This is probably unpopular on Bluesky, but I think what French is saying here is basically true. The IDEOLOGICAL foundations of the GOP, pre-Trump, have been razed to the ground. What he omits is that most GOP voters were instead attracted to certain EMOTIONAL undercurrents, out of which MAGA arose. 3241245
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026But we got all those jobs and higher wages in return… right? 010
Reposted by CroakerRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern? 795198317889
Reposted by CroakerBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Trump administration every day: Tariffs don’t raise prices. Trump administration today: We’re exempting 300,000 metric tons of ground beef from tariffs in order to lower prices. 11511116
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Ever notice there are never any people of color anywhere to be seen in photos of Trump? 020
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Is it “bonkers” or is it how mafia organizations operate? 140
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Are we allowed to say Republicans are “weird” again? Because this is weird. 010
Reposted by CroakerPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There are some self-described socialist candidates on the left who I strongly disagree with, but the only politician seizing and nationalizing shares of private companies that I know of is Donald J Trump. 551357304
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026They made Donald Trump President of the United States. Donald. Trump. And they did it twice. I will never get over it. Donald. Trump. President. What? Why? How? 000
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It’s so frustrating. Stop fighting your own party and your own constituents! Fight FOR them! 060
Reposted by CroakerLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026OUT: Go woke, go broke IN: Go fash, lose cash www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comUS firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrivedExclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t 15560167
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 16/08/2026But does this “support coming undone” translate to the entire Republican Party that enabled this? Or only to Trump? Will these people turn around and support the next authoritarian Republican? 071
Reposted by CroakerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026He voted for Trump three times. Then ICE came for his wife, who had entered legally, sought asylum under the process even Trump used to say was “the right way,” and was months away from a green card. Now he says he’s “living in fear in my own country.” 1381959477
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Correction: even Mike Huckabee feels compelled to pretend he’s pissed off. 000
Reposted by CroakerDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Reminder: Being woke means caring and being a decent human being. The term was demonized by people capable of neither. Being woke is a good thing. Media outlets are under no obligation to use MAGA definitions. 816545
Reposted by CroakerAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie. 1814214028944
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 12/08/2026But no concerns among Republicans because they have fully embraced authoritarian corruption. 070
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As a Wisconsin native I can tell you people don’t wear bolo ties here. This guy is a real dipshit even by Republican standards. 000
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Food and medicine = wasteful. Bombs and gold plated statues = productive. 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It’s fractionally reassuring to know the truth can occasionally come out on top, even in an otherwise authoritarian regime. 010
Reposted by CroakerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway. 311392697
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A part of me says, good! Any organization willing to collaborate with this regime deserves to lose tens of millions of dollars. Unfortunately, I'm sure they can afford it and will find ways to pass the cost on to the rest of us. 110
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If by "normal" you mean someone who puts reality and facts before party, I have bad news for you. There aren't any normal Republicans left. 020
Reposted by CroakerBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/ 4789219
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026It's so dumbfoundingly obvious and a repeated pattern: ruin literally everything around you while becoming disgustingly rich. It's not Trumpism. It's the Republican Party platform. 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Agree, but are they fuck-ups? Aren't they *intentionally* funneling wealth and power to an already rich, mostly White few? The current economy is working well for them, no? 010
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Why? Don’t we want to live in a country where the chief executive can do whatever they want and whose ultimate judgements can’t ever be questioned? /s 0101
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 11/07/2026As such he is the exemplar of Republicans authoritarianism. 000
Croaker @croakerx.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Like so many things in Trump world, it’s not meant to be successful. It’s meant to move money and power towards Trump. 060
