Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1hfolks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see* 581037206
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11hTruly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 891700469
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11hpedocon 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. 813196569
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts: 14857231236
don queer-xote, lmsw @davidsabryguirgis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I want every Trump voter to feel exactly like this because they did exactly this 030
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 148107442317
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far. 281269333
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 03/10/2026Zach Bryan came out saying FREE PALESTINE in the first show at Gillette Stadium since Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft silenced Macklemore, AND he played a new, still unreleased anti-AI song and some of y’all are still sleeping on the liberatory potential of Americana 241152159
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes 562926476
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —> 4867229
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are years where one might pay extra to see less Northwestern football. Approve. 444124
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point. 351045157
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s 841600238
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...share.googleFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA facultyFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. 1422926963
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots! 342847373
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184044868
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.” 654015545
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswveery @veery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026yes you could say i’m a centrist 4657108
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening. 111292407
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comThe Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly TooThe paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today. 411668440
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 351959401
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media. 9534551079
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026abolish the death penalty 383149522
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chloe Renae Freeman, 33, was charged with instigating or assisting the escape of a person under arrest, according to a criminal complaint filed August 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a fine. 241660126
don queer-xote, lmsw @davidsabryguirgis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026has the USTA considered that throwing some of our tourists in concentration camps and deporting them to namibia would perhaps be bad for tourism 010
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's disgusting the way people look past someone refusing to stand up for trans people or women or people of color or immigrants or victims of genocide. It is an ethical and moral line and once you stand on the wrong side you have revealed yourself to either be a coward or undeserving of power. 438488
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswThe Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat 121935261
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing 151093172
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again. 39803191
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMicah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins 351862192
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030861087
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 192036615
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 281761574
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83125131894
don queer-xote, lmsw @davidsabryguirgis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026oh my god we have to deal with CARAVAN shit again? like you people made it so CANADIANS don't even wanna drive in, no one wants to sneak into this fuck ass country atp 020
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6855461027
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026prescription drug coverage is some of the most demonic shit you will ever encounter in your life. my doctor prescribed me a medication and somehow there are now at least two third-party corporations involved for no apparent reason and nobody knows what is going on or what needs to be done 391459130
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone. 788178324785
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026If you were in camp “focus on the important things” when they were restoring Confederate monuments and base names here but can recognize the danger there you may want to interrogate some things. 5743176
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Very funny for someone selling a book about politics to claim they aren’t working in politics. 221711
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This story is crazy. You used to have to work hard to gamble away $10,000, like winning America’s Funniest Home Videos. Now the newspaper will just give you the money to fritter away. 728022
don queer-xote, lmsw @davidsabryguirgis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026very annoying that dem / former dem consultants yelling about themselves or being "heterodox" or whatever all just want us to fuck up the lives of trans kids for no reason. like shut the fuck up i'm not gonna do that 000
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 26/09/2026the quality of the CIA's work is really diminishing lately... sad to see 1138921
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them. 272146802727
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over the wedding party controversy: Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.ms.nowGOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over wedding party controversyFive Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual. 812122599
Reposted by don queer-xote, lmswAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coThe view from Canada: Make America Think AgainRebuilding trust will take generations. 857122933195