Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialAndrew Dalby @ardalby.bsky.social · 57mI wonder how many people on Twitter and Instagram will suddenly not be posting? I wonder how many less likes Farage and Reform will be getting? 48028
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 21hPeople are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory. 19590379
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 17hThe fascists being made fun of will not change their behavior, but to communities, knowing there are other people out there who hate Thiel or Musk or Trump's guts is _hugely_ important. It gives them permission to show their own contempt, and it swells from there. 4649114
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialscaryr🦊 @merveille.bsky.social · 9hI saw the most amazing hyper local Halloween decoration today on Willow Street in #Somerville on the way to #HONK! 1137
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialclyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 2h"we don't have the money for that" and yet we have trillionaires now! wow i wonder where the money went, what a mystery 0173
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9hIt is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump. 122074421
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8hnot to hand it to Ayn Rand, but this man is literally her definition of a second hander- someone whose entire life is lived pretending to have achievements but is in fact spent in the shadow of someone else's . He's Fugly Peter Keating 625918
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 5hCan we please get rid of this moron before next autumn so we don't have to hear the fucking news media pretending there is some substance to his infantile "My prize! MINE MINE MINE!!!" ranting AGAIN? 1102
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15hAgain, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now. 321433353
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialclyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 2hreminder that the MINIMUM WAGE was originally intended to be enough for any single worker to support a family 46019
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4hIn the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comChristian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says reportResearch challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity 1451419449
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works. 17679179
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8hNo 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. 292019514
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15hThis isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing. 171023157
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15hIt's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books. 3434701023
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10hThis is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.motherjones.comPolice didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.” 15420106
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialNick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 15hI went to a talk yesterday given by a sociologist from Venezuela who studies organized violence against poor and working class people there; she made a visual (and then substantive) comparison between the police there and ICE that was ... difficult. 0142
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10hWarrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 211306681
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12hIt says something that: a) GOP SuperPACs have thrown a bazillion dollars at the Texas senate race; and b) Talarico was off the campaign hustings for more than ten days and the combined effect on the race appears to have been… zero. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate... 310825
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12hGov. Josh Shapiro: "Here's another example of the cruelty: they have decided to livestream the execution of another human being. That's how they do it in North Korea, not the United States. We are better than this." 3754499
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 13hSo we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here. 54986286
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 17hshe said "you can do anything in fiction as long as the situation afterwards is more interesting that the situation before." since then i have been keeping an eye on character death in fiction. many writers seem to think that character death "raises the stakes" but actually just makes things boring 121115224
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialP H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 17hmany years ago i was in a Q&A with Holly Black and asked her about a scene in one of her books where ~2/3rds of the named character very suddenly die in a botched assassination-turned-massacre. most of the time, this makes me check out. but this one kept me very engaged. "how did you do that?" 458992
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14hSince Republicans are fans of both Nazism and camps I presume this is an endorsement ... no? Hm. How strange. 1220130
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 17hPope Leo XIV declared capital punishment ''inadmissible” as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.bit.lyPope Leo declares death penalty 'inadmissible' as his native US plans to livestream executionPope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.” He has penned a social media post for the World Day Against the Death Penalty, as his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad. 291375349
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.social DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is clearly not acceptable 85698153316
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️ 15359141564
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18hThis is the part that feels like going insane daily. "lol oh no we can't stop our product from doing crimes aren't we cheeky?" FUCKING JAIL FOR THE CEO THEN 336471
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18hLegislate, don’t impeach? “naïve to the point of delusion to think that Dems would have… a cooperative partner in the White House” But he won’t be removed? “not tenable to allow the president to run roughshod over rule of law… without meaningful, constitutional pushback” @jamellebouie.net is rightnytimes.comOpinion | Trump Is Begging to Be ImpeachedThe president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense. 1318746
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 17hTrump & the WWE Secretary have taken a sledgehammer to the Ed Dept. And our student loan borrowers are paying the consequences. This backlog should not exist. The Trump Administration must address it NOW and deliver borrowers the relief they deserve. 14912
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18hBrown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu 4224571081
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialNutMeg @casuallychaotic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026To be clear, the DHS's official position is that if one of their officers shoots a person in the street, the victim should be publicly named on Fox News by official DHS spokespeople and investigations into the victim should be started immediately, but the shooter should not be identified in any way? 116622
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 18hThe term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 233261170
dcovin.bsky.social @dcovin.bsky.social · 18hStill giving thanks every day that Trump hasn't yet committed US troops to help Russia take Ukraine, one of the last remaining things a Russian spy in his position would do that he hasn't yet done. 010
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side 2403113683958
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23hThe taboo against naming Trump's dementia is fading. A THREAD. 22686187
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 23hIt really is too perfect that the same people who claimed participation trophies were ruining our children and keeping them from actually achieving things have devoted their lives to a man who demands the world’s most prestigious trophies for doing nothing at all. 227345
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In 1900 we had open borders 1427141
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21hRecently, Must Read Magazines (MRM) bought three of the most legendary SFF magazines: Analog, Asimov’s, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. MRM immediately started changing the contracts to try to take more rights from authors without paying for them. 116746
dcovin.bsky.social @dcovin.bsky.social · 18hYou have to assume that the reason ICE thugs dress and act like civilian criminals is to encourage armed resistance the regime can point to to justify increasing use of force. 011
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21hthis is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life 121485313
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21hThe entire "we will not have ID" is insane at every law enforcement level unless the objective has fuckall to do with laws 255453
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22hThese fuckers need to be jailed for life no exceptionstheguardian.comFDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmedRegulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic 14870212
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 19hMUCH more of this, please. They can't abduct everyone, plus they're cowards and will run if outnumbered 3 to 1. 1104
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21hThis is a terror campaign against tribal sovereignty. www.propublica.org/article/toho...propublica.orgAs Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and DronesFor decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their... 316185
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21hI've written a few times about this administration's Jim Crow-like push to run over local sovereignty. Arresting Black politicians, storming majority-Black cities, taking over tribal lands, etc. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...democracydocket.comTrump’s Drive for Power Threatens Local SovereigntyRead more here. 1163
Reposted by @dcovin.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 19hThere's zero issue with plastic surgery. None. I am relentlessly going to push back against the normalization of the MAGA aesthetic. We can somehow parse that social beauty standards are a nightmare for growing kids. Now they're pushing something that transcends THE CAPABILITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. 410211
