Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 4hBeing GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity. 5662401840
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 7hI wrote a profile of Ted Cruz six years ago and it was the first and only time writing a profile I'd ever had people proactively call me to talk shit about a person. *Republicans* called me bc they hated Ted Cruz. It's a terrible and awesome thing to imagine how people hate Paxton *even more.* 317119
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 5129511356
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/10/20262. The White House responded to a detailed request for comment, but did not provide any evidence Zacharia was licensed to practice law, referring Popular Information back to a Truth Social post where Trump calls her an attorney.popular.infoTrump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she?There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any 361180228
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialthe hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"Why are you criticizing the democrats, when the republicans did this??" Here's the thing: there's no need to call out the ominous evil hole in the ground. It's an ominous evil hole in the ground. You need to call out the guy guiding travelers into the hole instead of putting a fence around it 1025333
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRFK Brain Worm Jr. @planetofdinosaurs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hear me out. All police misconduct cases paid out of police pension funds. Because as a citizen I'm really sick of public funds being used to pay these AND having to worry about a cop doing something shitty to me because they have no accountability. 621546345
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...youtube.comMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 25868334593
debshaller.bsky.social @debshaller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Live your life in such a way that when you die, Public Enemy dedicates a show to you. (Power to the People festival reference. I know, if you have to explain it. . .) 021
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156165185566
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez is the SECOND DoorDash driver shot by ICE, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. Delete DoorDash until they speak up against ICE violence and push for Wilber’s release. Learn how to delete it so it counts at deletedoordash.com. 12333155
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people. 121159323
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too 383136621
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialSK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way 5544171914
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I got to interview Gloria Steinem once--and it was because she had been the girlfriend of a man I was writing about (Mike Nichols). I was mortified; I hoped she wouldn't feel insulted. She couldn't have been more good-humored about it. What a remarkable life, what an endless legacy, what a giant. 446514
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026Oh this is so great 111439
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialWill Chisholm @skibumwill.bsky.social · 03/04/2026People talk about “public transit” like it’s some abstract policy debate, but it’s literally the difference between someone getting to work or losing their job. A bus that runs on time isn’t a luxury. It’s dignity, mobility, and a shot at stability. #transit 472130425
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialFlyersfan1129 @flyersfan1129.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Orange girls are really rare. And crazy. 152
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts 545033812
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard. 113334
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record. 7427481046
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager. 1051181263781
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialJQP @bendtowardjustice.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Increase in activity this week: 1. Seattle, Washington 2. Springfield, Ohio 3. New York City, NY 4. Long Island, New York 5. Santa Fe, New Mexico 6. Greater Binghamton, New York 7. Rochester and Mankato, Minnesota 8. Baltimore, Maryland 9. Chicago, Illinois 10. Raleigh, North Carolina 15036061939
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialCAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Both sides? Explain your nuanced approach 400134923162
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower. 13385562076
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialEmily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Culture wars aren’t a natural phenomenon. They’re shaped by bad actors with agendas like Nathan Cofnas and enabled by the affordances of the platforms where we consume our information. These don’t just find new audiences for old prejudices, they monetise them. This is the engine of the internet..." 212937
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialPaul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Delaney Hall is a for-profit gulag death trap. It should be shut down immediately. End the bigotry. End the sadism. Restore due process and basic decency. #AbolishICE www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/n...nytimes.comDeaths of 3 ICE Detainees Prompt Questions About Medical CareImmigrants at Delaney Hall in Newark have complained about health services. Federal officials defended the treatment provided there and elsewhere. 13314
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Vote Blue No Matter Who!!! Except Abdul El Sayed and progressives. Look at the glee that some in the Dem establishment are showing over a Fox poll that reveals he's down 4 points. They'll gladly lose Michigan to tell everyone to their left, "See? Go centrist!" Everything to hold on to power. 2251551314
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Where there exists no penalty for telling shameless lies, save the shame of conscience, there also exists a significant advantage for people without any conscience at all. 12486113
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialBryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org 20756402596
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We have concentration camps on U.S. soil. That’s the post. It’s too much for anything else. 832616924
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialJayne Miller @jemillerbalt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"No association between the the first MMR vaccine before age 2 and autism." A study of 2.5 mil children. In a reasonably minded adminstration this would be time to put the government's weight behind vaccination. But that is not what we have. 062
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE. 772135995031
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/20261. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition. 855163844761
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialAnne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Becoming a parent lowers women's chances of getting university jobs and tenure, and reduces their publication output. www.nature.com/articles/d41... according to a Danish study. The reason is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities than men have.nature.comMotherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and whyMothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers. 1209
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialKyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby... 4963361654
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Re: speaking of the dead: it always the right time to speak truth, especially truth to power, and the truths about Lindsey Graham are ugly, and that's his doing, not ours. 111229232
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I've got an idea: Duel. 4495883597
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.meditationsinanemergency.comPod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh... 381209331
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialLynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 06/07/2026DOGE didn't "self-delete" over the weekend, they were all absorbed into National Design Studio, under Joe Gebbia. They are still around and still very much breaking things and making bad decisions. 7277112
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialsmitty @fistsofham.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Pochettino buys his clothes at Chairman Mao’s Menswear. 011
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialBrooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum. 6351871025
debshaller.bsky.social @debshaller.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Beginning to appreciate the Trump administration providing us a place to escape the crowds on this otherwise busy weekend. 000
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/06/2026We won’t be silent. Keep their names alive and demand accountability. 29649350
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Trump: "There are no autistic people over seventy." Me: "The first Nero Wolfe novel came out in 1934." 68899107
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026But it behooves Jeffries to remember that Mamdani does represent more people than any congressperson and most US senators, so there's that. (All the states in green have fewer people than NYC.) 13722153
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic. 13588041701
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialDFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant… 10789622
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I say this almost every day but The MOST democratic and Democratic thing any of us can do is hold our own “team” accountable. And when we don’t, we end up in administrations like this. I like my leaders to question authority and invite criticism. If you can’t, you should step down. 563438525
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/06/2026if Rho Khanna is so anti-Elon, why did he singlehandedly prevent the DOGE oversight committee from subpoenaing him? 518934
Reposted by @debshaller.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/06/2026The age of impunity is a proper description for Musk being able to incite pogroms the same week he becomes a trillionaire. Musk is an existential threat to democracy worldwide and countries need to act like the threat that it is. www.axios.com/2026/06/11/e...axios.comRace-obsessed, untouchable Musk hits escape velocity from CEO rulebookOn the eve of SpaceX's IPO, Musk is stoking far-right culture wars across the West. 241468503
