Reposted by DerekSemafor @semafor.com · 21hVisitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 59029521034
Reposted by DerekCaves of Qud @cavesofqud.com · 30/09/2026In partnership with @lostincult.co.uk, I am coming to the physical world. With both a retail and Limited Edition. www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves... 523160
Reposted by DerekLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Today's Low Quality Ad is for this inspirational Horse Pin. I don't know about you guys, but I really needed to read this today. collabs.shop/oj6gks 32844180
Reposted by DerekLuke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 19hOne thing that I haven’t seen talked about is that the Claremont Institute’s fingerprints are all over this speech. 1416644
Reposted by DerekHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21hNEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 20434602209
Reposted by DerekMeidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Governor Abbott office refused to turn over 1400 pages of correspondence without it being heavily redacted, claiming it contained intimate and embarrassing information. we will get to see how much Musk and Governor Abbott were able to sell out Texans. 9627261002
Reposted by DerekVince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 17hXavier Becerra: “Here’s the problem I have with your policies — you seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me. We need to have a governor who will protect everyone who works hard.“ 09537
Reposted by DerekGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful. 11407203
Reposted by DerekNBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026The Las Playas Intaglio, a giant fish carved into the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, is now considered the oldest example in the Americas of a geoglyphic, the ancient art form that is carved into or drawn on the ground. nbcnews.to/4j0Wyo9 114728
Reposted by DerekMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The arrogant looks on the faces of those two deeply unselfaware men not realizing they have not scored a goal, but have instead humiliated themselves, is priceless. 1192905391
Reposted by DerekW.M. @minuteman04.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump wants Artificial Intelligence to be called Super Intelligence. How about if we do something more accurate, changing the name of the Department of Justice the Department of Inhustice? 76820
Reposted by DerekKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026you know it's going great when even INC., basically pseudo-journalistic fan-fiction for MBAs, starts ragging on your shiny new productinc.comMeta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It ToPermission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information. 513424
Reposted by DerekSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They were all given a heads up and they're just sticking with the plan. It's incredible to see play out. 2441370
Reposted by DerekRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Naturally, when Amy Klobuchar tries to politely point out to Eric Schmitt that the entire premise of his grand conspiracy on Jack Smith might be mistaken because he was confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Schmitt interrupts and starts yelling at Klobuchar. MAGA! 711611325
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2629209435703
Reposted by DerekSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 61768741548
Reposted by DerekRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s a cult. bsky.app/profile/atru... 120289031756
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about 59450201758
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here? 53452841436
Reposted by DerekQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country. 14249432221
Reposted by DerekJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base. 2112086794
Reposted by DerekJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up. 26582931363
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026Trump: "You call it United Kingdom, Britain, they call it sometimes England. They go back to the old. It's got more names than any other place in the world." 6431231241
Reposted by DerekPoll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Texas Statewide Poll (Marist) Senate 🔵James Talarico 50% 🔴Ken Paxton 44% Governor 🔵Gina Hinojosa 49% 🔴Greg Abbott 46% 9/17-9/20 Link to poll: maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u... 1019332
Reposted by DerekAftermath @aftermath.site · 22/09/2026Xbox lays off more workers, combines studios aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-h... 1114842
Reposted by DerekKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Resident Evil is like if they made the whole movie out of the “Justin Long measuring the basement” scene from Barbarian (complimentary). 1471023
Reposted by DerekLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Plague Rat Pin. Business has been booming for Plague Rat ever since RFK Jr. took office. Plagues are back in style like it's 1347. collabs.shop/qjr4qk 717625
Reposted by DerekCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 23/09/2026Oh for gods sake. First, while it’s true that Florida has the highest ACA enrollment in the country, no, there are not "5 x more people enrolled in Obamacare in Florida than live in the state." Around 19% of the total population is enrolled, which is high but hardly over 100%. 1/5th =/= 5x. 911376362
Reposted by DerekKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/09/2026I wrote about Democrats being pathetic losers on antitrust, media reform, and fighting right wing propaganda.karlbode.comFeckless Dems Wimp Out On Paramount MergerEvery single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes. 12428119
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026look who came with Trump to the UN today! #TravelWithNatalie (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty) 5252924615
Reposted by DerekBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron 133105992480
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026Trump: "In January, at my direction, the United States military conducted a massive military operation penetrating deep into the Venezuelan capital ... it was a war. To the victor belong the spoils." 4441190315
Reposted by Derekshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026gonna be fun when he switches parties and suddenly becomes just another rank-and-file chud no one pays attention to 48991125
Reposted by DerekSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026hey virginians did you know you get to vote to remove a BAN on same-sex marriage from the state constitution and protect people if the 6 robed freaks overturn obergefell? www.vpm.org/news/2026-08... 5533228
Reposted by DerekProfessionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched. 872689843
Derek @derek.glidden.life · 22/09/2026Narrator: They would lose it. I have no faith they will do anything with this opportunity. 040
Reposted by DerekJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Waltz works for Trump. And Trump works for Putin. So of course Waltz is gonna “both sides” a war that Putin started by invading a sovereign nation. 1215636
Reposted by DerekLake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 22/09/2026Current* conditions near Bayfield, WI: 27325
Reposted by Derekℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Even with safeish picks, LeBron's parlay was a bust. So if you tailed him, you've now lost your money and you're mad at LeBron. When celebrities sell us shoes or Sprite the worst thing that can happen is we buy shoes or Sprite but LeBron James is now selling the Bankruptcy Machine 332075509
Reposted by DerekRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47371673222
Reposted by DerekAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026it's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty) 1096109451184
Reposted by DerekEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/09/2026𝕃𝕒𝕒𝕒𝕒𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟, 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕠𝕗… 161423192
Reposted by DerekAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The White House Correspondents’ Association should’ve boycotted Trump when he revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials They should’ve boycotted when he sued the NY Times They should’ve boycotted when he insulted all the female reporters Instead, they honored him by letting him speak at their dinner 981441506
Reposted by DerekMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026NEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms. 242851172040