Reposted by DeretteJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers. 352232926641
Reposted by DeretteBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208675339
Reposted by Deretteescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND 312149874236
Reposted by DeretteNika but possessed ✨🍂🖤 @nikatyler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026the three genders 24251770
Reposted by DeretteBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing 495346802
Reposted by DeretteFrenemy of the People @frenemyofthepeople.bsky.social · 17/04/2026“Tying our nation’s future to dead dinosaur juice is maybe not smart.” 291583236
Reposted by DeretteAlan Sochan @alan-sochan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something. 452124734199
Reposted by Derettemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Some people call this "sane-washing" but I think a better description is when the real Trump falters, they sub in a fake, imaginary Trump into their stories. Beyond cleaning up untidy remarks to make them sound more coherent: "Trump super concerned with nuclear proliferation" is an imaginary guy 16687141
Reposted by DeretteTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 09/03/2026I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant. It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated. 16867252
Reposted by DeretteKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 03/03/2026It's worth keeping in mind that Kansas has a strict voter ID law, so this law has essentially instituted a poll tax on all trans people in the state because they have to pay to get their ID replaced. 2393150
Reposted by Derette👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 02/03/2026karl marx's criticism of social unfreedoms obfuscated behind formal political and marketplace freedoms continues to be the most effective criticism of liberalism and its failures in history tbh. history will only see the nytimes cheerleading for war in west asia, as it remembers w/ iraq 5564124
Reposted by DerettePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4 times larger than the global pharmaceutical industry. 71545472
Reposted by DeretteKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding 1836103901
Reposted by DeretteSable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Discord served its purpose almost flawlessly by 2021 and then constantly made itself worse over the ensuing years The constant drive to change products that serve their purpose perfectly well really does exemplify the problems with an "endless growth" mindset 191068334
Reposted by DeretteIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it. 784403938996
Reposted by DeretteColin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026the one silver lining of all this bullshit with the dems is people are grasping the whole problem of advocating for reforms on law enforcement that clearly nobody can or is willing to enforce 21551188
Reposted by DeretteGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I forget who was it that said police in the US are talked about like a temperamental, easily-spooked large animal 7612128
Reposted by DeretteBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/01/2026If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power 14883632709
Reposted by DeretteBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates 1013312692
Reposted by DeretteAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 22/12/2025I do think the key for things like Home Alone, Muppet Christmas Carol, etc. is that the actors fully commit to the bit I feel like similar films made now lean too heavily into doing it ironically 1634522297
Reposted by DeretteCliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good." 45253395500
Reposted by Deretteyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 09/12/2025it's always v funny to me when a manosphere guy is like "actually us men are conditioned from stone age times to constantly scan our environment for threats" because men, as a gender, have got to have the lowest on-average awareness of their surroundings I've ever seen 618018
Reposted by DeretteBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble. 22192851928
Reposted by DeretteMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it 151104962952
Reposted by Derettedell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman” 281107692758
Reposted by DeretteStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial." 605196388904
Reposted by DeretteRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 09/05/2025the point of Andor isn't "only anarchists are right" or "only terrorism works" or "only liberals defeat fascism" it's that birthing a movement that can destroy an imperial regime requires a diversity of tactics and people all willing to throw their lives away for the cause 111477179
Reposted by DeretteMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I think this comes from a good place but I disagree. A common thread in deradicalization stories is stigma: Once people start losing friends and jobs they reconsider their beliefs. Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore. 1864448744
Reposted by DeretteCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 29/04/2025I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times. 163125482620
Reposted by DeretteKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Something I learned from interviewing survivors of abuse and institutional betrayal is that by being willing to identify a problem, you are often treated as the problem. The institution will try to get rid of you instead of the problem. To me, this also speaks to the way the left is treated broadly 322058472
Reposted by Derettecaitlin rose BOO!yle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 27/03/2025thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days 92169074647
Reposted by DeretteErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/20251. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.erininthemorning.comThe New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government BeginAfter Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired. 6643151695
Reposted by DerettePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18/02/2025An interesting thing in the iterated prisoner's dilemma is that tit for tat is the *cheapest* strategy. Every additional maliciousness and complexity you tack on, costs more. Cruelty literally *inherently* is less efficient. It is impossible to be cruel, efficiently. 412728
Reposted by DeretteAlycia the Artist 🪶 @alyciaart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life 23107412681
Reposted by Derettemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance 81121102175
Reposted by Deretteonion person @junlper.beer · 31/01/2025they want to erase us completely. do not let them, we will outlive these fascists. create art, take pictures of yourself or your trans friends, make something lasting. we will outlast them forever 82149074992
Reposted by DeretteTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/02/2025What we're currently living through is a patriarchal panic reaction. Our society came a little too close to acknowledging trans people as not merely quirky zoo exhibits to gawk at on the margins of society. Too close to acknowledging our humanity. The response to this has been sheer terror. 112142487
Reposted by DeretteAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 28/01/2025The federal funding freeze is impacting virtually every American and probably most people on earth either directly or indirectly and the dems are twiddling their thumbs and voting to confirm his cabinet 81214223
