Reposted by Michael ChandlerRNS @rns.org · 19/09/2025The Southern Baptist Convention will go its own way on immigration policy, the denomination’s top public policy official said Wednesday, breaking ties with a coalition of other evangelical Christian bodies focused on the issue. religionnews.com/2025/09/18/e...religionnews.comSouthern Baptist Convention breaks with the Evangelical Immigration Table(RNS)— The split reflects the dilemma immigration poses for evangelical leaders. Most evangelicals want reform that both secures the border and provides a path to citizenship — and want limited… 342 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct. 256153855506 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back. 422270534 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...substack.comThe Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job. 24514478215571 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/09/2025Hakeem Jefferies’s team is now openly mocking fellow Democrats who are criticizing him for refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. Democrat party is 30 points underwater. Mamdani is 16 points above water. Imagine the arrogance of being down nearly 50 points & still talking smack. 49904219 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025It was weirdly fitting that the Charlie Kirk murder blended into the 9/11 anniversary as once again Americans were told to “watch what they say” The hypocritical censorship around a “free speech hero.” My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...inquirer.comAmericans told to watch what we say about ‘free speech icon’ Charlie KirkProfessors, teachers, journalists and others get canceled for what they said about right-wing free speech advocate Charlie Kirk. 32740242 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him 546259925659 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Maybe we could fix our country’s broken moral compass if New York Times writers would use “abhorrent” instead of “controversial” when clearly warranted. 552783423 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/09/2025One more thing: Being a "Debate me!" guy is not the same as genuinely believing in diversity of opinion; it comes from a belief that you can crush dissent by winning every argument, often with sophistry. Kirk started a McCarthyite website that targeted professors on the left. He was no pluralist...> 639047 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/09/2025You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling. 983850810 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Scott Jennings and Ben Shapiro are currently both sitting at a panel table on CNN, not OANN. Seems like a pretty good barometer of where things are in this country. 😕🇺🇸 2274731908 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Oh, I was so close. 784167863 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerSam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better. 302052471 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed. 470334709202 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe. 716169556284 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully, so effortlessly. I was like, 'I have to work with this guy.'" 😂😂😂😂 Meet Cory Booker's (fake) political consultant, played by Zeteo's very own @heycapello. "No one does it like Cory." zeteo.com/subscribe 1021898541 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved—being a domestic terrorist. 22990341804 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerLiz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Federal agents detained crews and arrested firefighters battling the Washington state wildfire!! Reasons for the arrests remain unclear after federal agents detained members of a private contractor crew during an ID check during the Bear Gulch Fire. This is dangerous to the public’s safety!! 66586397 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2025RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101. 963509890 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The @uaw.org has claimed a narrow victory in a union election at the BlueOval battery plant in Kentucky, a historic win. The tally is 526-515 for unionization. Ford is contesting 41 ballots, a challenge the union is urging them to drop. 648195 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/08/2025Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor. 1779303757034 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2025Tulsi Gabbard takes her turn to pay tribute to Dear Leader 4351203272 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The Dem consultant class is simultaneously convinced that Dems should never talk about racism AND that it's fatal for Dems that they're losing their advantage among black voters. Can someone please explain to the Very Smart Boys how the +80% advantage among black voters happened in the first place? 732417353 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerWill Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Your occasional reminder that the current U.S. government — headed by a felon, his personal attorneys, and other criminal sympathizers — has used federal power 1) to protect convicted thugs who assaulted police in his behalf and 2) to punish the law enforcement officials who prosecuted those thugs.nytimes.comReframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge 10411148 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerAmanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The Maxwell interview is to the Epstein Files what the Barr Memo was to the Mueller investigation. 16139731015 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/08/2025August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime” 261524275 0
Michael Chandler @desdawg70.bsky.social · 22/08/2025We're dying because Garland didn't do his job and Biden was too late to see the threat. 000 0
Michael Chandler @desdawg70.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Jargon is why we're dying? Nonsense. Do you know anyone who uses these words--other than Third Way folks, Fox News hosts, and writers who want to dump on Dems? 110 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.theatlantic.comActually, Slavery Was Very BadThe president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history. 7937331417 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Usually, I am no fan of gerrymandering by either party, but I am tired of fighting with one hand tied behind my back. Tired of bringing balloons to a gun fight. Tired of playing by the rules when one party stopped doing that decades ago. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...open.substack.comShow Me the GerrymanderingMissouri 30088761757 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2025😬 331110383287 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice. 590245687696 0
Michael Chandler @desdawg70.bsky.social · 22/08/2025www.thenation.com/article/poli... 'Democrats can’t gerrymander themselves out of their gerrymander problem. The numbers don’t add up. Republicans have a whole lot more states where they can rig maps than Democrats. It’s not that effective to fight fire with a birthday candle.'thenation.comDemocrats’ Failed Bueller Strategy on Voting RightsParty leaders are talking tough about retaliatory gerrymandering—but like Principal Rooney, they're unable to fight back effectively 010 0
Michael Chandler @desdawg70.bsky.social · 22/08/2025'Mr. Trump and his G.O.P. allies are surely the instigators, but the true architect of this mess, the person who bears as much or more responsibility for it, is Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative Supreme Court.' 000 0
Michael Chandler @desdawg70.bsky.social · 22/08/2025'The Democratic strategy has to be winning elections, not gerrymandering. Fight fire with fire—in these 16 districts. If Democrats think they can out-Republican Republicans on maps, they’re finished. It’s a suicide mission. This might sound unsatisfying. But the times demand reality, not rhetoric.' 010 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/08/2025"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."motherjones.comA photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrestsThe shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch. 43070953086 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerTina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 21/08/2025Me: Siri show me this morning’s headlines. Siri: Ok Me: We are cooked to the point of inedibly burnt 16015 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerHonest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 21/08/2025#ProudBlue Parker destroyed Charlie Kirk in this clip. Kirk trying to equate DEI with race only & he was dog walked. Lol! MAGA’s mind is so narrow, they can’t understand larger concepts. Way too go, Parker! Keep the the good work. Link to video: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BSUjsC/ 1119177 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/08/2025😬 2276181163269 0
Michael Chandler @desdawg70.bsky.social · 21/08/2025'Mr Trump wanted America at the centre of world trade. Things are not going to plan'. 000 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/08/2025A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.newrepublic.comFederal Agents Are the New Proud BoysIt used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street. 91375424251 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Jesse Watters did not believe the election fraud claims but still texted his colleague Greg Gutfeld to say he thought Fox would get “incredible” ratings if they “went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL.” Who cares about democracy if you can get ratings? www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...mediaite.comJesse Watters Once Texted Greg Gutfeld To Fantasize About ‘Incredible’ Ratings ‘If Fox Went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL’The latest filings in Smartmatic's lawsuit against Fox News revealed that host Jesse Watters did not believe the election fraud claims but still texted his colleague Greg Gutfeld to say he thought Fox... 36969692681 0
Reposted by Michael ChandlerMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/08/2025well holy sh*t 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p... 431113064066 0