Otherwise Blameless @dhricker.bsky.social · 3hAnd of course improvements in national leadership would help a lot. 030
Otherwise Blameless @dhricker.bsky.social · 3hThis is it. I wish Mamdani the best, because I believe he truly wants to improve this situation (and setting some public, concrete goals would help). But it’s going to take time and finesse. 1120
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 5139021694
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8hStatus reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli... 351832776
Reposted by Otherwise Blamelessderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5hi've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution. 2305222498
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4hDoes he think because Iran is in Asia, they'll fire from the west? Or did he just go wild with his Sharpie again? Evergreen link: presswatchers.org/2026/09/dona... 43913
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 7hI am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 151215565
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 4hShit. USGS has this as a magnitude 8. Initial event depth is a 33 km, given the type of faults there this seems a bit unlikely (might be shallower).earthquake.usgs.govThe Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services. 43523
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19hThis would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6235861316
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Rubio urges Europe to embrace white nationalism, and the New York Times mindlessly regurgitates it. Other outlets did a bit better, but it's a low bar. presswatchers.org/2026/10/marc...presswatchers.orgMarco Rubio’s ethnonationalist speech gets no pushback in the New York Times | Press WatchStenography is no way to report on dangerously divisive and retrograde pronouncements from this government 715456
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!" 80647671336
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail" 5931571446
Reposted by Otherwise Blamelessshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/10/2026curtis flowers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...) spent most of his life fighting a staggeringly corrupt DA to prove his innocence. rest in power, sir. you deserved so much better. 627637
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the guy interviewing hegseth once held up a "rape melania" sign at a rally to try and blame democrats and he was one of the main people pushing the pizzagate conspiracy theory that inspired a would-be mass shooter. 214150
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8139991009
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Spare me Sen. Thom Tillis’s self-interested redemption book tour. When he had the opportunity to do what was right, he failed nearly every time. For example, he drew a line on Jan. 6 apologia, and then confirmed multiple people who crossed it, including Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro.apnews.comRepublican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new bookRepublican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.” 63705156
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessDevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Has he met his wife? 4163253447
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessAshley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · 08/10/2026😂😂😂static.klipy.comBig Lips BotoxALT: Big Lips Botox 1397
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“I can do whatever I want, if I want” is the essence of Trumpism. Trump hates the constitution, our rights, and the American people. MAGA leaders are pathetic losers who want to bow down to a dying pedophile. 1930670
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is utterly horrific. "Greene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her. She heard him mumble something like, '-ic bitch, not a very good fuck,' which her mind filled in as 'Democratic bitch,' she recalled." 14332115
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl... 19989288
Otherwise Blameless @dhricker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The ep where they start hearing Dylan is when I started suspecting the writers were bored, or too pleased with themselves. 030
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent. 231264413
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In streamed an army of cops...and, trotting after them, Nate Cavanaugh, along with more DOGE people. “They are ordering the D.C. cops around like their own private army,” said Colin. “I didn’t see that coming. I didn’t see the police taking sides.” www.wsj.com/politics/mic...wsj.comEssay | Exclusive | Michael Lewis on the Lone Security Guard Who Resisted DOGEIn an exclusive excerpt from “Blockers,” the inside story of the high-stakes D.C. standoff where security chief Colin O’Brien fought off DOGE operatives. 313239
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it 342012256
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.com“You kidnapped my son”ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.” 44159193758
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessJess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shut it all down. We should be in the streets. 13316
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessSam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie... 3232131
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessBrent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MAGA Farmers Right Now 36799216
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging. 461061168
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seattle apartment buildings used to be called things like "The Cedar Arms" and now they're all called FLUX or interSector. Even if I was in tech, I would not want to live in FLUX or interSector. 75100145
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120453122
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This Browns-Steelers game, with Deshaun "20 sexual harassment and assault allegations but no announcer ever mentions them" Watson vs Aaron "withered husk of an anti-vaxxing QAnon elder" Rodgers" may have the worst vibes of any primetime sporting event I have ever seen 3652375
Otherwise Blameless @dhricker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I sense a slapstick buddy comedy in their future 000
Otherwise Blameless @dhricker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They’re center left because Politico (and many of their ilk) reaaaallly want to pretend they are. 140
Reposted by Otherwise Blamelessemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda. 473147855
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessBill McBride @calculatedrisk.bsky.social · 30/09/202630-year fixed at 7.60% www.mortgagenewsdaily.com 2631292
Otherwise Blameless @dhricker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026GREAT thread—talk about receipts. Nothing Thiel says should be trusted or taken at face value. If he says something negative about Trump, it’s because he’s concerned about optics or things not being shitty enough. 030
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A bipartisan initiative to block Trump and Todd Blanche from embezzling $810 million from the Treasury under the pretext of a litigation settlement was blocked when Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) objected, denying unanimous consent. wapo.st/3Vmagbkwapo.stDemocrats fail to stop Trump from canceling $810M in funds approved by CongressSen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) blocked the effort, meaning the Trump administration will succeed in eliminating the funding it deemed “wasteful.” 109259
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026cant.stop.laughing 153034903
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reading his Globe byline, the average reader would have no idea that Hanania is a white supremacist and misogynist 128332
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessDavid W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign... 12385111
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if @janeaflegal.bsky.social likes the permitting reform bill this much then god damn x.com/janeaflegal/... 08820
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 30/09/2026BMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.techcrunch.comBMW built the same car for gas and electric. The EV is $4,400 cheaper.The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing. 3458
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessJohn Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How do you even parody this shit? 87968160
Reposted by Otherwise BlamelessConor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Devastating story showing Fetterman's latest pathetic turn is as the subject of a MAGA grift. He sends emails bashing Democrats, MAGA groups keep 75%. Pennsylvanians get nothing. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comRight-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John FettermanAfter losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties. 11232105
