Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability 512308835
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.social🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026You see, the benevolent dictator is more efficient, but only if he acts in my interests. What happens then, when there is a benevolent dictator who acts on behalf of others and brings harm to me? How do we prevent that? Oh, I guess you haven't read that far yet. 818933
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It would be a monumental improvement for America, but especially for the Republican Party, if we elected the President through a plurality vote. 16814
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833161108
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV 14387164
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialDowntown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The post pandemic period has produced a surging amount of millionaire households. Our collective net worth has gone from $109 trillion to $174 trillion. People don't like to hear this because it adds nuance to the wealth inequality debate. 7263
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@vermontgmg.bsky.social pushes for "a long, long, long series of consequences" when Democrats take charge: "We need to return to punishing people who do obvious crimes. Make Crimes Criminal Again." His list of such crimes is devastating (and only partial). www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...doomsdayscenario.coIt's the accountability, stupid.Doing crime 913336
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 20/09/2026The war in Ukraine was once split between fighting at the front and safer cities farther back. But drone innovations have made it much harder to know where the battle areas start and stopbit.lyRussia has entered a new phase of total warUkrainians are feeling the heat 3145
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/09/2026doctor collections says your pocketbook doesn't matter 811715
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247241140
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Read only the first and last sentence of this paragraph 251972244
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is actually the platonic ideal of a Bret Stephens take 926216
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.nytimes.comFederal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE EffortAs part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent. 8019701013
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white. 48787213
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A major development in US politics since, well, Elon Musk took over Twitter is that Republican politicians are now more racist than their base when it used to be the opposite. 833544
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 12/09/2026Political parties are not armies; their members’ duty is not merely to obey. They should debate, adapt and attract talent. We explain how, without arguments, they become stagnantbit.lyIn praise of the Democrats’ disarrayRepublicans are proving that party unity is overrated 0102
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2026Savannah Bananas Commemorate 9/11 With Solemn ‘Macarena’ Performance theonion.com/savannah-bananas-comme… 81557218
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 02/09/2026What lesson can you draw from this other than that Republican voters are soft headed swine 371077179
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Statement from Gov. Mike DeWine: "I think we have to ask ourselves: is this really good? Is it what we want done to people like this being picked up and facing deportation? Do we want that being done in our name?" 1301495403
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel. 8843781010
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi" 674224901
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I have a trade deficit with my beer store. I give them money, they give me beer. 641587218
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialThe Economist @economist.com · 20/08/2026Never before have Israeli settlers acted as violently as today. Crucially, never before have they enjoyed the impunity the current government gives them bit.lyIsrael is flirting with the next intifadaAmerica must press Binyamin Netanyahu to rein in violent settlers 42718
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 20/08/2026what infuriates me about the wnba sophie cunningham stories that quote 0 trans people is that it's a controversy about us that involves none of us and nobody covering it has any interest in what we think or feel about it 131770282
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The Assistant Attorney General has confessed she is "inspir[ed]" by election criminal Tina Peters. 1491613588
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Trump already won the 2024 election — not because I voted for him but because clearly many voters (unlike me!!!) did not view January 6 etc etc as deal-breakers. But he has become incredibly unpopular as his broken promises on the cost of living have come home to roost. 4772
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJoel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The study in this paper is not nearly strong enough to support the claim and it's driving me nuts. Measured at the congressional district level the paper says it shifted the vote to Harris by 1.5 percent but it doesn't hold at the county level! Not particularly robust. 1224
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵 9430051437
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist. 451817522
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning 242893605
dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 11/08/2026www.economist.com/finance-and-...economist.comChina is now the world’s great oil powerForget OPEC. The Chinese Communist Party calls the shots 000
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026PETE HEGSETH: Napoleon, how do we defeat Iran? AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines? You have vaccines? PETE HEGSETH: Yes but they're woke and gay AI NAPOLEON: Send me typhus vaccine PETE HEGESTH: No, I need your help with Iran, we're running low on artillery AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines then Iran 93116455
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026the american paradox 615423782
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/08/2026DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor... 491592300
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post 2844316634
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialMaj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING. 16661181632
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026‘babe you look gorgeous tonight can i post a picture? nothing horrid don’t worry’ 752128175
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Thank you @jamellebouie.net any time I see him discussed like he's not a psychotic racist freak I go insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there? 29913
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 16/07/2026Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill theonion.com/defeated-man-too-tired… 301691196
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026[Me after getting thrown out of a bar] I own this bar, actually 92679382
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We are going to reach a point where every student is paid 50,000 dollars to take a rightwing class to turn them against the idea of government spending 322318424
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Having kids make you realize that the corniest things you heard about sports - it's not winning or losing, it's how you play the game, be a good sport, be a good teammate, what really matters is effort - are all 100% true, valuable life lessons. 1334732
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026theonion.comReport: That’s Enough Soccer For NowWASHINGTON—Saying the nation had enjoyed a perfectly adequate amount of dribbling, passing, and loud chanting, a new report published Tuesday confirmed that was enough soccer for now. “Welp, that was ... 554246578
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Generally people do not have coherent policy ideas because they are never induced to consider contradictions or feasibility or whatever. Philip Converse's work on this in the 1960s is seminal. Weirdly everyone in politics pretends like political scientists didn't figure this out 60+ years ago. 1919
dirtywork16.bsky.social @dirtywork16.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Rewatching Sopranos and can anyone explain to me how S1 E9 (Boca) ever saw the light of day? It is a horrible episode of TV amidst greatness. 000
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026At a certain point everyone needs to come to grips with the fact that the reason voters around the globe are electing the parties they are is because many of them are atavistic racist morons and not because [random policy you prefer] wasn’t enacted 291027167
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialJoel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I have a new post up at Nate Silver's site about UMich's sentiment survey. Please read it I think it's quite good. The upshot is that the survey is broken because it doesn't weight by party. If you're talking vibecession, get a different survey. www.natesilver.net/p/is-the-vib...natesilver.netIs the vibecession real — or is the survey broken?A shift to online polling and undersampling of Republicans are skewing America’s most-cited measure of consumer sentiment. 78313
Reposted by @dirtywork16.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026as soon as there's any left victories you start to get this kind of triumphalist and contemptuous language about the rest of the Democratic Party, followed by whining when the rest of the Democratic Party responds. it happened with Bernie in early 2020. 1159450
