Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Read the whole thread and pass it on. 12802282
Reposted by David ScottRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?lithub.comRebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis HalfwayWhen Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them … 522304563
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You couldn't have scripted a more fitting endgame for the Republican Party than the cult members desperately trying to distance themselves from the cult leader, with the cult leader being too narcissistic to let them go and dragging them down with his sweaty smothering embrace 361015142
Reposted by David ScottJoseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That’s about right. Paxton personally, though, also embodies qualities at the heart of Trump’s Republican Party: general lawlessness, financial corruption, overt racism, depraved personal morals and ostentatious religious posturing. Not being able to get away with all that is the end of Trumpism. 0223
Reposted by David Scottjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP 402061138
Reposted by David ScottArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178125262683
Reposted by David ScottRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.meditationsinanemergency.comGloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for EveryoneTo become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p... 12482161
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The general response of "get a fucking life, losers" remains undefeated 1256789
Reposted by David ScottBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Amazon achieves enshittification inception; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... #Pluralistic 1/ 58029
Reposted by David ScottRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.nytimes.comWendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. 15701151
Reposted by David ScottAndrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Canadian PM said it better. 121
Reposted by David ScottAndrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I repeat: the province was named after the lake, not the reverse. “Ontario“ means ”lake of shining waters” in Haudenosaunee. It’s been called that since before the US or Canada existed. 11510
Reposted by David ScottJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Canada's leaders are doing the necessary, hard, right thing. Team MAGA is doing the senseless, dishonorable, self-damaging thing. And no one in the GOP dares stand up to it—even those whose states are most harmed by this stupid "trade war" and disrespect to what was our closest ally. 431023234
Reposted by David ScottRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten. 13681169
Reposted by David ScottElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways. 22680982174
Reposted by David Scotthappy voter @happyvoter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026VA LG's favorite Lincoln quote: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” 095
Reposted by David ScottGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized. 492287066969
Reposted by David ScottAlex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves! 552760575
Reposted by David ScottIndivisible Chatham NC @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Thanks to all who showed up in the sweltering heat to display their patriotism yesterday 🇺🇸💙 Please join us each Saturday from 11-12! 143
Reposted by David ScottSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Donald Trump doesn't own the White House. He didn't own the East Wing. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not his, either. They are ours and his acts of destruction are attacks on all of us. 16755611488
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Fox made sure to note that there's a sizable population of immigrants from Cape Verde in Rhode Island and, honestly, I'd love to see that for each match. Remind Americans that we have connections to all these countries through immigration, collapse the distance and give us rooting interests. 622557331
Reposted by David ScottIndivisible Chatham NC @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social · 14/06/2026We hope you can join us tomorrow to protest against Trump’s corruption! 011
Reposted by David ScottIndivisible Chatham NC @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Let’s gather against Trump’s corruption! June 14 is Trump’s birthday but he doesn’t own the day. Historic Courthouse, Pittsboro from 6-7PM on June 14, 2026 for a popup protest against Trump’s corruption. Please dress in black, bring a sign and an American Flag. No poles please! 021
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/06/2026If the president throws a tantrum when he's pressed about his lies about election fraud and walks away from the interview, your response should be to remind your viewers of all the ways in which those lies were dismissed by the courts. Not promise to give him a do over after he's had nap time. 11945161082
Reposted by David ScottDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Remembering my dad's dad, Norman Senior, who was killed on D-Day+2, June 1944, in the fight against fascism. 562924268
Reposted by David ScottSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026One nation, under daddy, the paradoxical feelings about whom we absolutely will not go to therapy to work through but will instead transmute into resentment and violence that we will inflict on those who we consider to be beneath us but whose power we also, deep down inside, tremblingly fear. 39615
Reposted by David ScottSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026These folks are just completely unable to conceive of authentic and reciprocal human connections that exist between equals...interactions that take place outside of the context of hierarchy look to them like empty and meaningless chaos. Human warmth, in their minds, requires inequality. 514327
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I chose UNC-Chapel Hill in large part because it had a top-rated history program with excellent faculty at an incredibly cheap price (even for an out of state student). That's the ROI 1342340
Reposted by David ScottT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Writing is thinking. In “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell wrote that we must choose each word to convey meaning. We must choose images that are fresh, that kick the reader’s brain awake. If you click together stock phrases, they do your thinking for you. And he never heard of AI. 610734
Reposted by David Scottdavidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 26/04/2026Anyone who thought Tillis wouldn't be pushed over by a feather doesn't know Tillis. He didn't get where he is by standing on principle for very long. 31926162
Reposted by David ScottSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat” 125117283035
Reposted by David ScottCongresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 07/04/2026Let’s be clear where I stand. 1. No war with Iran—period. 2. Trump needs to be impeached. 3. His cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. 4. Congress needs to pass a War Powers Resolution. Trump is unfit for office. Congress must reconvene to take action. 86414
Reposted by David ScottAdam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency. The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit. 184011973
Reposted by David ScottRedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children." 266176786051
Reposted by David ScottRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I am a writer and I love writing even though it's sometimes hard and frustrating (because it's also a process of thinking that leads to epiphanies and insights and it's also about making patterns and endeavoring to make something beautifully true whenever possible). 31239
Reposted by David ScottSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I can’t think of one reason that House Democrats would not be preparing Articles of Impeachment for Hegseth. 1493378709
Reposted by David ScottEric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I'm stunned. Rachel Maddow spent a full 3 minutes tonight detailing the arguments I make in my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case. Here's hoping Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch are regular Maddow Show watchers! 😉 www.youtube.com/live/e5u_Dmb...youtube.comMSNBC Live : The Rachel Maddow Show 3/30/2026 | MS NOW Breaking News Trump Today MAR 30, 2026YouTube video by كريم ناجي _ karim nagi 816143
Reposted by David ScottIndivisible Chatham NC @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Join us tomorrow for No Kings, hosted by Daniel and Quinn from The Hometown Holler with other special guests!! Live music starts at 10:30. No flags with poles or sticks with your signs for safety reasons. Bring a donation for Cora. Hope to see you there!! www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/906342/ 011
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026"I'm the only pilot at this airline that ever used the inflatable slide. I used it three times! It's actually a hard slide for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me. I just sat down on it and I slid right into the arms of the firemen." 51859124
Reposted by David ScottIndivisible Chatham NC @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Hope to see you this Saturday for No Kings!! Come early for live music starting at 10:30 and time to visit local nonprofits, including Cora, who will have tables with information on how you can help their efforts to safeguard and strengthen our community. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... 011
Reposted by David ScottIndivisible Chatham NC @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Please join us on March 28th for No Kings, hosted by Daniel and Quinn from The Hometown Holler with other special guests!! Come early to enjoy live music from Nearblind James and Harmonica Bob, starting at 10:30. Follow link in bio for more info Hope to see you there!! 023
David Scott @dmschatham.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Pittsboro” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...mobilize.usNO KINGS Pittsboro · No KingsCome together to Defend Democracy. The people have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained nati... 131
Reposted by David ScottKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026FSU leads Duke 44-43 at the half, so I'm going to juryrig a Bobby Sura votive candle to see if I can get them all the way to a win. Prayers welcome. 191336
Reposted by David ScottRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Thank you! It was a pleasure to speak my own version of truth to that version of power. And I'd been prepared for questions like that for years.lithub.comRebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis HalfwayWhen Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them … 13931123
Reposted by David ScottDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/03/2026MAGA hates the most essential parts of America. Dems should say so without caveat or qualificaiton. 739299
Reposted by David ScottGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota. 1454401639076
