Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/05/2026One of the things I like about here is that most people commenting on things with any sort of authority are much more likely to be professors or some sort of actual person who studies the thing than they are pundits, saw a thing on Ebola that was like 8 professors in a row 1437127
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieThe ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 17/05/2026turning knobs that say "overpopulation freakout" and "declining birthrate freakout" and looking back over my shoulder to see what reaction i get from the washington post op-ed board 1111
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieEmily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · 17/05/2026🍏 3590931601
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieChief Georgia O' Keef @jumanjimachine.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Today I learned that Kars4Kids isn't even a charity for kids in need. 39430
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026didn't stretch after my ride today 59015
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026oh American power gets overextended and can’t meet its international security obligations and everything devolves into regional fiefdoms? what a scary fictional story. now to check the strait of Hormuz 1693
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026thinking about that episode of Castle from like 2011 where they have to stop a false flag that will set off WWIII and they list all the consequences and it’s just, like. things that are more or less happening now 615710
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026One of the arguments against AI is that the people & institutions trying to sell it to us have done so much harm in so many ways with so little conscience on so many other fronts. This AP piece is among the group netting the team including @garanceburke.bsky.social the Pulitzer.apnews.comUS tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the priceNepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems... 4429153
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent." 6735351092
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A bleak report but matched by admin encounters I've had recently too. It's always situation-specific, but for many of us I fear it may be time to pull back from dealing w these ppl, our enemies, head-on, & marshal existing resources to protect what little space we still have that's not yet captured+ 459885
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 08/05/2026Was in a meeting earlier today trying to explain to the provost the value of the humanities & history. Completely uninterested & dismissive. I guess this is to be expected but nevertheless it's depressing how impervious university administration can be to all of our evidence and arguments. 539641
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/05/2026"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do. 81727591
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 08/05/2026People I care a whole lot about rely on SSRIs to make their lives work. I don’t know where I would be without SSRIs. Get your fucking hands and your crazy conspiracy theories out of our medicine cabinets.reuters.comExclusive: Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants, sources sayU.S. health department officials last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of antidepressants as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared to roll ou... 28667167
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieA hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026He’s barely beating @killthecomputer.com lmfaooooooo 173030399
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy. 688231197183
Skeeter McGavin from golf movie @dogrespecter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Always always corporate interest in mind. Something something torment nexus. Something something panopticon 130
Skeeter McGavin from golf movie @dogrespecter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I dunno, seems relevant. Who up up tightening they tolerances? I RAN the numbers, that’s at least 3 bad parts. Iran currently singing “thank you for being a frieieiend” to whomstever this company is. I’m tired, grandpa! 000
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 09/02/2026we’re going to make america fertile again. unrelated, let’s deregulate all these beautiful chemicals 1888
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/02/2026"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year. 1133078430
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 13/02/2026[asphyxiating on toxic atmosphere as the last tree on earth drops its final leaf] save me Dow Jones 727648
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 14/02/2026ok get all your love out today, tomorrow we’re back to hating 1042688
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2026“DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...nytimes.comHomeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts 71793368
Skeeter McGavin from golf movie @dogrespecter.bsky.social · 08/02/2026So USPS is now instructing carriers to track political mail 010
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieOut of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 29/01/2026 77102822656
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieBerny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026They are building a formidable oppo file against Mamdani and there’s nothing you can do to stop them 3789985
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Darren Aronofsky’s the Civil War 231006103
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieABH @theabh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I’m worried that if we keep making fun of this guy he’ll end up inventing white people 211044144
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides 13276631461
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/01/2026NEW from me: Every morning for the past week or so, a group of ~24 clergy in Portland, Maine drive out to a business. They form a line near a door, shielding a group of mostly immigrant workers as they exit their shift. Then faith leaders stare down DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/01/29/m...religionnews.comMaine clergy form spiritual 'shield' outside workplaces to protect immigrants from ICE(RNS) — Like religious leaders in cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago and elsewhere, local clergy were quick to muster resistance to the rapid influx of immigration enforcement agents, even as they wr... 2750277
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieMolly White @molly.wiki · 29/01/2026Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted along party lines to advance a crypto market structure bill to the full Senate. They shot down amendments that would try to address Trump’s corruption or that would prohibit bailouts of crypto firms. 10330137
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieInternet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 29/01/2026This is why you gotta cut those six pack rings 512721
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye. 3068571628
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026This is so unhinged 14360582059
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026IMO the president should not be allowed to sic his own lawyers against government lawyers who at this point are also just his lawyers in order to steal the annual GDP of a small country from American taxpayers. 181333258
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 30/01/2026President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 39136761525
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieIdiokratie @idiokratie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Here we see U. S. President Trump suggesting to use kidnapped victims interned at Florida detention facility #AlligatorAlcatraz for slave labor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoR...youtube.comWATCH: Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE detention centerYouTube video by LiveNOW from FOX 002
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieAnn Hedonia @annhedonia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026End-stage capitalism in the digital age has made us a DIY economy in which millions of customer service jobs no longer exist, not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer.latimes.comCommentary: My travel nightmare made me realize that self-service culture is capitalism’s greatest conThe digital age has made us a DIY economy in which millions of jobs no longer exist not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer. 0102
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2023I am never logging off 571802155
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieMarcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 12/01/2026There is a lot in this interview. Quoting to amplify specifically that at the end they report the ICE agents saying, “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch.” ICE agents appear now to approve of the killing of Renee Good as an act of terrorism committed by them collectively 2857325
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieDr. Matthew Pate @matthewpate.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Noem’s response sounds like the beginning of a Vaudeville routine. If she’s not careful, she’s gonna become a special use exception for the “R” word. 132
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf moviejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop 19895301635
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieonion person @junlper.beer · 08/01/2026they want everyone to believe that resisting a white supremacist race war means the state should kill you and it’s deserved, and it’s concerning every republican on every level believes this now. in 2017 this was being said, but it was still a marginal opinion 282161346
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieonion person @junlper.beer · 09/01/2026it’s incredibly important to note that on the new footage that came out from the ICE agent himself, halfway through the video he switches his phone between his hands, opening up to grab his gun way before renee good even starts driving 8257471059
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 12/01/2026John Roberts’ god-awful immunity decision made this possible. 221312246
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026SCOOP: After Undercounting Boat Strike Killings, U.S. Military Updates Death Toll After questions from The Intercept, U.S. Southern Command updated its count of civilians killed in boat strikes to 123. theintercept.com/2026/01/08/u...theintercept.comAfter Undercounting Boat Strike Killings, U.S. Military Updates Death TollAfter questions from The Intercept, U.S. Southern Command updated its count of civilians killed in boat strikes to 123. 10313179
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf movieDavid Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I was once young, but now I am old, and I remember many, many viruses, exploits, bugs and crashes that happened because of the tiny, insignificant errors that crept into even the most carefully crafted, exhaustively QA'd software over the decades. I shudder to think of what's to come. 514958
Reposted by Skeeter McGavin from golf moviecait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/12/2025frankly i think it's disgusting to share an article about a candidate's strategies to accuse her of "campaign fraud" while deliberately ignoring the parts of the article where 1) the campaign actively works to maintain compliance 2) the tampons were all donated, not purchased with campaign funds 231001121
