Reposted by Ray MendezA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 10546531397
Reposted by Ray MendezJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 19843921236
Reposted by Ray MendezRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This thread has Trump interference to free a MAGA troll farm guy, mostly with a parens about *femicide* to just surface again how inextricably intertwined violence against women & authoritarianism are. Can't even get a story abt an international cartel influencing elections without it. 18023
Reposted by Ray Mendezmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412721722
Reposted by Ray MendezAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026Someone told me that we're in the "anything's possible" era of electoral politics right now. If someone wants to shoot their shot, they should. 👀 126471
Reposted by Ray MendezDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026If I were a magazine journalism assignment editor (and magazine journalism still existed), I would assign a reporter to simply aggregate all the stories of GOP sex creeps from the 21st century. Just list them & put them in one place. There are *hundreds*. 736155
Reposted by Ray MendezTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag. 543069
Reposted by Ray MendezNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation" -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...thecityreporter.nyc'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country DeportationImmigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion. 10203111
Reposted by Ray MendezWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this. 542523376
Reposted by Ray MendezMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026This is a central nazi belief on a level that most Americans cannot comprehend. Because Adolf Hitler genuinely expected England to stay out of WW2. Because he saw kinship with England. Because members of the British royal family were full-blown nazis. Hitler was just copying England, bar 4 bar. 916442
Reposted by Ray MendezMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/10/2026And yes, the queen of England and her dad did nazi salutes. And yes, Hitler invaded Poland and Ukraine, because by his own words, he wanted to do exactly what other Europeans had done in California, India, and South Africa. His "manifest destiny" treated non-Aryan white people, like Black people. 2598
Reposted by Ray MendezChrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You will never be good enough for the bigots. They believe they were *born* better and you were born worse, end of story! For the sake of pretenses they will make you jump countless hurdles while they try to trip you up, but if you somehow manage to jump them all they will just put up another one. 0258
Reposted by Ray Mendezlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026no one loves normalizing right-wing psychos like klein, and inexplicably lots of liberals still treat it as him just being naive despite damned-near 20 years of it 1213622
Reposted by Ray MendezStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive. 16914155
Reposted by Ray Mendezjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy 1583972509
Reposted by Ray MendezReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026THERE IS NO NONPARTISAN SOLUTION TO A PARTISAN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY 049978
Reposted by Ray Mendezdonnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026WHY are U.S. media companies accepting what they KNOW are STOLEN funds & running ILLEGALLY paid for ads on their networks? This is media being complicit in helping Mobster Trump & his Nazis STEAL American taxpayers' money to fund propaganda ads. Media DON'T have to take the money/run the ads! 413536
Reposted by Ray MendezAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 312887640
Reposted by Ray MendezAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954191200
Reposted by Ray MendezSasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis. 2420541310
Reposted by Ray MendezAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1483894546
Reposted by Ray MendezMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/11/2025AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘 The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things. 21766178
Reposted by Ray MendezTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists. 51268173
Reposted by Ray MendezLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early 11652921236
Reposted by Ray Mendezjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113082110
Reposted by Ray MendezCalvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am 147206475684
Reposted by Ray MendezShambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 21/09/2026So they beat up a citizen for refusing to provide ID Papers, please 10492205
Reposted by Ray MendezLauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in. 8927101122
Reposted by Ray MendezAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comSpeak at Your Own RiskDonald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment 471716467
Reposted by Ray MendezBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture 5065951721
Reposted by Ray MendezMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/09/2026The good news is, that this not true.🤷🏿♂️ We keep trying to rewrite history, and pretend that Trump happened, and then tech billionaires became radicalized, and then they supported him. We ignore that Thiel helped Trump get elected in the 1st place, and Bannon and Epstein helped start the alt-right. 18220
Reposted by Ray MendezRichard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026quite something this paragraph. 631139522
Reposted by Ray MendezDon 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. 48786213
Reposted by Ray MendezAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵 69085974167
Reposted by Ray Mendezjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons. 1035972951
Reposted by Ray MendezMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/09/2026*sigh* Every few months, some new white journalist tries to write an article claiming that extreme wealth makes you turn fascist🤡 No. Then I have to point out Mackenzie Scott, Melinda Gates, Craig Newmark, LeBron James, etc. Then I point out that the alt-right dudes have always held these beliefs 40517132
Reposted by Ray MendezJ D @lollandhop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ban car dealerships. I should be able to check out on my phone and get the keys from a vending machine. I should not have to speak to another person for 4 hours to buy a car lol 9776860
Reposted by Ray Mendezlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026ianal but this all seems fairly straightforward cybercrime? I know we don't care about laws anymore, but start to again and start throwing people at openai in jail, and they'll stop doing it 1221630
Reposted by Ray MendezNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 6639061330
Reposted by Ray MendezRandom Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We were like maybe the government shouldn't know every single book you checked out of the library and they asked why we hated the troops 113146
Reposted by Ray MendezCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Pitch perfect description, succinct as hell. This is a scam foisted on morons who aren't smart enough to realize they're stupid. The scammers themselves can't build shit (Musks track record in this space is well documented) but the suckers are unwilling to accept that. Perfect storm of foolishness 110415
Reposted by Ray MendezTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me. 161397234
Reposted by Ray MendezRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The grifts, scams and corruption are endless. I only limited my list of Trump’s most corrupt acts of 2026 to 75 because I ran out of column space. I had well over 100. Here’s another one. 522098726
Reposted by Ray MendezDisco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Survival of the fittest: Russian oligarchs morphology is adapting to the risk of being thrown out of the window. 2455476
Reposted by Ray MendezMolly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tubeExclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent 13250492076
Reposted by Ray MendezDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026Just gonna toss out there that one of the central facts of US politics--all politics, really--is that the general populace knows very little about who holds power, how gov't works, what policies do & don't exist, the balance of economic forces, or really much of anything outside their lifeworlds. 29792106
Reposted by Ray MendezBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger. 19073561295
Reposted by Ray Mendezjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041621392
Reposted by Ray MendezI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026Re LRP I cannot emphasize enough how we’re living in the ostensible dream reality of conservatives in the very recent past. Crime is down overall and particularly in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, teen pregnancy is down, drug and alcohol use is down among young people …AND YET 216235
