Reposted by Drive_swiftlyBumbles Bounce @bumblsbounce.bsky.social · 7hBut you'll never hear Joe Rogan or Bill Maher railing against right-wing Cancel Culture on their shows, because it was never about free speech. It was always about vilifying the left in furtherance of the right-wing agenda. 2605
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6hThis eventual outcome has long been obvious to any good-faith observer of the right's supposed concerns about free speech. Me in 2017: www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/... 7404121
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.gadgetreview.comVirginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their HomesVirginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits. 791772924
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 8hYes but that account only exists to troll. Do not feed the troll bots. Block and report them. 0221
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyKen Yee @yuweiquan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Often I laugh at the absurdities McSweeney’s, but this piece? It is one of a handful of McSweeney’s pieces that makes me a bit sober and contemplative about how fucked up things are. 0366
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyRebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 8hI appreciate that PBS opted to depict an older wiser Martina instead of reusing a youthful image, but they could have glammed her up a bit with some feathers or something. 736059
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9hThis is also why it’s a bad idea to signal to Trump now that you’re not really interested in holding him accountable if you retake Congress. It’ll be two years of statements and resolutions and people will think you’re either full of shit or totally inept. 1418
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 20hLol. Lol. Whose national security do you think Trump cares about? Ain't ours... 000
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books. 5246121403
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 20hWhen the walls are so thin you can tell your boomer neighbor has a Roku.... 000
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 21hMurdochs ex wife Wendy is best friends with and/or dated Putin. The oligarchs are fully in control. 010
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 23hI mean it would all make sense if the intent was only to make women feel unsafe in public spaces. But that would be pretty evil... 010
Reposted by Drive_swiftlySpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s a hallmark of how partisan and right wing the national media has become that we’re not having an urgent national conversation about the president’s mental fitness. Because this is getting worse. 33517
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party. 3348118
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There is no reason to have chains on this girl. None. 000
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As usual, he says it so clearly: "The Afrikaner policy... proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you're poor, you're a moocher, and if you're gainfully employed, you're taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian." 6410105
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46104902916
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals 209101233411
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026More Trump administration corruption At the request of lobbyists Continental Strategy, Susie Wiles-Trump’s Chief of Staff-met a Putin aligned member of Bosnia’s presidential delegation at the White House Why is this significant Because her daughter-Katie Wiles-is a partner at Continental Strategy 21496329
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Even in *apartheid South Africa* white Zimbawean "Rhodesians" who fled black rule were known as "way back whens" for their absurd nostalgia for a mediocre state 3457
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026(And I do think the CEOs in particular should be held *personally* and *criminally* responsible for the activities of their companies and the consequences of their products. Their culpability should be commensurate with how much compensation, including stock value, that they receive from them.) 0146
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Their treatment by the US immigration authorities is just unconscionable. Also: many of them have most of their relatives there. And so much property just impounded and stolen by our government. 2699128
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyN.S. Dolkart is gathering signatures @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Keep in mind also that the “catastrophic event in the next 6-12 months” is more likely to be a catastrophic economic collapse when the AI bubble finally bursts than it is to be anything else. 061
Reposted by Drive_swiftlye.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026The New Yorker gets it: Gibney set out to "solve a mystery" with this film: “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” The answer: largely through a personal narrative that the film "does an excellent job of expunging." Exactly! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comIn “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” 335780
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This 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. 6238331393
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New 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 142142776131
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4093509310569
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492775786
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026nationalize everything Elon Musk owns. 702888587
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 1140561321
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyKris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · 09/10/2026A 5-year old should never have to watch anyone, let alone federal agents, open fire on the person sitting next to them. My heart breaks just thinking about the terror this child felt. We need answers.nytimes.comICE Agent Shoots Man in New York CityThe person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti... 14126
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyNYCLU @nyclu.org · 08/10/2026ICE out of the Bronx. ICE out of New York. ICE out - now. 18780257
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous 281713477
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942 4142211212
Reposted by Drive_swiftlykyle pellét @kpellet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The CEO of Starbucks used to run Chipotle. He moved Chipotle's HQ to Newport Beach specifically so that he wouldn't have to live in Denver. I'm going to guess he's doing this so he can work from Fashion Island instead of flying to Seattle all the time. 52612
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyAnonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Cornell rape victim and her lawyer receive death threats as an organised network of men tied to white nationalists and right wing groups tries to dox her. At least three women wrongly identified as Jane Doe. #OpDeathEatersyacnews.comCornell rape victim and her lawyer receive death threats as case reopens under special prosecutorThomas Giuffra reports that Jane Doe has been threatened since she sued seven fraternity members for gang raping her Donald Trump has said he feels badly for the men, and a man with a record of attack... 22258148
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...donmoynihan.substack.com“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's AmericaKimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump 341333357
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The American model for elite capture of public resources and dollars steams onwards elsewhere 000
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyBrandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What kills me is that other men actually look to these men and admire them. How can they all be such giant losers. Just the most sniveling, ass kissing spineless losers. Devoid of any self awareness or reflection. Just boring, unimaginative, craven ass kissing losers. 39121
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far white authoritarian party” 45110
Reposted by Drive_swiftlyGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim 12787298
Drive_swiftly @driveswiftly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026OK obscure folk music one: Schooner Fare's cover of Stan Rogers' Barrett's Privateers 110
Reposted by Drive_swiftlySpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in 971281242