Reposted by eliNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it. 18822198
Reposted by elifinrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026yea the two broad categories of bigotry (not mutually exclusive of course) are 'these people are savage brutes' and 'these people are insidious infiltrators' and one of the things which sets fascism apart from other forms of far-right ideology is its overwhelming focus on the latter 4754
Reposted by elifinrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026but even then the logic of antisemitism (and to a lesser extent antiziganism) really does function differently. its not simply a settler-colonial logic brought home because antisemitism is, well, rather older. 1561
Reposted by eliWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 04/10/2026a simplified version of this election is "what happens if you run 2018 with 2008 approvals" and uh. nobody knows! 1374
Reposted by eliceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 149107502318
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wouldn't even say hawk, y'know? Maaaybe 'responsible'. As a practical matter the self-proclaimed fiscal hawks have not supported tax increases in this country, at any level, since ~Bush I. They just claim "welp, the money isn't there" and proceed to destroy as much state capacity as they can 010
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026tbqh, between this and the negative polarization of self-identified liberals and socialists with respect to each other, I've been off the site for the past few wks. a bit conceited to say it but, we should be better than this 030
Reposted by eliMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I understand why they're doing this, but fuck them. These mayors can't guarantee the safety of their own citizens from ICE, and they sure as hell can't guarantee the safety of Canadian visitors. Also, North Dakota, where 2/3 of voters voted for Trump, wants foreigners to come back? Fuck them twice.globalnews.caU.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.caSome American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border. 2649898
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it actually sucks that we are ruled over by chuds who don't value, like. not even guile, just cleverness 150
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I must be confused, I thought it was supposed to be the too-loose, too-comfortable ones that look frumpy and give off a sort of shabby vibe 110
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026kids in question are probably too young for games (5 but serious developmental issues, 3) but also their screentime should probably be "below zero" not however much this is 130
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026also most if not all Netflix content, it is just completely vacuous 011
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ever witness kids watching obvious brainrot and thinking, "man, they really should be playing vidja games instead" 1102
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's very weird that that is where we are right now. all the weirdness is getting to me tbqh 100
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026is a boundary not a structure, too? i guess it matters in a different way. also, i don't actually know what exactly you're talking about, shutting up now 000
Reposted by eliDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"As an elder, this feels like Nazi Germany in 1933. What are you gonna do next? Kill me because I’m elderly?” This is a real thing a person said about a plan to reroute a bus and make it safer for people to bike. People are not okay.nypost.comExclusive | Hipster NYC neighborhoods to get gentrified transit makeover at cost of seniors: ‘Feels like Nazi Germany’“It’s like people of a certain age are no longer welcome in Brooklyn.” 1568267
Reposted by eliMicah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026I think there is a lot of pessimism because it feels like these assholes can never be fully defeated and that’s true, they’ll be back but right now, in this exact moment, the bottom really is falling out for them 281139103
Reposted by eliYen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's an essay to be written about how the re-appropriation of ill-gotten wealth has been one of the biggest, but also most underrated, accomplishments of Taiwan's democratic transition, and that it is also something that the US can emulate. 7549105
Reposted by elijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter. 39867241672
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026getting fundraising texts for Bruce Blakeman now, there's no hope for ot anymore is there 000
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026it's like if they were *required* to do so *by law*. it's a minor thing in the grand scheme but this, too, we should address 120
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026fucking chud flag that every post office that flies an American flag must display fell off ...hard to hold back sometimes 120
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026wait what, is this real? like it's widely reported in foreign outlets but nobody runs it here? 000
Reposted by elithe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16/09/2026hasn't Spanberger always been weirdly good on this? I suspect she's got trans family or a close friend. 5637
Reposted by eliWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ah, well I suppose we should simply trust you. It's not like the media has deliberately avoided covering the mental and physical decline of Republicans before. We can trust the press corpse. 36210
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026can't really respect it either way, but the albertans are just profoundly unserious, you can't not laugh at them 040
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026who are we talking about here, I don't know much about this crowd, or at least I don't think I do 010
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026like, I remember finding out about these weirdos in the mid 2010s. yudkowski was not any less of a hack back then 020
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026what even caused the 2008 spike? I don't remember, didn't drive much back then 100
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026we knew this about these guys years and years ago too! and yet here we are, somehow they appear to be in charge??? 130
Reposted by eliNick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Folks I apologize. I’d like to rescind the first post in this thread, as I’ve just been reminded it can only good happen. 32397
Reposted by eliThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What do we figure this does to an already D+10 environment? 1912815
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 15/09/2026can we just stop having stupid moral panics about ${them} all the time pls 040
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 15/09/2026just a complete lack of any stones, that this freaking guy was apparently able to browbeat them. disgraceful. 030
Reposted by elirev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026tfw it can only good happen 82107
eli @e1b.bsky.social · 14/09/2026it does sort of feel like we've all of a sudden lost our sense of urgency a little bit. maybe I've been a bit out of it the past few wks but of late there's been too much intraparty recriminations and not enough of the usual righteous anger directed at our bumbling yet dangerous oppressors 031
Reposted by eliHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026An incredible piece of Simpsons history uploaded to YouTube today: The Tracy Ullman short “Family Therapy” was repurposed as a theatrical short before 1989’s The War of the Roses—released 9 days before the Xmas special. This 35mm film scan has an original opening I’ve not seen before!youtu.beThe Simpsons Family Therapy (1989} -35mm - Flat - Mono - UHDYouTube video by The Scan Man Gallery 10304117