Reposted by Eli KohlenbergBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1hyou're not making it because the question you're really trying to answer is about the acceptable aesthetics of death, not about its purpose. 619412
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergStacey Hauff @staceyhauff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Even if Amy and Vivek felt the same about the rights of trans Ohioans (they don’t), I’m curious why other policy differences wouldn’t matter. Why their positions on education, Medicaid expansion, free speech (drag show ban!), public benefits, voting rights, and immigration are outside the purview. 1312710
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergBilly Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 is a great day to reread my viral Seinfeld spec and to remember I’m one of the most talented TV writers available to write for your show. I have $225k in student loans and my family is about to pay OOP for my dad’s post-stroke rehab, so you’d better believe I’m gonna give you my best!avclub.comRead This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11 7255122
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergSasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We already spend 20% of the budget (and growing!) on interest payments and the median voter has demonstrated that he would send his neighbors to the camps if you promised him it'd reduce inflation by 0.005%. The reserve currency buffer is shrinking. 35711
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 11/09/2026When normie establishment Dems did this, people interpreted it as a sign that establishment Dems actually just loved Republicans and the outrage/anger they expressed was keyfabe. Can we all recognize the double standard here? 1925054
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The reason the left needs to embrace this thought is that the only way to pay for Nordic-style social democracy in America is to raise broad-based taxes across the board, and we'll never be able to do that if we operate under an ideological principle that almost everyone in America is poor. 23753112
Eli Kohlenberg @ekohlenberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Maybe I’m misunderstanding this person but I have to say if you’re posting on bsky your experiences with charity and mutual aid have almost exactly nothing in common with those of the people most harmed by the end of USAID funding. 100
Reposted by Eli Kohlenberg(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I will posit that no non-Jew should be making this argument. Goyim arguing "Bibi and AIPAC Bad For The Jews because they make goyim hate Jews" will *always* function as an excuse for antisemitism, no matter how many "not me, I'm immune" disclaimers are thrown in by the speaker. 2417
Eli Kohlenberg @ekohlenberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I wish I were a high school civics teacher just so I could force people to watch and discuss “The Measure of a Man” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, S2 E9.) 140
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergRey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Clanker” is becoming a rehearsal for the pleasure of having an intelligent servant class one may insult without consequence. Whatever current models are, that appetite belongs to humans and is already observable. I don't need the ontology settled to find it ugly. 415621
Eli Kohlenberg @ekohlenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I am against the death penalty mainly because I do not think “evil people deserve to die”. 020
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Like look: I don’t think AES is anti-Semitic and I think there are perfectly good reasons to prefer him as the candidate. But his campaign is absolutely flirting with anti-Semitic stuff and actively deploying anti-Semitic surrogates and if you can’t acknowledge that then I do not trust you. 6836
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 30/07/2026They were like “Trans people are not a monolith” and “Like-minded allies may disagree on specific media boycotts” and stuff like that. It was a huge load off my mind! 242556
Reposted by Eli Kohlenberg 川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Leftists for economic illiteracy continues to suck ass because leftism/progressivism is THE movement that needs a robust understanding of economics. You’re attempting to redistribute resources for a more egalitarian society, the more *efficient* your policy is the better it is. 1127029
Eli Kohlenberg @ekohlenberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I’m visiting my parents and I just put my own dog out in the yard because their dogs were ganging up and barking at him whenever he tried to play with us and the noise was driving us all insane. I felt a pang of shame as I realized I’m no better than the people telling Will Stancil to get off Bsky. 110
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 18/07/20266. That Roy Jenkins speech where he said the struggle of Labour was to transform a party that fought for a poor majority against a rich minority into one that had to enlist a rich and middle class majority to help a poor minority is basically the struggle of post-WW2 Western leftism and liberalism. 228940
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergDeep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 15/07/2026Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug 1855 9905194
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I wrote a short post on how I think most of my commentary on AI and the environment is actually a normative rather than factual disagreement with the mainstream, and how that's ultimately rooted in the ethical philosophy of political liberalism. blog.andymasley.com/p/toward-env...blog.andymasley.comToward environmental liberalismThe underlying normative claim of my environmental writing 47617
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I have sympathy for anyone who did this before the tattoo revelation and zero sympathy for anyone who did this afterwards. 842054
Reposted by Eli Kohlenberg(((Asa Zernik))) @asazernik.bsky.social · 08/07/2026One of those skeets that depends on no one actually clicking through the link. The "not celebrating" in question: "The rally took place a day after Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza initiated an unprecedented liberation struggle, the "Al-Aqsa Flood'" 1171
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Yeah, that actually sounds like he’s wavering. Put pressure on Sanders, Warren, Gallego & any other Senator who endorsed him to rescind their endorsement. 211216
Reposted by Eli Kohlenbergsteve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · 05/06/2026“It’s the same as when you hit your kids”, god DAMN I love Platner defenders 0191
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026AOC represents basically the same policy platform without having decades of baggage and constant scandals. Why the am I obligated to support Platner. Why am I expected to rally behind this. Why are people so committed to selling vice as a political virtue. 62993116
Reposted by Eli Kohlenbergjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more. 22361951012
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back. 616433377891
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 13/04/2026just say Jews, Graham, this is taking forever. 412933
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergSkye @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” 125117283036
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Gen. Caine and Adm. Cooper should put a statement now making clear the U.S. military will not follow orders that would mean committing war crimes, including military actions whose purpose would be to destroy a country or a civilization. 1153141690
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization. 46463371706
Reposted by Eli Kohlenbergmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/04/2026it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict 232211530
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Not sure if we should let this CCP propagandist be a major power broker in the Democratic Party 616932
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued. 613775908
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 30/03/2026A lot of SCOTUS decisions are dumb, badly reasoned, even dangerous, but merit compliance out of respect for the rule of law and the Court's position under Article III. A decision denying birthright citizenship is a challenge to the constitutional order and should be understood as such. 241721420
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I know “he’s got an SS tattoo” is hard to top as a red flag, but for my part I may actually be more disturbed by how consistently Platner’s line on wars has been “they’re awesome, killing people is fun, and my favorite kind of war is imperialistic anti-insurgency” 381003173
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Interesting to contrast the reaction to Platner working for Blackwater and Buttigieg working for McKinsey. 1020527
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Trump is trying to incite a pogrom against the Somali American community, and it is disgusting and we need to stand up for our Somali neighbors. 14461142
Reposted by Eli Kohlenberg🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 27/03/2026i care a whole lot less about taking AI money than i care about taking crypto money and there are far more dems than i would like on the latter 1143042
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergQueerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors. 411473414
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 19/03/2026@moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app you guys gotta go on a purge of antisemites here. This shit is spreading like wildfire among the seedier corners of this app. If they want to post shit like this, they should go back to X/Twitter. 281004194
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergJanet Mills @janetmillsforme.bsky.social · 17/03/2026@grahamformaine.bsky.social blamed women for sexual assault, saying they should "take some responsibility for themselves" and "act like an adult." Here's what Maine women had to say about his words. 1252166918
Reposted by Eli Kohlenbergghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/03/2026kind of annoyed that the narrative is clearly going to be “Israel got us into Iran” when Russia is right there and is cashing the checks 2738775
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The Israeli government is bombing southern Lebanon with no justification, and today someone who lost his whole family in Lebanon responded by attacking innocent American Jews with equally no justification, and so many innocent people are suffering because of these crazy warmongers in power. 21428108
Eli Kohlenberg @ekohlenberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I’m not convinced by the arguments for permanent DST or permanent standard time 010
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergRootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Platner supporters 331282
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 06/03/2026i know this is the least important headline right now but come the fuck on 2460293
Eli Kohlenberg @ekohlenberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The first time I saw Platner’s name was in an unwanted fundraising text, which is especially notable considering the only mark I’ve seen against Jordan Wood is his husband’s business sending unwanted fundraising texts. 000
Reposted by Eli KohlenbergGuy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 04/03/2026They nationalized that race in the first place to get into the sweet small dollar pot and now hate the scrutiny that comes with it. 125312
