Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026newrepublic.com/article/2125...newrepublic.comDemocratic Centrists Need to Stop Saying “Both Sides” Have “Extremes”Yes, democratic socialists are left of traditional Democrats. But they aren’t remotely as radical—or anywhere near as powerful—as the MAGA right 1236565
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now. 12433401064
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialSenator 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 @ellegon.bsky.socialMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student. 240134564886
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue. 621768356
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle. 246463418006
ellegon.bsky.social @ellegon.bsky.social · 19/10/2025I didn't get to protest because there was a wedding today. Here's me looking cute but also thinking we don't need a fucking king. 020
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.vanityfair.comCharlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost CauseBy ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy. 4854891780
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe. 373121394363
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/06/2025fun fact: if you can’t beat 33-year old “Zohran Mamdani” on first-round primary votes Donald Trump is going to eat you alive. these people have been wrong about everything and it’s brought our country to the brink of ruin. time for someone else to lead the fight 101155109
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.* 415140583510
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialAndy Lewis/The Optionist @andyblewis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025So the conservative justices who had a meltdown over their "privacy" being violated by Dobbs protests in front of their homes are cool with Musk's Doge minions rampaging through the personal data of EVERY American. Cool. Cool. Double standard. So awesome. 5455130
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/05/2025open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican... 3819781016
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/05/2025It isn’t corruption for government officials to receive gifts worth hundreds of millions if you can’t point to a favor they did before receiving the gift is an incredible take. An incredibly bad one. 1916515
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The FBI just arrested a sitting judge. 40993904020
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/04/2025“.. Carney didn’t need to shout. .. He lined up the free world—Japan, the EU, Canada in lockstep—and showed Trump the cliff’s edge. .. “.. Little triggers and strategies you get when the world’s most respected economist is your PM.” @deanblundell.bsky.social 🇨🇦 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... 641254340
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c... 36872802619
ellegon.bsky.social @ellegon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025We should, however, panic when taking all the data points in together. 000
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 10/04/2025If he were any further behind the news cycle, he'd be posting about his outrage over the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to L.A. 418925
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike! 843279378037
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialUnusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour. 24560382511
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2025lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol 57982118
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialTriangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!thegriffinlist.comThe Griffin ListA list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ... 19813587
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Yes. I do not want to ever 'move on' again. Every time we turn the cheek, overlook the criminality, absolve the sins, they come back worse. I want punishment. Deterrence. Retribution. Err on the side of excess, not lenity. Anything less is asking them to come back worse yet again. 10147391095
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialCongressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 24/03/2025Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary 483165864060
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I feel like this is getting lost. Marco Rubio has the power to ensure that data/evidence of potential Russian war crimes on abducted Ukrainian children gets to Europol. Instead, he is preventing this. Why? He won't say. Let's not let this one drop. newrepublic.com/article/1930... 12236431702
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Join the 10K+ people who have signed my petition demanding Chuck Schumer steps down from leadership. Sign here: chuckchuckschumer.comchuckchuckschumer.comChuck Chuck SchumerSign our petition if you agree: It's time for Chuck Schumer to step down. ChuckChuckSchumer.com 2226054
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025*states directly into camera* 481555311
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025From a buddy in finance: "So the dollar is down against the euro 4% since we gave away American exceptionalism & we now know the cost of soft power is $3.3 trillion and counting. "Meanwhile the German DAX hit an all time high. We really showed them!" 18478101
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialJavaPeg @javapeg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025"Republicans may choose to ignore their constituents out of fear of what they face, but Democrats are here to listen." 541351
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US: * 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized * 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia * 1 to 3 in 1000 die If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the timenfid.orgMeasles – NFIDMeasles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death 532161823
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025And you might consider posting your messages and tagging @cfpb_tipline to help inspire others to do the same. 415447
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter. 818269326376
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go. 16578560614564
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialNoam Ross @noamross.net · 13/02/2025I just called Governor Hochul's office and read this aloud along with demanding she remove Adams. 1-518-474-8390 #NYC 520356
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialactioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount. 201351066136
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Republican lawyers and judges are rapidly moving this idea from “off the wall” to “on the wall.” We ignore or dismiss this at our own peril. 14437143
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialCullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change. 4833171513
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients. 27270113384
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/02/2025Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again” 198115363038
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025This purge is bone-chilling and unprecedented. It’s straight out of the authoritarian’s playbook. Inspectors General are a vital, independent check on misconduct and abuse within the executive branch. Trump is ousting them so he can break the law with zero oversight. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...nytimes.comTrump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night PurgeThe internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them. 551263504
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialRachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit. 22060502758
Reposted by @ellegon.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Democrats: introduce articles of impeachment tomorrow. Ignore the pollsters and strategists who will tell you not to for the same braindead reasons they always tell you not to stick your necks out. Just do what’s right, it couldn’t be easier to explain. 481946478
