ellio-p.bsky.social @ellio-p.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Midst all the celebration about Hungary. Yes! Voting is a powerful tool! But only if you have someone to vote for. A Yellow Dog Democrat still loses if there isn't even a yellow dog to vote for. 020
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2026🚨 We've seen instances of people impersonating ProPublica reporters on Signal and over email. Reminder: Our reporters have their Signal handles listed on their bio pages. They will always have an active @propublica.org email address. ➡️ How to verify: www.propublica.org/staff#news-staff 2694289
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialMaybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026 162795689
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too. 7359801229
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 25/02/2026Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender 756007833
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 06/01/2026Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession 181388195
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Next 3 hours or so are going to contain a lot of this as folks wake up across the US 320218
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?” 372118863276
ellio-p.bsky.social @ellio-p.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I'd love to see stats on how many people clicked "Unsubscribe" at the bottom of the propaganda e-mail from the SSA last night. 000
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/06/2025I want every ICE agent identified & shunned for the rest of their lives by civil society. I want people to cross the street when they approach. I want restaurants to refuse them service. I want their families to think twice about being seen with them. I want them to die alone & sad. 391299305
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/06/2025"The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."crookedtimber.orgThe travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber 29219
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025So much waste and harm could be avoided if we just treated these as fragile, dangerous tools suited for very specialized use cases, like we do with lasers and circular saws, and not as magic thinking beans 6425142
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans 563509936
ellio-p.bsky.social @ellio-p.bsky.social · 08/06/2025One fun thing these days is when someone jumps up to defend the NYT's latest garbage, I can see "NYT reporter" in their bio for a fleeting second as I block them 010
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2025the big disconnect that happens here is between the correct message for D politicians (especially in red states), which is “you’re right, this isn’t who you are, you’re better than that, vote differently next time” and the actual truth, which is yes you did, fuck you 752624455
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 11/04/2025the american university and research system is like a load bearing foundation of american economic might and it is remarkable to watch it get torn apart because these people think it makes their workers woke 1038172
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialMezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x 281340637
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025"Because of public skepticism, it is not settled science" is a profoundly anti-scientific view. It's embracing the notion that grifters can overcome truth with sheer volume, that truth itself isn't based in observable reality but in the scope of consensus. 591021237
ellio-p.bsky.social @ellio-p.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Wait did the Mike Tyson thing already happen? Sorry it's been a busy day 020
Reposted by @ellio-p.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/11/2024so far the only explanation i've seen that doesn't smack of "if only she'd listen to me she would have won" is "global discontent with incumbents because of inflation and post-pandemic malaise + toxic information environments" 498117761606
