Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026no amnesty 211414227
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026…against pursuing the investigations, impeachment, and prosecutions. That would be a fatal error for American democracy. He must be exposed and what he has done painstakingly detailed or we will essentially ratify and institutionalize his transformation of our government into a mafia state. 161697296
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153109042685
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.nytimes.comOpinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics. 13776362013
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtPatrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Read some details about the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero and it's such an infuriating, preventable injustice. Abolishing & prosecuting ICE really is the floor. We can't have a democracy if an entity like ICE exists. 031
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 14/07/2026ICE is making all of us less safe. Cut off the funding. Enforce the body cameras. Vote out every person who supported this lawless agency. Abolish it. Prosecute killers. 04611
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10706503120329
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 13/07/2026republicans are busy rediscovering the germ theory of disease, while nyc is basically rediscovering the idea of Community 253531
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...defector.comPromises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | DefectorIf everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ... 1614637837
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/05/2026in case you missed it i revisited the david foster wallace essay about the AVN awards for @flaminghydra.com recently 💋 flaminghydra.com/on-rereading... 1037254
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A masked man in an armored vehicle, dressed as if he is in the middle of a war zone, training a weapon on unarmed protestors. This is simply incompatible with democratic expression. 10744421682
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 22/05/2026"the cherishing of antipathies is a luxury for which [people] ought willingly to pay, instead of transferring the hateful tax onto the victim" is such a bar, my god 2471145
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026look trump can have his government sign any docs he wants; either the next democratic government throws all the corrupt motherfuckers in jail and seizes all their assets, or it's pointless anyway. 8441101
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I honestly hope at least 90% of currently elected Democrats lose their jobs the next available chance in favor of people who actually believe power can be used to shape needed change for the people they're allegedly meant to represent. It's our only hope. 343059616
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution” 2667331823
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2026 331823518
EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurt @ewbanh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Finally got @patrickwyman.bsky.social ‘s new book! Can’t wait! 000
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/05/2026No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070... 1/ 323274
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process. 232136523784
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/20268. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day. 101253381
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 24/04/2026An entire generation of pundits and contrarians made this their pet issue and now that it is happening at a level never seen before, it’s just: 342242490
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/04/2026"The good news is we have two weeks to relax before we’re back to wondering, 'Will they? Won’t they?' with the fate of the world. So, until the president actually issues a direct order to start the ethnic cleansing, we suggest you all relax."buff.lyRelax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Threatens to Murder Millions of People“At what point does ’He’s an America First warrior unafraid to ruffle liberal snowflake feathers’ turn into ’He’s a genocidal megalomaniac who is all but cer... 012926
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/04/2026The instant obliteration of our congressionally mandated development assistance agency—by the world’s richest man and his cabal who “gave zero fucks” (Musk’s exact words) about the mass deaths they caused—is a historic atrocity that should stain everyone who touched it, forever. 125791
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Everyone in Southern Spear has gotta go to jail 431747
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/04/2026they prematurely declared air supremacy, then lost a fighter jet for the first time in decades, then lost a bunch of other aircraft during rescues it’s a colossal fuckup amid an illegal war but sure I bet those bombs really “lit up the silhouettes of the surrounding mountain” 81274162
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 05/04/2026not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes 52154497
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Excited for the return of @mobute.bsky.social to Hell World with a striking and elegiac and wending piece about memory and education and mothers and war and Florida and California and the warring parts of both states and this entire warmongering country of ours.welcometohellworld.comA nation that never has to payJeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida 111518
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I don't respect govt services that make a profit, if they do someone needs to be fired 151352150
EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurt @ewbanh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026You’ve gotta wonder how some people sleep at night. 010
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down 97162483243
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12/03/2026we basically need an administrative revolution comparable to DOGE in reverse, except competent; to punish those who tried to destroy the republic without escalating a cycle of reprisals; to create new durable institutions; and avoid thermostatic backlash from the public. Gl;hf 619030
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:thehandbasket.coWhy now is the time to be loudly anti-warWe don't need the clarity of hindsight to know war in Iran—or anywhere—will end in physical, moral and financial ruin. 211614490
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:thehandbasket.coPolice body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raidFootage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025. 10088723289
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I’ll simply never forgive the people who voted this psycho back into office. 152135
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible 284555913
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could 292565465
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 28/02/2026too many people are being waaaayyyy too consent manufacturing shaped right now dawg. they fucking blew up kids. if your gut reaction to what's going on right now is anything less than "holy hell this should never have happened and it needs to stop immediately" you need to do a lot of self reflection 101474345
EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurt @ewbanh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026You know, you can just be against the war. 100
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Can think of nothing more cowardly than pressing a button to shoot a missile that will land dozens or hundreds of miles away. Little bottle of water next to your desk. "Yes sir" and all that shit. Walking around saluting each other. Fucking losers. Killers. 232332514
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2026SCOOP — Tom Suozzi has a Democratic primary challenger in the NY-3 congressional race. Danielle Welch (@daniwelch.bsky.social), a public defender, has officially declared her candidacy. Welch gave me this comment about launching her campaign: 623414890
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut 141100262912
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time 216103522755
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/02/2026Also, for the doomers & deactivists out there... I'm making this list not because I expect the current Democratic Party to fight for any of this, but because WE have to decide what WE'RE going to fight for, and we have the biggest chance to remake the party in 2026 than anyone's had in generations. 349747
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/02/2026When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions... 443202726
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions 1013693656
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtRuss The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 13/02/2026You can help build billionaire-free local news. Repost this -> I give $1 Follow @51st.news -> I give $1 Follow me -> I give $1 Donate -> I match your gift Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.51st.newsThe 51st is expandingD.C. needs more local journalists. You can help us hire them. 36213351
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtIan Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal. 299107513470
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud 7159881590
Reposted by EverythingWasBeautifulAndNothingHurtKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children 1112003817
![Editor Glenn Kenny has claimed somewhat shockingly that the fact-checking process for this story mostly entailed watching the porn movies it describes to confirm those references’ accuracy. “There’s a lot of stuff in there that’s invented,” he admits freely, offering as example an incident in which a journalist’s glasses were supposedly lost in a porn star’s cleavage, never to be found again. “Obviously, that’s not what really happened. It was more like, Jasmine St. Clair got Evan [Wright] into a choke hold at a party one night. But we said [Premiere’s legal department] should let it go.”
I would argue that it isn’t obvious that didn’t happen, actually. I would argue that the incident appears not in a work of fiction, but in an essay that strives to be observant in even the tiniest sensory details. And so I’m afraid it matters a great deal whether an event represented on the page occurred in a goofy, slapstick, invented way that was extra fun to write. It matters, too, that the “cutting-edge” breast implants Wallace describes at one point, with valves in the bearer’s armpits to adjust the implants’ size at will, didn’t exist. It especially matters that Wallace was apparently given carte blanche to invent details, and still only cared to invent ones that made sex workers look violent, shallow, or stupid.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5x4p5tgshfa7xef6f3jrv34h/bafkreif7xnah2o7me7haclaeo6ms7z6akcc5o3blgtuaoufevwsvcds45a)
