Reposted by Old Bushwick BobCaliphate Pontificus @cspansnark.bsky.social · 10/06/2026USMCA: Combined, the three countries now account for almost a third of global GDP, and intra-regional goods trade alone supports 9.5 million jobs across North America (Brookings USMCA Tracker) #cspan #cspanwj 011
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I think the biggest problem with Democrats is that when they get on TV or appear in any forum that gives them a big chance to speak directly to voters, they talk about the problem with Democrats and not the problem with Republicans. 325547
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/05/2026We simply are not getting the same INFLATION & RECESSION level of breathless coverage that we did in <checks notes> 2022-23 when Joe Biden was president. 11341101
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 30/04/2026They are, but culture continues to instruct us to be that way. You ever see a summer blockbuster about a guy who reasons his way to comity with another guy? Our pathetic lives are reflected back to us as zero sum action movies. 020
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Watched Die Hard for the first time in 30 years yesterday. Noted that while it’s great fun, it’s not a Christmas movie. It’s a MAGA movie. Bruce Willis’ character is the proto MAGA man. Anti-feminist to his core, 2A nut; finds effeminate/euro men/ every authority figure both to blame and to kill. 010
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems 622062145
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation. The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit. Read the text👇 441464421
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/12/2025NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!” Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do. 1101736741
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobMartian @jmk833.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Today the NYT story is framed with "Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job." Followed by "President Trump is growing frustrated." There are facts about the economy. Who cares what trump says about affordability? That NYT thinks we should know that Trump is frustrated is lousy journalism. 1445
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/12/2025Trump embraced Zohran Mamdani even after Mamdani called him a fascist. Why? Because Mamdani understands Trump only respects strength—and strength means taking away the voters who fuel his power. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social breaks down the strategy: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iALUlBlnk.thebulwark.comWhat Mamdani Gets About TrumpWhen New York’s mayor-elect met with the authoritarian president, he didn’t waste time with denunciations. But he didn’t exactly hold back. 613721
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I could see Trump being a bridging figure between russian mob and the cartel. That makes a lot of sense. 000
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Hey just a public service announcement that President Biden is still not senile and never was and this is going to be true no matter how many journalists totally fucked over the country in the most unethical disturbing ways. You can keep posting it but it's still bullshit so go fuck yourself. 13324106
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients. 21081562782
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy. 2359167
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/11/2025ALL the far-right parties in Europe are Russian-funded, using offshore accounts in order to dodge campaign finance laws: this came out in the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020. Putin pays grifters to rabble rouse & undermine democracy abroad. Details: 111056
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobChris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 19/11/2025He was aware. Predator Trump #Patterns bsky.app/profile/chri... 0228
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/11/2025“Abolish ICE” is a trickier thing, both politically and logistically. But a Congress sworn in on Jan 1, 2028 could have a Day One bill sitting on a Dem POTUS’s desk that dissolves DHS and moves everything around to departments w more civilian-like control. 2385
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/11/2025turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT 4491241602
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobCybert Ruck @baggyblue.bsky.social · 13/11/2025One of the worst PEDOPHILES in recorded history thinks/knows Trump, another pedophile, is the worst person on the planet without a single redeeming quality. MAGAs love their pedophiles! bsky.app/profile/theo... 011
Reposted by Old Bushwick Bobrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/11/2025jeffrey epstein thinks donald trump is the worst person he has ever met. he's right. 17713145
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Exactly this. The best case is so bad it’s absolutely criminal. 010
Reposted by Old Bushwick Bobmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious! 302519705
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Also, DHS is nothing but a 20-yr old org chart. It’s not a “thing” that has to exist: it was just a post-9/11 reorg of agencies that had been elsewhere, brought under one over-militarized leadership. We could abolish DHS tomorrow and relocate all its pieces to less military agencies. 410925
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/11/2025well resourced paper Op/Ed sections should could be an amazing space to platform strange, wonderful, and intelligent ideas by artists, activists, scientists, and scholars you've never heard of instead the dull, conservative extraction class converted the whole segment into a contrarian troll farm 1449277
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Trump’s economy suuuuucks. 732044528
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/11/2025We are SOOOOOO back!! 👊 2522183426
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobPerry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Everyone: Ross Douthat’s opinion is less significant than he thinks. 1511
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself. 132103842341
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/11/2025This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it. 15759531426
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 30/10/2025DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf 384103443840
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I’m sorry, what? Question for immigration ppl: where does the law place the authority to make that determination? Does ICE have the legal authority to delegate to an app? 16820
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/10/2025On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic. 49579602265
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Seeing how no regulations are being followed in the demolition of the White House, curious if they follow DCFD, NFPA or IBC Chapter 7 regulations for fire protection during construction. With all the tanning oil, hairspray, etc that will be in that ballroom, it may make a bit of a powderkeg. 000
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobElliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Corruption so thick you can stir it with a stick. But barely. That’s how thick it is. You really need a sturdy stick and some serious elbow grease, is what I’m saying. 217939
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 21/10/2025As we suspected this work is unapproved, rushed, shoddy, unreviewed, harmful to its own workers, destructive of American history, and disrespectful to the nation. I worked for Trump as an architect before. This is his m.o., and always has been. 010
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that. 8058711493
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025My family is from a rural Southern county that consistently goes 70% GOP and there are hundreds of people on the interstate overpass bridge through town telling MAGA to get bent 11612125
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 18/10/2025#NoKings Providence, RI Good turn out to get the Bum out. 2363
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJoshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 16/10/2025These stories hit differently when the same shit is happening in Portland.the-independent.comMusician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said 223289
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.” 751199536174
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobJared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Honestly, the police officers who are threatening to quit A: aren’t going to quit and B: are exactly the officers who shouldn’t be on the force. 1896
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/10/2025NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes. But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2016... 111049247
Old Bushwick Bob @floatinghead.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Seeing that we’re now going to be hosting an Qatari airbase. Interesting. Worth looking back at some of the recent history of Oman and the Trump regime. Billions of $$ have been flowing into Trump family hands from Qatar and SA. www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeli...justsecurity.orgTimeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House PolicyA comprehensive account of Jared Kushner, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House support for the blockade of Qatar after the Qataris rejected Kushner Companies. 010
Reposted by Old Bushwick BobCory Booker @corybooker.com · 03/10/2025The GOP is lying. They are distracting from their failures to address the health care crisis that they created. 29650267
Reposted by Old Bushwick Bobvheart2.bsky.social @vheart2.bsky.social · 05/10/2025"According to a July 2024 report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), undocumented immigrants paid an estimated $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022." itep.org/undocumented....itep.orgTax Payments by Undocumented ImmigrantsUndocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be... 011
