Reposted by Flying ButtersRob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You cannot make this stuff up. The GOP’s Dallas midterm convention put Ross Ulbricht—the Silk Road founder convicted on 7 federal counts, including narcotics trafficking and money laundering—on stage. Trump pardoned him in 2025. TWO LIFE SENTENCES. And THIS is who they’re putting on a pedestal? 27352188
Reposted by Flying Buttersmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026it was a generational fumble for the dems to pull back on letting coach tim, our gentle midwestern uncle, stand in front of a mic and express disgust and bewilderment at what an absolute grab bag of misfit freaks this admin is. this is weird! these people are fucking weirdos!!! it’s yucky! 15169931230
Reposted by Flying ButtersKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Democrats need to run ads with this clip in every congressional district with a sizable military community. 17140511134
Reposted by Flying ButtersRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay. 31972242287
Reposted by Flying ButtersKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level. 17962972421
Reposted by Flying ButtersMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. 909378039483
Reposted by Flying ButtersRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This is diabolical. Trump appears ready to just start drilling for oil in an allied country, despite explicitly being told not to. 1202199927
Reposted by Flying ButtersCSketch @csketch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Oh my god I think I found the video. 502122873707
Reposted by Flying ButtersMatt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 04/08/2026no I don't want a "relaxing" massage. I want my muscles reset to factory settings with a meat tenderizer. obliterate me with a eucalyptus zamboni. 79310
Reposted by Flying Butters"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States. 482251420
Reposted by Flying ButtersAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 31/07/2026MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury 531436208
Reposted by Flying ButtersWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The internet: -is a social environment structured to ensure everyone gets their dumbest beliefs validated, no matter how flagrantly those beliefs fly in the face of fact or expertise -has slowly become the main environment for all modern social interaction Consequently society has gone insane 1628138
Reposted by Flying ButtersJack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley 3134832798
Reposted by Flying ButtersAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026 OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ... 2042233207218
Reposted by Flying Buttersjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors 7455151319
Reposted by Flying ButtersAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It is not undemocratic, not even a little bit, for a candidate to voluntarily drop out of a race and be replaced by their party using the legal procedure that exists for that purpose. Don't concede the premise as if you have to dress it up somehow and apologize for a party being a party. 816923
Flying Butters @flyinbutrs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Are we going to hit 20 minutes of stoppage time in this half? 000
Reposted by Flying ButtersLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC 80113983391
Reposted by Flying ButtersBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK 918181103033
Reposted by Flying ButtersCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... 229119653096
Reposted by Flying ButtersGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/06/2026They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion. 2771821844
Reposted by Flying ButtersJen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026You can think of this as a "reverse" or "turn" strategy. Reversing attention from the distraction & recentering attention on what is essential. Calling out the politics of creating hate-objects & turning attention back to those who profit from the strategy. It's a contrast. Well played. (from March) 9653481413
Reposted by Flying Buttersghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations 153892769
Reposted by Flying ButtersSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/05/2026JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh 251628240
Reposted by Flying ButtersAlisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price. 13992012993
Reposted by Flying ButtersPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 14/05/2026in a nation with millions more guns than people and where you can easily get a serviceable 380 or 9 for a hundred bucks reeling at the existence of black powder firearms and their availability to gasp felons is real “what fool hath added water to the sea” shit 620139
Reposted by Flying ButtersJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S. 30668982840
Reposted by Flying Buttersjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2026where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes? 734418889
Reposted by Flying ButtersProtect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 08/05/2026it’s really cool that Daniel Burnham put the bend in the Chicago river where he did so that St. Regis could be in such a prominent spot 1342840
Reposted by Flying ButtersMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/20264. Kagan explains this well, but what's perhaps most galling about Callais is how the majority effectively overrules Congress's judgment about how best to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, as it did in Shelby County. This extreme judicial activism is a huge threat to democratic self-governance. 41164325
Reposted by Flying ButtersAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026We live in an ever-increasingly statist nation that requires a reconstruction unlike anything that’s been seen since 1932 and 1860. 844384
Reposted by Flying ButtersNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Damning detail in here: CBS had managed to secure a visa to get into Iran and Bari opted not to send anyone. 321319338
Reposted by Flying ButtersAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over. 438226535797
Reposted by Flying ButtersAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this? 20767582586
Reposted by Flying ButtersMicah @rincewind.run · 20/04/2026how is this literally happening in real life 3152811346
Reposted by Flying ButtersKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Absolutely. "These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that." That's a pretty simple and effective message. 573710825
Reposted by Flying ButtersZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards. Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again. 311473320
Reposted by Flying ButtersJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/04/2026Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou... 6430571079
Reposted by Flying ButtersSimon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: 464231447588
Reposted by Flying ButtersMicah @rincewind.run · 08/04/2026still just stunned at how badly this all went for Trump * started completely unnecessary war by murdering a bunch of little girls * cemented hardline IRGC control of Iran and gave them the strait of hormuz * turbofucked the global energy market * accomplished literally none of his supposed goals 261833363
Reposted by Flying ButtersDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026A FEMA official has repeatedly claimed that he can teleport. 43921205
Reposted by Flying ButtersAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...rpc.state.gov 4745301949
Reposted by Flying ButtersMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026SCOOP — Select State Department offices will start moving into the US Institute of Peace building as early as next week, The Handbasket is first to report, with Kristi Noem’s “Shield of the Americas” among them. This is despite ongoing litigation since the DOGE raid on the building last March.thehandbasket.coState Dept. is moving into Institute of Peace building during ongoing litigationAfter the 2025 DOGE raid, a court ruling on ownership of the building remains in limbo. 551167455
Reposted by Flying ButtersJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge. 2346031971
Reposted by Flying ButtersKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2026one fun consequence of LLMs replacing human-created content across a huge number of domains is just.........too much text, constantly. LinkedIn comments are like 1000 word essays now. Emails are like a cruise ship of meaningless slop. It's killing communication 2938654
Reposted by Flying ButtersNoah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation. Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/... 9132601296
Reposted by Flying ButtersJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate: 6990372
Reposted by Flying ButtersChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it. 25013159513635
