Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20hI always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible. 12256901128 5.7K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/10/2026They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too. 333025911 3K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026back in the olden days DOJ would investigate a particular crime it believed had been committed, rather than just poking around to see if anything was wrong 781932413 1.9K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/202612/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2 4857374 857
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9660963493 6.1K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition 675147766004 14.8K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412729722 2.7K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You can really see the different phases of the war play out in this radar imagery. These first two show the damage from the most intense bombing, before ground forces entered Gaza, when the IDF was announcing the destruction of “power targets” and sometimes dropping more than 1,000 bombs in a day. 110135 101
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialSteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That critique harmonizes with the fact that cities also carry the failures of their surrounding suburbs to help fund critical infrastructure like light rail routes, or, say, low-income housing because both would bring "those people." Then complain about potholes & homeless people in cities. 21939 193
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026Holy shit. 709263008671 26.3K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20647501187 4.8K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialmarque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026That's about as clear an articulation of the present problem as has been made by anyone. 10482176 482
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...chron.comAT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to MacklemoreThe Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill. 573022820 3K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialTexas Observer @texasobserver.org · 11/09/2026Our coverage of the delayed maternal mortality report and what is missing from it:texasobserver.orgTexas Maternal Mortality Committee's Next Report Will Skip Post-'Roe' Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths that soon followed the state’s abortion bans. 510461 104
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them. 301126235 1.1K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years ago, the entire world stood with us in the moment of perhaps our greatest tragedy. And Republican presidents have spent the years since alienating our allies, eliminating personal freedoms, starting murderous and irresponsible wars, and driving our economy into a ditch. 0359 35
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026Somehow the "we need a big tent" thing never quite extends to, say, democratic socialists, it only extends to people like these who actively help the Republican Party. 1838987 389
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/09/2026it's about fighters, not age, example #4,398 221154141 1.2K
fountofsarcasm.bsky.social @fountofsarcasm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Could I get names to go with this? Amanda Shires is the only one I recognize off the top of my head and I'd like to check out the rest. 630 6
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:podcasts.apple.comThe True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment BuildingPodcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m 15756982668 5.7K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_! 92094611 2.1K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialSarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“I was like, okay, let’s see if you can fight. And he couldn’t.” 051 5
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialSyreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Thaaattttttt parrrrrtttttttt. 042 4
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialChris Ward @chrisward.de · 16/08/2026The reason I've gone more left in recent years is that I previously accepted that we simply couldn't afford decent cheap housing, heavily subsidised transport, a universal basic income, etc. Then in 20 years in politics I saw what we actually could afford. And it's a lot. It's just never for you. 643794831 3.8K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialRead More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026same image but with Alt Text....pls remember to add Alt Text to the media y;all share. u can extract text from image for free on sites such as : www.imagetotext.info s/o to the ppl that did what was needed to the Flock Cameras in Winona, Minnesota 🥳 0710 10
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Newspapers in Nazi Germany did this same trick with Jews. If you put all the crimes committed by one ethnic group together in a special section, and under-report the crimes committed by everyone else, it looks like that group is committing most of the crimes! 223228 232
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763062015 6.3K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialJonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026. @daralind.bsky.social makes her debut in @newyorker.com explaining how Trump is stripping legal status from hardworking immigrants who have nowhere safe to go. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... 5776272 776
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/08/2026pro-monopoly party 012534 125
fountofsarcasm.bsky.social @fountofsarcasm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Look, at some point, we just need to start calling the GOP what they are: the pro-abuse party. 000 0
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialMonica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They let me get a little spicy on main over *that* NYT op-ed. So without further ado…a few cents on David Ellison’s plea to the American people to let him win this round of Monopoly. Full story at the link 👇 530291 302
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Sorry to harp on this, but these CEOs keep bringing up the idea of a "public square" and I don't think they've ever been to a public square. I don't have the right to talk to anyone in a real-life public square! People get to tell me to go away. 128544 285
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialtheothercatlady.bsky.social @theothercatlady.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Dear USAToday: I pay for your kids education & for every uninsured visit to a hospital emergency room I pay to pave highways I’ve never been on. I pay for a trillionaire 2 cosplay at being a Martian & the POTUS to invade countries&build concentration camps.Least I can do is feed starving citizens. 1964 96
fountofsarcasm.bsky.social @fountofsarcasm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I genuinely assumed this was satire at first. 000 0
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialnewmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Dream Con brought Black nerd culture to Texas, but to keep it, founders say support is needed www.texastribune.org/2026/07/30/d...texastribune.orgBlack-owned anime, gaming convention grows in popularityDream Con, one of the country’s largest Black-owned pop culture conventions, is at risk of looking elsewhere to find financial support and resources. 074 7
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialleftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"Texas has the highest number of uninsured people and the most rural hospital closures in the country. If Greg Abbott wanted to lower healthcare costs for Texans, he would've done it in the twelve years he's been Governor." Gina Hinojosa 19781642499 8.2K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialMeredith Guthrie @meredithea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Sharia law is not coming to Texas, but I was told by a Texan Southern Baptist preacher that women must submit to all male relatives, dress modestly, and “probably” shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Soooo… I don’t think Sharia law is what we should worry about. 1220180 201
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Not only that, but approximately 1 out of 6 men will experience abuse in their lifetime, too. Men are exponentially more likely to be victimized than to face false allegations, yet it’s viewed as in their best interests to undermine victim credibility. 8849123 849
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public 6845071038 4.5K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Adding to @jamellebouie.net: We think Musk's "zero died" claim is perfectly consistent with and even reinforces his messaging to the global fascist movement. It's a form of far right coding that simply denies the humanity of all impacted by ethnic cleansing policy: newrepublic.com/article/2135... 219049 190
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialdavid. @david.uncensored.zip · 21/07/2026The left that has consistently supported the dems for almost 100 years are parasites meanwhile me and my friends that became dems in the last 2 years are the true future of the party. 031 3
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what? 20746301578 4.6K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/202615/ If you’re looking into a private school for your child, we know it can be really hard to get transparent and comprehensive information. Here’s how you can research private schools like an investigative reporter:propublica.orgHow to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative ReporterIt can be really hard to get transparent, comprehensive information about private schools. Our investigative reporters share some suggestions for parents and guardians who want to collect it themselve... 14603200 603
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵 108093455040 9.3K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialOssoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 16/07/2026Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election. 832627694 2.6K
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13/07/2026After losing in courts across the country, the Trump administration has successfully steered nationwide litigation over gender-affirming medical care for minors to a single Texas judge in a single Texas district court. In "One First," me on how this happened (and why it's allowed but shouldn't be):stevevladeck.com238. Venue Engineering & Medical Care for Transgender MinorsAfter losing in courts across the country, DOJ and the FTC have steered litigation over gender-affirming medical care for minors to a single Texas judge. 17677250 677
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialMelvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026At 250 years, America is being offered three origin stories, refusal, recovery, and ethno-nationalist sovereignty. All three ask us to stop trusting one another. In my new piece, I reflect on the stakes of our fascination with origin stories. Have a read: www.anativeson.org/p/the-idolat...anativeson.orgThe Idolatry of Origins: America at 250 Yearsby Melvin L. Rogers, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor, Brown University 1138 13
Reposted by @fountofsarcasm.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread-- 14781286 781