Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good AJC op-ed providing color on the R Ga governor candidate - www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...ajc.comRick Jackson claims to be a self-made man. Let’s unpack this American myth.Georgia Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson is touting his story as a self-made man who owes nobody anything, but that feeds into an old and dangerous American myth. 000
Reposted by Scott GillispieGeoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wrote something I think is important. gametek.substack.com/p/changing-t...gametek.substack.comChanging the WorldA Modest Proposal 76021
Reposted by Scott GillispiePatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026turns out the best day to buy gas this year was january or february 920125
Reposted by Scott GillispieGreg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026As Republicans target Bottoms’ record as Atlanta’s leader, Mayor Dickens pushes back “I watched her do the hardest version of this job in one of the hardest years in the history of the United States. She cared and she led.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...ajc.comProminent Black Democrats rally behind Keisha Lance BottomsRepublicans want to make Bottoms' record as Atlanta mayor a major liability in the governor's race, but her successor, Andre Dickens, offered an unequivocal defense on Sunday. 13311
Reposted by Scott GillispieCitizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026NEW Everybody knows Abdul El-Sayed is committed to Medicare for All But how would that translate to governing? I spoke to the key players in a revealing, mostly forgotten 2020 episode—including El-Sayed Here’s what I learned www.thebulwark.com/p/forgotten-...thebulwark.comLittle-Known Episode Offers a Big Clue to El-Sayed’s PoliticsRepublicans call him a radical. Progressives love his uncompromising politics. This obscure fight complicates both pictures. 073
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The median American opinion right now is setting up guillotines. Was the French Revolution a success? “Too soon to tell.” 010
Reposted by Scott GillispieUnited Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The Chinese ministry at Pittman Park #UMC in Statesboro, Ga., did not begin with an outreach campaign or a strategic plan. It began with a mother and her teenage twins willing to visit the church and congregants willing to extend welcome. www.sgaumc.org/advnewsdetai...sgaumc.orghttps://www.sgaumc.org/advnewsdetail/what-a-chinese-community-taught-one-georgia-church-about-welcome-belonging-and-the-body-of-christ-19929291 032
Reposted by Scott GillispieUnited Methodist News @umnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hamilton honored for connectional leadership | The Rev. Adam Hamilton, #UMC pastor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was honored for leadership on Aug. 4 during the 2026 installment of Discipleship Ministries’ School of Congregational Development. www.umnews.org/en/news/hami...umnews.orgHamilton honored for connectional leadership | UMNews.orgThe Rev. Adam Hamilton, United Methodist pastor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was honored for leadership on Aug. 4 during the 2026 installment of Discipleship Ministries’ School of… 062
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Viewing from out of state, it feels increasingly that AES is a fairly normie Dem. And the Rs are getting desperate; about ready to condemn him as a “thespian” perhaps. 010
Reposted by Scott GillispieGMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Check out today's Customer Newsletter, featuring new P500s, a C&C Series Focus, Digital Launch News, Art Samples, Design and Production Updates, and More! zurl.co/FevoA 2286
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 12/06/20264/11/1956 episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: About 5 minutes in, to about 5:30 - "But I thought our present tax system..." archive.org/details/OTRR...archive.org 040
Reposted by Scott GillispieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:fldoe.org 1161461493
Reposted by Scott Gillispie🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026You want a 2028 candidate who vows to dismantle everything Trump has done. Me? I demand a 2028 candidate who goes to the dedication of a John Brown memorial and declares: 920039
Reposted by Scott GillispieAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day. 812264135774
Reposted by Scott GillispieThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/04/2026The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pope Leo XIV theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i… 241881196
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comEmergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our GovernmentIt’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad. 012
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Would be great if Usha Vance could become the first pregnant first lady since Jackie Kennedy! 000
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I have two kids starting college, one special needs, aging parents, four work projects, planning church events, and my right knee hurts. The doc says I need to lower my blood pressure, and the shortest route is impeachment. Could the Rs please get on board? 010
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026NPR started their 6 am hour this morning with 15 minutes of each story basically saying, "Trump is nuts" Trump needs to go away to make my blood pressure go down. 010
Reposted by Scott GillispieKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15888642221172
Reposted by Scott GillispieBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron. 301994415
Reposted by Scott GillispieBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025"Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us." Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting. 251410392
Reposted by Scott GillispieJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest. 1304255353762
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...lawdork.comGregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us aboutDHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. 010
Reposted by Scott GillispieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ... 510125764555
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025"Sometimes people fool themselves into believing things that aren't true. Sometimes that can be quite dangerous for the person. They see the world in a wrong way. They won't let themselves see that what they believe is wrong. (1/2) 120
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you " -- Unseen Academicals 020
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025www.thebulwark.com/p/no-zohran-...thebulwark.comNo, Zohran Mamdani Isn’t a CommunistTrump tries to smear the NYC mayoral candidate. But it’s Trump himself who uses Communist tactics. 030
Reposted by Scott GillispieFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack 6329051721
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025America Needs Taxpayers. All domestic issues can be sorted by figuring out - how can we get more people able to pay more taxes? Healthier workers. Immigrants. Funding IRS. Happier workers. Housed workers. Safer workers. Progressive tax reform, not regressive. 020
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Peace prize needs to go to Jose Andres this year. 010
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The sheer incompetence… www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...npr.orgGovernment papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summitDocuments with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer. 030
Reposted by Scott GillispieJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Extortion of Nobel Prize is Hall of Fame level abuse of office. Every single Democrat should be mocking this clown for being so fragile, so insecure, so weak, and so openly corrupt. 1382416767
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 13/08/2025"The world is full of things worth more than gold. But we dig the damn stuff up and then bury it in a different hole. Where's the sense in that? What are we, magpies? Is it all about the gleam? Good heavens, potatoes are worth more than gold!" - Moist Von Lipwig, Making Money 000
Reposted by Scott GillispieWill Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Right-wing activist Laura Loomer had a disastrous deposition in her lawsuit against HBO's Bill Maher. Among the mishaps: Loomer tries to evade a question by claiming MTG keeps Arby's sandwiches in her pants. www.thebulwark.com/p/laura-loom...thebulwark.comAn Uncomfortably Revealing Laura Loomer DepositionInsights into her insults, clues about her career hopes. 1461440311
Reposted by Scott GillispieOpal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years. 14386183601
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Today, thirteen presidential terms ago, the existence of the Oval Office recording system was revealed. Nixon lasted another 13 months. 010
Reposted by Scott GillispieBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025"And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gro...thebulwark.comTrump’s Grotesque Military AddressThe president yuks it up at Fort Bragg with his personal army and drools over the possibility of smashing protests in the capital. 14449127
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025"The enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good." - Thud! 000
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"Usually she got her own way and he was happy to give it to her, but the unspoken agreement was that when he really insisted, she listened. It's a married couple thing." - Thud! 000
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025"When Reacher Gilt talks about freedom he means his, not anyone else's." - Going Postal 000
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." - Going Postal 000
Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 15/05/2025"Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government." - Night Watch 010