Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026it's very funny how the right is re-inventing a chud version of wokeness "diversity stress" this is literally just Microaggressions For Racists 933757
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 09/06/2026It does help that poll results still show supermajority (or even greater) support for antidiscrimination protections, so even thinking it is immoral doesnt extend to wanting to inflict harm (i unironically love this facet of this country) 091
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/06/2026i am sure glad so many people are going so far out of their way to ensure this guy’s grossly overvalued space company gets to embed itself in everyone’s portfolio like a tick 181534199
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 02/06/2026If you're a Maine primary voter (D or unenrolled) who doesn't want Platner the RCV strategy is simple Rank Mills, Costello & the write-in LaFlamme but not Platner The order doesn't matter If there's 51% for someone besides Platner, that candidate will rise to the top 22213
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 01/06/2026maybe we should abolish article 2. repeal and replace with something much less personalist. 0143
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialNathanael 🧦 Roy @sporkredfox.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Hank Green did a video on how a lot of people have been doing this "I don't hate any race I just think they are inferior in some way, that's not racism" and, like, yes it is. And it unlocked something for me that feels really obvious about how people think about racism wrong 431636136
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/05/2026a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype 12964631240
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 31/05/2026At the very least, what I can say is that it's still not too late, and now that the chuds have actually been in power, there is no better advertisement for their unfitness to rule. I have some hope that the tide is turning at last. 11036
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 31/05/2026Those of you who've followed me for a long time know my history with the GamerGate harassment campaign; I was one of their longstanding targets, they tried to dox me, go after my family, etc. I raised an early alarm about them and covered them. And I *still* do not agree with this take. 1033968
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialSasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Somewhat the inverse - organized religion actually turned out to be a key bulwark against the growth of substantially worse unorganized religion. 3305
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialCharles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The weakness of trump isn’t lost on his supporters. It’s key to his appeal. They project their own weak selves into him and enjoy wielding his power over others as if it were their own 215621
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Look, let’s be blunt. The academy is in many ways a fundamentally conservative institution. The overwhelmingly left of center partisan outlook of faculty is largely due to the fact the Republican Party is for stupid people and thus deeply embarrassing to be associated with. 942463
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/05/2026underrated how many of these guys are just unapologetic liars 312676104
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It’s remarkable how this administration has done every single thing conservatives pretended liberals were doing when Biden was in charge. 292084372
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026i continue to feel that “virtue signaling” is a real problem, albeit one that is not really understood very well 7755
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you. 976237147978
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This is really important to remember. Every time democrats anywhere fail to achieve something it’s an article of faith on here that republicans never ever suffer such losses, and it’s just straight up not true. We don’t need to invent a hyper competent GOP. 014436
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026I'll never get over how openly horrible people have become post 2020. 151033172
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Shut up, you hysterical libs. 9545
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialAdam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 22/05/2026In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece. “Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.” 131102270
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026Saw someone respond to the idea of DC statehood with “so should every major city be its own state?” and yeah don’t threaten me with a good time. 693894583
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 20/05/2026"Finally, a Foolproof System" 420743
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Curious to see how large the public payout is going to be for Enrique Tarrio, the man convicted of seditious conspiracy who was pardoned by Trump and has now moved on to promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by white nationalists. 11549174
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/05/2026these people worship without faith, they don’t believe in anything other than power, and they see faith and virtue and belief as weaknesses to be exploited. that *is* shocking. that *should be* shocking. these are amongst the foulest behaviors imaginable, and specifically warned about in scripture. 013226
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top 27484062007
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 16/05/2026That’s right 111816
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 16/05/2026HELEN OF TROY MUST BE PLAYED BY THE SEXY GREEN M & M 10891143
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal. 26365771934
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Talking about “polarization” is not only a lazy euphemism to avoid talking about the far right authoritarianism. It’s also mostly a lie, repeated over & over again in polite society & the newspapers, despite overwhelming evidence that large supermajorities of Americans agree on all kinds of things. 114340
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Nonsense. ~70% of Americans agree on all kinds of things. The problem is our deeply antidemocratic institutions, which empower the 30% to control the government & regularly block all of the many policies favored by the 70%. That, & the fact that the GOP is now a far right authoritarian party. 620447
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialConstantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Xi is offering to stop aiding Iran militarily in exchange for allowing Iran to sell oil to China through the Strait. This would be a complete US surrender, but it looks like a trade win to stupid people, so there's a decent chance Trump takes it. 083
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" 318935
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Justice Roberts wants to give the nation the imagined genteel and intellectual racism of a southern aristocrat. but this really is what American racism is: just endless vulgarity, a crime against both persons and dignity. 27320
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026They started with the idea that the constitution does not ban partisan gerrymandering in of itself. fine. This has transformed into effectively a constitutional right to racially gerrymander if there’s a colorable partisan end. It’s a completely topsy turvy reading of the constitution. 1257770
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing 17583512259
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/05/2026THIS IS WHAT RIGHT WING EVANGELICALS ACTUALLY BELIEVE — "personal relationship with Jesus" translates to an unlimited and unqualified indulgence for wickedness, at least if you're a powerful white man who serves their cult. 411251253
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialJacquie @lajacq.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Never should have stopped occupying the South 0155
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/05/2026But the only way we're going to get there is to make the platform democracy/institutional reform, & to have it ready to go right away in January 2029. 416525
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/05/2026“Sure, I voted for the guy who was a Nazi uniform wearing Klansman, but how dare you call me a Nazi or a racist!!! You, on the other hand voted for someone who wants to strengthen laws that protect the environment and workers’ rights, so obviously you want to put me in a Stalinist gulag.” 626943
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This is a very common point of confusion. The vast majority of the way corporations harm the environment is by responding to consumer demand. People have built this fantasy world where the American middle class isn't at all responsible for the gas they buy or the water they use on their lawns. 741252
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialandré crombie @andrecrombie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026this is correct. we so often choose to not fight when we might lose, rather than taking the risk and getting caught trying. older example: the biden wh's response to dobbs. “well, our executive action is guaranteed to be overturned” — and? do it anyway, lose, and show the courts are partisan. 101014150
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Utterly unserious, in fact dangerous, way to cover the outright unraveling of democracy 723770
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialBarney Marsh @mattresd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026One party has called for a federal ban on gerrymandering and the other party is in the process of reinstituting segregation in the South. Who's to say which side is right or wrong 🤷🏼♂️ 0368
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026“Real hourly wages are falling at ~ 2.5% annual rate.” The media that had a bonanza about the price of eggs says nothing about this steep decline in real wages. 0296
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialMarty Olliff @martyolliff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to). 3647991652
Reposted by @gaming-johnson.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026i also find it strange and bizarre that a common default response to "here is something that might make things better" is "oh that will never work, why bother." okay, well, why are you wasting your time thinking about politics if that is how you feel? 23126389
