Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5hsome deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from 24260121492
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21hHer "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong. 123753843
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We've gotta learn to believe these authoritarians are who they say they are the first time they tell us. Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home this morning. Her office says, "The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong." Here are some things I'm not seeing enough of in our online chatter. 🧵 4395137
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21hDonald Trump is notorious for suing people for defamation. And yet he has never sued anyone for defamation who accused him of being a pedophile. Trump is notorious for never letting go of a grudge. And yet he never mentions the men who supposedly tried to assassinate him. He'll never admit why. 822979849
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21hTo state the obvious, you can’t effectively sink the Republican Party for their rampant corruption if you’re clearly corrupt yourself. Also - way to put yourself on the wrong side of an issue where the vast majority of people have chosen the other side! Glad you could get your beak wet, though. 315410
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026🚜👩🌾 Spotted in Iowa, but makes just as much sense in Tennessee 15 years of one-party Republican control has made the rich even richer, but screwed over everyone else. Rotate the crops! 10560981697
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 14/10/2026We need to make Stephen Miller's nightmares come true. Jot that down as a platform plank. 541767370
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 5129891370
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialSam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military. 15649288
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This week's Talarico op is a reminder that X is a prime asset of a GOP Super PAC jacked directly into some of the most powerful journalists and editors alive. And I argue it's what gave us Trump 2 and Elon his trillionaire status.patreon.comStay off X (at least) until every vote is counted | LOLGOP StudiosStay off X (at least) until every vote is counted by LOLGOP Studios on Patreon. Join LOLGOP Studios's community for exclusive content and updates. 411241
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean. 13567162225
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialZeteo @zeteo.com · 13/10/2026'NIGHT FLOWER: Inside AIPAC's Fight for Influence,' a new Zeteo documentary premieres LIVE in Chicago on October 20th at 7pm. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @dionnissenbaum.bsky.social @ramirez.house.gov @katmabu.bsky.social and Margaret DeReus 39728
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026X is an engine for division designed to funnel voters straight into the GOP's persuasion torture chamber. Why would you send voters into the depths of the ID of the man who has spent more money to defeat you than anyone else in the history of the planet?patreon.comStay off X (at least) until every vote is counted | LOLGOP StudiosMusk bought a machine for fascism, and Democrats keep feeding it. Plus an exclusive preview of the next Trillionaire Kill Chain. It’s 2026. 0456
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/10/2026Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening. 3235501066
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Enjoying your reduced Russian bot traffic? To extend your subscription, please donate directly to Ukraine. No monthly fees, no hidden charges, just continued support for Ukraine. 😏🇺🇦 Donate here: u24.gov.ua/projects 673210851
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"Shane Gillis was just telling JOKES." Yep, he was. That was what he finds funny, and now we understand him (and those who laugh) to be the sort of person who finds that sort of thing funny. What's being objected to isn't that he's being misunderstood; it's that he's being understood very well. 15917122
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026America if the news covered it like those countries Over There 191177403
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Remember this when pundits and politicians tell us it would be a "weaponization of law enforcement" to hold Trump officials accountable for their crimes. *This* is what actual weaponization looks like. 191286376
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Read every word of this and share it. 252471755
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Remember when Republicans said DEI was hiring an unqualified person based on their looks? ANYWAY. 643180486
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad. 964571960
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialNicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's incredibly weird that so many people demonize socialism when socialism is what so many aspire to in retirement. Medicare (ideally) = not having to worry about medical payments after retirement age. Social security (ideally) = universal basic income after retirement age. 1138274
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026ok heres one democratic senator being clear and unambiguous about this. anyone else want to step up? 292165366
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialRep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Trump uses DHS and DOJ as weapons to go after the people standing up to him. Raiding @ilhanmn.bsky.social home weeks before Election Day is the kind of overreach that should scare every single American. I stand with Ilhan. We will never be intimidated into silence. 251128269
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...inquirer.comHow York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will BunchLocal cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home. 521691812
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 14814985311700
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had shown, in his entire career, even a tenth of the courage and care @ilhanmn.bsky.social shows every single day, I’d have more hope for this party and this country. Instead we have a corporate-padded coward writing mildly worded letters as we drive off a cliff. 2055396
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that. 3547271548
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant? 372546646
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/10/2026- Implement Project 2025 - Discuss Arnold Palmer's Genitalia - Bulldoze East Wing of WH - Open Wildlife Habitat to Drilling/Mining/Logging - Cut 760,000 from ObamaCare - Ban CNN, MS NOW & Politico - Cancel Iran Nuclear Deal - Cringeworthy Speech to Boy Scouts - Mass Deportations #IgnoreEPSTEIN 1284197964
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026At the end of the clip, after Emmer’s ridiculous, easily challenged answer: KARL: “Let’s turn to the midterms…” Beltway reporters are more afraid of asking follow-up questions than Mister Mxyzptlk is of saying his name backwards. 381272201
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis? 303103211368
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino. 396156234681
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socials. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/10/2026Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40! 728771790
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11/10/2026Is there a cleverer way that Ukraine could have hit back at Trump doing a dirty oil deal with Putin to help him with gas prices in the midterms than turning off the army of Russian propagandists posing as heartland Americans with concerns about trans socialists? 91797336
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true. 633285199217
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that. 45370193100
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 152151176508
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Project Monarca and so many other groups are filled with heroes. I’m so grateful and proud of them all. I did some ICE watching and lots of grocery packing last winter here in MN but it was ALL following the lead of more devoted organizers. And as this article says, we have to be ready for more. 019227
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46107783004
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/10/2026Oops the centrist consultants painted themselves into a corner again 202016382
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe? 10640091117
Reposted by @gorto.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We are sanctioning the ICC because we are a country that commits war crimes. We are buying diesel from Russia to fund Putin’s war machine because we are a country that likes *other* countries that commit war crimes. 19757331789
