Reposted by GreedlingDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30mthese are the same people who will go on and on about how the deep roots of somali herder pastoralist culture (?????) mean that somalian immigrants will never truly succeed in modern society 4445
Reposted by GreedlingInverted Pyramid @invertedpyramid.bsky.social · 3hI can recall once in 1972 driving through a dusty San Remo with my parents, coming across the frontier from the French Riviera. Imagine my teen-age culture shock at seeing red hammer-and-sickle flags festooning all the lampposts. An honest-to-god communist town and proud of it. Sounds better now. 021
Reposted by GreedlingSam @samd.bsky.social · 4hme in bologna this summer: “I am so excited to walk around this beautiful city with my wife and eat the most declious pasta on earth” twitter Nazis in bologna: “I am furious about the levels of race mixing in this city” 2772874
Reposted by GreedlingAlec Rider @alecridersyr.bsky.social · 1hEven though the movie is about Texas turning blue in the presidential election, I can't help but to think that the sequel for Red, White, and Royal Blue coming out soon is making this happen. Like Heated Rivalry trashing the Sabres (and Buffalo) and then they finally made the playoffs. 011
Reposted by GreedlingBreast Size Accelerationist @holybeastform.bsky.social · 1hIf you’re ever in the Seattle area you gotta check out @connections.museum, it’s ground zero for trans women with insanely complex devices 0131
Reposted by GreedlingUrban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How it feels once accept that many labor unions are just protectionist guilds and you owe them no solidarity (as they don’t extend it to anyone else anyway) 6903
Reposted by GreedlingBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4hWe're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them. 1017264
Reposted by GreedlingU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 9hThe truth is out there 440547
Reposted by GreedlingErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 3hThis Day in Labor History: October 5, 1886. Henry George accepted the nomination of the United Labor Party for the mayor of New York City. Let's talk George's Single Tax and the fight for reform in the Gilded Age! 33414
Reposted by Greedlingdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3hone of my favorite files on wikimedia commons 952364
Reposted by Greedlingzneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 4hthis goes back to the Richard Spencer getting punched debate. You have to balance that a healthy society doesn’t have lots of allowances for punching people in the face but also in a healthy society some people are going to get punched in the face 1432
Reposted by GreedlingRick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 5hJoin me tonight (October 5, 6pm PT/9pm ET) as I report on today's social and political realities in Guatemala and El Salvador, while exploring magnificent Mayan sites that flourished long before Columbus "discovered" America. It's free, but you need to register: www.ricksteves.com/mnt 215117
Reposted by GreedlingChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7hWELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality. 302459786
Reposted by GreedlingRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 22hok i did what needed to be done for this situation 650056
Reposted by GreedlingU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 5hWe had to say spare rocks in this post because we know many Bluesky users have primary rocks. 1325927
Reposted by GreedlingU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 5hIt's National Fire Prevention Week! Ebikes, escooters, and hoverboards use lithium-ion batteries that need a little bit more care than how you treat your other batteries. Learn something and avoid a battery fire at home. 214540
Reposted by GreedlingAkeion98 @akeion98.bsky.social · 5hThis is one of the main reasons why I'm not socialist, sometimes the worker just sucks and likes the mud they roll in. 151
Reposted by GreedlingVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 6hIn a hilariously twisted way this itself is a form of classism, as the idea that the Simple Country Working Man is intelligent or capable enough to recognize these standards and lie about their politics is just written off by the urban elites insecure about their own authenticity as human beings 1346
Reposted by GreedlingDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6hone of the reasons i appreciated this essay from valentin tappia was its illustration of how even authoritarian regimes are trapped by their own narratives of legitimacy. even as murderous a man as pinochet was eventually undone by his own promise to be a "transitional" governmentliberalcurrents.comHow Chile Recovered Its DemocracyA leader operating beyond the margins of the law can yet eventually be defeated in a free and fair election. 37111
Reposted by GreedlingDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6hanother lesson from these histories is that *margins matter*. it is easier to rig a 51-49 election; it is much harder to rig one that is 55-45, let alone 60-30. voting, in other words, will matter rather enormously in the next two years.en.wikipedia.orgBush v. Gore - Wikipedia 1475
Reposted by GreedlingGreedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 19h“I want things to be different!” *new people move in, new housing gets built* “No, not like that!” 021
Reposted by GreedlingThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But grappling with Trump’s stuttering assault on the elections is also reminder that the gap between MAGA’s authoritarian aspirations and the reality of the political system remains vast. Trump’s autocratic desires are limitless, but his ability to impose them on the country is not. 48514
Reposted by GreedlingLarry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Powerful teaching resource: Civil Rights Cold Case files: www.coldcaserecords.gov #workofrevolutioncoldcaserecords.govHome | Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review BoardThe Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board is a nonpartisan panel of private citizens, appointed by President Biden, who are working to release the contents of federal investigations into unresol... 031
Reposted by GreedlingLaura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Have you heard of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board? This is a group of lawyers, journalists, archivists, and historians authorized by Congress and appointed by the president to declassify and release federal records relating to criminal cases from the civil rights era. 🗃️historians.orgFull Transparency – AHAA small government agency is releasing federal documents by the thousands that shed new light on racial and other forms of violence in the civil rights era—but the clock is ticking on its work. 25024
Reposted by GreedlingFeysaan @feysaan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025My friend and his high school students (including one of my nieces) from my alma mater are responsible for the creation of the law that led to the existence of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board which made it so these records could finally be released. 14010
Reposted by GreedlingFATM0USE @fatm0use.bsky.social · 19hthey're actively trying to cover up things like the Japanese internment camps that got maybe got half a page in in the textbooks hyperallergic.com/us-archivist...hyperallergic.comUS Archivist Accused of Sanitizing American History ExhibitsNational Archives Museum leader Colleen Shogan allegedly removed mentions of negative events that might anger Republicans or upset visitors, reports the Wall Street Journal. 031
Reposted by Greedlingmel in ballhalla 🏳️⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025the fires of 1865 have been re-lit. the spirit of 1776 is waking once more. we are marching in the footsteps of 1963 SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS WE SHALL OVERCOME 512521
Reposted by GreedlingBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23hCan you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses 532685212
Reposted by Greedlingkilometres d’avis @wwwwww.website · 23hthe lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else 101493160
Reposted by GreedlingSam @samd.bsky.social · 21hbrings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it 944876
Reposted by GreedlingReconstruction 3 Enthusiast @squalortoballer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026This is absolutely the politics of Bluesky left liberalism, living in the upper left quadrant. 131
Reposted by GreedlingDSB @dsb000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Should a House Representative be paid more or less than an entry level SWE position at Meta? A shockingly difficult question, apparently 061
Reposted by Greedlinglowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026jacob rees-mogg eventually becomes british bill kristol after getting yelled at by right-wing freaks for the next 4 years. then we will know madness 1653852
Reposted by GreedlingMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22hLast week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot. 887144999
Reposted by GreedlingBear LinkedIn @ghostofglass.bsky.social · 23hI think far right populism is successful because it is the modern ideology most compatible with our base lizard brain. 1162
Reposted by GreedlingKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 23hThis is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives. 7621195
Reposted by GreedlingLindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cruise line video was removed by YouTube over truly the dumbest copyright strike. Obviously fighting it, it’ll be back up in a few weeks like nothing happened. This is not an ad for Nebula, but it is still available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/linds... 521606183
Reposted by GreedlingSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Right? That's a culture of sweeping it under the rug. You can also simply let Uncle John pop off, and then find out everyone thinks he's an asshole. Use him as a teaching moment for the kids. Or "sure John you can talk about lizard people, but only when you're doing dishes." 518726
Reposted by GreedlingJack @jack-hoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Racism and discrimination are illegal in Europe" meanwhile back in the real world the Danes have faced no consequences for doing asset forfeiture to help pay for refugees' detention and explicitly punishing crimes committed in minority areas harsher than the same thing in white neighboorhods. 2336
Reposted by GreedlingSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026YES. Jefferson, noted human trafficker, had his friends write about how Adams was "mentally deranged….a hideous hermaphroditical character" Cranks have been with us all along folks 1023227
Reposted by GreedlingAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since) 352165
Reposted by GreedlingKasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 04/10/2026Just saw a preteen girl run across the floor towards a model of the JWST shouting "JAMES WEBB JAMES WEBB JAMES WEBB" if you need a big shot of hope for the future 341545
Reposted by Greedlingmartijean.bsky.social @martijean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I love Michael Lewis. Very, very interesting episode of Pod Save America. People should know what's going on inside "Trump's federal government". Fucking sad. youtu.be/q3WDB_lQkqY?...youtu.beHow Trump Broke Government, And How To Fix It (w/ Michael Lewis)YouTube video by Pod Save America 001
Reposted by GreedlingThe Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Michael Lewis says “Trump is a trust destroying machine.” 720131
Reposted by GreedlingfranciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026people who are kind/thoughtful in their private lives can easily be transformed into braying maniacs by the power of mass affect. trump doesn't have hitler's sturm-und-drang, but the basic mechanism is the same - it's about creating a space for people to indulge their basest impulses 1717
