Reposted by ChrisAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran. 7519130
Reposted by ChrisSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10/09/2026oh so the charlie kirk pez dispenser is over the line huh 10895
Reposted by ChrisJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith. 4347441003
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It’s Alexander Stephen’s Cornerstone speech, but with all immigrants in place of the slaves 010
Reposted by Chris𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026After 17yrs in China, this is largely the you’d-never-guess-it-but-it’s-the-truth assessment I also came away with 611018
Reposted by ChrisBryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 07/08/2026I saw someone refer to homeschooling as “trickle down stupidity.” Immediate addition to my lexicon. 465130832270
Reposted by ChrisRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Grant would genuinely be proud 382979360
Reposted by Chrisellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 04/08/2026Which, incidentally, really puts the lie to “our parents and grandparents lived in a wonderful world without the existential fears that people today have” 1011215
Reposted by ChrisLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 04/08/2026Two turntables *and* a microphone? In this economy? 1368
Reposted by Christomcarlin.bsky.social @tomcarlin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A free market? In this economy? 1361
Reposted by ChrisStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is an extremely common human failing and, for example, a good part of why lobbying works. 11424
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026static.klipy.comDie Hard Yippe Ki Yay MotherfuckerAlt: Die Hard Yippe Ki Yay Motherfucker 000
Reposted by ChrisDie Hard (1988) @diehard1988.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I read about them in Time magazine. 011
Reposted by ChrisZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think this is a great decision. Douthat has a face made for radio and a voice made for blogging. His ideas are increasingly bizarre in ways toxic to normal ppl. If anyone can help Bari put another nail in CBS’s coffin, he can. Best the network collapses fast rather than die a lingering death. 610815
Reposted by ChrisDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/07/2026so one thing i find extremely striking is that in REPUBLIC plato basically endorses the idea that qualified women should have the same rights as men--the same ability to be philosopher-kings. this is an *ancient* idea. the hard question of history is why it took so long to be even partially realized 12578116
Reposted by ChrisOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026imo it's almost certainly false that people did not have critiques and concerns with sexual violence, slavery etc that at the very least substantively overlap with modern ones. whether or not they got to write epics revered and remembered by the leaders of the slave societies of the day es otra cosa 171120104
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I will not stand for bubbe erasurestatic.klipy.comDie Hard Hans Bubbe I'm Your White Knight QuoteAlt: Die Hard Hans Bubbe I'm Your White Knight Quote 010
Reposted by Chrisellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/07/2026Something that online discourse has taught me is that there are a lot of people who believe that adopting political and social views because everyone around you believes them is not just acceptable but morally preferable, and that failing to conform in this way is a sign of mental deviance 3538
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Bluesky would rather disagree with math than be forced to agree with Will on even one thing 000
Reposted by ChrisWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/07/2026There are good financial decisions and bad financial decisions. There are entire predatory industries built around exploiting people’s tendency to consistently make certain bad financial decisions. Fixing this, and regulating those industries, requires admitting that these bad decisions exist. 1014613
Reposted by ChrisLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 24/07/2026It’s really funny to me how threatening the DSA is to people because as annoying as I find them they a) have produced some of the most popular politicians in the nation and b) have a platform that is largely made up of popular stances like “we should improve society somewhat” 246872
Reposted by ChrisSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/07/2026Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports 91426379
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I would have liked at you like you’re a crazy person. How is this real? Was I hit by a truck and now I’m in a coma having morphine dreams? 020
Reposted by Chrisellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20/07/2026I was born in California, so I’m an American I enjoy my life and want it to be good. I do not think that I deserve to be actively humiliated for where I was born and I am perfectly content blocking obnoxious people who are used to deference from self hating Americans 3876
Reposted by Chrisellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20/07/2026you call me or any American a vatnik and that’s a block 5342
Reposted by ChrisWaffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 19/07/2026One time I ended up in a social situation where a group of tv sound crew guys were mingling with a group of comedians and the thing they found to bond over was swapping stories about how much it sucks to work with bill maher 0789
Reposted by ChrisGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Maher announces everyone right about him 1828341
Reposted by ChrisDr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Hegseth wants the US military to be more Spartan, which does unfortunately involve being beaten up by the Persians 14611122
Reposted by ChrisZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The long term problem Europe and Canada face isn't having to balance against the US, it's having to figure out a contingency plan for an actual US civil war that will more likely than not draw them in in the event it occurs, and dealing with an absent US even in the (much likelier) happy outcome. 0342
Reposted by ChrisCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out. 114137722879
Reposted by ChrisJack in a 📦 @tradenerd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Those thirty pieces of silver don't go as far as they used to 011
Reposted by Chriskristofarian @kristofarian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026speaking of Moses vs. Jesus * Kurt Vonnegut'd Like a Word. * you spelled 'christians' Wrong, Kurt 044
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Texas is the only state that has fought two wars to preserve their right to keep slaves 000
Reposted by ChrisRay Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Two trailer park boys go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside ... 0141
Reposted by Chrisluis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 18/07/2026Kevin it’s been five hours 41351
Reposted by ChrisKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026My man looks like Dr. Evil if he was the assistant manager of Accounts Receivable 294323118
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026If Trump lives to 2028 it’s going to be a shitshow. Luckily that’s a big if 000
Reposted by ChrisSnowden St. @snowden.st · 17/07/2026if smoke in the air happens (vague gesture between Kansas City and San Francisco), that’s an event, but if smoky skies come east of there, it’s an Apocalypse 2231
Reposted by ChrisWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I forget the exact phrasing or who it’s from, but there’s a really good quote about the point of the welfare state and politics is to get you to unhappy. Not impoverished, not oppressed, not sick, just unhappy. The rest is on you. 21199
Reposted by ChrisMarielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 17/07/2026The story isn’t “ICE got someone killed by hiring a bipolar guy,” it’s “ICE kills people, that’s what it does and what it will do until it’s abolished” 111127
Reposted by ChrisJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 17/07/2026You ever get mad at a post for proposing something so excellent that you get angry it doesn't exist this moment? 411522
Reposted by ChrisChris @grosschris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A stray cat moved into my home last year. He was prone to outbursts of violence, until we had him neutered. I think about that a lot 021
Reposted by ChrisSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Trump really is the most American (derogatory) president because just like most Americans, he doesn't remember who was president in 2020 2746129
Reposted by ChrisHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Trump is trying to do a reichstag fire just by giving a speech saying “hey guys china tried to burn down the reichstag years ago” 848892
