Reposted by HamstrosityNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 4hit's amazing the extent to which he doesn't seem to have any idea what people want from a 2028 presidential candidate. 7607
Reposted by HamstrosityRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12hJust a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 22282592604
Reposted by HamstrosityLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 5hOh damn bro that’s fascinating, now to take a big sip of coffee and look up when and where the word “gymnasium” entered the language. 2544
Reposted by HamstrosityVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6hI think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles 35811107
Reposted by Hamstrosityjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7hanyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast 615742340
Reposted by HamstrosityCitizen K | Long Live The King 👑 @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 27/01/2026It's mindboggling, especially since every single effective activist movement in American history worked with the understanding that the ballot was the most basic foundation of their success. That nearly everything banked on eventually getting votes, and the power and influence that came with votes. 0599
Reposted by Hamstrosity👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12hConvinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics 1355895
Reposted by HamstrosityReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11hkinda surreal to see the fight for Blansas actually happen 1337427
Reposted by HamstrosityElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 14hnever the wrong time for this classic 4299712952
Reposted by HamstrosityDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 13hGetting the sense that Ken Paxton knows the jig is up and is looking for a scapegoat. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comCampaign ‘all coming from DC,’ Paxton says“I don’t control message or what we’re doing,” Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton said during a small fundraising event in September. 48010
Reposted by HamstrosityJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One of my relatives commented on FB they were very surprised that I would hunt a bird given that I'm an ornithologist, and sometimes I forget that "have you eaten your study organism?" is one of those common conversations biologists have that the general public is completely unaware of lmao 3319323
Reposted by HamstrosityRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17hWasn’t there something else that he did which was really, really evil? 1432113762133
Reposted by HamstrosityJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16hTruly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 921744479
Reposted by HamstrosityDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 16hThe press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 441616478
Reposted by Hamstrosity🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 16hKen Paxton suddenly learning what it's like to have a bunch of old freaks in D.C. make irreversible, life-altering decisions about his body without his consent. 321738
Reposted by HamstrosityWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this is not me saying the Catholic Church is progressive or anything but if Catholic clergy were still allowed to run for office there'd be a priest running in a D+12 seat whose comments about ICE singe your damn eyebrows off 426422
Reposted by HamstrosityCai @annenotation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Digger was the best film I've seen all year. It's just excellent. 1356
Reposted by HamstrositySchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That gerrymander gonna be funny if Texas is 50/50 in the house vote. 426126
Reposted by HamstrosityLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this. 15899206
Reposted by Hamstrosityjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 188100711120
Reposted by HamstrosityKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10041771455
Reposted by HamstrosityBethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't turn on an NWSL game without getting a "he's for they/them" attack ad, and I have questions about targeted advertising. 4555
Reposted by HamstrosityJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Honestly, some enterprising documentarian needs to figure out how to get in with this guy and document the next few months. Herzog probably isn't available, but really anyone even minimally competent should be able to put together an Oscar winner out of the story arc this dude is about to experience 37112
Reposted by HamstrosityTwo Questions @twoquestions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026But Weedle, Only Dems Have Agency, so the only reason Republicans can do bad things is if Dems let them! 1452
Reposted by HamstrosityPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026These guys gave cheered for the maddest, most incoherent sentences this evening, and he still can’t sell them data centres. You can literally hear Trump’s freeform-speech brain tacking away from a toxic issue. 7687105
Reposted by HamstrositySE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the "bad misstatement" in question is to the effect of "yes, I commit sexual harassment regularly and utilize the funds made available to me via nonprofit grants to commit sexual harassment and to induce people to have sex with me and to participate in sexual events which i attend" 1937846
Reposted by HamstrosityMatt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Dems launching investigations of administration corruption has the potential to supercharge this headed into 2028. Voters might forgive some corruption in a successful administration, but they are terribly unforgiving of it in a failed one. Trump is personally raking in billions as millions suffer. 418556
Reposted by HamstrosityTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Restaurants are warning that the tariffs Ken Paxton supports could end free chips and salsa. 841701530
Reposted by HamstrositySingularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 30/09/2026Tangential, but one time I interviewed a woman who said “If management takes an interest in a project I stop working on it. I know they‘re just going to shitcan it” We hired her and she was (is) fantastic 1112
Reposted by HamstrosityElizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 172127632994
Reposted by HamstrosityTeddy Rebooted 🔔🇺🇸 🇺🇦💯 @teddyrebooted.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sorry. This is just funny at this point. This guy just discovering all the Fell For It Again awards he's been accumulating over the last 11 years. 1388
Reposted by HamstrosityCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the old guard of the GOP will forever be like "we didn't think inviting the Nazis in the tent would lead to the Nazis running the show" folks, if a Nazi is at your bar, it's a Nazi bar. if a Nazi is in your party, it's a Nazi party. simple as. 44515
Reposted by HamstrosityCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026you must understand this: just as much as the Democrats, or Labour, or the SPD, or whatever center-left party in your country is riven by internal division, the right-wing is the same! they are not a monolith, in fact a lot of them HATE each other see: Groypers vs TPUSA vs neocons vs libertarians 093
Reposted by HamstrosityMicah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026"how many local models do you run" this is my favorite internet argument that's ever happened 1726822
Reposted by HamstrosityDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 351959401
Reposted by HamstrosityWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 03/10/2026“you’re not an ai influencer” is both an extremely funny attempted putdown for a pope and also just factually incorrect 2019241
Reposted by HamstrosityPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026demanding the pope give up on dualism and believe in physicalism is a grade A "what is it exactly you think this guys job is" selfown 634933
Reposted by HamstrosityBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One thing you can say about Michael Caine is that Michael Caine is a political conservative who made 70 movies where the entire idea was to make Michael Caine money but he never did this bullshit 31107993
Reposted by HamstrosityStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is why I'm so in favor of accessory commercial units. Just getting people in the US used to **walking** for a cup of coffee or a sandwich in the neighborhood may finally do something to rid Americans of our terminal car brain. 924935
Reposted by HamstrosityHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026Not beating the allegations that all his regular spots need to be labeled like it's a taxpayer funded federal nursing home. 1158567
Reposted by HamstrosityMicah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house 362341424
Reposted by HamstrosityNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5746321385
Reposted by HamstrosityElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s 841600238
