Reposted by bbyRuss The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor. 192348313
Reposted by bbyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco... 384129925475
Reposted by bbymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade. 382281376
Reposted by bbyGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026prefacing this with *canadians are absolutely right to be apoplectic about this* most people in america aren’t getting a say in this shit and don’t want it, either. 191017102
Reposted by bbyAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth 15570552203
Reposted by bbymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/07/2026they are not afraid of him being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor 324284632
Reposted by bbyMatt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026Anyone saying they want to do a genital check on kids before they can play on a sports team needs to get a throat punch and be curb-stomped until they change their shitty life choices 447111921990
Reposted by bbyMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system 462759493
Reposted by bbymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026celebrating the supreme court and promoting the fiction that they are standing up against Trump is an insane rhetorical stance for someone in Schumer's position. The Supreme Court Gang of Six is the leading vanguard of the plot to enslave our country, you don't have to hand it to them. 352108364
Reposted by bbyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/06/2026I hear a ton of bellyaching that the cars are too expensive now, I guess we'll see if people will accept the necessary sacrifices! www.wsj.com/business/aut...wsj.comWill Anyone Buy This Cheap EV Truck With Hand-Crank Windows and No Radio?Slate Auto’s all-electric truck aims to prove that affordable cars can be both profitable and adored. 14380063
Reposted by bbyGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15/06/2026i don't think it's the only or sole explanation, but a major difference between the barons of the gilded age and our modern versions are that the gilded age barons were all religious, to varying degrees 2258151
Reposted by bbyJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral. 394358775
Reposted by bbyMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It’s notable that even before the war the southern states literally did not believe in free speech, association, freedom from search & seizure, the right to bear arms, to a jury, to religion, etc etc as they touched on slavery, a reality glossed over by their later libertarian defenders 767490
Reposted by bbyjamelle @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 27484042007
Reposted by bbyGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 03/05/2026Some people crave the psychological wage of perceived in-group superiority over and above having a livelihood. SMDH. 38990130
Reposted by bbyGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/05/2026i don't need to read another story about the humble independent farmer who voted for trump again, trump was terrible for farmers the first time. i have no particular malice here, but i don't have much sympathy — these people are generational republican voters no matter what the GOP does to them. 341284176
Reposted by bbyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none. 360215414714
Reposted by bbyorangejuliusesq.bsky.social @orangejuliusesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2026people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque 5568671584
Reposted by bbyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motivesnytimes.comOpinion | The Economy, Immigration and Regret: 12 Trump Voters DiscussTrump voters discuss their disappointment with the president’s second term. 1543966624
Reposted by bbyJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/04/2026Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDSabcnews.comSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to AmericaHe said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans. 34756791406
Reposted by bbyKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/04/2026My take is that people don't have money anymore. Jobs that used to make decent money no longer do so. Healthcare and rent are unaffordable. Everything costs way too much. 352069368
Reposted by bbyRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/04/2026people "have money", in that they have income. but the number of people seriously burdened by their rent is the highest it's ever been. the cost of living is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago. I know multiple people making the most money they've ever made who are barely hanging on. 1484242655
Reposted by bbyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this 514146774
Reposted by bbyChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 07/04/2026We are going to win. The opportunities to shut down this criminal government will be legion. We must not lose faith. 1367
Reposted by bbyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again 123147763
Reposted by bbyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability 5578691927
Reposted by bbyA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment. 694201895
Reposted by bbyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/04/2026been said before but man it is crazy how bad slavery fucked this country up. nearly everything bad about Trump and MAGA is a direct lineal descendant of enslaver ideology and politics 15632112
Reposted by bbyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I think what I find even funnier is so many of the "calm down" people don't realize that maybe freaking the country out is a good way to get him gone. You're tired of low info voters deciding the future of the country? Me too! Maybe tell them what's really on the table and they'll take it seriously 14952187
Reposted by bbyceej @ceej.online · 07/04/2026pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants 2240921075
Reposted by bbyryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/04/2026on the one hand I fundamentally believe in democracy, we can't just dissolve the people and elect another, or do woke Jim Crow. on the other if you voted for Trump, you should go to a reeducation camp 3090694
Reposted by bbyMicah @rincewind.run · 05/04/2026that the president is making unhinged threats of war crimes on easter sunday should be an immediate presidency-ending scandal and that the media is rewriting this as just a normal negotiating tactic should be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved 202993667
Reposted by bbyMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 05/04/2026ask any boomer whether the city theyve lived in for the past thirty-forty years has gotten more or less safe and it will absolutely shatter any belief you had in the human capacity to perceive reality objectively 1658670
Reposted by bbyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/04/2026voters elected decadent money man to make them rich, what they've gotten is warmongering fanatic who wants to cut their health care to pay for more bombs 1424827843
Reposted by bbyChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"hostage crisis"??? It's called they're a fucking POW! Why the fuck are we governed by fucking children who don't understand the terms of their own enterprise? Why the fuck are their misadventures covered by people who don't appreciate the fucking gravity of their profession? Fuck all these idiots. 371340271
Reposted by bbyKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A country where Flag Officers are dismissed on the whim of a president or a secretary of Defense -- and where it's tolerated by those in a position to stop it -- is a country in decline 993368847
Reposted by bbyMicah @rincewind.run · 02/04/2026congratulations to trump and bibi for starting a war and immediately making the iranian regime the strongest and richest it has been in its entire history incredible, world-historic geopolitical fuckup 242914695
Reposted by bbyAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/03/2026If trump gets even one vote on the SCOTUS birthright citizenship case, I’m sorry, that is still a gigantic indictment of where the court is today, and he’s likely to get more than just 1 992560420
Reposted by bbyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2026i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make. 1034355729
Reposted by bbythe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/03/2026yeah this is not a sign they are flagging it's a sign they are winning (and if they mined the strait they know where the mines are) 11618
Reposted by bbyGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/03/2026it’s just completely nuts to me that trump’s best argument for himself when it comes to the consequences of this war are that no one could have predicted outcomes that have been universally predicted as a consequence of attacking iran for decades by a truly bipartisan consensus 1132149
Reposted by bbydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 26/03/2026re the shocking displays of incompetence, venality, prideful ignorance, brutality, belligerence, violence etc. of almost our entire elite class: one wonders whether this is just an indictment of how most people are when they find out there are no rules, or whether these are uniquely terrible people 832864329
Reposted by bbyRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I keep thinking about how Trumpism isn't even pragmatic assholery, a moral tradeoff where warmongering and cruelty leads to better results for Americans. He's just smashing the lose-lose button over and over again, making our country meaner and more violent, but also poorer and worse to live in 271344287
