Reposted by Joe MiltonIsabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me. 3290129
Reposted by Joe MiltonJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Hey look it's the libertarian currency that's entirely dependent on government action to gain value 6905170
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country” 18190182605
Reposted by Joe MiltonStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be. 3135391395
Reposted by Joe MiltonCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 15977663271
Reposted by Joe MiltonDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...defector.comDead Country Fair | DefectorThings come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa... 411991432
Reposted by Joe MiltonJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.hsph.harvard.eduUSAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthThe Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord... 1140341646
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/04/2026this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats 1144294477
Reposted by Joe MiltonMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026the best part of this isn't the slopulist policy it's "we need to think creatively" when introducing the hundredth variation on a targeted tax cut to a favored subgroup 924324
Reposted by Joe MiltonNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are. 269126803351
Reposted by Joe MiltonAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear... 24089141728
Reposted by Joe MiltonGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such. 10868751731
Reposted by Joe MiltonRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I wonder if there was some sort of reason the Founders routed the war power through Congress rather than the whim of one person. Probably not. 101193227
Reposted by Joe MiltonSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026the tragedy of the long 2010s is that so many people (centrist libs included!) basically think edgy-posting online is essentially the same thing as "doing politics" 15923102
Reposted by Joe MiltonPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Puffing Trump’s delusions about the economy as if they were on track until ten days ago is peak NYTimes soft-pedaling Trump’s furious unreality and both-sides-ing it with actual documentable reality 651878427
Reposted by Joe MiltonSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community 8842201004
Reposted by Joe MiltonToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The missles in this video cost more than that. 211369476
Reposted by Joe MiltonTsundoku Artist @kbsutt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026This company needs to be put out of business. It’s an indictment of society that it’s allowed to exist at all, but it’s all the more damning that it possesses the prominence it does. 141217311
Reposted by Joe MiltonJohn Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 27/02/2026We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this. 422342442
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly 280149803454
Reposted by Joe MiltonPhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us. 181427274
Reposted by Joe MiltonSteven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This language on the TrumpRx site. 19275104
Reposted by Joe MiltonChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026My three main issues: - Neither man has heard of the Fourth Amendment. - Sanchez did not explain that administrative warrants do not involve a judge. - Sanchez did not explain and Alford ignored that this was a change secretly implemented by DHS in this administration. 7591159
Reposted by Joe MiltonWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow. 1152138274021
Reposted by Joe MiltonDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read. 290200293836
Reposted by Joe MiltonBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 04/02/2026Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives 171735421
Reposted by Joe MiltonWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026extremely destructive pathology of academia/activism to go "oh so you've been shocked by something? you're open to considering substantial changes? well if you aren't willing to cosign onto a radical re orienting of all of society get the fuck out of here" 842146
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2026an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars 379123902276
Reposted by Joe MiltonWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I think that’s because the Times sees its role in society as smugly lecturing liberals about why the right is correct and/or going to win, in the eternal liberal game of trying to feel smarter and more in touch with “real people” than the next liberal, of which it is the all-time world champion. 752755
Reposted by Joe Miltonlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave. 641630243
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/01/2026yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people. 334136222892
Reposted by Joe MiltonLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 03/01/2026So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago 32973102150
Reposted by Joe MiltonPhil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 03/01/2026“Our country has—through presidential aggrandizement accompanied by congressional authorization, delegation, and acquiescence—given one person, the president, a sprawling military and enormous discretion to use it in ways that can easily lead to a massive war. That is our system: One person decides” 1202
Reposted by Joe MiltonNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026For those keeping track at home: Since Christmas Eve the United States has bombed or carried out raids in Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and now Venezuela. And Congress' response has ranged from nothing to support. 11680249
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/01/2026one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots! 5772011363
Reposted by Joe MiltonTero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Does America Need God? Brought to you by Bank of America with that dude from Epstein plane 2216028
Reposted by Joe MiltonAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/12/2025We have a Constitution that is meant to prevent an unhinged executive from dragging the nation into war without just cause. Alas. 1947892
Reposted by Joe Miltonrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/12/2025it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years 302232326
Reposted by Joe MiltonAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it! 352023386
Reposted by Joe MiltonJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular. 1240681
Reposted by Joe MiltonMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025I wrote a piece recently about how Trump, Putin, Musk and the rest are actually fellow citizens of a borderless, lawless society designed to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. Politics and patriotism are just a cover. 14586166
Reposted by Joe Miltonderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt. 14796543506
Reposted by Joe MiltonEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send. 4751961198
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2025“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states 183120972809
Reposted by Joe Miltonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/10/2025the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes 215107853631