Reposted by IlijaTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine. 321127454
Reposted by IlijaNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.nathangoldwag.wordpress.comDid Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was… 1423562
Reposted by IlijaKate Rozen @katerozen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Let's talk about how Amtrak is a bad landlord and roommate with local commuter rail. #HarfordLine #Connecticut #Amtrak 4124
Reposted by Ilijaescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND 312149914237
Reposted by IlijaMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don't change their absolutely insane decision.” 19940461
Reposted by IlijaIlija @ilijab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Falmouth Fetterman still out here looking up four syllable words. Glad he found time in between covering up his nazi tattoo and working for Betsy Devos’ brother’s mercenary group Blackwater 🚩🚩🚩🚩 001
Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026@jahimes.bsky.social would you care to share with your constituents (and the rest of us connecticutians) what your involvement was with Peter Thiel’s little dialog group? Did you have a good time talking to ted cruz, elon musk, and jarod kushner over some light canapés? 010
Reposted by IlijaJason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Some of these highlights include $444,880,820 lost in business revenue, $152,750,000 lost in worker wages, $26,137,200 estimated monthly grocery cost needs for newly food-insecure households, and at least $62,800,000 in rental assistance needs from December 2025-April 2026. 3/ 19525
Reposted by IlijaSickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Hey, I need y'all to hit mute on the TV for 30 seconds and watch a clip of the most Scottish people I've ever seen coming into Boston. 27968234
Reposted by IlijaACLU @aclu.org · 11/06/2026Police officers across the country are abusing their unfettered access to Flock's nationwide network of automatic license plate readers to stalk their exes. This is a dangerous violation of our privacy. Our communities must continue to fight back against this invasive surveillance tech.404media.coCops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk PeopleThere have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people. 692015938
Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Im not one to subtweet assholes but what the fuck is up with this 4chan adjacent language 100
Reposted by Ilijathe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/06/2026the pause in the middle of the hook is ascended master level stuff. also his bassist is so sick. like what is the make and model of that sick ass bass. the candidate with the buttery bass tone in the rhythm section deserves the win that's simple science youtu.be/1lD8hbQZWwk?...youtu.beBobby Pulido, Guardianes Del Amor De Arturo Rodriguez - Amor Se Escribe Con Llanto (En Vivo)YouTube video by BobbyPulidoVEVO 515918
Reposted by IlijaPJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Bro, your leitmotif. It's in a minor key now and all of a sudden has a choral track backing it, bro. Are you okay? 315224
Reposted by IlijaMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/06/2026Enjoyed this. www.chartography.net/p/a-voyage-i...chartography.netA Voyage Is Not a ViewA lost Chinese map and the third graders who knew how to read it. 33616
Reposted by IlijaChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 03/06/2026you know what, what the hell: one like = one tip about cooking for people who believe they are shitty at cooking 320723
Reposted by IlijaStatus Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️ 9041611812
Reposted by IlijaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk... 14037711721
Reposted by IlijaDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...open.substack.comThe Trump Administration's Incredibly Slow Learning CurveThese are not very bright people and things got out of hand. 1149187
Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Its been a return-to-books kind of year. Lets get it started: 100
Reposted by IlijaPride at the Pier 🏳️🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 16/05/2026We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15 9846365
Reposted by IlijaTab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I hope I am still alive for the day harm reduction replaces safety theater as the primary guiding principle of transportation policy 210422
Reposted by IlijaBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Daffys very role is an unpopular opinion. Chuck Jones said that “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”: vain, self-centered, terrified at the world and the judgments of others, this plucky duck represents the very darkness at the heart of man’s soul as he struggles against entropy 411917334
Reposted by IlijaKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Der Mandalorian UND Grogu? In dieser Wirtschaftslage?? 3628
Reposted by IlijaShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something 592088274
Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Enjoyed 90% of the stump speech from @joshforct.bsky.social at the West Hartford town dems meeting last night. Like, great stuff: content, messaging, rhetoric. 100
Reposted by IlijaAbby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert. 12064851989
Reposted by IlijaWes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms 222103432250
Reposted by IlijaJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22 8339201567
Reposted by IlijaEthan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/03/2026Hey if you need a fantasy story that I wrote specifically as a middle finger to JKR and other utter human disappointments check out my comic, The Unfamiliars. Theunfamiliars.site 122891
Reposted by IlijaJim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.no01.substack.comMarch, 19-21: God is a comedianA stiff drink is recommended 8631821410
Reposted by IlijaQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/03/2026Donald Trump: •Blew up the Iran Nuclear Deal despite Iran's compliance •Sanctioned & bombed Iran, claiming he destroyed their nuclear program •And when Iran still came to negotiate & give up ALL its enriched uranium, Trump killed 175 Iranian girls & launched a war on Iran This is a dictator 2/2 441896526
Reposted by IlijaSasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contractsmicahflee.github.ioDHS Contracts Explorer 161538855
Reposted by IlijaChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/03/20261/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️ 8527991108
Reposted by IlijaAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t. 830109793695
Reposted by IlijaMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november 191664181
Reposted by IlijaMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history? 13684363114
Reposted by IlijaI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel. 594499942
Reposted by IlijaLeila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran. 741710856
Reposted by IlijaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit. 36757111259
Reposted by IlijaMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job. 14973112017
Reposted by IlijaThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Illegal wars abroad and ICE concentration camps at home are MAGA’s version of scorched earth. They are not merely a “distraction” – they are, for this regime, the real thing: A way for people obsessed with the destructive power they can unleash to assert dominance and feel “manly.” 722871
Reposted by IlijaCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026All I want from my government representatives is for them to hold the line. That's it. I don't care if they don't have the votes. They have platforms. I can't get a 10-minute spot on a cable news program. They can. And they should use those platforms to shine a beacon on fascism and corruption. 3675153
Reposted by IlijaGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now. 186182086128
Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Cavorting w a convicted sex offender and asking them for campaign money should get you removed from office in 2026. 000
Reposted by Ilijadoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 13/02/2026in 2016, prior to the election, an analysis I read said "the democratic party works like a business, and there's a great deal of loyalty to people who are part of the machine. Think of it like an organization that promotes from within, rather than a political organization with a shared platform" 617847
Reposted by IlijaChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/02/2026DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE. 26666231757