Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @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” 18190232607
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13/06/2026For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power. 29278751835
Jackson P. Hatcher @jacksonhatcher.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Strange feeling watching the political career of someone as genuinely awful as Nancy Mace crash and burn because of the one truly admirable thing she ever did in Congress If Mace had been just a little more cowardly and refused to sign Massie's discharge petition, she'd be the next Governor of SC 000
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year. 5274961885
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2026one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?theargumentmag.comThe liberal case for voter IDThe SAVE Act is a bad bill, but voter ID is a good idea 1172937280
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The State of the Union really highlighted to me three themes of the Trump presidency (especially the second one). First, it's notable that in a speech to joint session of Congress, how little Congress was asked to do. 1758291
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions 1013692656
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Today Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen will announce a plan to bring Turning Point USA clubs to every high school in the state. 3718352
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/02/2026We rewatched the halftime show and the closing is so powerful. Bad Bunny’s final messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” “Together, we are America.” 493069516
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them 102248655815
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2026An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” 23083793416
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/01/2026JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled 242736387
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them 304102251959
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Good @adamserwer.bsky.social. Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.theatlantic.comMinnesota Proved MAGA WrongThe pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions. 71288277
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 2736441049
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatchermolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence. 241273989834
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history 219200555307
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?" 203106733061
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece. 81033159
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Zero percent chance this is true. 3621229643465
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?) 5595962415
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters 13570381222
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty 580395438671
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/12/20251 TON has ~907K grams. ~1 gram of cocaine can be fatal. Over 20 yrs, former Honduran Pres Juan Orlando Hernández brought over 500 TONS of cocaine to the U.S. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Trump has pardoned & released him from prison. While mass murdering fisherman as "narcoterrorists." 20621263
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/11/2025can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything 2404970726
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job 1626431856272
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherAlexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday” 62115662048
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 10/09/2025Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes. 995645990
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place 11254991208
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2025brett kavanaugh’s pretty little mind can’t be bothered to imagine the mother desperate to calm her sobbing child as ICE agents threaten to whisk her away to a secret jail for looking “illegal” 251959206
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Rep. Thomas Massie tells me: "They're already running $2 million in ads against me. It's three billionaires, two hedge fund managers, one of them is in Epstein's black book," citing John Paulson, Paul Singer, and Miriam Adelson. "Those are max donors to the Speaker…NRCC…RNC…Trump's campaign." 22813257
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/08/2025popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs 162102592115
Jackson P. Hatcher @jacksonhatcher.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I was here. There was a standing ovation. Flood's response? "Fascists don't hold town halls" 010
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherSenator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Yeah 467173622258
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America. 960581349816
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2025they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power 244759901
Reposted by Jackson P. Hatcherjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat 24493501339
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Cuomo’s biggest donors are cheering Trump on. These are the MAGA warmongers who would have his ear in City Hall. 854244935
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11. 1101653356
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/06/2025My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins. 522347532
Reposted by Jackson P. HatcherNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like “Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic “Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect 181944458
