Reposted by Mikey GRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5htremors and jaws are both great movies, and Jaws probably succeeds more as a work of horror. but Tremors is actually perfect. an almost unique example of a film executed flawlessly in line with its vision. 35997137
Reposted by Mikey GMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20162102863
Reposted by Mikey GChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028 131499251
Reposted by Mikey Gjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561151138
Reposted by Mikey GRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/10/2026lmao awesome 471843266
Reposted by Mikey GA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want. 7686156
Reposted by Mikey GAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2635209895724
Reposted by Mikey GSenate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully. 44864741641
Reposted by Mikey GAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 694278849535
Reposted by Mikey GCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A core belief uniting Trumpists with Silicon Valley tech bros is that society should be organized around male entitlement to sex: a cross between Mad Men and the old Playboy Mansion. 54637233
Reposted by Mikey GGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jesus fucking christ the way capitalism can’t help but lead to a small number of psychotic individuals being involved in every aspect of society 1292296500
Reposted by Mikey GKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him. 15084111899
Reposted by Mikey GKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not. 7752671564
Reposted by Mikey Gjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.nytimes.comOpinion | Bernie Sanders, Steve Case and Others on What Washington Should Do Now on A.I.How can the government reel in the technology? Here are six ideas. 372170269
Reposted by Mikey GPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 351162704184
Reposted by Mikey GRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways. 793181574
Reposted by Mikey Gjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103761920
Reposted by Mikey GBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401266996702
Reposted by Mikey GSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer 10713162
Reposted by Mikey Gjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026yes. i would wager that these people genuinely believe that the country is MAGA and that there is a vast and untapped audience to be appealed to. incidentally, these people also exist in an impenetrable bubble of sycophants. 1304414538
Reposted by Mikey GBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026if macklemore killed an ed sheeran tour is that a big enough contribution to music as an artform that he retroactively now deserves that grammy 19889321472
Reposted by Mikey GMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comHomeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower allegesThe searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said. 867143958393
Reposted by Mikey Gebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Love the Irish🇮🇪 468266355730
Reposted by Mikey GAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... " 1376339688304
Reposted by Mikey Gjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026the way to understand a piece like this from schmitz is that he lives in an urban, cosmopolitan millieu and the popularity of country music is a novelty to him. and so to explain it, he has to fit it into his volkish conception of america, whether or not that makes any actual sense. 1764003567
Reposted by Mikey GRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026After booing him, the crowd breaks out in a loud, “Ted Cruz sucks!” chant. 1050179063824
Reposted by Mikey GKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...nytimes.comReflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for DamageThe contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show. 675105934079
Reposted by Mikey GDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit. 776942172
Reposted by Mikey GSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"When the powerful want you to forget a conspiracy, what they want you to forget most are the victims. The victims are why the crime matters. To be human is to care about other people. To seek justice is to honor another's humanity." -- THEY KNEW (2022) 422290
Reposted by Mikey GKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"They"? What? What's fun about Republicans is that they get to smear an entire political group as responsible for one random person's actions, but they themselves will deny any responsibility for the actions of their own deranged president or the racist billionaire who has bought them all. 1332231419
Reposted by Mikey GPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Are we just blowing past the illegal part which is the part that’s happening in the present 361118126
Reposted by Mikey GKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it. 8443341292
Reposted by Mikey GKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Remember when Joe Biden proposed canceling student debt and every single Republican accused him of "bribing voters"?dailymail.comBiden accused by GOP of 'bribing' voters with student loan forgivenessThe Biden administration unveiled its latest effort to forgive as much as $20,000 in debt for some borrowers on Monday after the Supreme Court struck down its original plan last year. 6639401042
Reposted by Mikey GCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship. 475239124327
Reposted by Mikey GRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles. 20458272016
Reposted by Mikey GKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore. 692654876
Reposted by Mikey GPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this. 15233968116098
Reposted by Mikey GDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120783352
Reposted by Mikey GRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses. 251742270
Reposted by Mikey GDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance. 643090537
Reposted by Mikey GRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026i don't think it was chiefly or just the inconvenience, but that they couldn't buy their way out of the safety measures and restrictions everyone else faced (they actually could, but not everyone and not every restriction) 412390289
Reposted by Mikey GKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026One easy way to tell they're not actually "the most transparent administration in history" is that this is the first time in five decades that the president and vice president didn't have their taxes audited and released to the public. 291508359
Reposted by Mikey GKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved” 20591063163
Reposted by Mikey GCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026 627113842249
Reposted by Mikey Gjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...nytimes.comHow the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades. 9055671400
Reposted by Mikey GSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victimcnn.comUSPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN PoliticsThe US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*... 46299484584
Reposted by Mikey GStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's so weird how "As Speaker of the House, I have no idea what's going on... Like, in general," is an effective way to deflect scandal rather than being a massive scandal in itself. 1103381701
