Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12hWeird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird 1544108900
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialRoss @trusty.bsky.social · 13hIllegal under 2022 sanctions bill (regardless of whatever deal the President claims to have made) 28320
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialSplitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 19h"Hell is other people yammering at you all fucking day." "What if I could make computers yammer at you all fucking day?" "I wish to revise my earlier statement about Hell." 315731
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13hIt is not normal for a state attorney general to even have a security detail, unless there's some particular threat or an event of high concern. 418143
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13hAbsolutely insanity. How the hell can this person possibly be employed with this level of malicious lying? Unless of course that is what your network is all about. bsky.app/profile/atru... 1902813668
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 13hTrump is lying when he says Zelensky was offered many deals. Ukraine hasn’t been offered ANY deals. They've been repeatedly pressured to make concessions in exchange for NOTHING but a promise to start peace talks. Meanwhile, russia has repeated non-stop that it intends to achieve ALL its goals.theguardian.comTrump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with RussiaUS president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war 28490204
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialShipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 13hSo, today alone: 12 killed and more than 300 wounded by the Houthis; Iran warned ships away from the UAE; a ship was hit by a projectile off the UAE coast; and multiple drones and missiles targeted airports in Saudi Arabia. Sure we will get a Truth Social later about how they are dying to negotiate. 15492130
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 13hpeople will just go on threads and say anything “the entire ps5 library is playable for free on Google Chrome and runs better than it does on ps5” no it’s not that isn’t true 3985972
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 14hMommy. What they want is their mommy to remind them to drink their water and to tell them what a good boy they are 0121
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇 20452222385
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15hMike Johnson says he wants to mow lawns if Republicans lose Congress. Perfect. He’s already spent years on his knees for Donald Trump. At least this time he’ll have something to show for it. 5632349
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15hWhen -- not if, when -- Republicans respond to their losses this fall by crying about "voter fraud" and demanding Congress or the courts review the results, we have good lawyers and elected officials ready to push back. But the rest of us need to take a page from 2000 and mock them as sore losers. 311549319
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h<all together now>publicnotice.co“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase. 18220
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20hIf I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 4495492650
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 17hThe term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 233041163
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialThe Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16hThe fact that Russia has helped Iran - AND helped them target US troops, and yet Trump- while Russia struggles - just de-sanctioned the purchase of Russian oil, should be a MUCH bigger story. Like - a REALLY BIG story. Like - an "our President really IS a useful idiot" story. 29435167
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One thing I love about Carrie the book is that the prom and Carrie’s rampage are, like, a 9/11 scale incident that is the subject of a massive govt investigation, public terror, etc. I hope that’s where they go if they do a second season 833029
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialJesse Farrell @jfarrell.eurosky.social · 17h"One of America’s most prominent news organizations — which also happens to be owned by one of the most powerful corporations in the world, The Walt Disney Company — is saying in open court that the president and his administration’s bullying is chilling its ability to report on the government." 0810
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18hI’ve seen several friends by this point wrap themselves around to a “actually public live-streaming of executions is good” position from the left and like, man, I promise you, you don’t need to overthink this so much. It’s plain and simple barbarism and it’s bad. 29707103
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 16hCLAIM: ICE violated the law in multiple ways in this complete hash of an enforcement effort. FACT: Squirrel!! 415521
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17hAll that money electing politicians who will cut their taxes and slash benefits for everyone else. They’re definitely going to use AI to help everyone out though, they really mean it this time bsky.app/profile/rbre... 6649155
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 18166971951
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration. 4742182
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The terrible crime of responding to a legal subpoena, facing questions under oath, and answering truthfully about a violent attack on the United States. 1429885
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump’s racism is getting worse. There’s no euphemism. It’s just point blank Klan shit. 516628
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He’s getting more loudly racist bsky.app/profile/atru... 2539144
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialHenry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026term limits and age limits are populist bullshit meant to give people an out from admitting whats wrong with America: The Republican Party and their fucked up ideas. 916544
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026none of these rubes have ever faced a hostile, political regulatory regime and they’re behaving like the last dodos wandering aimlessly on the beach 857734
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It is actually bad for Palestinians that Hamas disrupted Israeli-Arab normalization, and the way you can tell is that Hamas, who does not actually give a shit about Palestinians, launched the 10/7 attack specifically to do so and thereby retain power over Palestinians. It is tragedy compounded! 111927
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAvishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Remember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism? 838880
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own” 902914663
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026They do this even though it is obvious beyond a shadow of a doubt that Musk rigs the algorithm however he pleases. 723234
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say 251411240
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11149661478
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026... 18586336
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk. 673286
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026No “I’ll hurt immigrants too” or “I’ll repress trans people too” with a “that’s just what voters believe” rationalization. No treating “working class” and “white working class” as interchangeable synonyms. No effort to court tech oligarchs. No “Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way.” 972069
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it. 442660502
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is basically how Trump wants to run the elections in the US — under the watchful eyes of armed guards. 4584210
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great 111002335
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court while simultaneously easing sanctions on Russia which is massacring Ukrainian civilians. A masterclass in criminality and corruption. 901360589
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialSenator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...dailymail.comPutin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply dieselDonald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel. 2492209991
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They couldn’t paint the bottom of a pool, but we’re building on the moon. 🙄 65667381665
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Carrie is about the moment an abuse victim flips and becomes the abuser and starts harming people who did nothing to her. It's supposed to make you feel incredibly uncomfortable. You're both sympathetic towards and horrified by the monster. 1638033
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it 573936553
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 311625281
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I remember when the US first popularized the term "rogue state" to describe belligerant, dangerous countries that refuse to comply with international obligations. Little did I know it would turn out to be us. 514340
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells 642320827
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap. 181579357
Reposted by @jfehren.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings. 412387828
![Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiafwdmp63odeydunst4aizjbnunnu5s26f6bk22yqg6drbdmutqf4)
![It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidewrh2r7x4l3whf3llsqoenslqugawxzj3p43gflsa5pd4zqmuhi)
