Reposted by Jim S.Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm sure it wasn't the first time it happened, but this was the first time I noticed the pattern where conspiracy theorists declare complete vindication on the basis of LEAKED SECRET DOCUMENTS that even more strongly prove that they are wrong. 1568869
Reposted by Jim S.Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't. 151819434
Reposted by Jim S.RandBall’s Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He looks like he’s trying to solve a murder in a town where candy grows on trees 462101199
Reposted by Jim S.jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942827463
Reposted by Jim S.Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound. 642334460
Jim S. @jimbobsama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How I'm feeling watching Justin Verlander's retirement game, on my birthday, when I'm not much younger than JV: 000
Reposted by Jim S.mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real 292449510
Reposted by Jim S.Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal 412452577
Reposted by Jim S.Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Arthur Conan Doyle got assaulted. There was no internet do you have any idea how hard it was to find someone to assault them over Benedict Cumberbatch?! 0536
Reposted by Jim S.Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026honestly most be dope to be so rich you don’t even need to know where you are 371559133
Reposted by Jim S.Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees 21809390
Reposted by Jim S.maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place 7164891221
Reposted by Jim S.I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk. 2532471057
Reposted by Jim S.Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.nbcnews.comElon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis 22860093739
Reposted by Jim S.Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:deadline.comDone! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. DiscoveryParamount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD. 16835751395
Reposted by Jim S.e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem? 2936761014
Reposted by Jim S.Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society. 392521501
Reposted by Jim S.Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit. 604778613
Reposted by Jim S.Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project. 41279307
Reposted by Jim S.g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 137149363447
Reposted by Jim S.Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886342303
Reposted by Jim S.Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards 465349952
Reposted by Jim S.Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Narnia books as Isekai Manga 2235601281
Reposted by Jim S.Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It...uh...is not meant to be a competition 893730596
Reposted by Jim S.jamelle @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? 430103791921
Reposted by Jim S.Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Exactly. I want to ask 29 percent of people their secret. 1725328
Reposted by Jim S.Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't 532650574
Reposted by Jim S.The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Genuinely the most online administration that has ever existed (extremely fucking derogatory). 919621
Reposted by Jim S.nick @moldyringwald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Don't even talk to me in the morning until I've had several La Croix's 13215
Reposted by Jim S.Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A decade ago, if you aimed to predict Supreme Court decisions, which has proven a better heuristic? 1) Follow legal text and precedent according to a logically consistent judicial philosophy 2) Ignore or distort law to maximize GOP/right-wing power while mitigating risks of future court expansion 19893116
Reposted by Jim S.Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents. 533624736
Reposted by Jim S.jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election 20178341897
Reposted by Jim S.Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says" 2266181257
Reposted by Jim S.The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That reminds me, Coyote vs Acme has already made back what Ketchup Entertainment paid for it, so once again I have no choice but to give David Zaslav the double middle fingers 221127
Reposted by Jim S.Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026TIL even the guy who wrote the book called "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" that everyone keeps talking about also isn't really sure what an AI apocalypse entails. It's the No. 1 news story in the country and no one can even detail what it is! 1021369204
Reposted by Jim S.Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking. 186151362695
Reposted by Jim S.Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history. 6135941126
Reposted by Jim S.Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Like, I would vote for Talarico still if I lived in Texas (which, mercifully, I do not). I think he is trying and failing to thread the needle. His ultimate failure is believing the needle exists to begin with. Bend to the pressure to acknowledge the needle, and you've already lost. 338135
Reposted by Jim S.Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit 7448781047
Reposted by Jim S.James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...heartlandsignal.comProof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland SignalRepublicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1... 451924751
Reposted by Jim S.jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions 1255077888
Reposted by Jim S.onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026never forget except for donald trump, he can forget 1724448569
Reposted by Jim S.Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel 398208404808
Reposted by Jim S.Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/09/2026"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...religionnews.com'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies. 481944584
Reposted by Jim S.Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Trying to think of what to post for Star Trek’s 60th anniversary but I post about Star Trek a lot already so just enjoy Worf wearing jeans 584140772
Reposted by Jim S.Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For Star Trek Day... a classic from The Onion: theonion.com/trekkies-bas...theonion.comTrekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'Long time fans of the Star Trek franchise say JJ Abrams’ enjoyable, engaging prequel betrays what Star Trek is all about. 0205
Reposted by Jim S.Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed. 221054558