Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 1hWhat’s the opposite of “mind-boggling”? If I had citizenship anywhere else, I would also stay way the hell away from the United States. 000
Reposted by Jack LetourneauBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation 201825286
Reposted by Jack LetourneauMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be 992872576
Reposted by Jack LetourneauAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud 13874891555
Reposted by Jack LetourneauPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned. 302563610
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026LITTLE PIG MAN: Okay, yes, we did slam dunk the US economy into the toilet for the first half of the term but that just means the odds are looking great for the second half! 141
Reposted by Jack LetourneauHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos. 271648401
Reposted by Jack Letourneaubig bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time 216167674234
Reposted by Jack LetourneauGrudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I still think it would be better if the dumbest asshole on earth and the President of the United States were two different people 15569061211
Reposted by Jack LetourneauMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party. 362475768
Reposted by Jack Letourneaumtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thinking about how dissonant Hakeem Jeffries saying "we have 5 working groups on affordability" is with the completely reasonable demand for righteous judgment on those who have wronged us 15820136
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Look at this pathetic list. WORKING GROUPS. Where is “nonstop subpoenas and public hearings on the worst political corruption and malfeasance in American history”? Jeffries is not fit to hold the gavel. 000
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“We have a warrant for your arrest.” “That’s not a warrant, that’s a Chinese take-out menu.” “HE’S RESISTING ARREST!” [batons, tasers, etc.] 010
Reposted by Jack LetourneauAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147402818
Reposted by Jack LetourneauGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 227395187142
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Over the last year, my household lost, on average, a hundred dollars or more a week with the grocery store. No more! 000
Reposted by Jack LetourneauDawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership 20385082230
Reposted by Jack LetourneauLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The president has a lady Renfield that sleeps in the White House crawlspace and travels in the wheel well of Airforce 1 and prints out his posts for him on a portable printer and wipes the poo poo off of his giant ass and that's supposed to be funny? 222927380
Reposted by Jack LetourneauBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT. 512846805
Reposted by Jack LetourneauCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture. 8761192639
Reposted by Jack LetourneauTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism 5546821398
Reposted by Jack LetourneauErnest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1% 12080331990
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Take it to the bank, boys. This one’s just like Bart! 111
Reposted by Jack LetourneauWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Prosecution for the ones we can prove broke the law, firings for the ones you can prove went against policy, rural Canadian border in winter, rural Texas desert in summer until they quit for the rest. 724241
Reposted by Jack LetourneauDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/20261. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero. 573457893
Reposted by Jack LetourneauFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026every day, every hour, brings us images that are totally beyond the powers of parody 933196687
Reposted by Jack LetourneauRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it. 511971712
Reposted by Jack Letourneauandy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment 3561691275
Reposted by Jack LetourneauEm, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online. 1815811759
Reposted by Jack LetourneauJack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 30/07/2026Consistency has its value, but doing a bad thing consistently is not actually better than being good somewhat inconsistently 2687
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026F-F-F-F-Free market pricing??? But that would be un-American! 011
Reposted by Jack Letourneaumtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor. 4656581130
Reposted by Jack Letourneaulowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money 373713557
Reposted by Jack LetourneauRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes 8280431499
Reposted by Jack LetourneauA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I know this is divisive and unpopular with those all-important centrist white suburban voters, but don't think it makes us safer to spend half our civic budget on a murder gang. 9973280
Reposted by Jack LetourneauAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026When a politician dies, they weren't your friend, you aren't close to their family, they are not owed your polite fictions or any obligation to not speak ill of them. They were public figures who wielded immense power and their death is as good an occasion as any to say what you think of them. 19768139
Reposted by Jack Letourneauceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum 198177583108
Reposted by Jack LetourneauMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The chair of the Maine Democratic Party said on @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social last night that each day that passes where Platner doesn't drop out makes it harder for them to execute a good and fair plan to replace him. What a fucking asshole. 881558303
Reposted by Jack LetourneauBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026>Everybody use AI or you're fired >Wait stop it's too expensive >Don't use it for menial tasks >Only use it for important work stuff >If you're going to use it for important stuff make sure it's correct >Let me know if you have any questions! 263132546
Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026transform your ass out of the senate race please and thank you 000
Reposted by Jack LetourneauAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026hot dog man dot gif 572068251
Reposted by Jack LetourneauOdd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Massachusetts is about as pure of a distillation of America as you can get. It's where the country started, it's filled with precious national history, it's a paragon of education and civic engagement, it's filled with the loudest and most irritating people alive. 6707123
Reposted by Jack LetourneauTamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them 765259807163