Reposted by Joe Flahertyrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11ha little louder for the cheap seats in the back 122235819
Reposted by Joe Flahertytracey 🌱 🔜 gateway fate 203 @sheepskin.bsky.social · 12hgaia online making anti-genAI posts i knew we could always trust u 5955771898
Reposted by Joe FlahertyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9hTired: No one ever wrote a song called Fuck The Fire Department Wired: Cops paid someone millions of dollars to write a song called Fuck The Fire Department 642099
Reposted by Joe FlahertyHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 14hSkydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger! 292478821
Reposted by Joe FlahertyMicah @rincewind.run · 14hplease give me the democratic party of republican fearmongering, part one million 181612188
Joe Flaherty @joef-3.bsky.social · 9h@iwriteok.bsky.social has a theory that if we created some sort of kabuki Hollywood that treated all these loser shitbags like movie stars (Ellison, Shapiro, Owens, etc) the world would be a vastly better place. 020
Reposted by Joe FlahertySam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 14hgenuinely baffling to see game changer anywhere on this list and in this company. i'm still taken aback when people call us a "TV show"! 3599651
Reposted by Joe FlahertyBut Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 10hMeeting People's Needs is the Tough-on-Crime policy that actually works. 119776
Reposted by Joe Flahertymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them! 9671166
Reposted by Joe FlahertyMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws. 4532195
Reposted by Joe FlahertyChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pope Leo XIV’s top ally in Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy has told Catholics to convert the politicians who tolerate Trump’s war on immigrants “or replace them.” He was met with a standing ovation. 9788179
Reposted by Joe FlahertyKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21hFrom Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’ 540385
Reposted by Joe FlahertyJason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government. 28944387
Reposted by Joe FlahertyDeborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How nice for them. Next question: which act of Congress authorized this expenditure of federal funds? Quaint it may be, but our constitution forbids drawing funds from the treasury except pursuant to acts of congress. 16528155
Reposted by Joe FlahertyKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Everyone in Trump II deserves to be booed loudly and relentlessly every time they show their faces in public for the rest of their lives, but there is a whole other level of booing that should greet people who did less than nothing and then talk about how hard it was. apnews.com/article/thom...apnews.comRepublican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new bookRepublican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.” 2456269
Reposted by Joe FlahertyDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is being passed around as a total misrepresentation of what he said. Trump was saying - as he often does - that costs for Americans are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from getting nuclear missiles. He was saying ‘let them take out LA or SD’ as an example of what could happen then… 12219540
Reposted by Joe FlahertyLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.” 21637161
Reposted by Joe FlahertyGil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...simonandschuster.comThe Nerd ReichNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires ... 7946237
Reposted by Joe FlahertyAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026shes saying this on the same network that just interviewed a guy who said he spent 18 days in heaven chilling with jesus christ 12977191
Reposted by Joe FlahertyDavid Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I always think of William Goldman’s great dialogue from CHINATOWN: “Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?” 929551
Reposted by Joe FlahertyGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 05/10/2026It's what explains why Musk runs roughshod over environmental or consumer-safety laws, and Meta thumbs its nose at corporate-tax laws: experience has taught them to expect no punishment. It's elite impunity in practice: when you're a star, they let you do it. 219467
Reposted by Joe FlahertyAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east 141050234
Reposted by Joe FlahertyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The GOP is the party of rapists and rape apologists and pedophiles and pedophile defenders. These are true statements that are not on every Dem mailer and radio and TV ad but should be. 343982
Reposted by Joe Flahertymuscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026not working has never stopped a death penalty, it's only fair to put a wealth tax on the books for the rest of human history 145462
Reposted by Joe FlahertyRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25596642994
Reposted by Joe FlahertyBailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So we had to shake down ByteDance for ... reasons ... meanwhile they shutdown their stupid AI companions with just the mere whiff of regulation while the companies we are stuck with because it's "pro-freedom" are actively encouraging AI psychosis - ok 17422
Reposted by Joe FlahertyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys. 361191366
Joe Flaherty @joef-3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not all white people stoped using the n word in public because they were asked nicely. Some had to catch some hands. 020
Reposted by Joe FlahertyA Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This last line is my new mantra 44216
Reposted by Joe FlahertyGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone. 1153333682
Reposted by Joe FlahertyJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322888629
Reposted by Joe FlahertyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The NYT is anti-trans and pro Trump and pro Epstein. That's it. 625237
Reposted by Joe Flahertykat claws @kat.meangirls.online · 05/10/2026100% & it really can't be said clearly enough that the deaths from AV development caused by tesla & uber were fully preventable w the right regulations & oversight bodies & the same will be true w gen AI. the issue in both cases is deployment on the general public with no accountability, not R&D. 213538
Reposted by Joe FlahertyDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 441668496
Reposted by Joe FlahertyMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at 11206304
Reposted by Joe FlahertyMad Canuck @wrestlingcards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026More of this everywhere please. The high road uses more gas, stay low to save money. 355057
Reposted by Joe Flahertymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is a reassuring fantasy among those who have critiques of unfettered left-wing governance that right agrees with these critiques and will temper the left when in power. But the contemporary right isnt that, it's an apocalyptic doomsday cult that lives in an alternate reality. 3641132
Joe Flaherty @joef-3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Definitely manosphere adjacent shitheads because they’re apparently calling the character Malfoid. 020
Joe Flaherty @joef-3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He just did a thing with Louis CK and Dave Chappelle, so I’m sure bitching about being canceled or whatever was fresh on his mind. 000
Reposted by Joe Flahertyspooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 05/10/2026static.klipy.comBitcoin Bitaroo Elmo Laser Eyes MemeALT: Bitcoin Bitaroo Elmo Laser Eyes Meme 37517
Reposted by Joe FlahertyThaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 04/10/2026the actual Great Replacement is tech bros replacing the economy with these snake oil factories 14420
Reposted by Joe Flaherty👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Let me stipulate that Meta should not be doing this, it’s bigoted & bullshit. But. WHY DID EVERY BUSINESS SWITCH TO HAVING ONLY AN FB/IG ACCT INSTEAD OF A WEBSITE?!? You can use an acct to POINT to a website but SO MANY businesses just abandoned having 1 & Meta can EASILY hold them hostage!!! 1014462
Reposted by Joe FlahertyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay? 721076197
Reposted by Joe FlahertyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/202650 years from Goldwater, Scott, & Rhodes to this guy & this position, & yet somehow we've spent the last decade talking about "polarization" as the problem & how it is <checks notes> the Democrats who have moved further from the political center than the now-far right authoritarian party. 19539110
Reposted by Joe FlahertyPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026These guys gave cheered for the maddest, most incoherent sentences this evening, and he still can’t sell them data centres. You can literally hear Trump’s freeform-speech brain tacking away from a toxic issue. 7688105
Reposted by Joe FlahertyChris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...nytimes.comCornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for CampusMichael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention. 251533401
Reposted by Joe FlahertyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013146641
