Reposted by Joe StiebDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4hThis guy is gonna run the most juiceless & off-putting presidential campaign of our lifetimes in 2028 59816
Reposted by Joe StiebMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying 543148307
Reposted by Joe StiebMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/10/2026Every time I open twitter I’m hit with absolutely rank antisemitism *from the left*. This guy is a correspondent for the fucking Nation. 2956171
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A reminder that she’s still an insane anti semitic conspiracy theorist 312117
Reposted by Joe Stiebjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592584413
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.usatoday.com/story/sports... A giant Kingusatoday.comVictor Wembanyama takes strong stand against promoting sports bettingSan Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama has spoken out about a number of cultural issues. His latest was about the sports gambling industry. 0214
Reposted by Joe StiebRobert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reading this and again thinking to myself about how Sam Moyn and Trita Parsi found their own ways to becoming the stupidest fucking people on the face of the planet www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...nytimes.comTrump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat. 1264
Reposted by Joe StiebSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed? 351040232
Reposted by Joe StiebSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit. 3659994
Reposted by Joe StiebVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this 16630123
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The omission of confederates and fascists is key because that’s who they admire 37718
Reposted by Joe StiebA penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It is genuinely chilling how quickly antisemitism in leftist and entertainer spaces is accelerating. All they need to do is cite Palestine and suddenly everyone forgets everything they've been told in favor of defending blatant antisemitism from has-beens and mediocrities. 1819651
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Total death penalty abolition is the only acceptable thing 1589
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A free press is of course great, but I hate hate hate their filthy traitor guts. 2363
Reposted by Joe StiebNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud. 221664305
Reposted by Joe StiebJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1253239511
Reposted by Joe StiebJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans 391416180
Reposted by Joe StiebPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah, what could our military leaders learn from a bunch of civilians anyway? It's not like they're supposed to be citizen-soldiers with a well-rounded education. 714138
Reposted by Joe StiebAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts 12869181
Reposted by Joe StiebGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm a normal person. literacy is important. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 1813610
Reposted by Joe StiebDead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The reason writing is important is that it puts you on record with the claims you’re making and other people can check to see whether or not you’re spewing bs 1326
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Now listening to ‘The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living’ by Dara Horn. 081
Reposted by Joe StiebKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752431428
Reposted by Joe StiebSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.” 561202324
Reposted by Joe StiebRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats. 392353480
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Quincy types are big mad that biden averted war with iran. 47710
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a really insightful, somewhat revisionist account of HW Bush as a pragmatic liberal internationalist as well as a compelling look at how the ‘Bush the Realist’ was concocted after his presidency. 22710
Reposted by Joe StiebTexas National Security Review @tnsr.org · 28/09/2026Was George H. W. Bush truly a foreign policy realist? In our latest article, Samuel Helfont challenges this myth. He argues that Bush 41 practiced a disciplined liberal internationalism, from the Gulf War to Somalia. Read more at tnsr.org/2026/09/libe... @samuelhelfont.bsky.social 0156
Reposted by Joe StiebSamuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My latest for TNSR on how George HW Bush’s foreign policy legacy has been used and abused by all sides. 063
Reposted by Joe StiebRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme... 1143548566
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every time I see a picture of Peter Thiel he looks like a different type of rotting cheese. 4543
Reposted by Joe StiebConnor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 28/09/202680% of the time when people like him leave a network and strike out on their own, you realize the only reason they didn’t come across as a kook the entire time is that the network has a bunch of resources that constrained them to prevent that 1225
Reposted by Joe Stiebemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think @mehdirhasan.bsky.social still parrots discredited hacks like Matty Taibbi in this and in that is part of the problem. 613730
Reposted by Joe StiebPatrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cancel culture was mostly just people who had never faced consequences before occasionally facing consequences for their shitty behavior. And for the powerful, that state of affairs could not stand 315119
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now reading "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by Michael Chabon. 050
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing that I do is forgetting those that is behind and reaching forward to what’s ahead. 030