Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23hjesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 449169052614
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism. 18626162
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 7452171272
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 405112697
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Silicon Valley wasn't solely a shell game until the tech media started calling idiots like Musk and Zuckerman geniuses, two guys who notoriously didn't create shit. But they didn't know that because they were idiots too who shouldn't have been reporting on things they didn't understand. 557663
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108362343
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist 25950871107
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing. 181986358
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.ballsandstrikes.orgBrett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every DayThe fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America. 672010412
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For the rest of my life, American politics will be Democrats creating a good, stable economy which allows the dumbest 1/3 of the country to indulge in petty bigotries, which sweep Republicans into power who then collapse the economy, resulting in Democrats returning to power... 57917
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialFrederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...cbsnews.comNew photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacksThe images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity. 291004461
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialIan Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NDSU’s punter might hold the record for kinds of cultural experience in a six year span 17894114
jteckmann.bsky.social @jteckmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026static.klipy.comWeekend At Bernie's 2: Bernie's Conga LineALT: Weekend At Bernie's 2: Bernie's Conga Line 000
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past. 5599443392
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBen Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse. 11029279
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The easiest way to explain the future of US governance for your lifetime and mine is that Trump has taken us from “easy” to “difficult” permanently 9693114
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored. 201110672284
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026They have a narrative that al qaeda attacked “America” because it’s “Christian”. And no, they attacked NYC because it’s liberal and powerful and diverse - the opposite of the red state rural constituency that wants to claim 9/11 the most 532140
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I keep coming back to Biden's bad debate performance, which was largely down to a halting speech pattern even though what he said made sense substantively. OTOH Trump can say whatever batshit crazy stuff he wants & the press never bats an eye (in part) because he says it confidently. 29509108
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves 7486581359
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151681314
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialAndrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living. 7734205
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025I don’t think there’s any moving forward for the United States without addressing the Musk problem. badfaithtimes.com/holding-elon...badfaithtimes.comHolding Elon Musk Accountable Is A Matter Of National SurvivalElected Democrats can't move on this time. 331294192
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war. 5037241070
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 03/09/2026The first wave of Democratic candidates to understand that “The Supreme Court is a corrupt cesspool of pro-Trump reactionaries and there is only one way to fix it” is a winning message will become stars in a hurryballsandstrikes.substack.comDemocrats Who Are Still Afraid of Supreme Court Expansion Need to Grow UpDemocrats are finally grasping that their voters do not like the Supreme Court and do not want to be represented by politicians who defend it. 271644293
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026nobody in history has ever gotten a bigger "affirmative action" boost than JD Vance. these Yale mfs brought him in, literally taught him how to use a knife and fork, handed him to Amy Chua to learn ruthless sociopathy, and then a tech billionaire bought him a Senate seat over the counter 8759125
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"People with money and power shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they want," a load bearing democratic principle, is portrayed as some kind of wild eyed demand for full communism now 369694
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026the news media understood perfectly that stuff like this was what was actually at stake in the 2024 election and told voters instead that the larger issue was that it was a scandal that Tim Walz retired after 21 years in the national guard 7998211
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Yes the long-term vision conservatives have for education is for public schools to become quasi-prisons that exclusively serve the poor and focus on brutal discpline in order to train them to become compliant slaves and servants for the upper class bsky.app/profile/sofr... 317013
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026the fash-industrial complex donates big money back to conservative politicians which helps keep school shooting guns legal. they like school shootings: more money for them! it's the same way cop unions mostly endorse politicians whose policies keep crime high — don't want business to dry up! 531340
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America 312759603
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes. 4364931266
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialJustin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.electionlawblog.org 141164470
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/08/2026One of the things that's going to kill me before the Trump Era ends is the way MAGA, lost in the grips of a completely hallucinated fantasy of Trump as A Man Among Men, has completely overlooked that their god-king's actual passions are showtunes, fancy parties, and interior design. 1442954
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The core problem is malicious people manipulating ignorant people, and such a situation requires the exact opposite of sympathy, which inherently acknowledges the validity of the malicious position. The situation requires shame: "You are all grifting liars who are killing children." 12446109
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Republicans basically put the human embodiment of the Instagram algorithm in charge of public health and now polio is fully back and no one can eat anything from the grocery store without having the worst diarrhea of their lives 415920
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026this is mostly true of dem elites, who have internalized the idea that conservatives are more authentically American. 201410114
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialKen Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 11/08/2026HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."... 1852399530
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialPhillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny 402798734
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Similar thing they did with that guy they illegally sent to El Salvador and then kept trying to deport. Initial action exposed as corrupt and baseless; forced to walk it back; then double down to save face. Heinous! 152191302
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Every time Trump has gotten himself into a jam he's gotten someone to bail him out, or found some flaw in the system to exploit. Bankruptcy, dad's money, bad faith lawsuits, reluctant prosecutors, an anti-Constitution Supreme Court majority, etc. But the Iran war doesn't have anything like that. 20851194
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Imagine a fellow draft dodger like Bill Clinton, posting an image of him in uniform, wearing more medals than Patton or MacArthur. Fox News would’ve spontaneously combusted 1322169374
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Zero rich Republicans — literally zero — send their kids to trade school. But they push trade school relentlessly on the middle class. It's interesting! 1249671
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution. 231515275
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Great piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)dannykatch.substack.comWe used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy 411538348
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy 3556101318
Reposted by @jteckmann.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026People will say the big 3 didn't see it coming but US auto executives knew this was happening 15 years ago and largely acted accordingly, making huge investments in EV tech and lobbying the US govt for subsidies to those investments. Then Trump got reelected and it all got thrown out the window 491834461
