Reposted by JW WhileyMiddle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Say what you will about JD Vance, as long as it's "JD Vance is a fucking asshole." 71907152
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And people give teachers shit for working 10 months a year for 1/3 of the base pay of US Congressperson. 013
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Republicans couldn't care less about the rule of law or the democratic process. They've gone full authoritarian, and need to be stopped. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...appropriations.senate.govRepublicans Block Democrats’ Bill to Stop Trump from Robbing the American People with “Pocket Rescissions” | United States Senate Committee on AppropriationsUnited States Senate Committee on Appropriations 100
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The uncomfortable reality is, Piker's statement is true. We've also likely caused more genocide than the Nazis. 001
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I guess Massie isn't a "real person" and the articles of impeachment are a fiction as well. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The leopards are eating my face, but I still support the leopards." 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is genius! I'm going to fix my own trade deficits and stop paying my mortgage and buying groceries, gas, clothing, health care, and personal items. I'll make thousands! 011
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's embarrassing that our elected leader has no understanding of how trade works and why we have trade deficits with certain countries. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is the same EPA that plans to remove carbon standards for power plants. Health is the least of their concerns. 000
Reposted by JW WhileyRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party. 906114333750
Reposted by JW WhileyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often. 545157334110
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Equally frightening is the roughly 20% of registered voters who seem to be totally fine with the overthrow of our democracy. 010
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026When your commander in chief has zero understanding of the mutual benefits of voluntary trade, the importance of comparative advantage, and the value of specialization... 020
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As everyone knows, a bureal is where you keep your fearmongols and your mutilization tools. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I try not to sound like an intellectual elitist, but is it so bad to expect our leaders who speak publicly to at least have a decent command of the English language? 921092133
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The most disturbing recurrent statistic: about 20% of the registered voters polled strongly approve of an authoritarian police state. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I'm not a lawyer, so when I need a thorough understanding of what's playing out in the courts (which, given our complacent legislature, is pretty much where everything is playing out these days), I look to Joyce White Vance. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It has become readily apparent that 33% of this country are either rubes, con-artists, racists, misogynists, opportunists, or some combination of the above. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you think the Iran War is bad for gas prices, wait until you see what a Canadian Trade War will do. 220
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My great uncle served under Patton in Germany. Trump insults him and every person who's actually served in the military. 000
Reposted by JW WhileyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Trump boasts that he can lose a war more quickly than Vietnam-era presidents did. 816940
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In a startling reversal of MAGA policy, Pete Hegseth announces his support of gender-affirming care: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...nbcnews.comU.S. military will test service members’ testosterone levels, Pete Hegseth saysHegseth said that service members 30 and older will undergo the annual screening and that people can choose whether to pursue testosterone replacement therapy. 100
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Notice that the NYT uses the phrases "exaggerates claims" and "outlandish claims" instead of "lies". Mainstream media is still sanewashing the lying, crooked, senile autocrat in the White House.nytimes.comTrump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in SpeechPresident Trump drew selectively from documents his aides published online to insinuate that U.S. elections have been compromised for years and that government officials had suppressed the evidence. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026How is it a "win" if we're returning to the status quo - and worse than JCPOA? 000
Reposted by JW WhileyPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity. It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty. 963422892
Reposted by JW WhileyMike Levin @mikelevin.org · 11/06/2026Does anyone else think it’s just a bit odd that Jay Clayton, the prosecutor put in charge of the Epstein investigation, the same one Pam Bondi pointed to over and over in her testimony released just last week, was just nominated by Trump to run the entire intelligence community?cnn.com 47751346
Reposted by JW WhileyJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves. 873354479540
Reposted by JW WhileyNPR @npr.org · 04/06/2026A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqKn.prNational Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study findsA new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. 21734091462
Reposted by JW WhileySeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026We *must* find ways to live our values while not cannibalizing our political goals. As a dialectical worldview, postmodernism makes that impossible—metamodernism lets one hold firm to values and be realistic about who people are while *still working to advance the cause of Hope*. 28011
Reposted by JW WhileyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Cult member says other members of cult must not challenge the leader of the cult. 992005396
Reposted by JW WhileyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/05/2026In 1923, the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was saying the same thing about immigrants that Republicans are saying today. 1218093
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026When you look at MAGA policy through the lens of, "What is the best way to destabilize the US and cripple international democracy so as to advance the goals of Putin's Russia?" then everything makes sense. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The complete lack of self-awareness that pervades our own vicious regime is startling. 100
Reposted by JW WhileyCitizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam. 3462852810862
Reposted by JW WhileyJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Every school needs a ballroom. 922363646
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This should be the default setting for everyone responding to El Naranjo. 000
JW Whiley @jwwhiley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026BREAKING: Trump posts image of Judas kissing Jesus in Gethsemane. 000
Reposted by JW WhileyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas" 8864211211
Reposted by JW WhileyMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/04/2026it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth 663689595
