Reposted by Karl HavocW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In our media landscape, having enough money makes you too big to fail. It doesn’t matter if Gates has extremely credible allegations of what he took part in with Epstein or if Musk does Nazi salutes and pushes white genocide. They can get a profile/interview with any outlet they want at any time. 03713
Reposted by Karl HavocRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 211253449
Reposted by Karl HavocCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle. 92028712
Reposted by Karl HavocAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 312886640
Reposted by Karl HavocTC Nachos @tcnachos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026At this point it's an active coverup for ASU's Athletic department and everyone from the Athletic Director on down needs to be fired and held personally liable. On top of the coach and instructor needing to be criminally prosecuted 0277
Reposted by Karl HavocRicardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan 181204583053
Reposted by Karl HavocMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks. 12738356
Reposted by Karl HavocGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out 397209593491
Reposted by Karl Havocgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Capitalism is the greatest system ever devised because it lets the best price win, unless someone offers a better price, in which case I’m suing you because you’re mean. 163066825
Reposted by Karl HavocShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026history is genuinely going to look back on this era and ask what a society has to do to be debauched enough to freely elect an admin whose no 1 agenda was international protection of and solidarity with sexual assaulters irrespective of the species they assaulted 161313225
Reposted by Karl HavocAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026objectively speaking, if i were a democrat running for office and i actually believed bernie or busters cost dems the 16 election id have probably courted uncommitted at the 24 convention. if i believed uncommitted cost the 24 election, i would probably listen to trans people now 826553
Reposted by Karl Havocmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025. 252029381
Reposted by Karl HavocThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201289890
Reposted by Karl HavocApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally 723112507
Reposted by Karl HavocNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There is something kind of bleakly funny about how much time and ink was spilled about how we'd moved past the GWOT and Forever Wars and come to terms with our mistakes and entered a new phase of politics and then every time a Muslim shows appears on TV the media snaps back to 2003 instantly. 392469348
Reposted by Karl HavocDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?" 111094234
Reposted by Karl HavocMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer 11063361675
Reposted by Karl Havocbeccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026democratic base: please please oppose the iran war please we're begging you please god democratic party: 171695319
Reposted by Karl Havocmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026imagine an orphan crushing machine. i hate the machine and i hope we can dismantle it. but if the man who helped build the orphan crushing machine falls into it? buddy i’m gonna crack a smile. 5851411149
Reposted by Karl Havocjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house 17457581334
Reposted by Karl Havoclastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities. 241212262
Reposted by Karl Havocjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026kind of incredible that with the right affect, vicious partisanship can be read as magnanimous understanding 722395272
Reposted by Karl HavocKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220347577
Reposted by Karl HavocDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this? 171276306
Reposted by Karl Havoc👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Incidentally, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library's book list doesn't include any of JKR's children's fiction.imaginationlibrary.comUK Book List - Dolly Parton's Imagination LibraryDolly Parton's Imagination Library Gold Medal Selections announces the UK Book List with titles featuring popular UK characters, authors and illustrators. 181643363
Reposted by Karl HavocTarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Neutral in the culture war" 111155795320
Reposted by Karl Havocshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/08/2026donald trump is busy humiliating the US in 10 different ways simultaneously and the democrats are spending their time condemning a twitch streamer. i know they're increasingly unpopular but that there's anyone who still thinks they're a real opposition party boggles the mind. boggles 414611674
Reposted by Karl HavocClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t 159421800
Reposted by Karl HavocAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135058680
Reposted by Karl HavocLindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?...youtu.beYes, Dolly was Actually That GreatYouTube video by Lindsay Ellis 3437421212
Reposted by Karl HavocThought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Technology is so amazing, imagine living in an age where a machine can move faster than a person 2439739
Reposted by Karl Havoconion person @junlper.beer · 19/08/2026i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth 444184851
Reposted by Karl HavocBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026For years I’ve wondered why businesses don’t generally support single-payer health care, which would save them tons of money in the long run. The only answer I can really come up with is that for them, the leverage employer-funded care gives over the workforce is worth the price. 917843
Reposted by Karl HavocBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026"Scientists" believe life began in underwater hydrothermal vents 4 billion years ago. I believe it began at the Denny's off the interstate in Toledo Ohio in 1956. I don't make fun of their theory and yet they constantly ridicule mine. And that's what's wrong with our so-called elites 272612364
Reposted by Karl HavocAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends 431847328
Reposted by Karl HavocStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/07/2026Specifically, and I think this is important, she was his stuntwoman for forced perspective in the Laestrygonians scenes. She’s under five feet tall and the guys playing the Laestrygonians were all seven feet or taller. Amazing 262214283
Reposted by Karl HavocOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position 8870571754
Reposted by Karl HavocBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I think the problem with the Rock is that the Rock still thinks he’s really cool while John Cena realized that he’s a ridiculous human being and did interesting things with that and Batista realized he was a ridiculous human being and decided to become Daniel Day Louis 14698171438
Reposted by Karl HavocJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026There’s been such an absence of actual leftist politics that for years it’s been represented by a bunch of contrarian edge lords whose main concern was seeming cool to their audiences by critiquing liberals, goofing on people worried by growing fascism, and never offering anything to help anyone. 1132159
Karl Havoc @karlhavoc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Should also go without saying that fortune cookies aren’t even Chinese, they’re an American invention. Pretty obvious metaphor in there for how all the anti-China stuff is actually hurting us. 021
Reposted by Karl Havocjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner. 249137072817
Reposted by Karl HavocWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Clinton Era nostalgia packaged as strategy without any regard for the colossal damage that presidency did to the party by embracing Reagan—both in terms of its credibility and ambition. It was Clinton who deregulated the banks and gave us media consolidation. It was Clinton who gutted welfare. 1623049
Reposted by Karl HavocElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win. 9268982497
Reposted by Karl HavocAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/20265-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd... 9264391885
Reposted by Karl HavocAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country 24895211994
Reposted by Karl HavocJust Some Guy @utopianparallax.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Intelligence agency would like to see new leadership at head of one of the fake political parties. 1497
