Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8hPerformative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, & the only way forward is to bring back shame & make this level of bad faith unacceptable in American politics. 413420
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comTrump Is an Easy Mark for PutinThe president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans. 17627591223
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14hIf Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent. 1993363585
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 139059
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17hTwas my first thought too 225936
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19hI empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate. 2621103
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17hCancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription. 267128322856
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18hRemarkable, and encouraging, data from @tbonier.bsky.social and @targetsmart.bsky.social. 210931
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18hThey are all a bunch of tiresome, petty, juvenile trolls. 3695679
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialAlexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 18hIf @fetterman.senate.gov doesn’t want to d the work of representing the people of Pennsylvania, then he should resign & give another Pennsylvanian the opportunity to serve. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen... Service is a privilege. @johnfetterman.com is wasting taxpayer dollars by not doing his job. 20604134
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialTruthout @truthout.org · 18hAs the Trump administration guts disaster aid, it’s time for an extreme weather superfund paid for by fossil fuel firms.buff.lyExtreme Weather Disasters Cost Hundreds of Billions. Let’s Make Polluters Pay.As the Trump administration guts disaster aid, it’s time for an extreme weather superfund paid for by fossil fuel firms. 16728
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In 2016, I was the general counsel to the Clinton campaign. In 2022, Trump sued me and others for RICO. The case was dismissed. Trump and his lawyers were sanctioned. Now, they have asked SCOTUS to hear the case. I will never back down. I will never stop fighting. When we fight we win.💪⚖️🗳️ 8443061147
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20hanother day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna... 817345
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.social(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 18hPoland‘s Prime Minister Tusk had a phone call with Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. He made the following statement afterwards: 271849408
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17hCitizens United could be overturned on the basis of a new understanding of the facts. Limits on expenditures that are narrowly tailored to achieve the compelling objective of fair elections could pass First Amendment scrutiny. But I don’t see this Court doing so, so we must amend the Constitution. 23494180
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17hRemember this the next time you read another idiotic piece asking "wHy dO pRoFesSorS aLL vOtE foR DeMoCraTs?" It's a real mystery why more faculty don't back the party that's actively working to destroy them and their work. 14853166
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialLiana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 23hIt's almost as if running a home takes effort. Oddly enough, it also sounds like maintaining friendships, society, and social networks also takes effort and thought. Raise your hand if you're shocked. I'll hand you a broom. 318431
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10/10/2026📌Win or lose, if Willie Nelson endorses you, you are the better man. 393795663
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h"We're a Christian nation, and we remember what Christ said -- never, ever turn the other cheek" 2247477
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialRoxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 5579130
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is how you write a headline. 7845701451
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialElf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Just like Uber and Lyft head out to destroy mass transit and ended up reinventing buses. The objective is to deprive you of every public space and every public utility, then give you shittier, more expensive versions you have to pay someone for. 18127
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20hRemember this guy started his post-Trump reboot by inviting a bunch of reactionaries onto his podcast so he could apologize for opposing them and tell them how much he thinks like them. 10502106
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20hThe "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort. 642635746
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026People don't like being the target of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign, even if they once bought the lie that such an effort would target dangerous criminals only. The Trump regime, Republicans, ICE and right-wing media have repeatedly shown that by "dangerous criminal" they mean "looks Latino." 526464
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026These guys have drawn their lines. Pretending that this will all go away if we don't mention their names is the definition of surrender. archive.ph/8oXvJ 11457108
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books. 5246891439
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialTammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs. 1161637624
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California) 332477341
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.” 261884408
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026what the nearly monotonic trend says to me is that once you’re done you’re done forever, and I think the mechanism for that is that being done with Trump requires admitting that you got rooked 2870357
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialEustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It turns out when you run on "forget everything else I'll bring back the 2019 economy" and you do not, in fact, bring back the 2019 economy, median voter brain revolts. I wish it was something else, I wish the threats to democracy and the corruption registered. 21071
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialGil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich” 781131429
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach. 141235363
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10/10/2026No one has more contempt for Trump voters than Trump himself 1028662
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 236761297
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Just a reminder that whenever Trump says that inflation started with Biden, what he neglects to say was that it was a result of efforts to offset his incredibly botched handling of COVID and the economic consequences it triggered. 27860257
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialKaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 332191474900
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine. 402635643
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/10/2026„Liability is a powerful incentive to behave responsibly. It speaks to corporations in a language they understand: Money. Artificial intelligence is an industry in need of incentives to behave responsibly, to judge by the litany of transgressions […] in recent months.“ #giftlinknytimes.comOpinion | Hold A.I. Companies Liable (Gift Article)A.I. companies must operate under our laws. 03315
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:nytimes.comOpinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)The 2028 election is on the ballot right now. 201111478
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals 341828340
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections” 27628
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death 594498892
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this) 71330408
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026 17783083129
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In covering the decision to livestream a public execution, the New York Times accurately compares Pentagon officials to ISIS www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u... 14369136
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026~Accidentally~ hack the medical debt or student loan records. We'll let you put AI in our toothpaste if you do that. 526943
Reposted by @katherinewtx.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🚨New from Cook Political: 18 more House ratings move in Democrats’ direction, including four Republican incumbents from Toss Up to Lean D. 37576165
