Reposted by LeeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding 423677579 0
Reposted by LeeKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/02/2026I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it. 523727842 0
Reposted by LeeKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 448202037424 0
Reposted by LeeArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’” 16687633794 0
Reposted by LeeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal 79210354236 0
Reposted by LeeJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know. 275175035158 0
Reposted by LeeBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026friendly reminder The things you believed were right yesterday are still right. They'll be right if they put you in jail. They'll be right if they shoot you. They'll still be right when these people are dead and dusted and gone. which they will be 172929648 0
Reposted by LeeKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15918746121343 0
Reposted by Leethe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death? 356171454021 0
Reposted by Leemaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives. 277197604195 0
Reposted by Leeleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier 183236036628 0
Reposted by LeeCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text. 3927961346 0
Reposted by LeeMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025We can laugh about how stupid this is, but at the end of the day, a not-insignificant number of parents will believe the CDC and refuse to vaccinate. And some of their children will die because of it. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... 1525973 0
Reposted by LeeRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S. 37292443337 0
Reposted by LeeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time 63158843566 0
Reposted by LeePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025/5 This is not merely about indifference to the brutality against the least of us that is characteristic of our system; that happens under every administration. This is about brutality being the goal, because it makes evil people happy to see others brutalized. 121689225 0
Reposted by LeePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1 11553701482 0
Reposted by LeeDan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises. 280184493809 0
Reposted by LeeRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/08/2025the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that 6540341343 0
Reposted by LeeAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined. 43072344298 0
Reposted by LeeAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Trump is attempting to ethnically cleanse Gaza www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...nbcnews.comTrump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to LibyaDetails are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership. 1081157552 0
Reposted by Leejab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 13/05/2025i yearn for the freedom of going apeshit for 8 years about a guy's middle name being hussein and then putting a flag on my truck to support my potus, a subsidiary of qatar, the saudi sovereign wealth fund, russia, the guy who invented adrenochrome milkshakes, dr. no, and an electric car manufacturer 532153 0
Reposted by Leejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2025once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague 206111592853 0
Reposted by LeeGregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...wck.orgWorld Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run OutAfter serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. 14139993274 0
Reposted by LeeZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing... 69783061043 0
Reposted by LeeRebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Wild to live in the same age as perhaps THE most personally repellent person this nation has ever produced. 561369206 0
Reposted by LeeJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create 10158181433 0
Reposted by Leejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity 384146153313 0
Reposted by Leejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025he is just the most obvious loser. a miserable mediocrity whose response to his own failure is to try to destroy institutions that rejected him 452086127 0
Reposted by Leegeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 08/04/2025a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy 13533220 0
Reposted by Leesouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025It’s hideous to watch horrors that human ingenuity had put us past worrying about suddenly rear up to threaten us and our children again because of profound human stupidity. 603183543 0
Reposted by LeeDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”washingtonpost.comRFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientistMarks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.” 11933224913315 0
Reposted by Leesouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value. 456189764827 0
Reposted by LeeChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263624616128 0
Reposted by Leem @keptsimple.bsky.social · 25/03/2025one of the insidious things about trump is how he just enables incompetence across the board. everything just works worse when he's president because people figure, if a completely incompetent moron is president, why should I give a shit? the shift was clearly observable in 2017 and it is again now 251346187 0
Reposted by LeeBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were... 7232520411327 0
Reposted by LeeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power 714701795 0
Reposted by Leejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/03/2025i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis. 418144812398 0
Reposted by LeeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished 122284315920 0
Reposted by LeeCraig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵 20242431996 0
Reposted by LeeKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 815201608969 0
Reposted by LeePhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted. 476179765644 0