Reposted by XIBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu 4928971302
Reposted by XIderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution 12092141700
Reposted by XIAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/10/2026Social media companies need to be explicitly pressured into not allowing any images of the execution on their services. They have the content recognition systems to block it. If they allow it, it's an abdication of any responsibility to their users. There will be children that see it. 16644121
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that 292717280
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me 365304761
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you 213614580
Reposted by XINovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do 270232863310
Reposted by XIlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026i love polls that are like "BREAKING: 64% of country now aware of most painfully obvious liar and crook in national history" 383653397
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We got rid of the big sword that was dangling over my throne so I can reign in peace. Not sure why that was there in the first place, seemed dangerous 14125892
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit 212758526
Reposted by XIe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem? 2936881016
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation 202264376
Reposted by XIMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20563202912
Reposted by XIBetter 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 405117701
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses 572936244
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When the bad man finally drops dead we can all move on. We'll still be sharing a country with countless people who gleefully aided and abetted his crimes but they probably won't do it again 482531329
Reposted by XIDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I want lying to have consequences again. 572813396
Reposted by XIrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256071943
Reposted by XIBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman 112662352
Reposted by XIGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...ms.nowOpinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the PentagonA new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing. 882086577
Reposted by XIPolitics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 11030641222
Reposted by XIApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381377576
Reposted by XIAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 5054221202
Reposted by XIJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss. 201459208
Reposted by XILindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 12781212013
Reposted by XINute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51298187
Reposted by XICameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"revenge for Nixon" explains a rather significant amount of GOP skulduggery in the 21st century www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...wsj.comExclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw DealA revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly. 21697116
Reposted by XIJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic. 352363391
Reposted by XIMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.nbcnews.comHow Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rightsAfter issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community. 501250695
Reposted by XIProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth. 8822187
Reposted by XIjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading. 753561901
Reposted by XIjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 843494630
Reposted by XIRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797713046
Reposted by XIAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong." 14390892664
Reposted by XIWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 09/10/2026This is pretty funny. This is the story of conspiracy theorists trying to document their conspiracy to clear the lowest of legal bars, but they keep discovering that their theories don’t fit the facts. These people then quit, to be replaced by new conspiracy theorists. Repeat forever.nytimes.comHow Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence... 6646145
Reposted by XIKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...rawstory.comTrump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analystA quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi... 861926947
Reposted by XIgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained 232342438
Reposted by XImtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"The US will endorse war criminals and attempt to ruin the lives of people working to bring them to justice" was something every elite understood to be the actual stakes of the 2024 election but the news outlets the elites controlled told voters Tim Walz's trip to China in 1989 was a bigger deal 527463
Reposted by XImtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either. 341721425
Reposted by XImtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Their scheme is to cheat and steal the election from us and then enslave us — take away our freedoms and make us work for them. 215424
Reposted by XIMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's clear that the Trump regime is committing an armed robbery in Venezuela, and they won't tell the public who's getting the loot. 771810569
Reposted by XIMemento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026chat is it good if your government says "we are using AI to think like fraudsters and we are shutting down hospices" 37867176
Reposted by XISecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Amazing how even the Republicans that are supposed to be “normal” are complete psychopaths 28934208
Reposted by XINicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We already knew Egyptian intelligence warned Israel ahead of Oct. 7 and the Netanyahu govt dismissed it. Now we learn UAE leader MBZ warned Bibi directly that Hamas was about to try something big. He dismissed that too. One of the worst security failures in history. And followed by so much awful.haaretz.comNetanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefsIn September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin... 621537545
Reposted by XIghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims 14066881071
Reposted by XIEagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Right. Like, MAHA isn’t a push for equitable access to care. It’s eugenics under the guise of “healthy living.” There’s plenty of somewhat normalizing woo and almond mom and ~natural~ in the mix, but that’s just noise. The signal is the strongest survive, and no regard for the lessers who don’t. 151188215
Reposted by XIjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world. 16658911180
Reposted by XIGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/09/2026No one. No one. No one can ever say to me again that Jay Bhattacharya was a reasonable pick for NIH Director. He was and is an ideological zealot. This is his doing. Shame on him. Shame on Matthew Memoli, Jon Lorsch, John Powers and the rest of them at NIH. 5282100
