Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲George Pearkes @peark.es · 06/08/2025We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering. 47103103291
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The fact that none of these guys have been assassinated by cartels or human traffickers demonstrates the extent to which immigration enforcement does not actually threaten their activities 322964
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Rob Hatch-Miller @robhatchmiller.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Over the last two weeks the NY Times has swung from wildly hyping the isolated protest violence in LA as if it was the 1992 riots all over again, to “here’s a diagram of a really cool bomb for killing people!” 1019030
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/06/2025We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it. 898191036944
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 17/06/2025The vibes mayor strikes again. This city is too densely populated and complex to be led by someone so immune to data. 1384
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/06/2025He can always easily do great deals that never seem to happen. Maybe in two weeks. 6153518558
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025notable that this times piece casts a story with conventional wisdom abt protests, immigration etc. and cites various polling data but doesn't cite the one poll since this started which shows the militarization is distinctly UNpopular 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...nytimes.comAs Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political TerrainScenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party. 45723143
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 08/06/2025Tesla was bailed out by the Department of Energy during the Great Recession in 2010 and Tesla wasn’t even profitable without the revenue from receiving emissions credits that the government created, until 2021. 829684
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Maybe the MOST IMPORTANT truth for better transportation in cities: The “War on Cars” narrative fuelled by populist politicians, click bait media and such, IS A LIE. Cars have almost all the space, budget etc, and ANY effort to add even a bit more CHOICE is attacked this way. #TheTruthAboutTraffic 1216150
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Matt da Silva @mdasilva.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Note - Both the LAPD and LASD agree with the former and characterized this as peaceful protests against a sloppy LEO operation. Fellow white liberals - ICE isn’t coming into our neighborhoods - I’m going to trust the people of Paramount, CA over some prestige journalist’s take. 1993143
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲mdy @stickyflapjack.bsky.social · 03/06/2025One of the largest problems of the internet today is that you have entire generations of humans who never experienced the consequence of being punched in the face for saying or doing something awful, and so they continue unabated 220229
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/06/2025Scientists and researchers understand that sex is a multidimensional category. Donald Trump’s rigid definitions undermine their ability to do their jobs.nyer.cmDonald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on GovernmentBy forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety. 67122
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 01/06/2025NIMBYs love striving toward ever more absurd arguments against housing. In this email against our bill to allow more homes near transit, they argue it’s “unconstitutional” & “discriminates against those who cannot rely on transit,” including “families with young children & disabled people.” 🙄 🧵 1422523
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 31/05/2025Trying to appeal to “Hidden knowledge”. Common propaganda technique in the modern misinformation age 1562
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 31/05/2025the future is a slop app sending you a push notification written by its billionaire owners on how your future treats are at risk because of the feckless demand for big government boondoggles like funding your child’s public school or building a public park 119068
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 31/05/2025American journalists having a hard time grasping that foreigners are people too and that they react in entirely predictable ways when you treat them like garbage. 3565
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Inflation was 22% in 1982! The curve looked quite similar to Biden’s. It went up, it came down. Reagan pulled it off largely because he knew how to communicate. Voters think in terms of narratives, not in terms of issue positions. It sucks, but ads work. 5472
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/05/2025the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies 13350351209
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Napa County Supervisors Anne Cottrell and Liz Alessio lay out the case for SB 607 and CEQA reform by telling the story of a much-needed childcare facility that opponents nearly killed by abusing CEQAsfchronicle.comCalifornia environmental law nearly killed a childcare facility in our community. Enough is enoughWhy does CEQA give a few individuals de facto veto power over a project that a majority of the community wants and needs? SB607 would finally change that. 817739
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death. 2991348
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Extremely impressive! Would be really exciting technology if not for the possibly breaking society part. 1958249
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲⭐️Angela 🐿️ McEwen⭐️ @angelamcewen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped. 1165106314146
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 09/05/2025🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit. 41720851364
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/05/2025Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to spend $1 billion on travel to Mars on Musk's rocket ships while they close Social Security offices and fire Social Security workers. That's not efficiency—that's theft.politico.comNASA, in surprise shift, may launch rockets to Mars next yearThe move could benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, which has announced plans to land a rocket on the planet. 1411719440
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/05/2025every single online forum in history has discovered this: either you mete out bans for consistent bad-faith trolls, or you watch the community devolve into endless toxicity and harassment 1723017
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social · 09/05/2025RFK claims “70% of pharmaceutical products in the world are sold to our country” but this is a false misrepresentation. His 70% number is exaggerated and is based on sale $ not number of products sold, which ignores the fact that USA pays more for prescriptions than other places in the world 1322461641
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/05/2025"Trump won over 90% of news deserts across the country. These are communities that don’t have a local source of news...that’s where Trump is really succeeding." On the pod, a rural Dem organizer is illuminating on how Trump's rural support thrives in info vacuums: newrepublic.com/article/1949...newrepublic.comTrump’s Odd New Tariff Musings Show How Badly He’s Screwing His VotersAs a perfect storm of Trump policies is set to hit rural America, a veteran Democratic organizer reflects on whether his party can capitalize to peel off some of Trump’s lockstep rural support. 22703231
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · 07/05/2025NEW from me @insideclimatenews.org: Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. insideclimatenews.org/news/0705202...insideclimatenews.orgTrump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change - Inside Climate NewsCuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. More such moves are coming, NOAA has warned. 17437
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Sam @samd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025another data point for my thesis that swing voters are weird and kinda dumb so the politicians that win their voters are also weird and kinda dumb 1526418
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I beg Donald Trump to start talking about how many cars Americans should have. "A family doesn't need 4 cars. They could be happy with 1." 71048
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/05/2025One thing I truly despise about this administration is how the only time they take anything seriously is when they get into their Defense Crybully Mode and even it's usually just 80% whinging 336930
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Probably the purest distillation of Trump’s neomercantilist ideology that any time you import something you’re automatically losing. He can’t even grasp the concept of a mutually beneficial transaction. 1643227574
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Clare McIntyre🇨🇦 @cmstudio.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Come on you guys, he’s only the president. 🥺 You can’t expect him to have any knowledge about laws or the constitution. 021
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025A violation of his oath and an impeachable offense on its own. Be clear! 19119
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025He swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" 1617747
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/05/2025it's important to understand that cryptocurrency is both a short-term scam (pump and dumps, pyramid schemes, theft, fraud) AND a long term scam (a key part of the Plot to Enslave America). Anyone who supports it is our enemy. bsky.app/profile/bloc... 11850151
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The religious sense of that aside, he is the diametrical opposite of the moral system the Gospels show from Jesus the antipode of Christ 2242
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/05/2025Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology." 666674362051
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲The Onion @theonion.com · 03/05/2025Trump Threatens To Defund Beauty Schools That Don’t Comply With MAGA Standards theonion.com/trump-t...theonion.comTrump Threatens To Defund Beauty Schools That Don’t Comply With MAGA StandardsWASHINGTON—After dispatching “Dear Colleague” letters to top cosmetology programs across the country, President Donald Trump threatened Monday to defund any beauty school that did not adhere to the standards of the MAGA movement. “We’ve set exact metrics for hairstyles that comply with my administration’s agenda, and any school that fails to respect our policies will […] 961917177
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Something tells me we're being fed. @theonion.com 1662558
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲The Onion @theonion.com · 28/04/2025FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang theonion.com/fbi-cla... 218145692272
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Not a great message as Trump/Musk question Canada’s border and legitimacy. There’s nothing more threatening to Quebec’s autonomy & the survival of French than an expansionist USA that just declared English their official language (and probably isn’t even aware a quarter of Canadians speak French). 1523
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/04/2025uh so the military has been detaining and renditioning people to foreign concentration camps? 927547
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The craziest thing about the California housing crisis is how it's likely the substantively single most important issue facing the state yet still has extremely low political salience among Democrats. It's like they want to pretend it's not a problem 2059774
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/04/2025quite obviously they were never going to stop with trans kids 122645
Reposted by stinkbug 🪲🪲🪲🪲Elite goblin Fruit Merchant. @credle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Its kind of becoming clear that American conservatives don't just hate liberalism (late 20th century market-friendly socially egalitarian values) they hate Liberalism (18th century philosophy embracing individual rights and democracy) 251470289