Reposted by Lossy CodecStu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Here's an offer you can't refuse. They have a 40% off sale this week too, heartily recommend swagging some bargains. Their non-fiction list is peerless and the fiction is generally top notch too. 088
Reposted by Lossy CodecPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 23/09/2025🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world So much for the “land of the free” 🧵 8285131
Reposted by Lossy CodecCarsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... 312769
Reposted by Lossy CodecJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is. 342133482796
Reposted by Lossy CodecDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 21/09/2025It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do 211597329
Reposted by Lossy Codecmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2025They like Trump and want to help him 1058890
Reposted by Lossy Codecjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2025this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen 533128042012
Reposted by Lossy CodecKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government. 10950211176
Reposted by Lossy CodecLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025London UK: JD Vance balloons spotted at the anti-Trump rally. 814043
Reposted by Lossy CodecChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable 171476463
Reposted by Lossy CodecAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI 945163214458
Reposted by Lossy CodecPBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/09/2025Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct." 29297773245
Reposted by Lossy CodecPatrick Welsh @pbewelsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Yeah no thanks, mate, I'm not risking a stay in ICE's dungeon because some redneck in customs doesn't like who I follow on Instagram, even knowing they'll probably let me out eventually. Visiting the US is currently a material danger for most Europeans 610710
Reposted by Lossy CodecClassical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro" 3154531673
Reposted by Lossy CodecAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science." 294180635821
Reposted by Lossy CodecKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025This isn't just a case of them thinking too small. The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for. They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP. Unfuckingbelievable. 621796395
Reposted by Lossy CodecKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism. What's their big demand? RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard? NOPE. "Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits" 2562632792
Reposted by Lossy CodecW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Of the many things Democrats don't seem to have an answer for is the increasing consolidation of media by right-wing billionaires. I don't know how they expect to govern in an environment where every social media app and "mainstream" news outlet is controlled by the far right. 3286
Reposted by Lossy CodecTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Ma'am you banned students from hanging whiteboards on their own dorm doors so nobody might write something that could hurt someone else's feelings 4685132
Reposted by Lossy CodecDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Oh, you know the ones. 321341145
Reposted by Lossy CodecRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 17/09/2025These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity. 1395066756
Reposted by Lossy CodecOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2025lol new clown car just rolled up 1784101071658
Reposted by Lossy CodecHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 17/09/2025They should really ask Keir Starmer how the tactic of suppressing your base while trying to become a lite version of the opposition has worked out. 1226355
Reposted by Lossy CodecJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 17/09/2025SCOOP by @anthonycormier.bsky.social & Zach Mider Bessent once agreed to occupy 2 different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges thatTrump has been using to try to oust Lisa Cook. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comBessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage PledgesUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that Pres... 22704269
Reposted by Lossy CodecAndy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for. 3156732604
Reposted by Lossy CodecDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button 798240885548
Reposted by Lossy CodecNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/09/2025it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER." 9195333669
Reposted by Lossy CodecPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News. 592347669
Reposted by Lossy CodecPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing. 35387741726
Reposted by Lossy CodecJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 17/09/2025folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse 1970482193
Reposted by Lossy CodecGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025Notice how everybody telling you to put your name on some papers circulated by GOD KNOWS WHO are all white folks. Do not sign anything. Do not put your name on ANYTHING y’all. You dont know where its going. See a flier? Show up. Dont sign NOTHING 523071
Reposted by Lossy CodecDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/09/2025Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles. 36774376
Reposted by Lossy CodecRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/09/2025My new shirt design is a very serious PSA that I was asked to make, because apparently a lot of people don't know. roryblank.bigcartel.com 5629261049
Reposted by Lossy CodecMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit 7857881319
Reposted by Lossy CodecAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police 13843737811253
Reposted by Lossy CodecMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!mediamatters.orgCharlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America" 404121163813
Reposted by Lossy CodecPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly. 28193202842
Reposted by Lossy CodecDana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 4756253
Reposted by Lossy CodecTimothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I obviously don't have a generally high opinion of Ezra Klein, but my opinion has never been lower of him than when he writes that he and Charlie Kirk believed in the "continuing possibility of American politics". At that moment, Klein is either dumb or complicit. Kirk believed in no such thing. 510613
Reposted by Lossy CodecCalvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The Dems have spent all day mourning a man that literally called for this, btw 014239
Reposted by Lossy CodecWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/09/2025#OtD 11 Sep 1973 right-wing general Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. Backed by the US and UK, Pinochet went on to torture, jail and kill 10,000s of working class activists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8360... 2222143
Reposted by Lossy CodecAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025The right side of Trump's face was drooping during a 9/11 commemoration today (Getty) 124282412062
Reposted by Lossy CodecPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”axios.comState Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's deathDeputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday. 2921307564
Reposted by Lossy CodecSkeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 11/09/2025My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person 371932193
Reposted by Lossy CodecW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Starmer's government arrested 1.3K people in a single month for carrying signs with a slogan on them 8421104