lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The sunscreen my husband uses just jumped in price by 25%. Am I about to learn that the oil crisis is impacting basic skincare products? 000
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Regime: unchanged Nuclear material: still there Regional partners: still getting bombed Hormuz: closed and totally under Iranian control, unlike before Is this the most comprehensive military defeat in US history? And he’s going to blame our allies for not winning the war we started, alone? 722043
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Trump isn't playing chess. He isn't playing checkers. He thinks he's playing some imaginary game where the opponent doesn't get a move at all, only he gets to move the pieces. 1216726
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them 421287
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202... 5332281109
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/02/2026If you believe Republicans, Democrats are extremely well organized at stealing elections from Donald Trump, except extremely important ones where they forget to, and unaccountably have shown little interest in altering down-ballot results until now. 17712
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialDepartment of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Shorter Hawley: “Rapist gonna rape.” 031
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Did he walk in on someone watching Heated Rivalry? 010
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Great thread. When I switched to an induction stove top, the first thing I had to learn was judging the heat by what the food was doing, not the size of the flame. It was eye-opening. 030
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Very bad situation right now. ICE is either trapped or refusing to leave. Black bloc morons absolutely chomping at the bit to burn the neighborhood down, just got attacked by three of them for having a camera out. “Can’t wait to burn it all down tonight” 461054223
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialcult “spooky” papa @cult-papa.com · 24/01/2026fuck ice. and fuck you too if you support them. executions in broad daylight and if you think that’s justified i hope you never know peace. 06117
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This is why I practice a generic US accent now. 010
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU. 3446941066
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Woke up, grabbed my phone. WTF. You know what? No. Today, I choose to be oblivious. I’ll scroll IG instead. 000
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me” 694153490
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.” 190120223045
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Traveling so had to hit the nearest #NoKings demonstration. Here’s New Brunswick, NJ. We walked up and down both sides and roughly counted 1300 in attendance. 0106
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Well I’m glad I’m not flying this week! 010
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2025In absolute earnest, I think terror of “elitism” has put a powerful vocabulary for describing what’s going on here out of play. These people are vulgar, thuggish, unsophisticated, crass, unschooled, unreflective. They are low in a sense that has nothing to do with income, & it’s fine to say so. 162063305
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/07/2025This fall will be the first big stress test for US clothing retailers. Trump announced his first big round of tariff hikes on April 2 ("Liberation Day"), after most stores received their spring/summer deliveries. It's an open question how they will handle fall/winter deliveries with 10-145% tariffs. 301787190
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I understand most people don’t want to leave X because that’s where most other people still are. That just means that it’s a collective action problem; it can be overcome with organizing that brings people together towards non-cooperation. If we can’t even get off X, how can we stop fascism? 171067153
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/07/2025In effect, Grok has answered the question: What sort of logically internally consistent worldview does it take to produce content that won’t routinely offend MAGA sensibilities. And the answer is “a Nazi worldview.” 9670187
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialMikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted. If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next. 81353299
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialSchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Data is clear that most GOP voters won't blame the GOP for any of this, but you don't need most. You don't even need a plurality. 1 out of 15 is the house flips. 1 out of 10 and the senate flips. 37704134
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Introduced the kids to Field of Dreams tonight. On the eve of July 4th, it felt necessary to remember the good of Americana and magic. Also, the scene at the school board meeting decrying the book banners as fascists still slaps. 010
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/07/2025granting anonymity to a eugenicist nazi using stolen data to expose a then-teenager having filled out his college applications to the best of his knowledge, for which he received no additional gain, everyone involved in publishing this should be fucking ashamed of themselves 924739
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialSchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I keep getting some combination of this post despite multiple explanations about it. So again: Hospitals operationalize Medicaid finances far into the future. Budget cuts, layoffs, project cancellations, closures, etc. will begin -immediately.- 9366120
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43719651037483
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025ICE just keeps thinking the videos of these arrests don’t exist. We can see that Lander never laid a hand on anyone. 010
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/06/2025Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levelsgelliottmorris.com"No Kings Day" protests turn out millionsOur unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017. 264105333076
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025A few thousand at Glendale City Hall “No Kings” rally. 413923
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/05/2025again: The man's belief that imports is bad is insane. it really doesn't matter what motivates it (i think it's racial animus towards Foreigners, personally), because he's never gonna let it go. we have to accept that the president is genuinely insane and go from there. bsky.app/profile/sky.... 328148
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Had half an eye on the #MetGala and Ashley Graham’s outfit is the first outright no. The tailoring is off and the color is just blah. 000
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Trump won't stop raising tariffs. He hasn't gone 30 days without imposing new tariffs of some kind, and has indirectly revealed his plans for tariffs on up-to-$670B in drugs, semiconductors, electronics, lumber, copper, & more www.apricitas.io/p/the-clues-...apricitas.ioThe Clues to Trump's Future TariffsTrump's Recent Moves Revealed Key Information On His Upcoming Tariffs on Chips, Pharmaceuticals, and More 525058
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I’m really questing Ivanka’s birthdays growing up. 110
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We all looked under our empty trees and exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” And that’s how Donald Trump put Christ back in Christmas. 1425
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025A regime that so aggressively curtails and ignores fundamental rights for one group today will not hesitate to violate and suspend them for others tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. It’s never far from “illegal aliens” and “alien enemies” to “the enemy within.” 26516
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025This infuriates me. Temporarily put aside the ICE issues: this person was failed by the education system. And anyone looking at that signature should have known he was illiterate. 000
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Policy professor here, so let me clarify this: -Presidents *sign* an executive order. -They *pass* gas. 681901305
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I was shocked recently to learn that many people had never read (or seen) Pride and Prejudice. We need to get this as a critical text in the U.S.: an entire book about having your preconceived notions and world views confronted and then *changing your mind* because of new facts. 000
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialJuliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Proof of life. Since this taping, Senator Van Hollen also did not find it. @gbhnews.bsky.social #AbregoGarcia Full recording here: www.youtube.com/live/6C7cmNz... 511321
Reposted by @lurkingowl.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/04/20252020. Today. 1252294516
lurkingowl.bsky.social @lurkingowl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I’m wondering how many marriages will fail because of this economic disaster that more men than women voted for. 120
