Reposted by MNIKMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background 27624
Reposted by MNIKAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21/09/2026No US law enforcement agency of similar size has anywhere near this many misuse of force incidents in such a short time period. ICE is clearly carrying out the mission its political leadership intends for it—but it’s something way darker than “law enforcement.” 0279
Reposted by MNIKPaul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/09/2026people constantly confuse being smart with being right and it’s killing us all 129316
Reposted by MNIKNicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This thread is well worth a read: 072
Reposted by MNIKTobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Why even have a Congress then? I guess the framers had a secret clause of the Constitution excusing the legislative branch from doing its job if the work is too complicated. 2191
Reposted by MNIKTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026James Talarico calls out Ken Paxton for refusing to debate him: “This is supposed to be the high testosterone candidate?” 49611145
Reposted by MNIKMark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Rare and essential -- long TV interview in late 1986 with Sonny Rollins, who is clearly comfortable talking with Gil Noble. Sonny also plays a bit too. Thanks to Lewis Porter for unearthing and posting. lewisporter.substack.com/p/sonny-roll...lewisporter.substack.comSonny Rollins: A Long Interview on TV, and He Plays Too![Remember, please use the Index to find all articles on a given subject—such as my previous sixteen essays on Rollins, with more to come!] 1268
Reposted by MNIKPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit. 1646090786
Reposted by MNIKHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138124452784
Reposted by MNIKDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026As unpopular as the Iran war is, the coverage still doesn't do justice to the fact that they just could have not done any of this. There was literally no reason beyond general bloodthirstiness and incompetence. 723232703
MNIK @marknik.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The desert’s quiet and Cleveland’s cold, so the story ends we’re told. 000
Reposted by MNIKJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026GOP senators are like “some of these assholes in the chamber were not legitimately elected” and when they die Dems will be like “my dearest colleagues were truly good people deep down and a hoot at lunch” 281138207
MNIK @marknik.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Who knew Godwin’s Law would become so irrelevant? Anyway President Hindenburg something something. 010
Reposted by MNIKMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Again. This is the author. What are we doing here? 694461911
Reposted by MNIKBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There really is no better name than this time period. Get it on a Time cover ASAP. 19764551026
Reposted by MNIKderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2026In a list of twenty seven grievances, immigration is seventh. Taxation without representation is seventeenth. 142640250
Reposted by MNIKJared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 30/06/2026Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Constitutional Amendment is Constitutional 041
Reposted by MNIKTahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026hoopla-fucking-de-doo, we affirmed something that was already clearly affirmed in the damn constitution. The bar is so low that we are literally walking on it. 082
Reposted by MNIKTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios 141180995573
Reposted by MNIKSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. 8265701920
Reposted by MNIKEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec... 42469851625
Reposted by MNIKKarolina Muchova Fan Club @muchovafanclub.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Why is she a tankie who justified Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? 2143
Reposted by MNIKTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Every single word in this headline is a surprise 461379314
Reposted by MNIKPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Fuck this guy and fuck you if you voted for him. 1375376930
Reposted by MNIKHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This is really an inexplicable and bizarre level of censorship on TikTok for basic factual content about right wing politics. 24520142
Reposted by MNIKPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Forget about Hegseth. This is the real D-Day celebration right here. 161313285
MNIK @marknik.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Words fail when attempting to describe Mel Tormé’s version of Donald Fagen’s “The Goodbye Look.” It’s ridiculously fantastic. Just wow. youtu.be/VIAZdoE1fCA?...youtu.beMel Torme/The Goodbye Look 1990YouTube video by atube亨 000
MNIK @marknik.bsky.social · 03/06/2026*sigh* He sounds like he always sounds. I find posts such as these pointless except as a way for people to cope with how unbelievably shitty things are. That’s not nothing I guess, but it’s not like anything has changed. 020
Reposted by MNIKPaul M Kearney @strategerist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The real answer is: The US fails strategically PRECISELY because we have an overwhelmingly powerful military, and that makes military solutions seem like an EASY answer to complex problems. It's an enticing, shiny button, and without advisors empowered to push back, it's very tempting. 731455
Reposted by MNIKBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution” 2667351823
MNIK @marknik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Notice how this framing conflates support for universally popular health goals with support for a specific political movement. Those are not the same thing. 1106
MNIK @marknik.bsky.social · 06/05/2026What an odd pairing. Seems to say “You don’t get it. It’s art.” And as if that excuses everything. Guy seems to be smuggling in an evaluative definition of art into a categorical one. And something tells me Bourdieu would agree with me. 000
Reposted by MNIKhelp I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026it's absolutely wild how little support there is for community colleges in this country. they do so much more good, and with far fewer resources, than the so-called elite universities that largely function to reproduce/sustain existing hierarchies of wealth and privilege 816043
Reposted by MNIKApocrypher @apocrypher.com · 28/04/2026Take it from me, the guy who’s specialty is being employed 2283631
Reposted by MNIKChris Vanocur @newsvulcan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026How is Jason Isbell not on this list??? 2691
Reposted by MNIKPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means? 751652407
Reposted by MNIKJustin Gallivan @justingallivan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Maybe the real point of threatening armageddon was the trades they made along the way. 0504
Reposted by MNIKAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 08/04/2026Chickening out of a crime-against-humanity threat is good, actually. Threatening a crime against humanity—or being silent or even supportive when someone in your party threatens one—is extremely bad, and tells us everything we need to know about you, forever. 14214
Reposted by MNIKDave Pell @davepell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If you were a malignant narcissist with flourishing sociopathic tendencies, you'd be getting off bigly right now as all of civilization waits to see if you'll destroy it. 2113
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
