Reposted by Mark, The CuratorDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good! 642291191
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke" 883981600
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 04/06/2026rural MAGA whites speed running their extinction is the megatrend of our time 010
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 04/06/2026we will look back on peak MAGA and kinda laugh: these white rural volk losing their farm workers, losing their foreign custies, losing their farms to bankruptcy, paying $6 for diesel, 2x more for fertilizer and drinking cow shit milk for a premium price. Honestly the dumbest fucks who ever did it 010
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 04/06/2026to all the Barney Franks and white male gays in the Democratic Party and their shitty friends who want to throw trans people under the bus, just be aware you're sawing the floor out from under your feet and they will burn you alive too. Either find solidarity with trans people or else 000
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 04/06/2026the wired story about one of musk's DOGE cronies trying to murder a whistleblower is insane? brakes cut, and also: www.wired.com/story/he-ble... 11926255
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 02/06/2026i wanted this platform to be a viable alternative to Twitter but you get the feeling on here that 80-90% of people are angrier about Platner's sexts than a sordid record of Democrats' crimes and collaboration with Trump's regime — including New Jersey's Governor siccing armed thugs on activists. 110
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social: "In short, we are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people."bostonreview.netA Year of Magical ThinkingElite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people. 223577
Reposted by Mark, The Curatorgrimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The ranking Democrat member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee folks: 23544107
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorScare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 08/04/2026RIP. I will never forget the police brutalizing him — and then that one cop stopping the other cop from helping him 141760475
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 08/04/2026"I am sick to my stomach. I can't for the life of me wrap my head around the fact that Congress is doing nothing. Even if you don't have the majority — protest, force votes every day, file impeachment articles — do ANYTHING. Disrupt ANYTHING. Anything at all is better than this." -Sharon Zhangtruthout.orgSchumer Takes No Action As Even Far Right Calls for Impeachment Over Trump’s “Civilization” ThreatAs others called for impeachment and removal, Schumer and other Democratic leaders did not commit to any action. 010
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorMichael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026This was entirely foreseeable, and many of us warned that if the Department abandoned all of its principles, the decent public servants in its ranks would abandon the Department.news.bloomberglaw.comDOJ Admits ‘Unprecedented’ National Security Staffing ChallengesThe Justice Department acknowledged facing “unprecedented” national security workforce constraints due to high turnover compounded by rising overseas threats and new responsibilities, according to a d... 91806590
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 04/04/2026This doesn’t seem like a war that will end in two weeks. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...nytimes.comIran Is Quickly Repairing Missile Bunkers, U.S. Intelligence Says 510832
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/04/2026wrote about how rage at America's wealthiest, particularly in tech (Musk, Zuck, Thiel), and the inequality of a new gilded age is powering a wave of efforts to tax the rich — out of organizing and anger that's built from Occupy to the 2016 Bernie campaign to Zohran's election. @us.theguardian.comtheguardian.comBillionaire fortunes have reached all-time highs under Trump. So has the movement to tax themResidents in at least 10 states are organizing campaigns to tax wealth in order to fund schools and other social services 2405127
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/03/2026I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me 3856801555
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS 26284383131
Reposted by Mark, The Curator🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 25/03/2026he's finally done it — he's achieved a level of fucking lame that i can't even come up with a joke about. 281198139
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 17/03/2026A new car in the U.S. costs $50k. A new Chinese EV costs $5k and has better tech. I know manufacturing jobs are critical, but we can't hold 95% of the country hostage because American car companies chose wrong. This one change could dramatically improve middle class life 001
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit. 811994295
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15/03/2026“We want to change the rules of the next election so Democrats don’t win anymore” 1033450884
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream. 131673539
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Karoline Leavitt sold her soul to embrace the nazi grandpa and he doesn't even remember her. 000
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 12/03/2026You can rage all you want about the median voter but people want change, they want it yesterday, and they more or less want a total revolution is how things are going even if that's not how they articulate it. Democrats are a collapsed party with no purpose other than funneling donor money. 000
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone. 18361291036
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/03/2026I'm just gonna say it: Booker's proposal to end income taxes below $75k is idiotic. We've just crippled our state capacity and your response is a tax cut? Come on man 241202149
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"While Trump and others in the GOP seem most concerned about Noem’s many other scandals... Noem is leaving a trail of death and constitutional destruction behind her." truthout.org/articles/kri...truthout.orgKristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE JailsTwo more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache. 39644
Reposted by Mark, The Curatorryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/03/2026not really the time for this particular discussion, but for the record, this is a stupid idea www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...nbcnews.comAhead of 2028, Sen. Cory Booker to unveil bill to make $75,000 in income tax-freeThe bill is a marker for the next time Democrats get a chance to rewrite the tax code. The New Jersey senator told NBC News he's keeping the door open to a 2028 presidential bid. 4186798
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorIYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026He doesn't. You can't be like, "Sure, equality everywhere, except that this certain category of kids can't play on team sports in school where team sports are an integral part of learning, physical health, and community-building" and still pretend that it's equality everywhere. 22911
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 09/03/2026The belief in trans rights entering the median voters body as Trump makes gas cost $8/gallonmedia.tenor.comwinnie the pooh is sitting on the floor in a roomALT: winnie the pooh is sitting on the floor in a room 52345534
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The guy pardoned from a 22 year sentence for sedition. The coup succeeded. 181078368
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/03/2026It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral. 913122998
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Vinay Prasad has been an a noxious influence on public health and drug regulation. Good riddance. UCSF should not take him back. He should wander in the wilderness forever. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/h...cnn.comFDA’s controversial vaccine chief will exit agency next month | CNNThe US Food and Drug Administration’s head of vaccines and biologic medicines will leave the agency at the end of April, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Friday. 31921228
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/03/2026Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period. 14487991846
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026For government agencies, as with legacy media, the message is clear: don't pivot to video 642346
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Tens of millions of progressive Americans genuinely believe Democratic leadership are responsible for the genocide of Palestinians, but there's 5,000 white guys on bluesky who think the Democrats will be criticized cause a guy from Maine has a Nazi tat. You guys got wayyyyyy bigger problems 100
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorErin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East. 11779892179
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorCraig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 02/03/2026when people point back at Reconstruction to explain where we are as a country (a good impulse) its often to claim that Reconstruction completely failed I'd say it's more like: Reconstruction was partial and compromised, which kept the Civil War going as a domestic political battle vs a won war 1313046475
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorSnowden St. @snowden.st · 02/03/2026I'm sorry, but 99% of 20somethings out there writing essays in English are mostly interested in "writing something that sounds to their ear like it should be in the NYT or The Atlantic" and it freakin' sucks. The world's so much bigger than trying to be that, gang! Get weird with it, scare someone. 6382
Mark, The Curator @markprovost.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The liberal mind cannot held but castigate near fictional anti-semitism from its marginalized status on the left while the world's most conspicuous ethnostate starts World War III 010
Reposted by Mark, The CuratorG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d... 33678212417
