Reposted by Matt PoloniCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026not the only reason but a brand of inevitability, FOMO, anxiety, and, ‘if you don’t see it it means you’re not smart enough’ has become the chief way silicon valley (led by venture capita) markets its products. 727949
Reposted by Matt PoloniDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I see MAGA people complaining about the economy. 622238
Reposted by Matt PoloniPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151681314
Reposted by Matt PoloniAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026systems thinking vs individualism "thinking" 1234
Reposted by Matt PoloniNorth Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 06/09/2026ANOTHER scoring record for Sanchez 👏 1419
Reposted by Matt PoloniKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220547585
Reposted by Matt PoloniBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰 472542588
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them. 1112728654
Reposted by Matt PoloniDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"You got some MF who's made over $251B being a United States citizen that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the United States of America, and giving us a f**** Heil Hitler along the way" - Hunter Biden on Elon Musk 424352
Reposted by Matt PoloniAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed" 12358652150
Reposted by Matt PoloniAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc. 13063781413
Reposted by Matt PoloniDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/07/2026MAGA really said inspecting food and getting vaccinated is woke but giving nukes to the home country of the most of the 9/11 terrorists is America First. You all deserve a decade of explosive diarrhea. 319534
Reposted by Matt PoloniDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/07/2026It turns out the kind of companies willing to layoff 10%-40% of their employees to save a buck with AI are also going shop around for the cheapest AI models instead of just giving those savings to frontier AI labs. Who would have guessed that? 1536781
Reposted by Matt PoloniNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Narrator voice: They did not rethink the dinner. 1990288
Reposted by Matt PoloniIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/07/2026Anyone trying to divide the opposition to fascism three months before the midterms is helping the fascists. 421086359
Reposted by Matt PoloniACLU @aclu.org · 25/07/2026Megan's calling it like it is: These are regressive, oppressive attacks on women and girls. 7799204
Reposted by Matt PoloniThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Trump has to sit and listen as the WSJ gets an Epstein Files reporting award ✅ Buuuut then they all shake his hand? ❌ No better demonstration of why this WHCD event is gross and undermines the very journalism it claims to celebrate 831225291
Reposted by Matt PoloniMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 25/07/2026This is a perfect illustration of why I have no faith in US mainstream journalism to protect us from anything.🤷🏿♂️ This is their idea of holding some people accountable: going to their banquets and causing fleeting, awkward moments, seconds before accepting an award from them and shaking their hand. 438693
Reposted by Matt PoloniDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This is an unsurprising take for a policy wonk. Admitting that policy decisions like making it harder to get healthcare, going to war, making it easier to access guns or cutting support for lifesaving food & drugs directly kills people would essentially declare government bureaucrats murderers. 16876
Reposted by Matt PoloniAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026i think this is really important point — if you take the arguments for capitalism at face value (you shouldnt but thats a whole other discussion) what we have right now is distinctly not that 8594101
Reposted by Matt PoloniBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy 3556101318
Reposted by Matt PoloniNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Journalists must stop normalizing Trump. "Hitler was impossible to discourage, not because he ran an efficient machine but because he was immune to the normal human impediments to absolute power: shame..." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comThe Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment EnablersThe Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it. 15414134
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity. 983599751
Reposted by Matt PoloniAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A little history: The original XP team invented story points to deal with a time-obsessed manager. They were estimating in what they called "ideal days"—days where you're doing your best work, focused entirely on the work, with no distractions, never getting tired, &c. 1/7 1308
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026One good way to confirm that the president is, in fact, a narcissist is if a top military official is sacked for calling him a narcissist. 742810739
Reposted by Matt PoloniAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/07/2026Been saying AOC should run in 2028 since I saw her speak at the DNC in 2024. Every argument against it has echos of the arguments against Obama running in 2008. 60156561099
Reposted by Matt PoloniMarco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is really important. Something I've been feeling but couldn't quite articulate. We really need to be crafting a story for what happens after Trump. 14214
Reposted by Matt PoloniCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20/07/2026One of my teacher friends often says that people confuse "few people are able to do x" with "x reveals who is good" and I think about that a lot 414032
Reposted by Matt PoloniSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/07/2026What utter bullshit! Fetterman accepted the largest possible donation under the law from Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow who has a mansion stuffed with all sorts of Nazi memorabilia. He needs to shut the fuck up about Israel.theintercept.comHarlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John FettermanThe Republican megadonor had come under scrutiny for his ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, while the senator drew ire for supporting Israel. 38503145
Reposted by Matt PoloniFight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Corporate profits soared last quarter to their highest levels since right before the Great Depression, reaching 14.4%. They keep raising prices to pad excess profits, leaving us all holding the bag. This is a systemwide coordinated effort that's crushing the working class. 518538
Reposted by Matt PoloniQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three. 12093045610595
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It remains hilarious that his cult will still insist, to this day, that Donald Trump is an "expert deal maker." 621651322
Reposted by Matt PoloniAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 163195693
Reposted by Matt Polonijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850. 52197632199
Reposted by Matt PoloniKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A lot of the people posting terrible takes about sexual violence victims know they’re wrong. It is an expression of solidarity with perpetrators, who tend to occupy higher positions of power, versus victims, who tend to be disempowered. Sometimes it is because they are perpetrators, too. 15987188
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Democrats should just run ads that are montages of headlines of all the various Trump family theft of taxpayer money with this clip as the tag 782035472
Reposted by Matt Polonijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid 2215349761
Reposted by Matt PoloniTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.” 272089447
Reposted by Matt PoloniKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/07/2026There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact. 1065906714
Reposted by Matt PoloniEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...the18.comWhere Does The USWNT Rank Amongst The Winningest Teams Of All Time? | The18The USWNT is quite good — that's what all our number crunching has led us to believe. 393620807
Reposted by Matt PoloniDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/07/2026“If they [Belgium] beat us, we’ll just say it was rigged just like the 2020 Election.” - Donald Trump — He loves to brag about his accomplishments in mendacity. 59010
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party. 19848261235
Reposted by Matt PoloniKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2026They hate him because he’s wildly popular and, more important, because he’s doing a great job. 1794687565
Reposted by Matt PoloniLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Ha ha I hate it here 625110742092
Reposted by Matt PoloniNorth Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 05/07/2026Hero saves from Kailen and Maycee 🦸♀️🦸♀️ 1183
Reposted by Matt PoloniIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/07/2026250 years after the first No Kings Day, America is rejecting another mad king. 221237244
Reposted by Matt PoloniNorth Carolina Courage @nccourage.com · 03/07/2026Thank you for making magic in Courage Country, Manaka 🪄 We've agreed to transfer of midfielder Manaka Matsukubo to Chelsea F.C. of the Women's Super League. Wishing you luck, Manaka! 43010
Reposted by Matt PoloniKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not 8247361004