Mayor Gumdrop @mayorgumdrop.bsky.social · 48m@rickperlstein.bsky.social Just wanted to shout this out to you, since I’m halfway through Nixonland and I know you’re in the final stages of writing The Infernal Triangle 100
Reposted by Mayor GumdropBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1hFinally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be 221367174
Reposted by Mayor GumdropAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5hThis will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare. 331128460
Reposted by Mayor GumdropSteve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 2hHow the police defund cities: Part infinity 213866
Reposted by Mayor Gumdropshawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1h"Ortiz said Mano a Mano’s rapid response team was busy on Sept. 25 and on Monday reacting to reports of ICE activity in the Round Lake area and Gurnee Mills. ... "'They knew we were watching,' Ortiz said. 'They kept moving around. They eventually left.' 1136
Reposted by Mayor GumdropOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h"By theoretical degeneration...I mean the erosion of coherent emancipatory frameworks that incorporate the contradictions of the present. In their stead has grown up a reactive and accomodationist theory that...accepts some of the right’s own viewpoints." salvage.zone/on-theoretic...salvage.zoneOn Theoretical Degeneration - SalvageBy 1900 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the strongest socialist party in the world and its Erfurt Program the model for almost all others. In 1912, the SPD was able to win 4.25 million vo... 27117
Reposted by Mayor GumdropMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 4hthis is good, and there should be a lot more of this tbh. not just directed at the justices either. noah feldman should get a version of this for all the fucking pr he does for the conservative justices, eg. to say nothing of the more actively evil law profs and lower court judges and lawyers 427452
Reposted by Mayor Gumdroputopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5hIf you need any more evidence that: 1. Twitter is the hitler site 2. You, as a socialist, should not be on the hitler site 3. Social media in general, here included, cultivates a lot of people, you included, into emotive reactionaries and should not ultimately be where you shape your ideas. 533061
Reposted by Mayor Gumdroputopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5hRolled out of bed to respond to an ICE sighting a block from a predominantly Latino elementary school during drop off. We have members running dispatch. The people who got here were members. Nobody is coming to save us but ourselves. act.dsausa.org/s/5201.4I5PpGact.dsausa.orgJoin DSA. Become a member today.Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ... 0245
Reposted by Mayor GumdropSarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 19hThe first team in MLB history to make the postseason after even two consecutive 100-loss seasons (they had 3) just won a postseason series These White Sox, what a story! 3182168
Reposted by Mayor Gumdroputopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026The most amicable and charitable contextualization of the discussion for a microblogging website is as follows: secret societies, and the derivatives born in institutions of higher learning, were fundamentally remade at the advent of the American Civil War in multiple ways. 317737
Reposted by Mayor GumdropJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 12hSimple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power 819024
Reposted by Mayor GumdropHorkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026who up mcgurk-in’ they brett 1574
Reposted by Mayor GumdropCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 18hanother incredible Murakami champagne celebration interview (via CHSN White Sox) 15595155
Reposted by Mayor GumdropSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19hit's genuinely mildly entertaining watching Biden holdouts use *BRETT MCGURK* of all people as their defense of Biden's MENA strategy 3593
Reposted by Mayor GumdropGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Your cousin sending you psychic signals that it's time to sneak out and smoke at the family gathering 49812
Reposted by Mayor Gumdropthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 21hfun that the choice here is basically Holodomor v Holocaust and both should result in Musk never seeing daylight again. 29718
Reposted by Mayor GumdropMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23hextraordinary written and visual reporting.wired.comHow Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West BankLost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. 3359103
Reposted by Mayor GumdropAcid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle 16852491028
Reposted by Mayor GumdropPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/09/2026Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨ 19620157
Reposted by Mayor Gumdropmaria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is 19-year old Ximena Arias-Cristobal detained thru LRA after a mistaken traffic stop not your constituent @ossoff.senate.gov; what about her father who was trying to finalize his permit? How dare you use someone’s murder to justify hurting thousands & countless deaths? 57220
Reposted by Mayor GumdropMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah ok let's go 317522
Reposted by Mayor Gumdroputopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comSororities as Confederate MonumentsIn this Essay, I argue that sorority houses are a type of Confederate memorial. I make two claims. First, sororities have clearly announced their allegiance to 716828
Reposted by Mayor GumdropShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A few new works today. A little black cat in the snow, white snow, black fur, and a trail of happy little paw prints. I hope a little of that happiness reaches you too.😊 #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily 011849
Reposted by Mayor GumdropGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful. 11407203
Reposted by Mayor Gumdropneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We very badly need to marginalize these people and treat it the same as following Hanania or being a Tucker fan, and we equally as badly need to have a position on owners of the tech that spreads this shit (social media) bribing the pedophile president so they wouldn't be held accountable for it. 529659
Reposted by Mayor GumdropTravis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Reminder of when Chotiner interviewed Joe Biden's ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and Lew said that it was OK to kill the children of Hamas fighters. Lew and others in leadership also let slip that the purpose of the USAID humanitarian response in Gaza was to support Israeli military objectives. 416164
Reposted by Mayor GumdropBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242181112
Reposted by Mayor GumdropWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 30/09/2026👀 Bernie is dipping into his campaign committee's massive bank account to spend and staff up for Peggy Flanagan, Abdul El-Sayed, and Angie Nixon according to new reporting from Politicopolitico.comSanders ramps up his midterm play with cash boost for candidatesSanders is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars toward key campaigns and has raised $2.8 million for his preferred candidates this cycle. 823324
Reposted by Mayor GumdropJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454291436
Reposted by Mayor Gumdropali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83957752
Reposted by Mayor GumdropSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice. 291906389
Mayor Gumdrop @mayorgumdrop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This thread is insane 🧵. Fuck ICE! We have to convict every single agent. 021
Reposted by Mayor GumdropJosh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026choose texas or don't but do take the opportunity to check out the glorious @flaminghydra.com piece on Andrew Sa by @sirosenbaum.bsky.socialflaminghydra.comAndrew Sa: American Rough“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ... 14313
Reposted by Mayor GumdropMatt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 29/09/2026Those are a whole lot of words that don’t include “ABOLISH ICE” 412523
Reposted by Mayor GumdropMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026God she's so fucking cool. 1887
Reposted by Mayor GumdropStephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This from the GOP nominee for IL governor is why you don't cede civil rights issues to these people by uncritically supporting the surveillance state. 026855
Reposted by Mayor GumdropThe Rooster @rooster.info · 28/09/2026He’s in the Husted Zone. As a rule of thumb for a politician you never want to enter the Husted Zone. 1766
Reposted by Mayor GumdropPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's hard to believe that this is real. 713010
Reposted by Mayor Gumdrop🎀 thousands of spiders 🎀 @trivialtales.bsky.social · 31/01/2026the city's beautiful at night 282237860
Reposted by Mayor GumdropColumbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Husted’s office won’t say what gifts JobsOhio gave him or what they were worth, neither will JobsOhio: columbusunderground.com/jon-husted-t...columbusunderground.comJon Husted Took Gifts From JobsOhio, But Doesn't Want to Talk About It - Columbus UndergroundFinancial disclosures show that the quasi-private economic development entity JobsOhio gave gifts to Husted in 2021, 2022, and 2023 when he was lieutenant governor. 064
Reposted by Mayor Gumdropmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4990291662
Reposted by Mayor GumdropJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You can't have a rainbow without a little rain 1354
Reposted by Mayor GumdropSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 37589762795
Reposted by Mayor GumdropLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency. 6469232