Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it 233368557 3.4K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026remembering again when Jake Tapper loudly stuck up for Fox News when the Obama administration moved their chair in the briefing room to the second row 161445218 1.4K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/08/2026You'd better believe it. 634057713 4.1K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026That’s an oldie but a goodie. Nine years ago this week. @montanaskeptic.bsky.social 1233005561 3K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/07/2026As far as I can tell, there was a lot more media interest in the original bogus leak than there is in this coming out now. 20916225 916
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers 19893522799 9.4K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/07/2026People always say this but I think a week IS dithering, especially when you spend a lot of it talking about the 25th Amendment or what have you. We didn’t wait a week to declare war after Pearl Harbor, it happened within hours. That’s the speed with which you need to move. 1118019 180
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record. 272513758 2.5K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026President Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities, who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look out for their neighbors and, sometimes, look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do." 111622332 1.6K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Also I think what they're doing is trying to redefine vice as masculine-coded because that's all Paxton has to offer. Sure he's as charismatic as a tree stump but he lies, cheats and steals and that's alpha. 18650116 650
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 28/05/2026It’s a well-known fact that blue cities are economically inconsequential to billionaire GOP donors, who generate all their wealth from commerce conducted in places like West Virginia, Mississippi, South Dakota, & Idaho. 24868115 868
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026 You gave any thoughts on this @durbin.senate.gov ? 834534 345
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo. 5871156 871
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-... 401302349 1.3K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJames Rotering @jamesrotering.bsky.social · 17/04/2026A great deal of the reason why things aren’t so very much worse right now is because there is almost no overlap in the Venn Diagram that represents Trump’s Stooges Trying To Do Evil Shit in one circle and People Who Know How To Do Shit in the other circle. 434669 346
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/04/2026THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY. 182132861741 13.3K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be. 5994652320 9.5K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right 143127124009 12.7K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet. 366116753082 11.7K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/03/2026it doesn’t take a whole lot to recognize that this is a vote that’s going to be hung around your neck for the rest of your careers you can just not do it, it’s pretty easy actually 33672145 672
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/03/2026Time for some popularism! 320840 208
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2026The default assumption should be that they’re lying 471130703547 13.1K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed? 20264601704 6.5K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/01/2026Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!" Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned." Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen? 534392899 4.4K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?) 6693482259 9.3K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong? 16251091133 5.1K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialeileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...chosun.comNational Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal OrdersNational Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe 392197556106 19.8K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." 11847260 847
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there. 10349551381 5K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Darnella Frazier was 17 when she had the presence of mind to document what was happening to George Floyd. These ICE abduction videos differ but also convey an out-of-control state abusing its power. Sometimes bearing witness is among the most important forms of civil resistance. 5769265 769
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics 243172334620 17.2K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary! 313129553319 13K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I think reporting on, writing about and understanding of all this is a totally legitimate undertaking. Biden's decision was, indeed, consequential. But given the context of well...everything, it seems *insane* for anyone to say this is some kind of unresolved political issue Dems must address. 1412725163 2.7K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialAlex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r... 357314529902 31.5K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u... 13282822572 8.3K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions. 236233408264 23.3K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Any Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...talkingpointsmemo.comBukele’s Offense Against the American PeopleHere’s how I look at today’s White House spectacle. I don’t really... 36798363029 9.8K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The US doesn’t have allies anymore, though. Not really. You guys threw that away too. 25836122 836
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/03/2025This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote: 5169422265 6.9K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing. 518201204793 20.1K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn: 742379888004 38K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2025You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you. Be safe! Shop somewhere else. 33384241805 8.4K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025A message from Zelensky through his actions. Honor and dignity. Some things can only be surrendered. They can't be taken away. 9479451291 7.9K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the *offer* of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru... 1414173976 4.2K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...globalnews.caHow a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.caIn 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic. 511299357816 29.9K
Reposted by @mcbenton.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2024News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions theonion.com/news-happeni... 115121131768 12.1K
