Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 19hI try to persuade people to elect leaders who will make our nation a better place to live. I try to persuade people to watch comedians I think are funny. You start mixing those things up, you got problems. 1171
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Agent of a Foreign Power emptywheel.net/2026/10/10/a...emptywheel.netAgent of a Foreign Power - emptywheelIf you read Putin's statement about the capitulation he wrangled from Trump yesterday, rather than Trump, it becomes clear that Putin has finally finished fully recruiting Donald Trump. 13326148
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 04/10/2026Janilyah Khadaran said of the Mississippi redistricting committee, "We have one woman. We have someone who may be somewhere near my age and the rest of you look like you guys have been retired for years. No one here represents me.” buff.ly/oxAULFsbuff.lyMississippians Condemn Redistricting Efforts During Gulfport HearingMississippians on the Gulf Coast were mostly negative on any redistricting proposals that may come from the Mississippi Legislature. 0348
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How are they able to do this is a good question. Traditionally, use of IRS data by others is not permitted without statutory permission. I figured this came through the OBBBA, and IRS is part of Treasury, but the last line here suggests some creative lawerly reinterpretation was needed. 38429
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists." 2754205
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz 854312470
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Things are looking so bad for Republicans that in Ohio they're trying to fool their ignorant voters into thinking Sherrod Brown is the incumbent and blame the current problems on him. Some voters will be dumb enough to fall for this. www.rawstory.com/jon-husted-s...rawstory.comGOP scheme to boost Senate candidate backfires by confusing their own votersOhio Republicans deliberately built a strategy around portraying Sen. Jon Husted as the underdog challenger rather than the sitting incumbent, hoping to capitalize on anti-establishment anger. Instead... 1521692
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why is it that people no longer trust the tech companies? Why isn't the government shutting them down completely? The vast majority of people would support that. 021
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialbrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure. 51659488
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/09/2026Imperial powers getting high on their own supply of white supremacy and being militarily pantsed by the brown guerillas they underestimated ... how many times are they gonna remake this movie jfc 414428
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"fairly recently" Marital rape was not recognized as a crime in all 50 states until 1993. For most of my lifetime, the concept itself was treated as oxymoronic, non-sensical. How could a man be said to rape what he owned? Does the couch get to say "no" to JD Vance? 211113
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMatt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 11/09/2026On the other hand, if I were seeking influence with, say, Trump, I would definitely not mind if he believed that I possessed the ability to use satellites to rig elections for him. “Uh, sure boss, I can use my magic satellite lasers to fix the election for you, no problem!” 2567
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Phlyarologist [FLY-uh-ROL-uh-jist] (n.) - A person who habitually talks nonsense; a babbler or purveyor of foolish, meaningless talk. Used in a sentence: “After three brandies, Lord Bandyshanks had regressed from a deipnosophist into a phlyarologist of Munchausenian magnitude.” 48027
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever. 401334222
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialAnita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Memphis Raid is Among Largest Immigrant Arrest Operations in Nation Advocates say numbers of children lost their parents in the raid of a Hispanic nightclub that the feds have characterized as a crime den despite offering little proof www.psrmemphis.org/memphis-raid... 086
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These hateful losers are so embarrassing, tearing up the good built by millions of others. You can't call the moment when the tide will turn, but their hopes and legacy will fall to nothing in the end, because ruin is all they are capable of. 191513178
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/08/2026Eddie Reyes-Ochoa has been in the U.S. for 20 years. He works in construction, has a wife who just graduated law school with a baby on the way, and is close to earning his green card. But after a car accident on Aug. 21, ICE detained Eddie and sent him to a detention center in Natchez, Mississippi.mississippifreepress.orgICE Detains Kiln Man, Leaving Pregnant Wife Alone: ‘We’ve Done What the Government Told Us’Eddie Reyes-Ochoa, just weeks from earning his green card, was detained by ICE and taken to an immigration detention center in Natchez, Mississippi. 511677
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager. 1051181263781
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions. 7855071452
mdtwnrmvd.bsky.social @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I bet Laura Loomer is frothing with rage right now. 000
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026wrote about America’s sports betting epidemic and how it is, like most bad things, Justice Sam Alito's fault ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgHow the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction CrisisLike many things in this country, the omnipresence of DraftKings and FanDuel is largely the Supreme Court’s fault. 528188
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 14/08/2026Defunding of student loan repayment program another hit to teachers amid state’s staffing shortage The Winter-Reed Teacher Loan Repayment Program is not funded this year — a first since the Legislature created it in… mississippitoday.org/2026/08/14/win…mississippitoday.orgDefunding of student loan repayment program another hit to teachers amid state’s staffing shortageThe Winter-Reed Teacher Loan Repayment Program is not funded this year — a first since the Legislature created it in 2021. 041
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialLeon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Preach that good word of Adam Smith, brother 38815
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Shoutout to independent media outlets like @mississippifreepress.org whose reporting in Senatobia informs my own, and especially @mississippitoday.org for breaking things open in stories like these. This cop is still on paid leave.mississippitoday.orgSenatobia officer involved in toddler shooting was accused of racial remark at work - Mississippi TodayAn internal complaint at the Senatobia Police Department says Sgt. Hunter Foster made a racially offensive remark in front of other employees to refer to a Black colleague. 1197
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 06/08/2026I was thinking how closely all of this seems to be modeling the end of abortion access, although no one wants to talk about how intricately the two are twined. Because often a high risk pregnancy is a low risk pregnancy that had enough medical care to be discovered it was ALWAYS high risk to start. 17116
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026it’s a Thursday but… … happy Election Day to those who celebrate! 110827
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My heart hurts too much to even say something ironic about this. What if we just fucking start fighting for every single precious human life before they’re under attack. What if we treat now like it matters as much as it does. 7511125
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialCake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 02/08/2026the thing I hate most about being a democrat is watching people who agree with each other on 80% of things go full nuclear on things while the Republicans just roll into power and the only things they agree on are we like money and hate gay people black people foreigners and needles 610013
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMaj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING. 17561221631
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions. 5153101379
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026In the past two weeks, Trump has recorded his lowest-ever approval ratings from whites without college degrees, across either term as president. yougov.com/en-us/articl... 17325105
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Troy can beat Susan in Maine. #BluTsu Video: buff.ly/jBDMy5q 19410
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/07/2026OPINION: "I have spent much of my life defending Mississippi, even when Mississippi has made defending itself difficult," Duvalier Malone writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-nola...mississippifreepress.orgOpinion | Nolan Wells’ Family Deserves AnswersDuvalier Malone writes about Nolan Wells’ death and why Black Americans may be skeptical of the ongoing investigation. 23916
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialMiss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Why isn't Doug Jones getting more love in Alabama? Can we at least amplify his campaign and put some light on it for the folks in Alabama? www.dougjones.comdougjones.comDoug for AlabamaDoug for Alabama's campaign 6203123
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026See, when Hunter Biden consorted with prostitutes, that was everybody's business, but Barron Trump palling around with accused sex traffickers is a private matter. 261425372
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/07/2026nobody is giving fox news more headlines about how democrats can't win general elections than moderate candidates and their supporters in the media 212038322
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 18/07/2026“More than a thousand people rallied for Justin Pearson, a Democratic state representative running for Congress, in the wake of four fatal shootings by members of the Memphis Safe Task Force over the last two months.”theguardian.comMemphis rallies for progressive Democrat after four fatal shootings by taskforce: ‘Fight of our lives’Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley join rally to support Justin Pearson’s bid for a seat in Congress 4711181
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/07/2026and by shenanigans we mean letting 57 largely unregulated natural gas AI data center turbines dump toxic pollutants like formaldehyde into minority Memphis neighborhoods that already have a disproportionately high rate of childhood illnesses from corporate pollution 311842
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Ro Khanna was supposed to appear on Meet the Press today to talk about his detainment by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but he has been bumped by Benjamin Netanyahu to pay tribute to Lindsey Graham 33464151
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026harpers.org/archive/2018... 332965949
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I’m really heartbroken by this news. I never knew them. They did so much for so many. My condolences to all who loved them. 8517103
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times 5973701606
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026To say that European Jewish culture failed because it did not stop Nazism is to say it is the sole obligation of the marginalized community to win their own rights. It’s like arguing trans culture has failed because of US politics today. It’s placing a failure of all of humanity onto one group. 329067
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialBessie the Cow @bovinebessie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Can the GOP recruit a single dude who doesn't look softer than baby shit to say this stuff? 1141
Reposted by @mdtwnrmvd.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/07/2026haven't learned a single fucking thing in ten years about right wing populist propaganda 629523
