Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Senator, will you have the stomach to do what needs to be done to restore this nation’s honor? 100
Reposted by Mean DM Beanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why the news media considers it acceptable to make calculations of newsworthiness based on "is there already coverage of other scandals related to the same individual elsewhere in the paper" is an exercise I'll leave up to the reader 214113
Reposted by Mean DM Beanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over. 869488
Reposted by Mean DM BeanFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Never in the field of human relations was so little owed by so many to men who had so much. 0232
Reposted by Mean DM Beanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper 181016186
Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Therefore, Apartheid in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza aren’t dealbreakers for Democrats Get fecked Jeff 070
Reposted by Mean DM Beanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot 775974
Reposted by Mean DM BeanAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954151200
Reposted by Mean DM Beanrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026basically anyone who makes a living doing statistics who doesn't know statistics is 312612
Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Those days are gone, boys, those days are gone But still we ramble onyoutu.beRamblin' RevisitedYouTube video by Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds - Topic 000
Reposted by Mean DM BeanJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you are an enemy of any group of people just because of who they are, then I am your enemy and I will freeze you out in every way that is available to me.  0331
Reposted by Mean DM BeanTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 562862426
Reposted by Mean DM BeanNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I don't have any love for the Washington consulting class, but it doesn't strike me as a huge mystery why a Democratic candidate might keep his distance from the faction that rallied around a guy with a Nazi tattoo and who later also turned out to be rapist nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comTroy Jackson, the Accidental CandidateHow the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign. 227345
Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just give the tech to academia. We will go apeshit solving cool problems 1101
Reposted by Mean DM BeanMark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026DOGE committed a lot of federal crimes and the only thing I have to say about this piece is: If Tyler Hassen was involved in any of the crimes (likely, given the scope of DOGE criminality), I hope he is prosecuted and goes to prison. The damage to science alone is devastating for our kids’ future. 640197
Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Will is correct and I salute his taking on the PhilBros who cannot accept that human beings are not special snowflakes and are 100% products of the natural world 010
Reposted by Mean DM BeanElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 22/09/2026Total victory for team anti-science. Everything is "can I find the first hit on Google to link so that I look informed now." 61177
Reposted by Mean DM BeanRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 340127564658
Reposted by Mean DM Beanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026genuinely think you could pull the wallet inspector gag on friedersdorf 72759
Reposted by Mean DM BeanStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Friedersdorf admitting he does no research is amusing. I guess he is unaware that Rufo’s spouse is a nonwhite immigrant whose residency status prior to their marriage was questionable. Given Rufo’s full-throated support of the administration, that might have been a relevant topic to explore. 1195
Reposted by Mean DM BeanFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Conor Friedersdorf is the interesting case of a mind that does not react to external stimuli and has simply been repeating the same behaviors without alteration for 20 years. It is impossible to tell from the outside whether there is any frontal lobe function. 4344
Reposted by Mean DM BeanMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457541515
Reposted by Mean DM BeanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The reason not to triangulate against trans people isn't that it's bad politics (although I believe it is) or unnecessary (although I believe it is). It's because YOU MUST NOT ABANDON THE VULNERABLE TO DEPRAVED PEOPLE WHO WILL DO THEM HARM. If we will, what's the point of anything else we do? 231461255
Reposted by Mean DM Beanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I predict that this will not affect the overall tenor of how Trump is covered because the reason he receives friendly coverage has never been about "access" but about the fact the people who control these outlets like Trump and think hes a good President bsky.app/profile/jona... 533137
Reposted by Mean DM Beanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A lot of people speculating that Trump banning certain reporters from the WH is about controlling what comes *out* from the press when I'm pretty sure this action is actually about protecting Trump from what comes *in* — unpleasant reality that intrudes on his Power of Positive Thinking bubble 261233160
Reposted by Mean DM BeanAdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Negatively polarizing Taylor Lorenz into a conservative would be a net win 0113
Reposted by Mean DM BeanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hegseth should rot in the Hague 934041
Reposted by Mean DM BeanStrahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When Frederick Trump was suffering from dementia, his entourage would pick him up in a limo every day and bring him to an office and pretend to need his help with decisions or his signature on documents. They are giving his son copies of old documents and telling him they are new triumphs. 0254
Reposted by Mean DM BeanThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!! 354169633026
Reposted by Mean DM BeanJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.socialjessica.substack.comShe Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her LeaveTravel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them 9325134
Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Surely there is room in the Democratic Party for those who support South Africa.” That’s how Democratic supporters of Israel sound. Just respond with a big fat fucking NOPE 000
Mean DM Bean @mean-dm-bean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Piker and Neera Tanden are made for each other. I’m just glad the veil has been lifted from so many Democrats’ eyes re: Israel and its unforgivable treatment of the Palestinian people. 000
Reposted by Mean DM BeanHennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty @hennepinatty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty statement on Christian Castro: 151045244
Reposted by Mean DM Beanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026and Unionists with Israeli flags (alongside Confederate, Rhodesian and apartheid SA ones) 1501
Reposted by Mean DM BeanMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs 695189850
Reposted by Mean DM BeanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is an insane, authoritarian attack on speech. Rubio shut down an email/web hosting service for activist groups as a “foreign terrorist organization” because a far right think tanker and Daily Caller writer claimed it was used by Antifa and Stop Cop City.unicornriot.ninjaActivist Blogging Platform Shuts Down After Terrorism Designation - UNICORN RIOTWashington D.C. — On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury designated a volunteer tech collective behind a popular activist blogging platform a terrorist organization. Autis... 220575
Reposted by Mean DM BeanAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It’s all identity politics, but since it’s largely white identity politics it’s fine and doesn’t count. It’s not something communist like police shouldn’t be able to get away with murder bsky.app/profile/chri... 91301209
Reposted by Mean DM BeanAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Generosity doesn’t automatically come with an agenda. And sometimes a wedding gift is just a wedding gift.” Did Don Jr marry John Roberts bsky.app/profile/nikk... 731198168
Reposted by Mean DM BeanLBJ Again @50megatonfbomb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Every minority and vulnerable person in Ohio deserves suffering and death because Amy Acton has bad trans policies, which are also significantly preferable to her opponent's. 1113910
