Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Counterpoint: Trump will soon realize that by banning left-leaning journalists, he has effectively halved his captive audience. He will then claim that the courts have ruled that his constitution, which he cherishes, cannot be broken, despite his aversion to “fake news.” *small accordion hands* 000
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/09/2026Remember what this is about: There is no cause more important than a renewal of liberal constitutionalism. There is no task more urgent than defending and strengthening our constitutional government.lnk.thebulwark.comWhy Do We Even Have a Constitution Day?Because it’s the frame of silver for our apple of gold. 13455100
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Jared’s botoxed unlined face, with black, smile-less eyes fixed on a camera talking unthinkingly in Kremlin, in front of a symbol he knows nothing of. This’s Kushner’s full transformation into a Washington creature ready to run for an official office where he’ll have 1/1000 the power he’s held now. 021
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/09/2026@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I lay out in the book a game plan for how Democrats can beat back the MAGA authoritarian threat…by dominating the communications landscape, building new messaging infrastructure, and treating voters like adults."lnk.thebulwark.comI can’t believe it’s almost here.Hey guys, it’s Sarah. 69828
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026NEW on “Paper Trail”: More likely than not, there are ”forever chemicals” in your blood. Here’s the thing: 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into people’s blood for decades — and continued making them. We found out how they kept this secret. Listen to the full episode:propublica.orgHow the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret 9129571570
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Probably because he has Axon stock and Trump’s heavily invested in it. 000
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Lindsey Clancy Trial has the potential to ignite a civil war. I’ve had to unfollow so many people I thought sane and kind. Patrick Clancy’s a victim. Lindsey Clancy’s ALSO a victim. There’s no winners with PPPsychosis. It’s about these children. #Clancytrial 030
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“I FEEL BETRAYED — Staff Sergeant Alexis Jaramillo has spent 11 years serving the United States Army. However, the Puerto Rican-born aviation specialist said the country isn’t standing behind his family after ICE detained his wife…” www.live5news.com/2026/08/11/i... 1021968775
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026#haleystevens #abdulelsayed #michigan #senate 000
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Flock cameras’ days are numbered. Across the country, communities are removing them city by city. Thank you to everyone who is standing up, speaking out, and fighting back against their expansion. Here’s the cities that have fought back and won! Denver CO, Austin TX, San Marcos TX, Evanston IL, 24486142088
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesMash @itismashagain.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing. 300117621659
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesMike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I love the works of Maxfield Parrish, and I have Berkeley Breathed to thank for that: 182
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The Older Millennial, the same right-wing influencer who got tased by the cops and peed his pants, had some “moments” in his four-hour blotto livestream. So what exactly does he want to do with “migrants”? A reminder: don’t drink and LIVE. #oldermillennial #aa #yikes 010
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026🌎 COMMON DREAMS: “A week away from Tennessee’s Democratic primary, a coalition of national advocacy groups endorsed @justinjpearson.bsky.social - running to represent TN9… ‘Tennesseans deserve a champion who will stand up to corporate polluters…’” www.commondreams.org/news/justin-... 262380650
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Every Tennessee Republican voted yes 781025387
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Never forget how they treated Melissa Hortman and her family’s death. #melissahortman #justice 020
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026Crockett: "Welcome to the Republicans' white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing" 14849231523
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Mitch McConnell photo is indeed old. Watch #proofoflife #mitch #2023 041
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot Takesmomofanangel.bsky.social @momofanangel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Are you surprised? 011
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The best one page ghost story ever put to paper. 716835
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesSpringer Nature @springernature.com · 02/07/2026As the second unprecedented heatwave in Europe this year smashed records, many people are asking the same questions: is this the new normal? Has Europe’s climate fundamentally changed? Nature asked whether scorching summers are the new norm for London, Paris & Berlin spklr.io/63329EO9JF 🧪spklr.ioEurope’s record heatwave: does the continent have a new climate?Nature asks researchers whether scorching summers are the new norm for London, Paris and Berlin. 2126
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The Spanish national team with an incredible love letter to Chattanooga👇🏽 ♥️ ⚽️ 341364250
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I hope Diane DeGette loses. It’s time. It’s past time for all corporate dems to quake. 000
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot Takes💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 23/06/2026💖 the best therapy ~ has fur furever #caturday 💚💛💜🩷 18965941213
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026While SIMULTANEOUSLY pardoning a convicted narco trafficker president who worked intimately with El Chapo, the Sinaloa cartel leader of the largest and most powerful cartel: Juan Orlando Hernández. 030
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/06/2026UH OH: Republican operatives are begging Fox News to stop talking about Zohran Mamdani's policies - because they're becoming very popular with Fox News's viewers. 0126
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.bbc.co.ukHomes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow liveOn one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says. 9525051090
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026President Biden didn’t. We know he didn’t because they meticulously investigated every single thing he said or did for years, searching for corruption. If he had accepted a bribe or foreign money for any questionable activity? We’d know. Trump though? 💯 guilty of corruption. Sickening. 140
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026TRUMP: THE MOST CORRUPT FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES. What I want to know; can this be reversed? 031
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/05/2026"Despite our country’s betrayal of both men, they remain proud to have fought for and alongside this country." Remember our Afghan allies, too:lnk.thebulwark.comThis Memorial Day, Remember the Afghans Who Saved American LivesWe dishonor the fallen if we forget what they fought for. 341977
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Bottoms fought Kemp when GA became the first state to reopen, was sued over Atl’s safety measures, and won. She expanded testing, coordinated food, emergency housing during COVID, balanced the budget four year straight, during a crisis while giving 20% raises to Ga civil servants. #Bottoms 000
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesAshok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 18/05/2026In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.theguardian.comHere’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months | First Dog on the MoonNote to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK 1269642384
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.youtube.comCould This Actually End Citizens United?Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti 311146704805
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“Republicans will try to use this to say it’s illegitimate for ANY community of color to elect their candidate of choice. Not just in the South.” Election lawyer @marceelias sounds the alarm 🚨 about “the worst SCOTUS decision of my lifetime” 331627631
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026You find the agent who did the redactions? Fire him. Ok. Then you find his boss? FIRE HIM Ok. Then you find boss? Then you impeach them. Okay! Now we do criminal trial. 020
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/05/2026Rep. Stansbury: "This administration is choosing to not investigate the crimes that are in these files. The administration is choosing to release the names of survivors and not perpetrators…The administration is trying to gaslight the American people." 15873722535
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is what happens when you hire someone passionate and GOOD. They are out there. 000
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Zohran says NYC has erased a $12 billion budget deficit in part by taxing the rich 29684732027
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I enjoyed reading this. Measuring life in cats reveals years are too short. Enjoy your best days. My middle years: Grape and Juliobaca are deeply missed. My middle years now? We have two bumbies; Bush and Log -- one old…and one not so old. 1193
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/05/2026🚨BREAKING: The NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Tennessee’s new congressional gerrymander, arguing the GOP’s rushed effort to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comNAACP sues to stop Tennessee GOP gerrymander that dismantles majority-Black districtFor over five decades, Tennessee law explicitly prohibited congressional redistricting between census cycles. 8649981520
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Violence is coming. Perfect storm: high gas and food prices, Jim Crow bullshit, rich get richer. They asked for this. 010
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026No 😴 for 47: Dementia? Worst numbers yet? Realizing your enemies are innocent? That no amount of self-aggrandizing will fill that bottomless pit? He’s 5’ and 11”, done with his grave. He’s lived his entire life selfishly stuffing gobs of money down his pants. Hell’s next. I too would be restless… 041
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesCNN @cnn.com · 01/05/2026A Massachusetts-based fusion company took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same power fueling the sun and stars onto the US electrical grid. cnn.it/48viyl0 137019
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026WATCH: @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner tells @jonstewart he hasn’t ever even gotten a phone call from @DNC @dscc @TheDemocrats leadership 🤔 He calls it “baffling” Stewart: “They should be viewing this as. Rosetta Stone that can help them translate.” 62348117
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I had the worst nightmare: I was in a drum, filled with water, with a tiny tube to breathe through. Panic-inducing: I woke myself up hyperventilating. This administration is a lot to live through. How are you my friends? 130
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot TakesRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The Best Place in the World. #BookSky 202116571872
Reposted by Mena Makes Hot Takesndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The future is green. The Trump admin abbreviates our future. 1186
Mena Makes Hot Takes @menaganey.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Imagine STILL supporting 47?! What must that be like? Clueless, eating rainbow marshmallows in an XXL Disney shirt that doubles as a nightgown. Taking potshots at liberals. Insisting he’s the best as you twist your brain into a pretzel to support him while he robs us. Oh to be a simpleton. 171