Reposted by MercuryCobramtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back. 5553921355
Reposted by MercuryCobramattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/07/2026dear god, hearing the way some people have just completely integrating AI shit into their everyday lives is so sad and embarrassing and alienating. you motherfuckers have me on the verge of believing in the existence of the human soul. awful 182553312
Reposted by MercuryCobraeconomymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Object of desire, object of non-romantic interest, general tolerance of my presence are all things my brain appears wired to be deeply skeptical exist 1391
Reposted by MercuryCobrajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election 192168002486
Reposted by MercuryCobraMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It is not hawkish to point out that Trump lost the war of choice that he started & it is not the duty of doves to defend a peace treaty that recognizes those losses 312158381
Reposted by MercuryCobraJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night. 212474501
Reposted by MercuryCobraacebojangles.bsky.social @acebojangles.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is how our politics works now: Democrats have to reckon with how people feel about the economy, crime, immigration, and every other issue, totally apart from reality. When things get better under Democrats, it doesn't matter because Republicans don't believe it so it doesn't count. 0465
Reposted by MercuryCobraMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 09/06/2026This is where I’m at. I think he is a person with extremely poor judgment, low moral character, and sincerely held “dirtbag left” politics. 81049
Reposted by MercuryCobraDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 29/05/2026They rightly reject it when someone makes other feelings > data claims. Should we just reject all the data that says violent crime is falling and immigrants are less likely to commit crimes because some people FEEL less safe and FEEL that foreigners are scary? No! Those people are wrong! 215414
Reposted by MercuryCobraDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The bridge between liberals and socialists lies in Machiavelli, and the political realist tradition more generally: a Republic cannot long endure a class of wealthy notables who undermine it at every single turn. 5652133
Reposted by MercuryCobraThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito 7080421467
Reposted by MercuryCobraryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/05/2026I'm not on board with the Good Aristocracy place he gets to at the end, but he's on to something here lol 88920
Reposted by MercuryCobrajon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/05/2026I truly think that people need to make an affirmative argument for how current communication tech is worse than television 2698
Reposted by MercuryCobraWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad. 683987603
Reposted by MercuryCobraMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on. 412598568
Reposted by MercuryCobraWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I think 'earning' or 'deserving' or 'good' billionaires or 'bad' billionaires are all sort of missing the point tbh. There are decent people who are billionaires and there are unobjectionable ways to make lots of money but that's not the point. The point is that level of unaccountable power is bad. 20627104
Reposted by MercuryCobrajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more. 22361951012
Reposted by MercuryCobraWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026the thing that drives everyone insane on so many topics is that people can have sympathetic and understandable reasons to do and believe in awful shit, and those reasons do not actually matter very much 1513
Reposted by MercuryCobraAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The design of the Constitution divided warmaking authority between Congress and the executive to prevent a president to take the country to war by themselves for any petty or self-serving reason. You know, like a king would. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 261652423
Reposted by MercuryCobraAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy 299261388797
Reposted by MercuryCobraLucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026>discover new left-coded populist >ask supporters if they're cosmopolitan or herrenvolk >they don't understand >explain what is cosmopolitan and what is herrenvolk >they laugh and say "they're a good progressive ma'am" >see how they describe the working class >it's herrenvolk 334977
Reposted by MercuryCobraClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil 73674776
MercuryCobra @mercurycobra.bsky.social · 27/02/2026An under-discussed aspect of how previous generations sometimes left us holding the bag is that they all seem allergic to mentoring. I’ve seen so many boomers or Gen Xers wax rhapsodic about how they wouldn’t be anywhere without their mentor, then disappear any time someone asks for their help. 100
Reposted by MercuryCobraBecky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 27/02/2026It’d be cool if progressives didn’t point to fat people like “We can all agree this is a public policy failure…” 420950
Reposted by MercuryCobraOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. 645597980
Reposted by MercuryCobraNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026One of my most problematic traits is that I an super judgmental when rich or famous people have to use their influence to get their kids into colleges that aren’t particularly selective. Like you completely failed and should be embarrassed by all of this. 93178
Reposted by MercuryCobraSeva @seva.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening 8150851118
Reposted by MercuryCobramattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead 18196365901
Reposted by MercuryCobraSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 04/02/2026"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...doomsdayscenario.coAccountability for ICE and CBPHowever bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse. 6526201224
Reposted by MercuryCobraWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026the thing that’s so strange about the current american billionaire class is precisely the fact that they have chosen, as a class, to forego maximizing their own wealth in order to pursue cultural and political power, not as tools to further profit, but as the ends in themselves 1026336
Reposted by MercuryCobrathe garbage store boy @screaming.party · 04/02/2026I've never been a conspiracy theory guy, but you're never gonna convince me that there hasn't been a specific cabal of ultra-rich dullards trying to buy, strangle, and bring to heel all of the most important reality-shaping machines since the uptick in power labor had during COVID 312480512
Reposted by MercuryCobraSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 02/02/2026if you want to be the violent wing your job is to choose high value, universally loathed targets, and to know that your job is to die or languish in prison for a cause that will spit on your name 2265383
Reposted by MercuryCobraBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Van Hollen has been much better than most Democrats, but once again, I am asking elected leaders to stop providing running commentary like a common pundit or beat reporter and instead tell *us* what to do about it or tell us what *they* are doing about it. 27655156
Reposted by MercuryCobraJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them. 722208835428
Reposted by MercuryCobrafunctional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle” 7083641456
Reposted by MercuryCobraMicah @rincewind.run · 28/01/2026Nancy Pelosi should have retired years ago and has made many terrible decisions but I will always be grateful that she told Rahm and everyone else to fuck themselves, held the House together, and got Obamacare through for all its flaws it is a vast improvement over what came before 111242150
Reposted by MercuryCobraChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 28/01/2026my least favorite kind of social media punditry is "bad thing X must be because of Y" where Y = some shibboleth that's popular with those who share the poster's worldview one post at a time, it feels like this mental shortcut is grinding away at critical thinking skills and flattening all politics 5458
Reposted by MercuryCobraJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/01/2026americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool 876989896
Reposted by MercuryCobraSnowden St. @snowden.st · 27/01/2026and, most relevant to Mr. Fuckley’s point, the Democrats cannot get anywhere if they accept the framing of permissive immigration as “risky by humane”. Thats’s how we got here! Permissive immigration is actually safer than a War on Migrants, we HAVE to stand by that. 1222
Reposted by MercuryCobrajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too. 440229164262
Reposted by MercuryCobraGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27/01/2026it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat 453132496
Reposted by MercuryCobramtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act 7355461249
Reposted by MercuryCobraWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This is clearly an empirical prediction about events based on my unambiguously first-amendment protected right to express opinions about the motivations of public figures and in no way constitutes a course of action I endorse or have the ability or desire to effectuate. 460630
Reposted by MercuryCobraWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I am as explicitly as possible laying down a date-stamped marker that a federal immigration agent is going to die violently within the next calendar year, and that this will retroactively be used to justify policy. I am saying it here so I can angrily quote this at media figures when it happens. 171175149
Reposted by MercuryCobraRepresentative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 25/01/2026We will need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission when these cruel, lawless people are out of office. They must be held accountable in order for our nation to heal. 971268270
Reposted by MercuryCobraAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up 12345231074
