Reposted by MersplosionGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory. 461080688 0
Reposted by MersplosionJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word! 13582325 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No matter how mass produced, all of your clothes are sewn by human hands. A sewing machine moves a needle, it doesn’t itself produce a garment. Cultures so removed from the reality of production open themselves to devaluing all production, including an author’s 020 0
Reposted by MersplosionRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.nbcnews.comElon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis 23060233745 0
Reposted by MersplosionKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11896951920 0
Reposted by MersplosionMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11468051524 0
Reposted by MersplosionTolkien Books Database @books.digitaltolkien.com · 20/09/2026If you have this paperback copy of the Two Towers, we need your help! Can you look at your copyright page and report: a) whether "This paperback edition ____" says 2011 or 2020 b) what impression number is shown underneath. e.g. 2020 and 35 2011 and 42 books.digitaltolkien.com/SQQR/books.digitaltolkien.comThe Two Towers, 2020 Paperback Edition, impressions 35–37+HarperCollins, 2020, B-Format Paperback, ISBN 0-261-10358-X. 1610 0
Reposted by MersplosionPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone. 435270711 0
Reposted by MersplosionErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...erininthemorning.comThe Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By StateThese are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle. 7737191380 0
Reposted by MersplosionLate Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026⚠️ Help needed ⚠️ Researchers are trying to collect & inform on hostile media/agitators that can be referenced during ICE escalations. Tag with #hostilemedia & location identifiers. Ex: #hostimediaMN #hostilemediaME #hostilemediaCBUS #hostilemediaMNPLS We've started an example thread here (1/🧵) 5286169 0
Reposted by Mersplosionjennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s our air, our lives, and our city — we should decide 🦅 Two potential data center sites have already been identified in Philly—but the city has no rules to protect communities. We're rallying on 9/14 to demand City Council press PAUSE on data center development. Join us at philly.my/sep14rally 19536 0
Reposted by MersplosionDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Local cops working with ICE for the cash are turning east-central Pa. into a police state where no brown person is safe. You gotta figure there are a whole lot of other places like this that no one knows about because there's only one @willbunch.bsky.social. Gift link: share.inquirer.com/FCor2Lshare.inquirer.comIn Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will BunchSchuylkill County is the new face of Trump’s mass deportation, as local cops, lured by federal cash, bust scores of migrants. 811358 0
Reposted by MersplosionChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sadly, the heavy heat and then late freeze crushed our apple harvest, though I will selfishly note here a campaign to help out local farmers -- givebutter.com/BCFA-fruit-f...givebutter.comSupport Bucks County Tree Fruit FarmersBy Bucks County Foodshed Alliance Inc 0233 0
Reposted by MersplosionJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/09/2026honestly think everyone signing up for ANY social media platform should have to tick a box which is labelled, in giant red comic sans: "I accept that not everything on this platform is about me." 2853 0
Reposted by MersplosionSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Come out to the rally on Tuesday at 10am in front of The Academy of Natural Sciences! RSVP here luma.com/1qwnrqz2 Read more here: whyy.org/articles/phi...whyy.orgSupporters plan rally to protest closing of Academy of Natural Science MuseumThe nearly 200-year-old museum is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas. 213765 0
Reposted by MersplosionKate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ignoring or choosing not to pay attention when a group chooses to dehumanize ANY GROUP of people is A CHOICE. A choice in which I hold individuals, a community or society accountable. When intolerance is met with ambivalence or comfort seeking there is no hope of a tolerant society. 133 0
Reposted by MersplosionSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ... 9911862 0
Reposted by MersplosionRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.youtu.beThe Secret Way the Rich are Getting RicherThe biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch. 20982123463 0
Reposted by MersplosionCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 29/08/2026Block data centers—take down surveillance cameras—stop ICE. As opposition to Flock and data centers spreads across the political spectrum, we should connect these to ICE. We must understand all of these as manifestations of the same thing: an increasingly violent and invasive technocratic state. 113763 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Reflexively read a poster next to that face as The Greatest Lakes 000 0
Reposted by MersplosionWHYY News @whyynews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Unhoused Philadelphians face increasingly dangerous summers as climate change fuels heat waves. Advocates, service providers and people experiencing homelessness say the city needs to do more to keep people safe. Full story → bit.ly/4xoaEnN ✏️: @sophia-schmidt.bsky.social 011 0
Reposted by MersplosionWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Newsom said absolutely nothing when his own state troopers shot a journalist at a protest or when the LAPD routinely attacked reporters and photographers He is a world-class hypocrite 47914222 0
Reposted by MersplosionMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I've signed onto an open letter of authors (and publishers) who support the striking workers of the Cleveland Public Library system. If you're an author or publisher and want to sign on too, there's information about how to do so! Tell your friends, etc. tinyurl.com/cplsolidarity 5508197 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026DYK? Homies Helping Homies is a mutual aid collective in Point Breeze & Grays Ferry. It was founded by my neighbors, for my neighbors to distribute food & other essential goods. Today, it's grown to add block cleanups, a radio show, & live events to raise funds #Philly #MutualAidlinktr.eeHomies.Helping.Homies Official: Instagram, Facebook | LinktreePhiladelphia Local Food Distribution! Donate or Volunteer to help! 130 0
Reposted by MersplosionDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/08/2026Activists have set up a protest camp in the Arizona border town of Lochiel to prevent the destruction of a grove of ancient cottonwood trees. Federal contractors plan to destroy the grove to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. 4355127 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026On a handful of days out of each month, I've been privileged to meet up with my neighbors and bag trash around Point Breeze & Gray's Ferry. After years of hearing "that's just how it is," joining with my community to say "this is how our lives could be different" is special. Suddenly, I can breathe. 100 0
Reposted by MersplosionAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 17845331588 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Today has me reminiscing about SNAFU’s season on the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI. No real reason. Good podcast, thoughsnafumedia.comPodcasts | SNAFU Media – Stories That MatterThe story of a daring heist that exposed a colossal FBI SNAFU. 000 0
Reposted by MersplosionLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13/08/2026from the brilliant @derecka.bsky.social "The very movements producing [radical] rhetoric, from abolition to Free Palestine, also produced the possibilities of [DSA's] election [win]s. Downplaying those movements puts organizers who continue this work at risk, especially right now."theguardian.comAOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka PurnellProgressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition 728283 0
Reposted by MersplosionBradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Delco piranha! I repeat: Delco! Piranha!!6abc.com'It's a piranha!': Boy's unexpected catch sparks reminder about exotic pet releasesSeamus Coffey of Folsom was reeling in what he thought might be a large bass when he realized he had hooked something unusual. 3217 0
Reposted by MersplosionJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism. 491374374 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Itemized bill for buying Americans off - Flight to Atlanta - Glad-handing with the economic elite - Lip-service to listening - Cameo from the daughter of a legend - A chicken dinner 020 0
Reposted by MersplosionGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's time we stopped calling them "moderates". They are extremists in service to capital. And many of them appear to hate and fear the left of their own party far more than they hate and fear the Republicans. Like Starmer's Labour "centrists" (extremists) in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...nytimes.comModerate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant LeftOne moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism. 671323395 0
Reposted by MersplosionAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026What does move people - not in the hermitic forced view environment of surveys - but in the world is when people are loudly, proudly, repeating our refrains and, critically, creating a sense of belonging. Of a group to which you want to belong. 1569 0
Reposted by MersplosionStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/08/2026I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters 183111111147 0
Reposted by MersplosionRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The black lung rate in Appalachia is now as high as it was in the 1970s. Remember: Trump indefinitely stalled a rule that would limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, which causes black lung. Trump doesn’t care about miners’ health. He never has and he never will. 21345851889 0
Reposted by Mersplosionmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it 6647561241 0
Reposted by MersplosionBariTengineer @baritengineer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Homer knew the greatest of evils in the world. Those assholes who won't leave the party after he host has both politely and unpolitely requested the leave and just keep going into your fridge to eat your food even though it's not food for the party. 02048 0
Reposted by MersplosionChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...inquirer.comThis quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will BunchPolice in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March. 15422241 0
Reposted by MersplosionDan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The differences between Weiss and Pelley are those of degree, not of kind. There are enough degrees to make the differences seem stark, but they are both creatures of the same corrupt system: seeking “balance” rather than truth. Was the protestor’s chest, bump representative? Of course not. 1041559 0
Reposted by MersplosionVermin F. Cockwolf @cellorelio.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This deserves alt text: 224196 0
Reposted by MersplosionSean Hoyer @seanhoyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026If Allie Brosh got a few cents every time people say "all the things" or use her character from this strip w/o crediting her she'd be rich. hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this...hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.comThis is Why I'll Never be an AdultI have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility. Over the years, this capacity has g... 110413 0
Reposted by MersplosionAimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 03/06/2026Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵 8248782942 0
Reposted by MersplosionDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Gift link: share.inquirer.com/kfpAhf @willbunch.bsky.social on Delaney Hall and @mikiesherrill.bsky.socialshare.inquirer.comMikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will BunchNew Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead. 12376180 0
Reposted by MersplosionPaul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild. 7471321270 0
Reposted by MersplosionMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This is embarrassing 342049242 0
Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Economic op-ed writers hate it when you take future wellbeing into account. Sure retirement looks bleak, but what about your Q2 numbers? 010 0