Reposted by Mark HatlestadU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026Happy Baby Safety Month. 833611915
Reposted by Mark Hatlestadmorbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 13/09/2026people say they are against fascism but refuse to learn basic facts about the political situation in 1930s germany 191
Reposted by Mark HatlestadTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops 6277282026
Reposted by Mark Hatlestadjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2026this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military” 22089002037
Reposted by Mark HatlestadBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Real idea: As part of the effort to get DC and PR statehood, next Dem president should invent about State Weeks. Each of the 52 states gets its own celebration week every year. A random July week is Montana week. Tourism bonanzas. Televised lottery every year for week placement. We ain't above this. 2627823893
Reposted by Mark HatlestadKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen. 895239482422
Reposted by Mark HatlestadAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I like how every far right party has realizes all they need to do is weaponize the mid life crisis bsky.app/profile/core... 3566030973
Reposted by Mark HatlestadPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153... 4834451428
Reposted by Mark Hatlestadbleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 04/07/2026It's very much this 173016455
Reposted by Mark HatlestadAudrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital 85204145086
Reposted by Mark HatlestadDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Words, what do they mean 29613
Reposted by Mark HatlestadGarfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 26/06/2026 29023
Reposted by Mark Hatlestadmerritt @merrittk.com · 18/06/2026How to Ruin Your Life www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos... 1580294
Reposted by Mark Hatlestadderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter 1440382487417
Reposted by Mark HatlestadFred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Real diplomatic instruments are not full of basic grammatical errors and unintentional ambiguities. It is a unique humiliation that the American regime did not even have a professional translation and resolve ambiguities. They ran it through grok and signed it. 121430290
Reposted by Mark HatlestadBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I do blame Trump for the Knicks stuff by the way. He’s such a unique vibesmonster. Just a succubus of any and all joy. A sleep paralysis demon that takes anything that looks like light and turns it into the visage of death. He is intent on haunting anywhere happiness appears for even a second. 1585541704
Reposted by Mark HatlestadTLDR Jack @tldrjack.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take 381300513921
Reposted by Mark HatlestadDave @pugganoche.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It’s June 1 which means it’s time to bust out my best tweet. 513480502
Reposted by Mark HatlestadDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/06/2026I just can't believe that the party responsible for Brexit hasn't been banished to the political wilderness for a generation. Then I remember that I thought the exact same thing about the Iraq War and the GOP. People will invite ignorance and hatred back in, no matter the damage they do. 3276594
Reposted by Mark HatlestadStephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Tfw it's going well 145846115
Reposted by Mark HatlestadCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026wake up babe the white house is a six flags 1624173793675
Reposted by Mark HatlestadBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/05/2026CNN bravely branching into important breaking news like “advertisements” 31149998
Mark Hatlestad @mhatlest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u... I'm glad some elements of our judicial system aren't completely compromisednytimes.comCourt Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters 000
Reposted by Mark HatlestadNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Who was president on January 6, 2021? It depends who you ask. 191388165
Reposted by Mark HatlestadBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited. 765258517
Reposted by Mark HatlestadAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Marco Rubio when he finds out he’s the new Director of National Intelligence 641147602431
Reposted by Mark HatlestadBreaking NOwOs @bbc.owo.news · 22/05/2026OWO Waymo pauses wobotaxis in five US cities aftew caws dwive into fwooded woads (╯﹏╰） #OwONewsTechnologybbc.comOWO Waymo pauses wobotaxis in five US cities aftew caws dwive into fwooded woads (╯﹏╰）A Waymo spokespewson said it had expanded da tempowawy pause "out of an abundance of caution". 011
Reposted by Mark HatlestadJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Bezos says that the US has one of the most progressive tax codes. This is true by some measures. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems. Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can. 622434490
Reposted by Mark HatlestadCall me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026They never ask "How should Trump appeal to his voters?" because they know the answer is "getting you to participate in my race baiting" and they don't want to admit to that. 0121
Reposted by Mark HatlestadKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake 4545301096
Reposted by Mark HatlestadMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Let this radicalize you 39990622477
Reposted by Mark HatlestadBreaking NOwOs @bbc.owo.news · 12/05/2026UwU Chwis Mason: PM confwonts his most difficuwt day as pawty wevowts (´・ω・｀) #OwONewsPoliticsbbc.comUwU Chwis Mason: PM confwonts his most difficuwt day as pawty wevowts (´・ω・｀)A dam appeaws to haz bwoken, with Wabouw MPs posting theiw pubwic woss of confidence in da PM, ouw powiticaw editow wwites. 021
Reposted by Mark HatlestadAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here. 13676051413
Reposted by Mark Hatlestadderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/05/2026silhouette looks like someone trying to get the most out of their toothpaste 1965305537
Reposted by Mark HatlestadKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.' 8672152193
Reposted by Mark HatlestadD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch. 8824336611610
Reposted by Mark HatlestadJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I can't believe that after a decade some people are still trying to write "pivot" / "the day he truly became president" takes. 410312
Reposted by Mark HatlestadSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work: 123167132950
Reposted by Mark HatlestadCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026it doesn't hit the same when you realize that twitter right-wingers have the same reaction to Charlie Kirk getting killed and attempted Trump assassinations as they do when Cracker Barrel changes its logo or they put an interracial couple in a Netflix show 7741125
Reposted by Mark HatlestadNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Trump soared in the polls after a 2024 assassination attempt. Could another assassination attempt help Republicans in the 2026 midterms? 821417198
Reposted by Mark HatlestadChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest. 32695681515
Reposted by Mark HatlestadAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂 1200317333936
Reposted by Mark HatlestadChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 21/04/2026What we need is a cultural shift among the sophisticated away from reasoned, pleasant argument, to well-founded & unapologetic philippic. Al Franken won a Senate seat with his barbs. The conservative book industry runs on hate. Surely we have many fine souls ready & prepared to read them for filth. 3447
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Iran Risks Peace Talks With U.S. to Maintain Leverage Over Strait
Iran sees its control over the Strait of Hormuz as critical leverage in peace talks, and seems willing to risk [underline] the cease-fire [/underline] to maintain that power.
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Dispute Over Strait Deepens as U.S. and Iran Trade Attacks
In a [underline] fourth day of hostilities, [/underline] Iran said that it had targeted a U.S. naval base in Bahrain and a Kuwaiti air base. No major damage was reported.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreiekqktbztjp3kcir4f6p7gkhlp2gxr45pld3csejuiwx3jwzzi2na)
