Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialMinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour. 2151649320294
michaeltunney.bsky.social @michaeltunney.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Paging the smiling king, @edzitron.com 010
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV. Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point. 21850111654
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/07/2025trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example 23457611262
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/07/2025I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years. 11072111477
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/07/2025and the answer, of course, is that a tiny number of people got so rich they could buy enormous media conglomerates on a whim as a gift for a spouse or child, with no particular need or desire for them to succeed as media organizations. also their brains were fucking goo from group chats. also that 261910353
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life. Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable. 10938961271
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature 8145721334
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialCraig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/06/2025It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own. 107100012889
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialShaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Oakmont is the best golf course because it’s the only one that understands golfing is a sin and those who attempt it should be punished 424527
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025These are con-artists. And I feel like I'm going crazy because so few people recognize them when it used to be a very common skill most people had! 952870633
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I'd *like* to be extremely concerned about the marines being deployed to an American city and the scientific committee that determines vaccine schedules being disbanded, but I'm gonna hold off until the Distraction Knowers give the okay 795766802
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.sociallines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 15/05/2025If you like Andor there’s only one other thing in Star Wars that compares: Michael Clayton. 330737
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialthey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 18/02/2024I guarantee you’re a better writer than ChatGPT. Never butcher your own writing or relinquish your own voice to put your name on the dead-eyed, mechanical hallucinations of a bunch of 1s and 0s. People who know good writing and AI have no trouble recognizing AI-generated garbage. 5776172
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I heard Stephen A. Smith tell CNN yesterday that "people are afraid they're going to lose their job for messing up a pronoun" and it really amazes me how many people don't realize they are awash in intentional propaganda designed to make them afraid of the wrong things and angry at the wrong people 10470841472
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The Constitution forbids bribery *3 separate times*. So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason. The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise. 5948221608
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialSean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The White House’s new message to Americans: maybe you should all just shut up and die you pieces of shit. 551499267
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialLyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 28/04/2025RFK Jr doesn’t necessarily want children to die of the measles, he wants his ideas about measles and vaccines to be true, and he doesn’t care how many dead kids’ bodies stand between him and his pride 417633
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2025the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions 19676711525
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you 3853551481
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID. 5548891667
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Twitter phasing out DMs the day after it comes out that Elon has been using them to arrange drive-through bastards with ladies who were fired from podcasts is so fucking funny 383196770
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that" 93152243347
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 12/04/2025Anyone who played along with (or even gave legitimacy to) the bullshit assertions these right-wingers ever truly cared about free speech should not be taken seriously. We can’t let “free speech” be used as a disingenuous cudgel any longer. 10800120
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/04/2025Bill Ackman, specifically, just thought it was more fucking important to be able to oust Black women from the Harvard presidency than to have a functioning global economy. That’s what this is about. 91136198
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/04/2025In that conversation a while back between Bill Maher and Bill Burr, the latter bill in discussing the Gaza protests on college campuses simply said “I’m on the side of the kids.” I keep thinking about that simple line of moral clarity because I don’t care how few idiots there were in those crowds… 767753
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2025I am one of those people who actively sought an Exciting Job career path in all the industries the Musk/Trump junta are trying to murder. They’re trying to force us all to take mind-numbing, miserable underpaid jobs under bosses legally permitted by the federal government to abuse us. 231366
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialKaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I wrote about George Harrison. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comGeorge Harrison's Quiet Love Affair With Formula OneJust another guy at the track, The Beatle could shed fame, and just be himself 19612128
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialDerek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Exceptional piece on why MAHA is a ruse. www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comOpinion | How MAHA is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save ThemThe Trump administration’s deregulatory regime is undermining MAHA’s health aims. 511132
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it." 219961611397
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2025so as i understand it the president has driven an improvised fertilizer bomb directly into the foundation of global trade? 528284773689
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again 146232177078
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/04/2025We’re literally watching overpaid techbros who have spent their sad little lives making online shopping software marginally worse openly, viciously lash out against people who have literally devoted their lives to helping others via humanitarian aid and government. The implications are obvious. 191881474
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Unprecedentedly inhumane constitutional violations that make Nixon's presidency-ending crimes look like high school pranks, now happening daily 733092
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialJeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The mRNA COVID vaccine was a scientific miracle, and people reading history a century from now will be completely bewildered by not only the lack of celebration but the outright hostility toward this achievement. 232551435
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Need to find this again but I remember a Murdoch biographer twenty years ago said Fox News is a for-hire version of a totalitarian government's state television -- a free-floating propaganda channel for whichever monster needs it. Very insightful to me. 421132
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialJA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 30/03/2025Billionaires don't 'create jobs' - consumer demand creates jobs. Billionaires just hoard the profits those jobs generate. 49227
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialMichael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I honestly had no idea that so many people were such cowards. 442115931256
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 26/03/2025ten years ago i was watching doug reruns with sam altman, like we often did together. i said it was a tragedy that doug funnie only had one outfit, and that someone should develop a program that would come up with different-colored vests for him to wear. "wait here," sam said. i never saw him again 343654250
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Every other terrifying thing about it aside, accidentally inviting a prominent journalist into a chat between the most powerful people in the government re: bombing another country is one of the most outsized bloopers of all time. Like if Jonathan Villar exploded after sliding into that dude's ass. 2264435
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If you know anything about anti-vaxxers you can see the pattern. They never present any actual evidence for their central claim, they just constantly moan about, like, "why did the CDC hold a secret meeting????!!!" Irrelevant procedural gripes all the way down. bsky.app/profile/redp... 1182867
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I wanted to know how Democrats can do a better job of appealing to working class voters in the Midwest. So I read a book by Ezra Klein and a guy who writes for the Atlantic 301678183
Reposted by @michaeltunney.bsky.socialBenjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20/03/2025How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comHow the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles deathAnti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories. 40334104
