mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“You proles need to accept your lives getting worse so I can grow richer.” Yes, Smug Billionaire Asshole, most of us have already figured out that this is the social compact you and your fellow Smug Billionaire Assholes are trying to impose upon the rest of us. 000
Reposted by mingolbaconOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between 22995195
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don’t ordinarily laugh when a person’s jaw rots off, but 020
Reposted by mingolbaconCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026These people cannot be trusted to vote in their best interests. Ever. They have failed at the most simple task and have driven this country to ruin. They are too stupid to be allowed to have a say in the future of the country. Convince a non-voter to vote. There are LOTS of those. 282218399
Reposted by mingolbaconAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Despite his best efforts, Trump isn't going to establish a consolidated autocracy before he's gone, thankfully relatively soon. But it matters how much he's repudiated as a disgraceful aberration. Because if not, he's just setting the floor for what the next wannabe dictator can get away with. 39326
Reposted by mingolbaconAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People comparing American politics to Roman precedents is as old as the United States, to the point of it being a pop culture cliche. But I wanted to make a somewhat different point with it. 1/theunpopulist.netAmerica Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to RomeThe decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable 33814
Reposted by mingolbaconDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026I really just want like… 3/4th of the economy prosecuted for fraud. Is that really so much to ask? 536371
Reposted by mingolbaconOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them. 732116384
Reposted by mingolbaconW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The most blackpilling part of the last 10 years is that every liberal party in the industrialized ‘western’ world has embraced austerity, immigration restrictionism, and anti trans bigotry and it has objectively been a complete failure and their only idea is to just keep doubling down. 635489
Reposted by mingolbacon🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886292303
Reposted by mingolbaconReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to. 2904291
Reposted by mingolbaconPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136502899
Reposted by mingolbaconJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026And if that happens, I think the Republic is over. Either this was an illegitimate presidency where everything must be undone, or it was a legitimate one with a guy democrats don’t like, and if it’s the second, if No Rules Fascism is now standard operating procedure, we’re done. 111328166
Reposted by mingolbaconJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years. 7845671066
Reposted by mingolbaconAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...reason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4052362447
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is basically the biggest reason for all the horrors of the last ten years. 000
Reposted by mingolbaconMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs 685188849
Reposted by mingolbaconjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028 26390921476
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Well yeah, you’d want that before allowing them into your strudel, wouldn’t you? 010
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I don’t think my playlist particularly lends itself to this, but: Archgoat Curry Eggs Benedict of Gomorrh Morbid Angel Food Cake and Apple Strudel Maggot Quarantine Area 110
Reposted by mingolbaconDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026...from the War in Iraq to the Global War on Terror to 20 yrs in Afghanistan to our unilateralism to our embrace of torture and violations of international law to the spending of trillions of dollars that should have been invested here at home...literally every major decision we made was disastrous. 114816
Reposted by mingolbaconDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 should evoke many things. Memories of those lost. Admiration for the courage of those who sacrificed so much. But it also should engender humility. Before and after the attack, the U.S. national security establishment failed repeatedly. Intel failed. Our reactions to the attack... 829080
Reposted by mingolbaconDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit. 776922171
Reposted by mingolbaconMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Deducting $5,000 from my IRS payment and including a note "you can keep my $5,000 dividend check." 45613
Reposted by mingolbaconan appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026i respectfully never again want to see a piece asking how the left will pay for its policies 314028
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 10/09/20261) This is obvious bullshit 2) He has made similar promises at least three times before, all of which likewise were bullshit 3) This is illegal, and if he actually did it he’d be facing over 800 million years in prison and fines of almost $2 trillion 010
Reposted by mingolbaconAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett. 5330021273
Reposted by mingolbaconAaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026we built a gun that only fires to the left and the right figured that out 38924
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Why is it the seal of the Green Lantern Corps and not a swastika 000
Reposted by mingolbaconGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I guess I always thought if we had an Administration full of Nazis who support traditionally Nazi shit it would at least be a pretty big story 161447298
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“If Trump wanted to actually achieve his stated aims he would need to at least pretend to be motivated by something beyond self-aggrandizement and thuggish assholishness. But Trump is unwilling even to pretend. Indeed, the performance of thuggish assholishness is the point.” 000
Reposted by mingolbacon90,000 Bees In A Human Suit @angrybooklady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026And if we were largely seeing it among minorities, it would be treated like child abuse. Parents who refused to get the MMR would have their kids taken. But since it's mostly white people, suddenly it's an idea we have to respect. 6666119
Reposted by mingolbaconOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026their defenders will say its harder than people like me say it is. this is simply not true. this is basic, simple politics. and the democrats refuse to play. thats intentionally throwing the game. 59411
Reposted by mingolbaconOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026im personally past the point where i see democrats leaving perfectly potent lines of attack just sitting there and chalk it up to incompetence. its clearly deliberate. 2336870
Reposted by mingolbaconCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Lol the United States was the only country of 165 which voted "no" to adopting an accurate map instead of the distorted Mercator projection. I'm guessing it was 30% inspired by an imperialist desire to keep Greenland looking big and 70% a racist desire to keep Africa small.theguardian.comUN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scaleTogo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland 1327883
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026static.klipy.comPlaying a Tiny ViolinAlt: playing the world’s smallest violin .gif 000
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This would be true even if Republicans were televising live mass executions of people of color while screaming racial slurs before crowds of white people performing Nazi salutes. Media pundits are wedded to their narrative, and decades of obviously contrary facts have not shifted them one iota. 021
Reposted by mingolbaconA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?” 443590768
Reposted by mingolbaconshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026life comes at you fast 11264021039
mingolbacon @mingolbacon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...gulfof.mapquest.comLake Can You Believe This Fucking Moron - MapQuestCheck out my custom map where I renamed Lake Ontario to Lake Can You Believe This Fucking Moron! 020