Reposted by Mathew StuverA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18hAnticipating a bunch of NYT pieces about how conservatives in rural diners are out of touch with their own concerns, and admonishing them to step out of their bubbles and try to have meaningful conversations with themselves. 1153391 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.newsweek.comKroger plans largest layoffs in its nearly 150-year historyThe company's CEO said it was committed to "simplifying" operations and "deploying more resources where they matter most 801115005648 1
Reposted by Mathew Stuverjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/20263) this is yet another instance of Vance treating a native-born but nonwhite American as if they are foreign born. 4) it is vance who should be greatful that anyone ever bothered to treat him like he might do some good in the world (they were wrong of course) 323408259 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15/10/2026this puffy meemaw’s boy always telling people they should be more grateful 1849129 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us. 72012368 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026The GOP's ongoing success is an indictment of journalism, in and of itself. I don't know why they don't see it that way. 1729625 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing. 16689134 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Weird how Republican lists of bad people to deport never, ever, ever includes neo-Nazis, segregationists, apartheidists, or any other white nationalists. 1139152 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This meme is always helpful 1405 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverKenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Imagine people fleeing European religious persecution and imperial rule to establish a free world, only to create the very system of oppression, forced assimilation, and imperial confinement the settlers once sought to escape…… 3335 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 810207514637 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026To address the loss of independence that comes with not being able to driving, the solution isn’t self driving cars, which are currently not fully legal by the way. It’s designing communities that give good alternatives to driving 2313 0
Reposted by Mathew Stuvermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412729722 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We're a decade into this and still getting fed "raises new questions" about very obvious and blatant corruption, self-dealing, and authoritarian capture. This isn't journalism. It's an institutional denial superstructure. 923586 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 125351165 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republicans will accuse others of perjury while providing false evidence to support those accusations. What a clown show. 2294 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really. 752839763 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026How are the measles going, Mr. President? And the cyclospora? And Covid, the flu, rotavirus, whooping cough, E. coli, campylobacteriosis, listeria, cryptosporidiosis, infant botulism... 27826 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverPeter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Doesn't the money in the Treasury belong to the entire nation of the United States, not just the Republican Party? 1320519 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Life is just worse now than in 2020, when I felt safe and like our leaders were trying to help me" - no, nostalgia is lying to you. Something weird is happening, you have a bunch of false memories. Please wake up, snap out of it. 821123 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Still wondering why people are fed up with the system? 8836731426 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comA Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran. 4441485498 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The polls are so bad that a pro-ICE Kansas Republican is now preemptively begging ICE to not shoot one of his constituents now that they're active in his state 301749400 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And just to be clear, I’m really sad that my university’s rankings are declining. It’s not a gotcha moment. I wish our state lawmakers and university administrators took this seriously though 0101 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47171643220 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol at all the people who've been going "Why isn't Dubya speaking out about Trump??" folks, he's committed to the same fucking project. 181061176 0
Reposted by Mathew Stuverdan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world. 131231388 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable 94115862863 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/09/2026AI Force to be populated by people from the AI industry who are stealing our wealth, water and resources. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump to form ‘AI Force,’ name AI czar but rejects calls for constraintsA growing chorus of lawmakers and industry leaders have called for moving more slowly on the technology. 47384150 0
Reposted by Mathew Stuverthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 633636674 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We just learned that one of Mike Lee's Republican Senate colleagues employed a kid who loved the Nazis and white supremacist Rhodesia, and I can't wait for him never to be asked about it. 17671111 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"They"? What? What's fun about Republicans is that they get to smear an entire political group as responsible for one random person's actions, but they themselves will deny any responsibility for the actions of their own deranged president or the racist billionaire who has bought them all. 1332229419 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026"The mainstream media, is, unsurprisingly, not covering itself in glory as it struggles to avoid saying that either the president’s brain has completely left the station or that he’s a mendacious liar who knows no bounds, or both."publicnotice.coThe muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failureIt’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional. 1052685785 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way. 572105072143 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When everyone is a priority, no one is a priority. That means that Mullin and ICE are going to treat a murderer who just got here with the same level of priority as a guy who’s been here for 25 years raising a family and living like a saint. That’s bad for so many reasons. 391652358 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It’s amazing how “law and order” instantly softens into “thoughts, prayers and personal therapy” the second it threatens an R+5 district. 441202266 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Also, many Utah Republicans never lose an opportunity to dunk on Salt Lake City, saying they'd never live in our "liberal heckhole" (it's Utah, after all). So I'm confused why they care about what we do with our zoning 1111 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I’m also aware that the landscape on the left is cheaper to install and maintain, so it’s likely we’ll see more of those in low-income communities as folks in the West rip out turf. That will further widen disparities in heat temperatures 1101 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A tale of two water-wide landscapes Efforts to remove turf are needed, but the solution isn’t the photo on the left. That makes our neighborhoods much hotter and gives little chance of survival to trees 4374 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I think it’s bad that the president is effectively blackmailing voters to support Republicans in order to have any hope of federal help if there’s a disaster. 723366 0
Reposted by Mathew Stuverjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026easy political target though. “this arch is a hideous monstrosity and they took your health care to build it” 191862234 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet? 692856718 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I can't even. "Sixth national park?" When the federal government just shrunk two beautiful national monuments in Utah?sltrib.comThe Miller group wants Utah’s MLB ballpark to be the ‘sixth national park’Where does Big League Utah's attempt to bring an MLB team to Utah stand? Here's the latest. 5209 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.campaign-trails.ghost.ioDenouncing ExtremistsOne of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ... 7339741014 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026With Democrats like these... This is INSANE. 50343115 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Perfected? They lost the federal trifecta in the last election; I think there’s still room for tweaks. 3773837726 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Flock cameras have no place in Texas. They can piece together an exact map of your behavior — the places you went and how long you were there. Flock calls this “pattern-of-life” mapping. Texans call it something else: government overreach. 592185654867 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverThe Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 01/09/2026Vigilant Solutions and a related Motorola firm collect license plate data and sell it commercially, the ACLU has found. Motorola also maintains contracts with ICE.sltrib.comThey’re not Flock, but SLC’s license plate readers pose civil rights challenges of their own, key group saysSalt Lake City's cameras might not be Flock, but one civil liberties group says the devices raise similar worries of "mass surveillance." 12318 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I don't know where people get this idea that some material portion of the left sits things out when they're unhappy with leadership. According to Pew 97% of Leftward progressives (which includes the entire 120k membership of DSA) voted for Kamala in 2020. 814226 0
Reposted by Mathew StuverThe Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 01/09/2026A fatal cyclist crash on 800 South has reignited the debate over whether painted bike lanes actually protect anyone, all while new state rules limit how much the city can change its busiest roads. We want to know what you think. sltrib.comBuzz of the Week: Do you feel safe on SLC roads?A fatal cyclist crash on 800 South has reignited the debate over whether painted bike lanes actually protect anyone, all while new state rules limit how much the city can change its busiest roads. We want to know what you think. 4131 0
