Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialjakeofnotrades.bsky.social @jakeofnotrades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Would love to see a piece on the people in his administration. He's not doing this alone. There has to be a group of highly competent individuals pulling this off. 1292
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialsmurfsup | aka the sentient backpack @smurfsup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026. Let’s not sleep on the talent (and heart) of his TEAM; ZM’s not a lawyer or a long governing hand, etc He’s the general, without a doubt. But *executing* things like these settlements and the city services blitzkriegs (and the media comms) etc etc takes a talent team of warriors 🏆💐 21194
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialRens @shadur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yeah. Smart and wise administrators know to find skilled people and then give them the resources and leeway they need to get stuff done. Incompetent morons and petty tyrants look for toadies and yes-men and utterly abhor competent people because competent people will sometimes tell them "No, sir". 0112
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him. 15084121900
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialTina @wunder2welt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026CN ableism Husband: "“She was obsessive about steps to the detriment of all else. She decided that she couldn’t even walk to the toilet.”" Awful! "decided"😡 He didn't believe her. 0642
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?” Ocasio-Cortez said with a laugh. “That doesn’t make it impossible, but to act as though it’s not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...nytimes.comWill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Run for President in 2028? Here’s What She Said.In a wide-ranging interview, the New York congresswoman offered her most detailed insight yet into how she is thinking about a possible presidential run. 4873381
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialccstretch.bsky.social @ccstretch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026How would the Wall Street Journal write this up you ask?? www.wsj.com/livecoverage...wsj.comTed Cruz, Potential 2028 Candidate, Points to ‘Hate’ in the Democratic PartyTexas Sen. Ted Cruz gave a red-meat speech at the Republican convention on Thursday in which he accused the Democratic Party of succumbing to “communists and Islamists” who hate Christians, Jews, capi... 719738
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu. 503110183357
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026pls find my edits attached thx 442287393
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over. 593238899
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialRob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀 500137234871
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The entire right wing has been furious that the mayor of New York City had the nerve to be Muslim on 9/11, while their president is out here bragging about what a terrific relationship he has with the Saudi royal family. 842953792
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/09/2026Most moral army in the world 15624
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.social☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's interesting to see a former top Biden aide explain "No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy" — ie, he's just straight up saying the US is not a democracy. x.com/MichaelLaRos... 30636140
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Mike Lee once presented himself as a reasonable, principled conservative but Trump just let him drop that pretense to show that he's actually just an incredibly stupid and pathetic little dork. You're in your mid-50s. Stop posting like a 12-year-old online edgelord whose voice hasn't changed yet. 1884471
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialKevin 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. 1332231419
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet. 531452295
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This keeps happening. 765118563262
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yuuuuup… 694236497625
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova…. 426128393461
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Rupert Murdoch should be sent to the Hague 312024404
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 08/09/2026he was actually at his home in midtown but it's cool how trump sometimes replaces his memories with the set ups in gay pornography 628867
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026OpenAI claimed their model had a breakthrough in a longstanding mathematical problem, but this scientist says that they basically stole his work 9375134
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I. 303106650
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie 1275207283993
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past. 5598883371
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026I wonder what else we could have done for $100 billion.axios.comIran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumersThe average cost burden is more than $760 per household. 27610213
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one 1693244138469
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet 1583457948
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2026this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...nytimes.comTrump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working OnesThe proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents. 1402298478
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism 1674260725
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialgrapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the alt health industry will always be right wing because its entire business model is built around destroying all regulations so it can lie to people and sell them fake cures that don't work. it is not a legitimate business of any kind 5817106
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There's no evidence that we can neutralize MAHA with a better health care system. Western Europe has universal access and lower costs — and still has huge anti-vaxx and “medical freedom” movements. MAHA is driven by right-wing misinformation, not legitimate grievances with US healthcare. 241932297
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply. 212428516
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It’s a grossly harmful worldview that has no relationship to the scientific consensus on the drivers of chronic disease. America’s disease burden (which is falling btw) is mostly a function of income and healthcare inequality, not the refusal of Americans to eat beef tallow. 71447121
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Second, MAHA isn’t all that concerned with treatment of disease anyway. Its core claim is that nearly all diseases can be prevented through virtuous lifestyles. If we were all drinking raw milk and taking zinc supplements, we wouldn’t be coming down with heart disease and depression and COVID. 241693167
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialEagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Right. Like, MAHA isn’t a push for equitable access to care. It’s eugenics under the guise of “healthy living.” There’s plenty of somewhat normalizing woo and almond mom and ~natural~ in the mix, but that’s just noise. The signal is the strongest survive, and no regard for the lessers who don’t. 151188215
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves. 373421408
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world. 16858921180
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The kind of sweaty conservative defensiveness I think we're all familiar with even today 255373560
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves 7486611358
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157221152
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026No one gives a shit about whether JD Vance and Tucker Carlson are buddies -- the vice president is trying to conceal that a nutty podcaster who platforms antisemites was one of the architects of the vice president’s political career. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/jd-...mediamatters.orgJD Vance’s wildly disingenuous response to his Tucker Carlson problem 19852183
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026"this republican politician is a total piece of shit" is like a dog bites man story at this point www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...nytimes.comRoger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished. 722933634
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026MAGA got a huge return on gaslighting the elite into treating Trump's <2 percent popular vote plurality as a permanent repudiation of liberalism. The midterms represent an opportunity to propound an inverse but true narrative of American rejection of MAGA. But Dems have to frame it that way first.offmessage.netHow To Undo The Great Lie Of 2024Trump’s second election wasn’t a verdict for all time, but the coming midterms might be one. 13695130
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialDavid 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. 574105162146
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer. 322675671
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I bet the NYT would've given Mamdani the same benefit of the doubt if he'd said he'd gone down to Ground Zero as a child to dig people out of the rubble. 882434491
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026q.v. bsky.app/profile/atru... 514319
Reposted by @mukkatosa.bsky.socialRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial." 1271950661
