Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening. 381821412
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A functioning press would be pointing this out non-stop, and making them defend it in every interview. 10456183
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you are a member of the republican party who isn’t a Nazi, yes you are. Yes. You are. 649273
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis.  181662310
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialDavid Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is literal insanity. Fuck my years of service in the Army, I guess. I'm an enemy of the state now. 2385
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ships transporting people of color to prison colonies in chains? Public executions? A time before disease innoculation? Increasingly, the "great again" year Trump is trying to reset to sounds like it's in the 17th century 47724
mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026San Diego Chaldean/Assyrians community worth mentioning too, and not just the ones in SD but maybe more so Chaldeans in Michigan, who are a decisive voting block in a state with extremely slim margins. 000
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/10/2026Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics 15655109
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialTravis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026RFK Jr, in a voice that sounds like metal rats fucking: “mRNA vaccines are terrible for the plague. What works is irradiating your balls with a tuning fork and consuming copious amounts of dethylmyhydramine, which of course comes from boiled coconuts and rabbit semen.” 1304
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1 30598782381
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good to be reminded of the young people who helped bring communism in central Europe to a peaceful end. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comAmericans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any StageTrump's ambassador reportedly threatened to overthrow Greece's elected government, as the Justice Department criminally investigates Jack Smith. 13650225
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda. 473149856
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialTruther_Dare @truther-dare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cyber security is woke 141
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The GOP: i despise transgenderism because it produces pedophilia, which I’m ambivalent to positive about 324249
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:blaetter.deAutoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den MidtermsDie bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins... 320879
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026is there a patron saint of deep vein thrombosis 1031822
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialScare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FATALITY 262934472
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialmykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omg. Just incredible. Absolute assassin. 011
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178125052680
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...doomsdayscenario.coThe Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part IIA quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality). 331464533
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 694279509555
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialHeadline Vibe · by NoMAGA @headlinevibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When powerful people treat basic facts as partisan insults, everyone else spends energy proving reality instead of arguing about what to do. Hearing it stated plainly feels like getting that time back. 072
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026absolutely amazing chart 1019139
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What’s the message that will resonate with voters at a time of soaring gas prices, Sir? 710117
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833181109
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialRoadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Biden got hammered over Gaza every day He tried humanitarian aid tried restricting some large scale munitions and urged restraint He got called Genocide Joe Trump wants to level Gaza for a casino resort and urges no restraint and barely talks about the issue or peace & its mostly crickets 104020
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s… 313174893322
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123755272
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialIf you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If pediatricians aren't smoking during patient visits again by 2028, this administration will have been a failure. 162
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation 523708645
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Russia strikes apartment buildings. Ukraine strikes refineries. Trump is angry at Ukraine and calls for them publicly and privately to stop bombing refineries while saying nothing about Russia killing children. 982468862
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialI am Jane Doe and Blassey Ford @oldtehanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No one could have predicted that the mystery meat that was supposed to save the GOP at midterms would never make it to market. /sarcasm I admit I am surprised though that this administration didn't waive the requirements, though. They are so incompetent at even architecting a cheat. 022
mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“My platform is my blood line” -Character played by Matthew McConaughey playing himself running for governor of TX on a (mock?) reality show on a major network. For the majority of my life I could not imagine that our cultute, politics, government, social norms would ever be here. 000
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica." 1172227882
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialRoss @trusty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Incredible quote 28116
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 17/09/2026this is ethnic cleansing, and we all are obliged to do our duty to stop it by voting, and then getting ready to protest when the government resists oversight aimed at stopping the ethnic cleansing that morally taints every citizen of this country 04221
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...projects.propublica.orgJohn F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublicaSince 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as... 1428501046
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026On the Trump administration's "sweeping campaign to control speech in America" through lawsuits, regulation and threats: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...nytimes.comHow Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects. 13536230
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialTobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I was just hit by a wave of total despair upon the realization that presumably for the rest of my life I will have to be aware of every crackpot because thanks to the collapse of gatekeeping today's crackpot could be tomorrow's cabinet secretary. 736660
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses. 654000786
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.social*eph @itsmeeph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026AI in its current form is very plainly the most anti-democratic technology ever to exist. it asks human decision making to be ever progressively subjugated to an algorithm controlled by a billionaire for the enrichment of a corporation 2273
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026the specific insanity of “what if i started a perpetually-escalating trade war with Canada two months before control of the senate is determined by voters in Maine and Michigan” is under-discussed here, just wild how unmoored from public opinion concerns the Trump admin has gotten 341302181
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of. 211123312
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialdan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/09/2026Imagine the self restraint to wait two and a half decades to tell this story for the first time. 2192860428
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026at this point being a nazi edgelord online must be a prerequisite for working in the trump administration, no? 542354474
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Please let this be peak dystopia 39412
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Two possibilities here: 1. Everyone forgot how to explain things to the electorate, worldwide, all at once 2. There’s been some kind of abrupt change in the information ecosystem, really ramping up around 2008, that made this “informing the public” part of democracy essentially impossible 1214614
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I find it reprehensible that a mobile petting zoo would take animals they KNEW weren’t vaccinated into an assisted living facility. They exposed disabled and elderly people to rabies. Please keep spreading the word. If you were in North Carolina and around baby goats, contact your doctor:cnn.comNearly 300 people exposed to goats with rabies at mobile petting zoo | CNNLocal health departments in North Carolina have evaluated hundreds of people for rabies after they interacted with baby goats that were part of a mobile petting zoo, according to the state Department ... 7228126
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 05/09/202618,000 word story about a Dog-Brained Lady nearly killing her kid with the enthusiastic support of Various Idiot Republican Politicians. Wow, much to think about here, 1175865
Reposted by @mykinkisdemocracy.bsky.socialThe Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 04/09/2026HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-ca…notus.orgHHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, EDOfficials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise. 1861363815
