Reposted by RetailSisyphusJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853302184
Reposted by RetailSisyphusAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest 302453529
Reposted by RetailSisyphusFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20743481115
Reposted by RetailSisyphusHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Instantly cured my depression thinking about Hank Hill pronouncing "Nier: Automata" 462900540
Reposted by RetailSisyphusisla @demomolos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have never had a pony, not have I ever asked for a pony. That said, I was able to use the bathroom in every state two years ago. 2946103
Reposted by RetailSisyphusAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.wbur.orgMass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordsJoseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect... 10460381982
Reposted by RetailSisyphusKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry. 323970900
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So the primary doesn't actually mean anything glad you agree that was a dumb thing for you to say. 020
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Didn't Marco "let's starve Cuba" Rubio get unanimously approved by the senate? 170
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If the politician lies or misleads during the primary what then? 1361
Reposted by RetailSisyphusJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties. 332271683
Reposted by RetailSisyphusA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans. 5129841157
Reposted by RetailSisyphusPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“having a bizarre obsession with a daddy figure is not uncommon in right-wing households” good point Amy, people on the right are freaks. they’re freaks and they’re worse than us. 1133945505
Reposted by RetailSisyphusKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Shocked to learn that the political party led by pedophiles and dedicated to protecting pedophiles has created a police force filled with pedophiles. 451897730
Reposted by RetailSisyphusalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper. 2130301022
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Why did the sport issue not come up until after the right wing tried a bunch of bathroom bans that failed and they went looking for a wedge issue to make mouth breather like you say "yeah really makes you think"? 040
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 09/08/2026How much of that was economic foreign aid vs military? Surely you're not conflating all foreign aid as contributing. Did the US have the same level of involvement in the Rwandan genocide as it has in Israel? Can you supply sources for your numbers because I haven't seen anything approaching that. 000
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 09/08/2026What a bad comparison how much funding did the Rwandan government get from the US to fuel their genocide? Has nothing changed about the American public in 30 years? 100
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The guy who said Haitians are poisoning the blood of the country likes undocumented workers? 020
Reposted by RetailSisyphusMatt Ortega @mattortega.com · 28/07/2026Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.stlpr.orgOverland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media. 13239151969
Reposted by RetailSisyphusBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Their plan is to say as little as possible and win by default, which in their mind is the safest path that doesn't alienate anyone. This misses the opportunity to galvanize the public around important issues, and then they throw up their hands about how the voters are ignorant and apathetic 612665436
Reposted by RetailSisyphusAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026Admirable clarity @science.org 4974912713
Reposted by RetailSisyphusEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comIdaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America. 222780889
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 15/07/2026What recourse does the base have when politicians don't listen to the needs and concerns off the base? Again you seem to be confused about what way the obligations lie. bsky.app/profile/pale... 030
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Being a dem politician must be pretty sweet. Can't get elected? It's the voters problem. Everyone thinks you're doing a terrible job? Well that's on them. I wish I could be so terrible at my job and have a bunch of people online jump to my defense for no good reason. 330
Reposted by RetailSisyphusSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...wmtw.comPerson killed in shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, official saysPolice closed part of busy Pool Street in Biddeford on Monday morning and there was a significant police presence. 15833611662
Reposted by RetailSisyphusBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208695341
Reposted by RetailSisyphusMicah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time” 2657062531
Reposted by RetailSisyphusjessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026THE ACKROOMS 125136442874
Reposted by RetailSisyphusDave Dildine @dildinedave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Direct hit from Dupont Circle. 765181839
Reposted by RetailSisyphusOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026For the people saying critics of Democrats on immigration from the left don’t have an alternative, I always say “go look at the Statue of Liberty, that’s our immigration policy.” 13801225
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Until Israel starts recognizing the equality and human rights of everyone in its borders they should be shunned. 0170
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 02/07/2026What they want is someone else they can't point at as their excuse for never accomplishing anything. 050
Reposted by RetailSisyphusmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it. 522726649
Reposted by RetailSisyphusAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office. 16091642654
Reposted by RetailSisyphusBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026While it's obvious the next Democratic president should pardon these individuals on day one, the judge who handed down the sentences should also be subjected to a federal investigation to determine if he abused his power and whether it warrants prosecution and potential imprisonment. 452497720
Reposted by RetailSisyphusThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026It's so cool that a solid chunk of the Dem party, including its leadership, are openly opposed to the concept of Primaries and are visibly angrier at their own voters than they've ever been at Republicans 22657119
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 26/06/2026That's why there's a dash in front of slop it's the portmanteau of another word plus slop that's explicitly being referred to in that image. 100
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 25/06/2026bsky.app/profile/whst... You sure seem fine with doing it. 020
Reposted by RetailSisyphusCharles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There’s been more elite Democrat anger at Democratic primary voters than outrage over the life imprisonment of anti-ICE protesters — including a couple whose only offense was printing zines. Look at what they choose to talk about with the media and what they ignore. It’s revealing! 91149285
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Seems like the democrats you're defending should have been doing more for the voters then huh. 1351
Reposted by RetailSisyphusmaia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 24/06/2026yo! quick question mark, why are you on the "potential future stories" list in my research obsidian, filed under "look into this guy" also can you just quickly read this old tweet of yours out loud? 634362916
RetailSisyphus @neverwhere11.bsky.social · 22/06/2026You say no obvious blunders yet people can apparently point out 30 of them and you still think that makes your argument stronger? 030
Reposted by RetailSisyphusMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing. 252265894
Reposted by RetailSisyphusAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.mississippifreepress.orgMississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting CallA Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call. 24031171922
Reposted by RetailSisyphusJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...404media.coCops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk PeopleThere have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people. 8933391434
Reposted by RetailSisyphusAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/06/2026NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...lawfaremedia.orgThe Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?The real count is much higher than the public knew. 24178603547
Reposted by RetailSisyphusMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment. 121871611