Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialMom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 11hIf Trump did Watergate, it wouldn't even make the top 10 traumas he has inflicted on the Americans on a given Tuesday. He has done so much more damage to our institutions then 9/11 did. What a bubble that strategist must live in! 411725
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 19hTrump v. US and Trump v. Anderson fundamentally destroyed all credibility the Court has to the claim that it defends constitutional government. I think a reason that Law Brain rears its ugly head so much on this question - that is, otherwise reasonable lawyers and legal scholars acting like you are 418438
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18htwo years ago they were sending bomb threats to childrens hospitals and faced zero consequences 3119587
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15/10/2026If we want art, music, real journalism, and high quality consumer goods to exist and be available to us, we have to be willing to actually pay people to make these things. 4774
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026At some point we also have to deal with the fact that one of the two parties is openly hostile to democracy. If you have to win big every election or else the country falls into despotism we're all just playing Russian roulette every few years 614133742
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself 765537686
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialNoel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026In 2022 Musk turned off Starlink at Kremlin’s request to prevent a Ukrainian surprise drone attack on Russian Black Sea fleet near Sevastopol in occupied-Crimea. Russian ships went on to murder many innocent civilians. Elon has always been Putin’s bitch. VOTE Blue. 5353134
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.5 percent in September and are now back to where they were in January, 2025. That means that Americans, on average, have experienced zero real wage growth since Trump returned to office. 2226129
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This should set off a siren in every defence ministry in Europe: there needs to be much more urgency about developing autonomous capabilities, not subject to US caprices, for early warning of attacks, countering ballistic missiles, communicating with forces or controlling offensive weapons. 321006414
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion. 223081631
onionbook.bsky.social @onionbook.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The year is 2026 and Axios is doing an explainer on “how firing squads work” and “why it matters”. 021
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Let's not get too technical here. 11104
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialNat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026At least Benedict Arnold was a war hero before he became a traitor. Trump, on the other hand, is a draft dodging, bonespur faking cowardly sack of unbearable shit. 083
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence. 121385313
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It’s cool POTUS just made up a diplomatic agreement out of thin air and it’s like the 5th news item of the day 25906125
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves. 904779845
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026hard to think of anything that better sums up the modern Republican Party than this note right here 230323
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media. 572453625
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.social#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them. 393961773
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.social4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This 👇 1191280897629
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialKevin Williams @gaytonausa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026is your model 3 worth it? www.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...cnn.comElon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN PoliticsElection officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk. 36463116
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"He'll make his DOJ to indict James Comey for an Insta photo of seashells" "Ok now youre just making shit up" 0172
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026if you said in 2024 that Donald Trump would send federal agents to raid the homes of Democratic Congresspeople on fake criminal charges you would be dismissed as hysterical 2743273
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes! 8570581790
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders 10857721211
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Don’t throw trans people under the bus. It’s not hard. It’s also such a clear litmus test. 929662
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 12/10/2026More to the point — people who stayed on the platform don't realize how inured to extremism they've become. They regularly get exposed to trending topics, and amplified content from verified accounts, that they would have recoiled from just a few years ago. I don't miss anything *not* being there. 691441
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 12/10/2026Then, of course, the most salient point: They pay a man who sold content of a 2-year-old being sexually abused, whose account Musk personally restored after the account was suspended. Millions of users saw the content, and thoey are still on the service, too. It's a paid CSAM distribution site. 677845
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error. 461923546
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialeggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That doesn't look like a Guinness 281
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialYayger @yayger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Try Trump for treason. 126124
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing. 191301209
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books. 5447521459
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he. 975174606
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026if you slap a creep filming you without consent, you can go to jail, and jail here is a life-ruining thing. i genuinely think we've created, paradoxically, incentives for people to act INSANELY antisocially in ways that demonstrate they simply are not afraid of getting smacked like they should be 3498
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's flatly obscene for Elon Musk to be talking about cruelty to robots when he is personally, singlehandedly and gleefully responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. (And, not to put too fine a point on it, when he thinks nothing of dressing those robots up as sex slaves for him) 127151
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialtmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory 421286233
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports 348452631095
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialMore like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You know, "publicly streamed executions" wouldn't be the can of tuna I would unseal if my SecDef legacy largely consisted of being both the worst war criminal in a generation and also simultaneously the far-and-away most prolific serial killer in American history 165
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people. 8746161091
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history. 9470185
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ten years ago “they have public executions” was regularly cited as proof of the barbarism of countries like Saudi Arabia. Now we’re doing it. I mean, my god, what have we become 30919154
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think what frightens me most is that the sheer volume of things to be horrified by has become its own kind of protection for the people responsible. Nothing has to be explained or resolved becuase a story or a scandal or a tragedy only has to survive until the next thing happens in five minutes. 14631172
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialHannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 09/10/2026This email with a link to a portal with a link to a post with a link to a pdf could have been an email 512117
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him 20816114
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity. At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one. 17358100
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All the J6ers are out. And their leader is in the White House because some suburbanites in Pennsylvania and Michigan were angry about inflation and Biden didn't have the stones to throw a crook in jail. And now he has a pedo-filled Gestapo that's allowed to murder people in the street. Yay 234055
Reposted by @onionbook.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As a technology it is an absolute blight and the companies that own and control it should be held fully responsible, including criminally responsible, for every single harm. 494798
