Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 2hApparently they're going with the framing that it's Talarico's fault that GOP operatives made up an insane conspiracy theory without checking on any available evidence. Fox, yet again with the framing that only Democrats have any agency. 031
Reposted by Gus Orvistonrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10hi think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy 161321220
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 23hLL Cool J being a secret book nerd is just fascinating and great. 040
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Oh, *we* know about it. But *Trump* doesn't know about it, because he's spent the last few years carefully surrounding himself with sycophantic lickspittles that refuse to tell him anything that he hasn't already decided is true. 010
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Well, sure, of course. If you were one of the brown-nosing sycophants that surrounded him, would you want to tell him? 020
Reposted by Gus OrvistonMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Whatever one thinks about this place, all of the larger ones, controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, are nothing but giant propaganda/misinformation/porn/surveillance machines owned by oligarchs actively collaborating with fascists. 9835224
Reposted by Gus OrvistonBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law" 10700156
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Rays vs Brewers is the best possible World Series matchup, but I've gotta think that MLB's marketing people would not see this as a positive development 020
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026James Michner has his limitations as a writer, but his writing is just antithetical to the sort of self-aware snarky ironic sort of fiction, and that's the main reason I love it. 000
Reposted by Gus OrvistonMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes. 237541338
Reposted by Gus OrvistonJooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff 6668612174
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 11/10/2026As it's going to pan out, this is just another reason for Mike Johnson to not bring the House of Representatives back in session. Johnson is hamstringing his own branch so that the White House can run amok with no meaningful oversight. The founders would be appalled. 111
Reposted by Gus OrvistonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird 17245191000
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Every potential US ally, every leader in Europe, everyone that has previously looked to the United States for hope - they all know this now, even if the median GOP voter is still unaware. 000
Reposted by Gus OrvistonDustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026The US is once again blackmailing Ukraine for both domestic political and pro-Russia reasons. This is possibly the worst betrayal of Ukraine so far, and should accelerate Euro-Canadian defence independence from the US. 227785
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Note that he doesn't say this about the other President in the conflict. You know, the one that was the agressor. Trump wants a Ukrainian president that is willing to surrender to Putin, because he's on Putin's side. 25811
Reposted by Gus OrvistonPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We absolutely should not be doing any "deals" with Putin to buy his oil, until he withdraws from Ukraine. 310013
Reposted by Gus OrvistonSilverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And now we begin to see what Putin gets out of his deal with Trump. We'll see more details leaked out over the next several days. 12813
Reposted by Gus OrvistonJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One thing that it says is that the wealthiest correctly understand that Trump is far more transactional and personalistic than Democrats. There are genuine limits to Democrats' willingness to either punish non-donors or reward donors, whereas Trump does both freely. 25613
Reposted by Gus OrvistonA.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump’s new spox blaming Congressional Republicans for not doing enough on lowering prices. 🤡 3547664
Reposted by Gus OrvistonMark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The deal doesn’t just align the United States against Ukraine, it positions us in opposition to every democratic government on the planet, to every institution of international law, and our own commitments and signed agreements. It is abominable.washingtonpost.comTrump announces diesel deal with Russia in bid to lower pricesThe amount is small compared with U.S. demand, but the deal aligns the U.S. with Russia and against Ukraine’s efforts to bomb Russian refineries. 1925496
Reposted by Gus OrvistonDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Nauseating. A grotesque betrayal of the US, our values and our allies. The United States has no greater enemy than Donald Trump. 67792278
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If you've ever read Mark Noll's "The Civil War as a Theological Crisis" (you should) then you might wonder how Christians could have supported the racism and cruelty that was necessary for chattel slavery. These screenshots should dispel any mystery. 010
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Congrats to Republicans for finding a part of Sharia law they actually like 020
Reposted by Gus OrvistonChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 17261431499
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Reposting this because it is one of the very few maps that does not show the state I live in - Alabama - as being in last place for something. Roll Tide and get vaccinated, I guess, or something. 000
Reposted by Gus OrvistonMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Your regular reminder that ~no one in the Republican Party, or the political right of American politics more broadly, actually believes in capitalism, free markets, & limited government. 416153
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is wrong enough on the facts that the only reasonable explanation is that this is an attempt to wreck as much of the higher education system in America as they can. 000
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Feel like someone should have explained to these guys that “but when will white guys get a break” was a *joke* 030
Reposted by Gus OrvistonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake. 1433225854
Reposted by Gus OrvistonAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 254162403717
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026One might wonder if this could convince any of his fans to become suspicious of his advice on how to become wealthy. 000
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Will the median voter learn anything from this? No. They will not. 010
Reposted by Gus OrvistonCavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Again, Carr needs to be impeached and removed from office by March. 0152
Reposted by Gus OrvistonPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why is Trump holding back the military sales that Congress approved for Taiwan? 106721
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have ideas on how this might be solved. Most of them involve arresting Altman. 010
Reposted by Gus OrvistonKiwi on your left @kiwionyourleft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The techbros are doing "I don't kill people, my gun kills people". If we let them get away with this, we give them permission to do anything. 0229
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Now, imagine that people like Andrew are busy feeding this technology into the wood chipper after they scan it into AI models. 000
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This would be a great invention! It could change your life. It *has* changed my life. Books are magic. Getting to use them, read them, and own them are pretty close to my favorite part of being human. 210
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It doesn't require wifi access. It can be easily lent out to friends, to create a community of people who use this technology, and then discuss what they have learned! 100
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Imagine that this technology is relatively inexpensive. It can be made, almost entirely, from renewable resources like trees. It doesn't require batteries. 100