Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialWildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 20/05/2026He should have gotten more tbh. Blatant First Amendment violation over a meme that made his local sheriff's department angry. 1263
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/05/2026WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. it is sure to become a highlight reel of Trump Administration payments to Mr. Trump’s friends and allies. Imagine the fun Democrats will have documenting it all ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona... 59423133
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialMichael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The modern United States has experienced 11 recessions. Ten have happened under Republican presidents. This isn’t a coincidence. They screw things up because they try to impose a fairy tale on the country. trib.al/a8oDeWytrib.alWhen Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.Donald Trump is different in many ways from the Republican presidents who preceded him. But there’s one way he’s exactly the same. 312751
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Blanche could’ve just said, without even fully accepting the premise here, that if you’re a known child abuser you can’t have this money. The fact that he won’t say that is horrifying 863027828
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialRuo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026@jayvanbavel.bsky.social continues to produce interesting research 132
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialJohn Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We need high quality microdata to be able to do evidence based policy, but this is always going to lag real time. The next best thing is for a robust, well-resourced statistical system to regularly develop and release aggregates which reproduce the insights available in the microdata for public use. 1233
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Trump’s foreign policy is a policy of white supremacy www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u... 12749277
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialRonda Kaysen @rondakaysen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Deportations are costing American-born workers their jobs, and no industry has been more impacted than construction, a new study found. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/r...nytimes.comTrump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs 1014654
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialDan Saltzstein @dansaltzstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”nytimes.comOver 100,000 Family Separations in Deportation Push, Report Estimates 9449231
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 08/04/2026in DVTL i have a Schism in 2030 over Pope Tagle permitting female deacons 3674
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It seems a lot more likely that a wedge is driven between the US and other regional actors than a wedge is driven between Iran and Hezbollah or Lebanon more broadly 424122
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first: 6327991110
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialJason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026media.tenor.comStar Wars Lando GIFALT: Star Wars Lando GIF 59420
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialUncrewed @uncrewed.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I don't think anything else sums up tonight for the Wisconsin Republicans more than this. Waukesha within 10 points is just the biggest warning sign known to mankind 616526
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 08/04/2026just saying, “the strait becomes a tollbooth, trump declares victory, leaves” has been my best guess pretty much from the beginning 2047935
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026OK NEVER MIND THEN I GUESS WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING THIS LMAO 813315
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialgrimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Losing all the right wing billionaires support was the best thing that ever happened to Ro Khanna. 3747
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I keep thinking about how he set the deadline at 8 p.m. ET because it's prime time 315229
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026premeditated murder 13013
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/03/2026“Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours.” War for the spectacle. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...nbcnews.comTrump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran warThe montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war. 39344104
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/03/2026ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3trib.alICE Seizes DACA Recipient on His Way to Visit Baby in NICUICE knew he was a DACA recipient—and detained him anyway. 6718701069
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 16/03/2026Republicans are *all about* increasing fertility rates! Surely they will embrace working from home, given these striking results. Surely! 3224
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026i think he is, it's just he's come up with insane acts like SAVE because he genuinely has no theory of mind for left-liberals 618812
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Yes! The data on immigration enforcement is far worse than it’s been in years, making this admin’s claims hard to fact check. /I do think they are now deporting more people than Obama/Biden, but can’t prove it! 722565
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13/03/2026once you see how omnipresent projective disgust is in our politics you cannot unsee it 2343
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialAloysius Freeman @aloysiusfreeman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The early childhood influencer who wears overalls and has been labeled anti-semitic by Pro-Israel groups is now doing awareness for kids in concentration camps on US soil. Just so we're clear where this country is at right now. 13713
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/03/2026pretty convinced at this point that the only way to cleanly TACO out of this would be for Trump to straight up cave to Iranian demands 1647236
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026also like, if they're sending a MEU now, there's little to no chance we're seeing the strait open up i think 733332
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live! 46687822053
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12/03/2026one of Trump's problems is that he's finally engaged an opponent who can Post Back 58710
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12/03/2026What a horrible fucking life philosophy. What an empty, soulless approach to existence. 56974158
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Westad makes this basically explicit by tracing the Cold War back to the US in the 1890s and early 1900s with its technocratic approach to governance. It was the model for the 20th century. Everyone from Hitler to Stalin to Nehru wanted to become the United States. They all failed. 193
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialMLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Ummm.....if this is even REMOTELY true, the GOP is beyonnddd fucked, in particular in Hispanic areas of the country. Lordy....media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie says sorry you said whatALT: a man in a suit and tie says sorry you said what 3203
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialBrent Scales @boiler40.bsky.social · 12/03/2026“There’s always someone who thinks that if only we were crueler, if only we’d killed another million Vietnamese, then we would have won this war.” - @philklay.bsky.social @gregjaffe.bsky.social on Hegseth then and now via @nytimes.com 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...nytimes.comHow Hegseth Came to See Moral Purpose in War as Weakness 11911
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Signs of financial stress are starting to crop up in various places. 13811
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The drum that really need to get beaten is that the single biggest blocking point for Iran breaking out was that the supreme leader was sincerely religiously opposed to nuclear weapons, which is why we, very smartly (/s) blew him up 3492103
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialJacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 09/03/2026A country built on losers: I reviewed two books on sports betting and wrote about gambling, the vile vice that's eating the world, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2073...newrepublic.comHow Gambling Ate the WorldIn less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news. 48022
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u... 12939721780
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children. A major throughline of the Trump administration. 261965622
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialBruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026sensing a theme 1145
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialDennis Yedwab @dennisyedwab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Fighting back works 011
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 05/03/2026OpenAI's shit can't cut it and Hegseth is desperate. 1295
Reposted by @owlpot.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 03/03/2026chat is that bad? bsky.app/profile/carl... 1219615
