Reposted by PatAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8449071781
Reposted by PatBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it 342014256
Reposted by Patlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434437786
Reposted by PatGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...newrepublic.comStephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New LeaksSordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. 13127791321
Reposted by PatBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors 81901409
Reposted by PatSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act. 13341061198
Reposted by PatSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.wsj.comExclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal CourtThe U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system. 782194599
Reposted by PatNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Feel like between yesterday's Wired story and the Arch Manning thing, we need some sort of massive social intervention in young men. Just absolutely hopeless stuff. 27875102
Reposted by PatAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list. 523427896
Reposted by PatBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones. 233017619
Reposted by PatJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them. 353122871
Reposted by Patutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026I think it is remarkable to the extent the opposition party is still largely silent about the extrajudicial gulag archipelago that the sitting administration is using to turn innocent immigrants into political prisoners and slaves in third nations 161288380
Reposted by PatBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026Dems should never have national leadership from the NYC machine again, it’s just a bad move 928518
Reposted by PatBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026This is a great example of why Jeffries is not the man for the moment, and a bad choice to be Speaker. Instead of hitting the unity notes that Dems are doing well in Michigan and Wisconsin, he’s obsessing about local NYC politics because he’s afraid of losing power and it’s hurting Dems nationally. 223772664
Reposted by PatBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant 313704873
Reposted by PatRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...newrepublic.comTexas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-DeportThere were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport. 13448352496
Reposted by PatGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/07/2026“Now ICE has killed one of our own. Blood stains Canal Street.” Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “may not have been an American on paper, but he was damned well a Houstonian. He lived in Houston for 35 of his 52 years, his family said.” www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...houstonchronicle.comICE lies. And now they’ve killed a Houstonian.Houstonians must stand up for one another after the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by immigration agents, writes the Houston Chronicle Editorial Board. 225367
Reposted by PatMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti 156161585493
Reposted by Patjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner. 249137032814
Reposted by PatNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026how I feel when there’s a lot of troubling things happening and I am morally conflicted but I also want to enjoy the game tonight 1494073
Reposted by PatNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026When someone asks me what I’m doing any evening of the next two weeks (even more than I was before): 316511
Reposted by PatRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The frantic rush to ban trans women from playing sports has never been motivated by a genuine interest in women’s sports or improving anybody’s lives. The fact that it’s clearly going to hurt cis women in addition to trans women is an added bonus for the people who have pushed for it 13415104
Reposted by PatJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Crazy idea but instead of their asinine fight against Mamdani and progressives, those centrist Dems should learn from him. And maybe instead of bitching to the media, they could fight for good policy and get shit done for their constituents too But that requires commitment and whining is easier 341160224
Reposted by Patjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country. 10356611599
Reposted by PatMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026“Haitians are eating your dogs” should have been the lie that banned JD Vance from being quoted credibly in the news media for life but that would only happen in a news media that doesn’t love him and every other Republican like they’re family 10730135
Reposted by PatZito @zeets.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Hard for this team to be good vibes when this keeps happening 2613762494
Reposted by PatBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I could accept everyone becoming dumber if we were also becoming nicer (golden retriever-fication) instead of getting more evil 135135381610
Reposted by PatMicah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2026there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless 7197912406
Reposted by PatSnitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I've also met VC guys by the way and not a single one of them has an idea that didn't come out of an HBR article, these are not people capable of thinking for themselves. 145137
Reposted by Patescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The conservative movement explicitly, no-shit, no-other-explanation believes that an educated populace is directly opposed to their vision of a peasant class having 15 kids and building wealth for the Chosen Few Elites forever and want to repeal the 20th and the 19th century to achieve that goal 262224759
Reposted by PatBrian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026it’s … interesting, let’s go with interesting, that abdul carter can very clearly say this is what i believe in and why while jaxson dart can’t even stand on what he did while mumbling out a statement that doesn’t mean anything. weird how this always seems to happen in these cases 219521
Reposted by Patm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/05/2026one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens 803870617
Reposted by PatDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I just want to point out, politely, that there are other colleges apart from Ivy League institutions. They are where most college students go. They are where, believe it or not, America's massive comparative advantage in higher education exist. You would never know this if you read the Times. 661954345
Reposted by Patleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever 4271281826
Reposted by Patlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/05/2026there's a now-constant low grade conflict on this site between people fundamentally still divided on their feelings about democratic primaries in 2016 and 2020 and frankly i think the whole thing is stupid 1360826
Reposted by PatPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary. 233168335157
Reposted by PatMicah @rincewind.run · 29/04/2026the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country 4451211495
Pat @pajamaman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026First #CharitibundiBowl shot of the year, $28 quarterly for the Gopher's 2025 margin over WI and Neb, cuz the only thing better than supporting people becoming new neighbors is rubbing Badger/Husker noses in it while doing so @newap-georgia.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social 020
Reposted by PatIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19/04/2026Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol 342057358
Reposted by PatMicah @rincewind.run · 17/04/2026if a second home surtax is DEFCON 1 they haven’t left any room to raise the temperature for, e.g., a wealth tax, and we should implement one what they actually want is total impunity and that’s not a serious position 896385
Reposted by PatMicah @rincewind.run · 17/04/2026that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs 364053834
Reposted by Patm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 16/04/2026It's a problem that legal academic norms allow a fundamentally dishonest person like Wurman to operate 8760114
Reposted by PatBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Setting aside all other questions about impeachment, the idea that trying it against a president everybody hates would be a political *loser* for the opposition party is preposterous. Just say you don't want to work! It's more relatable 583067588
Reposted by Patjab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The fact that Trump isn’t subject to regular calls to be at the very least convicted and imprisoned for the rest of his natural life is the one aspect of Beltway consciousness nearly as insane as he is.truthdig.comThe Art of Losing - TruthdigThis week’s threatened genocide and failed ceasefire are grim signs of our new normal. 2800135
Reposted by PatSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat” 125117303036
Reposted by PatIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached. When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office? 49997361863
Reposted by PatSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history. 182114952742