Reposted by payne588rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15hyou need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal. 241524242
Reposted by payne588Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill. 543005740
Reposted by payne588Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ alaskapublic.org/news/environ...alaskapublic.orgMeet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champBackpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world. 031
Reposted by payne588Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i believe the technical term for this is a necrocracy bsky.app/profile/notu... 2182
Reposted by payne588Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 552966771
Reposted by payne588David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What is taking shape out there is potentially the biggest blowout election of the 21st century and there might not be more than a handful of truly safe Republicans in the Senate. New for @thenation.comthenation.comThe GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Senate MapTrump has so badly damaged the Republican Party’s brand that strategists are contemplating bitter fights—and losses—in races they’d been banking on as sure things. 174
Reposted by payne588Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari... 421306176
Reposted by payne588Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13/09/2026Republicans making AES, a hot beefy doctor who is a messaging machine and absolute relentless work horse, a main character in American politics, is going to be one of their biggest messaging misfires in decades. 521027
Reposted by payne588larry.earth (he/him) 8647 @larry.earth · 11/09/2026The koolaid is what they had to drink 51747
Reposted by payne588Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It was an MLM convention. Anyone whose Dad ever sold Amway knows what this was. The downlines have tapped out their networks and are dropping off, garages full of product they can’t move and broken homes waiting for them when they get back. 152196401
Reposted by payne588Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Remember Romney saying Dem voters were just lazy dependents who didn’t want to work and just wanted “gifts?” bsky.app/profile/apne... 541553255
Reposted by payne588Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561121622
Reposted by payne588driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Fun Fact: Liz Cheney was flogging this lie right up until they ran her out of the GOP in 2020. She has *never* recanted it, but we have been repeatedly told by our Never Trump supervisors to shut up about it. 25112
Reposted by payne588Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The declining labor share of income is the class war crystallized and everything progressives want is downstream of putting the power of capital on a leash. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...hamiltonnolan.comCapital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a SideshowCapitalism or humanity, but not both. 643297
Reposted by payne588Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day. 3645831158
Reposted by payne588Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Why we need the social sciences to understand AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study ItJust as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like. 610437
Reposted by payne588John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Throughout her career, her work also focused on liberating men from these fear-based emotional stigmas; the beliefs that are constantly trying to force boys and men into narrow, conformist, emotionally stifling boxes. Pls check it out; subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/gloria-ste...johnfugelsang.substack.comGloria Steinem was a Hero to Men, Too.She proved that feminism is good for Real Men; even if the word itself terrifies weak men. 15508163
Reposted by payne588Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Any candidate who won't talk about this should be a nonstarter. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...huffpost.comDemocrats Are Ready To Take On The Supreme Court In 2028The rise of a conservative supermajority on the court helped launch the push. But it’s that supermajority’s actions that have since turbocharged it. 36818
Reposted by payne588Isaac Amur - Vtuber - problem @isaacamur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's good he's pulling agro, but I feel like we're really short on DPS. 84714
Reposted by payne588David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list. 312642709
Reposted by payne588Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Democrats should be expected to condemn this bigoted shit, not Piker 2064450738
Reposted by payne588Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care 1143618410
Reposted by payne588Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is likely why Republicans keep hawking data centers when they're deeply unpopular with actual voters. The money demands they do. 441803605
Reposted by payne588A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 31/08/2026This is one of the biggest reasons I’m opposed to means testing for things like free school meals. I grew up in a community with a lot of kids from wildly wealthy families who were abused & neglected by their parents. Kids of wealthy parents need to be protected, too 4651161
Reposted by payne588Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026idk why do 60 year olds with erectile dysfunction like reading the same article over and over 442544286
Reposted by payne588weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'll say it again: covid killed my otherwise healthy father in April of 2020. 810228
Reposted by payne588Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026not that they’re doing it correctly or well or rigorously or competently, but it is funny how these guys spend all their time doing gender studies 201681212
Reposted by payne588driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And yet, now that Never Trumpers have colonized what little was left of the "liberal" media, NTer's have elbowed the Right-about-the-Right-all-along-Left entirely out of the public conversation. Anyone ever seen Digby on MSNOW? Bob Cesca in the NYT? Brad Friedman? John Amato? Rick Perlstein? 34711
Reposted by payne588rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026if centrists didn't want to be put in a situation where the democrats have to reform the electoral system and judiciary within the first two years of the next president's term, perhaps they should have done it when it wasn't an emergency. if we do not do it, we will die under worse than Jim Crow. 201756285
Reposted by payne588Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"The worst Democrat is better than the best Republican" is a statement about the Republican Party 2565
Reposted by payne588The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Fuck you. I'm not doing homework just to watch CGI assholes beat each other up for three hours. 8757
Reposted by payne588Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 27/08/2026At times I am truly amazed this party ever wins anything, ever. 5267
Reposted by payne588Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...forms.gleOpen letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent UniversityWe, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th... 421493642
Reposted by payne588Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I’m going to need someone to explain to me why this isn’t as bad as it seems. Because it seems really bad. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...documentcloud.org26A124, 26A139 Order 2426346
Reposted by payne588Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities. 152092441
Reposted by payne588Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender? 302960748
Reposted by payne588roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Here is Nathan Cofnas’s full suspension letter, which makes incredibly clear he was not suspended for whistleblowing. 2489126
Reposted by payne588Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 23/08/2026can someone approach the signers of the Nathan Cofnas academic freedom letter on their campuses with a TikTok tiny mic and ask them if they support U.S. professors being fired for teaching about gender? 16815
Reposted by payne588Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 23/08/2026Ahh yes, the famously left wing field of academia, where hundreds (400+ in Jonathan’s thread) of scholars will rally in support of a postdoc shrieking racist slurs but will never speak up for a queer or Black academic being persecuted by conservative billionaires. 28425
Reposted by payne588Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Can we step back and recognize how strange it is to have strong opinions about a postdoc appointment that isn't in your department, institution, or even country? No way the signatories have opinions about many postdoc appointments, and I bet many didn't bother looking into the details of this one. 915926
Reposted by payne588Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The internet is fucking wild 141962344
Reposted by payne588Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Could 5,000 of y'all watch this so I can get up to a quarter million? Thanks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnNw...youtube.comWho Killed Charlie Kirk? How conspiracy theories sparked a MAGA civil warYouTube video by MS NOW 1511338
Reposted by payne588Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026youtu.be'Weird Al' Yankovic: Tiny Desk ConcertYouTube video by NPR Music 8151281161
Reposted by payne588Rank MI Vote @rankmivote.bsky.social · 20/08/2026ENDORSEMENTS: Rank MI Vote PAC is proud to endorse 59 pro-voter, pro-democracy candidates for state offices in the upcoming general election. Rank MI Vote PAC endorsed candidates have pledged their support for a future legislation that will allow Michigan’s municipalities to implement #RCV. 022
Reposted by payne588August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I was sick then and I remain sick now--sick to fucking death--of being looked at like I'm from goddamn Jupiter because I point out why people might just not want to vote for Democrats even though Republicans are "worse." Start. Fucking. Caring. About. Your. Own. Racist. Ass. Party. Members. 0306
Reposted by payne588maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 19/08/2026AOC and Bernie need to lock the fuck in and stump for her 3519
Reposted by payne588InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 15/08/2026InfoWarriors, repeat these affirmations EVERY day to prepare your mind for battle! 5653721061
Reposted by payne588Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne... 572141756
Reposted by payne588Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit. 20678001427
Reposted by payne588Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"Why do Master Race people always look like shabby little freaks" is one of those questions which answers itself if you think about it for even a moment 72415368
