Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11hThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening. 371589380
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8hUS inflation is "entirely" due to Trump's tariffs. I am hard pressed to think of a worse decision by any President. The consequences were predicted, he did them anyway and here we are. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...cnbc.comInflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed saysTariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found. 531495
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026In Wisconsin alone, there were 39 private schools where every student used tuition vouchers during the most recent school year. Together, these schools educated 7,923 children and took in roughly $87 million from the voucher program. (Published August)propublica.orgAt “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve... 561061610
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026okay i've taken this too seriously on its own terms. when a billionaire says "dictatorship is efficient" what he means is that it's easy to bribe. 523069
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped. 430540
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem? 263237647
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I've always marveled at how the satanic panic took place without social media's help. Traditional media was all aboard the stupid train. 521941
Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oh, no. Too much of that going around, and I’m trying to be (more) positive. Ha 010
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A lot of liars really like to reference common sense. Too many cars driving too much in your city because of #CarDependency is the opposite of common sense. Polluting your air and fuelling #ClimateChange while limiting choices in how we can get around in cities is the opposite of common sense. 210224
Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Racer Blue CC1 restocked and in my size? Don’t mind if I do! 000
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.theguardian.comBritain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian WolmarLarger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar 31626164
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why did Eric Schmitt fuck up his gotcha moment so badly? No one involved considered the possibility that Jack Smith attended a women’s basketball game. A MAGAt undone by misogyny. Not at all surprising. 31588441618
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026kinda bullshit whenever the fever score 98. like come on. no it’s not 1094367
Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Indeedstatic.klipy.comThankyouAlt: Michael Scott pounds the table and emphatically yells, “THANK YOU!” 000
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092973070
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive. 383905764
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 408125915973
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...eff.orgAge Verification and Age Gating: Resource HubAge verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag... 5314128
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-... 345976
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society. 392520501
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This was predictable and predicted. An entire chapter in my book The Privateers discusses this. It didn’t have to be this way. But when you design policy as a private school subsidy masked as student opportunity—and with no income caps—this is the exact result. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...indystar.comIndiana school voucher use has flipped from low-income families to more high-income familiesParticipation shifted toward families making over $100,000 even as overall growth slows. 22512
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/20261) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there." 681995365
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026No one in national politics seems to even acknowledge that full system reformation is required, they can't see that the republic has already been lost, and as such they are the nails in its coffin. Ironically the only case for US restoration would be a sewer socialist campaign at fed level 241281
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🔥 @ayman.msnbc.com : “Question — what is the approved way to support Palestinians? What is an acceptable method? Which protest is quiet enough? Which boycott is gentle enough? Which flag is small enough? Which act of solidarity is ineffective enough to earn your approval?” 38839239
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table' 211829242
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is astonishing. Needs to be a day one investigation next year. 17553134
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wakefield was ready to sell a “vaccine cure” and that’s why he needed the study saying they cause autism. A study that has never been replicated and proven wrong at every turn. Get yourself and your damn kids vaccinated. 021
Paul B. 🎳 @pb317.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Even thinking about listening to this song gives me the goosebumps and now I feel compelled to share this live version and maybe give you some as well! Goodness… youtu.be/ijcaWabP9-8?...youtu.beThe Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP 100
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience 14765771367
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saying cycling's rise has made life worse reflects how normalized and accepted the harms of car culture have become 11286
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying. 693216587188
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight 171604395
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026probably the most heavily debated "policy" in my lifetime was Obamacare and the result of it was not that any of the debates got resolved, John Roberts just randomly took a meat clever and excised like half the stuff in it on a whim. Who cares if that's how actual policy gets made. 981187
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026there is genuinely no point in debating federal policy since we've spent the last 20 years living in a world where we can no longer make it without 9 guys in robes rewriting it behind us 141258200
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people. 121159324
Reposted by Paul B. 🎳Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking. 186151312695