Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/10/2026I was born into a 25 cent oyster world and by god I want to die in one again 211587183
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialKate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is how the U.S. is choosing to treat vulnerable children 48324
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/10/2026I love this so much❤️ 122 new dads met their babies for the very first time yesterday when the USS Abraham Lincoln finally returned to San Diego. Families waited almost a year for this moment. 1033255838
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 941793489
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12530021791
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/10/2026iso cam on Charissa Thompson as she's forced to listen to praise of a rapist 1242253389
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialAwful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026'TNF' looks at Deshaun Watson's season 🏈 📺 Al Michaels: "If you follow football, you know the story ... we don't have to go through the whole Deshaun Watson thing." Kirk Herbstreit: "When you convert on 3rd downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers." 5828739
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end 816536790
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialartisanrox (It's "AI".) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Actually, a very good messaging idea! 05210
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes. 1242796541
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity. 213380831
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialJulian 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 @pcherry1.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...hamiltonnolan.comPrivate Schools Are Bad for SocietyThe starting point for any honest discussion. 15779130
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us. 1744080
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lysenkoism lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...nytimes.comWhite House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants 32366115
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread) 7049481258
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialJoe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I watched Macklemore’s speech at the concert. He didn’t say anything remotely hateful of Jews. He criticized the Israeli government, but explicitly reached out Jews in the audience to say he loved them. That he was opposing genocide, not Jews. Outrageous that big arenas canceled him. 291294197
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/09/2026this is a damn good post from a U.S. Senator and I wish all of them could figure out how to talk like this 8998188
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026there is no presidential candidate jon ossoff unless keisha lance bottoms is elected governor of georgia. why? we can’t afford to lose that senate vote, so he would need a democratic governor to replace him with a democrat. 531645
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026After 9/11, many Americans opted to drive instead of fly. But because plane travel is much safer than car travel, the shift led to a surge in crash deaths. Researchers have found that the number of lives lost (2,000+) is comparable to those killed on 9/11. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... 322361
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?" 132224556
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 09/09/2026There was of course a big effort to electrify buses under the Biden admin, which the Trump admin and GOP Congress killed. 1576
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governorsNew York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm. 651412606
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialNathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is bleak as hell. 14212
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"We've heard you complaining about how much a gallon of gas costs, and we've responded by making sure you'll need much more of them." 26702160
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comTurning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination LibraryCore team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world. 129190428283
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/08/2026Hanging? We need to call this what it is: LYNCHING. Ten Black Americans in less than two years. Every one of these deaths deserves answers, transparency, and scrutiny. No one should look at these images and expect Black Americans to shrug this off, especially in light of our history. 686107305370
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'm sure people will get mad at @humantransit.bsky.social for saying this, but he's right. Campaigning on fare-free transit shrinks the coalition of people willing to invest in public transportation. It endangers transit's survival. humantransit.org/2026/08/an-i... 810719
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialBrandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026There are many advocates that need to stop defending e-motos as if they're bicycles. The longer we pretend this scrutiny is unwarranted, the more damage it does to actual e-bikes, which are legitimate tools enabling people to safely and affordably ditch their cars. 720642
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Looks like I got my answer: "The presence of the [per-minute] fee nudged cyclists toward several unsafe behaviours." "The policy recommendation is to avoid such strategies in favour of less time-pressuring schemes." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 1126355
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/08/2026While Mike Collins has spent his entire time in Congress shitposting and creating memes on X, Ossoff has been working hard every day for his constituents - whether they are Democrats or Republicans. 10256561454
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/08/2026CHARLAMAGNE THE GOD: If Jesus came back today, which political party do you think would be most uncomfortable for him? TALARICO: I think both political parties would be deeply uncomfortable. Jesus is far more radical than any political party. And when I say 'radical,' I don't mean extreme. 1062320359
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2026bzzzt nope www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 2275168
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialonekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Uber is a bad company www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b... 12314
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialKira M @kmc39.bsky.social · 05/08/2026was thinking this morning about how the US kinda gave up on solving problems, so we get a string of obvious cons that pretend to solve problems instead. carbon capture, hyperloop, moon factories, AGI, crypto, plastic recycling, widened highways 15013
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuowapo.stShe left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems. 11042371778
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Purely anecdotal, but I used to get a cough each winter that would last months - since replacing our gas stove with induction several years ago, my lungs have stayed clear. I'm delighted but not entirely surprised by results of this study. We should not be burning gas in our homes (or anywhere). 261141261
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 22/07/2026I will never, EVER have sympathy or anything but contempt for the financial situation of someone that sends their kids to private school. I'm sure someone will get mad at me in the menchies about this, IDC. 4397243
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/07/2026This kind of deranged thinking is ubiquitous in the US, across demographics and political parties. 2029718
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I can fault Mayor Wu for many things. Courage isn’t one of them. Her showing up took guts, and she said the right things. Let’s hold her, and all our officials, to what is said in times like these when the right path is obvious. 12/? 26512
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We can't go numb to this. We can't let this become normal. 501423574
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers 19893532800
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 05/07/2026Republicans in Tennessee have taken control over the Memphis airport, taken its control over its schools, taken its control over its police, sicced the military on Memphians, taken its representative in Congress, and taken its state lawmakers’ committee seats. This is the result. 13592233
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 06/07/2026there are very few jobs in the world where you can disappear for weeks without providing an explanation, and "member of congress" should not be one of them, imo 8458051091
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026A genocidal maniac. 221070221
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialNathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The US should be barred from ever hosting another international sports event for this- as should any country doing the same thing. Hell, even Hitler didn't try to bar Jesse Owens from the Berlin Olympics. This is nearly unprecedented in the history of major sports events. 816444
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/06/2026Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments. 9262901826
Reposted by @pcherry1.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Solidarity with E. Jean Carroll and all survivors who face legal retaliation and criminal prosecution for speaking the truth. This is both remarkable and utterly unsurprising. Survivors have been jailed, retraumatized, harassed, and sued into silence for far too long. 353734824
