Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialvijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions 1269103
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you” 3148031544
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialAdam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Imagine Stephen King, circa 1997, putting out daily press releases promoting his anti-gay org while publishing horror books as Richard Bachman. Imagine George Lucas, circa 2007, announcing a billion dollar fund for anti-Muslim lawsuits, then launching 'The Clone Wars.' This is J.K. Rowling today. 11939342
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said. 011627
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialBrett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism 676235225735
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10736504720331
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Teen pregnancy used to be one of the right's top bogeymen. It's now fascinating to watch how their nativism - falling birth rates which now can't be solved by allowing foreigners to join us as Americans- has led them to bemoaning its decline. They're now shifting policies to help teens get pregnant. 631735355
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialSteve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Companies associated with Trump's sons have received $1 billion and counting in government contracts since he returned to office. We've never seen anything like this coming out of the White House. 📸: @ms.now @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social 621130569
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 10/07/2026Oh? Like being a law graduate with a major public service role who spends all of his time posting on X? That kind of fake job? 215422
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialAndrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers. 17195952529
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them 6472781142
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialR5_to_philly / R5Philly @r5-to-philly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The police defund us 1114
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Like, I really got nothing more to say than that. A generation of dedicated fascists getting a cash injection will create so many ripples in the American experiment that we can’t even conceive yet. Joke of a country. 614122
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/05/2026The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters 373365780
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse 304495957
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialtamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The first Asian American mayor of NYC recently rode 40 miles on a bike across the five boroughs wearing a suit and tie and is skipping the Met Gala and instead using his platform to celebrate union leaders and immigrant rights activists in the fashion industry. Nice. 02126321
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialtalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 03/05/2026i guess it all boils down to: i want people to believe in themselves & their power as much as they believe in politicians. mass movements are the foundation for all forward progress. politicians move only when pushed, and an undeniably powerful mass of people can absolutely do that. 25713
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialWorking Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 01/05/2026The fight we’re having over jobs, tech, and immigration already happened. And we know how it ends. 217362
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism 8253951304
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialKaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Here’s the thing. If both racial and partisan gerrymandering is perfectly legal, then you won’t live in a democracy. You live in a country where politicians pick their voters not the other way around. It’s pretty much that simple. 4538981198
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialMaroon Phoenix @maroonphoenix.bsky.social · 28/04/2026It seems significant that one of the first promises of Hungary’s new leader was to abolish their propaganda news (like Fox News). I personally find it nearly impossible to imagine any candidate getting traction here with that same promise. Which also seems significant. 0101
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/04/2026“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”theguardian.comThe United States is destroying itself | Rebecca SolnitThe daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment 903137515844
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialonekade @onekade.bsky.social · 17/04/2026One of the things I love most about Zohran’s rise to power is that it shows so clearly how we could have a better democracy—one that actually serves us instead of just the rich—if the left decides collectively to take electoralism and government seriously. It’s ours for the taking if we want it. 335780
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialyeoldeleftist.bsky.social @yeoldeleftist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The main flaw in Republican economic theory is that scarcity to the point of poverty and bankruptcy is the only way to motivate people to work. 051
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialLaurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Octavia E. Butler, 1998: 25097413667
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialZohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Oh, I can answer this one! After 2008, private equity decided homes were investment vehicles for them and not for us, and now they’ve driven up the price of housing in every major city in the world, but our hegemonic media treats each crisis as a separate local issue related to supply. 49824
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026In a shocking twist, impunity has emboldened a narcissist to descend into full megalomania 233928544
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was. 7999702950
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear... 24089121727
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialJacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 06/04/2026Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate. 5353771047
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice. 332198584404
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Terrific analysis by Steven Poole in the Guardian, teaching me a new word: dysphemism, which is the opposite of euphemism. It’s a way to make something sound “maximally horrible.” Poole examines the “chest-beating fiesta of blood and guts” in Trump and Hegseth’s language about the war against Iran.theguardian.comForget euphemism, Trump is using unabashed viciousness in his language against IranThe Trump administration takes pleasure in deploying dysphemism to describe the killing of Iranians 33657242
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Cruz went to Harvard and Princeton 3953118543
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialScott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026No exaggeration, I think this is one of the most important stories in US health care. MAHA makes a lot more sense if you see it as a hostile takeover by the quackery industrypolitico.comHow Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHAWhy they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them. 492127693
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialveraeikon.bsky.social @veraeikon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Can we please never have another pundit declare that the Democrats need to do more to appeal to the working class 427429
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.social👻Spooky Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contractsmicahflee.github.ioDHS Contracts Explorer 161538855
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2026I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development... 19889952485
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/03/2026“Americans are facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism"—one “that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods," Adam Serwer argues.bit.lyThe Cynical, Gullible American ManThis is why we live in a world of conspiracism and falsehood. 22508139
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialLewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 14/03/2026So often the story we are told is that everyone is set in their ways. But I want us to look closely at who benefits from that story. If we don't believe people change, why would we ever take action? 052
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/03/2026All conversations lead to this.meditationsinanemergency.comThe She Made Him Do It Theory of EverythingThe rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec... 1317
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialFunkit Toys @funkittoys.bsky.social · 02/02/2026rt if u hate nazis and love boobs 1134562633
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/03/2026the people yearn for woke 2 81826324
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026this made me cackle all the way through 532908608
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialcunt dracula @nmello.bsky.social · 06/03/2026"hey, it's important to have boundaries. hey. live in my house. hey, jack does nude yoga at sunrise." what are we DOING here. #thepitt 0748
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...lithub.comWhy We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American ChildrenLately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i… 9721488
Reposted by @pickledpepp.bsky.socialAlly @allyalleycat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026the idea that choosing to get paid for murdering brown children is morally equivalent to getting a student loan and working a couple minimum wage jobs like a normal person is a bright red tell on whoever believes it 0192
