Reposted by Phil WredeJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/10/2026One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty. 532466720
Reposted by Phil WredeJennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It helps a lot that the aggression is service of those being screwed by Trump. Some people enjoy a bully because they're weak and cruel, but everyone loves the guy that pops the bully in the nose. 151
Reposted by Phil WredeMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Shouldn't it be "Bullets Strike ICE Agent in Civilian-Involved Shooting" 51169196
Reposted by Phil WredeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The purpose of anti-trust law is to protect consumers. Trump has used it to protect himself, and the companies of his political benefactors 216234
Phil Wrede @pizzarat.net · 11/10/2026jesus fucking christ, at least it's finally streaming somewhere it's only one of the best movies anybody ever made link.tubi.tv/YNL4wTBC86blink.tubi.tvThe Stepford Wives (1975)A modern woman and her family, new to the town of Stepford, starts to see that the wives in town are suspiciously perfect and submissive to their men. 010
Reposted by Phil Wredeonion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted 17669161263
Reposted by Phil WredeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 11792279
Phil Wrede @pizzarat.net · 10/10/2026at least there's some good space photography news this weekend science.nasa.gov/feature/arte...science.nasa.govArtemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report - NASA ScienceWhat did four NASA astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon? Here's your guide to Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report. 010
Reposted by Phil Wredeonion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity 25868961077
Reposted by Phil WredeDavid William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026hello 911, yes, I'd like to report a murder 0539
Reposted by Phil WredeBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/10/2026So those dumbass aliens from Predator are called “Yautjas” when they could have done that thing they do in movies sometimes where a character will say “They call themselves P’redtors, they come from the planet P’red” 202346
Reposted by Phil WredeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle." 427181224783
Reposted by Phil WredeJimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re bringing back all the hits aren’t they 10324130
Reposted by Phil WredeLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4083521210600
Reposted by Phil WredeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate 27586752123
Reposted by Phil WredeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters." 11543521294
Reposted by Phil WredeRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 09/10/2026a quote that is so Anne Carson AND so the opposite of “AI discourse” drink it up, I know you are thirsty 1164
Reposted by Phil Wredecarolyn @papersquared.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Why I Stepped Down buttondown.com/papersquared...buttondown.comWhy I Stepped DownThe Illinois Library Association's annual conference is this week, and for the first time in many, many years, I'm not attending. For those that may not be... 154116
Reposted by Phil WredeThe Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment theonion.comDOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of EntertainmentWASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo... 902989730
Reposted by Phil Wredejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026a livestreamed execution is just a lynching 284103422009
Reposted by Phil WredeJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Laugh all you want, and certainly JD Vance deserves to be laughed at for so many things, but this is exactly, definitionally and theoretically, how I learned it in Socialism Class in the Socialism Program at Socialism School. 1110513
Reposted by Phil WredeDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nice going Jared Polis 114733
Reposted by Phil WredeProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.propublica.orgAmerican Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw MilkCiting the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut... 672435946
Reposted by Phil Wredebryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102144044736
Reposted by Phil WredeProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Again, OMB is using the apportionment mechanism to stop funding. Here it is the Smithsonian. I would note: they are not legally binding if exercised out of the scope of the President’s authority. 622888
Reposted by Phil WredeIGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG 6774312281
Phil Wrede @pizzarat.net · 08/10/2026sometimes you're running some errands and an old friend you didn't expect to see is there waiting for you 130
Reposted by Phil WredeJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026you should skip Starbucks because Starbucks sucks not because a paste-brained clown fascist started an illegal war he can't finish 2446
Reposted by Phil WredeKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship. 210805330
Reposted by Phil WredeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026<all together now>publicnotice.co“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase. 69632
Reposted by Phil WredeAndy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 06/10/2026Honestly the amount these guys just straight up say "war is peace" and "ignorance is strength" is like "I know writers who use subtext" level 351053150
Reposted by Phil WredeSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026the clear throughline behind every Trump voter is a refusal to believe that their behavior has consequences 1131735
Reposted by Phil WredeSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this 151239196
Phil Wrede @pizzarat.net · 04/10/2026sadly i was out of service range most of yesterday so i forgot to post this but better late than never? 000
Reposted by Phil WredeDrew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie 171232295
Reposted by Phil WredeAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026a lot of people into ai want to talk about how it works, but they either mean the stack inside the software or the things it "can do now" that "can't be explained" but ai is a rhetorical technology. the way to understand how it works is to understand how rhetoric works 414933
Reposted by Phil WredeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27787308
Reposted by Phil WredeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wemby wisely leaves open possibilities of future GOATedness: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2302
Reposted by Phil Wrede🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.rewirenewsgroup.comThe Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: OpinionRepublicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone. 523598
Reposted by Phil WredeBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The nefarious plan of “providing services which enrich the lives of their constituents using tax dollars” 13129764
Reposted by Phil WredeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026👇🎯 If you send kids the message that the only majors that are good are business & STEM from the time they’re in middle school, & then you don’t find the humanities & social sciences at the college level, it all becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy & that was clearly the point in the first place. 322035
Reposted by Phil WredeDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown. 404280447
Reposted by Phil WredeMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Once again, the imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII, was a grave mistake. It was designed for an era that no longer exists, in which we had two normal pro-democracy political parties. It is now being weaponized by far right authoritarians & we can never do that again. 1125072
Reposted by Phil WredeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I was always say something like "the good news is this makes them seem self-evidently odious, weird, pathetic, and somehow even smelly," but I've said this a lot in the past and they have still found enough of an audience to win two presidential elections. So buckle up and don't give them an inch! 181701109
Reposted by Phil WredeKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.politico.comPOLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring accessThe Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri... 1532282915