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A Political Alt

@polalt.bsky.social
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My “alt” for following politics, history, current affairs and more so I can keep my main account free of that. Necessary to stay involved but also maintain my mental health. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📍Maine @mainemikey.bsky.social

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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
However much you hate Trump and his supporters, it’s not enough.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was their original headline
Hearing Aimed at Jack Smith Devolves When Topic Turns to
Basketball
Senator Eric Schmitt accused the former special counsel of perjury based on text messages about a basketball game that he appeared to misunderstand.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I’m Adam Hamilton and I approve this message.”
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s like a hostage video. Those poor wonderful astronauts behind him, used as a backdrop for his insane ranting.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I can’t explain it but it came to me fully formed- Donald Trump and Tim Curry will die on the same day
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I believe the platform you’re looking for to post this garbage is Twitter.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I want to stress here how utterly bankrupt it is to feed moral panic about transgender youth. You’re just feeding bullying. And here’s the kicker: the right is still gonna brand you a child groomer. So what do you really accomplish besides abandoning trans kids and getting sage nods from losers.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Part of Bari’s problem is she’s trying to go all-in on state propaganda during the regime’s low point, it’s like opening a flip-phone store
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.
A scruffy looking brown dog with hair coming out of his ears
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.” They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is now the 3rd yr in a row where the same dude spends every waking second pissing off as many people as as he can, he also refuses to regulate firearms, some joker gets one of those firearms and fails miserably at using it and the media subjects us to 2 weeks of "should everyone else be nicer"
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I want to live in a country where: - the president isn‘t a fascist - the political media don’t collaborate with fascism - political violence and mass shootings aren’t a regular occurrence - there is a democratic method to depose the head of state if they’re a corrupt, demented pedo
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Donald Trump called Somalis “animals.” He said Haitians eat dogs and cats. You fucking journalists had a party with him and now you want our sympathy. Fuck off.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 26/04/2026
This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
There is no hell horrible enough for Alex Jones. He’s a vile, evil, despicable piece of shit who deserves to spend the rest of his life broke, alone, and unloved.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism
Children in Juárez, Mexico, watched a live broadcast of the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
They’re feeding fighter jets to the seas like they’re shelter cats but sure, the communication service that unites our nation is the problem.
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Masuke🐶+rocogirl👩 @rocogirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Good morning! This morning, Masuke finally outran the camera. I really must work on my leg strength!
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/04/2026
The most interesting thing about diversity equity and inclusion offices for the very short time we had them… they gave us data… Concerning just how over represented middle class white men are in every area of American life
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Why the f**k is the New York Times publishing this shit?
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Has anyone had more fun being mayor of New York than Mamdani?
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 07/04/2026
"I can not believe America has becom--" bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Now I’m just a backwoods small town hyperchicken, but it seems to me that if a company is big enough to existentially threaten the government then you don’t actually have a functioning government anymore.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 06/04/2026
Realizing 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.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/04/2026
I will personally be taking account of every journalist who attends the WHCA dinner and spend the rest of my life making sure everybody knows that they did
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A Political Alt @polalt.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
No need to worry about this! White House journalists will be wearing First Amendment pocket squares.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/04/2026
we got here because a lot of really terrible people decided that the most important thing in the world was hurting anyone not like them
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
NASA 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.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/04/2026
voters elected decadent money man to make them rich, what they've gotten is warmongering fanatic who wants to cut their health care to pay for more bombs
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The problem isn’t that two aircraft were shot down. The problem is that we aren’t psychologically or politically prepared to suffer any losses, because this entire war has been sold as a video game set on “easy” and not as a cause worth sacrifice.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 03/04/2026
Red Lobster went bankrupt because of private equity, not shrimp.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/04/2026
The NYT, a paper devoted to spreading the propaganda of rich “centrists” and right wing Trump apologists, isn’t critiquing the wealthy or defending the needy; it’s just trying to stigmatize public services and evangelize for means testing to undermine a socialist mayor. Just my opinion!
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
yes. they pay more based on income in taxes for the thing that is then “free” for everyone. this is how public services work
They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?
A free preschool center opening in one of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods raises questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to expand universal child care.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/04/2026
This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)
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