Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 17hThank you for articulating something I have been feeling but not able to express. Specifically, us leftists are going to be asked to compromise no matter what, and we can accommodate that if it is for someone who is going to govern the shit out of this moment. 020
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026YES, getting to see the synthesis is the coolest part! It's the part I miss about teaching. 070
Reposted by Mary Shurtz#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them. 383954770
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Also J is 58 and looking amazing, I would be so lucky to age like that 000
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This video helped me learn what LL Cool J stands for and I am so happy (I was reading more Clausewitz in college than I was listening to hip hop, never stood a chance at being cool) 130
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Also even the dumb angle they take isn't even true enough to be interesting! Comey reopened the email investigation ELEVEN DAYS before the 2016 election. 000
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I am deeply bothered by this horserace reporting/Poindexter presentation of the situation. As if this is something a little beyond the pale, slightly breaking norms during the midterms. There was a juicier, more factually accurate way to present this: a thuggish abuse of power and intimidation. 100
Reposted by Mary Shurtzmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy 482593352
Reposted by Mary ShurtzGeorgia O'Keeffe @gokeeffe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Dark Tree Trunks www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe… 051
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026My boyfriend is already a bit discomfited with how much I love old men, he isn't going to respond well when I inevitably send him this post as "food for thought" 000
Reposted by Mary Shurtzderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution 12394251749
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm struggling to find a full version of the essay online, do you have any recommendations on a good resource for this? Would love to read. 360
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My friend and I started doing the research for a podcast idea where we feature historical impeachments and then pretty quickly went "oh shit, these were all undemocratic seizures of power by white supremacists" 000
Reposted by Mary ShurtzJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying 182578294
Reposted by Mary ShurtzAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him 12706137
Reposted by Mary ShurtzNicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have staffers to know about sports and stuff so you don’t get embarrassed like this. The problem with hiring groypers is that all of their normal guy knowledge has been removed and replaced with theories about skull shapes. 534254
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This was the article I have needed, weaving the different threads of corruption + int'l bullying to show the full tapestry of chaos that has been wrought. There are legit criticisms of how the US has always exerted power to "protect US interests" abroad, but the unmasked graft + fascism is NEW. 000
Reposted by Mary ShurtzPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7779131410
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Absolutely sympathetic to this poor woman, she is in an impossible situation and is being held hostage by at least one bad-faith actor (I am sure many of those who are advocating for the immunocompromised are sincere) ...also the article is hilarious. Clown college. Agents of the state. Hachi machi 000
Reposted by Mary Shurtzex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"You're making fun of queer people" I think most people are pretty sympathetic to the queer woman living out of her truck, $50k in debt, abandoned by her business partners, who thinks she is obligated to sit through 3.5 hour accountability sessions for the crime of wanting to keep the business open. 201335165
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ok but can we talk about how badass that museum is? I have enthusiastically recommended it to so many people going to New Orleans that just want to know good places to party. 011
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Also giving Star Wars VHS box set vibes, pre-special edition 001
Reposted by Mary ShurtzKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Jeopardy! but it’s one of those sex thrillers from the ‘90s starring, like, Stephen Baldwin. 1603903188
Reposted by Mary ShurtzAmelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans” 5259201627
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Politicians should govern, and not just play to prevailing winds. It isn't hard: have principles, speak eloquently and persuasively to them, and show they actually fucking mean something to you. 000
Reposted by Mary Shurtzshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it is remarkable that this has happened despite a near-unanimous effort from mainstream politicians and news media to prevent it from happening. there's some hope there 273324652
Reposted by Mary ShurtzOzma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Don't forget to get a covid and flu vaccine! 218947
Reposted by Mary ShurtzMicah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is 313342660
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I absolutely agree, the Hague is honestly almost too kind. But I do think that this kind of study that asks people in a poll to give a percentage measurement mostly measures how bad people are at statistics. I *do* think he caught the thrust of trends so strong that there must be something there. 000
Reposted by Mary Shurtzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026God upon hearing this:static.klipy.comTalladega Nights: Don't Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby!ALT: Talladega Nights: Don't Put That Evil On Me, Ricky Bobby! 953342364
Reposted by Mary ShurtzMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Rupert Murdoch should be sent to the Hague 312021403
Reposted by Mary ShurtzJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit 7448741042
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is the hill I will die on. The state I grew up in (Utah) was/is an absolute haven for unregulated supplement and essential oils companies with outlandish health claim. Our decades-long senator Orrin Hatch bent over backwards to keep them unregulated. It's a fixable issue, regulate it! 010
Reposted by Mary ShurtzMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t. 1255629899
Reposted by Mary ShurtzNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think people catching measles then dying is bad, and that the govt should see zero measles deaths as the goal—like America had until recently—rather than see measles as a positive, culling the population of people with other health conditions. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel. 11714147
Reposted by Mary ShurtzJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/20261996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone 2244441179
Reposted by Mary ShurtzMatt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The xenomorph in Alien (1979). She is doing so well: feeding herself, growing, maturing, the perfect organism, her structural perfection matched only by her hostility; a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. And then Ripley just blows her ass out into space. 47712
Reposted by Mary ShurtzWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026When Hitler shoots Röhm it represents a meaningful authoritarian escalation, even though you can hardly be sad about Röhm being gone. 120023
Reposted by Mary ShurtzRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There'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. 14584482882
Reposted by Mary Shurtzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house 17257531332
Reposted by Mary ShurtzNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There will be many true and right words on her to come. Just wish I could read Kaleb’s. 1312
Reposted by Mary ShurtzRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026we lost an actual saint 252305324
Reposted by Mary ShurtzClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich 44603834