Reposted by ThomasRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 3hThis is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens 1051870479
Reposted by ThomasDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 3hThis is the proper response & the energy Democrats need to matching. ICE is kidnapping, maiming, & killing people over administrative civil infractions. Like… Imagine getting gestapoed for expired tags on your car. This shit is unconscionable & ICE must be destroyed. Good on Mamdani for saying so. 120541
Reposted by ThomasDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5hThe last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comFort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. 49437160
Reposted by Thomase.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12hthe more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be 321658494
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 12h"A woman known only as Jane Doe 4 claimed in four FBI interviews after Epstein’s 2019 arrest that he had assaulted her during his visits to [Hilton Head] in the 80s, when she was still a teenager. She has also claimed [that Epstein] trafficked her to other men, including Donald Trump."theguardian.comBritish billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuserSir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, add to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s 000
Reposted by ThomasEvan @ereller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said 241808239
Reposted by ThomasCasey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Is (Jane Doe) for me, or are you keeping her for yourself,” asked an email sent to Jeffrey Epstein in May 2014. When DOJ released a trove of Epstein docs in January, the identify of the sender was redacted. The sender was Bard College President Leon Botstein. Nora Mishanec reports.timesunion.com‘Is (Jane Doe) for me’: DOJ, FBI urged to investigate Leon Botstein as potential Epstein co-conspiratorNewly reviewed Epstein files raise questions about the former Bard College president’s interactions with a young woman Epstein trafficked. 0101
Reposted by ThomasMel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I…got nothing. Feeling just wave after wave of absolute revulsion and white hot rage at the violence that poisons every centimeter of this cursed country 627845
Reposted by ThomasLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What we can understand about the global far-right through examining the state of Brazilian politics. buff.ly/qKUTpsmbuff.lyWhat Brazil’s Political Convulsions Reveal About the Global Far-RightIf there is one thing that the last decade ought to have taught us, it is that strong objective factors do not automatically translate into powerful movements, let alone into the spontaneous discov… 062
Reposted by ThomasLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 07/10/2026I found this video really moving, it reminded me of the many professors who put themselves in harm's way to protect their students during the encampments for Palestine, but I can't really think of an elected official here in the US doing the same 934449
Reposted by ThomasRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hilarious. Mike Rogers is now running against … Donald Trump. 60352191184
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"... through a series of by-now-unconscious reflexes engineered by large technology companies, this content just sort of *happens* to people, like a food-borne illness." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...nytimes.comSecret Billionaires, Mafia Brides, Alpha Kings: The Insane World of MicrodramasVertical soap operas for your phone have taken over film and TV production, and they may soon need no humans at all. 000
Reposted by ThomasRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted RanksThe civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said. 471191499
Reposted by ThomasAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots 372082577
Reposted by ThomasAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 1382214084986
Reposted by ThomasCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10... 1161528678
Reposted by ThomasChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war. 22746482122
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm really baffled (and repulsed) by the journalists and allegedly left-of-center pundit types who sprang into action today to spin up elaborate explanations for why the comments are less bad than they seem. What the fuck are we doing here? 240
Reposted by Thomasmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election) 412716722
Reposted by ThomasDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7938911129
Reposted by ThomasJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322939639
Reposted by ThomasAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east 141051234
Reposted by ThomasLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSAtheguardian.comAccept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam AltmanBoss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver 292084813
Reposted by ThomasRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797313028
Reposted by Thomasthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good. 411362195
Reposted by ThomasHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We need a lot more explicit talk from elected officials and others about how nobody should join the US military while Trump is in charge. Continued, zombie-like veneration of military service today is a danger to our democracy. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/friends-do...hamiltonnolan.comFriends Don’t Let Friends Join the MilitaryDonald Trump’s hired gun is a bad thing to be. 110917
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"'People become real to us by frustrating us,' psychoanalyst Adam Phillips once wrote. 'If they don’t frustrate us they are merely figures of fantasy.' A chatbot gives us what we want — or what we think we want. It isn’t programmed to challenge us the way humans invariably do. It aims to please.'"nytimes.comWhy Confiding Your Woes to a Robot Isn’t Going to HelpIn “Artificial Intimacy,” Sherry Turkle warns that we seek comfort from A.I. devices at the peril of our well-being and even our democracy. 000
Reposted by ThomasMark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026UN human rights chief @volker_turk says that the remains of what appeared to be entire families were being unearthed from sites in #Gaza destroyed during Israeli attacks, adding that many victims were women and children: www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...cbc.caUN rights chief says uncovered remains in Gaza raise concerns of war crimes | CBC NewsThe recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the war that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crime... 188
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be 'civil' — an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility" 020
Reposted by ThomasMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil. 22833169
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"This idea of a human merger with machines has been a motif in Musk’s intellectual life, which has remained in many ways (and with many terrible results) that of an arrogant and cloistered adolescent boy."nybooks.comSpace Oddity | Mark O’ConnellQuinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit. 0103
Reposted by ThomasDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184824883
Reposted by ThomasPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience. 311421260
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Above all, Trump learned one very big thing from [Roy] Cohn: that the veneer of morality in the American upper class is very thin. Cohn proved conclusively that there is no limit to its tolerance for corruption. Trump got that message—and so did Jeffrey Epstein."nybooks.comDevils in America | Fintan O’TooleToward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way, 011
Reposted by ThomasAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3 95157639
Reposted by ThomasAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“LMAO” zeteo.com/p/top-republ...zeteo.com📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a DudSwin’s conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again. 54969119
Reposted by ThomasJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853452189
Reposted by ThomasJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers. 101135178
Reposted by ThomasDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462219778
Reposted by ThomasMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media. 9734671081
Reposted by ThomasPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comThe Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly TooThe paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today. 421685446
Reposted by ThomasJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11646911166
Reposted by ThomasRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two YearsThe student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 534756
Reposted by ThomasCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571802058
Thomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Multiple websites?" You don't think Twitter plays a unique role, here? 020
Reposted by ThomasBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We need affordability. And also just a smidgen of serenity? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time. 1325453
Reposted by ThomasMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Actually you did vote for this, dipshit 681556163