Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialColleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just a reminder that Talarico has Type 1 Diabetes. It makes having the flu a lot tougher. 1133
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialnancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s not your imagination, groceries ARE much more expensive 😡👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 23643451870
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026Perspective. 353124744292
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialRebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A piece I've been reporting for more than twenty years, I guess: www.thecut.com/article/glor...thecut.comGloria Steinem Loved WomenThe feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement. 1028972
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialForbes @forbes.com · 03/09/2026Steinem long argued that men becoming equal, nurturing parents is a cornerstone of achieving true gender equality. forbes.comFathers Should Raise Children ‘As Much As Women’: Gloria Steinem's Chat With Hillary ClintonSteinem long argued that men becoming equal, nurturing parents is a cornerstone of achieving true gender equality. 743303756
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐 768158235903
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager. 1051181263781
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴 900185917152
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialMonica @softtail65.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Time to pay up, bitch...🤷♀️ 327125512292
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.social🇨🇦 NanaGale in Alberta @nanagale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It’s illegal to as a Attorney General he is not supposed to engage in political activity. It’s a violation of the Hatch Act. 1669139115029
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required. 205101612136
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/08/2026TALARICO: What they're doing in TX is they're redrawing the lines in middle of the decade, which is unprecedented. It's like changing rules after halftime bc you're worried the other team is going to win. It's cheating CHARLAMAGNE: More politicians should say that T: That they're cheating? C: Yes 169103712896
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Of our 45 presidents , Donald Trump is responsible for 28 percent of the entire national debt. Our national US debt has reached a record high - $40 trillion dollars 691224530
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It isn’t foolproof of course, but one way to help prevent electing sexual predators is to stop electing so many men. 23850126
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is immediate impeachment-and-removal behavior for any other president and all involved cabinet secretaries (who, in any other administration, would have already resigned in disgrace) 19731223
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/07/2026It would be funny if, after a decade+ spent on The Process, the answer for the Sixers was "sign LeBron James" 242954
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Susan Collins voted for $70 billion in ICE funding just before an ICE agent gunned down a young immigrant father in Maine. Collins also voted against an amendment requiring bodycams. These votes will now be hung around her neck, Dems in the state tell me. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2133...newrepublic.comTrump Badly Screws Susan Collins as Maine ICE Death Takes Darker TurnCollins cast some recent votes that can help likely Democratic challenger Troy Jackson tie her to Trump and to ICE. And there’s evidence that both liberals and moderates will listen. 1082717861
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026i'll hazard a take on this: we shouldn't frame women outearning men as a problem the issue is that as earnings equalise, other ways of contributing to relationships (cleaning, care, planning) aren't 848174
rfc19129.bsky.social @rfc19129.bsky.social · 23/07/2026thank you for saying this. a lot of ignoramuses on here not willing or interested in putting in the actual work.its easy to criticize something you’ve never tried to even learn about.its july of an even year. go find the most swing house race near to you and volunteer.will be eye opening.about.it 010
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/07/2026This is not true. Every locality has a Democratic Party organization, with activities and regular meetings. You can go to them. You can participate. 1114718
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialCalmlyPanicking @calmlypanicking.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Please consider reposting this - this is the group of parasites that are still getting paid though McConnell hasn't been in the Senate in over a month. Very likely they are committing fraud by hiding his likely death from taxpayers. 410240
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialjjconn.bsky.social @jjconn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026this is super pissing off mcconnell's staff super pissing them off Terry Carmack Robert Steurer Melissa Bennett David Popp Dylan Vorbach super pissed 618875
rfc19129.bsky.social @rfc19129.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I would love to see a world where progressives win because of their bold ideas. i’m not with Yglesias but this thread ignores the impact of swing voters who have determined many elections particularly presidential ones. swing districts are not likely to vote in DSA candidates.magical thinking aside. 000
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialDavid Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The number of nominally Democratic commentators who want to effectively give the GOP another Senate vote -- who are *furious* at Beshear for NOT giving the GOP that vote -- bc something something "fighting" is mind-blowing. It is the apex of a truly toxic brainrot that is going to destroy us all. 421289211
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialPortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Again, and again, and again. No shit. Enabled and coddled from birth. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘White men get to fail’: Graham Platner collapse illuminates toxic double standard in US politicsExpectations that prioritize privileged identities keep women and people of color from even running for office 824193
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal. 276161154986
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialkottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers. 14751941917
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I like Mamdani. He seems to be doing a good job But FFS people, he’s not FDR, probably not even LaGuardia. He won a Dem primary vs a sex pest & a crook. And other than broad (even banal) lessons like “be a good communicator” or “build coalitions” he’s not a model for candidates in Trump+2 districts 3519338
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialMichael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It. 478174324911
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialRep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/07/2026You just voted to give these thugs another $70 Billion. You’re complicit in this and every other murder committed by Trump’s secret police. 15949521231
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026Bill Browder is definitely not a conspiracy theorist. He’s the man who wrote the Magnitsky Act. 91999343192
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.social@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 12/07/2026How’s about we talk about how Graham worked to strip women of their bodily autonomy & right to vote? Or let’s talk about how the man with no children demanded that families send their children to Iran to fight a war that Trump promised to never get us in to! Sorry, there’s no peace for the evil.static.klipy.comKiana Madeira as Moe Truax: Screw That GuyALT: Kiana Madeira as Moe Truax: Screw That Guy 20653220
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026@davewhamond.bsky.social 422111640
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialAl Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026There's some very weird, strange and dangerous sh*t going on in America. A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president. - Bruce Springsteen 16259104
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Alarms should be going off. 19305136
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 10/07/2026Expand and reform the Supreme Court. 29769942386
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialRick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) electionlawblog.org/?p=157199 501245632
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/07/2026this is one of the many small changes Trump is making in his attempt to manipulate the midterms 451384585
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Extremely telling detail from this WSJ piece about Platner's demise: "Women on the campaign told Platner he was being managed by advisers who treated them unfairly and didn’t value their ideas," with one telling him point-blank "Hey, you have a very sexist, misogynistic staff."wsj.comThe Red Flag That Led to Graham Platner’s Implosion Was Hiding in Plain SightMaine’s populist Senate candidate made a costly miscalculation when he doubled down on his troubled background. 1043529754
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Leaked video reveals Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton in London with his mistress on the 4th of July. 1231141359
rfc19129.bsky.social @rfc19129.bsky.social · 09/07/2026this! one almost sure fire way to not nominate a sex offender is to select a woman 1140
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialAdrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026i'm not gonna say my radar is perfect, but i flat-out assumed that Platner is a rapist from day 1. "former Marine", "former mercenary", "has Nazi tattoo", and "says gross things about women online" are all things which are, IN ADDITION TO being bad in themselves, also indicators of rapeyness tbh. 61015
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026So fucking selfish. Why would Platner want to burden the next candidate with the Accused Rapist Seal of Approval? 36213
Reposted by @rfc19129.bsky.socialRachel Hallie @dazedrachel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him 11052841021
