rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 11hISIS televised beheadings and millions watched. But it did more to mobilize global opinion against them than to inspire imitators - until Hegseth. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026These days whenever I hear a new artist who reminds me of an old musician I love, I wonder if it’s AI. Sigh. 010
Reposted by @rholmes99.bsky.socialMartin @ampule2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And the kids will be scarred for life🤬 59343
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’d be really surprised if the issue of Trump’s cognitive is news to anyone reading this thread - or any regular reader of the mainstream press. 001
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They lost me when they traded Mookie to pad their bottom line. 110
Reposted by @rholmes99.bsky.socialPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So I’ve been a lifelong Red Sox fan, but — like a lot of us — I never got over the Mookie Betts trade. My feelings about the team have been conflicted since then, and they haven’t given me much reason to come back.. firing Alex Cora and his whole staff hurt. (Even if the results were good.) 221404
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Otoh, it’s important that good reporting be confirmed and amplified by other media outlets. A problem with traditional media is the reluctance to recognize the scoops of their competitors. 110
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And Trump is undermining GOP messaging, cozying up to Mandami (who they planned to run against) and China, picking fights with Canada, the JFK Center and WH reporters, obsessing over vanity projects and grift. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Make it about kids, and people will listen: Keep AI out of schools. Don’t let chatbots befriend our children. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I like how smoothly you move from explaining all the terrible things Trump is doing to blaming the Democrats for it. 001
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Among the things Trump doesn’t understand: Nobody likes high oil prices - except for those who own lots of oil, which includes his donors. 110
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We had to have our parents’ mail forwarded to their accountant because it was causing such anxiety. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I served on newspaper editorial boards for 30 years and I’ve never heard of anyone getting paid for an endorsement, quietly or loudly. The one time a candidate told us his advertising depended on our endorsement, the publisher kicked him out. 110
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The difference between journalists and influencers: in mainstream journalism taking money from someone you’re writing about is a firing offense. For influencers it’s part of the business model. 001
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m here for the further humiliation of Scott Brown, who vied for the title of dumbest senator until Tommy Tuberville came along. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think a lot of people don’t understand the job of a legislative caucus leader. Holding the right views on a particular issue is the least of it. 2141
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Has anyone calculated the impact of the trade war on the price of a Ford F150? 011
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Also he just learned dumb is spelled with a “b.” 000
Reposted by @rholmes99.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.” 244358996
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026What’s weird to me is they always talk about trans women in women’s sports but never mention, and don’t bother banning, trans men in men’s sports. 001
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 29/07/2026One thing about covid has been obvious from the beginning: Some people cared about saving lives and some cared about scoring political points. It’s always been easy to tell them apart. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Just ban it. Put it on a bumper sticker: same product, same price. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Strategist brain: all politics is two-dimensional, laid out on a line running left and right, and all that matters is where you are placed on that line. Works for poli sci majors who never met a real voter. 110
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026People always think the world of their childhood is the way the world should be. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Canada should just say they’re deporting the smoke. 061
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I like Tom’s reasoning but I wonder if it wouldn’t put even more power into the hands of the donors. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 12/07/2026On social media, people who die were either 100% good or 100% evil. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Yes. Next, call for a ban on surveillance pricing. Same product, same price. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Alternatively we could call them all Democrats, either incumbents or challengers. Most labels do more to divide than clarify. 052
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026One reason people kept defending Platner, I think, was the smell of the RW vilification machine coming from his critics. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Nor do people need due process legalities before they decide to vote for someone they like despite the mistakes in his past. Nor do they need the approval of judgmental out-of-state pundits who never did anything they regret. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Don’t accept the premise that the DSA is a real thing that people are voting for. Democrats are Democrats and people vote for candidates, not ideology. 000
Reposted by @rholmes99.bsky.socialPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Would you like to listen to a good Presidential speech about America? Attend: In 2015, Rudy Giuliani, some time before he was disbarred, said, “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.” www.politico.com/story/2015/0...politico.comGiuliani: Obama doesn't love AmericaThe former New York mayor makes his remarks at a Scott Walker event. 109616
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The GOP/centrist Dem campaign to drive up Platner’s negatives is working as intended. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Give Chuck Schumer’s job to Elizabeth Warren. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Franken was run out of office for a tasteless joke or two. Isn’t that being held to a standard? 100
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 09/06/2026How he votes in the Senate is a whole lot more relevant to my life than his former tattoo. 120
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I’d rather see the campaign be about foreign policy than a stupid tattoo. 610
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I wouldn’t accuse Tom or any specific poster of being insincere, but it would be naive to assume political entities, foreign or domestic, aren’t fueling the discourse to boost Platner’s negatives. 010
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 08/06/2026For years it’s been widely believed that Trump agrees with the last person he talked to. In this case it was Netanyahu, who met with him in the WH situation room a few days before they started the war. 000
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Tbh I can’t tell who’s a bot and who’s not. But I get suspicious. Why do the anti-Platner posters never mention Mills or Costello, the other Dems on the ballot. Why do they never mention issues or talk about Maine? I’m sure some are motivated by deep upset over the tattoo but 🤷🏻. 130
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Nazism isn’t a tattoo. Why does no one care what he actually says and thinks today? 300
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I’m glad they actually show the tattoo. I was expecting a swastika, not something that looks like it came from a Grateful Dead album. 050
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 06/06/2026A lot of people are worried Platner will be another Fetterman. I worry he could be another Al Franken: a talented progressive run out of politics over mini-scandals about stuff he said or did long before he ran for office. 160
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 06/06/2026A lot of people are worried Platner will be another Fetterman. I worry he could be another Al Franken: a talented progressive run out of politics over mini-scandals about stuff he said or did long before he ran for office. 530
rholmes99.bsky.social @rholmes99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I’ve been struck by how similar the anti-Platner discourse seems to what we heard in the Bernie Bros’ attacks on Hillary. Interesting because ideology doesn’t seem to drive it. Makes me suspicious. 000
