Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 319164204657
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text 191924497
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning 19195784342
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026A reminder that as you see photos of those Patriot Front douchebags today, they are marching on a holiday because none of them have anywhere else to be. None of them have friends or family who want them around on a holiday. No one is missing them today. They're already with their only friends. 323212666
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026 261431252
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves. 873354499540
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around? 2135446815
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026static.klipy.comMichael Che on SNL: That's Pretty RacistALT: Michael Che on SNL: That's Pretty Racist 29571721275
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/05/2026[once more, for good measure] Everybody thinks when he gets rich he’ll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there’s only one kind of rich person, and he’s it. —Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker 8566117
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2026"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."publicnotice.coJosh Marshall on how US democracy can be saved"You simply can’t do it with the filibuster and this Supreme Court in place." 563043958
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme: 39142433628
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It took the White House about 8 days to get to: actually high gas prices are awesome. 311602283
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/03/2026There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective. He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne. 1111147996284
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 07/03/2026The president and vice president should be impeached, convicted, and removed. 010112
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This is just evil -- State barring contractors from hiring the former USAID employees 525571
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026bsky.app/profile/carl... 694429777
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/02/2026a government for, by and of degenerates 16272061501
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I was thinking about how blunt he is, compared to the athletes who tried to be a little more gentle and still got attacked by the president for it. Might as well say what you mean. 446688
rjbennett.bsky.social @rjbennett.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The conservative CA/SF haters must be seething right now. TikTok is just absolutely flooded with wide-eyed visitors stumbling around absolutely gobsmacked by how fun and nice it is vs. what they've heard for so many years. Lotta propaganda money and effort going down the drain. 000
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite. 654050821
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman." 9474315612245
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I will never understand people who see this little girl who's only known America, screaming for a cat she'll never see, becoming ill, withdrawing, losing vision from accidentally(?) being hit in the face in DHS detention, and say "Good" that her life was destroyed I don't *want* to understand them 121674
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Pretti was not protesting, but the actual rule is "Don't bring a gun to a protest unless you're coming to shoot left wingers, then it's ok" 282044328
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/01/2026🤷🏼 1162333601
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAlan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo 192146343128
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.” 10155841790
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/01/2026looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit 11059541631
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?" 12830861029
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/01/2026i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop 19895341636
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect 12591572070
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it 180188334642
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/11/2025Major content warning for some of the commentary we found on Donahue's account. He's opposed to mixed race relationships and women voting, and he cheers on a gay bashing and makes a death threat against a drag queen. He's not a big poster, but follows exclusively far right influencers. 11462104
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/11/2025Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke... ... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos. 161747253
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Taibbi spent the better part of the 1990s in Moscow writing newspaper columns and then a book about how awesome it was bedding economically desperate Russian teen girls and harassing his paper's female staff. 326559
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/08/2025if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe 127123141992
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/07/2025for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them 631170893321
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025MAGA very pragmatic and low energy all of a sudden 1222133308
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Just as a practical matter, consider how unheard of it is to expand an already significant federal agency by 1,000% in two or three years. WW2 mobilization or the early 60s Moon race are the right sort of analogies 151013367
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialZito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/06/2025They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context. 202220425648
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/06/2025look who learned what 86 means 1076051898
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit 990312713248
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialNate Hashem @violetvelafiles.com · 08/06/2025Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86. 104114631909
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls. 525188073485
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025this is with no exaggeration a david duke line 30977941635
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025An apt demand from someone who I am pretty sure has never once soul searched abt a generations worth of fatuous columns 1802505227
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2025really bleak to pop on to the former twitter and see people i thought were reasonable palling around with race science maniacs 27411069819
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialAlex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r... 357314599904
Reposted by @rjbennett.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12/05/2025That repp tie is no accident: deputy Sec State welcoming white South African "refugees" in a tie *exactly* the colors of the old apartheid flag. 57645193
