Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Screaming at the wall here but if a car company sold a car or a plumber provided plumbing services as bad as this the owners would go to prison 2264
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1260183525931
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialEishtmo @eishtmo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Impeach, Impoverish, Imprison. 0103
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460461059
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Grok, fight Claude. Battle until both of you are dead. Use vulgarity. 191226145
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialKip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 30/10/2024In 1916, cartoonist Rube Goldberg nailed it. Destructive jerks get space in our faces just because somebody thinks they have money. It's the ultimate punchline of the DFT years: They thought he had money. 27977252
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialBlue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Why doesn't he rely on in his body's natural defenses? 328563
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121475127
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141861728
rulpeterson.bsky.social @rulpeterson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Read the whole thread. I wish EMQ was our next governor. 012
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434439783
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialdonni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nice world you’ve got here. Be a shame if it was completely ruined by evil ghouls beyond your control 253094
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴 40896082817
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The asshole recently defeated mayor of Providence is furious about the rise of democratic socialism in the city and loathes rent control and gee whiz I wonder why..... www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...providencejournal.comSmiley lists carriage house for rent for $5,500 a month | ExclusiveMayor Smiley looks to rent his Providence guest house for $5,500, two weeks after losing reelection. 02310
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him. 15084101896
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026“Hey guys, we’ve got this cool new invention, nobody’s ever heard of it before, it’s called devaluing labor” 8373109
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors 81871401
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026 72752347
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026This merger strikes a chilling blow against that freedom — and hands even more power to billionaires like David Ellison to decide what Americans see and hear, all while lifting scrutiny off the federal leaders who pushed it through. 71701213
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got 31698211543
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I love good data visualizations 229260
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.social軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026like come on every other country can have female prime ministers and presidents I don't think the US is more sexist than 70s india and at one point it just comes off like you want to actively deflate any female presidential candidate's momentum 523422
rulpeterson.bsky.social @rulpeterson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026 To steal someone else's joke, "In America, the police defund YOU." 000
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote. 461367336
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 344705966
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...en.wikipedia.orgDunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia 10758356
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you. 342250374770
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026When you put your kid's name and image out in public, and for example include information about their educational achievements or taste in foods or whatever the fuck, you are making a decision that may follow them around for the rest of their lives -- including after you are dead Please have care 224535
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know it sounds bad that Gavin Newsom sold out California so Larry Ellison can buy about half of the entire American entertainment industry but to be fair to Newsom, half of that is actually going to be bought by Saudi Arabia 1514142
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them. 732117385
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is not great 61972701983
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol at all the people who've been going "Why isn't Dubya speaking out about Trump??" folks, he's committed to the same fucking project. 181062176
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026CNN could have prevented all of this by simply reporting the news 1455193
rulpeterson.bsky.social @rulpeterson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not the most eloquent way to phrase this, but fuck this fucking fuck. 130
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I know I’m screaming at a wall here but at some point Democrats need to understand they don’t look dignified and respectable preemptively saying they won’t impeach Trump. If he bulldozes the Kennedy Center or builds a tree fort over Arlington and they don’t it makes them look weak, not him. 14511
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A useful way to think about it is to imagine a republican candidate saying one thing that you liked, agreeing with you on exactly one issue. That would totally work, right? Donald Trump announces he’s for one thing you are also for and then you vote for him. See how stupid it sounds. 922840
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque. 5146041227
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies 22295398
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off. 552596992
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Every fucking day Trump or one of his weird rapists comes out and is like "we're putting sharks with lasers on their heads in the capital, to defend our country from the genders. This will double gas prices" And somehow the dems can't figure out how to counter it. Even a goddamn decade in. 432269
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit 212750523
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996981913
Reposted by @rulpeterson.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/09/2026in addition to devaluing one of the great human virtues, the premise isn’t even true! curiosity for its own sake, love of learning, wide reading and experience, these are super useful in the job market!! 1044151
