Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17/04/2026I’m old enough to remember when NPR did their annual recitation of the Declaration of Independence in 2017 and a bunch of Trump voters called it anti-Trump propaganda because we live in hell 121015171 1K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/04/2026The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 453324716 3.3K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialMilan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I'm trying to understand the mental gymnastics required to get to "we must support the Nazi tattoo guy who has never held public office because of electability." 1324 32
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution. 841284596152 28.5K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...npr.orgJustice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to TrumpAn NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. 12249862424 5K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialLisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social · 23/02/2026From now on, we call it "hockey" and "men's hockey." 12850174 850
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialfeminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026No one’s missing mother is more important than another, and so a week later the FBI is predictably nowhere on this. The USA is a cruel, exploitative, lawless place; cruel, exploitative, lawless things happen here. Safety is defined by your alignment with power and your ability to make it rich. 414031 140
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/02/2026 3530501365 3.1K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAmir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I call my senators / congresswoman often. It's my duty, and it's not difficult *at all*. What's actually difficult about it is pushing through my resentment. These are folks I pay *really well* to be decent. And I resent having to PLEAD with them to do be decent. It makes me feel crazy. 143174754 3.2K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/01/2026He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 7508161 508
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 23/01/2026the incredulous "this is bullshit, are you fucking kidding" tone here is a sign that you have turned someone into a lifelong radical against you and people like you this is a stupid tactic used by stupid people who don't have any other ideas 324173864 4.2K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Trump didn't start the attack on int'l order, but he dealt mortal blows. Not dominos falling but smashing the domino table. With the US not just unwilling but unable to underwrite any order, it's Trumpian anarchy. 6/ @sdhyde.bsky.social @iojournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgThe Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership | International Organization | Cambridge CoreThe Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership - Volume 79 Issue S1 434176 341
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate. 360197464396 19.7K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/11/2025it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work. 211142199 1.1K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done. 106139273729 13.9K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025it's almost like the production of knowledge is tangled up in questions of power 1327 32
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialBrian Moakley @jezner.com · 10/11/2025Today, it's "we are a minority party". Tomorrow it's "we may be a majority, but we need 60 votes to pass legislation". The next day is "we have 60, but we are a big tent and have broad views". 131 3
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialKyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 08/11/2025 59113422897 11.3K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialN. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025😂 352036258 2K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not 484001701 4K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialLAL @lindli.bsky.social · 05/11/2025lol. one of my favorite details of nk jemisen’s excellent “the city we became” is that staten island refuses to join the other boroughs to save nyc, so they get jersey city to join instead 3286 28
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialDaniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I understand this in large part because of @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The City We Became. 29311 93
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not. 754283156422 28.3K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 01/02/2025so like who HAD the bright idea to drain the lakes that'll prevent SoCal droughts this summer, to flood SoCal plains and fields and homes right now, who suggested that, what were their motivations? 1143 14
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/11/2024one way to think about the dems in the last 8 years is that they wanted all the electoral benefits of being a popular front against authoritarianism but none of the substantive commitments 171397207 1.4K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025Remembering for no reason that what broke phil connors out of his nightmare loop of death and grinding, soul crushingly banal repetition was working to become a person who cared very deeply about and very carefully for the people around him. Just a thought, now that it's Groundhog Day. Again. 125897 258
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialSalena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this. 303156713330 15.7K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp 198105462842 10.5K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025If you’re a Democratic lawmaker wondering why so many of us are frustrated with your messaging and wondering what it is we want, check out Justin Trudeau’s response to Trump’s tariffs and please take notes. 703876730 3.9K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025this is exactly it. i wrote something similar not long ago 926059909 6.1K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee. 121100062105 10K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing. 15056491650 5.6K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/02/2025cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says 1206468296506 46.8K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialJonathan Laxton, MD, FRCPC @drjonl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he... 12637011485 3.7K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO 413414529924032 145.3K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again! 13485820326192 58.2K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialRumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/ 511828510 1.8K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2025we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood. 1637538137761 53.8K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay 5390592583 9.1K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Hey I don’t know what Democratic Senator of mine named Tim Kaine needs to hear this, but none of you need to be voting for a single one of these cabinet picks to be confirmed! There is no benefit to be gained! 261144136 1.1K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2025very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman 1905607188191 60.7K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025If you say we abandon red states, you kill a lot of dear friends of mine so fuck right off with that. We don't leave gerrymandered, vulnerable, decent people behind because of a zip code, you sanctimonious dicks. 832701581 2.7K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/01/2025this is the key thing about the constitution, the very most fundamental thing. it wasn't given into the hands of nine priests in black robes. it wasn't given into the hands of lawyers as a class. *it was not given into the hands of congress as a body* it was given into the hands of we the americans 616123 161
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/01/2025no offense to my lawyer friends but this to me has always been the danger of letting lawyers claim the constitution for themselves. "ah but if we define this word that way and refer to this precedent here then it could mean this instead." yeah, it could. but it doesn't! 423315227 3.3K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground. 419814958119205 149.6K
Reposted by @runningbird99.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/01/2025We, the people, are the goddamn rule book. We always have been. And if we stick to it, instead of giving up, we will prevail. 641571 415
runningbird99.bsky.social @runningbird99.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This whole thread is amazing. I love Bluesky 030 3
