Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens 1122264549
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved. 618116472032
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/202695% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts. 1572663430
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess. 612979615
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 02/07/2026If you want to make the world a better place, you (yes, you!) are going to need to sacrifice a little sometimes. You’re going to need to pay taxes, you’re going to need to turn the A/C down you’re going to need to be a little less comfortable sometimes. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you. 41003163
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD 4886402145
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues. 203136151791
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him 3354391197
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills” 4404125
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 22/05/2025if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn 13355941110
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions. 402087713
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025First of all, MAGA Murder Budget is great. Second, asking people which messages would be most persuasive to them is worse than useless. Human beings are terrible at reporting why they believe things! 913167456
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 02/05/2025NY Times: Our tips for fighting authoritarianism: 1) Acknowledge the authoritarians are popular with some 2) Many of the intentions they claim are good 3) Many of the goals they claim we can get behind 4) Some of the people they're killing are let's face it mad annoying 5) oops out of space 19989261
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/04/2025one of the things about Republicans is that they understand that attacking their enemies where they are strong is useful -- this was the premise behind the Swift Boat attacks!~ 14783120
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands. 721268185
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 08/04/2025a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy 13534220
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialIs This Hell? 🏳️🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Everyone who knows anything about the subject warned *at the time* that the US normalizing torture under the Bush/Cheney regime could only lead us into ever darker places 81293205
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025You have to understand that they hate you. Yes you, the educated liberal or leftist reading this on educated lib-left dot com. They took away AIDS medication from children for the specific purpose of making this video to trigger you. Triggering you is the goal and they will murder children to do it. 683362858
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary. 3252757110442
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialIsi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 22/03/2025So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour. 12498931721
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress. 6794984910880
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialJesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding. 326136162798
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialNatalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025always the same 216333
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame 25386871613
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/03/2025the shutdown he is crying about IS ALREADY HAPPENING and this is just voting to continue it bsky.app/profile/ryan... 424247
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialJason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13/03/202519-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined. 8966911509
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate. 34507811615085
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This is entirely indistinguishable from seeing a guy walking down the middle of the street in a full Klan robe and hood 14967211
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/02/2025what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored 391968249
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else. 773914907426468
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy." 613777801
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025a nice reminder to the press that there is nothing you can do to pacify these people or buy yourself leniency 817151672630
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all 700399798512
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 02/02/20252 months ago this is what elected officials from opposition parties in S Korea were doing in the middle of the night as their President attempted a coup. 193153857
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Twenty years later, Guantánamo is everywhere. The lawless and ongoing administration of the prison there has metastasized throughout U.S. legal and political culture and underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today. Baher Azmy, legal director at @ccrjustice.bsky.social:bostonreview.netTwenty Years Later, Guantánamo Is Everywhere - Boston ReviewThe lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today. 10389139
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialNicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era 318125964655
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2025megawealth is a curse! you become acutely aware of the needs you have that cannot be satisfied through material means AND you are socially ill-positioned to be in a place where you can experience authentic human connection because everyone around you has every incentive to lie to you! 234113531587
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity. 1591533278581
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/01/2025this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight 989341964630
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2024this is the clearest evidence possible that there is no way for harris to satisfy either the call for more media hits or the call for more details. the political press has its narrative and it is not going to budge for it, even if it has to make up a reason to dismiss actual engagement with media 2263656776
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/09/2024One of the two big political parties, the one that controls the courts, has People Who Call In Bomb Threats as a decent-sized and fast-growing part of its base. One of those things everyone kind of knows and just has to walk around knowing. 20640201
Reposted by @schananigans.bsky.social🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 07/08/2024you make one couchfucker joke after literal decades of being smeared as mass murdering pedophiles because you don't hate queer folks and the "respectable" press throws a conniption 14845171
