soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 8hJohn Roberts' ruined Maine vacation is my new Spirit Animal 000
Reposted by soup loopCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026“Someday military academies will teach Trump’s Glorious Iran War as a case study in armed incompetence.” @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq... 611821527
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yeah, they're always slipping the newest country pop songs into the MF DOOM Pandora station, ya fuckin dummy 000
Reposted by soup loopNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this. 6724163
Reposted by soup loopWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/09/2026Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces 623441
Reposted by soup loopPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man 8475771751
Reposted by soup loopSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191043858
Reposted by soup looplauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud 351602402
Reposted by soup loopRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 19/09/2026Apparently I don’t know how to use this phrase. 5464
Reposted by soup loopRev. Raziel 🔞 @gayratpunk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024i quote "his work is agricultural / everything he makes, the lords tax it multiple" daily at this point 017452
Reposted by soup loopA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685332213
Reposted by soup loopChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’m really trying not to go for cheap heat on here but you can write off any politician that does not support trans rights without equivocating because it’s the morally correct thing to do and additionally because it means they’re not above selling anyone out. 71392215
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm not sure by what precise mechanism this happened, but prior to this week I thought Ed Sheeran was the actor from The Office who hit Dwight with his Prius. It was weird to me that so many people talk about him 'in the culture' but I never examined it. 🤷 000
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Its purpose is to rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate the technology." -Put a different way, this is a lobbying effort whose target is Democratic operatives, and whose goal is to prevent Dems from doing their job 000
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Excellent thread. It would be lovely if @nytimes.com and @theatlantic.com 's education correspondents would learn how to read so they can also read it! 010
Reposted by soup loopPenelope Wang @pennywriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Why does no one in power even pretend anymore to support a health care system with such humanity at its core? Instead, both political parties have protected a status quo utterly devoid of it, that routinely leaves patients to fight for their lives..." www.vanityfair.com/story/health...vanityfair.comMy Insurer Denied My Cancer Treatment—and My Humanity. So I Emailed the CEOAt 36, Elizabeth Nicholas was diagnosed with breast cancer. After her insurance company refused to pay for a new form of chemotherapy, she took a direct approach. As Luigi Mangione’s trial brings the ... 13012
Reposted by soup loopGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to loseautonomy.substack.comThis Is Not A Love SongExplaining the “maximalism” of trans rights 512030544
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This dude Paul is a walking advertisement for why developers need MORE liberal-arts education and he's too goddamn under-educated to see himself doing it. What a pity. 😐 161
Reposted by soup loopStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 09/09/2026 324843
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I would pay good money to see any number of left-of-center pundits chained to a chair and forced to address this point at length. Ezra Klein specifically is in the wilderness on this specific aspect of American politics, and it's infuriating. 000
Reposted by soup loopJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026She looks great. He looks like Bakersfield Philip Seymour Hoffman. 51315
Reposted by soup loopjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt 621983234
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Democrats keep deploying this strategy cycle after cycle, they lose every single time, then just do it all over again. This dumb bastard is going nowhere. 000
Reposted by soup loopJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah 263109576
Reposted by soup loopBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/09/2026Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and 692719520
Reposted by soup loopDarcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 01/09/2026As the academic year kicks off, I want to highlight an important issue that many folks, including some of my colleagues, are not aware of: the new earnings test imposed by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 611585
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We have a special term for Catholics who don't go to church and won't shut up about the end-times: PROTESTANTS. 020
Reposted by soup loopweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers. 65114852262
Reposted by soup loopMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I have to admire his ability, after all these years, to come up with a definition of "woke" that is even dumber and worse than anything that came before. 1131882113
Reposted by soup loop#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/08/2026Frank Lowenstein, senior envoy on Israel-Palestine under the Obama administration, conceded in an article today published in the New Yorker that the two-state paradigm is basically dead and has been for years, rendering the same old rhetoric about supporting a 2SS fantastical without policy changes.newyorker.comNew Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian StateThe breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant. 10760213
Reposted by soup loopHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We're in a time of historically _unprecedented_ federal corruption, with experts in fascism saying "this is fascism", with horrific cruelties daily, and it is INFORMATIVE to see who thinks that's a dealbreaker and who thinks well hang on here this is still a tougher choice than it looks. 130956
Reposted by soup loopAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:data4democracy.substack.comThe Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ SideThis is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so. 642207765
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Great going Democratic leadership: you've managed to negatively polarize me into liking Hasan Piker and his show is fucking annoying so THANKS 010
Reposted by soup loopAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/08/2026Every single Dem candidate should be forced to watch this interview with El-Sayed like Alex from a Clockwork Orange until they learn that this is how you push back on disingenuous attacks on trans people 452042432
Reposted by soup loopIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society. 1452965748
Reposted by soup loopmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way? 773079380
Reposted by soup loopNYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026NYT editors (and nepo baby owner) put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 Chief of Staff "tyrant" warning on page 12 While they put Claudine Gay in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" Chris Rufo openly bragged about it: 23712
Reposted by soup loopKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*. 4935121020
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 23/08/2026more people should be talking about the fact that being a transphobe is apparently terrible for your SKIN! My god! These bigots need some lotion STAT! 021
soup loop @semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Imagine being a middle-aged academic and publicly torching your own reputation for a Charles Murray acolyte...in the year 2026. If you've ever wondered what such a man would look like, it looks like that guy ⬇️ 010
Reposted by soup loope.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/08/2026how odd that our gilded age would also see a dramatic rise in racism and eugenics, what a strange coincidence 151662284
Reposted by soup loopPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism 7380481679