Reposted by Shane RitzAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism 2861265356038
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 13/04/2026Attacking the Pope for being soft on crime is an objectively hilarious thing to do. It's the type of thing you would do if you became President in a videogame, because you just wanted to see what would happen. 010
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 23/03/2026If Trump just comes out every day and says he is closer to a deal with Iran, then we can get the DOW to 60,000 and oil near $0. 030
Reposted by Shane RitzMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 08/01/2026The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show.bit.lyICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis is identifiedJonathan Ross, a Minnesota-based agent, was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing motorist. 202873429
Reposted by Shane RitzKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15898643021168
Reposted by Shane RitzAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/12/2025I'm looking forward to 2029 when we remove and destroy every aspect of Trump's name on federal property like US forces taking down everything with Saddam Hussein on it. That's the bare minimum any Dem should do. Leave no trace of his existence. 621500282
Reposted by Shane RitzTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map. This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026. The vote failed big, 19/31. The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it! 305111882085
Reposted by Shane RitzChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious. Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.” “That sounds terrible.” “What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?” 1072273909
Reposted by Shane RitzThe Book Radar @thebookradar.com · 04/10/2025Large language models steal from authors in order to produce content. So we have a simple pledge: No generative AI features. 163
Reposted by Shane RitzMatt Goldberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture. 592863606
Reposted by Shane Ritzmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/09/2025The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it 6248211366
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 13/09/2025Culture Warlords is exceptional. After you read this, you should also read Wild Faith. 010
Reposted by Shane RitzAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2025congrats to pizzagate for making the main epstein guy president 5475531193
Reposted by Shane RitzDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2025What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker 11868631124
Reposted by Shane RitzBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses. 173145662505
Reposted by Shane RitzNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/06/2025If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them. 1895242069
Reposted by Shane RitzAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice. 1051409695428
Reposted by Shane RitzOrli Matlow @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Trump vs. Musk is Drake vs. Kendrick with two Drakes 12463103
Reposted by Shane RitzRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/05/2025"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants 18394571444
Reposted by Shane RitzAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 05/05/2025It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.nobody-wants-this.ghost.ioYes, What We Pay Teachers MattersPaying teachers well is an essential part of a healthier public education system 281887547
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 28/04/2025This is good stuff, but PLEASE at least call out Schumer by name. The man has to go. It is incredibly damaging to have him be the face of the Democratic Party and there are so many better options for the job in the senate. 010
Reposted by Shane RitzTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16/04/2025for more on why attitudes towards children form the nucleus of US authoritarianism check out my book bookshop.org/p/books/wild...bookshop.orgWild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over AmericaHow the Christian Right Is Taking Over America 113919
Reposted by Shane RitzAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025We're literally doing the meme. 140663
Reposted by Shane RitzDavid Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025New approval polls note that Trump has “bottomed out” at 43%. We should be shocked it’s that high, not that low. If 43% of Americans watched their house burn down and still said the arsonist is doing a great job, we’d call that a cult. 48919101
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 26/03/2025We need one of those breathalyzer car ignition interlocks that habitual drunk drivers get, but for Pete Hegseth to unlock his phone. 022
Reposted by Shane RitzBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Posting fed his need for attention but also trapped him in a loop that accelerated his derangement and exposed his ignorance and naivete. It's crazy to have a diagram of your descent into madness 555069735
Reposted by Shane RitzAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason. 491713103924238
Reposted by Shane RitzAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/03/2025democrats i swear to god if you back away from a fight where you have the moral high ground against a political opponent with tanking approval numbers that the entire country is mad at right now, i swear to GOD yall i freaking swear 764070745
Reposted by Shane RitzErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/03/2025Tesla down 15%. Now is the time to double down on protests. The far right showed what they can do with Bud Light. Let those who support LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, government workers, and diversity show what we can do with Tesla. Those driving Teslas should be seen as collaborators. 652812428
Reposted by Shane RitzGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025That is an insane summary of his actions which, to date, have included coercing doctors to drop their trans patients, confiscating our passports, censoring any mention of us across the federal government, purging us from the Defense Department, and forcing trans women into men's prisons 231254295
Reposted by Shane RitzAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/02/2025the stock market has gone woke 717716
Reposted by Shane RitzAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/02/2025This fake Catholic wants to talk down to the Pope for speaking of the values of Christ in protecting immigrants. He doesn't actually follow the faith, he just wants to use it as an excuse for his white supremacy and cruelty. The American strain of conservative Catholicism is a cancer on the faith. 1372225303
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 05/02/2025I replaced my NYT subscription with a @wired.com subscription. 010
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 05/02/2025Is there an obscure Senate rule that says there must always be at least 1 terrible Democratic senator? We got rid of Manchin and Sinema, and now Fetterman sucks. 210
Reposted by Shane RitzTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 04/02/2025im not even exaggerating when i tell you i truly do believe my book does a lot to clarify the social agenda, motivations and vast goals of a big swathe of the current admin's people, and their lawlessness. (they see themselves as answering to god's law, not man's.) 291236271
Reposted by Shane Ritzonion person @junlper.beer · 03/02/2025i recently did the same, they wrote an incredible story detailing the staff elon musk unleashed plundering the government, it’s important to support actual journalism when the mainstream media fails us. their subscription is only $5 right now for a year, too! 232778478
Reposted by Shane RitzBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now. 621286144649
Reposted by Shane Ritzmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Quoting anything Trump's white house says without independently verifying it is Printing Lies in the Newspaper. Don't print lies in the newspaper. 1154790
Reposted by Shane Ritzonion person @junlper.beer · 29/01/2025it’s astonishing that trumps gambit here seems to be “we are going to creative a self inflicted new wave of unemployment” 28130680
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 29/01/2025Does RFK Jr's brain worm get its own confirmation hearing, or do they do both at the same time? 001
Reposted by Shane RitzKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted 682350220
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 20/01/2025Elon Musk's Nazi salute looks terrible, but the thing I wish we would acknowledge is that he is just truly stupid. A complete, unthinking imbecile. He wildly made this gesture at a presidential inauguration because he only has a rudimentary ability to think. 010
Reposted by Shane RitzDavid Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025A friend just texted that Whole Foods now has eggs for $0.25 per dozen. HE DID IT in just two minutes! 6774636
Reposted by Shane RitzPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025this sort of naked cynicism is jarring, but you’re going to see more of it because this is how kleptocracy works. it makes groveling and sycophancy the rational choice, because it will very often be rewarded. 323990890
Reposted by Shane RitzChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill. 25585576719298
Shane Ritz @shaneritz.com · 17/12/2024Congratulations to the new ranking member of the House Oversight committee. 140
