Reposted by TimCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 19hthe Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 743634901
Reposted by TimCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10hI find it interesting that both of the baseball players Donald Trump has advocated for and/or honored this year – Roger Clemens and Pete Rose – were involved in the exploitation of girls who were no older than 15 at the time. What a weird coincidence. 6573121
Reposted by Tim☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10hi do feel like trump saying he doesnt care if they nuke california is somthing i've heard expressed in spirit by basically every republican ive spoken with for any length of time. california and new york arent america is just a stated and unstated background belief my entire life 1831842
Reposted by TimBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18hI don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom 312520329
Reposted by TimPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11hI have a chapter about the regulation of misinformation in a forthcoming book. The big question, unanswerable, is what to do when governments and social media companies both use and support misinformation as part of their very essence. 212445
Reposted by TimMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well 242057314
Reposted by TimThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Radio silence from all the right wing pundits who mainstreamed this man's abhorrent brand because he said the word "masculinity" enough times to warrant attention 19583106
Reposted by TimMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the newsphoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 1958301836
Reposted by TimClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners! 3716145
Reposted by TimSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 3443941450
Reposted by TimLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Setting aside that Of Course he is an obvious Republican, to the extent that he looks like the living embodiment of Manifest Destiny ‘Staying Quiet’ is & should be treated as adopting a firm political position. One of tacit acceptance of violence & oppression It’s not neutrality, you chose a side. 791171223
Reposted by TimMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 17142371606
Reposted by TimTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 07/10/2026As its election prospects darken, the Trump administration continues to pull levers and push buttons to try to abuse the power of the federal government to swing the election its way.talkingpointsmemo.comDesperate GOP Scrambles to Defend Once-Solid Red SeatsWorse Than 2006? Republican political consultants are practically falling over each other... 14924
Reposted by TimMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You could have covered & not stopped covering "we will invade our NATO allies" as a presidency-ending scandal. You could have covered & not stopped covering the open monetization of the presidency as an outrageous presidency-ending scandal. See also: all the rest. You decide this all the time: 217629
Reposted by TimMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.nytimes.comAn Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 12495101
Reposted by TimMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The option of not moving on from "this is an illegal, unconstitutional outrage that should end his presidency immediately" was available to Peter Baker & every other journalist in the country, not only in 2019, but still in 2026.publicnotice.co“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase. 334092
Reposted by TimCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"God dammit, Merrill." Pat Murphy is a national treasure and having him mic'd up for this catch was amazing. 6462105
Reposted by TimKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/10/2026over at the newsletter I wrote about the useful bogeyman that is "polarization":karlbode.comThe Problem Is Right Wing Extremism, Not 'Polarization'Ambiguous media whining about "polarization" or "partisan tribalism" redirects attention away from the real cause of modern U.S. division: violent right wing extremism. 11543150
Reposted by TimAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026New in PN: “Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire "Leading this project of ruthless mapping will be 'three of our nation’s best minds:' Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. In other words — at the risk of being unkind — a weirdo, a beardo, and a fatty."publicnotice.co“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satireElon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD. 1241905538
Reposted by TimMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026please give me the democratic party of republican fearmongering, part one million 181687194
Reposted by TimSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/10/2026I am downright sick of this President attacking the millions of patriotic Americans who live in "blue" states and cities. We are ALL Americans and this type of rhetoric is divisive and sickening. What a disgrace. 1041354257
Reposted by Timshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏 461926437
Reposted by TimElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comMy Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent WorksI tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way. 7390109
Reposted by TimMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes 14824142
Reposted by TimElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56119843560
Reposted by TimSteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber." 171991328
Reposted by TimMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it 491867394
Reposted by TimDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7938761126
Reposted by Timmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former 423358711
Reposted by TimCornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026I know everybody is outraged about the Cornell case, but this rape at LSU isn’t getting the same attention it deserves. And the school did find the student guilty of forcible rape. youtu.be/SI35s6GKbL0?...youtu.beEXCLUSIVE: LSU student says university failed her after Title IX finding in alleged sexual assaul...YouTube video by WAFB 6370231
Reposted by TimCK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Y’all, Catholics don’t applaud in church. Ever. This is a thing. You don’t have to like the church or organized religion. You do need to understand that up until the 90s and the US church pivot to abortion as a primary issue, the Catholic Church has long been a powerhouse in immigrant communities 426557
Reposted by TimProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9359713416
Reposted by Timelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026watch til the end and think about what this joke on this show at this time says about what social norms used to be when someone openly said nazi shit. 4478115
Reposted by TimChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 24736173
Tim @sixfootinshoes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026KD is such a bum. Always has been, always will be. Incredible basketball player, but an off the court bum. 000
Reposted by TimDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184764883
Reposted by Timgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 02/10/2026DeShaun Watson had one good game and the whole NFL media apparatus is doing sexual assault apologia 1830041
Reposted by TimMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20462982896
Reposted by TimAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru... 382253484
Reposted by TimMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5buff.ly“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen... 11655246
Reposted by TimHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all. 202205481