Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026it's really happening, isn't it www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di... 6611
Reposted by skogie.exeKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Nearly the entire media parroted Susan Collins' statement that she has a "Benign Essential Tremor." The correct medical term is "Essential Tremor" because it's not benign and coincides with higher rates of dementia www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-sus...kenklippenstein.comWhy Is Susan Collins Shaking?It’s not because of the major media coverage 47720139
Reposted by skogie.exeJules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Congressman Ro Khanna speaks my language. “The base wants fighters!”🔥 24536252
Reposted by skogie.exeNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The Artemis II mission seems good because it is. People seem excited by it because they are. It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding. One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic. 302816571
Reposted by skogie.exeMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/03/2026IT’S NO KINGS DAY! Show up. Speak out. Share photos of your signs and rallies across the country. Stay safe. Stand strong. March for our democracy. 48197692190
Reposted by skogie.exeRod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Surely not! Corruption in Trumpland?! 33184883369
Reposted by skogie.exePolitico @politico.com · 23/03/2026COLUMN: It’s not too early to start planning for the post-Trump Justice Department. DOJ alumni across the ideological spectrum have told our Ankush Khardori that they are ready and willing to come back to set things straight after Trump leaves office.politico.comPrepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJTrump has degraded the Justice Department. It’s not too early to think about reconstruction. 891087357
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Conservatives are using AI to obliterate entire fields of study in higher education and it’s like the 28th biggest story of the past year. badfaithtimes.com/bad-faith-an...badfaithtimes.comBad Faith And The Creation Of American Thought CrimeHigher education officials fell for the right's bad-faith bullshit. Now students are paying the price. 34915
Reposted by skogie.exeRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/03/2026Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/ 8251641001
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Permission from the highest office in the land to be your worst self is a powerful thing with enormous appeal, especially among men, who are raised to believe they should be able to act any way they want without consequence. 312525
Reposted by skogie.exeRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports 714458610
Reposted by skogie.exeGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act. 17356056917512
Reposted by skogie.exePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1 19679111383
Reposted by skogie.exeQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/08/2025Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship 981146026427
Reposted by skogie.exeMiles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today. 437378356746
Reposted by skogie.exeMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow. 295148534581
Reposted by skogie.exeShannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · 18/05/2025More and more, you are going to find yourself tricked by misleading headlines like this one. From the article itself: “Moore said he’s ready to engage in conversations about repairing the legacy of slavery now, and he doesn’t need to wait two years for the reparations commission to draft a study.” 15609198
Reposted by skogie.exeKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/04/2025this would be a great issue for the oversight committee to take up, but guess who its top democrat is 351647184
Reposted by skogie.exeElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society. 473127850
Reposted by skogie.exeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV. 1049537296534
Reposted by skogie.exeAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not? 28063501450
Reposted by skogie.exeGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen. 911293576696
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025It’s clear mainstream outlets are not really capable of explaining something this corrupt to the American public 720032
Reposted by skogie.exePatricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...washingtonpost.comAmid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiserPages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased. 1210760
Reposted by skogie.exeThe labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025My grandfather was a green card holder from when he arrived in the US in his 20s until he died in his 90s. Having a green card makes you a LEGAL resident of the US. The fact that he has disappeared should terrify you. And the fact that Columbia was complacent in his disappearance is grotesque 9625206
Reposted by skogie.exeFlying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Doge has itemized $10bn in savings; but all of those were revised down to $19m due to errors and now have been removed from the list. So essentially there are zero itemized savings from DOGE as of today. 581877522
Reposted by skogie.exeJennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · 28/02/2025While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough. 453105211591
Reposted by skogie.exeMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age. 229251426115
Reposted by skogie.exeJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025But our president believes that "the state" is inseparable from his person. So none of that counted. Trump demands gratitude *personally*, to *him*. And any gratitude expressed to America when Trump was not its supreme leader isn't just worthless—he sees it as a betrayal. 233225333
Reposted by skogie.exeJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025America is over. There is no coming back from this. If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for. The rest of the world has to move on from us. They now know that the American people can't be trusted. They're right. 2735762922
Reposted by skogie.exeJonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025That was the most shameful performance by any American president in a century. I want to fucking throw up. 21793771434
Reposted by skogie.exeShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2025ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs 177144263496
Reposted by skogie.exenickiwest @nickiwest.bsky.social · 21/02/2025If you're feeling overwhelmed by the current political situation, this is a must-read. 0394
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Who Musk is working for is a question I can’t consider for more than a moment without feeling nauseated 1127326
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025In light of the president and vice president being unable to respond with any kind of normal human sympathy for those who died in the plane crash, I am once again furious about Democrats ditching the "weird" attacks, messaging that would have easily won the election. 1125825
Reposted by skogie.exeKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2025U.S. intelligence issued a directive this month to expand its relationships with private corporations, even authorizing them to incur "risk" to do so:kenklippenstein.comBig Brother Becomes Little BrotherCorporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits 18714118
Reposted by skogie.exeKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Corporations are becoming more powerful than nation states, U.S. intelligence admitskenklippenstein.comBig Brother Becomes Little BrotherCorporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits 601786298
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Musk is the world’s preeminent threat to societal stability and won’t stop trying to destabilize democracies until someone stands up and says no more. 719724
Reposted by skogie.exeonion person @junlper.beer · 21/01/2025it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them 463244165194
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I didn’t realize something could still shock me 1729936
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Within a few days there will be an alternate story about Musk’s salute. We’ll be told it never happened, and if it did happen, it wasn’t what you thought it was. But you saw it with your own eyes. Gotta try to not be gaslighted on this one. 711016
Reposted by skogie.exeWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/01/2025low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’. 451134043156
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024You get the terrible feeling that people - particularly obscenely wealthy people - have to learn the lessons of the 1930s all over again. So it goes. 1453
skogie.exe @skogie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024@theneilbreen.bsky.social please how do I get a dvd box set? 100
Reposted by skogie.exeUnpaid Cat Maid @emeraldjaguar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. 71123204978
Reposted by skogie.exeKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The judge presiding over the Luigi Mangione case is married to a former Pfizer executive. More about the judge here:kenklippenstein.comLuigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare ExecutiveJudge overseeing case involving murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson owns millions in stock, including Pharma and healthcare, through husband 60289772846
Reposted by skogie.exeDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/10/2024Actually never mind. Biden needs to move on this tomorrow. This shit can’t stand. 1533