Reposted by James WellsMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much. 12967621259
Reposted by James WellsPhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I saw the headlines this poll got and figured there was a screw loose somewhere. Glad to see I was right. Don't simply believe polls you see! They are very easy to be used to mislead. 318958
Reposted by James WellsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there. 13144011099
Reposted by James WellsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes our "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in the history of the human race. 1/ 5301112
Reposted by James WellsSean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Don’t tell me I have no choice but to adapt to using AI. You don’t know how stubborn I am. My dad is 80 and has never had an email address. That’s the blood in my veins. 418523
Reposted by James WellsMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13/04/2026What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in 2386189887
Reposted by James WellsWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026We'll know for sure that the Pope is a registered Democrat if he hires 1000 new Swiss Guards and issues a series of tough-on-drugs edicts in response to the GOP criticism 1370386
Reposted by James WellsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again. 1256911921
Reposted by James Wellsmady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 09/04/2026I learned about the strait of hormuz in high school debate lmao 😭 the funny thing is, none of the arguments for or against war with Iran were any different back then. everything happened exactly as everyone with a brain has said it would for decades. 2473
Reposted by James WellsScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House. 18654352415
Reposted by James WellsShivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜 281458664
Reposted by James WellsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026If you're @raskin.house.gov, how tempting is it to do a press hit today where you tell Pam Bondi this isn't goodbye forever, it's just a farewell until he's running House Judiciary next year and has the chance to subpoena her himself 663284444
Reposted by James WellsRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/04/2026CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/ 454454877
Reposted by James WellsRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Really unusual. - NYT & BBC: US military struck sports hall/school in Lamerd, Iran with a new weapon never before used in war (the PrSM) - DoD: denies any US strike in Lamerd and claims video "does not show" that weapon - Then great @bellingcat.com's Trevor Ball refutes DoD claim about the video 15404171
Reposted by James WellsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong. 101502422
Reposted by James WellsEddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026It turns out that banks allowing him to walk away (really, how do you fail at a business where the house always wins) consequence free from multiple bankruptcies , taught the president that his failures are always someone else’s problem. 171089218
Reposted by James WellsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026every day coke and pepsi spend millions to tell us to buy sugar water but liberals dont think you have to ever sell things to people in politics. "everybody knows it" so you dont have to repeat. 23550133
Reposted by James WellsJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Sorry, I missed that, I was distracted reading Matthew 6:5. 1027146
Reposted by James WellsKevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Most of my followers already know this, but just in case: 1. The US is not providing any weapons to Ukraine. It is selling them to Europe, who gives them to Ukraine. Your tax money is not involved at all. 2. Ukraine is not using US-made weapons to hit russian infrastructure and afaik never has. 1029365
Reposted by James WellsStephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Today's inspirational message: 4937290
Reposted by James WellsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right 143127134010
Reposted by James Wellsyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/03/2026"everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about" isn't a reminder to be kind it's acknowledging a failure of military intelligence 2647170
Reposted by James WellsGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/03/2026www.bbc.com/news/article... 1089217048348
Reposted by James Wellsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2026one of my related hot takes is that we should ban news networks from real-time updates of results. they can report results when the votes are counted. 623122320
Reposted by James Wellsthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you" 2559041026
Reposted by James WellsHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I think people need to understand that when you're quibbling over Graham Platner, coming up with hypothetical scenarios where voting for him is a lesser evil, or worse, defending him outright, you're literally asking what level of Nazism is OK in American politics. The only answer is none. 331082306
Reposted by James WellsZach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Kat Abughazaleh used her campaign to try a lot of things that the party should been embracing a long time ago. The entire left coalition is better off because she ran. 9695331108
Reposted by James WellsChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises. 333109944506
Reposted by James WellsHoosier Homer is reading The Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026This is a bad article. It doesn't say who or where the steak and lobster was for, but slyly ties it to a piano purchase for the Air Force CoS home. Making it out to be corrupt purchase for WPs personal enjoyment. Most likely that was regular purchasing for food stuffs for the troopz. 913721
Reposted by James WellsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026"we are announcing today our new investments in green energy, providing a solid foundation for the future in which massive reductions in pollutants are the norm" vs "BOOM: Green tech wizards just saved THE FUTURE" ill take the second one every day 3413
Reposted by James Wellsutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18/10/2024i think social media is largely a dead idea and we’re playing around in the wake of a dead whale. Basically, you need to be bullish on an open society and there’s basically no positive model for that in the near term future and this includes the happy path. 2497
Reposted by James WellsAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright 73119753454
Reposted by James WellsTavis @itstavis.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I want them in front of a camera and a microphone every day to express outrage and explain to checked-out Americans what is going on, and why they should also be outraged. They should contextualize all these crimes and atrocities, and tell people what they can do. I want my leaders to LEAD. 1218028
Reposted by James WellsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/02/2026... all to solve a problem (voter fraud by impersonation) that for all practical purposes DOES NOT EXIST. The rates are low enough to be virtually unmeasurable and as far as I know have never affected a US election outcome. 943235
Reposted by James WellsIt's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 15/02/2026It would solve so many problems if we stopped Stephen Miller. Like just tell him gay women of color are outside enjoying wealth & freedoms & when he goes to get em, trap his ass in a cable snare 1230645
Reposted by James WellsMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Kristi Noem: "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the security blanket of the very freedom that I travel with and then questions the manner in which I travel with it." 2443359
Reposted by James WellsThomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome. 913188436202
Reposted by James WellsPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 21/01/2026If Europe found a way for him to save face and move on, great. But Carney's speech was still spoken and was still true. The bell has rung. 50366741190
Reposted by James WellsBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?” 1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore. 2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions. 3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day. 3859931665
Reposted by James WellsChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Nevertheless, the Department of Defense and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts persisted. 1249475
Reposted by James WellsBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/11/2025As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.nytimes.comViola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 487286096699
Reposted by James WellsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it. 873528363
Reposted by James WellsAer @megalemeter.bsky.social · 11/11/2025So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go Thx @ishki1.bsky.social 1334
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