Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project. 41279307
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136412894
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 5435201808
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo... 223126755
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 23/07/2026say what you will about the internet, but it’s undeniably the best way to find new stupid stuff to be insane about every day 323218569
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialUndead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away 8394421864
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026win or lose, soccer is about engaging in open corruption 201436143
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/07/2026So, uh, just to be clear: birthright citizenship is for everyone, not just immigrants. It's just that most of us in the US haven't ever had to think about it in our own lives. Take it away, and what replaces it? 11547108
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 22/06/2026this was a minor point in my newsletter but I really need people to appreciate how slow and watered down privacy legislation has been going in comparison to age verification legislation and it’s entirely explained by the lobbying involved in each; tech corporations want the tracking 212959
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialmindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later" 3475262543
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The number of conservatives calling the compact Memphis-based TN-09 an "illegal racial gerrymander" has been insane. Whatever Alito wrote, the loud and clear signal was that even if Black people make up a majority of a coherent community, they aren't allowed to vote for their representation. 71014187
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The end goal of AI is not building god or whatever — or even building AI tools that even work. It's stuff this. A proprietary layer of automation that controls and surveils everything we do, owned by the wealthiest of society. They want to freeze the world as it is now and rule over it. 821454
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it. 8886401607
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The role "the Epstein files" have played on the public consciousness is to transform sexual abuse from a societal problem that we all have to collectively grapple with to a baroque conspiracy committed by faraway, unrelatable villains that you get to righteously fantasize violence against. 181203220
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time 63158963569
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialSen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 05/04/2026out of power, republicans spend every waking minute calling anodyne things impeachable and democrats can't make themselves regularly say the same about war crimes, self dealing or dementia 51711272
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object. 6265691939
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialwinter @winterk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026[US billionaire giving interview] the fellas and I have attained perfect existence as unthinking, unfeeling monsters driven by inhuman appetites. and what I can't understand is why the rest of you aren't more stoked. 2987328
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 03/03/2026we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping 10380251911
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialHappy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Josh Shapiro is a disgusting worm. Krasner’s opinion here should be the message of every elected democrat in the U.S. 332850624
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.social the ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 03/02/2026where are people getting the idea that its either "supporting trans rights" or "continuing democracy". what kind of democracy do they want to live in. where "politically inconvenient" groups get thrown to the wolves every two to four years? doesnt sound good to me. why would you want that 17693165
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations. 10154901223
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Congress is going to respond with some "sensitivity training" level bandaid solution. What needs to happen is for ICE to be removed from the Department of Homeland Security, sent back to the Justice Department and stripped of its national security mandate. Bare minimum. 471272160
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialDonald Audette Jubilee @officialjplosman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025There’s nobody in iran or china or north korea who intends more harm for the people who live in america than the people ruling america do. This is the stupidest most vapid most casually bloodthirsty clique of elites to ever exist and the world will be better for its demise 021749
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been. 382756661
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird 180344315287
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/09/2025surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity 13192262053
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months] 134019789
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff 5294601856
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 24/08/2025This is just straight up totalitarian. This demand that nobody ever say anything potentially alienating to Midwestern apes lest the fascist right might turn it into a political issue, is without realizing, the same thing the fascists are. A complete submission of civil society to the partisan agenda 591233200
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Criminalization as we know it originated primarily from fears of social disorder filtered through race, gender, class, etc.—not the need to prevent physical violence. Most crimes “on the books” have nothing to do w/physical violence. So when ppl want to go *beyond* the books, holy shit be worried. 12807167
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/08/2025the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal. 214136893249
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialsaint-timonious.bsky.social @saint-timonious.bsky.social · 05/08/2025MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...wbur.orgNot fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies. 181034411
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialIsabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” I wrote about the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan TPS holders losing legal status overnight as a result of the Trump administration's mass deportation push.motherjones.comTrump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumentedInside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history. 10968328
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign 6384211374
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/07/2025propaganda works. biden doing everything he was supposed to after helene didn't matter because biden's enemies controlled the information environment and spread lies about it instead. 222996590
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening 11249541535
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025It is trivially obvious that Elon wants to kill black people but nobody in the media has the guts to put two and two together. 311982537
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation 5853791392
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I think a lot of people's fears of urban life are fed by the luxury belief that violence is about stranger danger and dark alleyways when it's more often about family and poverty. Any woman could get on the rankest subway car at 1 a.m. and statistically be safer than they are at home 9585128
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states 168219325259
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary! 313129593320
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen. 8795587816977
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 08/06/2025an important thing to remember as The Cool Zone looms: the most egregious recent violent and militarized crackdown -- at places like UCLA and Columbia -- was done under democrats with the full support of democrats. they aint gonna help 182103481
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I really love the messaging of "do it you coward" when the hostage here is... the entire United States economy. I love when my opposition party's strongest plank is encouraging the senile lunatic to pull the trigger and destroy 350 million peoples' lives 319227
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialNight of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them. 5448611508
Reposted by @sneppy.bsky.socialStrait but not Narrows of Hormuz @spacefordogs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025The idea that the Culture War can be resolved is on its face absurd; the Culture War is entirely made up to be exploited by the GOP, it is not real, organic, natural, or popular. The only response is to reject its premises and cut off its tendrils 5515111
sneppy.bsky.social @sneppy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Would you rather see the face of god or the face of nanny from the muppet babies 020
