Reposted by wagsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15hThe more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.) 992796587
Reposted by wagsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17hThe targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda 684323919
Reposted by wagsHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach. 141238364
Reposted by wagsMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October. 28428811606
Reposted by wagsvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here. 3659411505
Reposted by wagsT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great 111008339
Reposted by wagsJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 147146246301
Reposted by wagsChicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 09/10/2026The Trump administration is denying federal disaster assistance to Illinois for the state's summer storm recovery efforts, according to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office.chicago.suntimes.comTrump denies Illinois disaster relief request for summer storms 42616
Reposted by wagsA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission. 11149841481
Reposted by wagsMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114952668
Reposted by wagsJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people. 8645551077
Reposted by wagsMr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴☠️ @mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Let's celebrate the 25th anniversary of the GOAT sell-side research report! 17024
Reposted by wagsRosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh, the Archdiocese of St Louis is *mad*, mad, I see. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukArchdiocese sues US government over denied Catholic sacraments for ICE detaineesAccording to the website of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, religious figures may visit detainees at any time after giving notice to the sheriff’s office. The lawsuit contends that ICE is failing... 11691145
Reposted by wagsEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 18167371963
Reposted by wagsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8536911441
Reposted by wagsMichael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.) 1981867710
Reposted by wagsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 843494630
Reposted by wagsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts: 17473011512
Reposted by wagsDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A disqualified insurrectionist is in the White House, he's stolen the power of the purse, he's packed the courts, blew up the White House, engaged in a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing, and graft that would make Warren G. Harding blush. We're so far beyond "but the polls? The procedure??" 316126
Reposted by wagsSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end 892064368
Reposted by wagsGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This one deal represents more corruption than every other Presidential Administration combined. 316567
Reposted by wagsW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.hollywoodreporter.comMichael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio. 28869354
Reposted by wagsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US historyesquire.comA Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity. 321269374
Reposted by wagsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.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... 25561451143
Reposted by wagsMatthew 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. 20563212912
Reposted by wagsRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks. 60776672287
Reposted by wagsJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853502189
Reposted by wagsSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The new Supreme Court structure is it's a set of randomly selected circuit court judges every term, with justices chosen from one of the eligible 25 circuit courts. There's also a 26th circuit court covering the US Minor Outlying Islands comprising 6 justices from the old Supreme Court. 2111
Reposted by wagsLis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel? 3065321755
Reposted by wagsMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...newsweek.comMap shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms 8051091011
Reposted by wagsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits) 3551260
Reposted by wagsLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."welcometohellworld.comWaiting for the next Mr. DeathI don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured 333679
Reposted by wagsDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 351958400
Reposted by wagsDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh, that kind of Christianity 60775146
Reposted by wagsCarolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos" 923398529
Reposted by wagssouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again) 13754199
Reposted by wagsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms 9899253
Reposted by wagsthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dred Scott II if this holds in precedent. 28614
Reposted by wagsCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social 161205312
Reposted by wagsDouglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight 17124622612
Reposted by wagsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 693279559556
Reposted by wagsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 345125004633
Reposted by wagsnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 6453612147
Reposted by wagsDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is no "Democratic Party division." There is Ryan Grim, Matt Stoller, and a bunch of apologist dead-enders trying to undermine Jackson for the crime of having decided that Platner was not fit to be the nominee. The Democratic Party is united behind Troy Jackson. 2053194
Reposted by wagsJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026Wishing the diamond cartel a very pleasant fuck you youtu.be/xrg6QCGzQGcyoutu.beWhy Diamond Prices Are Falling So FastYouTube video by CNBC 591327117
Reposted by wagsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942826463