Reposted by Solomon GranorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h"This raises questions" is just a paraphrase of Susan Collins' "this is concerning" and just as meaningless. 13112282
Reposted by Solomon GranorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Any Democrat announcing pre-emptively that they won't impeach Trump is not just failing to fulfill their constitutional duties, they're signaling to Trump that he can ramp up the abuses because they're not going to hold him accountable. Nope. 372201449
Reposted by Solomon GranorDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid 392497728
Reposted by Solomon Granorgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained 232414457
Reposted by Solomon GranorDave 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. 8039111132
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Seriously, why is Paxton running ads in New York, LA, Chicago, and Philly? At the same time the Texas teams are playing each other? 100
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.static.klipy.comWalter Koenig Bester That Happens SometimesAlt: Walter Koenig as Bester in Babylon 5 saying “That happens sometimes” 000
Reposted by Solomon GranorWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103714406
Reposted by Solomon Granorjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113062110
Reposted by Solomon Granorjadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is incidentally part of the reason i consider "vote blue no matter who to fight fascism" to be a hypothesis that was disproven by the biden admin + the last 2 years of non-resistance 021
Reposted by Solomon GranorMoxie Meow @moxiemeow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A small but growing group of Democrats think that trans people will accept being excluded from sports, healthcare, and now bathrooms (Mary Peltola, D-AK) as a "compromise" on the "excesses" of wokeness. We will not. We will not accept our human rights being taken away. bsky.app/profile/pers... 4175
Reposted by Solomon GranorDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 162169344738
Reposted by Solomon GranorNome @nome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you're not starting from the position that civil rights are inviolable, as a baseline, In what way are you avoiding fascism? If *anyone* can be un-personed, everyone can. That's it. That's the ballgame. 231188
Reposted by Solomon GranorAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth 11778813675
Reposted by Solomon GranorJennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you see a trans person mad that a democrat is loudly giving away their rights for no reason, the person to yell at is the democrat. If you need them to win, tell them they need to support trans people. 1219
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I spent several summers in high school volunteering at the Academy. I’m glad to see other folks who care about it enough to not take the closure lying down. 010
Reposted by Solomon GranorOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026just talk about musk the way republicans would if he was a democrat a bigoted antisemitic weird foreign billionaire with a weird breeding fetish and a nazi pedo chatbot is funding the republican party. if republicans don't denounce, we know they are pro-nazi pedo bot and the voters should know. 191047305
Reposted by Solomon GranorFree DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Earlier today a community member sent this photo of a flier posted near the Dunn Loring metro station promising a “Path to Citizenship” for people who join the National Guard. It's written mostly in Spanish. This is dangerous and we encourage people to stay away from it for several reasons 🧵 14531
Reposted by Solomon GranorNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The natural response to this should be DC statehood. 839159
Reposted by Solomon GranorDawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership 20385002229
Reposted by Solomon GranorDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Anyone who uses spellcheck or spam filtering has enjoyed machine learning. We're not angry at that! We're angry at AI now that it's ruined Google, fakes the images we see, generates garbage we have to swim through, makes people crazy, and is used as an excuse to fire us! THAT is what AI means now. 1035177
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Seems like a good time to remind folks of Frank Wilhoit (not that Frank Wilhoit)’s definition of conservatism: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” 001
Reposted by Solomon GranorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Their best defense against the growing challenge from the left would be simply to meet the moment and act more aggressively against Trump. If they just did that, half the energy behind DSA challenges would dissipate and they'd be safe. But no, they'd rather punch left in a panic. 663050542
Reposted by Solomon GranorEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period. 106138725604
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The human being in me is horrified by the human toll of Musk’s callous interference. The former physics teacher in me is kind of distracted by the nonsense of using seven significant figures for numbers with a 40% uncertainty. 010
Reposted by Solomon GranorJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider. 42130152197
Reposted by Solomon GranorJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance. 182673975
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is reminding me of my long-standing frustration at how hard it can be to get other emergency services without the police showing up too. 110
Reposted by Solomon GranorThe Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead. 531229715362
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Not totally up on how this World Cup thing works. Does this mean the UK has to return the Falkland Islands now? 000
Reposted by Solomon GranorMicah @rincewind.run · 03/07/2026DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again 3172511372
Reposted by Solomon GranorAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/07/2026The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports. 8153231811
Reposted by Solomon GranorJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go. 6082092177
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Merge two movies: No Country for Old Men in Black 010
Reposted by Solomon GranorBasav @basavsen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026When the state says, you have free speech and assembly rights only in specific places where we allow you to have these rights, it effectively means you have no right to free speech and assembly. 09935
Reposted by Solomon Granorjadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026so he built an app for the undercover agents who have been complaining about how hard it is to infiltrate anarchist groups because of how much theory they read? 022
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Guess it’s time to start scouring the Alps for elephants again. 000
Reposted by Solomon Granormtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse. 12899173353
Reposted by Solomon GranorKatherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Somebody’s breakfast Was crowding my icebox. Somebody’s cold plums Were giving me chills… — “This Is Just to Say It Ain’t So” by Weezer Carlos Weezer 2103
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You know, I think folks out in the Harrisburg area really ought to know that their Congressman is such a shitty driver that he’s trying trying to force Washington, DC to change it’s traffic laws so he can’t get caught. 000
Reposted by Solomon GranorJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/03/2026This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets” 13235551341
Reposted by Solomon GranorChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves 213135887
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Pundits stop using that one Exxon by Union Station in DC that always has stupidly high gas prices to try to make political points challenge, level: impossible. 110
Reposted by Solomon GranorAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/02/2026ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission 11856282
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 28/02/2026So, Trump’s decided that the best way to make people ignore that he rapes children is to mass murder children instead? 000
Solomon Granor @ssgranor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I literally just had dinner with a friend I’ve know basically since she was born. 010