Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United. 495221325808
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@aoc.bsky.social so is cash for votes impeachable or nah? 001
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Thing is, even if T is trying to bring beef prices down for the mid-terms, you *know* a gift still has to be part of it. He can't avoid self-dealing, it's a pathology. It'll come out, people will be pissed off, and he'll have failed at yet another scheme. 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…” 51298044744
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialJG Restore America @jgrestore.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Hakeem Jeffries needs to be booted from leadership. That is all. 38373781095
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This. The "you'll get left behind" crowd seems to care more about AI hype than a habitable planet 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Progressive candidates aren’t just coming from out of nowhere. They’re organizing and building power by connecting with their communities. This is a good thing. And the Democratic establishment should take notes. 17549011390
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Follow up question: What the fuck are we doing here, country? 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked. 6834921184
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I see this common misunderstanding everywhere. Data centers aren't being built for storage. Storage is cheap and can go anywhere, doesn't take crazy amounts of energy or cooling. These data centers are for the compute required to run AI. That's it. If anything, that should make us *more* furious. 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 04/08/2026"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."theguardian.comWe launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca SolnitSummer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys 8131601264
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialmany ruths @r-uthseugeneor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026House Dems Want To End Citizens United So We Never Get Musked Again www.wonkette.com/p/house-dems...wonkette.comHouse Dems Want To End Citizens United So We Never Get Musked Again'Corporations are not people and money is not speech,' said Pramila Jayapal. 14255841832
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The writing here is excellent and entertaining. The points being made are, sadly, accurate. 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 12/07/2026The number of innocent lives lost around the world because of Lindsey Graham, one of the most bloodthirsty war hawks in Congress over the last few decades, is incalculable. 234328720
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialEcon Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Cartoon by Pat Byrnes @patbyrnes.bsky.social 19489542635
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Guessing Trump was happy to have the war power taken away on this one. He had no way out of it; now he can be the victim and talk about how he was winning until weak congress stepped in. 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 17/06/2026France has joined Germany in cancelling their Palantir contracts, becoming the 2nd country in as many weeks to do so — the UK appears poised to follow suit AOC: “Immediately investigate Palantir — (Thiel’s) secretive data mining company that has weaponized information against immigrant communities” 12434711329
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story. 8258062410
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Elon is officially the world's biggest loser. To lack so much in integrity and imagination that you would let yourself accumulate that much wealth without first using it to improve the only world that we have is just beyond pathetic. 000
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over 2149391094
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026How can any normal person vote for these ghouls? 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 07/06/2026If I did this in a system design interview, I'd get laughed out of the building 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026See also: abortion, immigration, "wokeness", guns, etc. They don't honestly care about any of these things. They're all a screen to cover massive wealth redistribution. 110
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialKev🇬🇧🍺 @splootman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026What really pisses me off about the fight against climate change is we have the technology, it's only the willpower to invest in it that's lacking.Too many politicians, all around the world, are more interested in getting rich, now, than leaving a habitable planet for our children and grandchildren. 46586134
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialResist Trump 🤬 🤦🏽♂️🇺🇸 💜💙💪🏽 @resist-trumps-rule.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Every once in a while he tells the truth. 594111504194
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This would be the most important thing to happen in my lifetime 010
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I desperately hope the likes of @warren.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social read @doctorow.pluralistic.net, and this one in particular 041
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Oh so we're back to calling it "defense" now are we? 010
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialCargie @cargie.baby · 03/04/2026look at that you son of a bitch thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious 442275460
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Remember those huge protests during the Biden administration? No? Huh, it's almost as if things are consistently better for regular people when we keep the GOP out of power. 131
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The writing is on the wall for many Republican politicians. No amount of voter suppression is going to save them. Their best bet would be to draw up articles of impeachment before the Dems do. 010
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 22/03/2026To any one feeling betrayed by Trump, don't listen to anyone trying to make you feel bad for past votes. The wealthy are manipulating all of us to further enrich themselves, and the blame game plays right into their hands. We need to stop caring about Democrat vs Republican, and fight oligarchy 🤝 010
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Very sad that the switch to EVs is so often purely a financial discussion. Climate change is an existential crisis that we're failing to meet, day after day. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.com‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevanceIran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say 020
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026All the Markwaynes I know have been good, totally normal people 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Nothing says inflation and oligarchy like a $250 bill 010
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026@warren.senate.gov what can Congress do about this? 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Isn't that the point of a primary? So that you can get the person that you want in the race? Walking away when your guy doesn't make it onto the ballot and letting the *worser* evil win is a terrible strategy for progress. 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Have the rich all left New York yet? www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comMamdani Secures a Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Over Delivery Worker Wage TheftUber Eats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan also agreed to reinstate 10,000 wrongfully deactivated workers. 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Every night I lie awake thinking about the state of the world and I wonder whether Tom Hanks kept in touch with the dog that played Hooch 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Here's the thing. All of these atrocities aren't distractions from the Epstein files. But neither should we stop calling for release, because Republicans can brush aside war crimes, police brutality, and gross corruption. Their base likes these things. But no one comes away clean from pedophilia. 010
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Apparently, when you're leaning to sew, you shouldn't make clothes for nuns. It's habit-forming. 000
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Two years already...crazy to think about how far Sqyre has come 010
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialCharles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/11/2025www.commondreams.org/news/global-...commondreams.org'Little to No Measurable Progress' on Climate as World on Track for 2.6°C: Report | Common Dreams"Without rapid, deep emissions cuts—over 50% by 2030—overshooting 1.5°C becomes ever more likely, with severe consequences for people and ecosystems," one expert said. 75732
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialGraham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences. 758245956760
statusjoe.bsky.social @statusjoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Turns out "gunning for the Nobel Peace Prize" isn't how you win the Nobel Peace Prize 😆 010
Reposted by @statusjoe.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right? 577285868600
