Reposted by StephSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026This is a crime. I'd be nice if that meant anything anymore. 32807204 0
Reposted by StephSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.forever-wars.comThe Dawn Of The Self-Funding PentagonIt's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil 461934743 0
Reposted by StephGreenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA 125121414427 0
Reposted by StephDavid C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale. 8791871953 0
Reposted by StephPhil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Since Ford pardoned Nixon, there's been an elite consensus in this country that elites should never ever be held accountable for their actions, no matter how deserving. Saw this with Iran-Contra, Bill Clinton, Bush #2's war crimes, the 2008 financial crisis, Trump 1.0, and on and on and on. 17717 0
Reposted by StephGabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots. 7956291977 0
Reposted by StephMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up. 382136402 0
Reposted by StephLisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière 64106163106 0
Reposted by StephPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Also the social capital - ie the friend of my parents friend who can hook me up with a meeting with a key person who might invest in my idea either with $$ or with more social connections - what Granovetter calls the "strength of weak ties" 13632152 0
Reposted by StephCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026They need the smoothbrain cultists to believe it can think so they can destroy what they want and say guys Claude totally did it sorry can't help that rascal doing rascal things he's alive, you know 511312 0
Reposted by StephCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Feature not a bug. A big piece of the "AI thinks for itself" is getting morons (apparently a lot of them already here, more than I expected) to believe this is true so when the Musk/Altman/Amodei put their thumb on the scale to get the results they (or whomever is paying) want, their hands are clean 627659 0
Reposted by StephOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this) 81424448 0
Reposted by StephPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW. 171997594 0
Reposted by StephMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Forty percent of American Nobel laureates this century in chemistry, medicine and physics have been immigrants, many arriving as students. 319190 0
Reposted by StephI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026Everyone saw it coming and yet insisted this exact thing wasn’t precisely what they were doing, 19117 0
Reposted by StephEric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade' 71262352 0
Reposted by StephHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger! 332752909 0
Reposted by StephHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wish Bugs Bunny were real and could use a cartoon stick of dynamite on certain billionaires in a parodic, satirical way 362744 0
Reposted by StephI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026The idea that marginalized people are “allowed” exist in public and political life at the charity of hegemonic majorities is omnipresent in our political culture. 123764 0
Reposted by StephIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that. 31986570 0
Reposted by StephJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013159644 0
Reposted by Stephamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 03/10/2026it’s sooo funny that jesse eisenberg turned down the social network sequel but said yes to “now you see me 3” 13117384 0
Reposted by StephMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27786308 0
Reposted by StephMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability. 481567382 0
Reposted by StephErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us. 14562111 0
Reposted by StephJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise. 661048406 0
Reposted by Stephmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 169188904735 0
Reposted by StephDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 201100382459 0
Reposted by Stephhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 359209575049 0
Reposted by StephMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Every country has these people, in roughly the same proportion. The problem is our deeply broken, wildly anti-majoritarian electoral, legislative, & judicial institutions: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 58919 0
Reposted by StephHere lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people. 271503364 0
Reposted by StephFLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME. 17256491993 0
Reposted by StephGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026there has never been a better time to be on the Political Sickos website that is also the Sports Website 236242 0
Reposted by Stephc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2947681603 0
Reposted by StephErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Everyone must be better off because we’ve cut immigration, doubled- and tripled-down on trickle-down economics, we’ve cut marginalized ppl from benefits and we’ve cut workers’ wage growth. These are what we were told we had to do to have a great standard of living and an economically-prosperous life 27423 0
Reposted by StephAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/09/2026I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones! 642309435 0
Reposted by StephEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 192926542 0
Reposted by Stephmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant 231193153 0
Reposted by StephAmi Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors? 24533141 0
Reposted by StephHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10135053788 0
Reposted by StephSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Years ago, I was walking home late one night, and a drunk guy was harassing me - trying to get me to go home with him, pushy sex comments, etc. After a few mins, his mate turned to him and said, firmly but not aggressively, "MATE. leave her alone, yeah?" And he did. I think about him all the time. 1053196 0
Reposted by StephEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 123103692694 0
Reposted by StephErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a young, Black man, Laquan MacDonald, by the Chicago Police. He belongs in prison 923066 0
Reposted by StephAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954241201 0
Reposted by StephJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17093023066 0
Reposted by StephJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/… 8561179 0
Reposted by StephAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We are stuck in a loop. 113517 0
