Reposted by stuart styronRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20hCrazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it. 492696728
Reposted by stuart styronLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Does the White House have the same concussion protocol as the NFL?  1611956227
Reposted by stuart styronThe Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 13/10/2026President Trump announced the “largest steel plant in American history” would be built in Iowa, where Republicans are facing several competitive races. “This deal is done,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said alongside the president in the Oval Office. The deal is far from done.washingtonsun.comThe Timing of Trump’s Big Iowa Steel Mill Announcement Is Raising EyebrowsThe White House said the project was a “done deal” roughly one month before the midterms. The company behind it hasn’t bought land in the state yet. 23814
Reposted by stuart styronasad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social · 13/10/2026News: I’m leading the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator’s new AI Governance Project! AI is reshaping the econ, work, security & culture, but largely at the direction of private actors. AGP will build policy that centers the public's interest vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/announcing...vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.comAnnouncing the AI Governance ProjectThe effects of artificial intelligence will be society-wide – reshaping the economy, labor, national security, culture, and even knowledge acquisition. 174
Reposted by stuart styronMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the year is 2026. it’s unclear if the white house press secretary knows how to read. 733732460
Reposted by stuart styronGraham Webster @gwbstr.com · 12/10/2026Obviously, but to reiterate: Abolish DHS. 021
Reposted by stuart styronC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini. 372608619
Reposted by stuart styronJon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Trump is going to come over and rename their children, and they’re going to like it. 022
Reposted by stuart styronex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Unfortunate aspect of democracy is you gotta keep convincing the dumbest people in the world to vote the way you want them to. 29211
Reposted by stuart styronderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty. 11280831666
Reposted by stuart styronAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026An irony of this era is that Trump’s opponents and Trump share the same exact opinions about Trump supporters bsky.app/profile/acyn... 251021153
Reposted by stuart styronNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The US president is incredibly weak on the world stage. Demands concessions from Iran. Gets less than nothing. Tells Ukraine to lay off Russian oil infrastructure. They hit more targets within less than a day. Threatens other countries to join anti-Iran sanctions. China and others laugh it off. 929780
Reposted by stuart styronWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 311636284
Reposted by stuart styronOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/10/2026Zelenskyy: While our teams are meeting in Florida, US President is having conversation with Kremlin leader responsible for this war. I believe they are simply using our team as a cover...clearly not acting in good faith as a partner. And this, in my view, is a weak decision from strong partners. 501136387
Reposted by stuart styronBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 1140801329
Reposted by stuart styronSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It has been brought to my attention that Mike Johnson may already have been auditioning for his future job - right under our noses! 0833
Reposted by stuart styron🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him 20816114
stuart styron @stuartstyron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026if you don’t want to be a dad, don’t be a fucking dad 010
Reposted by stuart styronAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Republicans don’t like markets anymore than they like meritocracy. What they like is very specific kinds of inequality that can be achieved through markets and meritocracy. But if they aren’t then those things aren’t worth it. 2589
Reposted by stuart styronAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl... 19990288
Reposted by stuart styronPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 07/10/2026The rule is: If you have talent, you have to focus on that talent instead of offering opinions on politics. If you don’t have talent, opine away. 871488147
Reposted by stuart styronI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026It’s a little weird, isn’t it, that Twitter was bought by an open white supremacist and it only grew in legitimacy among a pretty wide set of influential actors? 0288
Reposted by stuart styronsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause. 281440268
Reposted by stuart styronAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7957031108
Reposted by stuart styronEdward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hopper painted Cape Cod as post-war car culture was remapping. In Portrait of Orleans (1950), roadside signs, wires, and clapboard houses are parsed into clean planes. 210913
Reposted by stuart styronAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny. 281441190
Reposted by stuart styronSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The stupidity of all this is so exhausting. Put a dumb name on something, get a bunch of rich sycophants to show up and tell you you're smart so the media covers it while doing nothing of substance. At least Super Adventure Club was funny. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump launches ‘Super Intelligence Force’ after calls for AI slowdownLeaders from the intelligence community, the Pentagon, the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Personnel Management will serve on the task force. 29214
Reposted by stuart styronStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I got my covid and flu vaccines yesterday to protect myself and others. If you can also do so and don't I will judge you for endangering me and my family. 2294
Reposted by stuart styronThe Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Washington’s upset win over Seattle gives it a path back to playoff contention — and its star receiver deserves a lot of the credit.washingtonsun.comThe Commanders Aren’t Done Yet, and Neither Is Terry McLaurinWashington’s upset win over Seattle gives it a path back to playoff contention — and its star receiver deserves a lot of the credit. 081
Reposted by stuart styronMike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wait I'm sorry are we not putting Bluey on these lists? What other show has used evolution from the sea to the stars as a metaphor for parenting and death told through assembling IKEA furniture, all in eight minutes? 1274
Reposted by stuart styronAdam 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
Reposted by stuart styronAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Danger! Danger!! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comThe Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in AmericaThis place is much too dangerous. 717735
Reposted by stuart styronJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don’t want to be a dick. But having read a few things by this Yudkowsky guy and now seeing that he left school in middle school and didn’t go to high school or college I think I’m understanding the situation a lot better, or things at least seem to fit. 26109099
Reposted by stuart styronJoel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026maybe one of the worst self-inflicted program injuries has to be extending brent venables' contract before the season. imagine if they knew this season was going to happen. 4293
Reposted by stuart styronBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We underestimate how much MAGA hostility and policy insanity comes from the fact that Trump people literally do not understand how things work 1322838
Reposted by stuart styronsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Thanks everyone for participating in our extended beta test. We’ll circle back to you with something that works and probably won’t kill civilization after *checks watch* five more VC rounds.” 1550637
Reposted by stuart styronPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When historians look back on Trump's foreign policy in a century, I bet these are their verdict on his most famous policies: The support of Russia--the most evil. The pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt. The decision to go to war with Iran--the most incompetent. 331026296
Reposted by stuart styronRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/20260% chance of happening but a pretty good way of pointing out a big flaw with a bill that puts a salary cap on exactly one type of employee 1033539
Reposted by stuart styronIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026Republicans have been gleefully marching directly toward this woodchipper for many years now, and they've been happy to do it because the woodchipper has always been kind of far away. Now it's actually just a few weeks away and everyone's having mixed feelings about it lol 1148754
Reposted by stuart styronjamelle @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 164113052110
Reposted by stuart styronRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 544906879
Reposted by stuart styronCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not an exaggeration to say when authoritarian thugs distort scientific research toward their own petty or prejudiced tastes, economies suffer, national security is compromised, people die. Exact proportion of each of those consequences varies from one authoritarian state to another, but all happen 12745172
Reposted by stuart styronSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Giving Tom Emmer credit for ANYTHING passing on the House floor this term just because his title is “Whip” is like giving your 6 year neighbor credit for the Bears last season just because he’s wearing a WILLIAMS jersey. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comHow did the GOP wrangle its slim House majority? Ask Rep. Tom Emmer.The Republican whip describes how he worked to get the president's agenda through a closely divided House without burning bridges or losing his sense of humor. 820625
Reposted by stuart styronPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"No one is going to vote for a Democrat because they came out for a trans sports ban. No one is on the fence being like, "If they just came out for a trans sports ban, then I would vote for them. I don't think that person exists," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2154... 15796153
Reposted by stuart styronJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026our experiment with putting the dumbest fucking people in charge is unfolding with soul-crushing predictability 201456270
Reposted by stuart styronJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary. 181908325