Reposted by Tom GillespieFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2h“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist. 7685149
Reposted by Tom GillespieBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 2hThe Schmitt thing is kind of scary because it shows just how much many elected Rs genuinely believe the crazy stuff. He and his staff thought they’d pulled the red thread on The Giant Conspiracy. They were so convinced it must be real they didn’t even think to double check. 1624026
Reposted by Tom GillespieEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2hBritt was the next Republican Senator up after Eric Schmidt. Was Schmidt’s little Hawks/Hawkeyes gotcha planned by the whole committee staff? Was Britt planning to ask about it before Schmidt imploded? 86618
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 5hWhen no overly-breathy sentence will suffice. #JackSmithTestimony 000
Reposted by Tom Gillespiejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83124331867
Reposted by Tom GillespieTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026John Oliver: “The Times had a panel this week of Trump voters who were undecided in this race, and when they were asked to describe Paxton, their answers were: Crook, criminal crook, crooked, bad, amoral, disgusting, morally corrupt, disgusting, corrupt, and womanizer crook.” 621086367
Reposted by Tom GillespieNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump’s attacks on CNN raise new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state. by Jake Tapper 171376196
Reposted by Tom GillespieDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 3023891476
Reposted by Tom GillespieChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS keeps the Missouri 2022 congressional map in effect for this election in an order that criticizes the Eighth Circuit's actions in the case. The five page, per curiam — unsigned order — came with no noted dissents. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.comlawdork.comLaw Dork | Chris Geidner | SubstackThe Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 9467113
Reposted by Tom GillespieSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is actually what the Predator was doing the whole movie. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/suit-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 324322
Reposted by Tom GillespieRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141861728
Reposted by Tom Gillespie"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans. 451424231
Reposted by Tom GillespieThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again. 422370583
Reposted by Tom GillespieA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/the-reframe.comThis is UsMoving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good. 1218457
Reposted by Tom Gillespievrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643645673
Reposted by Tom GillespieAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comSpeak at Your Own RiskDonald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment 471718468
Reposted by Tom GillespieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's hard to believe that letting him get away with it once only encouraged him to do it again. Who could have foreseen this? Who? 311511254
Reposted by Tom GillespieJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying 854127841
Reposted by Tom GillespieNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247251142
Reposted by Tom Gillespieemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is an argument that we all need to be making right now. Trump has made life poorer, dirtier, and less safe. And we need to make that case bc Trump will otherwise surely do what fascists do, blame the people he has been othering for decades. 10431168
Reposted by Tom GillespieThe Integers, PhD @theintegers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have solved my trade deficit with the grocery store by deciding to starve to death 12116877
Reposted by Tom GillespiePat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Not just Americans are affected by Shithead’s war on Iran. With Saudi oil production effectively shut down, the whole world is now paying for an American-made fiasco they didn’t ask for 701875624
Reposted by Tom GillespieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026These people believe that individual choice, powered by the invisible hand of the free market, will naturally reveal what is good and what is bad, except when it comes to their own beliefs. Then they're gonna force you to sit there and listen. 211099242
Reposted by Tom GillespieMrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c... 1184395953
Reposted by Tom GillespieSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The utter lack of self-awareness is beyond belief. 1391558356
Reposted by Tom GillespieMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yes, Donald Trump (known as "El Niño" in the latin world) was a key determinant in our prediction of an unusually quiet Atlantic Hurricane season: web.sas.upenn.edu/mannresearch... (h/t @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 1012516
Reposted by Tom GillespieMatt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026AI alarms. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social @sydmorningherald.bsky.social cartoon 17929
Reposted by Tom GillespieAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS. 566280818599
Reposted by Tom GillespiePat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Kremlin spokesman Jared Kushner says Ukraine is blocking Ukraine’s surrender to Kremlin 3425279
Reposted by Tom GillespieCRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026bsky.app/profile/crob...static.klipy.comSpider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily SeahamALT: Spider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily Seaham 0487
Reposted by Tom GillespieThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵steady.pageA Far-Right International Is Assaulting DemocracyMAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism 7612285
Reposted by Tom GillespieBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a... 231183431
Reposted by Tom GillespieZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Trump's fundamental illegitimacy as President stretches out well beyond the basic fact of 14AS3. From Day 1, he has never intended to govern legitimately, to obey any law or custom other than his own insane whim, to accept the fundamental sovereignty of the People as a whole in any shape or form. 222138
Reposted by Tom GillespieCrepuscular Canard @turnitup5000db.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I will never forgive the American people for the effective pardon they gave this fucker. 1363
Reposted by Tom GillespieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The entire right wing has been furious that the mayor of New York City had the nerve to be Muslim on 9/11, while their president is out here bragging about what a terrific relationship he has with the Saudi royal family. 842954792
Reposted by Tom GillespieDogDadBod @dogsdadbod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So Ted Cruz can go on a Disney show but James Talarico can't go on a Disney show 17310
Reposted by Tom GillespieMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Joe diGenova and Jeanine Pirro both refusing to bring political prosecutions — Main Justice is a crime scene. 61154149
Reposted by Tom GillespieChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks TRO that had thrown Missouri’s congressional elections into chaos. The ruling should mean that the map used by the current congressional delegation, not the HB1 map backed by Republicans and used in the primaries, will be used in the general election. Law Dork:lawdork.comBreaking: SCOTUS blocks TRO that had thrown Missouri’s congressional elections into chaosThe ruling should mean that the map used by the current congressional delegation, not the HB1 map backed by Republicans and used in the primaries, will be used in the general election. 24546121
Reposted by Tom GillespieRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.nytimes.comOpinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true. 571924740
Reposted by Tom GillespieAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just for more fun on top of everything else, there's a reasonable argument to be made that a Democratic House majority should refuse to seat the entire Missouri delegation, declare them vacant and order special elections, if this chaos works out such that they actually use the illegal map in Nov. 827655
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still true and worth resharing a year later, even if the specifics have changed slightly. 000
Reposted by Tom GillespieMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢 522225602722
Reposted by Tom GillespieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The party of pedophiles protects pedophiles but will attack people from the party that does not protect pedophiles 16922211
Reposted by Tom GillespieWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The things that are awful about Trump are incredibly obvious. They’re sitting in plain view. You don’t have to play nineteen-dimensional chess around them. He’s corrupt, he’s moronic, he’s bigoted, he’s a megalomaniac who hates the US and is destroying everything it stands for. Just say that. 319019
Reposted by Tom GillespieTea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Far-right influencer" and "sex offender" are interchangeable terms now. 60961254
Reposted by Tom GillespieMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.govMayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools 261168310
