Reposted by Tom GillespieILuvPolitix @iluvpolitix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He keeps bringing this up, which means he definitely meant what we thought he meant. 52567
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In addition to Clarke, they would benefit from reading Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void" and its sequels. 040
Reposted by Tom GillespieProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.orgpropublica.orgKen Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta... 8628431389
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Since I live here, I would love to say good riddance to Keith Self in TX-03. www.electevanhunt.comelectevanhunt.com★ Elect Evan Hunt 000
Reposted by Tom GillespieDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Y'all denied her tenure 263287608
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not sure which is worse here, your display of reading comprehension skills or your ability to offer a cogent argument. 020
Reposted by Tom GillespieLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4093492210519
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sounds like a good way to ignore the war-of-choice in Iran and its effects on shipping costs. 000
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Which will be more important to them: control of the narrative, or moneymaking? The more they do the former, the less they'll get of the latter. 000
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's not just that he deludes himself about his judgements being correct -- he expects everyone to celebrate him for his wisdom and gets very pissy when we don't. 010
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Average participants in the practice should wonder why Polymarket et al. can afford that amount for promotions. But if they could do that, they'd be the sort of people to avoid participation in the first place. 110
Reposted by Tom GillespieSouthern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 04/10/2026What are the changes to the work requirements and time limits on public housing from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)❓ Will you be impacted❓ How can you help your community secure stable housing❓ Join us on Oct. 8 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and let’s discuss. 11910
Reposted by Tom Gillespieceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108462344
Reposted by Tom GillespieA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys! 182077438
Reposted by Tom GillespieDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin, but there really is not a Wisconsin Republican Party any longer. When three people are paying for 90% of a gubernatorial campaign and 80% of legislative campaigns, you have a club, not a political party, owned and funded by billionaires. 620872
Reposted by Tom GillespieMicah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house 362342424
Reposted by Tom GillespieKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Weird how the Nazis don't make his list. Probably just an oversight 1243733
Reposted by Tom GillespieSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That whole section is unappreciated comedy gold. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/script... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 718737
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Are we sticking with North Americans here, or cal Alan Rickman and Richard Burton get on the list? 100
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, he really doesn't. Values warped beyond recognition. 000
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Don't interact directly with your government -- give all your personal data to Elon Musk's software and let it handle everything for you!" is a hell of a sales pitch. 000
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If his cankles really are problematic for him, I can see twisting at his waist to look at a questioner being preferable to picking up and turning his feet. 000
Reposted by Tom GillespiePeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188137472919
Reposted by Tom GillespieMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17572511994
Reposted by Tom GillespieDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New from me: I unpack what happened at the Jack Smith hearing, and offer a theory of what the hell Senator Eric Schmitt thought he was doing. And yes, an inability to tell the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes really did seem to be a big part of it. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...donmoynihan.substack.comWhat happened at the Jack Smith hearing?A guide for the perplexed. And yes, it does say something about the state of the Republican Party 60705149
Reposted by Tom GillespieBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242871148
Reposted by Tom GillespieFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist. 101432279
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Which explains the look of terror on Britt's face. 021
Reposted by Tom GillespieBen Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 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. 1734636
Reposted by Tom GillespieEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Britt 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? 107720
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comThat's a Shame ReactionAlt: That's a Shame Reaction 000
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When no overly-breathy sentence will suffice. #JackSmithTestimony 000
Reposted by Tom Gillespiejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83125101892
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.” 631144400
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The German side did famously renege on the bargain, iirc. 000
Tom Gillespie @tagillespie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Change "appears to believe" to "still has no reason not to believe." 010
