Reposted by AMCW 177Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I am yet again encouraging people to spent like 5 hours a week volunteering for a campaign. Make it a state leg or municipal one, you will get to know the candidate and this may change your view of how politics works 715733
Reposted by AMCW 177derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior 8584801291
Reposted by AMCW 177William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443859923
Reposted by AMCW 177Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571842059
Reposted by AMCW 177ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is also never applied evenly. no lines are ever drawn between "social networks where opinion-leaders hang out are saturated by antisocial trolls claiming to represent the downtrodden" and "opinion-leaders become more conservative" 215418
Reposted by AMCW 177Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026yeah at some point we all have to decide whether the thing we're doing is participating as an individual in a subculture or participating as a member of a political project and adjust our goals and behavior accordingly 21014
Reposted by AMCW 177olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 23/09/2026I think the sentiment expressed by Jacob Rees-Mogg is generally quite nice and reflective of a certain "cultured chauvinism" that is entirely compatible with a multicultural, multiethnic civilization. The idea that one ought to "join in to the society to which they belong" is quite good, I think. 412913
Reposted by AMCW 177ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 12/09/2026Stop letting “I trust this person I share an affinity group with, and the crowd of people retweeting them” define your reality. Take some responsibility for your epistemology and learn the actual facts. Then get in the fight, we need you 215816
Reposted by AMCW 177Doll @dollspace.gay · 11/09/2026Ok heres a game pitch, a sim city clone but instead of having godlike power to impose your perfect civic vision you have actual political constraints and competing groups who have influence 15639
Reposted by AMCW 177Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 05/09/2026Stop looking for an out group you feel justified in abusing That urge isn’t healthy even if you manage to only take it out on the worst people (and you won’t) 316624
Reposted by AMCW 177ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the point here is not rendering justice, it is setting future expectations. we can't control thermostatic electoral behavior. we can teach a very painful lesson that Democrats will punish corruption when they take power 251669
Reposted by AMCW 177Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Whether or not you think Dems are going to do it, you need to act like they are going to. The thing that guarantees failure is preemptively conceding defeat 753189
Reposted by AMCW 177April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I screenshotted this elsewhere because the line: “the crushing weakness of our politics against the unmet needs of our people” landed on me like a ton of bricks (h/t @acyn.bsky.social) 422554
Reposted by AMCW 177BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States. 1014489974
Reposted by AMCW 177Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’m tired of this game of if there are two Democrats running, then one of them is “centrist” and one of them is “progressive.” 108024
Reposted by AMCW 177taylr @taylordahlin.com · 12/08/2026peggy flanagan says she just got off the phone with angie craig, who assured her “we’re in this fight together.” says they disagree on much, but both love minnesota too much and cannot just hand donald trump another senate seat flanagan says she will work her tail off to earn trust of craig voters 218620
Reposted by AMCW 177ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)propublica.orgHow “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi... 5448220
Reposted by AMCW 177David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It’s a mob operation.wsj.comExclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising OperationMeredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects. 2032691
Reposted by AMCW 177William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026this shit was always annoying even in cases where it was maybe technically correct, but now with Trump doing lots of unprecedented bad shit the ‘heh, you rube, you fool, politicians have always been corrupt’ gimmick is both wrong on the merits and much more pernicious. 17837114
Reposted by AMCW 177Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 28/07/2026More to the point, this is happening in *non-white* countries as well: Japan, Turkey, and India have huge far-right nativist blocs. So it's not merely white supremacy or nostalgia for the days when the West ruled. Nor is it happening purely in developed post-material countries. 27514105
Reposted by AMCW 177Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind 111543
Reposted by AMCW 177Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal. 277161174986
Reposted by AMCW 177karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/07/2026When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts 171453352
Reposted by AMCW 177rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"one ought to orient oneself towards affirming the good in those institutional behaviors one is responsible for rather than merely disclaiming responsibility for anything not personally chosen" is a pretty easy thing to understand once you expand out all the terms. 529434
Reposted by AMCW 177"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The good news and bad news from the American perspective is that we can absolutely turn this around - another American century (in partnership with a free EU) is an option. We just need to make good political decisions. And that's what has proved so challenging. 1340139
Reposted by AMCW 177Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Yeah this is such a fascinating element. He talks about it in his letters too: the Elves’ great flaw is wanting to preserve everything just as it is and trying to stop its history, and that’s what leads to Celebrimbor and the Rings 1417
Reposted by AMCW 177Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/06/2026Imagine if we treated Trump the way we treat people who miss the recertification deadlines for government assistance programs. 202162483
Reposted by AMCW 177Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 26/05/2026Erdogan ordered Turkey’s police to raid the opposition party’s HQ days after a kangaroo court ousted the opposition leader. We cannot keep ignoring Turkey’s descent into authoritarianism. We must stand for the people's right to democracy for allies & adversaries alike.bbc.comTurkish police storm opposition offices after leaders oustedOfficers forced their way into the building days after the party vowed to defy a court ruling removing its leaders. 30485132
AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I have had some of the most positive interactions in my life with people that work full time in disability spaces and also many of the most random, vindictive, spiteful ones as well. It's so exasperating & discouraging. Today's an especially bad day for it too, for personal reasons. I don't get it. 040
AMCW 177 @tce177.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Brilliant h/t to @segyges.bsky.social (included helpful context/explainer) 030
Reposted by AMCW 177William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I think 'earning' or 'deserving' or 'good' billionaires or 'bad' billionaires are all sort of missing the point tbh. There are decent people who are billionaires and there are unobjectionable ways to make lots of money but that's not the point. The point is that level of unaccountable power is bad. 20627104
Reposted by AMCW 177John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter. 230089
Reposted by AMCW 177Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Also, even if that were true, that’s fucking monstrous? Are we not supposed to care when people who have other health problems die? 191633296
Reposted by AMCW 177Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 22/04/2026This scene & the crashouts on X over passage of Virginia’s redistricting plan are, it warrants noting, the same picture. It’s like a grand unified theory on how MAGA approaches matters, here and abroad: “you mean our _lessers_ can respond when we act like assholes to them? That can’t be right.” 418830
Reposted by AMCW 177Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Corruption and competitive autocracy are two halves of the same coin. Corruption is how you reward your supporters and bully your opposition without resorting to outright violence. Keeping the machine going eventually becomes *the* reason for staying in power, over anything ideological. 428875
Reposted by AMCW 177Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes. 604632808
Reposted by AMCW 177jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan 164167803381
Reposted by AMCW 177Micah @rincewind.run · 11/04/2026huge thank you to everyone involved in this mission for reminding us of the best of humanity and I am tremendously glad it all went off as planned space is pretty cool and so, in many cases, are people 72562430
Reposted by AMCW 177madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026remember nathan hansen, the right-wing twitter guy and self-employed attorney who has amplified conspiracies — pizzagate, obama birtherism, hatians eating pets, etc. — and lost a district judge election in 2024? he's the newest immigration judge in minnesota.minnesotareformer.comOne of Minnesota's most unhinged right-wing posters is the state’s newest immigration judge • Minnesota ReformerA right-wing attorney and influential X user who has amplified racist conspiracies and fringe legal theories, will make decisions on which immigrants will be deported in his new job as an immigration judge. 611257
Reposted by AMCW 177Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/04/2026Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into 352314668
Reposted by AMCW 177Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 01/04/2026NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams 513373499
Reposted by AMCW 177Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026i still remember Bezos inviting Shatner on one of his Blue Origins rocket trips and watching Shatner basically in shock while Bezos was "so you think i'm cool now?" 1239051
Reposted by AMCW 177jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...morethanjustparks.substack.comBREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest ServiceThe headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed. 20473613336
Reposted by AMCW 177Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/03/2026gosh, this does make us sound pretty cool, doesn’t it 435873
Reposted by AMCW 177Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it. 14284373016
Reposted by AMCW 177Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point. 3426981104
Reposted by AMCW 177Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This type of identity politics is such an arid dead end, albeit a well-meaning one, that if people actually *follow it* makes it much harder for everyone else, because it means that everyone who is not seen as 'middle-aged white' has to make so much of their life and work talking about this stuff. 1123319