Reposted by Phillip BrothOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026It’s very telling that the most fight the centrist Democrats have shown is against the left and not Republicans 5534113
Reposted by Phillip BrothAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Impeachment is not some special exception from normal politics where you shouldn't say it unless you already have the votes in hand. You go out and plainly advocate what you think should be done, and attack those who refuse to do it, just like on anything else. 413076593
Reposted by Phillip BrothChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.” 174109752740
Reposted by Phillip BrothAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/03/2026don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free 195169083316
Reposted by Phillip BrothShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school 140233535881
Reposted by Phillip BrothJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The Dem establishment has been happy to use the specter of an authoritarian threat to democracy as fundraising rhetoric, but they’ve mostly behaved as though they don’t quite believe it — as though if they keep acting normally, things have to return to normal. 841093
Reposted by Phillip BrothHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/02/2026"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter 10496792452
Reposted by Phillip BrothPhillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is what I tell everyone after having read Blood in the Machine. It doesn’t matter if AI can actually replace us, only whether the big bosses believe it can. They may be perfectly happy accepting degraded quality if it saves them money. 1689
Reposted by Phillip BrothAlex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧 @alexfranq.bsky.social · 06/02/2026go off jack white 7277291789
Reposted by Phillip BrothMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/02/202674% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter. 10762811416
Reposted by Phillip BrothPatrick @ps-on.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Backsliding in the US happening quicker than other 21st century cases. www.ft.com/content/b474... 317592
Reposted by Phillip BrothCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/12/2025“Tell your children who the cowards were.” 11875362371
Reposted by Phillip BrothPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror. 11448871111
Reposted by Phillip BrothSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 26/01/2026He’s the scapegoat. It won’t work. Trump, Vance, and Stephen Miller are to blame. 1423552
Reposted by Phillip BrothThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Man the implication that somewhere deep in our brain there is a “see tiny people all over the place” button and a mushroom can press it, that’s deeply unsettling. 781490243
Reposted by Phillip BrothRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 21/01/2026He needs It to not happen every second of every day, but we only need It to happen once 63118411
Reposted by Phillip BrothDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole. 623630583
Reposted by Phillip BrothBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026read this entire thread with a dropped jaw bc mAN WHAT 1429934
Reposted by Phillip BrothMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The DOJ is more than three weeks late in delivering the Epstein Files. In those three weeks: - Trump declared himself acting President of Venezuela - ICE murdered a woman in Minnesota - Trump is preparing an invasion of a NATO ally - Trump initiated a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Powell 24674712764
Reposted by Phillip BrothJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 12/01/2026You did not see this kind of statement from the Turkish central bank before Erdogan staffed it with sycophants because he had carefully laid the groundwork to do so without resistance over the course of 15 or so years. And then once he did do it, inflation went from 10% to 86% in two years. 131344414
Reposted by Phillip BrothTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches 191128894031
Reposted by Phillip BrothOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025more of this 423637513
Phillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 14/09/2025For some reason the speed claims of bun always seemed gimmicky, even though I know firsthand how much faster it feels. This is a nice tour of all the optimizations it makes for modern hardware. It’s not just marketing, it’s thoughtful design. bun.com/blog/behind-...bun.comBehind The Scenes of Bun InstallLearn how Bun is able to cut install times by up to 25×. Bun skips Node.js's overhead with direct system calls, cache-friendly data layouts, OS-level copy-on-write, and full-core parallelism. 010
Phillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 24/07/2025LLMs make me a more powerful coder, but they also suck the joy out of it, or maybe the “flow” would be more precise. I spend all day now lecturing this annoyingly eager and only-semi-competent junior engineer who has read the whole internet and it’s EXHAUSTING. 000
Reposted by Phillip BrothHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I have begun to think (on the model of France) about the idea of a Third Republic - 1st is 1776, 2nd since the Civil War. US institutions have been so degraded and legitimacy so eroded that I think we can say it will take a new founding for the project to continue 16814
Reposted by Phillip BrothMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 01/07/2025elon musk’s body count will end up being higher than most wars and most of the worst most oppressive regimes in history 232557715
Reposted by Phillip BrothMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you. 350139876089
Reposted by Phillip BrothSecrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Less than 5 months in: ☑️Arrested a judge ☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor ☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson ☑️Detained a Democratic Senator ☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor ☑️Investigating other political enemies ☑️Deploying Marines domestically They are not hiding their intentions. 10639601425
Reposted by Phillip BrothRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Migishi Kōtarō. Butterflies Flying Above Clouds. 1934 17018
Reposted by Phillip BrothRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Suren Nersisyan Landscape with a Yellow Sky, 2025 Oil on canvas, 76 × 101 cm. 0131
Reposted by Phillip BrothRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Paul Klee - Memory of a Bird (1932) 1101
Reposted by Phillip BrothCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Six months apart. 🇺🇸 @economist.com 432019631
Reposted by Phillip BrothThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so. 469272152
Reposted by Phillip BrothJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days. 491237796530
Reposted by Phillip BrothBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I'm serious about pushing Republicans on impeachment this week. Think about it. There will never be a better chance. Rich people losing their wealth is the *only* thing that can move the needle on this. Not fascism, not racism, not the destruction of public health. This is it. 1034374839
Phillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Ah, the weekend. Nice relaxing break from the market torpedoing. 000
Reposted by Phillip BrothOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time 12163001178
Reposted by Phillip BrothRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 15/03/2025David Hockney, Breakfast at Malibu, Wednesday (1989) 0335
Phillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I have a very particular set of skills, skills acquired over a very long career…[looks over his glasses and folds like a towel] 0254
Reposted by Phillip BrothMK @zenceci.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Excellent synopsis of what's happening. Follow the money 💰 senator Murphy explains how Trump’s normalization of pay-to-play politics, where billionaire donors dictate policy and taxpayer money is funneled into the pockets of the president, Elon Musk, and the corporate elite youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...youtu.beMurphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. HistoryYouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy 2158
Phillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Expecting to hear back from multiple recruiters, so every Nextdoor email is excruciating, even moreso than usual. 000
Reposted by Phillip BrothSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.” 2814369710222
Phillip Broth @thebrochures.bsky.social · 25/02/2025At least the death is swift? Yikes. apnews.com/article/cong...apnews.comA mystery illness in Congo has killed more than 50 people hours after they felt sickHealth experts say an unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks. 010
