Reposted by The Rascal KingBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sometimes I think about how Hollywood won’t give Guillermo Del Toro the money to make his At the Mountains of Madness movie 803362507
Reposted by The Rascal KingGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026See you in court, creep. 251125012798
Reposted by The Rascal KingDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Dang they really got a category for everything 203285765477
Reposted by The Rascal KingMinnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.” 162266720
Reposted by The Rascal KingThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us. 155188784438
Reposted by The Rascal KingLissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 10/07/2026if you want to see climate action happen? and you’re not engaging with your local government? on the most local possible level? missed opportunity. for real get in there and go to some boring meetings 35918
Reposted by The Rascal KingMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This one is a live issue, because you have three competing ideas among FP on the US left - the pre-16 consensus is dead, we need a new atlanticism that recognizes the far right as the transnational threat they are - let's pretend trump didn't happen - intervention sucks/protectionism is good 1037953
Reposted by The Rascal KingAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss. 743816861
Reposted by The Rascal KingManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.” 133136374612
Reposted by The Rascal KingMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse. 1063636674
Reposted by The Rascal KingAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency. 683026640
Reposted by The Rascal KingDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/03/2026I'm going on Krugman's substack in a few to talk energy, so I've been trying to wrap my head around a 30K view of the domestic energy landscape. It has brought to mind one of my favorite rants, which I will rant at you once again here. Let's talk about a contrast. 🧵 19463131
Reposted by The Rascal KingKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right. But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals. 4115061994
Reposted by The Rascal KingAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary. 846268508452
Reposted by The Rascal KingRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here? 16604372915213
Reposted by The Rascal KingJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2025If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them. 57803189
Reposted by The Rascal Kinglastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I think Ezra Klein's take is that America is on the verge of a major step up in terms of sectarian violence, and he is afraid of that, and thinks very major compromises are worth it to avoid that outcome. Admittedly sometimes he says/suggest otherwise, but it's my overall impression. 2638627
Reposted by The Rascal KingMarc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social · 14/09/2025It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth. 13368471836
Reposted by The Rascal KingG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/09/2025I just think that the proportion of tweets you send about the impending doom of electoral democracy vs how much blue sky and progressives suck is very telling of one’s priorities, and from the outside you gotta wonder about the incentives and incidences that landed one at said ratio 524222
Reposted by The Rascal KingRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Integration is the single best technology we've ever developed for producing less terrible white people, and that's why they hate it so much 316630
Reposted by The Rascal KingJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Jeffrey's file doesn't exist and it was probably written by Democrats anyway. Please excuse him from the assignment to present it today. Signed, Epstein's mother. 1654275
Reposted by The Rascal KingJamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 27/06/2025If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence. 405182914585
Reposted by The Rascal KingPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Authorities have reportedly captured 57-year-old Vance Boelter near his Green Isle homekstp.comVance Boelter arrested near Green Isle home, sources tell ABCLaw enforcement agencies are searching for a suspect who is considered armed and is possibly pretending to be law enforcement. 32901255
Reposted by The Rascal KingTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵. 4989373399
Reposted by The Rascal KingChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Here's my set of takes on Biden and his age and ability to do the job. 1) The decision to seek reelection was very obviously the wrong one, and indeed I'd say catastrophically so. *At the time* it may have been defensible but with the benefit of hindsight, it was a terrible mistake. 3632685273
Reposted by The Rascal KingLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking. 15253161187
Reposted by The Rascal KingChris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 01/05/2025In Soviet Minnesota, the last piece takes you! 28922
Reposted by The Rascal KingAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege. 8307868920118
Reposted by The Rascal KingGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/04/2025going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government 18988442070
Reposted by The Rascal KingMicah @rincewind.run · 11/04/2025you can have cult of personality-based authoritarian consolidation or you can blow up the economy and make everyone’s lives noticeably worse but it’s difficult to see how you manage both 1560567
Reposted by The Rascal KingWhat Cargie Does In The Shadows @cargie.baby · 08/04/2025In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS rules that the blood-dimmed tide is to be loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence should be drowned. Sotomayor dissents 033559
Reposted by The Rascal KingZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Between this and fucking with social security and defying judges openly I think Amerimaidan 2025 is pretty likely now. Not a certainty by any stretch but they need to do a hard reversal that Trump and Elon will fight like hell to avoid. 0296
Reposted by The Rascal KingMadeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars 49117102325
Reposted by The Rascal KingDan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery. 5959341909
Reposted by The Rascal KingKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The longest floor speech in the Senate was in opposition to the Civil Rights Act. So poetic that Cory Booker is about to beat that record. 251868234
Reposted by The Rascal KingWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 28/03/2025Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it. 21241151576
Reposted by The Rascal KingKyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Fear of a massive electoral wipeout is, quite literally, the only thing that has any chance of getting GOP reps to break w Trump. Spread the word. Keep protesting. Keep calling. Go to town halls. Put the fear of god in these fuckers. 322856
Reposted by The Rascal KingAkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025People don't seem to understand that the existence of fair laws and open courts perceived as just, and the end of vigilante justice/violence as dispute resolution aren't independent and coincidental occurrences. 341612311
Reposted by The Rascal KingStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025If Trump tells the conservative legal sphere to suck his orange balls instead of treating them like noble philosopher kings, they’re less likely to be shameless hacks for him. If he burns down the bank the oligarchs thought he was going to let them loot, it matters. You get the picture. 210513
Reposted by The Rascal KingInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Midwestern governor with a one-seat legislative majority: The coward RethugliKKKans may dash themselves on our rocks if they wish, the tide and the seabirds will leave no trace of their remains New York/California Democrat: I’d like to vote against things I oppose but that’s not realistic 113017757
Reposted by The Rascal KingJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Just an obvious point that anyone with the inside word on when these these total reversals are going to be announced is in a position to make almost limitless amounts of money. Don't forget that given the kind of people who make up this administration. 9249821201
Reposted by The Rascal KingJ.J. Abbott @jjabbott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Time for Dem-controlled states to come up with BIG plans for the census. If they are going to wreck it federally, states still have a lot of ability to ensure a good count at home. In fact, this could really screw red states who will embrace the sabotage in fealty to Trump. 1398
Reposted by The Rascal KingSchnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 04/03/2025So I want to point out that the Trump admin is complying with court orders in some places, but seemingly not in other places. What could this mean? Well, a couple different things, which I will try to detail below. 5467110
Reposted by The Rascal KingAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 04/03/2025This is the way 176101362501
Reposted by The Rascal KingChris Labarthe @chrislabarthe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025They're jailbreaking the federal government and gonna brick it 314910
Reposted by The Rascal KingAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.” 952327655
