Reposted by TheSicknessDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11mEvery election cycle I get angrier and angrier about this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u... 02910
Reposted by TheSicknessMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11mHow Trump destroyed the US economy.apple.newsNew Numbers Show Just How Badly Trump Wrecked the Economy — Rolling StoneInflation and gas prices are up — and they’re not coming down anytime soon 78432
Reposted by TheSicknessghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 9mterrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea 2329843
TheSickness @thesickness.bsky.social · 12mIt’s no wonder conservatives thought libs had made comedy illegal cause we were gatekeeping comedy of THIS caliber 000
Reposted by TheSicknessAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 57mShe doesn’t have an ‘immigration status.’ She’s a citizen. Appalling though predictable framing. 134490
Reposted by TheSicknessEd @notdred.bsky.social · 20hI think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs 663100495
Reposted by TheSicknessGarnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 44mThis story has been updated with a comment from one of the grantees that might make you go... huh? Dr. Marguerite Duane has links to the Heritage Foundation and one of the anti-abortion doctor groups that kicked off legal battles over mifepristone. 23324
Reposted by TheSicknessGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 1hPeople really believed Trump was only going to go after violent criminals and obviously he was lying 2246
Reposted by TheSicknessCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1hI want to hear nothing but horn-tooting. For everything. Every pothole filled. Every person who was able to get back on the ACA. Every kid in a school who ate a free breakfast. Let them know who to thank and who to hate for harming those people in the first place. 16111
Reposted by TheSicknessCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1hIf Democrats take power, they need to be very vocal and open about the legislative landmines Republicans set for them in 2027. Be transparent af. Name names and place blame where it belongs. 111025
Reposted by TheSicknessJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick lied to Congress about his ties to Epstein. Here’s an email where Lutnick arranges dinner w/Epstein on his private island; offers ages of his and friends’ kids. Lutnick ALSO knew about 9/11 ahead of time; fabricated an excuse to miss work in the North Tower on the day. 63216
Reposted by TheSicknessAndrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 3hMamdani has allocated $6.4 million to community orgs to address antisemitism and visited jews community leaders in every borough. Quit the fucking horseshit Islamophobia.forward.com'He has repeatedly capitulated to Zionist pressure’: Leftist groups to protest Mamdani on Oct. 7Roughly two dozen socialist and pro-Palestinian groups say Mamdani has let them down on Israel 0121
Reposted by TheSicknessAndrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 3hMayor Mamdani said that on October 7th Hamas committed "horrific war crimes". Demanding he attend a screening of an IDF documentary depicting said war crimes is performative nonsense targeting him because he is a muslim. 1564
Reposted by TheSicknessJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 3hI find this all quite despicable so good for her 11058
Reposted by TheSicknessBoo-ly, Little Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 5h"I wonder why they revere rapists at Cornell and other places" we think 2162
Reposted by TheSicknessJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 9hProbably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal 71215249
Reposted by TheSicknessR.J. @rjva.bsky.social · 21hMy thinking on this is that Democrats have a role to play in actually chastening Republicans by ensuring they finally face consequences for their blatant corruption and lawlessness. They dragged their feet in 2021-22 and can't repeat that mistake. 45811
Reposted by TheSicknessRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6hDude committed crimes on camera then signed his name to them online. 1629763
Reposted by TheSicknessCavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 6hIt would be nice if legacy media got even 50% as obsessed with this for like a week as they were for a full year under Biden.cnbc.comConsumer prices rose 3.7% annually in September as gas prices skyrocketThe consumer price index was expected to increase 0.6% in September on a monthly basis and 3.6% from a year ago, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast. 0285
Reposted by TheSicknessBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing 535778861
Reposted by TheSicknessThe Handlen, The Zack, And The Crypt @zhandlen.bsky.social · 6hThis is awesome. 012
Reposted by TheSicknesselias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 7hgreat review and this is totally right and it’s why a lot of people will always hate this movie 527440
Reposted by TheSicknessAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 6hBrilliant logic. I haven’t crashed my car this week, guess I’ll pull the airbags out.😐 861601324
Reposted by TheSicknessIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 8hThis should set off a siren in every defence ministry in Europe: there needs to be much more urgency about developing autonomous capabilities, not subject to US caprices, for early warning of attacks, countering ballistic missiles, communicating with forces or controlling offensive weapons. 31961390
Reposted by TheSicknessGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 7hThis is about helping Putin not the US economy. He found a convenient excuse to ditch the sanctions he’s always wanted to ditch. 03611
Reposted by TheSicknessGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 7hThe Trump economy is worse than the Biden economy on every meaningful measure 26317
Reposted by TheSickness🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 7hI’m pretty sure the only question that the Trumps have is how do you pay her off without putting her on TV 79111
Reposted by TheSicknessGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 7hThis is another reason he’s by far the worst ever. No matter what the crisis is faced by any given President or how disastrously they reacted, Trump would have handled it 100 times worse. Ironclad rule of Trump. 0171
Reposted by TheSicknessAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7hThis is yet another data point of why I tell people it is not better than trump just says “the quiet part loud” when it comes to American policy. It makes things *worse*. Thank whatever god u do or don’t pray to that he wasn’t President on 9/11 417831
Reposted by TheSicknessBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7hWe need to report more figures in daily life as percentages of net worth rather than raw numbers. We should also levy fines the same way. A $250 speeding ticket may be fully 2.5% of a poor person's net worth. It would also be equivalent to fining Elon Musk $2.5 billion. 421186
Reposted by TheSicknessSusan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 7hAnd there you go. They speculate they can kill without consequences because Trump put a bounty out on her. 2317
Reposted by TheSicknessAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7hDUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business: "We have the numbers. So ... it looks like inflation is accelerating. These numbers are higher than the previous month and higher than expectations" 28839001192
Reposted by TheSicknesse.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 8hit's darkly hilarious that foreign ministers think impotent rageposting on Elon Musk's social media platform is going to change Elon Musk's behavior 271072143
Reposted by TheSicknessSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 7hReporters should explicitly take the position that everything Zacharia says should be treated with extreme skepticism because she lied about something she knew not to be true on Day 1. 829371
Reposted by TheSicknessThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 8hNo one should have this kind of power. He needs to be neutered. 1935295
TheSickness @thesickness.bsky.social · 13hI’ll be curious when MUSK hits streaming where it’s more digestible in chunks if it hits harder. 020
Reposted by TheSicknessemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14hNon-zero chance Elon cut Starlink on his own bc the last thing the Masters of the Universe need is for people to understand data centers can be bombed. 331019425
TheSickness @thesickness.bsky.social · 14hThey also used to have a Prwsidential community service award my high school that I work at participated in. You’ll be shocked to learn that office hasn’t been keeping up with it either. 000
Reposted by TheSicknessJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 14hAt first I was like, "No way is the Sickos image 20 years old," but then I realized I've been reading The Onion, in print and online, for over 30 years now Struggling to process this knowledge 35917
Reposted by TheSicknessPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15hOkay so I saw the four-hour Musk doc and let me just say that that is a long time to watch the wealthiest most self-absorbed tool in the world being all of the things that he is 481424128
Reposted by TheSicknessemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15hIncidentally, there are two versions of how Trump responded to Tucker Carlson's warnings about the Iran War: Maggie and Swan: It'll work out, it always does Tucker to Inskeep: We all die anyway 124854
Reposted by TheSicknessrespectful huff @alexqarbuckle.bsky.social · 18hLena Dunham in HBO pitch writing GIRLS on the whiteboard, then wiping away the S so it says GIRL, then adding a dollar sign so it says GIRL$, then wiping it all away and writing ARLI$$ 131430156
Reposted by TheSicknessDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 15hHad not realized that Instagram followed Twitter in turning the blue check into stupid bullshit you can just buy. Zuck's such a pathetic little lamprey. 933925