Reposted by Thistle313William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A few months ago, the House needed one vote to stop a bill giving tens of billions of dollars in funding for the war. It passed with Tom Barrett's support. 1214
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Finished A Divided Duty by @seananmcguire.bsky.social This was both wonderful and hard to read. Toby and her crew continue to deal with the fallout from Titania's reappearance in Fairy, which also means they have to deal with other aspects of their shared past. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #octoberdaye #urbanfantasy 000
Reposted by Thistle313I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026It should not be the case that higher education requires a six figure capital investment, that’s bullshit not kids getting higher education. 520331
Reposted by Thistle313Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 05/10/2026Yes! This was the third tip: "never say please or thank you." 😆 As they continue to anthropomorphize these further with cute avatars to keep us engaged, things like this become more and more important. These are just computer programs. I don't tell Excel "thank you" for running a macro. 45717
Reposted by Thistle313David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 30127583974
Reposted by Thistle313Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 03/10/2026U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies. It's not just "a few bad apples." 610458
Reposted by Thistle313Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The kids are alright. It's our job to do everything we can to build an economy where every kid can grow up and thrive. 8047311076
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 03/10/2026On the trades convo, I will just note that there are good reasons the UAW went for 30 and out. After 30 years, your body is a wreck. 012
Reposted by Thistle313Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone. 2791171
Reposted by Thistle313Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The right’s “nO moRE taXeS” refrain is such bullshit. Tax is good! Tax is how we get all the good things that we all rely on. We just need to make tax fair. Tax capital gains, tax the rich. 🎨 @slanecartoon.bsky.social 1532879876
Reposted by Thistle313👻spOOokika👻 @the17thqueen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Urban blue voters need to understand that if farm workers could vote, rural farming areas would turn blue overnight. But they can’t. Stop punishing rural America just because only landlords control the vote. 220745
Reposted by Thistle313Charlie 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... 11571802058
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19 000
Reposted by Thistle313Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong. 1575143
Reposted by Thistle313Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 321164584671
Reposted by Thistle313Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So is the White House, the Kennedy Center, and for that matter the Supreme Court, Congress, the executive branch, the rule of law, the military, public health, and.... Let's hope for a midterm landslide and thereafter some memory in the electorate of who broke what. 11518114
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ok, finished the suggested reading, plus SILVER AND LEAD. Is it Tuesday yet?!? 000
Reposted by Thistle313Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage 455801684
Reposted by Thistle313Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Massachusetts approach is the path forward: no laws of any kind should be permitted to target abortion care. We can’t treat the anti-abortion movement’s proposals as legitimate or in good faith. They are neither. 0199
Reposted by Thistle313K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026It would be nice if we discoursed about why companies are demanding people work for less than living wages and ridiculous experience metrics, why they expect people to work all hours and never take time off. Why sick leave has vanished rather than whatever nonsense is happening over iced coffee. 33411
Reposted by Thistle313Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When I talk to voters I don’t talk about “abolishing the Senate”. I talk about shortening the election cycle to six weeks so they aren’t bombarded with political ads year-round. It is amazing how popular our goals can be. Especially in swing states. 1223
Reposted by Thistle313Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421663464
Reposted by Thistle313Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don't know anything about this guy, but this is undeniably a clever and fun ad. 33894204
Reposted by Thistle313My Civic Workout @mycivicworkout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Civic Workout #503 Getting Ready for October 17: No Kings 🚫👑 Mobilizing for a blue wave #nokings 111
Reposted by Thistle313TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563202436
Reposted by Thistle313Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat. 6879198
Reposted by Thistle313Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“I used a robot” shouldn’t be a legal defense. 072
Reposted by Thistle313Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When AI companies sell their tech as anti-consumer products, they are building the opposition to AI. The opposition isn’t because people haven’t tried the technologies yet. It is because too many voters have had the technologies used against them. 095
Reposted by Thistle313Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026They dragged this man out of the hospital with a bullet still in his body. The tribunals are swiftly becoming the tedious centrist position. 217627
Reposted by Thistle313K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 21/09/2026Hey so we're going to see a lot more of these polls. They have a chilling effect on voting bc we think someone else will do the work. If we've learned ANYTHING over the last ten years, it's that we cannot count on anyone else doing the work. WE have to do the work. Voting is work. 19838
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 21/09/2026These books are so good! I re-read them yearly. This year's re-read was in January/February, so I am re-reading selected books to get ready for the new book on the 29th of this month. There is a lot of blood though. No, more than that. No, even more than that. You get used to it. 000
Reposted by Thistle313Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you know what kind of a piece of shit you have to be for Rupert Murdoch to say you've gone too nazi. 0617
Reposted by Thistle313Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The thing is, cis people who like to yell at us on social media when we say things like "wow that candidate said some transphobic shit" is that we know it seems like it will be easier to make us shut up than to change your candidate's mind. But you really need to stop and think for a minute. 222861
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not the main thrust of this piece, and yet, the part I am thinking about. 000
Thistle313 @thistle313.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What would public schools look like if we truly valued public education for everyone? 110
Reposted by Thistle313Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Hey, all we do is call balls and strikes and secretly accept money from teams that are playing in the games we officiate." --Shoeless John Roberts 022
Reposted by Thistle313Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends. 24948401997
Reposted by Thistle313Jeremy Gibbs @gibbs.science · 19/09/2026These folks pick and choose when objects have agency. Their toys might be taken? “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Their toys may not make back their investment and they need a bailout, “AI will kill us”. It’s so weird how the choice of agency always shields them from responsibility. 112444
Reposted by Thistle313Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I will also add that I think it takes tremendous bravery to be trans, and that living your best life is a net positive for the world, and the best comics are about being the best you you can be. So of course I would love trans people, like I love my favorite superheroes. 555458
Reposted by Thistle313Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18/09/2026Part of what Mamdani is doing is explaining to people how government works. We've had 50 years of the GOP making sure it doesn't do anything but hurt and troll, while they yell that it's useless. Mamdani is like "no, it's for fixing shit and making decisions" andstatic.klipy.comSurprised Pikachu Face - Mind Blown MemeAlt: Surprised Pikachu Face - Mind Blown Meme 121106200
Reposted by Thistle313Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's the simplest thing, these little videos, to show that government is working, and more to the point, working for you. It kicks the teeth out of that old Reaganism about how the scariest statement is "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." 9794172
Reposted by Thistle313Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Paxton wanted to put parents in jail simply for caring for their children. When we consider trans people and our families part of the community, trans rights ARE about loyalty, safety and family. That is what Republicans are afraid of. 082
Reposted by Thistle313Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Some people argue AI will be so smart it will “solve” climate change. We already have smart people who solved climate change. The oil industry spent BILLIONS making sure we ignored them. Smart is not enough. AI won’t save us from ourselves. Laws protect people, the environment & our future. 1176
