Reposted by M. VelezThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 168105521993
Reposted by M. VelezJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21hIt's not "super intelligence." It's not even "intelligence." It continues to fuck up easy questions, like to whom I dedicated my most recent book. Also, Mike Johnson is a craven, simpering weasel and none of the people standing near him in this video respect him even the tiniest bit. 4079586
Reposted by M. VelezJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21hi wish baseball teams could resolve their differences without resorting to baseball 422420542
Reposted by M. VelezJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21hHow is it possible that we’re still here twelve years later 529267
Reposted by M. VelezKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22hA man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15182531469
Reposted by M. VelezThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-… 263066454
Reposted by M. VelezSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The GOP is going to get worse before it gets worse 6849
Reposted by M. VelezThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Area Dad Sure Knows A Lot About Local Weather Woman theonion.com/area-dad-sure-knows-a-… 895665
Reposted by M. VelezLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026“Elon Musk is the single greatest counter-argument against capitalism to ever exist. The man has grown his inheritance of apartheid wealth into a business empire sustained by a seemingly infinite supply of failed promises and absurd predictions.” www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...liberalcurrents.comTax the Wealthy, Not WealthDon’t miss the forest for the tallest trees. 18346119
Reposted by M. VelezAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already" 6781722460
Reposted by M. VelezAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026John Kennedy keeps asking Jack Smith questions about his wife. Smith repeatedly tells him he's not going to talk about his family. 3882806572
Reposted by M. VelezThe Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think probably the long 20th century ends between 2007 and 2012 and the 21st century begins between 2008 and 2013. At least in terms of American history. 1101
Reposted by M. VelezSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/09/2026Interesting that conservatives are concerned about ruining the lives of male college students accused of rape but have little concern for the lives of girls and women forced to give birth against their will 19918
Reposted by M. VelezLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Libraries do not mess around. 2531838
Reposted by M. VelezJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026run this as an ad right now 211048213
Reposted by M. VelezTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance... 1822348849
Reposted by M. VelezMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I will go so far as to say Jamelle has more followers on here than Rahm Emanuel will get votes 527218
Reposted by M. VelezMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They’ll say they just want a Christian country but turn around & deport Haitians & Mexican. Then they just want a country of English speakers, or job creators, but the b they are after South Asians. The longer you delay just identifying them as racists the greater their advantage 614322
Reposted by M. VelezRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate. 61139284
Reposted by M. VelezHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pope can’t resist his pizza. 514109861860
Reposted by M. VelezPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Someone’s finally giving him something besides another White Sox jersey. 2567
Reposted by M. VelezA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963600653
Reposted by M. VelezRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats. 372285462
Reposted by M. VelezKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney. 35890170
Reposted by M. VelezKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes" 1152660526
M. Velez @thunderstick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy to be sponsoring the CSAM Generator/Nazi Bar are ya', Home Depot? 000
Reposted by M. VelezMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"X is better now than ever." 981647196
Reposted by M. VelezLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026"Soviet propaganda had to break into an American's media diet from the outside, past editors and gatekeepers who decided what got printed. Modern influence operations do not break in at all. They are already inside, sitting in the feed between a cousin's wedding album and a meme about gas prices."liberalcurrents.comSocial Media Has Not Brought LiberationSocial media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies. 2217
Reposted by M. VelezSuzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-year-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept that she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?” 616839
Reposted by M. VelezNathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026💯💯💯💯💯 If we’re serious about the Third Reconstruction, we must hold the Trump administration and its enablers accountable for their many crimes and human rights abuses. 0106
Reposted by M. VelezJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend. 772045433
Reposted by M. VelezEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2023It's also worth noting in this context that in the United States "marital rape" - that is: the rape of a woman by the man to whom she's married - has only been illegal in all 50 states since 1993. Nineteen ninety-three. (And there are still a lot of loopholes npr.org/2019/05/04/7...) 9/ 1446
Reposted by M. VelezMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential. 353662764
Reposted by M. Velez@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell? 46733288
Reposted by M. VelezAmi Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors? 23530141
Reposted by M. Velezjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83124601876
Reposted by M. VelezHeadquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days. 144655831628
Reposted by M. VelezDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'd like to see James Talarico wiggle his way out of this jam 2682477
Reposted by M. VelezAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else 232479610
Reposted by M. VelezAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if i were a foreign government looking for an edge, id probably try to convince america that climate change is woke bull shit and combustion engines are for real men with penises, all while also convincing them to invest every dollar in bull shit tech while we take the lead on green energy 9637105
Reposted by M. VelezNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31794616
Reposted by M. VelezJill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12706369
Reposted by M. VelezEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Be brave enough to stand up for the vulnerable even if you believe it won't work. Be brave enough to be that person. For the love of God and the lives & futures of actual human people, be brave. 25813
Reposted by M. VelezThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026Man Tries To Save Marriage By Complimenting Wife’s Jacket theonion.com/man-tries-to-save-marr… 24123780
Reposted by M. VelezRuairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026✨Bullet Shattered Cafe windows in Paris 1944 by Photographer Lee Miller✨🇨🇵💥 323754
Reposted by M. VelezThe Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point. 17439129
Reposted by M. VelezAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 08/09/2026Facebook as currently constructed is incompatible with multiracial, multicultural, electoral democracy 5346108
Reposted by M. VelezMike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not knowing who directed Return Of the Jedi is true, deep fandom. If you know who it was, then you’re a fake fan. 201075