Reposted by Tim WattsFietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10hEverywhere you look there's public concern and even outrage over ebikes, largely brought on by emotos, but that's not what bothers me. What bothers me is the blind eye to Suburbans, Tahoes, Wagoneers, and lifted commuter pickup trucks making our streets truly deadly and no one even takes notice. 512318
Reposted by Tim WattsEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12hAbout 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous. 1055074
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 19hHeadline from the near future: Sam Altman Is Getting Fed Up With Your Insolence. 000
Reposted by Tim WattsKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/10/2026This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives. 7632197
Reposted by Tim Wattsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973661431
Reposted by Tim WattsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture. 771942763
Reposted by Tim WattsRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...cnn.comInside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN PoliticsMigrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. 44337151864
Reposted by Tim WattsBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1222981776
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Golly, I wonder if that *majority* of legislators could put their heads together and figure out a way to change the law. 000
Reposted by Tim WattsCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026RAISES NEW QUESTIONS, New York Times? RAISES NEW QUESTIONS? How about REVEALS THE DEPTH OF WITKOFF'S AND KUSHNER'S CORRUPTION?nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 58731
Reposted by Tim WattsLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026"For a liberal watching this particular right-wing circlejerk, this all seems puzzling. It’s a bunch of kids going ape over their college football team, which is some quintessentially American shit." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White NationalismThat is the entire point. 1186
Reposted by Tim WattsGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/10/2026Yale President McInnis is currently trying to cut a deal with Trump's white supremacist administration over admissions policies. Incredibly shameful. Demonstrators turned the hell out to say NO. Huge admiration for these students and faculty members and alums. 118948
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Summing up Hegseth with precision.youtube.comPete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser ImaginableYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 000
Reposted by Tim WattsNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Stocks surge on news of terrible jobs report. 2273658
Reposted by Tim WattsCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“.. shifting away tens of millions of dollars in a move that signals that Republicans no longer see a path to winning the state ..” @nytimes.com #NCsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u... 25565124
Reposted by Tim WattsKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/10/2026We surveyed 210 of the most active climate communicators across the US and Canada. Only one pair reported both collaborating with each other AND sharing information with each other. Key results below. Read the full report here: talkingclimate.com/landscape-as... 57222
Reposted by Tim WattsAaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The most dangerous part of Trump's corruption isn't the money he's pocketed. It's the precedent he's setting: that a president can be openly transactional and face zero consequences. #PayToPlayPresident 32618192
Reposted by Tim WattsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US. 181981696
Reposted by Tim WattsSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He’s appointing the “weirdo, beardo, and fatty” he just banned from the military. 815041
Reposted by Tim WattsJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They voted in a secret ballot to stop memorials to slaughtered Jews. Because of course they did. Why stop? People will step on them, they claimed. That’s the point; the stones are in the course of everyday life. Gift article. German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jewsnytimes.comGerman Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews (Gift Article)Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery. 1010038
Reposted by Tim WattsMatt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We actually don't hate this administration enough 12476392388
Reposted by Tim WattsSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 28/09/2026Trump is selling nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia despite reported US intelligence that the Saudis still want a bomb—while the Trumps have taken billions in bribes from the Saudis. This is Trump corruption at the expense of US national security. Stop the deal. 31811362
Reposted by Tim WattsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752441428
Reposted by Tim WattsProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026DraftKings has argued that its ‘responsible gaming’ system provides adequate safeguards to protect customers from spiraling out of control. So I decided to find out: If I bet like a compulsive gambler, would DraftKings stop me? by Jake Pearsonpropublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 12593212
Reposted by Tim WattsTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy to be speaking with @hcrichardson.bsky.social tonight! 15750144
Reposted by Tim WattsBock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wow!!! What a full house in Maine! Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for promoting Troy Jackson. Maine peeps, it is time to vote for someone who cares for you! 4512109
Reposted by Tim WattsJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rufo routinely boasts on main about the disingenuous tactics he plans to use to manipulate public opinion & the idiot press… and somehow it often works anyway. He’s not subtle about it! 6604
Reposted by Tim Wattsgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4622111309
Reposted by Tim WattsMother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”motherjones.comTrump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity." 85326194
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Truth and reconciliation" sounds like "if you 'fess up all will be forgiven" which is, I think, what they did in SA. We absolutely do not want that. Accountability and Prosecutions. 000
Reposted by Tim WattsGreg Shill @gregshill.com · 28/09/2026Notably, travel times also did not increase outside the congestion zone. This mirrors what we have seen in other aggregate congestion pricing impacts. For example, it was predicted that drivers would change their routes to avoid the zone, creating new congestion; this, too, did not happen. 020455
Reposted by Tim WattsAviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why would an aspiring autocrat want to support the cultivation of critical thinking? 1224283
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Are you sure it didn't say "--Advertisement--" above the headline? 000
Reposted by Tim WattsSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government: 37814398
Reposted by Tim WattsAnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#WeekLforLookingIn #AlphabetChallenge Looking into an okra flower 🌱🐝 2785
Reposted by Tim WattsThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What is amazing is that it's becoming conventional wisdom AMONG REPUBLICANS that the war is going to lead to an epic wipeout yet Senate Republicans, including those in big midwestern farm states, where diesel is killing farmers, will not stand up to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comSenate rejects measure to block Trump from ordering more strikes on IranThe administration ignored passage of a similar resolution in June, arguing that it lacks the force of law. 45725
Reposted by Tim WattsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026wow. weird. you mean making republicans vote on things, even when the good side loses, generates news coverage and frames the story in the way that democrats want? wow. weird. obviously better to say "the votes aren't there" and never try, right? yep. yep. yep. yep. 5474104
Reposted by Tim Watts🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123505255
Reposted by Tim WattsProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o... 9628621192
Reposted by Tim WattsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary. 8141901741
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hard to believe the person who hid in the trunk of the president's limo to be near him would do something like that! 000
Reposted by Tim WattsRobin Marty @robinmarty.com · 24/09/2026I haven't come here for fundraising in a while but our trans health program needs $$ for adult patient surgery letters. We can't write, but refer& fund, and are trying to help people as fast as possible. We had more than 400 visits since Jan, and many of them are hoping to take this next step. TY!wawchealth.networkforgood.comHelp us support our trans patientsGender affirming care is more than just appointments Obtaining affirming care when you are trans is not easy in Alabama. Hormones are banned until a person is 19 years of age, there are very few provi... 15046
Reposted by Tim WattsBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/09/2026GREBELINGS ON TIMELINE 🪶 🐣 5636107
Reposted by Tim WattsJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 24/09/2026“That’s the danger, where it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...nytimes.comBattle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs HigherThe use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care. 521897
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He says he doesn't know his address. But when he expounds on it he's really saying he doesn't know the zip code associated with his credit card's billing address. That's a distinctly 1%er's problem. 080
Tim Watts @timwatts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yes we lost some fine intellectual dexterity. But for a beautiful moment we created some great shareholder value. 001
Reposted by Tim WattsLA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Raw Story: RFK Jr's security costs were partly covered by money to fight Black infant deaths by shifting about $12 million from the Office of Minority Health to help pay for Kennedy's protection. Nothing says pro-life quite like stealing from helpless black babies. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed 33502298
Reposted by Tim WattsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188113851