Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16himagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's 312121547
Reposted by Tony Fischerpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18h*through a mouthful of road salt* WHUGH??? 272266160
Reposted by Tony FischerKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 4heven pseudo-growth obsessed Wall Street is like: this sucksvariety.comWall Street Skittish on Skydance as Stock Drops Further Post-MergerShares in the post-merger Skydance were down nearly 8% as of 10:40 ET on Wednesday, hovering at a share price of $8.84. 1124346
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1hyes a key difference between the maga cult and the centrist cult is that the maga cult alternate reality exists in order to let them do heinous things and the centrist cult exists in order to let them not do anything bsky.app/profile/offt... 125822
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1hthe centrists are living in a simulated alternate reality just as much as the trump cultists are 734223
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1hwild that centrists are doing "are the wacko libs intolerant for cutting off their conservative parents" discourse on the same day we find out a dem congressional candidate got violently raped while campaigning 962484
Reposted by Tony Fischerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 9ha “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 341452247
Reposted by Tony FischerDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.com‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdownDemocrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America. 8639683
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Biden quietly intervening to stop Bolsonaro Sr's coup is one of the only times I can think of where anyone on "our side" did this type of intervention bsky.app/profile/wren... 624017
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Putin reached across borders in 2016 to help Trump come to power and MBS did again to help Trump retake power in 2024. There's absolutely no countervailing force opposing Trump from the outside. 527120
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One thing that Trumpism has made clear over and over again is that the global far right understands itself to be in a ideological alliance the helps itself across borders, and the center and left largely do not. 12614128
Reposted by Tony FischerScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Three elected Alabama public officials, all Republicans, were running a human trafficking ring. They were arrested and booked this weekend. weartv.com/news/local/a...weartv.comThree Alabama officials among 17 arrested in Atmore undercover prostitution stingESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. -- Three public officials in Alabama were among the 17 people arrested Friday in a multi-day undercover prostitution sting in Escambia Cou 63818505
Reposted by Tony FischerKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/10/2026it's almost as if all the money in media goes to people who actively choose to avoid challenging wealth and power 59921
Reposted by Tony FischerTeleportnow🍃🍂🍁 @teleportnow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026She’s right. The establishment won’t give it up. They need to have control of the party snatched out of their nerveless fingers and given to people who will exercise power on behalf of human constituents. 051
Reposted by Tony FischerDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026AOC at tonight's NYC fundraiser for El-Sayed, per audio I received: "If Abdul can win in Michigan, anyone can win anywhere...we are going to break the map everywhere because that is what it will take to guarantee health care to everyone in the United States." 419632
Reposted by Tony Fischerzenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Now I’m not saying I’m a better journalist than the writer, I’m not even a journalist, but yes, I’m a better journalist than the supposed Pulitzer winner who wrote that piece. Embarrassing. 288449
Reposted by Tony Fischerzenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup. 271832445
Reposted by Tony FischerKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 05/10/2026(pockets $550 Million Golden Parachute and $197 million in stock sales)thewrap.comDavid Zaslav Urges WB Staff to Move Forward as He Bids Farewell Ahead of Paramount Merger ClosingWarner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav said goodbye to staffers in a video message on the eve of the company's merger with Skydance. 2114441
Reposted by Tony FischerEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When your brother is literally the fucking LeBron James of publicists you’re gonna get a lot of microphones and cameras stuck in your face. 613412
Reposted by Tony FischerEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026if you’re wondering why we have to hear from and about this guy constantly it helps to remember that his brother Ari is the chairman of WME which is the merged version of William Morris and Endeavor. It’s the largest media group in the country. One of its clients is the NFL. It owns WWE. 96647180
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026if you are counting lines of a chart to prove — it’s arithmetic! QED! — that your ideology is the correct one, that is not so smart. 1214
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026it is also the case that most places do regulate rents in various ways and that most of those policies are not stupid, though they do entail trade-offs, and it’s not because everybody is corrupt and idiotic, and you, social media wonk, are smarter than everybody. 1175
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026none of this is to say that “rent control is good”! housing policy is incredibly multidimensional, anything you do will have effects desirable and undesirable, it is very much the case that some forms of rent control under some sets of circumstances have been very harmful. 1134
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026but @jburnmurdoch.ft.com tendentious chose one, zero-sum-sounding thing to score as a benefit he could overwhelm with costs. 1142
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026but to ensure households individually can afford to remain housed where they are and to ensure the stability of actual communities of people that might otherwise be disrupted by market forces. these might be two more green lines! 2266
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026there is quiet propaganda in the choice of what to list: the main reason for rent stabilization isn’t to save existing renters money per se… 1174
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026if the former, rents on other apartments are expected to rise and availability of other apartments expected to fall. that is, using rent control to preserve existing community members ability to remain works as advertised, but @jburnmurdoch.ft.com blithely tallies that as two losses. 2184
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026as @jburnmurdoch.ft.com mentions later in the thread, effects are contingent upon overall conditions, is the purpose of the rent control to ensure existing renters maintain access to undersupplied housing, or is it to maintain stability even where housing is reasonably abundant? 1164
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026but “rent control” policies are extraordinarily heterogeneous, and these effects are dependent upon details. is this traditional “hard” rent control — the state sets rents — or vacancy decontrolled rent stabilization? 3/ 2334
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026it’s not wrong that “rent control” has lots of effects good and bad, and that one should think hard about lots of things before imposing any form of rent regulation! 2/ 1213
Reposted by Tony FischerSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/10/2026this kind of chart doubles down on the dumb in “social science” and economics. the dumb comes from lossily compressing complex phenomena into rankable scalars, then using arithmetic and ranking to launder claims into “scientific” truths. 1/ 35219
Reposted by Tony FischerAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what. 277136623461
Reposted by Tony Fischerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026a volcano eruption that lowers global temperatures by about 1.5 degrees would hit like crazy right now 45135391
Reposted by Tony FischerMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets. 243139372479
Reposted by Tony FischerKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/10/2026@markruffalo.bsky.social kicked ass throughout this entire effort and is 100% correct Next year when the debt-triggered layoffs drop all the dems who buckled to Larry Ellison's threats will be nowhere to be foundvariety.comMark Ruffalo Says Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will ‘Stifle Creativity’ and ‘Weaken Free Speech’: It ‘Should Never Have Been Approved’Mark Ruffalo is speaking out against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger once again. 017537
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026leave aside the GOP, it also did not stop the political news media from covering the Hunter story as if it were a corrupt scandal rather than Biden bending over backwards to let a Republican fuck his son over. 869488
Reposted by Tony FischerDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My take is that Hunter is a failson and overall bad person but that he clearly was lawfare'd to hurt his dad. 831110
Reposted by Tony FischerDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ 22892121
Reposted by Tony Fischerthegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work. 32597893217
Reposted by Tony FischerThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022. trib.al/JEL6WB3trib.alJohn Fetterman Helps GOP Block Probe Into Israeli Murders of AmericansNine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022. 19188120
Reposted by Tony FischerLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is a pretty stunning thing to admit 232157412
Reposted by Tony Fischer8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this is how a cartoon dog would stand if it was about to be lifted in the air by the aroma of a delicious pie 892628285
Reposted by Tony Fischermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing 151093172
Reposted by Tony Fischerrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program 441667287
Reposted by Tony FischerRoblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's insane that we would allow someone who orchestrated a coup to stay in office last time to run for president again knowing full well the only way he leaves peacefully next time is in a coffin 611230248
