Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11hYes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 404227567
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20hIf you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 863342964
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 19hA Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 29048291654
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 145103762241
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president… 275166435772
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22896963087
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026 44145552741
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes it makes the art bad 441344133
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 465142342843
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12629731773
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1515362809
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes 1865512480
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."welcometohellworld.comWaiting for the next Mr. DeathI don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured 333680
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialmallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what the fuck? the right lost *Third Way*? 8741121
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 766286695988
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.propublica.orgA Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But... 22624791197
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 274128302111
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialKate Willett Hate Account @antifamanchin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh my god 17588769
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All of you know this, but any time some centrist loser starts talking about how a social policy will only benefit the wealthy what they really mean is they don't want anything to benefit anyone. 9663101
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president theonion.comCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The FutureITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri... 231547216
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2634209925726
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1284187676131
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134463773
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins 4559651114
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026Truly what encapsulates the past decade better than a person in a position of relative influence mistaking a smattering of social media criticism as not only an existential threat but a hallmark of her nefarious, powerful opponents? 518318
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954161200
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info" 332556540
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6855461027
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Are people who don’t listen to modern pop country better than people who do listen to modern pop country? Yes, obviously. 522723266
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147841745
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct 423347441
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092963068
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596023540
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026OH MY GOD WHAT A LION 2298897
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?" 8189102563
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought 784368854
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup 1192749306
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case. 412099715
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This puts mainstream Democrats in a real pickle. Should they support their incredibly popular mayor or a foreign leader who is best friends with Trump and works overtime to get Republicans elected. No easy answer here 362214374
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law. 2084599836
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Luke, 48, Mass., White, Independent., unemployed I thought he would have emerged from his pupa stage this time around. The chrysalis or whatever it is. From biology class. Remember that? Hell I thought we all would have. What was my teacher's name? Miss something or other. Brassy old broad. 2537
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Girl dinner 6274911670
Reposted by @truetorment.bsky.socialInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe. 10971101378
