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Thomas V. Bona

@tvbona.bsky.social
1.3K followers 2.9K following 5.9K posts

Bronx boy, NY sports fan, Electric Mennonite researching/writing about progressive politics, infrastructure, religion, music. Now with ADHD/anxiety expansion pack!

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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TERF Island wants to change name to Fire Island. I don't have the heart to tell them.
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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the one hand, conservatives deny climate change exists and oppose policies to address it. On the other hand, liberals haven’t convinced conservatives that climate change exists and haven’t offered pain-free solutions. Hence, it’s complicated.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another great example. The media was so desperate for a scandal that they wrote up a guy asking for a diplomatic passport — and not getting it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I read recently that 20% of all mammals are bats. Statistically, that includes some of your friends.
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this entire discourse is totally pretend in 2026 because ain’t nobody getting interviewed or hired in this job market and even fewer unemployed people can afford iced coffee lol
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
real jobscels know that you shouldn’t bring a drink to an interview because a free coffee may be the only thing you get out of it
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This shit is why I stopped listening to Marketplace.
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Nick Digilio @nickdigilio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
See me and Rich Koz on stage at The Museum of Broadcast Communications and get a copy of my new book....signed by me! This is going to be amazing! Get your tickets NOW www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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A Frightful Afternoon with Nick Digilio & Rich 'Svengoolie' Koz
Join us for “A Frightful Afternoon” at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, celebrating the book release 40 Years, 40 Horror Films with Nick Digilio and…
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Short like his poll numbers.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Homer and bart painting a political sign that says SEX! Devoid of joy or passion! Vote for Rahm!
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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My thoughts are with the cohort of older millennials here who today are experiencing the bittersweet moment where you are aware you're finally about to be older than all the baseball players.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just saw a fundraising job for a nonprofit started by Jonathan Haidt. I’m confused because I thought he was so Obviously Right the money would pour in!
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Let Spotify's recommended tracks play while finishing up a job application. "I Will Possess Your Heart" is a bit much.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mood:
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I KNEW that "sticks and stones" saying was rubbish!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I cannot explain it but this song is somehow cheering me up.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
Today, it’s country music that — for all its commercial success — represents the underdog. As diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives accord advantages to everyone except straight white men; as globalization and an urban, knowledge-based economy have impoverished and emptied out rural communities; and as trust in institutions including higher education and the federal government declines, the culture of rural working-class whites can symbolize an unconstrained way of life that stands apart from the stifling, all-encompassing H.R. bureaucracy that everyone else lives in.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the worst thing that’s ever been written but I do love the idea that rap music now represents a stifling all encompassing HR bureaucracy, I reject the Yin Yang Twins attempts to get me to dress in business casual clothing and spend all day in an office being lectured to
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I know the facts but LALALALALALALA”
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes let’s give Republicans supermajorities instead. That’ll fix it! 🙄
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And yet you persist in “the facts don’t count.”
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fun fact, SCOTUS and the filibuster were invented last week. And the brief time they had 60 votes in the Senate … hoooo boy … a lot of Dakotas.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey mi blanco, you either didn’t read or didn’t understand or didn’t care about the big ol notes in your “evidence” how the “white … guy”part ain’t it:
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everything is fight theater with extremely online leftists.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Arm-twister”? Because he got 41 Republicans to do Republican 101 things???
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is depressing how uninformed good-hearted people On Here are.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ah yes, the well-documented efficacy of “videos and viral marketing” to effect national systems-level political change. I am embarrassed for you.
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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Genuinely hilarious how these people think they can forever run as “outsiders” even as an incumbent.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
43% of Republicans is wild, given they overwhelmingly still support Trump. Just openly admitting forever wars and deficits and 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ is fine so long as someone “on their side” is doing it. Pure white Christian patriarchal nationalism always was the biggest driver. Happy 250.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mamdani woulda just “cool video”’d SCOTUS and the filibuster into submission.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NYC politics fries pundit brains:
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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Almost impossible to conceive of a photograph with a higher Pure Cool score than this one
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just heard a concert hall full of Mennonites sing Bon Iver. This is the future liberals want.
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Joseph Freshwater @timbaffoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
His paintings of what now?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ya don’t say
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You can’t even blame a stroke for what happened to this guy. Used to respect the hell out of him. White privilege comes for us all if we’re not vigilant.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For some reason I felt the need to revisit the only movie I've ever flipped off in the theater - The Life of David Gale. No, I'm not rewatching it. For now, I'll share this @michaelhobbes.bsky.social/@notalawyer.bsky.social bait ... Gale was a professor at the then-fictional University of Austin 😆
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Position player pitching
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m at the A&W. I’m at the Long John Silver’s. I’m at the combination A&W Long John Silver’s.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Photo © Mark Kavanagh, 2003. Source: Ktransit.com.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I either missed Arnade’s inevitable run to the Free Press or blocked it out. I feel prescient and/or learn from the best. Such as Jamelle.
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Thomas V. Bona @tvbona.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@moiradonegan.bsky.social I’m just now listening to Carl Schmitt part 1 and your “like the 2016 Democratic primary” GAVE ME SO MUCH LIFE 🤣
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Mark Andrew Price @pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hold on I’m gonna flick this big red button.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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