Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9hThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening. 361555373
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6hTroy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong." 9463891829
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7hOssoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 407111302495
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1193057537
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 773800947
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7938951132
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing. 1764155
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 108106031801
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026imagine 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 312297600
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322939639
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means. 421367175
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$. 341621445
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 8620301249
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between 22995195
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A 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. 37253421837
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialjamelle @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 973724438
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic. 352360389
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal. 251661267
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals 181178303
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I believe the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment in all circumstances but the absurd joke of "lethal injection" is even more cruel and unusual than the others. A violent fiction to fool bystanders into thinking that they are witnessing a humane execution. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...nytimes.comTennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)Christa Pike, who was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995, was set to be executed by lethal injection. Officials had gone ahead with the execution after a temporary court-ordered pause. 1159499
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 602611418
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves. 19749209
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @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 @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true. 1564374
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialrev. 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 @tvodrey.bsky.socialNute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else 51297186
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering. 331881330
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026they like rape and rapists, is the thing. 11794116
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7879031408
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i don't care what the official unemployment rate is, no one has viral discussions about "what totally innocuous thing at a job interview will cause the hirer to irrationally reject your candidacy" in a strong labor market 16828120
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 640106121977
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12771111698
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s so cool that every American elite is desperate to stop having to think for themselves or learn anything 27924134
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884015697
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialtransylvan(ian) 🧛🏼 @illpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026imagine being 40 points underwater on "people wanting you to stay alive" 492949593
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... 8634291342
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026huge cuts to our healthcare and infrastructure, bags of cash for the gulf monarchies 1123252
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026they want to loot and destroy our country. tearing it down to the studs and shipping the money out 550991
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886292302
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19/09/2026Update: The Trump administration is considering proposals for at least 12 data centers and data center-related infrastructure projects to be built on federal public landswashingtonsun.comTrump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously KnownThe data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states. 88663
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy” 583460464
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran? 371670366
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers." 983163530
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it is remarkable that this has happened despite a near-unanimous effort from mainstream politicians and news media to prevent it from happening. there's some hope there 273323652
Reposted by @tvodrey.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Weird, she ‘moderated’ on trans rights and yet her opponent is still calling her a deranged leftist SJW. If only there was some kind of precedent for this so it could have been predicted in advance. 402941431
