Reposted by My Chemical BromanceSam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026yes hegseth should be impeached but perhaps more importantly he needs to spend the rest of his life in prison 1051146
Reposted by My Chemical Bromancerev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026we need to take the Times out of the hands of the Sulzbergers 19913
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imagine if we simply left murders by students on college campuses to be punished by colleges, using only the internal punishments they are able to inflict. We would find it insane and intolerable. Rape isn't that far off in terms of severity. Why are we putting utterly unsuited orgs in charge? 729353
My Chemical Bromance @wallymcfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dorian Gray’s picture is out there having the time of its life, I can tell you that much 000
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.axios.comU.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new lowLabor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade. 27732264
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103544412
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution. 562271533
My Chemical Bromance @wallymcfly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We need to figure out how to do this in reverse 000
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death" 14813219
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the pitch to the upper middle class for social democracy I think: you pay more in taxes and you may well get less in services, but you stop having to play a million little fucking adversarial high stakes minmax games 61678
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley 153649733
Reposted by My Chemical BromancePrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/202677% of Democratic voters agree Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. 74% oppose additional economic and military aid to Israel. So far, only Rashida Tlaib and Chris Rabb are signed onto this campaign to keep the officials complicit in that genocide out of future administrations: 326261
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685352214
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026It really is worth remembering just last year the conventional wisdom on immigration was that people supported mass deportation to such a degree people should be cautious in opposing the Trump administration snatching people and sending them to CECOT. 312039434
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150263941
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable 382911354
Reposted by My Chemical Bromancerev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026in 2021 there was clearly a directive at the NYT to find a minority and throw them up against the wall just to prove that the NYT isn't going to let BLM or its own staff walk all over them 459466
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 12/09/2026A bunch of Israeli politicians said “we will destroy Gaza” and then the IDF blew up the hospitals and shot starving people with snipers and killed everybody in the NICU so all the preemies died but prominent people will still argue with you under their own names about whether or not that’s genocide 51571379
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him. 534294832
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/09/2026the memory of 9/11 has been used to sell beer, toys, titty restaurants, and an entire series of horrific moral and geopolitical errors, from a worldwide network of secret torture sites to a monumentally stupid war executed by monumentally stupid people 120233
Reposted by My Chemical Bromancerev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026i think we should offer limited amnesty to the corporations themselves in exchange for giving up the leaders 840838
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the point here is not rendering justice, it is setting future expectations. we can't control thermostatic electoral behavior. we can teach a very painful lesson that Democrats will punish corruption when they take power 251669
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026we are going to have to do this with the military too. Senior leadership that went along with things like murdering hundreds of randos in boats have to be publicly made examples of 162081
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026if companies see that democrats will punish them for abetting Trump-like figures, they will be more cautious about going all-in on someone who will disappear in 4-8 years 143838
My Chemical Bromance @wallymcfly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We don’t consider enough that flagship media likely has a groyper too 000
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.nytimes.comU.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate TargetCarbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns. 481808579
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps MOREOVER, using "emergency" conditions to degrade the conditions in concentration camps was partly how death rates went from a few percent to catastrophic (via www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...) 112467
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026How to win in November 48125033370
Reposted by My Chemical Bromance🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In reversal, Seth Moulton thrown under bus by trans people 121325202
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/09/2026 234009403
My Chemical Bromance @wallymcfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They’re saying no man was ever more in the closet 000
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In my absolute, ideal world, even the liberals on the court lose their robes for this. I don't care what sort of dark night of the soul you had about it, you signed the death warrant of the republic, you should all fall on your swords 14717114
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hegseth is a garbage person for many reasons but top of the list is he's a literal murderer who should spend the rest of his life in prison. That's not to minimize his many other offenses but I do think it's worth keeping in mind the obnoxious hateful buffoon is first and foremost a serial killer. 171227241
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For? 121173351
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults: 251621362
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 31/08/2026this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept 4147456
My Chemical Bromance @wallymcfly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026One thing democratic candidates need- and which bsky can actually act as a lab for! -is to develop punchy, memorable, condensed arguments for court reform. Language for a general audience that will stick in their minds like the worst earworm you’ve ever heard 000
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer. 8032471202
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Elon Musk is a world historical mass murderer whose actions will lead to the preventable death of millions and the implications of that are horrifying so Very Serious People make a huge performance of scoffing at the suggestion but it is the dry spreadsheet reality of what he did. 91335245
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere 392549390
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"Both the DSA IC and Psycho Israeli Irredentism Apologists have to go" is such an easy W that many refuse. 2657
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views 632323480
Reposted by My Chemical Bromanceve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/08/2026One of my weird beliefs is that way too much of our understanding of social media behaviors got explained as being caused by algorithms instead of by collective social behavior simply because the social media platforms researchers studied were algorithmic and they led with that assumption. 916127
My Chemical Bromance @wallymcfly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Jesus, what do we actually do about the media? I mean, fuck if I know, but I also don’t see how we begin to get out of this mess without addressing the massive elephant in the room 010
Reposted by My Chemical BromancePapageno but with IBS @papagenobutwithibs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Unironically would like to see Dem candidates hounded into disavowing Jonathan Chait and David Frum 171095173
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceScreamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell 222582587
Reposted by My Chemical BromanceAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Something else - and no, I’m not making an original point here — that endlessly infuriates me about the trump administration’s siege of Springfield Ohio is that the Haitians are there primarily because they were invited there, largely by local conservative political and business leaders… 252679582
Reposted by My Chemical Bromance*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Stephen Marche: "the choice came down to either accepting severe but temporary economic instability or binding itself to a pseudodemocratic fiscal basket case of a nation whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity" 🎯 39529
