Reposted by GreenthinksAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8751411860 0
Reposted by GreenthinksScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 04/12/2025It’s “racial discrimination” only when minorities benefit; otherwise it is “sparkling gerrymandering.” 417535 0
Reposted by GreenthinksAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr... 331608367 0
Reposted by Greenthinksnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...theverge.comEthics Statement | The VergeThe Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in vi... 741359 0
Reposted by GreenthinksRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Duncan is such an inspiration. And a badass. 041266 0
Reposted by GreenthinksA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches 242688371 0
Reposted by GreenthinksCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 21/09/2025it may be controversial but i seriously believe we’re at the point where we need to have NO KINGS demonstrations every goddamned day 1211419 0
Reposted by GreenthinksJessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...politico.comKamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her bookThe Trump campaign attacked Harris over her positions on transgender rights. She says they were misconstrued. 903659733 0
Reposted by GreenthinksBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment. 863397798839 0
Reposted by GreenthinksGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/09/2025Hey you ever wonder why the histories of resistance to Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa are full of references to making and disseminating fake passports? 04916 0
Reposted by GreenthinksRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/09/2025This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west. 1583485999 0
Reposted by GreenthinksKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan. 543210984816 0
Reposted by GreenthinksKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast. 146265796469 0
Reposted by GreenthinksMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Congressional Democrats can’t decide if they should cut a deal with the pedophile dictator who is trying to militarily invade their cities. Seems like a fairly obvious choice to me, but what do I know. 362295403 0
Reposted by Greenthinksmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025the reason bosses oppose work from home so strenuously is not because they think it doesn't work but because they think it's an awesome privilege that should be reserved for awesome people (like bosses), not given away to their ingrate employees 13911232 0
Reposted by GreenthinksNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It's not really inconsistent if the goal of the Constitution is seen as the violent maintenance of white supremacy. which is clearly the view of the conservative majority on scotus. 419854 0
Reposted by GreenthinksMatt Ortega @mattortega.com · 05/09/2025The combination of shitty AI and PragerU is going to obliterate our children's brains. 28579120 0
Reposted by Greenthinksmike_br @mikebr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025wow what a surprise that what's ultimately a supply-side economics argument would turn out to be full of right-wingers 118016 0
Reposted by GreenthinksDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines. 570265457761 0
Reposted by GreenthinksKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed. 470334709202 0
Reposted by GreenthinksJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...bostonglobe.comA DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston GlobeMichael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads. 10746581662 0
Reposted by GreenthinksRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Yeah. It’s happening here. 511721473 0
Reposted by GreenthinksAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 28/08/2025This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…” 534041228 0
Reposted by GreenthinksBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2025He's gonna make kids go to work camps because he can atmospherically deduce chakra misalignment. 42470591170 0
Reposted by GreenthinksDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Weakly argued piece, blandly written. Mostly hand-waving: Maybe a president demanding more seats from his party will be good for "democracy" bc voters will say "I don't like this." How can they register their disapproval? That's the point of a gerrymander, they can't! 161037181 0
Reposted by GreenthinksDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was. 101116443100 0
Reposted by GreenthinksProPublica @propublica.org · 16/08/2025We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal: 9832901409 0
Reposted by GreenthinksCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 16/08/2025Armed military in an American city — not to protect Americans, but to terrorize and suppress protest. Trump and Stephen Miller know their destructive economic policies are about to cause massive civil unrest, and they’re preparing the military to use deadly violence when it happens. 43614 0
Reposted by GreenthinksCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 16/08/2025Trump always announces the horrible shit he’s planning to do, and this nightmare in DC is just the start. Very soon we’ll be seeing armed military in other cities too. He’s planning nothing less than a military takeover. He has declared war on the US. We’re already in a second Civil War. 45314 0
Reposted by GreenthinksTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Worse, I tweeted about the stupid loud singing appliances and some people said they LIKED the “music” from their washing machine. I kind of blacked out. You deserve better than 1) reheated coffee and 2) washing machine music in your home. Love yourself more than that. Get a record player. 818410 0
Reposted by GreenthinksTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I once researched and pitched a piece on the singing washing machine being a sign of hostile shitty tech’s vision of our political future. That’s where I read a market research paper where industrial design psychologists said loud machines encourage clients to interact with it. INTERACT 1320011 0
Reposted by Greenthinksjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/08/2025ooh if you’re of polish, italian or irish descent…watch out 2962711506 0
Reposted by GreenthinksLydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult. 1943373883 0
Reposted by GreenthinksChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/08/2025‘Defend your culture.’ ICE sure sounds like it’s borrowing from Replacement Theory as a recruitment tool. Who exactly are they hoping will apply — white nationalists? 46136561218 0
Reposted by GreenthinksZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.gothamist.com11 more NYC libraries will soon open on SundaysA $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide. 276231274093 0
Reposted by GreenthinksPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 19/07/2025I, too, ensure my house looks like shit, like a dimwitted college student decorated it, because I’m terrified that someone somewhere might think I like men. 2145434 0
Reposted by GreenthinksNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18/07/2025the left did not lose the working class. the left lost white people, who it never had, who are considered to be the only working class, even when they're not working class, because that's how white supremacy functions. 21856210 0
Reposted by GreenthinksI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/07/2025Activating a national surveillance network to share with the police amidst a mass deportation push is comic book villainy. 16650262 0
Reposted by GreenthinksChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent. 882349515531 0
Reposted by GreenthinksDan Mauler 🎃 @meelar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025In the immigration system, the Real Americans are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the secret police, who arrest brown people, and the secret attorneys, who send them to concentration camps. These are their stories. *DUN DUN* 15386127 0
Reposted by GreenthinksRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/07/2025This is literally "Your papers, please." It's Stasi shit. That's what Homan is declaring, here. Anyone who "looks foreign" is subject to detainment and harassment. Fail to persuade ICE thugs of your citizenship, and you risk arrest. And we've all seen video of what happens if you try to turn away. 22932331133 0
Reposted by GreenthinksDenim @denim22.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Noticing a trend of podcasts where the entire premise is teaching everyone how to have a civil discussion with Nazis. That’s certainly not concerning. 0143 0
Reposted by GreenthinksWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/07/2025It is frankly pathetic. As someone with a very high level of exposure to right-wing antisemites, I can assure you many of them unabashedly want to eliminate Jews as a people. 41928 0
