Reposted by Zane ShelbyKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire. 9848197
Reposted by Zane ShelbyMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this was done *in the house* *by the minority* *on a bill that had to become law*, which is basically playing legislator on legendary mode and house judiciary was far from the only committee doing this, in both chambers 433976
Reposted by Zane ShelbyPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026Strictly speaking, I'm being inconsistent here. I am very much a Vote Blue No Matter Who partisan. The difference between Kaptur and Talarico is that *we have no margin in the Senate*. We will have margin in the House this year, and it's worth it to repudiate Kaptur's MAGA-style antitrans ads. 2191
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 18/09/2026If you're up for it, I'd love to hear more about the misinformation in question. 000
Reposted by Zane ShelbyStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence. 221132283
Reposted by Zane ShelbyVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have to emphasize that this is the literal, actual guy running the literal, actually DNC boosting El-Sayed 1352189
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 14/09/2026It’s right there in the post you’re replying to: “Can you give the names of the Democrats you think are *just as bad* as the Republicans on trans issues?” 120
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 14/09/2026No difference? You’re aware that Acton’s Republican opponent is Vivek Ramaswamy, right? The same Vivek Ramaswamy who supports outright banning gender-affirming care and said that “Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder.” What are we doing here? 140
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 14/09/2026Large accounts get large by posting content that goes viral, and nothing goes viral on social media the way righteous outrage does. And yeah, social media personalities garner more attention when their side is out of power. There’s a lot more stuff to post righteous outrage about! 1110
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 14/09/2026It’s not trans people’s fault, it’s yours. Pressuring Talarico to loudly and publicly support a policy that polls at ~26% won’t produce better outcomes for trans people, and you know it. You’re a wrecker. 100
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 14/09/2026Ask yourself: Why do you think that El-Sayed immediately pivots off the topic when someone asks him a question about it? www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/quic...lgbtqnation.comDemocrat Abdul El-Sayed slams Fox host for trying to make the election about trans kids - LGBTQ Nation"I'm here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sport?" 100
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 14/09/2026Engaging in a pressure campaign, weeks out from an election, to force a Democratic candidate in a Texas to talk more forcefully about trans rights is not going to produce better outcomes for trans people. This is painfully obvious if you think about it for more than half a second. 200
Reposted by Zane Shelbyhowlingwolfmohegan.bsky.social @howlingwolfmohegan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026You can’t be racist to AI, but you absolutely can sublimate your racism into anti-AI rhetoric 411313
Reposted by Zane ShelbyRocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Good thread Langston Hughes, who I am going to say understood this much better than I do or most people on this site do, called it 90 years ago. The idea of America the egalitarian anti-ethnostate, never fully and faithfully executed, is so important that it can never be surrendered. 129763
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 20/08/2026Is this the kind of thing that could be overturned if there’s a big enough backlash? 0220
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 17/08/2026If they’re a method of generating revenue then they’re pretty shit at doing so, because on average wherever they’re implemented people stop speeding. There is ample public data on this. 100
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 16/08/2026static.klipy.comGame Of Thrones GotAlt: Stannis Baratheon from Game of Thrones muttering “fewer” under his breath because he just can’t help himself. 000
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 10/08/2026Policies closer to what I would prefer get implemented when the Democrats win, and the inverse happens when they lose. It has been that way since I was born, and it will likely be that way until I die. 160
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 10/08/2026Because no party is ever going to perfectly in line with one’s values. The question is whether the Democratic Party winning is more important to you than the Democratic Party being more under your faction’s control. 100
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 05/08/2026Absolutely unbelievable narcissism on display here. It’s not about you, it’s about the millions of people who will be harmed if the Democratic Party fails to take this seat. 11370
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 02/08/2026My brother, you have made up someone to get mad at. I agree with you that Democrats should support Abdul if he wins the primary. My point was that you were absolving Abdul of any responsibility. 100
Reposted by Zane ShelbyKaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is precisely the reason communist regimes failed! Legitimacy not being based on democratic (i.e., consent of the governed) principles made anything that invited discussion and debate at a significant level a potential threat, and thus cultivated an inherently narrow worldview. 061
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 29/07/2026“Will Stancil is going to make this the new discourse!” I lament, as I draw attention to both him and the subject with my own post. 030
Reposted by Zane ShelbyNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor. 231397187
Reposted by Zane ShelbyIggyTheFool @iggythefoolishone.bsky.social · 25/07/2026If you are not prepared to look someone in the eye and say "your opinion about Stalin means I will not let you participate in this leftist organisation", said organisation is going to turn into a fucking circus and if you can't accept that you are not worth taking seriously 219923
Reposted by Zane ShelbyCT Yankee @connecticut-yankee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Good faith inquiry, because the FP stuff is what keeps me from moving closer to DSA: This (2026) seems to call for the closing of all overseas military bases, the abolition of all sanctions, and is completely silent on Ukraine and Russia. Why am I overreacting if that signals worrying things to me?program.dsausa.orgDSA ProgramWorkers Deserve More! 3101
Reposted by Zane ShelbyMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/07/2026Liberating queer kids from their unaccepting families has always been central to my YIMBY advocacy. It’s why I am so angry that San Francisco has refused to meaningfully grow its housing stock since the seventies. 10674100
Reposted by Zane ShelbyDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22/07/2026what's really funny is when they go through multiple cycles of community input until they get to the layer that tells them "no," and then that's the one that counts as the community 846546
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 17/07/2026static.klipy.comTrying Not To Laugh: Zoom InAlt: A man trying extremely hard not to laugh 020
Reposted by Zane Shelbyellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 16/07/2026“The Democrats are controlled opposition” isn’t a legitimate political opinion. It’s direct complicity with Trump. It’s wishcasting a level of control and domination that does not actually exist, and it’s exactly what the current regime wants so it can *actually* get us there 07021
Reposted by Zane Shelbyshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position. 15459441116
Reposted by Zane ShelbyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10676502620323
Reposted by Zane ShelbyYen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The problem with “so you believe even people from poor countries can be American” is that they forget being a modern American is a revolutionary process of deliverance. Anyone, and their children, in America can be delivered from the Old World ills that plagued their family and be something here. 2357
Reposted by Zane ShelbySolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 09/07/2026i want white people to hate fascism broadly and Nazism (and it's symbolism) directly more 61326215
Zane Shelby @zane.io · 07/07/2026In addition to being a good apology, this is also an excellent demonstration of Poster’s Bushido! 030
