Yep. This whole time has been pushing margins on what they can do

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h ago

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

ICYMI: This is what authoritarianism looks like

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterday

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

The gasp, I gasped when I read this….😱 TW: SA details. It’s a little more graphic than is necessary for a news report so take care when you read this

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Yep. This.. AND then add in the unhoused folks that the GOP Elected officials send to these cities as an “own the libs” to mock cities Cities are very literally doing the job the rest of the country often fails or REFUSES to do

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

Holy shit.

*Puts on political strategist hat* Two things to say about this: 1) While it’s not US Senate, Kansas voters have elected Democrats statewide, as in the current Governor. So Kansans demonstrate they have and will vote for Dems 2) Great polling means nothing without turnout

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Cook Political Report just moved the Kansas Senate race to TOSS UP. Kansas. Which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932. 🤯 www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...

So great to be in conversation with repro advocates and organizers on the ground about lessons to be taken from my book! Thanks for having me @allaboveall.bsky.social!

All* Above All@allaboveall.bsky.social · 4d ago

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K.C. Clyburn, Author@kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · last wk.

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Yikes. And yes, to the note about authoritarian regimes doing this to consolidate power

D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · last wk.

📌NEWS: Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon is eliminating 1 in 5 generals and admirals. 📌NOTE: Authoritarian regimes eliminate military leaders who they believe aren't loyal to the regime. 📌UPSHOT: This is a very concerning development in the GOP's ongoing attack on America and her Democracy.

These people…

Kelly@justkelly.bsky.social · last wk.

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

Solid ad. Hard hitting. But having seen the last 10 years in politics and who we’ve elected will it work? Has the electorate become so jaded it doesn’t matter?

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.

Jesus Christ dude

I mean this is a face, walk, and outfit that would cause car accidents

SinnamonS@sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Theee #1 🏆 Anok Yai for Gucci #MFW

Well isn’t this some great news in an otherwise BLEAK news cycle

Tom Leykis@tomleykis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Buh-bye, Bari! #BoycottCBS #BoycottCBSNews #Boycott60Minutes

One reason the U.S. will stay in a doom loop w/white Christian nationalisms/fascism is this: White women who continue to think they are somehow not included in the consequences of white supremacy when when they are told so repeatedly Tale as old as the colonized Western Hemisphere 😑

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2w ago

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

Uh, This is why most everyone was captivated by Obama after that 2004 convention speech (which directly led to people wanting him to run for President) He told a moral and ethical story about what America was and could be in the Bush Jr Admin era He actually knows of what he speaks

Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳@itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 2w ago

uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*

I’m sure they wrote this up thinking it was heartwarming, but like WTAF… And 81 year old man in one of the richest nations in the world should NOT have to work so that he can pay his wife’s cancer bills 😩 nypost.com/2026/09/24/u...

Texas delivery driver Don Johnson, 81, works 14-hour days to help pay wife’s medical bills — strangers raise almost $250K

“The reality is that he isn’t working by choice; he is working for survival.”

nypost.com

Okay so of the Republicans and independents who thinks this and is still voting for him? 🫠

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh. Oh my.

Yknow a big part of what pains me after the 25th anniversary of 9/11…. We are still living the consequences of that day now. Because ICE (and TSA and its overarching Homeland Security) were the Bush administration’s response to 9/11: targeting immigrants This is a nightmare

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

I mean better later than never but….. Y’all could’ve done this the WHOLE time?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

Good grief I ain’t never seen it this good across ALL the major polls in a while. Like a couple of polls? Sure. Allll of them?! This is why Trump is trying to find ways to mess with mail in voting

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3w ago

is that good

This is what happens when political leaders just blink when he tore down the East Wing of the White House He’s going to keep doing this…

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3w ago

Kennedy Center Demolition? Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty

I saw so many musicals, plays, ballets, and even a little opera. The Kennedy Center was a cultural center in DC. It was a place that one could see award winning and world renowned performers at an affordable rate. And it invested in the arts in the local community Everything he touches dies

Kennedy Center Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge’s Order

The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.

nytimes.com

Whoever is advising Sheeran is doing a bad job Like does his staff work for Sydney Sweeney? Because this milquetoast, wishy washy don’t know where you stand/don’t want to say nothing statement ain’t it either…

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 3w ago

Ed Sheeran has released a statement on Macklemore being removed from his tour for speaking up for Palestine: “I am not complicit. […] Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have [my own opinions], and it doesn't mean I don't care.”

Yeah the lights are definitely on, but… nobody is home.

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 4w ago

whatcha thinkin?

If I I believed them… It was because his name was added is why Kennedy Center is on the brink of collapse 🤷🏾‍♀️ Took a perfectly lovely institution (putting out world class programming) and like everything else destroyed it

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

Exclusive: Leaders of the Kennedy Center say the center is on the brink of bankruptcy and argue that putting the president’s name on its facade — and thus ensuring his fundraising efforts — may be the only way to avoid a “certain fiscal collapse.”

Mitch McConnell has been spotted, wheeled out of his wheelhouse in a suit. Mostly alive? Eyes open, sitting upright, words were not uttered though

9/11 for me is about remembering the victims who died on that day as well. But today really hits hard because I remembers the events of that day…and what life was like before 9/11 The world really got turned on its axis in ways we feel today. 🧵 (1/

This so sums up late stage capitalism

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 4w ago

This airline rules so hard