A Political Alt

@polalt.bsky.social

My “alt” for following politics, history, current affairs and more so I can keep my main account free of that. Necessary to stay involved but also maintain my mental health. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📍Maine @mainemikey.bsky.social

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I want to stress here how utterly bankrupt it is to feed moral panic about transgender youth. You’re just feeding bullying. And here’s the kicker: the right is still gonna brand you a child groomer. So what do you really accomplish besides abandoning trans kids and getting sage nods from losers.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare

Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.

The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.” They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.

This is now the 3rd yr in a row where the same dude spends every waking second pissing off as many people as as he can, he also refuses to regulate firearms, some joker gets one of those firearms and fails miserably at using it and the media subjects us to 2 weeks of "should everyone else be nicer"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

I want to live in a country where: - the president isn‘t a fascist - the political media don’t collaborate with fascism - political violence and mass shootings aren’t a regular occurrence - there is a democratic method to depose the head of state if they’re a corrupt, demented pedo

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

Children in Juárez, Mexico, watched a live broadcast of the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS