A Political Alt
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
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Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)
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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.
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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.
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.
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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”
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 believe the platform you’re looking for to post this garbage is Twitter.
Humans never actually needed to modify our foods, we drank milk without pasteurizing from a variety of animals for thousands of years. The food systems we have now, all created by evil elite powers that be, are complex & non-sensical enough to cause arguments re something as simple as drinking milk.
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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.
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
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what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this
42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.
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There is no hell horrible enough for Alex Jones. He’s a vile, evil, despicable piece of shit who deserves to spend the rest of his life broke, alone, and unloved.
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them. The graves of multiple children have been defaced. One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
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The most interesting thing about diversity equity and inclusion offices for the very short time we had them… they gave us data… Concerning just how over represented middle class white men are in every area of American life
JD Vance in Hungary highlights the importance of eliminating racial discrimination "especially against middle class white kids" in the American education system
Has anyone had more fun being mayor of New York than Mamdani?
Mayor Mamdani chats with New Yorkers while walking the six miles from City Hall to Gracie Mansion, fulfilling the promise he made in his inauguration speech to “be outside” as Mayor — “because this is a government of New York, by New York, and for New York.”
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Now I’m just a backwoods small town hyperchicken, but it seems to me that if a company is big enough to existentially threaten the government then you don’t actually have a functioning government anymore.
📬 REUTERS EXCLUSIVE: Amazon reaches a multi-billion dollar deal with USPS on package deliveries Amazon had previously threatened to pull its parcels from USPS and build a rival delivery network, which would have been an existential crisis for the post office. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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I will personally be taking account of every journalist who attends the WHCA dinner and spend the rest of my life making sure everybody knows that they did
Trump threatens to jail the journalist who first reported that a U.S. airman was missing if the journo doesn't hand over source information to the government.
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The NYT, a paper devoted to spreading the propaganda of rich “centrists” and right wing Trump apologists, isn’t critiquing the wealthy or defending the needy; it’s just trying to stigmatize public services and evangelize for means testing to undermine a socialist mayor. Just my opinion!
yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...
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For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.
Trump: "With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE. IT WOULD BE A 'GUSHER' FOR THE WORLD??? President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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