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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However much you hate Trump and his supporters, it’s not enough.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

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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.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

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.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

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.

It’s like a hostage video. Those poor wonderful astronauts behind him, used as a backdrop for his insane ranting.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump pays tribute to astronauts: "Everybody thinks I ran in 2016. I actually announced in 2015."

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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.

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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”

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social

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.

Olivia ⟡@lightliv.bsky.social

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.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social

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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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.

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what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

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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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.

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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

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Donald Trump called Somalis “animals.” He said Haitians eat dogs and cats. You fucking journalists had a party with him and now you want our sympathy. Fuck off.

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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.

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.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app

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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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

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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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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?

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

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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"I can not believe America has becom--" bitch, we have Andrew Jackson on our money. our default money. the only money the bank robot knows how to hand out.

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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.

Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social

📬 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

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

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.

No need to worry about this! White House journalists will be wearing First Amendment pocket squares.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

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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we got here because a lot of really terrible people decided that the most important thing in the world was hurting anyone not like them

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

I can’t believe there are really people like this

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NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

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You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

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voters elected decadent money man to make them rich, what they've gotten is warmongering fanatic who wants to cut their health care to pay for more bombs

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Trump says Iran has 48 hours to open up the Strait of Hormuz, “before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!”

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The problem isn’t that two aircraft were shot down. The problem is that we aren’t psychologically or politically prepared to suffer any losses, because this entire war has been sold as a video game set on “easy” and not as a cause worth sacrifice.

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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!

Cake or Death@johngcole.bsky.social

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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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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This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)