Toots Riley
@tootsriley.bsky.social
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Chat, there is nothing to lose but y’all’s chains
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Chat, there is nothing to lose but y’all’s chains
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Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that
January 28, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that
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Graham objected to unanimous consent.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Graham objected to unanimous consent.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
And he blocked the business of the Senate.
Any Senate Democrat could do this.
Can you imagine the firestorm that would follow if a Democrat said this?
"He's going to take your guns" is the primary accusation leveled at every Democrat since Carter by John Birch Society loons.
"He's going to take your guns" is the primary accusation leveled at every Democrat since Carter by John Birch Society loons.
Trump: You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. It's a very unfortunate thing.
January 27, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Can you imagine the firestorm that would follow if a Democrat said this?
"He's going to take your guns" is the primary accusation leveled at every Democrat since Carter by John Birch Society loons.
"He's going to take your guns" is the primary accusation leveled at every Democrat since Carter by John Birch Society loons.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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“Donald Trump has no friends. He has shown repeatedly that he has no loyalty to others. He does not care who else gets hurt — he cares only about himself. If Trump could escape the Epstein Files scandal by implicating others, I have no doubt that he would do so without hesitation.”
“The legacy media continues to cite the herculean task of reviewing and producing these records as an excuse for why the DOJ failed to meet Congress’s 30-day deadline.”
“The obvious truth is that Trump does not want these files released.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...
“The obvious truth is that Trump does not want these files released.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...
For Trump, the Epstein Cover-Up Beats the Truth
As one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi wrote a letter to the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, demanding that the “full and complete Epstein files” be delivered to her office by the ne...
www.democracydocket.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
“Donald Trump has no friends. He has shown repeatedly that he has no loyalty to others. He does not care who else gets hurt — he cares only about himself. If Trump could escape the Epstein Files scandal by implicating others, I have no doubt that he would do so without hesitation.”
Men will literally (illegally coup Venezuela) instead of going to therapy (releasing the unredacted Epstein files)
January 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Men will literally (illegally coup Venezuela) instead of going to therapy (releasing the unredacted Epstein files)
It is stunning how absolutely craven every single Republican is. They just fold under the slightest pressure.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It is stunning how absolutely craven every single Republican is. They just fold under the slightest pressure.
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The way this guy always has a twinkling smile as he's talking on some news show or other about the most dystopian hellscape imaginable. Oh haha, those silly "new kids out of college" thinking they might someday get to have a job and eat food.
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The way this guy always has a twinkling smile as he's talking on some news show or other about the most dystopian hellscape imaginable. Oh haha, those silly "new kids out of college" thinking they might someday get to have a job and eat food.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Pssst. General Strike. Pass it on.
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Pssst. General Strike. Pass it on.
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Anyone saying this isn't a straightforward Nazi rally - "beautiful lineages of white warriors vs degenerate unhumans" - is lying to your face. Miller has been waiting his whole life to make this speech beneath banners of red and black.
Pt 2 - good vs evil- western civilization built everything- “you built nothing” “you will be nothing”
September 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Anyone saying this isn't a straightforward Nazi rally - "beautiful lineages of white warriors vs degenerate unhumans" - is lying to your face. Miller has been waiting his whole life to make this speech beneath banners of red and black.
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watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible
September 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible
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if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”
Trump on Biden: "Those pardons that he gave are illegal. He gave illegal pardons."
September 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”
Someone at work just brought up Yudkowsky related to an ai discussion. I couldn't resist telling them about Yudkowsky's Harry Potter BDSM fanfiction.
It had the intended effect.
It had the intended effect.
Very little is more radicalizing than this guy’s continued presence among what passes for the American intelligentsia
September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Someone at work just brought up Yudkowsky related to an ai discussion. I couldn't resist telling them about Yudkowsky's Harry Potter BDSM fanfiction.
It had the intended effect.
It had the intended effect.
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the GOP for my entire adult life:
We hate minorities. We hate abortion. We hate education. we love theocracy, we want a dictatorship.
the Democratic party for my entire adult life:
we must reach across the aisle and work with our Republican colleagues to achieve their goals!
We hate minorities. We hate abortion. We hate education. we love theocracy, we want a dictatorship.
the Democratic party for my entire adult life:
we must reach across the aisle and work with our Republican colleagues to achieve their goals!
September 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
the GOP for my entire adult life:
We hate minorities. We hate abortion. We hate education. we love theocracy, we want a dictatorship.
the Democratic party for my entire adult life:
we must reach across the aisle and work with our Republican colleagues to achieve their goals!
We hate minorities. We hate abortion. We hate education. we love theocracy, we want a dictatorship.
the Democratic party for my entire adult life:
we must reach across the aisle and work with our Republican colleagues to achieve their goals!
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like, what is happening here is not ben shapiro agreeing that free speech is good.
what is happening here is Ezra Klein agreeing that Trump should have more impunity!
what is happening here is Ezra Klein agreeing that Trump should have more impunity!
September 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
like, what is happening here is not ben shapiro agreeing that free speech is good.
what is happening here is Ezra Klein agreeing that Trump should have more impunity!
what is happening here is Ezra Klein agreeing that Trump should have more impunity!
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Ezra Klein: every reasonable person I know hated what I wrote about Charlie Kirk, every right wing psychopath loved it. In order to have a conversation about this, here is right wing psychopath Ben Shapiro.
September 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Ezra Klein: every reasonable person I know hated what I wrote about Charlie Kirk, every right wing psychopath loved it. In order to have a conversation about this, here is right wing psychopath Ben Shapiro.
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Lefties on Twitter when a right winger does something awful: we can't negotiate with these ppl, they want us dead
Right wingers on Twitter when anything bad happens: We will kill the lefties, here are their addresses, here is where they work, finish the job
Ezra Klein: you see,
Right wingers on Twitter when anything bad happens: We will kill the lefties, here are their addresses, here is where they work, finish the job
Ezra Klein: you see,
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Lefties on Twitter when a right winger does something awful: we can't negotiate with these ppl, they want us dead
Right wingers on Twitter when anything bad happens: We will kill the lefties, here are their addresses, here is where they work, finish the job
Ezra Klein: you see,
Right wingers on Twitter when anything bad happens: We will kill the lefties, here are their addresses, here is where they work, finish the job
Ezra Klein: you see,
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
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NYT Opinion: How Zohran Mamdani Radicalized Tyler Robinson
By: Bret Stephens
By: Bret Stephens
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
NYT Opinion: How Zohran Mamdani Radicalized Tyler Robinson
By: Bret Stephens
By: Bret Stephens
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like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane
September 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane
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Stupid fucking app
Seems like Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) got suspended within 10 minutes of posting this?
September 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Stupid fucking app
This is how you write a headline:
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Conspiracy theorist Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event
Deseret News reports that Charlie Kirk, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and commentator, was shot this afternoon at a speaking event in Utah. Kirk's status is unknown and a suspect is…
boingboing.net
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is how you write a headline:
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