Vick Russo
@vickrusso.bsky.social
If there actually is a "Reconstruction 2" we really should change the house to 1/2 district candidates chosen by approval voting and 1/2 party list proportional representation.
Please no meme shit with ranked choice voting, IMO it's strictly worse than approval for basically all use cases.
Please no meme shit with ranked choice voting, IMO it's strictly worse than approval for basically all use cases.
January 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
If there actually is a "Reconstruction 2" we really should change the house to 1/2 district candidates chosen by approval voting and 1/2 party list proportional representation.
Please no meme shit with ranked choice voting, IMO it's strictly worse than approval for basically all use cases.
Please no meme shit with ranked choice voting, IMO it's strictly worse than approval for basically all use cases.
We had some of the largest protests in US history during a bull market with low inflation and where he hadn't done anything nearly as fucking bad as ICE has done in the last two days.
Just imagine what might happen if the currency has a legitimate crisis.
Just imagine what might happen if the currency has a legitimate crisis.
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 AM
We had some of the largest protests in US history during a bull market with low inflation and where he hadn't done anything nearly as fucking bad as ICE has done in the last two days.
Just imagine what might happen if the currency has a legitimate crisis.
Just imagine what might happen if the currency has a legitimate crisis.
TBH if we do get some kinda political event that removes Trump from office it's not going to look like Euromaidan or whatever, it's going to be many powerful people realizing all at once that this shit is going south and yanking whatever their closest equivalent to a ripcord is.
January 12, 2026 at 4:09 AM
TBH if we do get some kinda political event that removes Trump from office it's not going to look like Euromaidan or whatever, it's going to be many powerful people realizing all at once that this shit is going south and yanking whatever their closest equivalent to a ripcord is.
Why does Trump have to do his best to blow up the world economic order the weekend after I lose my job
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Why does Trump have to do his best to blow up the world economic order the weekend after I lose my job
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January 12, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Just FYI, when an Italian government collapses and a parliamentary majority can't form a government, they appoint a caretaker government led by a central banker.
January 12, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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(they didn't stop)
Remember in the summer of 2024 when Dems started calling Trump/Vance/et al "weird" and it resonated with millions of people (because it's true) and then they stopped?
Seeing a similar shift now. But angrier. Good. Take off the fucking gloves.
Seeing a similar shift now. But angrier. Good. Take off the fucking gloves.
You lying piece of shit. I chaired the Minnesota DFL for all three of your runs here. I watched you lose. Three times. Minnesota never bought your con. And now, as Chair of the DNC, I’m looking forward to ending Trumpism for good in 2028 — not with lies, but with votes. Again.
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
(they didn't stop)
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If you didnt vote for Vice President Kamala Harris you gave ICE the power to kill that woman with 3 bullets to her head.
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
If you didnt vote for Vice President Kamala Harris you gave ICE the power to kill that woman with 3 bullets to her head.
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The simple truth is that children in the poorest places on earth died from lack of food and medicine because the richest country on the planet voted to shred their own Constitution due to annoyance over the prices of their chicken nuggie delivery services.
August 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The simple truth is that children in the poorest places on earth died from lack of food and medicine because the richest country on the planet voted to shred their own Constitution due to annoyance over the prices of their chicken nuggie delivery services.
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ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
Mamdani's legal team should also start writing a bunch of memos about how zoning laws are reducing the value of investment properties to zero. I would love for zoning to be viewed through a much stricter constitutional lens than it is now, where people can zone for any reason.
January 7, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Mamdani's legal team should also start writing a bunch of memos about how zoning laws are reducing the value of investment properties to zero. I would love for zoning to be viewed through a much stricter constitutional lens than it is now, where people can zone for any reason.
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extremely shitty women (not remotely exclusive to whites)
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
extremely shitty women (not remotely exclusive to whites)
It’s becoming increasingly clear that democratic primary voters are going to pick whoever hates Trump the most. All discussion of progressive v moderate isn’t going to matter at all.
January 6, 2026 at 9:50 PM
It’s becoming increasingly clear that democratic primary voters are going to pick whoever hates Trump the most. All discussion of progressive v moderate isn’t going to matter at all.
What's really funny is that you could have probably put together a package to make Greenland some kind of special autonomous FreedomZone and if you put enough zeros behind the pricetag the citizens of both it and Denmark would have probably went along with it. But not after these threats!
January 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
What's really funny is that you could have probably put together a package to make Greenland some kind of special autonomous FreedomZone and if you put enough zeros behind the pricetag the citizens of both it and Denmark would have probably went along with it. But not after these threats!
That was the most hilarious nuggets win ever. Goaltending in overtime. Beautiful.
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
That was the most hilarious nuggets win ever. Goaltending in overtime. Beautiful.
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The wild thing about Fetterman is that so many of his boosters have flipped over to Platner, an even more obvious plant, & said "OK I was wrong to support the guy with a put-on working class affect there, but THIS guy with a put-on working class affect..."
Fetterman continues proving those of us who said he's a waste of a senate seat right. Could have had better PA, but some of ya wanted Bum Ass Grimace...
Fetterman: "I don't know why we can't just acknowledge that it's [Venezuela operation] been a good thing what happened ... I think we should really appreciate exactly what happened here."
January 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The wild thing about Fetterman is that so many of his boosters have flipped over to Platner, an even more obvious plant, & said "OK I was wrong to support the guy with a put-on working class affect there, but THIS guy with a put-on working class affect..."
For way too long people have hid behind "you're tone policing me!" as an excuse to be a psychopathic asshole and I'm not really sure if it's going to get better. You can get away with so much insane shit in lefty social spaces, it's clearly harmful, and nobody cares!
January 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
For way too long people have hid behind "you're tone policing me!" as an excuse to be a psychopathic asshole and I'm not really sure if it's going to get better. You can get away with so much insane shit in lefty social spaces, it's clearly harmful, and nobody cares!
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It probably never will. This is lib Truth Social and I think people just need to accept that.
as someone else pointed out: i should not be anywhere in the top 100 user list on the leaderboard
there should be actual celebrities among others there if this site is to replace Twitter
there should be actual celebrities among others there if this site is to replace Twitter
Really also makes clear how small BlueSky is
January 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
It probably never will. This is lib Truth Social and I think people just need to accept that.
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It is kind of funny to see some big accounts suddenly concerned about toxic brigading coming from the left when it was one of their mutuals it happened to instead of some lowby rando
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
It is kind of funny to see some big accounts suddenly concerned about toxic brigading coming from the left when it was one of their mutuals it happened to instead of some lowby rando
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Biden actually did a lot of shit that internet lefty types said for years would cause a massive swell of support for Democratic policies and by the end of Biden's term everyone hated it and no one was particularly interested in defending him personally or the policy regime he put in place
If you want Democrats to start acting like Republicans, then Democratic voters/supporters are going to have to start acting like Republican voters/supporters, and that means not nit-picking every single word that comes out of Dems' mouths when there are much bigger issues to message about.
January 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Biden actually did a lot of shit that internet lefty types said for years would cause a massive swell of support for Democratic policies and by the end of Biden's term everyone hated it and no one was particularly interested in defending him personally or the policy regime he put in place
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The fake part of the childcare fraud story is that it's all evil Somalis defrauding daycares so they can build Islamo-Communist 5G Towers to give children autism or whatever. MN is actually dealing with a real, pervasive welfare fraud scandal, and the buck stops at the Governor's Mansion.
January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The fake part of the childcare fraud story is that it's all evil Somalis defrauding daycares so they can build Islamo-Communist 5G Towers to give children autism or whatever. MN is actually dealing with a real, pervasive welfare fraud scandal, and the buck stops at the Governor's Mansion.
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If you can't discern the difference between Sky and Will and actual fucking nazis, I'm not sure you actually care about politics.
January 5, 2026 at 4:16 AM
If you can't discern the difference between Sky and Will and actual fucking nazis, I'm not sure you actually care about politics.
I’m actually on an impressive number of blocklists somehow. Some of them are fairly accurate (yes I am a shitlib and vote shamer, if you didn’t vote Harris you should be deeply fucking ashamed of yourself) and some… aren’t.
I am on one or two positive lists though, that’s neat
I am on one or two positive lists though, that’s neat
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I’m actually on an impressive number of blocklists somehow. Some of them are fairly accurate (yes I am a shitlib and vote shamer, if you didn’t vote Harris you should be deeply fucking ashamed of yourself) and some… aren’t.
I am on one or two positive lists though, that’s neat
I am on one or two positive lists though, that’s neat
Unfortunately the online left are a bunch of cowards so they have to go for Stancil and people like him, because they know Stancil is too good of a person to just post their Dox or SWAT them like a right winger would.
January 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Unfortunately the online left are a bunch of cowards so they have to go for Stancil and people like him, because they know Stancil is too good of a person to just post their Dox or SWAT them like a right winger would.