Chris

Chris

@chortlefish.bsky.social

I am a husband, a dad, anti-fascist, pro-science, lapsed cultural Catholic, a toxicologist, and a user of Oxford commas.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Wajahat Ali
@wajali.bsky.social

Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...

texastribune.orgInside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse caseCritics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Yes, 100% For the record, being drunk also does not magically turn into a rapist/sexual aggressor.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

/2 Also: being drunk doesn’t make you a fucking bigot. Being drunk removes your social inhibitions about being an OPEN fucking bigot.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

They are not smart, and yet, they are SOOOO confident 🙄

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

Bro it’s wild how all these geniuses just don’t read books. Like just unaware of basic, obvious counterarguments as they parrot fifth grade level white nationalist agitprop.

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NY Times Pitchbot
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Yaaaaaas!!!!

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social

I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home. We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss. We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

😎

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

edweek.orgThis School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's WhyThe school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Such need for validation 🙄

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

And again, the problem isn't that white men are having trouble getting published now. They're more published than ever. The problem is, it's harder for them to be celebrated for it now. The problem was there at the start of the article that set me off. The problem is the applause.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Introducing:Things that Matter... Bad faith arguments to platform and legitimize truly abhorrent ideas. Episode 1 "Trans people: should we murder them or just continue to marginalize and bully them?" Join us for a reasoned debate.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other. It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Gosh, why are the Democrats so unpopular with young people? Let's try taking another (goose)step to the right and see if that helps.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Poor dumb young people; indoctrinated by the evidence of their eyes and ears; living in a bubble of what is actually happening instead of here in the real world of billionaire donor events and funder dinners.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Difficult to remember in the moment, but if you have the thug straddling you trying to cuff you. Start yelling "OH my god, do you have an erection! Get this pervert off me. This guy has a boner, WTF!"

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam.

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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social

President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way. -Ezra Klein, New York TImes

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

A-F***ING-MEN

Fifty Shades of Whey@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social

We are where we are because of all the Democratic Party leaders in my life like Clinton, Biden, Obama, Schumer, and Pelosi choosing to align more and more with the GOP, Zionism, and right-wing fascism over the democratic socialists in THEIR OWN PARTY who organize, fundraise, and vote for them.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

GOsh, WhY wOuLd THeY wAnT tO LeaVe? 🤔🙄

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

news.gallup.comRecord Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

"Mamdani didn't accomplish this by abandoning his support for marginalized people, which is the only path many highly placed Democrats, already ashamed as they are of the limited degree to which highly-placed Democrats have defended marginalized people, can imagine for capturing MAGAs"

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

the-reframe.comThe Extraordinary Power of Standing For SomethingWinning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

VoTe BLuE NO mAtTeR WhO "...among high-profile leaders within the Democratic party, being a socialist is a more shameful thing than having a long history of sexual harassment and misusing public funds against your victims, or running an openly racist campaign." www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

the-reframe.comThe Extraordinary Power of Standing For SomethingWinning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Hey Christians. Anybody planning on getting raptured this week, this lapsed Catholic could sure use any spare cash that you won't be needing. Or, if you have a nice car... that would be cool as well.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

It is fun to imagine, kind of like when you buy a lottery ticket and you can fantasize about what you might do with the money. But, ultimately, you know you will be disappointed and the fat SOB will turn up again spewing invective to his fucking awful followers again. And the dream will be over.

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Denise Wheeler
@denisedwheeler.bsky.social

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Not a big fan of GN, but I am very thankful for his flipping of the script.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Important.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.

Chris
@chortlefish.bsky.social

Fact check: true "Farritor was involved in downsizing or effectively closing a combined nine federal agencies in total. ... Handing it to a 23 year old libertarian who has trained himself not to see the value of government work is an indictment of how the GOP no longer cares about governing."

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

New, from me: Luke Farritor joined DOGE, answering the call of his "biggest hero" Elon Musk. His story reveals how the combination of know-nothing libertarianism combined with the political power of Silicon Valley is destroying our government. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...

donmoynihan.substack.comThe AcolyteA profile of one DOGEr tells us much about a broader movement