andrewbridges.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

NO KINGS. This 1885 painting by G.F. Watts of Mammon, cruel in his opulence and cloaked in gold with asses’s ears and gold coins on his crown, money bags in his lap, skulls on his throne, and persons callously held down by him, seems a near-perfect likeness of Trump as he would wish to be seen.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the Command Economy. Looks like the GOP finally embraced it.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I will be there for the downfall of STEM supremacy in higher education.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

This thread reminds me of something the Cato Institute's executive vice president David Boaz once said to me, as he watched, with great sadness, so many in his libertarian movement get on board with Trump: "It turns out they hate the left more than they love liberty."

submitted 40 days ago • 40 comments

“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

submitted 32 days ago • 87 comments

Trump established a task force to combat anti-Christian bias and wants reports of anti-Christian bias. AG Bondi chairs it. Notify her about every criticism of, and attack on, Pope Leo XIV by government officials or persons with influence over government officials that you notice. (h/t Rebecca Lyman)

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Am angry and sad about this: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Carla Hayden is a wonderful public servant and has been a great Librarian of Congress.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The best part of this is: Instantly the most famous American in the world is the new pope

submitted 39 days ago • 240 comments

Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi says she is going against corrupt judges. In case you wonder why she hasn’t gone after the most corrupt, Clarence Thomas, there is a professional courtesy between lawyers who take bribes.

submitted 49 days ago • 549 comments

There is a reason why millions of workers want to join unions. There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions. Union membership means higher wages and better benefits. Let’s grow the trade union movement.

submitted 45 days ago • 279 comments

Powerful remarks from Justice KBJ last night. There was tremendous appreciation and gratitude in the room for her willingness to speak to this important issue so candidly and forcefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

submitted 45 days ago • 30 comments

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Dem Senators should vote against confirmation of every single Trump nominee for the indefinite future.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

JB Pritzker’s speech in NH was a call to arms for Dems (and targeted Newsom for being a poll-driven incrementalist podcaster who throws constituents under the bus). Bernie and AOC are models of what Pritzker claims to want. I hope the three will lock arms and invite others to join forces with them.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s first 100 days: * performative illegal EOs * melting down the US government, US standing in the world, science, and the economy * deporting US citizen children with cancer, among others * losing and losing and losing in court * triggering a huge domestic and global political backlash

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.

submitted 50 days ago • 106 comments

Lying by the GOP is pervasive throughout every branch of government.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My 2-year-old was in an ICE detention facility when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why am I being deported to Honduras?" And when I told her "Because due process is too woke," she started crying.

submitted 52 days ago • 58 comments

Why isn’t Trump in prison then?

submitted 52 days ago • 361 comments

Make America Great Again for infectious diseases

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Anti-Christian bias pervades the entire Trump administration. Report every appointee. Matthew 25:31-46.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

submitted 55 days ago • 1327 comments

Heraclitus (around 500 BCE) fragment 44, quoted in Diogenes Laertius IX, 2: “the people must fight on behalf of the law just as they fight for their city wall.”

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Newsom has now too often revealed himself as using a slick veneer to cover his lack of a principled core. That is a shame because he is very bright and can analyze issues well. The Constitution + due process are fundamental, not like other issues, and their priority shouldn’t depend on polling.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Lisa Murkowski: American Coward

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Wilkinson was a Reagan appointee, FYI.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 60 days ago • 283 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 61 days ago • 609 comments

submitted 62 days ago • 14 comments

“IP” was superfluous in the statement.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

New order from Judge Xinis regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ➡️Government must take all available steps to facilitate his return ASAP. ➡️Gov't must file, by Fri 9:30am, declaration confirming Garcia's current location and what steps have been and will be taken to return him. ➡️Status conference Fri 1pm.

submitted 67 days ago • 14 comments

An easy way to attack antisemitism and hate speech on campus is to ban GOP speakers. I’m not suggesting that course of action but pointing out that it would be a damn good way to achieve the professed goal.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Filmmaker James Cameron with simple, cogent advice for the AI copyfight - focus on outputs, not training inputs. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”

submitted 68 days ago • 50 comments