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

“Everyone is created equal” is not a ‘politics’ I or anyone else can be “dogmatic” about, no matter what the NYT says It is a self-evident truth. Everyone deserves healthcare and no one requires a “legal path” to themselves When people tell us what they need, just listen. That’s it. It’s not hard

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 259 comments

We did it, Joe

submitted 6 hours ago • 47 comments

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

submitted 9 hours ago • 80 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 19 hours ago • 177 comments

I honestly thought "luxury vinyl plank" was an ironic in-group joke name my local home DIY Facebook group had come up with. For like my first 9 months of home ownership

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 9 hours ago • 83 comments

again, i hope you weren’t planning on attending a fun olympics or world cup, they’re not gonna happen (or if they do, it won’t be what you expect)

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

This Juneteenth, I'm thinking about the 1 in 5 Black women in the US who will be evicted during her lifetime. I'm thinking about the Black men for whom police encounters are the sixth leading cause of death. I'm thinking about the Black workers who earn 76 cents on the $1 made by a white worker.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

American politicians think that protesting on a highway is violent and bombing a sovereign country is "mostly peaceful"

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 1 day ago • 841 comments

I see SpaceX has evolved to a radical new philosophy of 'don't move and break things.'

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

If you’re black and off tomorrow make some noise

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

All of y’all bragging about blocking JD Vance, I didn’t even have to.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Americans are so thirsty for even a whiff of journalism that Tucker Carlson asks 3 basic questions and we act like he is the second coming. It's sad. We're just not used to seeing any form of journalism. We're so used to journalistic sycophancy, and abdication of duty in order to maintain access.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

not sure why only the worst bastards alive are allowed to be in charge of everything. but i guess it's been like six or seven thousand years of that so who am i to argue

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I am with Noah on this point: block Vance and any other high level republican politician on sight. This isn't like a normal right wing troll setting up shop: this is someone with the powers of the government behind him. Death threats are the LEAST of our concerns here.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Block him, but also, good opportunity to note that Blockenheimer is an incredibly useful tool, if you also want to block everybody who follows him. blockenheimer.click

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I think even well-meaning people outside of the sectors that have been directly targeted by the Trump/Musk junta don't really understand that for those of us inside of them, almost everyone we know has been rendered suddenly unemployed (or terrifyingly close to it) since January.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

it is hard to convey in words how bad the bloodbath has been for professionals working in the "not evil" sectors

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

damn dude

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

this is a good time to remember that conservatives only ever want to be in more left leaning spaces to get reactions out of people, if enough people block them they’ll get bored and leave

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

Everyone is throwing out examples of Iraq War-era mass derangement so I might as well throw in Amanda Bynes doing a peace sign on a movie poster being photoshopped out for fear of being seen as an antiwar statement

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

trans rights btw this isn't up for debate

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Bluesky is now culture war grounds, & we have to be prepared and adjust for that — aggressively defend your peace and your space here… block, mute, use labelers, limit your interaction settings, do what you gotta do and help each other new clients, new tools, new apps are coming that will help more

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

i just want democrats to hate republicans as much I hate them and as much as they hate us

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

Jesse Singal is cited 3 times in the amicus briefing for the decision to allow states to ban youth gender-affirming care www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

One thing that's psychologically fascinating about Bluesky is in the absence of an algorithm you're quite sincerely thrown into a wild west marketplace of ideas and have to survive on, uh... merit. A lot of journalists are finding their ideas aren't popular. Rather, they are just well paid.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

extremely grim question. I think my preliminary short answer is yes my medium answer is, they didn't just kill the Equal Protection Clause, they killed it and buried it in Pet Sematary so it came back all wrong and twisted, fighting against everything it is supposed to fight for

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Popping in here quickly to say that the courts do not have first or final say. Ever. Trans people [of all ages] deserve every single thing that everyone else does. The illegitimate court is illegitimate.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

It’s so cool this administration is going to sell the most pristine parts of the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Sawtooths to private owners so they can log, hunt, mine, and build survivalist compounds on our shared national heritage.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

If someone throws a can of soup at a riot cop who's attacking them we have three months of discourse about non-violence meanwhile the Right has been carrying out assassinations for my entire life and there's never any of that shit directed towards them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Adriana Smith did not give birth to a baby. She was used as an incubator, cut open, and a baby was taken out of her lifeless body. A Black woman was used as a science experiment.

submitted 2 days ago • 171 comments

A beguiling illustration of incident in Matthew 4:8, where “the devil taketh up Jesus into an exceeding high mountain” & tempts him with all the kingdoms he can see ~ prompting Jesus' stern reply "Get thee hence, Satan"(French Missal 1470-75) beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

6 days ago: “abolish yellow vests”

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 2 days ago • 196 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 2 days ago • 542 comments

This is worth watching, as it illustrates how MAGA revolves around loyalty tests, any dissent is treated as betrayal. If Carlson doesn't quickly fall back into line, he'll be punished by the in-group and exiled to the out-group

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

submitted 2 days ago • 373 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 2 days ago • 768 comments