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

You know the only reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

submitted 10 days ago • 150 comments

Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!” Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

submitted 24 days ago • 62 comments

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

submitted 24 days ago • 145 comments

On a more selfish level, this shit just bums me out. Like, "Man, I could really use a laugh right now." Searches Rodney Dangerfield. Top Video: "Charlie Kirk destroys trans children in debate." Like what the fuck?

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Booker (drained, teary eyed): and with that I yield the floor (15 minute long raucous standing ovation) Next order of business the confirmation of Kevin Sorbo to head the department of Housing. And it’s unanimous (gavel bang)

submitted 26 days ago • 87 comments

Constantly think about something Pat Blanchfield said years ago on KYE re: how Trump’s appeal to many is that he’s both the morality restorer and the immorality permitter, and it’s not just that the contradiction between those things isn’t a problem, it’s that it solves the problem

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Finally, a book with two named authors who somehow each did less than zero of the writing

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

I get sports now. It's about reducing a man to numbers and then making those numbers do imaginary fights in your head.

submitted 30 days ago • 170 comments

The worst thing the federal government has done to unions in my lifetime happened last night. The second worst thing was three weeks ago. The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

submitted 30 days ago • 85 comments

Fascinating look at how deeply surveilled we all are and how dogged law enforcement can follow the tiniest bread crumbs to capture perpetrators they prioritize. In other news, the person who planted pipe bombs in Washington DC ahead of January 6th is still unidentified.

submitted 38 days ago • 51 comments

When I said I was worried about Tyranny I meant the government doing mild health insurance reform. I have no problem with them illegally snatching and disappearing people

submitted 43 days ago • 17 comments

submitted 44 days ago • 41 comments

Today it's Palestine, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", the next day it's the Luigi Mangione meme you liked on Instagram

submitted 48 days ago • 26 comments

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

submitted 52 days ago • 234 comments

Meme in real life

submitted 52 days ago • 66 comments

can I offer a suggestion that might help

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 66 days ago • 56 comments

Republicans were the minority party on the Philadelphia City Council. Then the Working Families Party replaced them. Now, evictions are down 37% compared to pre-pandemic levels.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

submitted 66 days ago • 141 comments

We need to figure out a way for one particular historical event to happen. A lot of historical events are happening now, but not the one I have in mind. This one would be of great interest to most people I think.

submitted 66 days ago • 47 comments

live major league baseball is underway so nothing can ever hurt me again

submitted 66 days ago • 27 comments

They're underwater largely because they refuse to fight tooth and nail, but they'll interpret this as "We need to reach out more to Nazis." poll.qu.edu/images/polli...

submitted 67 days ago • 14 comments

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.

submitted 79 days ago • 71 comments

not joking when I say that the doctors at NIH literally saved my dads life. I am heartbroken for the kids who's dads won't have that chance in the future

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world

submitted 72 days ago • 159 comments

My 100th birthday... in prison? - This is abuse.

submitted 73 days ago • 376 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 74 days ago • 726 comments

2017 headline: Has Donald Trump Ever Heard A Butthole Surfers Song? 2022 headline: How Old Was Joe Biden The First Time He Saw A Two Piece Swimsuit 2025 headline: Is The Serpent At The Earth’s Core Stirring?

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

I've resigned myself to the fact that no matter what I do with the rest of my life, THIS is what I will be remembered for. #SpongeBob #nosferatu

submitted 655 days ago • 42 comments

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

submitted 79 days ago • 336 comments

MAN

submitted 96 days ago • 43 comments

broke - Kamala Harris: “i will follow the law when it comes to transgender individuals” woke - Stephen Smith:

submitted 80 days ago • 250 comments

SNL writers were appalled when Trump hosted in 2015, with Tim Robinson saying at the time: “Lorne has lost his f---ing mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head.”

submitted 80 days ago • 48 comments

So as someone who’s done the old RW to left journey, i have sympathy with the notion of a cold and unwelcoming left. The problem is, I don’t think anyone who says they were “tricked” is acting in good faith in these matters. Leaving involves more than saying “I was had”, it needs “i was wrong”

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not donating to your political party if all you're going to do is post. I can do that for free. I will donate if you have a project to resurrect FDR and give him a gun

submitted 84 days ago • 576 comments

if you haven't learned about the imperial boomerang today's as good a day as any

submitted 87 days ago • 18 comments

The disparity between the simple factual news reports of what’s happening and the pundit/op-ed class still doing the “huh I wonder what the Trump administration is all about” has never been greater

submitted 92 days ago • 20 comments

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

submitted 94 days ago • 73 comments

Hint to Dems: "they are going to kill you" counts as a kitchen table issue to voters

submitted 93 days ago • 43 comments