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

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 2 days ago • 239 comments

“Shitler is dismantling the safety net, but please be polite as democracy dies.” 🤮🤮🤮

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s less of an abdication of the First Amendment than it is a direct abrogation of it.

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

Perfect.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

"several federal judges in the Washington D.C. area had received pizzas sent anonymously to their homes, which is being interpreted by law enforcement as a form of intimidation meant to convey that a target’s address is known." www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

Traits of a psychopath

submitted 5 days ago • 387 comments

After last night’s “Family Guy,” with a drunk Brett Kavanaugh creeping out even Quagmire, I’m expecting the Supreme Court to ban TV. But the depiction of Ginni Thomas as a raging nutjob was spot-on. 🤣🤣🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

This says it all.

submitted 7 days ago • 776 comments

“Trump and Vance appear to have entered the meeting with the intention of berating Zelensky and drawing him into an argument as a pretext for the diplomatic break,” Jonathan Chait writes: theatln.tc/ejdvMpQT

submitted 7 days ago • 127 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 7 days ago • 3344 comments

I have never, ever heard the Star Spangled Banner booed like it was at WWE Elimination opening. The Canada crowd sure hates Shitler. #WWE

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Just got a rejection letter for a job I applied for four years ago. I guess it’s nice they remembered me since I forgot all about them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

As they get rid of DEI initiatives, ban books, attack people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ and ultimately try to remove anti discrimination laws....they are really concerned about straight, White people. LOL. They're not even hiding it anymore. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

The Trump administration may continue — for now — to keep the AP from covering key events. A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order on Monday.

submitted 12 days ago • 99 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs. Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments

"Camps." The word you're looking for here is "camps." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 14 days ago • 361 comments

Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

Bring it, bitch.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Every single damn day he proves he is the stupidest, most hateful POS on the planet. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

As Trump was bullying the awesome Governor of Maine, he claimed that he is the Federal Law. He is NOT !!! This is the moment in American history when we the people must save our country from a dictator & his stooges & oligarchs. We all need to push back while we still can. .

submitted 14 days ago • 98 comments

I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead. Thanks. Marc

submitted 14 days ago • 187 comments

Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

… and not one person with two functioning brain cells is surprised.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Replace "western" with "white" and "unvetted" with "non-white," and you'll understand exactly what he's saying here.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Submitted a short story to a magazine I’ve been dreaming about writing for since I was 12. Not my first attempt. Last time they held that story for 18 months. Here’s hoping for a quicker, happier result. #writing #writerslife

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Dementia. 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The United States of America has become a kleptocracy.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 21 days ago • 382 comments

📌There has not been a president in my lifetime who has purposefully inflicted pain on people like this one. He is completely dead inside.

submitted 22 days ago • 647 comments

Did you know the "Liberal Media" is just a myth? I know you did, but here is proof anyway. 😉

submitted 22 days ago • 76 comments

Pure corruption.

submitted 21 days ago • 125 comments

Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

submitted 22 days ago • 132 comments

I don't understand why every Democrat member of Congress isn't already doing this. A handful are, but where is the leadership coordinating this? You had their Project 2025 fascist manifesto 2 years in advance. How are you suddenly surprised that they're doing what they said they're going to do?

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

"It isn’t an accident that we're here now": How the Supreme Court encouraged Trump to defy the law: Trump's assertions of broad, unchecked executive power are a predictable result of the court's "immunity" decision

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 32 days ago • 587 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

submitted 28 days ago • 456 comments

This 100%

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

Remember back when we thought it would require Congress, and, you know, laws and shit, for our government to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid? We were so cute back then.

submitted 29 days ago • 66 comments