This paragraph doing a lot of work: “True, there were people who were against free trade, sympathetic to Vladimir Putin, down on the Jews and inveterately hostile to immigration. There were outright bigots and conspiracy theorists and militia types” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...

MAGA/Blue MAGA populism Otherwise a group (immigrants/billionaires) Punch down (at woke/at “AIPAC”) Claim to be a victim (of trans/of data centers) Reject expertise (economists/economists) Reject on aesthetics (wind turbines/tech bros) Conspiracies (Epstein 2024/Epstein 2026) Rinse and repeat

Every sentence written by Blue MAGA on this platform includes a noun, a vowel, and a conspiracy involving Israel.

Just patiently waiting to see a post on here blaming the rape on AIPAC

This Onion parody remind anyone of any recent Bsky moral panic in particular? youtu.be/SmMboA24pyg?...

What would happen if the EU announced on a Tuesday that, for the next 48 hours only, any Russian soldier who defected would receive any EU citizenship of their choice for them and their family?

“Release the Epstein files. It’s the law!” What happens if They remove the filibuster on Monday Pass a law to release private texts of those who overstayed their visas on Tues. Pass another one to reveal porn habits of Kamala donors on Wed. There’s a reason the govt has to charge someone first!

Stupid war…but Iranian govt doesn’t share your values. “Iranian security forces arrested two well-known environmentalists in their home …. Ms. Kashani’s sister Sima, who has multiple sclerosis, was also arrested.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/w...

I posted that the paper industry uses 7x the water and 4.5x the energy as data centers. Someone “doing his own research” responded with a link to an article claiming printed paper was more sustainable than online reading. The article was from the paper industry’s lobbying group newsletter. 1/

Republicans kind of own the mythologized past. Republicans own all three branches of government currently. And democrats want to cede the future with a moral panic over data centers, an industry that uses 1/4 the energy and 1/7 the water that the paper production industry uses?

I get that you don’t like the aesthetics of Tech Bros. But Kamala won Silicon Valley by 37 points. They share progressive values. What other industry has upper management as supportive of Democrats than Tech? Be specific in your answer.

“Together with her husband and their 18-month-old baby, Ms. Sadovnikova, the woman from Irkutsk, who works in social media, joined the line at one station at 11 p.m. last Friday. She did not get gas until 5 p.m. the next day.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

The Israel + Epstein focus is the MAGA playbook: “otherwise” one group, roll back civil liberties, punch down but pretend to be punching up, conspiracies, scapegoat. Why was Epstein Alex Jones’s obsession until five minutes before it was ours?

Some of my friends, including my BF, are MAGA. They seem excited by the authoritarian project: the cruelty is the point. Cracks in their Trump support only emerge in discussion of corruption and pardons and they don’t like talking about J6. I assume this does not apply to persuadable voters.

Cancel culture was, at times, weird, but it was never a first amendment conflict. The government wasn’t rounding up people for writing op-eds, for supporting a Colombian politician, for opposing the president.

Politicians in robes….politicians in robes. The Court’s Hypocrisy www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...

So many on BSky explaining why their brand is not antisemitism. Anyone else on here think that’s weird?

SCOTUS fields 9,000 petitions but only accepts 90 of those cases. I don’t understand how the birthright citizenship case was even heard by this court.

Angry backlash from a “woke mob” to an offensive joke is not a violation of the first amendment. Masked govt goons locking you up for a Facebook joke about Kirk or a campus op ed or support for the wrong political party in Colombia is a violation of the first amendment. This can’t be that hard.

To those who claim, “If data centers aren’t terrible, why are they secretive about where they plan to build them.”… I know of no affordable housing project that wasn’t kept a secret through at least feasibility and planning. Most try to keep the secret through schematic design too if they can.

New York City has more rent control than any other and that same city has higher rents than any other….just like any economist would expect. More rent control ➡️ fewer apartments built ➡️ higher rents for everyone else

Has everyone on BSky lost their minds in the data center moral panic….or is it just my feed that’s serving me data centers because I engage the fact-free blue MAGA posters?

The year before Brexit, Britain was the fastest growing rich economy. The year after it was the slowest. It was the last economy to recover to pre-Covid productivity. Just got passed by Slovenia in per capita GDP. Yes, it must be ______’s fault. Insert name of any current PM.

If open/closed replaced left/right in politics: Is guilt-by-association Epstein fixation where the govt releases the private emails of citizens not charged with crimes …is that Team Open? Is attributing EVERY ill to data centers (but not to other factories) ….is that Team Open?

Hollywood should stop trying to show visually what it feels like to be wasted. They kaleidoscope the video and distort the audio. But it always feels saccharine. Can you think of any movie that got it right?

To those in the MSM who tried to figure out why Trump took so long to endorse in Texas, then endorsed Paxton for some particular reason that needs to be deciphered: Paxton was up in polls. Trump endorses people he thinks will win so he can claim to have sway. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

As of like 2024 Amazon makes more profit from delivering sponsored vendors to you than it does fulfilling your orders. Maybe we don’t buy sponsored products anymore? You are not the customer…you are the product.

Kind of disappointed that few posting on Bsky seems to understand the difference between income and wealth….or understands the basics of the US tax code.

Knicks in five

A reminder that the US paper industry uses 4x as much energy and 7x as much water than all data centers combined. Can we stop already with the data center freak out and focus on the government disappearing people in concentration camps. It’s like Blue MAGA on this platform. Fact-free.

Which sectors of the economy have been more comitted to renewables and zero carbon power and carbon capture than the tech industry? Please be specific. Asking for a friend because it’s gotten a little moral-panic-y on Bsky lately on the topic of data centers, which, of course, run Bsky.

Gas prices are not high now. They were low before because they failed to account for negative externalities like the costs of climate change and Middle East wars. Now they account for one of the two externalities.

When an avowed conspiracy theorist on the other side of politics endorses your preferred conspiracy, that doesn’t make your preferred conspiracy more likely to be true. Why are we now using MTG Epstein fixation as proof of anything?

Covid 180’d my outlook. People didn’t wear masks. Technology was what worked in the end in the form of vaccines. Is there a lesson for climate action? Should we be pushing for renewables more and pushing against fossil energy less? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/c...

Maybe it’s time to limit “acting” appointments to some number far fewer than 210 days.

My two favorite BlueSky moral panics that haven’t aged well are the outrage over Tapper’s book and the fawning over Luigi. Though the current data center freak out and the reputational laundering of the Iranian government may prove more insane with the benefit of hindsight.

Instruct those devoted to you not to vote by mail so that mailed ballots skew democratic Claim fraudulent elections when the slower-to-count mail-in ballots shift the count democratic Repeat

Omg, why are the Bidens everywhere right now? They must know, right? They must know the downstream effects. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

Your problems are not caused by immigrants, minorities, or leftists. Nor are they caused by billionaires, tech bros, or colonialists. There is no group punishment, where one’s background replaces individual responsibility… just bad policy. Can we dispense with the populism already?

You guys know that a US ban on data centers would simply push them to the Emirates, Canada, Singapore….right? Longer latency for our technology. Same carbon footprint or worse. Still AI takeover. What is the newfound obsession on this platform over data centers really about?

Horseshoe Theory of Politics,, meet the Lump of Labor Fallacy. The far right believes that immigrants will a steal a fixed number of jobs without creating more. Over the last months, on Bsky, it seems that the far left believes the same thing about AI.😂

Who will serve time in federal prison first: Kristi Noem Bill Pulte

If you are an official in the Kansas Dem Party, why not open your primary up to all voters? Can do so without changing state law. Get someone on the ballot that swingy voters and moderate Republicans might pull a lever for because they helped put them in the general. Trump won 26 states by 10+

I feel like all the assholes on BlueSky who were posting support for Luigi moved on to obsess on Epstein Then the virtue of Iran’s government Now the evils of data centers. It’s like Blue MAGA.

Concentration camps for immigrants Court orders ignored DoJ revenge prosecutions Presidential self dealing Why do so many on Bsky want to talk about Epstein, billionaires, and data centers?

On Freedomhouse, Iran’s government sits near the bottom of human rights rankings. Why have so many posters forgotten how cruel this government is?

No country is perfect Some countries, broadly, respect universal human rights. Some countries, broadly, do not. Immigration between them goes only one direction.

No country is perfect Some countries, broadly, respect universal human rights. Some countries, broadly, do not. Immigration between them only goes one direction.

I could see Obama waring with Iran, albeit more competently. I could see an Obama ballroom, albeit more elegant. Obama deported, but I can’t see him disappearing people with masked agents. Nor do I see Obama robbing the taxpayer blind. Eye on the prize, people. Focus on the real issues.