Tonk
@brittonk.bsky.social
Endlessly striving to nudge liberals toward receptive insight and fellow leftists toward grass.
gay! | leftist! | nerd! | lawyer 😑
nyc (optimistic) | he/him | 🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
gay! | leftist! | nerd! | lawyer 😑
nyc (optimistic) | he/him | 🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Give the Pitchbot a Pulitzer now you cowards
The Legend Lives On
Howard Lutnick is more Cantor Fitzgerald than Edmund Fitzgerald, but as the economic gales of November sweep the middle class, he's light footing it to Saudi Arabia to enrich himself and his sons. I'd curse him, but the Catholic in me fears the mother Superior.
by Maureen Dowd
Howard Lutnick is more Cantor Fitzgerald than Edmund Fitzgerald, but as the economic gales of November sweep the middle class, he's light footing it to Saudi Arabia to enrich himself and his sons. I'd curse him, but the Catholic in me fears the mother Superior.
by Maureen Dowd
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Give the Pitchbot a Pulitzer now you cowards
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Topline: Ariana is a young journalist targeted by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. ICE is just straight up attempting to have a journalist—who was granted asylum—executed using a single missed phone call (if it even was made and they’re not just lying) as a bogus justification
So this is someone I know who got snatched by ICE for the crime of missing a phone call while she was at work. She needs help and it would be good to help her.
Donate to Help Free Ariana from I.C.E., organized by Lisa Munyan
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November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Topline: Ariana is a young journalist targeted by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. ICE is just straight up attempting to have a journalist—who was granted asylum—executed using a single missed phone call (if it even was made and they’re not just lying) as a bogus justification
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
Knowing that the mod team is working around the clock is cold comfort when evidently the mod team is the threat from which the community needs to be kept safe.
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September 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Knowing that the mod team is working around the clock is cold comfort when evidently the mod team is the threat from which the community needs to be kept safe.
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KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."
2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
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Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits
This thread provides the framing that I’ve been searching for desperately to reconceptualize the… *waves hands* noise of it all, today
oh no are they calling for martial law? what, like Trump sending in national guardsmen to major cities to take over policing? that kind of martial law? Oh MY GOD
September 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This thread provides the framing that I’ve been searching for desperately to reconceptualize the… *waves hands* noise of it all, today
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Every Dem candidate for '26 and '28 must, bare minimum, promise the abolishing of ICE and genuine significant punishment for every member of this administration and their collaborators. This isn't a purity test. It's the compromise position.
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every Dem candidate for '26 and '28 must, bare minimum, promise the abolishing of ICE and genuine significant punishment for every member of this administration and their collaborators. This isn't a purity test. It's the compromise position.
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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your grandma only collected porcelain cherubs because funkos didn't exist yet. you are the same
September 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
your grandma only collected porcelain cherubs because funkos didn't exist yet. you are the same
Today I’ll be watching the blood moon total eclipse and the U.S. Open men’s final. Fingers crossed for a couple of beautiful things.
Sunrise, parabellum.
Sunrise, parabellum.
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN
September 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Today I’ll be watching the blood moon total eclipse and the U.S. Open men’s final. Fingers crossed for a couple of beautiful things.
Sunrise, parabellum.
Sunrise, parabellum.
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So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.
11/end
If this dizzy bitch enjoys a moment of peace in DC after this, we will have failed
August 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If this dizzy bitch enjoys a moment of peace in DC after this, we will have failed
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Fascism has arrived in the US. So what now? Some real options here. “The question is: are we going to be the first generation that finds a new way out, or are we going to be another cautionary tale future historians write about?” #fascistUSA #Trump #bluestatepower
medium.com/@carmitage/i...
medium.com/@carmitage/i...
We live in a fascist nation. What now?
Once they win elections, it’s already too late.
medium.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Fascism has arrived in the US. So what now? Some real options here. “The question is: are we going to be the first generation that finds a new way out, or are we going to be another cautionary tale future historians write about?” #fascistUSA #Trump #bluestatepower
medium.com/@carmitage/i...
medium.com/@carmitage/i...
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GOP: We are the pro-life party!
So—free pre-natal care?
GOP: No
Extend child tax credit?
GOP: No
Paid family leave?
GOP: No
Universal pre-K?
GOP: No
Gun reform to stop school shootings?
GOP: No
So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔
GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
So—free pre-natal care?
GOP: No
Extend child tax credit?
GOP: No
Paid family leave?
GOP: No
Universal pre-K?
GOP: No
Gun reform to stop school shootings?
GOP: No
So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔
GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
August 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
GOP: We are the pro-life party!
So—free pre-natal care?
GOP: No
Extend child tax credit?
GOP: No
Paid family leave?
GOP: No
Universal pre-K?
GOP: No
Gun reform to stop school shootings?
GOP: No
So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔
GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
So—free pre-natal care?
GOP: No
Extend child tax credit?
GOP: No
Paid family leave?
GOP: No
Universal pre-K?
GOP: No
Gun reform to stop school shootings?
GOP: No
So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔
GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
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After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
August 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
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My statement on the latest charges against members of Mayor Adams’ inner circle.
August 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My statement on the latest charges against members of Mayor Adams’ inner circle.
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you may be tempted to read this and find it sad or pitiful but I’m going to have to disagree and suggest that it is actually fucking hilarious
August 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
you may be tempted to read this and find it sad or pitiful but I’m going to have to disagree and suggest that it is actually fucking hilarious
I’m no real Swiftie but this is the only thought I’ve had for the past 48 hours
August 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I’m no real Swiftie but this is the only thought I’ve had for the past 48 hours
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
Extremely heavy, deeply human stuff here
I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...
August 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Extremely heavy, deeply human stuff here