Thomas V. Bona
@tvbona.bsky.social
Bronx boy, NY sports fan, Electric Mennonite researching/writing about progressive politics, infrastructure, religion, music. Now with ADHD/anxiety expansion pack!
That’s fair. Mostly it’s cuz of video games lol.
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That’s fair. Mostly it’s cuz of video games lol.
Wow that’s a good pair!!
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Wow that’s a good pair!!
Reposted by Thomas V. Bona
This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.
September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.
Reposted by Thomas V. Bona
Sam’s Law of Media:
The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening
Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions
The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening
Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions
October 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Sam’s Law of Media:
The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening
Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions
The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening
Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions
Yup. Virginia Woolf. Still the best show I’ve ever seen!
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Yup. Virginia Woolf. Still the best show I’ve ever seen!
You, however, have quite the … imagination… I imagine.
September 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You, however, have quite the … imagination… I imagine.
Perhaps you missed basic communications and media theory.
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Perhaps you missed basic communications and media theory.
You’re right, instead of communicating to voters what’s going, Democrats should ____.
September 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
You’re right, instead of communicating to voters what’s going, Democrats should ____.