#RunUp
vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas

horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
February 26, 2026 at 2:05 AM
raul gave me three separate heart attacks with that runup
July 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM
As always, never get cute on the runup
July 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Beware of:
October suprises
Sanewashing
Horse race coverage
False equivalence
Euphemism
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
(archives from the runup to another election 10/16/24)
October 2, 2026 at 11:59 AM
looking forward to another three years of "jd vance was privately correct about everything" stories in the runup to 2028

not gonna work, nice try though
Weeks after Vice President JD Vance privately warned President Trump of the costs of a full-scale U.S. war with Iran, he is now leading the charge to negotiate an end to the conflict.
Vance Faces Test of His Negotiating Skills With Iran Talks
Vice President JD Vance is leading negotiations this weekend toward an end to a war that he had opposed starting.
nyti.ms
April 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
More Splatoon fan art to celebrate the runup to Splatoon Raiders!

#splatoon #splatoonfanart #poster
July 8, 2026 at 1:06 PM
FIFA needs to intervene again and ban the stutter runup before taking kicks
July 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
the script for this iran war drumbeat is EXACTLY the same as the runup to iraq. ive heard almost verbatim "with us or against us" and "the smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud." neocon deep state stays winning
June 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
lmao haven’t stopped laughing at majri’s runup, she ran a whole 5k before getting to the ball
July 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The thing is, this isn't even the first time US ag has wrecked itself with foolish trade wars.

In the runup to the Civil War, US cotton plantations decided to stop exporting cotton. Why?

Because the British Empire's textile mills ran on cotton from US plantations.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It's like they studied the most shameless lies from the runup to the Iraq war.
January 4, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Something people don't really remember but is true is that one of the *top* political issues the media covered in the runup to the 2014 midterms was the idea that Barack Obama had badly mismanaged an Ebola outbreak because 10 total Americans had gotten it
“We are so far behind in this outbreak,” a current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employee tells @wired.com. “This is a perfect storm.”

new from me and @knibbs.bsky.social on how aid cuts from last year are already fueling the sudden ebola outbreak:
‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump's Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak
One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.
www.wired.com
May 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
it would've been so easy (if bari was smart) to basically run CBS news as a sleeper cell — keep things superficially similar to the old regime and only start dialing in the propaganda in the runup to the election. Instead she immediately signalled to viewers that she was gonna destroy CBS
the basic bari problem (other than she's stupid and sucks) is conservatives already have their own news outlets. If you want to smuggle conservative propaganda into a news org to brainwash the libs, you actually have to make it appeal to them so they will watch it.
CBS Evening News ratings drop below 4M for first time with Tony Dokoupil as anchor after Bari Weiss overhaul
March 18, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The runup to this game has been exhausting, but at least most of the possible outcomes are hilarious
can we take a second and acknowledge how hilarious it is that everyone is trying to catch the first month of deion sanders at colorado lightning in a bottle, only with bill belichick
September 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I was saying to people in the runup to the conclave that I suspected whoever they picked we would get a lot more interesting data from who hates him than who likes him
A friend asked me what I thought of the new pope.

I said I don’t know much about him, but the people complaining about him are not people I want to hang out with (and who I don’t respect or trust), so that’s a good sign?
May 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's funny how perfectly the *strait of Hormuz will open in two weeks!" stories parallel the phenomenon of "a recession is 100% guaranteed to for sure come next quarter" stories in the runup to the 2022 midterms
June 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Debra Wilson smashes literally anything I give her out of the park, that’s why we cast her. I won’t hear a word of a complaint about her, professional to a tea, nails every character no runup
its really annoying seeing people complain about Debra Wilson being in everything when Troy Baker is the same and its crickets…… black women make up less than 5% of the industry… complaining about us getting work is so silly
September 17, 2026 at 4:09 PM
• land war in asia
• battle of wits with a sicilian when death is on the line
• fancy stutter pk runup
July 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
We're gonna look back at the media covering up Trump's senility in the runup to the 2024 election as one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of the last century. Will be a defining feature of his presidency and get worse as the term goes on.
February 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I started playing Stardew Valley because I needed something relaxing to do during the runup to a move, and I have thought about nothing but parsnips all day so far.
March 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
this kind of shit was bog standard during the runup to iraq but it was on network *and* cable news, not a nightly audience of maybe a million
June 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Whenever Dems suggested doing this (or even hinted as Biden did in the runup to the 2022 midterms), the media leapt into action to declare it to be a hideously unpopular overreach that would surely boomerang on Dems if they went through with it
Donald Trump tells Senate Republicans to nuke the legislative filibuster.
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 AM
it's a beautiful ruling in the runup to an election that already considers vote-by-mail tantamount to fraud. 2026 here we come.
You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...
Supreme Court Says You Can’t File Tort Suits Against Postal Carriers Who Won’t Deliver Mail to Black People
According to Clarence Thomas, mail that your mail carrier steals from you is really just “lost,” if you think about it.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 25, 2026 at 3:17 PM
This "fact check" CNN wrote in the runup to the election is a straight up lie. They printed lies in the newspaper for Trump because they wanted Trump to win. Liars bsky.app/profile/repe...
January 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
so... the trump campaign is communicating with agents of the kremlin in the runup to the election?
How can he still shock me after all this time? How is it possible? I have the absolute lowest opinion of him and yet he always can go lower.
May 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM