Reposted by Tony BGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2hWe don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?! 1952841611
Reposted by Tony BSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis. Whereas his first administration took children from their parents at the border to deter illegal crossings, the second is separating families living in the United States as part of a purge.” 15431
Reposted by Tony BSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins. 791623693
Reposted by Tony B🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121635151
Reposted by Tony BHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BREAKING: A key City Council panel agreed Thursday to allow Chicago’s parking meters to be sold to an investment firm as part of an agreement that a powerful alderperson said should serve as a partial apology for the much-loathed deal to sell the city’s meters in the first place. @wttw.bsky.socialnews.wttw.com‘Deal of the Century’: Sale of Chicago Parking Meters to Investment Firm Advances“We have an opportunity to not only apologize to Chicagoans for the city’s past mistakes, but to back that apology with real, tangible benefits for taxpayers for the first time,” Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd ... 2122
Reposted by Tony BJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is peak Free Press. You can have a quality education and read literary fiction and still think national purification through mass violence is cool. It’s like a New Yorker article abt loving street hotdogs. Only less moral. 2221649
Reposted by Tony BRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."nytimes.comFrom 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada FizzleIt was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare. 441757683
Reposted by Tony BBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...ballsandstrikes.orgA Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter FraudHis conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds. 409104902650
Reposted by Tony BMr. King @sleepbaseball.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dudes, what is going on over at LinkedIn these days? I keep getting automated emails about folks challenging me to some kind of "Wordle"-like puzzle game. (The last time I was on LinkedIn, I got into a fight with a retired judge from Tennesee in the comment section of the New Yorker. Thank you.) 141
Reposted by Tony Bamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.motherjones.comThe Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.” 121507703
Reposted by Tony Bjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election 20178341894
Reposted by Tony BDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NYT lame: “It was not clear how he would go about that.” AP honest and unafraid: “The proposal, which could cost at least $1 trillion, was financially and politically implausible.” apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comRepublicans slam Democrats and declare devotion to Trump during unusual midterm conventionRepublicans opened their unique midterm convention that's being described as a “Trump-a-Palooza.” The two-day event in Dallas kicked off Wednesday and puts President Donald Trump at center stage — whether candidates like it or not. 1824774
Reposted by Tony BTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 10/09/2026Donald Trump Just Basically Bribed Americans to Vote for Republicanstalkingpointsmemo.comDonald Trump Just Basically Bribed Americans to Vote for RepublicansWith his poll numbers at record lows, gas prices at record highs,... 209933
Reposted by Tony BJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/09/2026"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...religionnews.com'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies. 481944584
Reposted by Tony BJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/20261. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine. 4721561469
Reposted by Tony BJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures 842683492
Reposted by Tony BBill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Back in 1951, Chicago Public Schools had a very rah-rah civics textbook where the very first lesson was the Grid. 1433259
Reposted by Tony BJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/09/2026More harrowing reporting on this from Springfield via @rns.org's @kathrynpost.bsky.social: Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE Note the header image: That's the people praying over Pierre Damas Bel's grieving family. religionnews.com/2026/09/01/t...religionnews.comTwo pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICESPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — ‘All I want is to see my husband back,’ said Denise Gedeon, whose pastor-husband, Joubert Adrien, was detained by ICE — one of two pastors arrested during a weekend that also... 7316175
Reposted by Tony Bescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026To be clear everyone involved in this should go to prison. This is not some petty "but the golf course was so nice beforehand" shit, this is "you are in open and flagrant violation of the law in that you lied to the court about your intentions and timelines" territory people.com/dozens-trees...people.comDozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: ReportOver 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law... 631188528
Reposted by Tony BLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/08/2026"More than the fear for your own safety, the idea that the people who are inextricably interwoven into your everyday life could just be brutally removed in such a fashion is truly horrifying. "And that is what is now occurring, this very day, in cities and towns across America."liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: Los Desaparecidos de ICETrump's mass deportation campaign will produce more atrocities than the Argentinian military junta did. 04618
Reposted by Tony BBrian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com · 26/08/2026What Scalzi said. So much this. 1121
Reposted by Tony BMike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 25/08/2026She also could tell a fuckin story 142686600
Reposted by Tony BJohn Scholvin @scholvin.com · 26/08/2026Do you need to let it all out? Just have an ugly one, to feel better on the other side of it? 271
Reposted by Tony BStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Feels like a great day to bump the latest Diverging Approach starlinechicago.substack.com/p/skys-the-l...starlinechicago.substack.comSky's the LimitWe're approaching O'Hare rail service all wrong 3347
Reposted by Tony BHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"I never served my country in the military but this is my chance to fight the communists as Trump Force 47 Captain." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...talkingpointsmemo.comEXCLUSIVE: He Accidentally Won a Michigan House Primary. He Also Attended the Jan 6 Protest.Tom Smith sort of stumbled into the Republican nomination in his Michigan... 1206
Reposted by Tony BBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIPyoutube.comDolly Parton - Jolene (33rpm slowed down digital version)YouTube video by OdinsVlog 673224287
Reposted by Tony BQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026D.C. has now entered its second year with federal troops on its streets.theatlantic.comAn American City, With Troops on Its StreetsSince the country’s founding, deployments of soldiers to U.S. soil have been exceedingly rare. But residents of Washington, D.C., are living in a new normal. 22511185
Reposted by Tony BMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/08/2026They all speak like abusers (because that’s what they are) 1761126913134
Reposted by Tony BJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The US-Canada Trainwreck and the Limits of American Power talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...talkingpointsmemo.comThe US-Canada Trainwreck and the Limits of American PowerA few more thoughts on the collapse of US-Canadian trade negotiations and... 3037799
Reposted by Tony BAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked." 406114162822
Reposted by Tony BRob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026As a matter of military history, conventional air campaigns aimed at punishing the civilian population always fail. People who persist on calling for this are just confessing that killing people makes them feel powerful, and they don't care whether it achieves anything or not. 571164242
Reposted by Tony BMr. King @sleepbaseball.bsky.social · 20/08/2026There are more pressing issues afoot, but I feel like we should fund the USPS to the hilt. Walking into a post office should be like walking into a futuristic Busby Berkeley fever dream of efficiency and class. 3173
Reposted by Tony BCrystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“The reports show that covert agents surreptitiously attended well over a dozen protest meetings organized by groups like the Sunrise Movement and various small socialist organizations. In some cases the agents secretly recorded the gatherings.” 13217
Reposted by Tony BHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.” 2443126213970
Reposted by Tony BEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The billionaire bro in charge of Forest Service, Michael Boren, ordered underlings to deploy a fleet aircraft to put out a tiny fire near his megaranch Acre-size of fire: 7 Number of aircraft sent: 9 “it was easily accessible by ground,” said an official www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...washingtonpost.comTop Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranchMichael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more resources to contain a seven-acre blaze last month, officials said. 22253152
Reposted by Tony BLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18/08/2026"You cannot create detention centers—and let's call them what they all actually are, concentration camps of one kind of another—without producing predictable kinds of abuses and cruelty." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...liberalcurrents.comEditor's Notes: Never Underestimate the Human Capacity for Earnest CrueltyAmericans ought to be more familiar with the sorts of atrocities committed both by regimes and by rioting publics. 15623
Reposted by Tony BRoosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 21/07/2026Why does the rent keep going up? It's not just the housing shortage. In @time.com, our Fellow @asteephen.bsky.social argues that today's housing market is increasingly organized around Wall Street's expectation that rents will keep rising, making higher rents part of the business model.time.comWhy Rent Keeps Rising Because of Wall Street“Apartment buildings are bought, sold, and borrowed against on the expectation that rents will keep rising,” writes Anisha Steephen. 11611
Reposted by Tony BJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/20262/ of commemoration starts during the Civil War with a proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. There was a long history during the early republic and deep into the colonial era of days of thanksgiving. these were generally in line with the literal meaning of the world: days of appreciation to God for ... 1906
Reposted by Tony BJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Not that this goes to the deeper issues people are discussing. But the Thanksgiving Holiday has basically nothing to do with the Pilgrims or anything to do with settlers or later white Americans interactions with American Indians. The holiday didn't start with the Pilgrims. The modern day ... 1326057
Reposted by Tony BDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Recall that industry says that 250,000 is the operational minimum for the reserve (50,000 barrels to go) 9489
Reposted by Tony BScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===> 10630711784
Reposted by Tony BSam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...secure.actblue.comDonate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymanderingThese are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races 471560558
Reposted by Tony BJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/07/2026"Davis, the government says, has attended and facilitated meetings about protests and discussed his anti-authoritarian ideology with other activists. He is not accused of violent acts, taking any specific actions at protests nor having any encounters with ICE agents. He is facing 6 years in prison." 522998
Reposted by Tony BGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026Donald Trump cut fire prevention to give Elon Musk a tax break. www.startribune.com/report-doge-...startribune.comReport: DOGE delayed fire-prevention plan for Echo Trail near ElyWashington Post reporting supports the allegations of a former Forest Service ranger now running for the Legislature. 371503599
Reposted by Tony BDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The actual enshittification of government 13798163
Reposted by Tony BEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16/07/20265-year-old Camila's crayon drawings in detention look just like my 5-year-old's drawings. We need this to end, and then we need prosecutions for everybody who had a hand in harming these families. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...ctinsider.com5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CTOn any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits. 11519218
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[28] Parton refused. She recalls:
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