Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21hOssoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it. 412517477
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million/yr on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Investing in bike infrastructure saves money.grist.orgOne mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 lossCopenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact. 39941
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/10/2026How the fuck is this “mind-boggling?” No one wants to come in here out of a very understandable fear they’ll be either shot or thrown into a concentration camp by ICE. 1216060
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15493160
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/09/2026While EVERY race for EVERY office is important, I'm still urging folks to focus heavily on STATE LEGISLATIVE races, especially in ALASKA ARIZONA GEORGIA IOWA MICHIGAN MINNESOTA NEW HAMPSHIRE PENNSYLVANIA WISCONSIN Blue26.org/stateblue26.orgState LegislativeLinks on this page allow you to easily donate to multiple Democrats running for state legislative seats in every state! Competitive District pages list Democrats running in districts which have a par... 33023
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The world's leading AI firms say the technology is careening out of control and could cause a global catastrophe. A sundowning octogenarian president who uses AI to post images of himself looking like Rambo says this is a Chinese hoax. For busy technologists, it can be hard to know who to trust. 956966
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity. 191383648
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I hear they like to put lots of gold all over everything too. 2312442470
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 31/08/2026Tennessee Volunteers to honor late Dolly Parton with a helmet sticker this seasonchicagotribune.comTennessee Volunteers to honor late Dolly Parton with a helmet sticker this season 2122
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just expel him, Canada. 34663151043
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAnne Allen Westbrook @aawestbrook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The best. Love 🇨🇦. 011
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t want to do his job but wants to “travel with Natalie” 38592822166
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Not how any of this is supposed to work 1863205555
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay. 31972242287
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The Supreme Court invited exactly this when it held that the president's attempt to conduct "sham" "investigations" was a core executive power immune from all regulation, including criminal prosecution, in Trump v. United States. 191729553
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookMicah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing 6979731584
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026spain can build over 500 miles of high speed rail for the amount of money Trump wants to redesign an airport 823330
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 28/07/202610 years ago today Americans nominated a woman for President but America lost its collective mind and now women die from... miscarriages. 14413132
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross. 20563562587
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookGern Blandston @godisdead.bsky.social · 22/07/2026JESUS RIGATONI CHRIST NOBODY HAS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PASTA WHY AREN'T YOU MOCKING THIS FOR THE PATENTLY RIDICULOUS STANCE IT IS OH WAIT I KNOW THIS ONE NEVER MIND 091
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/07/2026sure would be nice if a single journalist could respond with "you don't have a constitutional right to eat at olive garden" 861681238
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful. 6330731083
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you. 594452468
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookArif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked 9199052523
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson: "Magic happens when we create inviting, people-centered public spaces — a car-free Pioneer Square, Pike Place Market, our new Waterfront Park, Seattle Center — and give people reasons to gather and shop there. Let’s do more of this across neighborhoods citywide..."seattletimes.comSeattle, the World Cup brought possibility. Let's build on it | Op-Ed, Mayor Katie WilsonSeattle’s World Cup revealed something else, something many of us knew, despite the persistent voices pushing narratives of decline. Seattle is a great city. 201628280
Reposted by Anne Allen Westbrookmensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026German broadcast. Nailed it 139149754994
Anne Allen Westbrook @aawestbrook.bsky.social · 17/07/2026@tmbaiad.bsky.social our children are absolutely safe… 020
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why. 036811003
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026* MEXICO HAS FILED CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS WITH STATE PROSECUTORS IN U.S. OVER DEATHS OF CITIZENS IN IMMIGRATION CUSTODY -- STATEMENT * MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO SENT CEASE-AND-DESIST LETTERS TO U.S. DETENTION CENTERS WHERE NATIONALS HAVE DIED -- STATEMENT @reuters.com 9567301784
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookBlue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026In a normal world, the President of the United States paying millions of dollars to a woman he sexually abused would be the only story, yet here we are. 43211
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents? 760118073645
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Vaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.bbc.co.ukCervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccineA new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008. 81048276
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Whether it's liberal kids at Oberlin asking for trigger warnings or conservative billionaires turning the Washington Post, CBS News, Twitter, and CNN into organs for right-wing propaganda, both sides have harmed our nation's ability to have an honest dialogue. 964679
Reposted by Anne Allen Westbrookderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/06/2026with a trillion dollars, elon can pay one million people one million dollars to pretend they are him playing a video game 443813385
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If you watched the viral video of Bosnian soccer fans shouting for Palestine ahead of game in toronto today, read this piece about Bosnian team grappling with legacy of genocide & displacement with 17 of its players born elsehwere. "Playing for the national team becomes a symbolic act of return."africasacountry.comThe country they never leftBosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football. 122499
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Why is the Supreme Court Historical Society selling a peg doll set featuring only the current male justices? Who would want this? supremecourtgifts.org/products/sup... 1351652346
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is just straight up fascism. Threatening to destroy elections and running roughshod over basic constitutional principles is anathema to a healthy democratic nation. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...cnn.comPostal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN PoliticsState election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots. 20318181
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/06/2026“The Founders would never have wanted… hang on, I’m being handed a note.” 2778187
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookEvan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 01/06/2026Who among us does not get easily bored trying to end wars we started and then immediately lost on the first weekend? 351326262
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookMarty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...nytimes.comThe U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People 15256382127
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Every single day I am forced to see the sheltered-turtle ideas of the 30 dumbest rich men alive. 022450
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 31/05/2026America came out of me too and made a rapist President 10712121
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Safe, protected bike-lanes are: Better for business Better for emissions Better for air quality Better for space Better for public health Better for noise Better for equity Better for affordability Better for public costs Better for safety for EVERYONE Better for oil independence Better. 10571159
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 28/05/2026We already have a process for determining whether accusers are credible. It’s called a trial. And a jury already decided they believed E Jean Carroll. THIS is weaponization. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll Over Trump Lawsuits 882458709
Reposted by Anne Allen WestbrookDiana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Talarico v. Paxton is going to be a straight up religious argument between Christianity as a religion of love for neighbor and Christian authoritarianism. There's not been a public theological contest like this since the Scopes Monkey trail. 23731166