Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialMediaite @mediaite.com · 07/06/2026New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. 474864942
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialKevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean 4937341148
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026Today we announced the most ambitious housing plan in our City's modern history. We're building 200,000 affordable homes. We’re overhauling code enforcement. We’re cracking down on bad landlords. We’re creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs. 11265321177
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. 725250249962
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct. 7957571633
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing. 167176793217
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER 524352075529
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialJon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Perry told attorneys she was open to again hearing the issue of vindictive prosecution and said there's potential for sanctions for prosecutorial misconduct. 539658
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026If your argument is “Dems need to run centrists in red areas because progressive policies are only popular in blue areas” (incorrect), then you should be supporting progressives like Christ Rabb running in safe blue districts, unless you’re a hypocrite. Looking *directly* at you, Cory Booker. 1735361
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis. 630221644529
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3 103131563221
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A government of shallow, glib sociopaths striving to get an "Attaboy" from other shallow, glib sociopaths. 277122033774
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 20/05/2026i don’t like massie and i have never liked massie, and i think him losing his primary provides a lot of supporting evidence that the party’s just a personality cult now, because he absolutely stuck to his principles, almost all of which every republican claims to share save one 291664210
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.” 421040174
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialRaw Story @rawstory.com · 19/05/2026A new Change Research survey shows Democrat Alex Vindman leading Republican Ashley Moody by two points in the Florida Senate race, a result the Vindman campaign on Monday hailed as a sign that the long-dismissed red state may finally be in play.bit.ly'This changes everything': New poll shows long-dismissed red state finally in playA new Change Research survey shows Democrat Alex Vindman leading Republican Ashley Moody by two points in the Florida Senate race, a result the Vindman campaign on Monday hailed as a sign that the long-dismissed red state may finally be in play.The poll has Vindman at 47% to Moody's 45%, according t... 15717
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/05/202612 days after gutting the Voting Rights Act, SCOTUS has turned back the clock in Alabama. Like Louisiana, this will dilute Black voting power and dismantle protections needed to fight discrimination. Another dark day for our democracy.nbcnews.comSupreme Court lets Alabama speed adoption of congressional map eliminating a majority-Black districtThe decision sends litigation back to a lower court as the state races to adopt a map before the midterm elections that would more heavily favor Republicans. 1128195
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness" 18579932898
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272786872
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2026the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history 179120153658
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026NEW: In this majority-Latino city in California, the GOP had long maintained an iron grip on local government. But that all changed this spring: Anger toward ICE raids, immigrant organizing, and surging turnout for local elections, it all made for a Dem sweep—& flip. Check out the story:boltsmag.orgHow Immigrant Organizing Flipped Nixon’s Hometown - BoltsThe California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos and kept them out of city government. 211382423
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?nbcnews.comChief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court. 27497211858
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.youtube.comWhy Farmers Voted For TrumpYouTube video by Farm to Taber 8443621560
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialKate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 05/05/2026New: Appellants in Callais are asking SCOTUS to recall Alito's expedited judgment so they can request a rehearing. Jackson criticized Alito for rushing to certify the judgment (rather than waiting the usual 32-day period) the better to help Louisiana erase at least one majority-Black district 415944
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026Remember when it came out that MacKenzie Scott, who has given away more of her fortune than anyone ever, is richer than before she started giving? That’s the metric by which you have to judge the levels of greed, wealth hoarding & wage suppression the wealthy engage in. 191358294
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Abughazaleh: One of the most egregious aspects of this is Hegseth saying that this conflict that we started is ordained by God. Is bombing a school full of schoolgirls ordained by God? 28557961194
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 30/04/2026something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...theverge.comThe logic of the racist Supreme Court isn’t adding upSCOTUS hates math 12913210
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/04/2026perfect weather to bike home 1659189485
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter 10181422745
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialjstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026This moment demands a reset. J Street is calling for the U.S. to end unconditional financial military subsidies to Israel and to move towards a relationship where we treat Israel like any other ally. 🧵 1/6 2442894
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 13/04/2026"The new administration will prosecute and convict the old, criminal administration" is a winning argument! 752068
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialWendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028. 46101102819
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialChabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 13/03/2026We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back. Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...19thnews.orgFor many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be.A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off. 14036061015
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialSenator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 10/03/2026Today I visited an ICE holding facility in Baltimore. What I saw was disturbing. This Administration is showing a level of inhumanity we should never accept. 1415247
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/03/20261/ Today in pardoned Jan 6 rioter news: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/n...nytimes.comHomemade Bomb Thrown at Protest Near N.Y.C. Mayor’s House, Police Say 3265104
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:thehandbasket.coPolice body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raidFootage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025. 10088683288
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota. 1454401609075
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 05/03/2026We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war. 784964860
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Breaking Axios: Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, once a neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein, has agreed to a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee over his ties to Epstein — ties that continued after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor.axios.comScoop: Lutnick volunteers to testify on Epstein ties"I have done nothing wrong and I want to set the record straight." 129999308
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialJason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/03/2026NEW: Sony no longer plans to release PlayStation games on PC, sources tell Bloomberg News, a major shift in strategy that sees the console maker returning to exclusivity after six years of flirting with multiplatform. Ghost of Yotei and Saros are not coming to PC. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comSony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PCThe video-game publisher no longer plans to put out PC ports of PlayStation games such as ‘Ghost of Yotei’ 3012076513
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialMatunos @matunos.bsky.social · 04/03/2026She just lost the primary— overwhelmingly— to this guy 3762160
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/02/2026zeteo.com/p/trump-was-...zeteo.comTrump Was Told Americans Would ‘Very’ Likely Die in His Illegal Iran WarThe president keeps saying his war will be “easily” won. Now that it’s started, few around Trump think that will be the case. 1313632
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review" 7357431387
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.thehandbasket.coThe Handbasket100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas 49894673095
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok 1921991920
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Zohran says Elaina will be released 681379334
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialJB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 25/02/202659% of Americans disapprove of Trump's economy. 68% say he hasn't focused on the right problems. 61% say his policies will move the country in the wrong direction. Trump calls it a ‘Golden Age’ — the American people aren't buying it. 534186
Reposted by @alacritist.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/02/2026Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee." 3161345542
