Reposted by AlisonGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot. 384289636740 0
Reposted by AlisonMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2025To all you "Christians" gloating and laughing about the cruelty of Alligator Alcatraz: Jesus would like a word. And then a ferocious slap. 667115962226 0
Reposted by AlisonAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/06/2025A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules. 882353597133 0
Reposted by AlisonSenator Roland Gutierrez @rolandfortexas.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Three years ago, the Dobbs decision took away a woman’s right to make her own reproductive health care decisions. Today, Texas girls have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers. We cannot and will not stop fighting for a woman’s right to choose. #txlege 643191 0
Reposted by AlisonDr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Regret voting to confirm RFK Jr., Senator?? HE LIED. Which is par for the course for your party. Don't get yer knickers in a twist now. You had a chance to stop it and you didn't. And you being a "medical doctor" makes that WORSE. Pffft 🖕. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comKennedy's new vaccine panel lacks experience and shouldn’t meet, Sen. Cassidy saysHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all members of the vaccine advisory panel this month and appointed his own slate. 16373106 0
Reposted by AlisonRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day? 668115682659 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 06/06/2025#LizReadsTheNews from Montreal this morning. Here’s a clip. Subscribe at #ElizabethGreyWrites on #Substack for twice-weekly breakdown of headlines. We have a good time with them! elizabethgrey.substack.com 131 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comResistanceThe personal, the political, the book proposal, and all that jazz. 111 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comOh, What a Relief Grief IsPlus the sublime Heather Cox Richardson, and immigration. 011 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comThanks, Virginia Giuffre.On the cost and quagmire of speaking up. 031 0
Reposted by AlisonThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Reminder. www.politico.com/magazine/sto... 603171215784 0
Reposted by Alisonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States 5403962613159 0
Reposted by AlisonBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit. 15568914218160 0
Reposted by Alisonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025they want jim crow history for a jim crow society 10852281320 0
Reposted by AlisonBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025@warren.senate.gov: "State attorneys general have the same opportunity to investigate, dig in, get what the facts are. So for example, Letitia James, the NY attorney general, which has jurisdiction over the stock market and the trading that happens in NY, might decide she would take a look at this." 312172614295 0
Reposted by AlisonProPublica @propublica.org · 13/04/2025Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said. By @fastlerner.bsky.socialpropublica.orgTrump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most PollutersClimate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said. 771457572 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comThe Problem with "Let Him"What I expect from my party. 122 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 20/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comOh No. I Might Like Gwyneth Paltrow.When women take off the brakes. 021 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comTurn to the LeftProgressive politics are the only practical way forward. 121 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Anything can happen, people. I’m writing about astrology, of all things. And systems. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comMercuryOn systems. 011 0
Reposted by AlisonElizabeth Grey @elizagreywrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comBad Mood, DeconstructedFoul humor in a bad restaurant. 011 0
Reposted by AlisonEveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 11/04/2025All libraries are about adding quality to your life. Consider how your local library helps so many. All library staff and volunteers work hard to make your life better.newtondailynews.comLetter to the Editor: Honoring all libraries, staff and volunteersToday’s library has multiple resources to meet both practical and entertainment needs. 12614 0
Reposted by AlisonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Mahmoud Khalil expressed his political point of view peacefully. That’s supposed to be permitted in a democracy. If this egregious assault on civil liberties stands, what’s to stop Trump from arresting American citizens who support any cause his regime doesn’t like? 1312884851 0
Reposted by AlisonJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress. 11833609810836 0
Reposted by AlisonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever. 494172835517 0
Reposted by AlisonAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters. 772244599037 0
Reposted by AlisonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly." 582349328820 0
Reposted by AlisonSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 28/03/2025Prices are soaring, your 401k is in the tank, Social Security phone lines are hours long. Instead of addressing any of that – this administration is picking a fight with Denmark. 1689238096118 0
Reposted by AlisonScott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 28/03/2025The kind of person that kills dogs. 3390372395804 0
Reposted by AlisonChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 19815601921195 0
Reposted by AlisonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Republicans and DOGE are attacking public broadcasting, claiming it's "wasteful" and promotes an "agenda." But spending on public broadcasting is just 0.01% of the federal budget — and funding has bipartisan support. This is part of Trump's bigger war on an educated public. 1183264718 0
Reposted by AlisonAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Crockett: Pam Bondi, if you have an issue with terrorism, maybe you should talk to your boss about locking back up those guys that he let out that participated in January 6th. 719373728482 0
Reposted by AlisonChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position. 35299622115914 0
Reposted by AlisonRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The fact that a reporter was inadvertently given access to this in real time shows that Pete Hegseth & the rest of this crew are bumbling incompetents who are going to get a lot of intelligence officials and others killed at some point. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... 1970308739751 0
Reposted by AlisonMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025How is this okay? 2632163355173 0
Reposted by AlisonHakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The Trump administration thinks Social Security recipients are fraudsters. We know the real thieves work at the White House. 3952870557 0
Reposted by AlisonJeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed 534390549805 0
Reposted by AlisonPeter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed... 7736521843 0
Reposted by AlisonSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 22/03/2025They’re not even hiding it: By cutting phone lines and closing offices, Republican billionaires are setting up Social Security for failure. And when your check doesn’t show up, there will be no one to call. This is their plan to end Social Security. 2942340749 0
Reposted by AlisonAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Warnock: They are busy attacking ordinary people. They don’t understand what it’s like to ration your prescription drugs or what it’s like to try to figure out how to afford groceries. In the words of that prophet who just spoke at The Super Bowl: They not like us 316252446379 0
Reposted by AlisonJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S. 14772374810963 0
Reposted by AlisonMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approvedbenefit.me 32226781022782 0
Reposted by AlisonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education? Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power. Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook. 328110802780 0
Reposted by AlisonGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools. 11214735811511 0
Reposted by AlisonJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled. This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.politico.comUSDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banksStates have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms. 1034131026765 0
