Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3hGiven that Secretary of Grooming Regs Pete Hegseth trotted out his "no beardos, no fatties" shit again today, I'm going to throw this back onto the timeline. 3161279
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2hChuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol. 1302058668
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 2hDo we have the political will to reassert control over AI? The time is now. 15811
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.meidasnews.comEXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302sSenator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively 15053432304
alisontgray.bsky.social @alisontgray.bsky.social · 36mSafety be damned! Lettuce is one thing … airplanes?! 000
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1hCaptain America has advice for you: 'One book he found eye-opening was Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions.” “The hardest thing to reconcile is that just because you have good intentions, doesn’t mean it’s your time to have a voice,” he said.'nytimes.comChris Evans, a.k.a. Captain America, Comes Back Down to Earth (Published 2018)Why the linchpin of Marvel’s “Avengers” movies — and walking image of American fortitude — is giving it all up to play a villain on Broadway (and learn to tap dance). 021217
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialFreedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 29/09/2026Huge win for government transparency and accountability! CA Senate Bill 423 was signed into law today, requiring release of 911 calls from ICE detention centers. This critical info will cast light on how ICE is treating people it holds. Congrats to coalition of advocates who made this possible.calmatters.orgData from 911 calls at ICE detention centers must be disclosed under new California lawGov. Newsom signed a law compelling disclosure of emergency calls from ICE detention centers. It followed CalMatters' reporting about alleged rapes at one site. 112167
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10hOn the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?nytimes.comOpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. ModelsEmployees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen. 631116509
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10h"Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. The men in Maine and Florida were not even ICE’s intended targets for arrest – they became ‘collaterals’, as agency officials call them.” #AbuseofPowerWatch 23023
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11hNew: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 8174129
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hRick Scott on a congressional stock trade ban: "No one thinks we should be making money off our jobs. That's wrong." 110604116
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialLost Kender @alostkender.bsky.social · 13hFuck John Roberts, and the Shadow Docket. This emergency review method needs stricter rules, and there needs to be a set of rules around when it can be utilized. Also we need to have Supreme court term limits, and we need an enforceable code of ethics. 17820
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12hIf you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt. 752720826
alisontgray.bsky.social @alisontgray.bsky.social · 12hVote out those in Congress who cede their … I mean … OUR power. 000
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12hIn other words, Congress refuses to do its duty. Not just a broken branch. A bygone branch. (At least, part of it...) Willingly surrendering the People's power -- our power -- to a wanna-be king. 2426480
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house." 13949187
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 13hThis is a pretty stunning thing to admit 222010388
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 20hMapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 202862534
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 813190946013
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 13hAgain: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know. 4372106
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13hAs we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program 8329641291
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 174122762616
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 23hA great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling. 781527623
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23hIf you need to catch up on the whole controversy with GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt not knowing his sports and embarrassing himself while attempting to slander a public servant today, I made a 20 min. video explainer. Yes, 20 minutes. And I enjoyed the hell out of making it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjN...youtube.comGOP Senator Eric Schmitt + Most Embarrassing Moment Ever in a Congressional Hearing (FULL EXPLAINER)YouTube video by Charlotte Clymer 2849288
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 23hI’ve spent the whole day hearing from election officials. They’re incredible; they’re ready for anything Trump throws at us, they’re trustworthy, and they CARE. We’re so lucky to have them fighting for us. And together we are going to make sure every voters’ voice is heard! 77734
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialNick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 29/09/2026I don't know of any podcast that so regularly discusses the term "Remigration" as "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast", so I am sad that I missed that Miller is actually calling it an "Office of Remigration". Talked about the word at length in this episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...podcasts.apple.comThe True Texas Project is Our AfD & It's Taken Over Fort WorthPodcast Episode · Autocratic Despair: The Podcast · September 10 · 1h 3m 46313
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialscaryletter.bsky.social @scaryletter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This was helpful because I don't know sports 113510
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The endless pointless war is back on again I'm talking about "the war on woke," with that lesbian bar and AOC's unfortunate comment giving new ammo to the elite keyboard commandos who will do anything to save legacy admissions and their low tax rates My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...inquirer.comWhat everyone is getting wrong about ‘woke’ | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, the Eagles’ tie to the Tim Tebow scandal. 18920
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026NEWS: A unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to halt sanctions stemming from Trump’s $1.8 billion insurrectionist “slush fund” sagameidasnews.comTrump Loses Bid to Freeze Sanctions Over His IRS SchemeA unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel left Judge Kathleen Williams free to enforce restrictions born from her finding that Trump used a federal lawsuit to manufacture judicial legitimacy for an administr... 381825538
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just wait until he meets MR. TAR 311822
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialScripps News @scrippsnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people.scrippsnews.comNew California law bans officers from using gloves that deliver electric shocksCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. 093
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1453941428
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 759282385864
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again. 844290018432
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts. 6497145
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 29/09/2026As your Senator and a son of immigrants, I stand in solidarity with the Haitian community in New Jersey and around the country. We must shine a light on the Trump Administration's cruel attacks on TPS and fight for our communities. 114533
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the book corporate America does not want you to read — which is exactly why you should pick up a copy. 392408933
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the ICC decided that 25th session of the Assembly, scheduled to take place at UN HQ in NYC, will be relocated to The Hague. ..in light of concerns related to elected officials of the Court subject to US sanctions & visa restrictions 32410172
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Missed this Greg Sargent joint exploring options to shut down or curtail Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing office within State, should Democrats retake the House 213931
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Later in the thread. Two problems: (1) many of these folks are *not* undocumented—they’re just removable; and (2) in any event, whether they received the process that is due before being deported to somewhere they might be tortured is, in fact, much of what’s *actually being litigated.* 327137
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Talked to @stuartpstevens.bsky.social youtu.be/SSDsrx025yM?...youtu.beJack Smith DETROYS Trump's Act w/ Stuart StevensYouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast 9501121
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialOmri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also, this is one of the most beautiful, inspiring Jewish teachings. To make *this* your antisemtic hook just means you're a particularly shitty person, even among antisemites. 1487
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine. 17509116
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/09/2026DoorDash isn't shy about using their lobbying power to get what they want, but when it comes to their drivers being gunned down by ICE, they're silent. Join us in demanding DoorDash speak out against ICE violence and push for Wilber's immediate release: share.indvs.org/tool... 1028398
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.youtube.comMeet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou 31965457
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s not super. And it’s not intelligence. There. That was easy. 2252585
Reposted by @alisontgray.bsky.socialThe Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A federal appeals court refused to reverse a federal judge’s decision to punish President Trump and his lawyers for engaging in “bad faith” conduct and collusion in the president’s lawsuit, and subsequent out-of-court agreement, over an IRS contractor leaking his tax returns.washingtonsun.comAppeals Court Rejects Trump Effort to Stay Sanctions in IRS LawsuitThree appellate judges sided with a lower court’s finding that the president colluded with the IRS and the Treasury Department. 16515
