Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialBluebird (BB) 🐦 🌼💫🎶🫶 🐦 @bluebird4us.bsky.social · 05/11/2025👇 Pay attention because this is the plan. They have tried to take away the ACA since 2010. Let's fire Johnson next year. I am about tired of him. 17635411422
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL... 33674362015467
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win 9055371221
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialKimmer @kvonyborg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025"You can't groom a kid to be transgender - but you can groom a douchebag to think he's Christian. And Christian transphobia is yet another stark rejection of the words of Jesus." @johnfugelsang.bsky.social 520752
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...substack.comThe Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job. 24514478415571
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest 153145302755
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialcvm in pvb @cvminpvb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025#booksky 228206144331
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialKarim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Surrounded by humans but not humanity. 1417
aliteralsandwich.bsky.social @aliteralsandwich.bsky.social · 26/07/2025He wanted to speak out, so I'm spreading his words a little further. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/sho...houstonpublicmedia.orgVermont school superintendent detained for hours at Houston’s Bush Airport | Houston Public MediaWilmer Chavarria says he was held and questioned for 4-5 hours this week at Bush Intercontinental Airport, despite being a naturalized U.S. citizen who'd previously completed the interview and verific... 200
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialKarim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Sometimes I can't believe we built this. Like, humans had the chance to live with the Earth, grow food, rest, take care of each other. And instead we invented rent, debt, jobs that drain us, and systems that reward destruction. It never had to be this way. 318746
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialKuna @wryote.bsky.social · 21/05/2025“Sorry I’m late, a chickadee was collecting my dog’s hair on the porch and I’d be a monster to interrupt.” 1685834706
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state A state where there is no higher authority 24589523165
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/05/2025Texas Bans Being Different Around Children theonion.com/texas-b... 1406871906
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility. 44144291563
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialMona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release." 450123123102
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency. 21495566719670
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop 1556387974171
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 08/04/2025The Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with immigration authorities to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used.npr.orgThe IRS finalizes a deal to share tax information with immigration authoritiesThe Internal Revenue Service reached a deal to share tax information about some immigrants without legal status, marking a major change in how tax records can be used. 43423821112
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/04/2025Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has officially announced that he is running for Senate. So here's everything you need to know about him—if you care about reality. Let's start with the fact that he had to take literal ethics classes after he was indicted for securities fraud. (1/5)motherjones.comKen Paxton is going to take some classes on how to be more ethicalHe could use some tips. 55554452240
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/04/20251) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC. 12143960510179
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Oh. 1182408057053
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025🚨Wisconsin🚨 PROTEST Also Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan !!! Keep eyes on where this is happening on Sunday and prepare to MOBILIZE! DO NOT SIT THIS OUT! WE DON'T LET BILLIONAIRES BUY FUCKING ELECTIONS! This is BREAKING NEWS 🚨 NO PERMIT NEEDED #3E #EndOligarchy #Endimpunity #FuckMusk 1110554
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialMichael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity. 10924309911996
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025every person involved in this needs to be in prison 11265947615759
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do 518023
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.nytimes.comElon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House ComplexTrump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office. 576182498046
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them. 21205061113026
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military: 24796242241
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/02/2025This is fucking incredible. 13166961723
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialJane RabBoo @janerabbit.bsky.social · 18/02/2025And my friend--a bioengineer who has a plausibly effective antidote to glioblastoma, which took Beau Biden among too many others, way too soon--expects that he will soon have to give up his project the year of his first real clinical trials because...NIH gone. 051
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/03/2025Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 theonion.com/egg-companie... 241132181745
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialJay @somenerdcalledjay.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Agreed. Did anyone really believe that they *stockpile* guns and ammo to protect themselves from home invasion robberies or to protect themselves from tyranny? Their amount of firepower is absurdly excessive for the former and even more absurdly insufficient for the latter. tinyurl.com/4xckzkkytinyurl.comWhat studies reveal about gun ownership in the US | CNNAs the nation continues to endure devastating mass shootings and increasing homicide rates, guns remain a fixture of American culture. Here’s what polls and surveys conducted in recent years tell us a... 141
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens 4334849510697
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana. 284109165496
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.comBREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says AdvocatesAgents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too. 13559602659
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.restoredcdc.orgCenters for Disease Control and Prevention 437326958274
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2025NEW: Aluminum producer Alcoa said on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s plan to impose a tariff on aluminum imports could cost about 100,000 US jobs and would itself not be enough to entice it to boost production in the country. The tariff is set to take effect March 4. 🔗 www.mining.com/web/alcoa-wa... 26143891602
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/02/2025DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement. 195109113462
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Republican lawmakers in Utah are advancing a bill that would allow schools to fly swastika flags and Confederate flags while banning Pride flags. www.sltrib.com/news/politic... 93357102207
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Trump has spent literally half of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago. 67683261872
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/02/2025NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record. By @alecmac.bsky.socialpropub.liMemory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own… 15026641278
Reposted by @aliteralsandwich.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!wsj.comOpinion | DEI and Disparate ImpactThe next step in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate outcomes equal fairness. 406141093326
![REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmtjkssv6jeneahkgfdxuy7p/bafkreicmr3wybkn6acxmmdf4vuqnzxho2nk7kp3v7tx7vkclg2cjmwvixm)