Reposted by cristy, obviouslyKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/06/2025If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star 3633401095
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Trump forces the U. of Virginia president to resign rather than endanger UVa’s funding. The New York Times weakly describes it as “Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.” I call it “fascist strong-arming.” 591094326
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyTina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 27/06/2025Federal agent “I will fucking shoot you” to a man in a car as another agent, wearing an FBI vest and mask covering his face, grabs a woman. According to eyewitness, no warrant was shown or probable cause given. 62754431
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025If so, it is time to start crafting some cool-ass laws. What a time to be a state legislator or an AG in a blue state. The Supreme Court just said you no longer have a boss. It's the last day of school, Democratic state majorities and AGs! Time to abuse some power. 12881571221
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyChloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Horrifying to see SCOTUS limit the power of the lower courts and of people to sue today. And just a reminder, if this Birthright Citizenship EO goes through it will create millions more undocumented people in the US www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri....migrationpolicy.orgRepealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized PopulationRepealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra... 281
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war? 701612284
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMicah @rincewind.run · 27/06/2025Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith 8594108
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Because their campaigns aren’t entirely built on the legacy of their last name 573169379
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild. 17388912494
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/06/2025Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?" 65154472988
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2025The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...publications.aap.orgAAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrustThe CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time. 139111603970
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 26/06/2025ICE is monstrous. Where are the Congressional investigations? The press investigations? Who will hold them accountable? 13274108
cristy, obviously @analogretrovision.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Every single time an attempted ICE kidnapping occurs we MUST rally around the victim, bully the perpetrators, and call 911 and MAKE THEM RESPOND. Wanna not be bastards? Wanna be one of the good guys? Show up and cuff the terrorists! 020
Reposted by cristy, obviouslySMcDonnell @smcdonnell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025This is the best thing I have read in some time. It focuses the mind and heart. 1278
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/06/2025oh no! don't do it! 983548273
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/06/2025It’s also necessary to note how the Trump administration‘s destruction of IMLS threatens interlibrary loan: www.slj.com/story/Cost-L... action.everylibrary.org/imlsillslj.comThe Cost of Losing IMLS FundingFrom the loss of Hoopla, databases, and Wi-Fi hotspots to the closing of rural branches, librarians document the devastating effect of the end of IMLS funding. 14945
cristy, obviously @analogretrovision.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Had @librarypolicy.bsky.social put a call out today I’d answer for Colorado. There are MANY stories that haven’t been shared because people have been I instructed not to. 020
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 26/06/2025Let’s be real: this ain’t about “protecting life.” It’s about weaponizing poverty and race to strip away care, choice, and dignity from communities that dare to seek basic care in a system already built to fail them. (2/2) 481989351
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyThe Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 26/06/2025Coloradans will continue to have access statewide to a key medication that reverses overdoses — thanks to a $3 million grant. coloradosun.com/2025/06/25/c...coloradosun.com$3 million from Colorado's opioid settlement haul will be used to buy overdose reversal kits as federal funding dries upColorado is facing the loss of federal public health funding because of cuts announced by the Trump administration 0248
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyScience Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Behold, Planet Earth’s largest digital camera—and its first shots. Here’s what the Vera Rubin Observatory’s images of swirling galaxies, sparkling stars, and sherbet-colored nebulae reveal about the cosmos.sciencefriday.comNew Telescope Captures The Cosmos In Groundbreaking DetailThe telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies. 28018
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Direct File is the kind of forthright, straightforward, unapologetic make-government-work-for-you kitchen table pitch that Dems who are looking for national analogues to Mamdani's winning platform should be grasping with both hands. 315344
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Reading alone won't save democracy but you can't have a democracy if people don't read 141074
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyRep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 26/06/2025The GOP cuts to healthcare coverage will likely add another $50B in medical debt to the $340B in debt Americans owe. We should be helping bring relief to ordinary Americans, not punishing them for seeking care. Let’s pass my bill with @sanders.senate.gov to erase medical debt. 33014
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/06/2025NEW: I speak to the author of the ethics report showing Stephen Miller owning stock in Palantir; MAKING MONEY off his own mass deportation policy using our personal data. Free to listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comPeople Power Beats Money (feat. Nick Schwellenbach)Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 06/26/2025 · 54m 7834721388
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet. 12882151935
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyColorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 26/06/2025Commentary: Coloradans can count the governor’s office as yet another institution that won’t save them from the Trump administration’s cruelty and lawlessness. Gov. Jared Polis, at least on some crucial matters, is on team MAGA.coloradonewsline.comThe Colorado governor joins team MAGA | Colorado NewslineColoradans can count the governor's office as yet another institution that won't save them from the Trump administration's lawlessness. 2227
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMemento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Dave Bautista. Alan Ritchson. We love Giant Dudes of The Left and need more of them. 19739115
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/06/2025Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. *Way* too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c 14753172
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 26/06/2025And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory. 202127584108
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts. Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio... 51487896
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyNot Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 26/06/2025It used to be legal to own Black people in this country. 49232
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 26/06/2025Disabled activist Carol Olinger is still in custody after peacefully protesting GOP Medicaid cuts. She needs insulin NOW & has kidney dialysis at 6am. This is medical neglect—cruel and deliberate. Her life is at risk. We demand her release & care. Please share widely! 401201838
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance 8902327510355
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025New — I wrote about how Zohran Mamdani’s win shows the power of a positive vision for the future, New Yorkers’ rejection of fear-based politics, and provides a blueprint for progressive Jews and Muslims to create a multi-racial, multi-faith coalition that supports prosperity for all. Read it here:thehandbasket.coWe can have nice thingsZohran Mamdani proved you can fully embrace progressive values—and win. 303294620
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.npr.orgFormer DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience. 22173262838
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyACLU @aclu.org · 25/06/2025Tennessee passed a law threatening felony charges against local elected officials who vote in favor of policies supporting immigrant communities. This is an attack on the legislative process and democracy itself — @aclutn.bsky.social will see the state in court.tennesseelookout.comACLU sues Tennessee over law criminalizing elected officials’ votes for ‘sanctuary policies’ • Tennessee LookoutThe American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee is suing the state over a law creating a felony for elected officials to vote for sanctuary policies. 351526534
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I can't second this enough. What you need is a set of flexible skills, like critical thinking, textual and semiotic interpretation, media literacy, political competency, and an understanding of how knowledge is produced along with the specifics of a discipline or industry. 1430557
cristy, obviously @analogretrovision.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“I don’t want to hear about the Biden administration you’re here to answer questions on behalf of the Trump administration” MIC DROPPED SO HARD IT HIT THE EARTHS CORE 010
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025"Answer the question, Mr. Vought ... I don't want to hear about the Biden administration. You're here on behalf of the Trump administration" -- Jon Ossoff *was not* putting up with Russ Vought's bullshit 22751001240
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyACLU @aclu.org · 25/06/2025This ruling confirms what we already knew: The separation of church and state isn't a suggestion — it's the law.apnews.comCourt blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classroomsA panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional. 251013170
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyMiles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today. 437378326746
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyRuth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Native-born Americans" are just immigrants plus time. Once we accept this, the logic of the Great Replacement Theory becomes nonsensical. In @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's latest essay, he offers some excellent evidence of this, including this great cartoon. 522847
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyTransportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 25/06/2025New York City must be safe for people of all ages. Children are especially at risk of traffic violence, and the areas surrounding schools must be protected. Nobody should have to fear for their life when crossing the street. 172
Reposted by cristy, obviouslyAaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid 25082483412838