Reposted by Ann WhelanJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Shame on Republicans. They are complicit in this horror. 992063298
Reposted by Ann WhelanThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 25/02/2026Lying for 2 hours straight won't solve any of the issues he's been underwater on for months. Everything is more expensive, corruption is rampant, and the Epstein Class gets richer while you get screwed. The lies you heard tonight won’t matter in November. 9843481184
Reposted by Ann WhelanTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...snyder.substack.comEthnic Cleansing in Ohio?Nazi Lies in Vance's America 501653797
Reposted by Ann WhelanRepresentative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record. 6702441610974
Reposted by Ann WhelanTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...snyder.substack.comLies and LawlessnessThe Camps, the Executions, and the Future 341775728
Reposted by Ann WhelanAndrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 25/01/2026This statement from an eyewitness to the Minnesota murder of Mr. Pretti is gut wrenching, from beginning to end. Please disseminate it as you see fit. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...documentcloud.orgTincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF 511065614
Reposted by Ann WhelanChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us. 1960243099853
Reposted by Ann WhelanTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota. This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right. 11537241413
Reposted by Ann WhelanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...open.substack.comTop 40 No Kings Signs, #31-40Countdown of the best protest signs from Oct. 18 872613628
Reposted by Ann WhelanBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Tim Snyder on “the Stephen Miller terror memo about this giant Antifa conspiracy, and therefore we have to have, effectively, a state of emergency. The whole government has to be turned against liberals & Democrats & everybody who tries to organize themselves in the U.S.” youtube.com/watch?v=lW3r...youtube.comTimothy Snyder on lying and authoritarian politicsYouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol 12429143
Reposted by Ann WhelanKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Completely agree We have no common experiences 7162361
Reposted by Ann WhelanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.theguardian.comShocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca SolnitFeminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture 02783975
Reposted by Ann WhelanSenator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 05/09/2025In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe. People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills. 23466492597
Reposted by Ann WhelanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was. 5139581103
Reposted by Ann WhelanMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/07/2025In my lifetime, i cannot recall any other American President who openly hated the other party or urged his devotees to hate their neighbors who voted differently 1331710353
Ann Whelan @annwhelan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025youtube.com/watch?v=iWse...youtube.comMasked Agents Violently Beat Father of US Marines, Shove Into Unmarked VehicleYouTube video by The Bulwark 010
Reposted by Ann WhelanAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/06/2025This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences. 2628388748129
Reposted by Ann Whelandavidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 13/06/2025The assault on LA County by gangs of masked thugs - terrorizing people at their places of work - examplifies the Trump Regime, which is institutionalizing illegality, as I discussed here.open.substack.comA felon in the White House is making crime legalMeanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding. 131331327
Reposted by Ann WhelanNPR @npr.org · 12/06/2025Being a “crybaby” is Jason Reynold’s favorite thing about himself. On this week’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin,” he talks about his restless approach to life and the advice he got from LeVar Burton. Watch the full interview: n.pr/45l8ZnV 315918
Reposted by Ann WhelanPoets & Writers @pw.org · 08/05/2025#ClipOfTheDay: “Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity / we once were?” Marie Howe, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, reads her poem “Singularity” in this short film directed by Matthew Thompson and produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. at.pw.org/Singularity 071
Ann Whelan @annwhelan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Thanks for the first 100 days @maddow.msnbc.com ❤️🙏🏻 020
Reposted by Ann WhelanTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...snyder.substack.comThe Next Terrorist AttackAnd What Comes After 641653635
Reposted by Ann WhelanAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025AOC: I heard that someone was flying a plane with a banner that said this is Trump country… It sure don’t look like it today. I don’t think this is Trump country. This is our country. 197143342153
Reposted by Ann WhelanTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 26691504384
Reposted by Ann WhelanRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC. time.com/7269604/el-s... www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak... 28439091292
Reposted by Ann WhelanGBH @wgbh.org · 20/03/2025Today is Mister Rogers' birthday. Today is Big Bird's birthday. And spring has officially sprung. A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed. 7653101022
Ann Whelan @annwhelan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Things are not right in our country. The signs of this are all around us. 030
Reposted by Ann WhelanFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for." 301312727534111
Reposted by Ann WhelanJosh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy. 623100152787
Reposted by Ann Whelanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2025in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it. 219147043395
Reposted by Ann WhelanSarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Trump Hotel - Gaza Good job Harris protesters! 69475109