Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I bought a labubu and it attached me to its purse and I don’t know where I am 55811
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce +972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/07/2025“I remember a woman crying and screaming — her daughter’s body was burned. She was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter.” Investigation by Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/double-tap-i... 04032
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025"Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out. They suggested doing the same at CECOT. Flores, Ramos, and others I spoke with said every inmate they knew joined the hunger strike, which lasted for several days."” 120397
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Seven women between the 12th-17th c., from Iraq to Germany, Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of -- and I bet some of the details you've never gotten -- come and learn ♥️lifeisasacredtext.com7 Jewish womenfrom history that you should know about 314031
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 22/07/2025"I collapsed. I tried to stay strong for my mother [...] Around me, I saw people fainting everywhere." "We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...972mag.comWe are starvingMy body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. 12926
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Rain garden can go a long way to preventing the worst of the kind of flash flooding—from rain right there, not coming downstream—that just hit NYC. They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages. 619250
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."theguardian.comIs the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret SullivanWith their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani 98126643611
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 01/07/2025Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't. (Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... ) 13615
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Despite having several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, Texas just banned a law that helps keep guns away from unhinged people. My latest reporting on mass shootings in America www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Photo by Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-Newsmotherjones.comTexas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged peopleDespite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them. 1815680
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce +972 Magazine @972mag.com · 02/07/2025The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants - www.972mag.com/uk-idf-music...972mag.comThe UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chantsA musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. Repressing Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is. 3410231
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet: 23371581743
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."slate.comThe United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass StatelessnessThis scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical. 13855822409
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce AFK - ON SABBATICAL @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 27/06/2025This guy was indicted for bribery lmao 20081671566
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/06/2025When ordinary Republicans understand how Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would affect the after-tax incomes of American families, it turns out they don’t find it beautiful at all. “I was really shocked."motherjones.comOrdinary Republicans hate Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"—once they know what it doesSolid support turns to strong opposition, a new Yale study shows. 73940376
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder. truthout.org/articles/my-...truthout.orgDoctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their PatientsProtests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate. 611955
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews 322599572
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I invited @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to this event, and so proud of it! I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him. We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway. 4780109
Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025New York’s next mayor, America’s next boyfriend 030
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions. 16744191193
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 23/06/2025When was the last time a socialist politician campaign in NYC in Yiddish? Meyer London? 141184153
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s... 6461302549
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/06/2025We are deep in the middle of something that will later be viewed as being on par with McCarthyism 220749
Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Some much needed news of freedom going into this Juneteenth weekend 0111
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 21/06/2025MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...time.comChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT StudyThe study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT. 12207112
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/06/2025"The moment you enter this facility, your rights leave you behind,” he said. “So once you enter there, you see a different reality, just a different reality about this country.”nytimes.com‘Justice Will Prevail,’ Mahmoud Khalil Says as He Goes Free on Bail 07022
Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Only one white person has texted to wish me a Happy Juneteenth today. Ima tell Fredrick Douglass about the rest of yall 😤 010
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/06/2025L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social 17629871519
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...ktla.comDozens of heavily armed ICE agents swarm popular L.A. County swap meetWith a Department of Homeland Security helicopter circling, several dozens of heavily armed, masked ICE agents dressed in military tactical gear raided one of the most popular swaps meets in Southe… 29052701818
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 17/06/2025Didn't realize police could commandeer a home. 17304104
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17/06/2025What's happening to libraries in Florida should frighten everyone. Spurred on by Moms For Liberty, the AG is threatening librarians with felonies for stocking LGBTQ+ books and overruling established processes for removing "harmful" material. It's a full on censorship campaign by the government.tampabay.comAs Hillsborough book battle unfolds, other districts wonder who’s nextFlorida school boards are weighing the state’s push to bypass standard reviews to remove controversial books. 1321814902
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored. 103133853581
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Palestinianism? Its amazing the degree to which dehumanization of Palestinians has become normalized. Palestinian is a national identity. Its not a hateful ideology or a disease. Using the term Palestinianism is undeniably a form of racism 12391102
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16/06/2025Iranian-born Israeli political activist Orly Noy says Netanyahu launched his war on Iran as he "started losing support among the Israeli public" for the debacle in Gaza. "Both Netanyahu and the Israeli army needed an immediate rehabilitation to their prestige." www.democracynow.org/2025/6/16/ir... 722898
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Georgia's mask ban is an anti-KKK law. A sole person wearing a medical mask is not causing dangers like the KKK in any capacity. 46820
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/06/2025Thank fuck for the Don't Just Let Everybody Die cavalry 101013215
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida. 332901762
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/06/2025Shots apparently fired at Utah no kings protest. The crowd panics and everyone starts running away. 28808194
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/06/2025New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting. 8353440510139
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/06/2025🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Sen. Alex Padilla, the first Latino to represent California in the Senate, was assaulted and dragged out of Kristi Noem's press conference before being forced to the ground, cuffed and briefly detained. All completely illegal, all completely racist, all very much happening. 425484
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce writtenbyhanna.bsky.social @writtenbyhanna.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I know *a lot* is going on but Harvey Weinstein was reconvicted in his retrial lol 1132347
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/06/2025ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights! ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent." "They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."youtube.comICE agents accused of hit-and-run in Boyle Heights, Los AngelesYouTube video by ABC7 24485260
Reposted by Rebecca Pierce Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The government is kidnapping kids. 04626