Reposted by Ziba AziAri Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including 127100473231 0
Reposted by Ziba AziShelley Powers @burningbird.net · 19/03/2025Air Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilots www.militarytimes.com/news/your-ai...militarytimes.comAir Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilotsSome websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era WASPs have been pulled offline. 044 0
Reposted by Ziba AziGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to? 26816952110799 0
Reposted by Ziba AziArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 901482719695 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high. 1207453329711 0
Reposted by Ziba AziDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025why does it look like The More You Know logo is crashing back to earth 1414210628 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Crockett: It was my ancestors that built the White House. If we have been good enough to build this country, we are good enough to serve in other ways. Stop trying to act as if only white men are the ones that are capable because you’re sitting with 3 very capable black women 1263230914857 0
Reposted by Ziba AziMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥. 1876904748972 0
Reposted by Ziba Azi███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers. 1203360079404 0
Reposted by Ziba AziSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Until a member of Congress goes to jail for theft and/or fraud, these offenses are going to keep happening. It is time for us to publicly declare—if by no means accept—that both DOJ and the FBI have no problem whatsoever with politicians defrauding their donors or stealing money from voters. None.theintercept.comIn Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French CastleThe Arizona senator’s campaign spending in global wine hot spots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint. 774177645900 0
Reposted by Ziba AziRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately. 7954119313744 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/12/2024Evidently the GOP really doesn’t have a problem with foreigners taking over the country. 22194421810348 0
Reposted by Ziba AziMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 19/12/2024President Elon Musk wants to shutdown the government so he can pave the way for massive tax cuts for him and his billionaire insiders while your fucking grandma pays the bill out of her social security check. 20063771737 0
Reposted by Ziba AziTommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024this was basically my understanding of the song as a kid 412819 0
Reposted by Ziba AziStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. and one of his top legal advisers are steadily pushing federal regulators to revoke approval for the polio and hepatitis B vaccines. Trump’s pick for health secretary and his lawyer also aim to block distribution of 13 other vaccines that have protected the health and lives of… 1831053533 0
Reposted by Ziba AziWilde Thingy @wildethingy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I'm experimenting with how many apples I need to eat a day to keep EVERYONE away, whatever their profession. 351067227 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 08/12/2024🚨 Breaking: Assad’s government has fallen, and he has fled Damascus. Sending thoughts and prayers to Tulsi Gabbard in this difficult time for her. 496258883710 0
Reposted by Ziba AziRoy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024It’s Official! ‘Have I Got News For You’ is back in 2025 for another run!! Stream the existing 10eps on Max 4087484 0
Reposted by Ziba AziCharles Kerr @ckerr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I'm old enough to remember Biden getting booed at his SOTU speech for saying that the GOP wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare www.foxnews.com/media/biden-...foxnews.comBiden booed during State of the Union for claiming GOP wants to cut Social Security, MedicarePresident Biden faced with significant backlash from Republicans after he claimed they want to "sunset" entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. 28927 0
Reposted by Ziba AziCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 05/12/2024pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles.... 1183447988801 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024When foreigners gave smaller amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation before Hillary Clinton ran for president, the New York Times put the story on the front page. This is a larger amount of money going directly into the pocket of the president-elect. 391519395 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Postpopular.infoA Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 millionChinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday. 679225189503 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/20241. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobspopular.infoWhat really happened after California raised its minimum wage to $20 for fast food workersWhat would happen to the fast food industry if it had to pay its workers something closer to a living wage? 517203085990 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a finenytimes.comChildren Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry FindsQvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa. 902251357642 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The insider DC sheets keep running articles about Democrats bewailing Bidens pardon. I’m able to keep a pretty close tabs on the opinions of engaged Democrats via emails to TPM. And the actual opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the decision. In fact, more or less universal support. 1513211572 0
Reposted by Ziba Azijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment 10315253312123 0
Reposted by Ziba AziElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Trump pardoned his criminal co conspirators. I’m 100% behind Biden pardoning his son. 792506265 0
Reposted by Ziba AziMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/12/2024NBC News is now reporting that Pete Hegseth's nomination is in peril. As many as 6 Senate Republicans, possibly more, are currently not supporting his bid as new revelations about his past continue to surface.nbcnews.comTrump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is in peril in the SenateAs many as six GOP senators aren't currently comfortable supporting Hegseth following allegations about drinking and his treatment of women, sources told NBC News. 3274829736 0
Reposted by Ziba AziRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Dems/media condemning Joe for pardoning Hunter right after a psycho who has spent 4 years ranting that he was going to go after him is the most toxic kind of phony virtue signaling imaginable. Don’t forget to pat yourselves on the back from your perches on the moral high ground. 1463337335767 0
Reposted by Ziba AziFormerly known as Truly S. @notincleveland.bsky.social · 01/12/2024"You are violating my First Amendment right to be a bully and you shall atone!" A lot of people are reading The Handmaid's Tale these days who maybe should try another Atwood book, Cat's Eye. That's the one where the protagonist learns that bullies are like fires--starve them of fuel and they die. 328725 0
Reposted by Ziba AziStart Guillotining @drivewest.bsky.social · 01/12/2024“YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE SO I CAN KEEP YELLING AT YOU ABOUT THE MASTER RACE” 1177925 0
Reposted by Ziba AziRob Skelton @redskelton1923.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Or, I'm engaging in free market capitalism. Twitter as an information platform deteriorated after Musk took over, and Bluesky is now the superior purveyor of quality access to multiple sources of news and analysis. So, I switched. 13170665 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/11/2024"Tulsi Gabbard’s longstanding association with a shadowy rightwing cult, her history of suspicious uses of campaign funds, her habitual conspiracism and advocacy for the interests of bloodthirsty dictators (including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as well as Putin) all raise a multiplicity of red flags."publicnotice.coTulsi Gabbard and Trump's scheme to gut the intel agenciesIt's hard to envision a less suited intelligence chief. That’s a feature, not a bug. 24890332469 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/11/2024It’s all just a little bit of history repeating. 25483892110 0
Reposted by Ziba AziSpiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 30/11/2024History repeats. In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice. 517159954047 0
Reposted by Ziba AziNick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Courtesy of Wikipedia, these descriptions of Harding's speeches are a reminder that time may well be circular. #NYT , sanewashing even back then. 911616 0
Reposted by Ziba AziUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou 37380282618 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAlex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹 17187071613 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Crockett: The fact that we have Americans that are saying, wait a minute, are you saying that tariffs are going to negatively impact me? It's kind of like that wall that we are still waiting on Mexico to build, that they are going to pay for. No, we are going to pay for it. 563199793705 0
Reposted by Ziba AziDavid Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The fact that China doesn't like people switching to Bluesky seems like another sign that it's a great thing 870519115488 0
Reposted by Ziba AziChris D. Jackson @chrisdjackson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Funny how little attention this is getting now. 🤷 792972830 0
Reposted by Ziba AziJames Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Orcas have started wearing dead salmon as hats again, just fyi www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...iflscience.comWearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year BreakIn 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion. 372110671334 0
Reposted by Ziba AziRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Tommy got his Putin talking points scrambled. 1976314257855 0
Reposted by Ziba AziBigSlim @imbigslim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Kiwamu Miyakubo is a flame artist who creates stunning fire displays, from massive explosions to tiny flames in cozy Japanese rooms—all with equipment he invents himself. 🔥✨ [📹 kiwamissimo] 4397 0
Reposted by Ziba AziMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2... 262112403240 0
Reposted by Ziba AziCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 24/11/2024BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s new AG pick, Pam Bondi, received $115,000 USD a MONTH lobbying for Qatar! How many of his cabinet members are foreign agents? 641121975221 0
Reposted by Ziba AziAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Watters: You are saying the problem was Matt Gaetz? McCarthy: That’s a fear for all young girls.. there is no reason why that man should’ve been nominated 1692963363 0