Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialOlivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 11/04/2025Are you kidding me?! Think twice before you take that cruise. I worked the COVID cruise evacuations—they scarred me for life. And now? They’ve gutted the CDC unit that inspects cruise ships for norovirus, E. coli & other outbreaks. This is how preventable disasters happen. Again.cbsnews.comCDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaksThe steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. 29753482045
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is where this is headed if we do not stop them now. Trump says he’ll “have to see what the courts say,” but that’s not how his administration is operating now. They act first, rendering people people to foreign prisons, then claim they have no jurisdiction to get them back. 512841
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialMallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go. 964256615371
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Red flag for the US. Three high profile Yale professors,!experts on fascism and dictatorship, have fled to Canada after seeing the writing on the wall: Trump’s regime is going full fascist. Many more academics, scientists, and civil society member expected to flee the United States soon. 19133131057
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/04/2025Sen. Cory Booker breaks the record for the longest Senate floor speech, passing former Sen. Strom Thurmond's 24 hr, 18 min filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As Sen. Booker neared the record, he invoked the late Rep. John Lewis and called on the Senate to get into "good trouble." 904860421
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador. 894343508068
aymills.bsky.social @aymills.bsky.social · 01/04/2025And he's not just reading Green Eggs and Ham. He's delivering a well-researched message! 000
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialcmar0561.bsky.social @cmar0561.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Canada cut fluoride in many cities—and cavities in kids shot up. Calgary saw a 47% increase in tooth decay. Windsor? Nearly doubled. It’s cruelty wrapped in pseudoscience—and kids will pay the price. 0129
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The Trump administration is insisting a man they sent to an El Salvador prison is in a Venezuelan gang even though he’s a youth soccer coach and pro goalie with no criminal record and the tattoo they said was a gang tattoo is a soccer team he likes. www.dropsitenews.com/p/venezuelan... 631459560
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S. 14772375210970
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Nearly 300 Venezuelan men whom Trump targeted and deported to El Salvador from the United States now face permanent detention in a prison system rife with human rights abuses. Families of the imprisoned deportees and their lawyers fear for the safety and futures of these men. The men… 1141504617
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialRick Hills @rickhills.bsky.social · 20/03/2025DHS apparently based decisions to abduct and deport Venezuelans to El Salvador prison on guesses about the meaning of tattoos and sign language. As @ilyasomin.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social note, procedural due process was totally absent here. Kafka couldn’t concoct such evil buffoonery 213261
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialDemocrats @democrats.org · 19/03/2025Veterans are coming together across the country to protest Trump and Musk’s despicable cuts to the VA 🧵 25329103
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated 592104635228
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared. 254218867490
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialNick Vavich @badgerintweed.bsky.social · 18/03/2025A superb read. "Putin alone, not Zelensky nor Trump, has the power to stop the war: in the words of the Russian proverb, “if you dance with a bear, it’s not you who decides when the dance ends – it’s the bear”. 211433
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025holy mackerel, Berks is THE platinum Women's History conference since essentially the beginning of the field. It's been through changes over time, which were necessary bc it's an old, old con, but to cancel entirely is a MAJOR flag. 422752
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialAxios @axios.com · 17/03/2025Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI orderaxios.comNavajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump orderAlso vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner. 39640792471
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 34691093387
aymills.bsky.social @aymills.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Fetterman can't string together and complete sentence. Jfc. 000
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Why do we, the most powerful nation on Earth, act like the most weak and shortsighted? 735118422733
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/03/2025"While Trump retains the ceremonial position of Head of State, signing executive orders with flourish and basking in symbolic pageantry, Musk has effectively become Head of Government, wielding unprecedented control over federal agencies." -@johnron.bsky.socialdemocracydocket.comThe False Prophet of Government EfficiencyElon Musk has been anointed as the architect of federal government reform, a position that would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. 26475165
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025This is their goal. Everything else is bullshit. 17732111417
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025It's not hard. This is unacceptable. They won't stop at him. 294121463354
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 12/03/2025Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn. 1337430369083
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialSecret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025 447103674121
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.apnews.comWar heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purgeReferences to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma... 1670155325214
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2025London 308337048424
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialMs. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 06/03/2025“There are times when it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. This President is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we’re all going to have to stand up.” - Rep. @algreen.house.gov, after being removed from the House chamber, 3/4/25 344157853543
aymills.bsky.social @aymills.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Why does this sound like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite? "we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before.” #voteforpedro 020
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialRep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 05/03/2025President Trump says rates of pediatric cancer are way up, but his incompetent fanatics on DOGE fired my guest tonight, Dr. Lauren McGee, a remarkable pediatric cancer researcher who was sacked from NIH as part of Musk’s Valentine’s Day onslaught. 983354992
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialOSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social · 01/03/2025After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces. 620195094618
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go. 1094209585494
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Russia and China are now eagerly trying to recruit the laid off federal employees that Trump has fired, setting up recruitment websites offering jobs, and trying to reach them on message boards. This is a massive threat to our national security. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...cnn.comUS intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN PoliticsForeign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b... 26528265
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine 11718001834113
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2025$19,000,000,000,000.00 1536229169244
aymills.bsky.social @aymills.bsky.social · 24/02/2025This will disenfranchise millions of women. Call your Congresspeople and let them know you are against this! 03518
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2) 14954814411183
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 23/02/2025If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit. 6214956511566
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialDCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 21/02/2025Citizens defend Internal Revenue Service against Musk takeover after DOGE fires 7000 IRS Federal workers. Its tax season and this will have significant impacts on processing returns and refunds. #IRS #FederalWorkers #GetDOGEout dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/21/c...dcmediagroup.usCitizens Defend Internal Revenue Service From Latest DOGE Takedown - DCMediaGroupWashington DC—One month ago no one would have dreamed citizens would defend the Internal Revenue Service. It is the one governmental agency that has probably cost most everyone more money than anythin... 28827
Reposted by @aymills.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/02/2025When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen. 9513127412335
aymills.bsky.social @aymills.bsky.social · 21/02/2025What have YOU done? What do you PLAN to do tomorrow? Get involved! 000
