Reposted by babijKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026We have to impeach him. 631192912997
Reposted by babijSaikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Schumer rightfully getting a lot of flack. But Durbin should be getting just as much flack. He's the Senate whip. His job is to whip votes to hold the line. Yet he just voted to cave to Trump and allow healthcare premiums to skyrocket. Both need to step down from leadership. 719745
Reposted by babijMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip. 286116333976
Reposted by babijWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Centrists and moderates, what have you done for America lately? Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago. Just useless. 732209405
Reposted by babijSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/10/2025BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful. 14648982312
Reposted by babijGraham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences. 758245956760
Reposted by babijJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 27/09/2025this case will get pilloried for its lawlessness, and correctly so, but we also have to see this nonsense (and most of Trump’s bs) as the opportunity it is. you can go make the law what you want it to be. fake? doesn’t matter, you can make it real. what we need is a left willing to seize that. 1158675
Reposted by babijAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2025the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces) 180115573087
Reposted by babijAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions 17993816210051
Reposted by babijSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/09/2025Just to be clear, Charlie Kirk was a racist piece of shit, Israel is committing genocide in Occupied Palestine, and trans rights are human rights, and if a million people file ARDC complaints against me or send me death threats I will never recant any of those things. 162139508
Reposted by babijPolitics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Fire Kilmeade. 1072212807
Reposted by babijChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025So some deaths are funny and other are so serious that people should have their entire lives ruined because they didn’t feel sad about them 428490
Reposted by babijonion person @junlper.beer · 06/09/2025we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over 753170692968
Reposted by babijSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/09/2025We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign. 631118923644
Reposted by babij𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/09/2025If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day. 237218317703
Reposted by babijZeteo @zeteo.com · 28/08/2025“This is not the first time the Israeli government has committed a live-streamed war crime and then told all of you that it was just a mistake.” @premthakker.bsky.social lists 10 times that Israel has attacked civilians, journalists and health workers and brushed it aside with an apology. 7281118
Reposted by babijNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists. 843519858
Reposted by babijPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/07/202585% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this? 14277882051
Reposted by babijCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."charlotteclymer.substack.comI Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving KidsPerhaps controversially. 24906349
Reposted by babijCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com 41199183205
Reposted by babijAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Phang: You think Ghislaine Maxwell is going to appear for a deposition before House Oversight and implicate herself in any way? She’s appealing her convictions and sentence. 48695222348
Reposted by babijNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵 5036342645
Reposted by babijAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025My record on Palestine speaks for itself. I’m proud of it. One of the strongest in Congress. I throw down for pro-Palestine candidates. Largely unrecognized work. That’s fine. Disagreements are fine, too. But if you want to toss all that for 1 half assed MTG stunt, be my guest. I know where I stand. 1736284373236
Reposted by babijProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2025Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.socialpropublica.orgTrump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination CasesFederal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under… 741480843
Reposted by babijDan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025The new Jubilee video is like 15 racists vs one journalist or something and all the racists are using it to get big Twitter followers and I’m begging people to understand that this is not a media entity operating with anyone’s best interest in mind 11879363
Reposted by babijBenjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 17/07/2025Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues: 318122474167
Reposted by babijBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025In 1965, the government recruited thousands of strapping high-school boys to replace Mexican workers on farms in Texas and California. A lot of the boys went on strike. Others quit. The program "was considered a giant failure and was never tried again." www.npr.org/sections/the...npr.orgWhen The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High SchoolersIn 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued. 21887442
Reposted by babijAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/07/2025If you’re not advocating for a socialist transformation of society I don’t actually care to hear about how everyone should be non violent because you don’t even believe that. You believe in the grotesque violence of capitalism. You have just accepted it and normalized it. 261402297
Reposted by babijDean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 08/07/2025"Iowa City Transit’s fare-free pilot program will continue beyond its initial two-year run, following a City Council decision to extend it due to positive impacts on ridership and sustainability."kwwl.comIowa City extends fare free transit, expecting 68% boost in ridershipThe program, which started in August 2023, aims to eliminate public transit barriers, increase ridership, and reduce carbon emissions. 625241
Reposted by babijKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2025The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples. They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see. 7576091600
Reposted by babijThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025WATCH: “If Biden answered any Q like this can you imagine how long @jaketapper’s book would be?” Asked how long detainees will stay at “Alligator Alcatraz”, Trump spent 3 mins on how much time he plans to stay in Florida. The media didn’t even cover it. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLoIPar... 881853626
Reposted by babijJewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 02/07/2025We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys Sam Walton & Reverend Daniel 'Woody' Woodhouse: In 2017, we did exactly what #PalestineAction did last week Our actions were extremely similar to theirs, and so were our aims. novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...novaramedia.comWe Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys | Novara MediaIn 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racis... 525598
Reposted by babijAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Arendt says you know you're in a police state if facing criminal charges makes you safer. "Only as an offender against the law can he gain protection from it. As long as his trial and his sentence last, he will be safe from that arbitrary police rule against which there are no lawyers & no appeals." 71075451
Reposted by babijNate Bowling @natebowling.com · 30/06/2025The best way to combat the enshitififcation of a product is to stop using it and find a replacement. This is an argument against Google Search (and Chrome). buttondown.com/natebowling/...buttondown.comBreaking Up with Google SearchToday's newsletter is a bit of a hodgepodge. Hope and I are back in Tacoma and spending quality time with family along with attending our usual events and... 40589117
Reposted by babijAnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 26/06/2025ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons blasts non-white politicians for criticizing ICE, threatens them. www.boston.com/news/politic...boston.com‘I’m demanding that they stop’: ICE director bashes Wu, other politicians for criticizing agencyICE Acting Director Todd Lyons lambasted Mayor Wu and other politicians for “ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments.” 45414122
Reposted by babijJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...404media.coICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails ShowThe new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin... 42457783493
Reposted by babijEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Short exchange that distills everything 313377497
Reposted by babijAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you." 18662682901
Reposted by babijJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025THANK YOU to the 79 House Dems (see below) who voted against tabling Rep. Al Green's motion to impeach Donald Trump for high crimes & misdemeanors for his unconstitutional usurpation of Congress's warmaking powers. Shame on the 128 who voted with the GOP to kill it. 38407108
Reposted by babijJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025david hogg off the top rope on the other site 236174903146
Reposted by babijChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/06/2025BREAKING: SCOTUS over liberals' dissent, blocks district court order requiring process before carrying out third country removals. SCOTUS's order allows Trump admin to carry out third country removals without the protections required—notice and opportunity to raise a challenge. No reason is given. 1661300555
Reposted by babijTina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 23/06/2025California has introduced a bill that will prohibit all law enforcement in the state from masking their faces 331300283
Reposted by babijPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizensmigrantinsider.comICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. CitizensGAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting 719110075834