Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4hbegging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE 01785412
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6hjesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 379139102211
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialWNBA @wnba.com · 8hDeeper than the award 🥺 A'ja Wilson pours out her gratitude and love for her team after receiving her 5th Kia MVP. #KiaMVP | #WNBASeason30 1433792
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16hIt's not so much that we need to be afraid of AI itself, it's that we are afraid of what most *men* want to do with it -- to us. 947398
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 3444121451
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026This is what it looks like when you understand that the role of an elected official is that of a servant and not a ruler. A concept that far too many in the United States fail to understand. 523351
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get. 201129223
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP? 211131363
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do. 5723113
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal". 191044302
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear 763272477
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population. 11577679
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9659953426
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️ 2218991697
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Any Democrat who says something like this is likely corrupt himself and should be investigated. 1596111
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position 412686561
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case. 941787491
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game. 1963663679
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️ 101159856
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026someone call up will smith we need him to do something 189101571131
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.hollywoodreporter.comMichael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio. 28868354
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I haven’t watched these last two games live and I have to tell you the contrast on post game vibes is really something. Dallas spent most of their post game conference celebrating each other. Indiana spent most of theirs asking “who did this to us?” #wnba 0429
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest. 4653295
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: Dozens of Wisconsin sheriffs have rushed to help ICE's deportation agenda by joining the 287(g) program. In 2 swing counties Trump narrowly won, this has now become a campaign issue. And Democrats are running for sheriff in Sauk and Winnebago on a promise to quit the program:boltsmag.orgIn Wisconsin, Two Sheriff Races Test the Future of Local ICE Cooperation - BoltsWisconsin’s Sauk and Winnebago counties joined an ICE program to boost immigration enforcement. Candidates running for sheriff have vowed to quit it if elected next month. 3413127
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 02/10/2026Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent. I’m proud to introduce the Ban Flock Act with @sanders.senate.gov to enforce our constitutional right to privacy. 451328367
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally. 2921551960
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office. 411376743
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 101401244
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026abolish the death penalty 383152522
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 56099161500
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/09/2026remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life 20635115
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Earning $250,000 a year puts you in the top 4.1% of individual workers or the top 11% of households in the United States. WAKE THE FUCK UP! 717038
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That's a $96,318 fine for being raped. 232016656
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this 8896301
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shut every fraternity down. 141722324
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION????? 1454971466
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.” 5735232
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co 723031562
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026“Costco is a cult “ A cult of livable wages and surprising deals Sign me TF up!!! 2673576
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025. 201050266
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline 15970282
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes 181144134
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming 312256421
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134993785
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 141126312
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office. 32800317
Reposted by @babsbb.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...ctmirror.orgThey served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison. 22496294
