Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I’ve been loving my subscription so far over the past few months! Excellent journalism on the current state of affairs plus interesting articles about science, etc. that always make me want to click and read! 020
Reposted by Bailey MyersChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions. 14567312518642
Reposted by Bailey MyersMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Dear Democrats fight autocracy not young people 37355821130
Reposted by Bailey Myersjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters 1608246245264
Reposted by Bailey MyersJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025"MAHA does not want to save every life. MAHA wants to end the lives of those who can’t survive a world without vaccines, food safety, and hygiene, because MAHA believes that people exist on a spectrum of “weak” to “strong”" www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...thegauntlet.newsRFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem. 1025582
Reposted by Bailey Myersderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down 9405494511532
Reposted by Bailey MyersIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were … 12682176813583
Reposted by Bailey MyersDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The government of Israel is withholding food aid to 2.1 million people. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comGaza: WFP runs out of food aid after seven-week Israeli blockadeThe UN agency has delivered its last supplies to meals kitchens, which it warns will run out of food in the coming days. 9187122
Reposted by Bailey MyersEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/04/2025On becoming an autocracy @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 316035
Reposted by Bailey Myerss. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/04/2025ICE arrested Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow from India at Georgetown University, on 17 March. He's been in custody in Texas ever since; big props to his academic director Nader Hashemi for personally visiting him and telling his story!newlinesmag.comTeaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention CenterA visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk 1366154
Reposted by Bailey MyersGod @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like. 5384401311686
Reposted by Bailey MyersJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/04/2025so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything. 64226925848
Reposted by Bailey MyersAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 25/04/2025ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation. An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st... 6745671491
Reposted by Bailey MyersRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2025See the problem here? 396142425010
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025(And regardless of who started the corporate corruption, I am sharing this due to concern for what this means for us now — that we’re unlikely to hear about food that should be recalled and need to plan accordingly.) 130
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025That’s true, but it also said that the investigation was closed this February. 230
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025That’s been one of the biggest things giving me hope! A couple of months ago I was anxiously researching how often authoritarian movements succeed, and learned that many fail due to their own mistakes. And if we can trust anyone to make mistakes… 090
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Here’s an article with more confirmation: www.sfgate.com/food/article...sfgate.comCalifornia farm allegedly linked to E. coli outbreak; FDA stayed mumA deadly E. coli outbreak allegedly started at Taylor Farms in Salinas, California. The FDA redacted the name of the producer in its report. 54215
Reposted by Bailey MyersMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Remember those piece of shit private security guards who violently dragged a woman out of a GOP town hall in Idaho back in February? They’ve finally been charged.nytimes.comSix Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town HallThe plainclothes guards were involved in the forcible removal of a woman from a meeting hosted by local Republicans in Coeur d’Alene, prosecutors said. 603820596
Reposted by Bailey MyersPatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Omg. This makes so much sense. 16038811170
Reposted by Bailey MyersNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans. 268226194661
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Haha, same for us but we’re doing a 12 am to 6 am vigil! 020
Reposted by Bailey MyersGod @thegodshow.com · 18/04/2025Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you? 12855201303
Reposted by Bailey MyersJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Worth noting: while Trump is attempting to destroy Head Start in next year's appropriations, they're not waiting to do it legally. They're also holding up funding right now, and centers are closing because of it.apnews.comHead Start funding lags by nearly $1 billion this year, causing some preschool closuresFederal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared with this time last year. 616791
Reposted by Bailey MyersMiriam & Marzipan @miriammarzipan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025comrad’s, remember to alwayes position yourselfe at a strategic vantage point and use the elemente of supbrise ✨ 061
Reposted by Bailey MyersChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/04/2025ONE HUNDRED PERCENT “Biden’s slander of pro-Palestinian activists helped splinter the Democratic coalition during the 2024 election, giving Trump a potent wedge issue.” ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT Don’t like it? Complain to your mama www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comThe New McCarthyism Was Started by LiberalsAs with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent. 341915579
Reposted by Bailey MyersMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 1411252074266
Reposted by Bailey MyersAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest. 418178994791
Reposted by Bailey Myersdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025the main thing I've never understood about politics is the misplaced loyalty. did you know that if a person you voted for does something dumb or bad, you can simply opt not to defend them? it is very easy. be mercurial, like a cat who hasn't been fed in 20 min. make these people earn your love 452018250
Reposted by Bailey MyersBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets. 656245574837
Reposted by Bailey MyersAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025CAIN: He had his day in court. He had due process. REP. GLENN IVEY: He did not have a day in court for what the United States just did. CAIN: He's an illegal immigrant. That's a deportable crime in my book. IVEY: How about the judge's book? You're not a judge 1443876647
Reposted by Bailey MyersJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 02/04/2025This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters. 13969701395
Reposted by Bailey MyersJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/04/2025Tonight I surfed the web until I learned there is a tiny possum that eats nectar like a hummingbird. I can't top that. Time to sleep. 722032
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The theater is the point though, to get the press and regular people to notice, to hopefully sway senators — he said himself at the beginning that he is disrupting the normal process of the senate to show that what’s going on isn’t normal. This is what we have been asking our senators to do. 140
Reposted by Bailey MyersRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The Chinese government is his most important business partner. 1212170165861
Reposted by Bailey MyersAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense... 10627035815516
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025We call it “of the people, by the people, for the people” Not an oligarchic monarchy! Bum bum bum The government works for us Bum bum bum The government works for us Not a billionaire man and a Putin stan, The government works for us Hey! You’ve got a job to do The government works for us! 6/6 000
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025They’re taking everything that made America great And they’re burning it to the ground They’re flooding the zone with acts of senseless hate To kick us while we’re down But we’re ready, yes we’re ready for you We’re standing right where we oughta be... 5/ 100
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025You can count on we the people gettin’ organized We’re bringing more next time we meet! Bum bum bum The government works for us Bum bum bum The government works for us Not a billionaire man and a Putin stan, The government works for us Hey! You’ve got a job to do The government works for us... 4/ 100
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Well our country isn’t perfect and it’s taken a while But we’ve slowly won our rights And now these clowns think they can whittle them down And that we’ll give them up without a fight Are you happy, are you satisfied? How long can you stand the heat? 3/ 100
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Chorus: Bum bum bum The government works for us Bum bum bum The government works for us Not a billionaire man and a Putin stan, The government works for us Hey! You’ve got a job to do The government works for us... 2/ 100
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Well, back in 1776 when our country came to be The tea was that they taxed our tea without our consent And so we threw it in the sea Are you ready? Hey! Are you ready for this? I’ve got a document you might wanna see The founding fathers had a lot of thoughts About how government ought to be... 1/ 100
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I wrote a protest song! "The Government Works for Us" (parody of "Another One Bites the Dust") 120
Reposted by Bailey MyersJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 491924752
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I guess I agree with keeping the networks, resources, etc. but besides new leadership it also needs a rebrand and probably a new name if we want to shake up decades of right-wing propaganda. 000
Bailey Myers @baileymyers.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Hey 5 Calls, on the app it seems like the bill has “failed” and now we don’t need to keep calling? But I’m hearing they’re considering compromising by adding a vote on a doomed amendment? Should it be updated to let us know to stay concerned? Thanks! 110