EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@jentodd2026.bsky.social here's a selfie of my shoe with your sign 010
Reposted by EmJGod @thegodshow.com · 16/08/2026Thou shalt come together to defeat the fascists and win the midterms. After that thou shalt replace Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, who are terrible at their jobs and care only about their donors. 782193458
Reposted by EmJErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/08/2026The Trump administration just finalized its rule stripping gender-affirming care from Medicaid and CHIP. Advocates say there's still time to fight: it takes effect in October, and federal courts have already struck down two previous attempts to do this. The latest from our journalist S. Baum.erininthemorning.comTrump Issues “Finalized” Anti-Trans Medicaid Rule, But Human Rights Groups Say There’s Still Time“Despite this being called a ‘final rule,’ we have time to fight back. Nothing will change overnight.” 6484220
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Estradiol shortage in the US FDA: nothing to see here. Administration: anything to screw over anyone who's not a straight white Christian male. Now imagine if men couldn't get Viagra a for a month. It'd be a damn national emergency. #Women'sHealthcare #HealthcareIsaHumanRight 000
Reposted by EmJAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Today, during the court hearing we posted about earlier, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan pressed the Justice Department over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and whether the Trump administration has actually complied with his previous court orders. 241068183
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It's not the smoothest writing but if you're looking for a sci-fi series based on science with some dystopian elements and you like complex world building this; this is a series to check out. 📚 #BookSky #SciFiBooks 060
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Storygraph did you forget how to math or are you drunk? #BookSky 030
Reposted by EmJJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society. 494932875
Reposted by EmJAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/06/2026Iran launched ballistic missiles at gulf countries. The Supreme Court doubled down on racism and allowed a Black district in Alabama to be eliminated via the shadow docket. CBS News fired Scott Pelley from 60 minutes. All in the last two hours. 351332399
Reposted by EmJJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 06/05/2026One of the most useful mythologies of modernity is the idea that there is an economy which exists totally independent of interested parties. Who is saving this money? Does “the economy” just store it under the mattress? 310521
Reposted by EmJSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Someone has to tell the truth. 11474179
Reposted by EmJLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The sexual abuse of women and girls is a load-bearing beam in the structure of male supremacy. Many men even bond over it, and both men and women often excuse and enable it. We understandably focus on gender—but challenging the hierarchical power dynamic is as important if we want to create change. 432162
Reposted by EmJAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/03/2026The US-Israel war is costing US tax payers an average of 2 billion per day; if you extend that to 365 days, and that's nearly $730 billion a year, roughly the entire US defense budget on a single war. And that's just the direct US military spending. 41666252
Reposted by EmJAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The US blockade of Cuba has no legal basis under international law. An island without an air force or modern artillery is not a security threat; it's a neighbour. If the United States genuinely believes otherwise, the UN Security Council exists for exactly that purpose. 20765238
Reposted by EmJSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Remember how I said, just a few hours ago, in response to critics insisting I should support the war in Iran because it will help Iranians, that in fact Donald Trump plans to pick the new leader of Iran and Iranians will have no say in it? Me of several hours ago, meet just now: 112771281
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026🙋🏻♀️ if you saw this coming abcnews.com/US/pro-trump...abcnews.comPro-Trump attorneys push executive order that would give Trump sweeping power over elections: SourcesA group of pro-Trump lawyers is circulating a draft of an emergency executive order that would give President Trump sweeping power over voting, sources tell ABC News. 000
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I've noticed that I spend less time mindlessly scrolling when I make a conscious effort to read instead. And as this article points out reading is more fun. 020
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Loving this book: Full of Myself by @austinchanning.bsky.social #Booksky #Nonfiction #Antiracism 040
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The amount of people losing their shit over a gay Klingon wearing a skirt is ridiculous. Personally I think Jay-Den is rocking it. #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #TrekSky 010
Reposted by EmJSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources. 6474120413896
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 30/01/2026unu.edu/inweh/news/w...unu.eduWorld Enters “Era of Global Water Bankruptcy” UN Scientists Formally Define New Post-Crisis Reality for BillionsFlagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible damage pushes many basins beyond recovery 000
Reposted by EmJProPublica @propublica.org · 23/01/2026For Trump’s second term, Vought’s Center for Renewing America created plans that included invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to U.S. cities to put down protestors and freezing billions in federal funds without congressional approval. (Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)propublica.orgRussell Vought, Trump’s Shadow PresidentFrom the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside... 26487280
Reposted by EmJRep. Shontel Brown @repshontelbrown.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Trump LIED when he said he had nothing to do with Project 2025. He LIED when he said he wouldn't execute its agenda. Now, ICE/DHS- at his direction- is carrying out Project 2025's anti-immigrant, anti-rights agenda line by line. Surprising? I think not. 35620
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 25/01/2026And unfortunately we will probably sit by and let this happen 000
Reposted by EmJThomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory. 161153025806
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Clearly he didn't learn the first time. Maybe the voters should stop electing him. 000
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Notice how we stopped talking about the Epstein files???? 010
Reposted by EmJgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 28/12/2025a realization you have pretty quickly as a trans person is that nobody likes being in the bathroom and that everyone is trying their hardest not to notice the other people in there 1161353
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Policy decisions that will literally kill people and our planet. 000
Reposted by EmJGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true 14067662009
Reposted by EmJLaurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 10/11/2025My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING. 480254406491
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 10/11/2025And as usual the democrats cave. They have no backbone. #SaveTheACA #Shutdown #Democrats 010
Reposted by EmJAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse. 26273424186
Reposted by EmJKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/10/2025centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist. 21492501965
Reposted by EmJGod @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2025You can’t get into Heaven if you go around arresting innocent people and pardoning guilty ones. 25686301642
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I love that all the copies in the interlibrary loan system are checked out and there's a hold waitlist. #Booksky #NonFiction #Resist #NoKings 0203
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025US/European policy & Treaty of Versailles after WW1 led to WW2. US policy in Central America in the 1970s contributed to the current immigration process. US policy is currently contributing to the #Genocide in #Palestine Maybe white people colonialism is the problem. #Resist #NoKings #FreePalestine 120
EmJ @bassoonemj.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Since the rapture didn't happen today, it's definitely happening tomorrow. Right???? *dripping sarcasm* 010
Reposted by EmJAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans. 620306957851
Reposted by EmJWilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025When does the National Guard arrive in Salt Lake City? I mean, one of his lil friends died. Isn’t that how it works? Or is it the state that’s the wrong color or the people? 725234
