iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Bates

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"

Tarrant County, Texas, could see around 50 percent fewer polling locations in November's election.

"Let's call this what it is… voter suppression," said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. "Cutting nearly half the places where people can cast a ballot doesn't save democracy money, it costs voters their voice. Tarrant County is home to a significant number of Black and Latino voters and is a majority people-of-color county. There is no question that this plan strips away polling access on a scale that will hit Black and Brown voters hardest. That is not a coincidence. It’s an intentional assault on our ability to make our voices heard and we will push back with every tool available.”

13727331

Bates @batesmotel14.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A proposed rule fueled by Trump’s conspiracy theories would require the USPS to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—and give them the power to hold those ballots hostage. Urge them to say NO and help protect voting by mail: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...

act.standupamerica.com

Don’t Let Trump Sabotage Vote by Mail!

In a new proposed rule, the USPS would be required to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—as well as the power to stop those ballots from being delivered. Urge them to ...

000

Reposted by Bates

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

212473501

Reposted by Bates

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/06/2026

“My own immigrant story has shaped the core values that have guided my entire life and career, which include the principle of never placing profit above the value of people,” said George Zoley, the CEO of GEO Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and ICE’s biggest contractor.

cnn.com

The founder of a private company accused of mistreating ICE detainees came to the US via Ellis Island in 1953 | CNN

When George Zoley, the founder of a private company that manages more than 20 federal immigration facilities testified before Congress in 2020, he spoke about how his own immigrant experience shaped h...

1524988

Reposted by Bates

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 07/06/2026

No billionaire works harder than the people working 2 jobs to make rent and afford groceries right now.

213435

Reposted by Bates

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Dismantle DHS. Abolish and prosecute ICE. Citizenship and amnesty for all immigrants who have not committed a violent crime. That’s the bare minimum and we can’t accept anything less.

11980127

Reposted by Bates

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That headline hasn't aged very well. Never heard anyone discuss this before

351006105

Reposted by Bates

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 07/04/2026

President threatens the eradication of 90 million people, and America's opposition party is just not getting it. Complete loss of words for the way our elected officials on both sides of the aisle are approaching These Times.

6852172

Reposted by Bates

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 07/04/2026

Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price. Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.

1012598652

Reposted by Bates

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

583150540

Reposted by Bates

Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In 1963, 99% percent of US daily newspapers employed no Black reporters.The LA Times didn’t have a single one. After the Watts uprising, the paper supported Gov Brown’s claim that “California was a state without racial discrimination” & praised the police who “are doing their job & doing it well.”

2489112

Reposted by Bates

Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

81931503

Reposted by Bates

Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The Chicago Tribune mocked the claims that the city was segregated & the police brutal. Black Chicagoans “don’t need the help of the Rev. Mr. King...we don’t need any agitators from the south.” King himself observed, “I have seen nothing worse in [the South] than the Chicago Tribune editorials.”

3533115

Reposted by Bates

JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is gonna go under the radar with free agency going on, but it’s nasty work by the NFL

745594

Reposted by Bates

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

33774602183

Reposted by Bates

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

miamiherald.com

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat

The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

27855062635

Reposted by Bates

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had

572408875

Reposted by Bates

Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/02/2026

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

18670701596

Reposted by Bates

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It's an unpopular opinion but I don't think it's good to live in a society where men can grab you off the street and there's literally nothing you can do about it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

8611157

Reposted by Bates

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

62258082489

Reposted by Bates

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

But no resolutions condemning fascism, huh?

7375108

Reposted by Bates

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

So it’s worse than we thought

261922638

Reposted by Bates

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!” This is tyranny These kids are traumatized It was warrantless and no ID was shown.

19333471816

Reposted by Bates

Mexico News @mexiconews.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The US collaborates with the genocide in many ways.

2237115

Reposted by Bates

Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

16349622620

Reposted by Bates

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The CDC, now led by RFK Jr., has updated its website to promote a debunked theory on vaccines and autism. “DO NOT TRUST THIS AGENCY. This is a national embarrassment,” says ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...

huffpost.com

CDC Updates Website To Promote Debunked Theory On Vaccines And Autism

“DO NOT TRUST THIS AGENCY. This is a national embarrassment,” said ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.

10285130

Bates @batesmotel14.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@kylekulinski.bsky.social Hey Kyle, your thoughts on this please. Maybe you’ve already done a piece on this topic, but I wanted to make sure you saw this. Keep doing what you’re doing, man 👍🏾 youtube.com/shorts/IpA3l...

youtube.com

At least 2 historians agree: this is it. We’re in the coup.

YouTube video by Anti-Social Studies

010

Reposted by Bates

Secular Talk 🎙 [fan] @kylekulinski.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

You can dismiss literally everything somebody says if they believe there's a white genocide in South Africa but not a genocide in Gaza. They're decrepit, immoral lying scumbags who know they're lying and don't care.

0102

Reposted by Bates

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

theguardian.com

Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Washington DC Jewish museum

Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

34165631153

Reposted by Bates

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.

11736321076

Reposted by Bates

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Today's action is the single largest mass-illegalization event in US history. 350,000 people woke up this morning with legal status, living and working here with official permission. They'll go to bed as undocumented immigrants facing deportation.

6026211477

Reposted by Bates

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 20/05/2025

The press gnawing on this bone a hell of a lot harder and longer than they ever did January 6. Republicans skirted questions on that by like mid-February.

301007167

Reposted by Bates

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/05/2025

They are charging a sitting congresswoman with a crime for performing her lawfully required oversight of ICE. This is an incredibly undemocratic step that should make people painfully aware of where we are at.

252875713

Reposted by Bates

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I wonder how many lies it will take before the press stops giving official statements by Trump and his cronies the presumption of truth. Days of stories spreading their lies around before the real story emerges. This happens over and over and over again:

882175565

Reposted by Bates

Hansraj Meena @hansrajmeena.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#OnThisDay in 1917, Eugene Jacques Bullard became the first Black American combat pilot—fighting for France after being denied by the U.S. because of his race. He flew with the motto “All Blood Runs Red.” A hero buried with honors, but nearly forgotten at home.

14448108

Reposted by Bates

Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 08/05/2025

9/10 grocery store workers report price gouging at their stores while 4/5 workers are unable to pay basic living costs: an important new report on Krogers & Albertsons h/t Errol Schweizer economicrt.org/publication/...

211955

Reposted by Bates

Purdue Men’s Basketball @boilerball.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just two players nationally during the 2024-25 season averaged at least 17.0 PPG, 6.0 RPG, 2.0 APG & shot over 58 percent from the field. ✅: Trey Kaufman-Renn ✅: Oscar Cluff Stat of the Day.

1434

Reposted by Bates

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/05/2025

I'm going to let Kiandria tell you in her own words but the payment processor is Block/Square. They have policies that block their platform from profiting off of racism and hate speech. So she's targeting them... heavily. www.tiktok.com/@kiandriaisb...

331162