Reposted by IdeofunctorBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 05/10/2026our common life depends upon each other's toil 0138
Reposted by IdeofunctorMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We murdered four more people in a boat today 12524901066
Reposted by IdeofunctorBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...thebulwark.comTrump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost TownIn Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention. 55899292
Reposted by IdeofunctorTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 691380650
Reposted by IdeofunctorDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by CongressThe move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 8830771179
Reposted by IdeofunctorKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again? 1942703486
Reposted by IdeofunctorTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comAutopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the backThe report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest. 7723511269
Reposted by IdeofunctorDivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026SPD stopped naming cops who shoot people when the consent decree ended, so we do that now. The cop who shot the woman in Beacon Hill is Jose Jimenez, and we did a deep dive on him. Read all about him:divestspd.comCop who shot Beacon Hill woman identifiedOfficer Jose Jimenez, 34, had only been assigned to the SWAT team for less than a year. He was previously a member of the Community Response Group, SPD’s “problem-oriented policing” unit. 28852
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026supoose the dems take congress and are sworn in successfully. if all they do is investigate like they did before and put someone as unappealing as Adam schiff in charge, we will see magas popularity restored 000
Reposted by Ideofunctorunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good. 341233362
Reposted by IdeofunctorThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 409125905970
Reposted by IdeofunctorGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158... 25859181
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The fundamental question is do the police work for the public as servants, or does the public obey the police as subjects. I do not believe servants should be able to track me 000
Reposted by IdeofunctorDavid Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Debora Juarez, 2020: "When I hear people say there's just a few bad apples on the police force I adamantly disagree with that. It's just not a healthy tree. We need to plant a new tree, we have to completely re-imagine, re-vision what community policing is." www.kuow.org/podcast/news...kuow.orgBad apples? Seattle Police 'not a healthy tree' says city council memberChants of "defund S-P-D" have become a common message at protests in Seattle, and for the first time the idea is getting serious attention from the city council. 613434
Reposted by IdeofunctorPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Spotted at DC’s H St Festival: “This Flock camera tracks our movement!” 6713209
Reposted by IdeofunctorHeather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What do Papa Johns, Putin & a Dutch ship company have in common? One man: Tom Dans, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission. The role is typically held by science/public policy experts. That’s not Dans. We dug into how he could be leveraging the role for his own interests 🧵 17487257
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The courts have failed us repeatedly. We retain our rights against the government in all places and all times archive.is/BvmjYarchive.is 000
Reposted by IdeofunctorColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? The Science Victory Fund: Data centers are bad! Cancer research is good! You should be able to see a doctor! Salad shouldn’t make you shit your pants! Voters: YES! Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!! 536979
Reposted by IdeofunctorRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?variety.comFCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W 31136121970
Reposted by IdeofunctorAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It takes a special kind of calculated cowardice to oppose regulations supported by two-thirds of voters because you rank the threat of the AI industry maybe buying some campaign ads above it maybe killing everyone.politico.comDemocratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AIDemocratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them. 1410931
Reposted by IdeofunctorSquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It was a really unnerving experience running into this, wondering why it was deployed, where it was being operated from, and if it was trying to follow me Are we really going to allow bored cops to spend all our money on toys they don’t need, and will weaponize against us whenever possible? 0373
Reposted by IdeofunctorSquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Saw my first drone deployed, from my local Police Department, Shoreline PD/King County Sheriff’s, to monitor a very unremarkable interaction with a group of people having a calm conversation with the cops outside a Goodwill I don’t think people understand the police state we’re barreling toward 48025
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Seb gorka leaning all the way into the euthyphro question was not on my 2026 bingo card 000
Reposted by IdeofunctorGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week. 0304150
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Stadiums and the teams that play in them should be owned by cities outright 000
Reposted by IdeofunctorJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Kia Center in Orlando, owned by the DeVos family & where the Magic play, had a boxing match a couple weeks ago where one of the boxers is a self-identified Nazi with visible SS bolt tattoos and the crowd flew a swastika flag. Newsmedia & stadium owners didn't care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3us...youtube.comThis is obscene!!YouTube video by The Bulwark 23922
Reposted by IdeofunctorKUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 17/09/2026Ed Sheeran's tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos when four of his supporting acts quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments.kuow.orgEd Sheeran's tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper MacklemoreEd Sheeran's tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos when four of his supporting acts quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments. 0247
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This crypt keeper is ruining peoples careers while urine dribbles down his blue suit. Everyone under 55 should just gang Up and beat our grandparents into their proper opalescence. How many problems are down stream of decisions being made by dementia patients? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... 000
Reposted by IdeofunctorMother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/09/2026A massive immigration operation is happening in Memphis. It’s been underway for just under a year now—hundreds of arrests, streets filled with officers. But most people have never heard of it. Why? It’s harder to record ICE in Tennessee than it is in many states.motherjones.comMemphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance. 6265150
Reposted by IdeofunctorAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue. 633235760
Reposted by IdeofunctorErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Rob Saka is saying that gun violence is "the one unique outlier" crime that is not going down. Here are the latest gun violence statistics, which show that gun violence has been going down, year after year after year. cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king...cdn.kingcounty.gov 46612
Reposted by IdeofunctorKUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 05/09/2026The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.kuow.orgTrump asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS plan to restrict mail votingThe Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election. 576
Reposted by IdeofunctorPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars: 1122448933
Reposted by Ideofunctorryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts 222063554
Reposted by IdeofunctorProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.propublica.orgTrump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” ObjectionsA prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T... 561691932
Reposted by IdeofunctorBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right. 2154889819
Reposted by IdeofunctorTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026One more thing you can pattern recognize from the 1930s. 151261392
Reposted by Ideofunctorunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 31/08/2026Nine police officers fired dozens of bullets at a 67-year-old Black man in Gary on Friday night. His family has no idea what happened:cbsnews.comFamily of security guard fatally shot by police in Gary, Indiana, left with questionsIndiana State Police said that on Friday night, officers were called to 4th and Broadway because Williams, who is an armed security guard, was acting unusually and erratically. 9200114
Reposted by IdeofunctorProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row. Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back. with @veritenews.orgpropublica.orgHe Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free. 1112436998
Reposted by IdeofunctorTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The embarrassing decision to call Lake Ontario “Lake America” is an admission of defeat. If we can’t understand basics of economics and politics, if we must lose a trade war to Canada while we are losing a shooting war to Iran, let us paste our name somewhere. snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-...snyder.substack.comOur Trade War Against OurselvesTreating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way 14813267
Reposted by IdeofunctorDave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026ICE continues to be active in Chicago. Community members in Little Village recorded ICE in the area of 26th & Drake this morning, and photos shared online show a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood. Reports of activity in Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Hermosa. 15941
Ideofunctor @biofunctor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Languid Sol now vivified marshals the hours and marches south 000
Reposted by Ideofunctorderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Meant to post this two days ago, but it has been a year (and two days) since JD Vance said after a mass shooting that it's outrageous anyone thinks calls for prayer are a way to deflect responsibility for taking action against gun violence. Maybe action will come next year. 723278368
Reposted by IdeofunctorPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“Trump on Sunday said in a post on Truth Social that NBC's Kristen Welker will be reported to the FCC for ‘rebuke or punishment’, after he said she reported the Republican President had mixed results in his endorsement of candidates.” I remember when this would be unthinkable 56839227
