Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialTim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025After almost 2.5 years, Russia admits seizing a retired journalist from occupied Melitopol' Not thinking they were in danger, Iryna & her husband didn't join her sister, who fled the occupiers Good detail here on the persecution of reporters in the city khpg.org/en/1608814856khpg.orgMelitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in Russian-occupied DonetskAlthough there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the Russian FSB have even formally charged the journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023 213750
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.social🎮🚫DM 🚫Stupidity! 💙PEACE LIVES HERE! @beautifulmind8.bsky.social · 08/04/2025✨️This is a Must read!✨️ 221771503
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.social💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 24/03/2025OMFG. Their ineptitude is going to get us killed. Hegseth included a reporter in a text announcing military strikes in Yemen with information including weapons, targets, and the very timing of the attack. -From the greatest military on the planet. They deserve so much better. We all do. 1071029333
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.social🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025 15185158212186
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAthena Z @athenasrx.bsky.social · 04/03/2025650 B.C.E. Babylonians predict weather changes. 300 B.C.E. Chinese develop a weather calendar 340 B.C.E. Aristotle writes “Meterologica” 1450 Cusa notes Hygrometer 1592 Galileo creates Thermometer 1643 Torricelli invents Barometer 2025 DOGE kills NOAA #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited 515082
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second. 20245395536861
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAngie Gia Bennett @santasophiastories.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I am grateful to Haltbaak Bunkers fir taking an economic stand against 47. I hope this encourages other world businesses to follow with further sanctions. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/norwegi...newsukraine.rbc.uaNorwegian company refuses to refuel US ships because it 'has moral compass'Read more 1227
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia. 266121152746
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The right’s “waste and fraud” frame is a replay of the same participatory propaganda games they played w/ “voter fraud” in 2020, “censorship” in 2022, and any number of anti-immigration frames in 2024. Set the frame, inspire the generation of “evidence” to fit it, amplify that evidence, and repeat. 26984275
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialNoelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF ALL MY TRANS SISTERS AND BROTHERS. I WANT TO BELIEVE WE HAVE MORE ALLIES THAN WE THINK. 🩵🩷🤍🩵🩷 2328762
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Civil rights law, affirmative action, diversity and equity programs, were designed to eliminate the obstacles faced by people whose ancestors were enslaved, they were created to address a *condition,*not as a “racial preference. Addressing a condition is not racial discrimination 339868
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 14/02/2025When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't. 530129283845
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.social🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025well damn 728639
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Stop advocating for trans people by referring to us as canaries in the coal mine. The whole point of the canary is that it's an acceptable sacrifice to protect the people who actually matter. We are not a *warning sign*. We are real people. Our lives and rights matter in and of themselves. 2043831423
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialKara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Board member of META asks a very good question. 783125922127
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.social🦋 BlueDaisy 🦋 @bluedaisyrose.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Let's get this circulated!! 😤 7921691410391
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Slowing down from real time investigative work but one of my sources confirmed this @wired.com's report yesterday: "BFS is treating Marko's resignation as a cybersecurity breach. The cyber teams are working overtime to analyze the forensic artifacts Marko left behind and determine what he saw/did." 271021367
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I see we are entering the how are court orders going to be enforced phase of the operation 615222
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialRabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Listen friends - gather your hope where you can. People showed up in all 50 states on a moments notice. Voicemail boxes of senators are filling up. Lawsuits are being filed. Look at all the good people. And do not forget to take care of yourselves. Seriously. This is a long haul. 233105992525
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This fact sheet on the White House website lists bullet point items of what it alleges are “waste and abuse” at USAID. I was curious what they came up with. Actually every link is to articles at Daily Mail, Breitbart and Washington examiner. www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorize...whitehouse.govAt USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs DeepFor decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the 1953154943
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAshley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We’re now in the midst of a full fledged coup that Putin instigated with the help of his useful idiot, Donald Trump. If Republicans weren’t spineless cowards, they would abide by the Constitution and end this illegal insanity immediately. Democratic leaders need to rise up and DO SOMETHING! 37764280
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism. 27156153925797
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025west point’s dean - brigadier general shane reeves - announced he had a little “fireside” chat with elon musk. and it’s going over swimmingly. 1136279
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/02/2025"We're pleased to present this updated org chart that captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)."buff.lyAn Accurate Organizational Chart of Your UniversityIn accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it or not, our university is pleased to prese... 521765
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Not for nothing, but announcing that the US is taking over Gaza the same week you’re neutering the FBI’s entire counterterrorism program isn’t that smart from a security perspective. 20565821367
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAmi Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS 1266410167238
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work 193221425235
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history. 7498692488
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything. 386164454173
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025Crockett: "There is no reason for any political appointee, if you can even call [Musk] that, to have this kind of access. There's none." 337146093199
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Here it comes. We knew this was exactly what would happen:Trump says he and Putin could do something 'significant' toward ending Russia's war in Ukraine apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comTrump says he and Putin could do something 'significant' toward ending Russia's war in UkrainePresident Donald Trump says his administration has already had “very serious” discussions with Russia about its war in Ukraine and that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin could soon take “signifi... 61457152
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Don’t worry, the United States of America will be in full self-driving mode by Monday morning. 772144961587
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialDestiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This is why I'm not holding my breath on grocery prices driving republican backlash. Between "Jesus didn't have electricity" and "daddy's home to belt us" commentary it seems like they not only expect to suffer but are ready to frame their acceptance of suffering as a moral virtue. 49587129
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This week, China found out the price for being an undermining foe is 10%. And Canada found out that the price for being a helpful friend, who helped with California's wild fires, is 15% more. Thank you, totally incompetent Donald Trump. 17172961456
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.social💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The CDC web guide to help MDs prescribe contraception has been removed. We weren’t overreacting about Project 2025. It’s real and it’s happening NOW. This is a full on assault against women’s rights. No fault divorce will be next-Mark my words. Clip: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2jV5Kvo/ WATCH 12336341787
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 31/01/2025If you think that trans people are getting our rights ripped away "because the left went too far," you're a moron. Everything happening to us today was written up and planned by the Family Research Council in 2015. The document is still public. It's all there. www.frc.org/transgender#...frc.orgUnderstanding and Responding to the Transgender MovementIn recent decades, there has been an assault on the sexes. That is, there has been an attack on the previously undisputed 5047141323
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025REPORTER: I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash. TRUMP: Because I have common sense, ok? And unfortunately a lot of people don't 9202913675
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025they are really going to blame black people for every little thing that happens aren’t theyhuffpost.comDonald Trump Goes On Rant About DEI In Response To DC Plane CrashThe president also blamed the Biden and Obama administrations for the overnight plane crash in Washington, D.C., where there have been no reported survivors. 4986415838
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 28/01/2025So .. is anyone working on a Project 2029? 1313914
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Russ Vought is currently not an employee of the US federal government, he is a nominee. Congress would have to be out its mind to confirm a guy who is telling the public that he, and not Congress, decides how public money is spent. bsky.app/profile/atru... 25918314
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual. 247111093267
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialboisedeb.bsky.social @boisedeb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025JD Vance is rushing to Appalachia to cheer on hungry little kids while the Fed evaluates the efficacy of feeding kids. 001
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Again, the Founders simply could not anticipate this level of cowardice & willingness to totally abdicate power to an absolute monarch: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 1539374
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Imagine thinking a society with hungry kids you refuse to feed is meritocratic 625237
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialLee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 28/01/2025BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 A coalition of nonprofits and #publichealth advocates is asking a federal judge for an emergency order to block President Donald Trump from imposing a sweeping plan to halt all federal #aid programs. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...politico.comNonprofits and public health groups file legal challenge to Trump’s federal aid freezeThe groups say the order appears to violate the law on numerous fronts. 2246
Reposted by @boisedeb.bsky.socialKindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 28/01/2025Congressional salaries really need to be frozen, because they're not working on behalf of the american people, as they were elected to do, so we really need TO PAUSE THOSE SALARIES UNTIL ALL THIS GETS SORTED OUT! SMH. 0156
