Reposted by BrainscrapsCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 02/08/2026ok the bay is so pretty, it's just so pretty 419120
Reposted by BrainscrapsMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 03/07/2026Important counterpoints in this thread. @cockymf.bsky.social does a better job than me of explaining why Black voters have historically tended to trust the Dem core much more than Dem Socialists. There's a trust gap in reducing US racism that the DSA has to bridge. I'm optimistic. Others, less so. 3325
Reposted by BrainscrapsIsi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand. 445044667
Reposted by BrainscrapsPittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 07/05/2026Operating since 2018, the doula collective offers services such as breastfeeding support, birth planning, and labor and delivery preparation...pghcitypaper.comThe Birthing Hut is taking on racial disparities with Black-centered doula trainingIn her heart, Iyanna Bridges believes she is an entrepreneur, and for years, she channeled her focus into Bey’s Temple, a natural skincare company. However, after a negative experience giving birth… 0164
Reposted by BrainscrapsMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 28/04/2026There's nothing genetically inherent to Black women that makes them better voters. That's not a real thing. But US Black women voters have 3 superpowers that give them better judgement than other US voting blocks: 1) They're less racist 2) They're less sexist 3) They care about other people 1486
Reposted by BrainscrapsMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 28/04/2026If your gut is saying "Talarico," but Black women are saying "Crockett?" Choose Crockett. If your gut is saying Marty Dolan, but Black women say AOC? Vote AOC. Black women choose Jon Ossoff? Vote Jon Ossoff. Black women choose Harris? Vote Harris. Black women choose Obama over McCain? Vote Obama 3446
Reposted by BrainscrapsChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/04/2026The "Princeton Study" (a famous 2014 study by Gilens & Page) found that the preferences of average citizens have a "near-zero" impact on U.S. policy. While economic elites and interest groups carry significant weight, the will of the majority rarely correlates with enacted legislation. 7459132
Reposted by BrainscrapsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Wild that Trump has sent his son in law who has billions in business deals in the Middle East to negotiate with Iran and that isn’t a scandal that will end his presidency or even really mentioned by the networks 16239731216
Reposted by BrainscrapsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive. 211111141951
Reposted by BrainscrapsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.” 1042177334731
Reposted by BrainscrapsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Don’t let this go by unnoticed 1048121445932
Reposted by BrainscrapsSimon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026At this point, "Israel's genocidal empire-building campaigns must be stopped by any means necessary" should be the moderate position. 46429
Reposted by BrainscrapsChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/03/2026Iran prepared for an American attack more thoroughly than America did, that much is clear. 228449
Reposted by BrainscrapsThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Lots of people all over the spectrum, but especially journalists, seem unable to shake the idea that the Trump we see on camera is a character that the “real” guy plays on TV. 481196177
Reposted by BrainscrapsAndrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This is exceedingly bad news. 3277111
Reposted by BrainscrapsBob @definitelyjustbob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams. 11234413
Reposted by BrainscrapsWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 28/02/2026This is Buddy. He does hydrotherapy to stay strong and live forever as all good boys should. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: doggiesbeautysalon) 876583539
Reposted by Brainscrapsashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/02/2026guess who was paying people’s rent the fastest? 🏴 236559
Brainscraps @brainscraps.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Did @anduriltech.bsky.social shut down the airspace over #ElPaso with bad software?? Inquiring minds want to know 010
Reposted by BrainscrapsBee Quammie @beequammie.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh 3249171721
Reposted by Brainscrapsegg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Lots of folks saying “this is good” but no, it very much is not. 1) this is the 4th amendment 2) this is a historical norm at worst 3) this is already required 4) again, at worst an historic norm 5) 4A 6) 4A 7) fine 8) good if enforceable 9) useless 10) again, at worst a historical norm 251400415
Reposted by BrainscrapsAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children. 6748502125
Reposted by BrainscrapsVagabending @vagabending.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Literally every single time that people unite to tell dem leadership what they want, leadership comes back with 12% of what they want and says “you should love us now and give us more money” like fuck you guys, abolish ICE. 2072782
Reposted by BrainscrapsJon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...chicago.suntimes.comWoman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidenceMarimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en... 4652451848
Reposted by Brainscrapstaylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis 327233397732
Reposted by Brainscrapsslate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 27/01/2026reach out to your neighborhood ICE agents and tell them they suck 223625
Reposted by BrainscrapsMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/01/2026On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino. 20780251246
Reposted by BrainscrapsA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/01/2026[watching through military binoculars as orange slices are handed out to kids between halves at pee wee soccer] This is PROFESSIONAL grade logistics. Look at the matching uniforms. Look at the coordination. Someone is BANKROLLING this operation. [retreats using a series of elaborate rolls] 18899198
Reposted by Brainscrapsmiss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social · 25/01/2026They killed one of us today and we’ll be out chasing them around again tomorrow. We’re never going to stop. 463776
Reposted by BrainscrapsChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/01/2026Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘apnews.comImmigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in MinnesotaDozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota. 630741132
Reposted by BrainscrapsSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/01/2026"It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE's actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...sarahkendzior.substack.comA Shining Mausoleum on a HillLife, death, and the rampage of ICE. 12452178
Reposted by BrainscrapsCornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme. 85110183176
Reposted by BrainscrapsChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 25/01/2026Two good friends of mine, antifascists, were murdered at separate protests by right wing extremists. What helped keep me from spiraling was to focus on continuing the antifascist work they were doing. I'm not one of these people who says love your enemies. I hate our enemies. I want them erased. 555396
Reposted by Brainscrapshorse shoe crab programmer @myrrlyn.net · 25/01/2026i am at a unitarian universalist meeting. the attendance is fifty fifty retirees and college students. everyone here knows who alex pretti is and everyone here is pissed beyond belief and none of us are afraid 5819114
Reposted by BrainscrapsLaura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 22/01/2026Also: eye contact! I’ve never made so much eye contact with strangers while walking before. We’re all checking in with each other and there are so many little gestures of connection. 320622
Brainscraps @brainscraps.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Yo check out frontlinedignity.orgfrontlinedignity.orgICE Rapid Response in Western PA - Home | Frontline DIGNITYDignity means treating someone as an end in themselves, and not as a means to an end. In today’s critical moment, we are on the frontlines of the fight for dignity nationwide. The call to affirm the d... 040
Reposted by BrainscrapsLozaning @lozan.ing · 18/01/2026You can just lock in and leverage the devil's own tools against him. People doing rapid response dispatch slide into my DM's for access to the info nexus AMER state wide trunked radio system access combined with MNDot traffic cams in a single pane of glass 5329
Reposted by Brainscrapsmspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 18/01/2026We see you- whether you’re on the streets or managing spreadsheets, wrapping our community in care. There’s a place for everyone in this movement. (Also, we may be at an all time high of Minnesotans telling each other that they love them.) 2/2 314816
Brainscraps @brainscraps.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Is capex spend kinda like saying "ATM machine" though? 010
Reposted by BrainscrapsPittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 17/01/2026South Side. 3000 Sidney Street. Caller is with ICE and says that protestors have them blocked in. 4037572
Brainscraps @brainscraps.bsky.social · 16/01/2026✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 Beaver County has been the site of numerous events showing our disapproval of their actions. We must continue to be a beacon of hope. Bundle up and bring your favorite signs! Stop at one, two, or all of these locations! Pick your cause. We ride at dawn. (Share with your friends) 020
