Reposted by Caroline ClelandFrosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her. 302203917045
Reposted by Caroline ClelandGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Clyde is exhausted from marching for democracy. #NoKings 326145171568
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAdam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Stunning photo: James Bradford in 1961, arrested for reading in the Jackson, Mississippi public library. 15935251270
Reposted by Caroline ClelandPeter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇 3942831582
Reposted by Caroline ClelandThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 16/03/2026After years of complaints, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has finally placed restrictions on the program and its host network.theconversation.comRegulator slaps restrictions on Kyle and Jackie O if they ever return to radio. Will it make any difference? 184
Reposted by Caroline ClelandRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable. 624137845313
Reposted by Caroline ClelandHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Just some of the contradictions from Trump’s afternoon event — and this was only one afternoon. 52326131
Reposted by Caroline ClelandResist the World’s Oligarchy @greyghost65.bsky.social · 04/02/2026He’s the stupid people’s President. 916195116768
Reposted by Caroline ClelandOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269614046
Reposted by Caroline ClelandMichael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 04/02/2026So the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense. 96597373021
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 04/02/2026Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people on Earth, just eliminated hundreds of union jobs at the Washington Post. Solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Join them tomorrow, February 5 at 12:00 p.m. for a rally to #SaveThePost. 25230311036
Reposted by Caroline ClelandDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/02/2026I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause. 17154871205
Reposted by Caroline ClelandReginAmerica @lownewser.bsky.social · 30/01/2026bsky.app/profile/lown... 27011
Reposted by Caroline ClelandChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back. 1062342648003
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism. 6213052110378
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government 293170884986
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those 9244744813585
Reposted by Caroline ClelandJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it. 582146195791
Reposted by Caroline ClelandChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide. 1320266689766
Reposted by Caroline ClelandMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration. 14884764820437
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026BRENNAN: What percentage of those you have in custody have committed crimes? NOEM: 70% of them B: It's not 70% N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers B: Well, that's from your agency 2191165864743
Reposted by Caroline ClelandGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Smart, grown up govt www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comLabor to separate gun control from proposed laws to address hate speech, PM saysAnthony Albanese says government will not proceed with racial vilification provisions, which in current form ‘do not have the support of the Senate’ 2725938
Reposted by Caroline ClelandJohn Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye. 12973968214519
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE. 538237809163
Reposted by Caroline ClelandEric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Yeah so anyway you're not getting discharged from the hospital the same day if you have internal bleeding in your torso. Even Grok knows that. LOL. 45768211845
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/01/2026It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1. 46971133106
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN" 16034381516046
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Reporter: Is the DOJ being weaponized against the Fed? Against Powell? Kelly: I see huge issues with that they are doing to him and it seems to be a pattern. 12367801607
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/01/2026Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution." 10173472811057
Reposted by Caroline ClelandNick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade. 28491213218
Reposted by Caroline ClelandGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/01/2026One of the most brutal rake-stepping exercises I have ever seen www.sbs.com.au/news/article...sbs.com.auBoard members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author growsSBS News can confirm three board members have now resigned from the Adelaide Festival, amid growing controversy over a decision to drop a Palestinian Australian author and academic. 1525064
Reposted by Caroline ClelandCory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Does anyone remember how many senate hearings actually produced anything positive? I don't. 115113713257
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government. 127297783267
Reposted by Caroline ClelandMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I was told that Congress was finally back in session today. How, exactly, are we going to be able to tell? 502113101926
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/01/2026Walz: "If they have emails showing that I have committed fraud, you should get those! Why aren't they putting them out there? Why aren't they turning them over to prosecutors? Right now they're hiding behind a veil of innuendo. They're protecting the biggest fraudster in the White House." 575232256359
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026.@PabloReports: What do you make of the White House blaming the police for the violence on January 6th? McGovern: That’s offensive. What kind of sick human being would say that? I was here that day. 263125663595
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/01/2026Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful." 482249876679
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party." 547167225298
Reposted by Caroline ClelandEric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro. 558288787152
Reposted by Caroline ClelandThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 03/01/2026Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940 13382631252
Reposted by Caroline ClelandChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo. 51197375699
Reposted by Caroline ClelandGwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This Guy: The newly discovered bumpy snailfish spotted at 3268 meters (10722 ft) in the Monterey Canyon off California 1207
Reposted by Caroline ClelandBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote. 739397599389
Reposted by Caroline ClelandJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes. 15375927520090
Reposted by Caroline ClelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to" 14542920610198