Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence 1373717767
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻seasonally appropriate ghost of kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...spokesman.comThousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into cityA wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane. 24637185
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Jennifer Berry Hawes @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...nytimes.comCrypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big 63716
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043262445
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. 8165851922
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026War crimes are morally and legally wrong. But they also don’t win wars or get us beyond politics. Insofar as there is a logic to this it is to provoke the Iranians and then act shocked and go for a coup domestically. See my essay "The Next Coup Attempt" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...snyder.substack.comThe Next Coup AttemptAnd How to Stop It 8958332
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Since the Dow is at 47,500 are we allowed to talk about Epstein now? 18369691176
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026A coordinated network of 18,000 bots are being used to drive the algorithms on X to amplify Nicki Minaj’s right-wing political posts. www.politico.com/news/2026/02... 35438271569
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...ms.nowMS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained himIn an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de... 45298124761
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant. 8602653412614
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release. 373787868
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/02/2026According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing? 19243691803
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/02/2026CORRUPTION WATCH: The family of Commerce Secy Lutnick now gets pay outs of tens of billions or more in tariff refunds. The Fix Is In: Lutnick Family To Make Killing On Tariff Demise talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...talkingpointsmemo.comThe Fix Is In: Lutnick Family To Make Killing On Tariff DemiseAlmost every article on today’s tariff decision includes, somewhere two or three... 481082533
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 21/02/2026www.wired.com/story/dhs-da...wired.comDHS’s Data Grab Is Getting Citizens Kicked Off Voter Rolls, New Complaint SaysAs states check voter registration against a mashup of federal data, a new complaint says US citizens are getting kicked off state voter rolls as a result. 18537332
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is 303216727672
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 319120756917
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission." 563301098720
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances. reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan... 32971413234
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..." www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...spotlightpa.orgShapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for PA detention centersICE detention centers planned for Berks and Schuylkill Counties would burden residents and possibly violate state legal requirements, officials say. 321119483572
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ. 12784491847
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence 14483642443
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government. “God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision... www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...dallasnews.comWarehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention centerThe owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or... 544209545336
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics. 20884473210
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The astonishing amount of fraud, deception, and graft that will be associated with the so-called Board of Peace is going to BLOW YOUR HAIR BACK. I doubt humanity has ever encountered as dark and diseased an operation as this one will be, if it even survives the decade.motherjones.comTrump promises billions in aid to Gaza as Israeli airstrikes reportedly kill 12 PalestiniansTrump's Board of Peace does not mention Gaza in its charter, instead hinting at a way to swerve accountability to the United Nations. 77912390
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/02/2026www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...chicagotribune.comChicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer diesThe Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles. 31057952630
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.robertreich.substack.comA short note to Kristi NoemTo a current Cabinet secretary from a former one 1354151455877
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 14/02/2026At age 15 they were children. 661284
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Judge Boasberg’s Most Recent Decision open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...open.substack.comJudge Boasberg’s Most Recent DecisionThe plaintiffs in J.G.G. 17721
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/02/2026For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right. 14464471790
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14/02/2026Celebrate Black history and leadership by examining how past organizers built resilient movements. We’ll explore systemic power structures and inequities, and translate historical lessons into contemporary movement-building and leadership practices.mobilize.usSystems and Power: Lessons From Those Who Came Before Us · IndivisibleCelebrate Black history and leadership by examining how past organizers built resilient movements. Explore systemic power structures and inequities, and translate historical lessons into contemporary ... 224196
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote. Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple. Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121 27642591811
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/02/2026🚨 BREAKING: Trump has repealed the EPA’s authority to regulate climate pollution, terminating the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health under the Clean Air Act and underpinned limits on emissions from power plants, oil & gas, and vehicles. 2371553670
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...apple.newsIdaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC NewsAbout 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit. 23475503920
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already. Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.propublica.orgThe Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention CenterProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about t 6422191140
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 11/02/2026Donald Trump’s DOJ just tried—and failed—to indict me in front of a grand jury. We will continue to fight back against their rising tyranny. Don’t Give Up the Ship. 16567011452
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/02/2026more like this 112216466
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/02/2026This is utterly deranged behavior from a U.S. attorney general 2484170535054
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/02/2026TOMORROW: Minnesota organizers and leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/... 7603281
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/02/2026Small business owners represent the American Dream. But the fear and uncertainty caused by Operation Metro Surge has been a crushing blow to business. We need an end to this campaign of retribution and we need to reopen Minnesota for business. 972351440
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026From his prior position: "colleagues warned superiors that the department’s accounts could be seen as promoting white-supremacist rhetoric, Nazi imagery and QAnon conspiracy theories." 49763
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026"Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government’s convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place... When liberty is restrained without a meaningful opportunity to be heard, the Constitution’s promise is not delayed. It is denied." 120478
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/governm...gainesvilletimes.comPlanned ICE warehouse jail draws huge crowd at Oakwood City Council meetingArea residents packed Oakwood City Hall Monday night to voice outrage that federal officials are moving to turn a local warehouse into an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement jail. 9637141160
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/02/2026Organizers in Minnesota have transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. On Thursday, those organizers and MN leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/... 251021478
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/02/2026"They had driven almost seven hours from Froid, a town of about 200 people in the northeastern reaches of the state, to back one of their own..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/comm...newsfromthestates.comCommunity members fight for Froid man facing immigration chargeGREAT FALLS — Roberto Orozco-Ramirez pleaded not guilty Monday to a federal charge of reentering the United States illegally in U.S. District Court in Great Falls.The detention hearing arraignment las... 403247882
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/02/2026When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy. If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency. 485122813132
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/02/2026The House could vote today on the GOP’s new voter suppression legislation modeled on the infamous SAVE Act. This series of bills would end registration by mail and add new ID requirements that could prevent millions of eligible voters from registering. Make sure your representative hears from you.indivisible.orgTell Your Representative: Vote NO on Voter Suppression | Indivisible 16460312
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad 9623118613630
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/01/2026www.mprnews.org/live-updates 11547111481
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...oregonlive.comICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospitalThe Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally. 10802343411422
Reposted by YourTeacherLibrarian🫶🏻Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026In authoritarian regimes, the government uses its powers to threaten, harass, and silence its opponents. 616169
