Reposted by ChalinGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2026www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m... 332019576
Reposted by ChalinSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources. 6474120613896
Reposted by ChalinMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/11/2025"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever. 192071633
Reposted by Chalinenrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 05/10/2025THIS is truth. #DeportTheAssholes 325666
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I borrowed the best seller #LuckyLoser from the Alexandria city library but didn’t get a chance to get into it. But when I tried to renew or re-enter a hold request, the title was suddenly not in the catalog. Did someone make them pull it from their shelves? 010
Reposted by ChalinBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 434182663328
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025After a half century on this planet I’ve come to realize that’s the kids are right, we’re right, have always been right. About Vietnam, about Wall Street, about Bernie, about Gaza. Maybe instead of demanding they join us in the moderate seats we should let them drive the bus? 020
Reposted by ChalinCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Decades of US diplomatic efforts being unwound. @reuters.com 🇮🇳 www.reuters.com/world/china/... 31682218
Reposted by ChalinACME Family Knitter @acmeleader.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I couldn’t read anything after learning that less than 2% of $$ raised by these former DCCC staff-turned-fundraising consultant & PAC founders actually goes to candidates. @democrats.org need to stop this now before it kills the party. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...data4democracy.substack.comThe Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam MachineHow a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns. 022
Reposted by ChalinDrHello @drhellodarkness.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Doge wasted $22 billion. Thanks, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social . www.inc.com/chris-morris...inc.comDOGE Is Accused of Wasting $21.7 Billion in Just 6 MonthsHere are five takeaways from Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal's new 54-page report accusing DOGE of waste. 32989373
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Being anti-Netanyahu, anti-settler, anti-IDF, anti-Gaza genocide =/= antisemitic. 010
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Apparently I’ve been mispronouncing “mien” my whole life. #nytconnections 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Shocked, SHOCKED to hear that luring all the 50-yr olds into an early retirement delivers a huge hit to experience, expertise, and institutional knowledge. 🙄 wapo.st/3YTivKWwapo.stTrump’s actions are pushing thousands of experts to flee governmentThe U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear. 051
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Unconscionable. wapo.st/4iDFVuxwapo.stThree U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from LouisianaThe cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens. 020
Reposted by ChalinErnesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 12/04/2025ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. #Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it. 0143
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Eddie Izzard’s prescient recap of the Trump tariff policy: “We don’t want your Deutschiemarkies!” {pause for market collapse} “Oh we do? We do? Terribly sorry. Redial…” youtube.com/clip/UgkxJeF...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 000
Reposted by ChalinMadhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 10/04/2025Video shows Georgetown researcher Suri's ICE arrest in Arlington VA. An Indian national in US on a work visa, Suri is a postdoc at Georgetown, conducting research on peacebuilding in conflict zones like Iraq & Afghanistan. He was transferred to detention facility in Louisiana where he remains held.wusa9.comNew video captures ICE arrest of Georgetown researcher, ACLU saysSuri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, said ICE agents did not tell her husband why he was being detained before placing him in a car and driving away. 14628
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Lord, I know we’re supposed to open our hearts to the converted but I *cannot* NOT pull my hair out when I read quotes like this. Did these people listen to anything he said in the past 3 years? 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Why are these people celebrating themselves? Asking on behalf of the Associated press. White House correspondents’ dinner scraps plan for comedian to host www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...washingtonpost.comWhite House correspondents’ dinner scraps plan for comedian to hostAmber Ruffin was removed after a Trump official accused her of being “hate-filled” and took aim at the White House Correspondents’ Association for booking her. 000
Reposted by ChalindavidnelsonORL @dnelsonorl.bsky.social · 27/03/2025“….you will be prosecuted.” But they weren’t prosecuted. Prosecuted would be having a day in court. Prosecuted would require the government to prove gang membership. Prosecuted would mean the chance to mount a defense. They weren’t prosecuted. They were kidnapped. 1183484
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Get ready for this on a grand scale. They are going to sell off government properties, services and contracts to their friends and families. This is how authoritarian oligarchies are formed. wapo.st/3DGyt3zwapo.stBrother of Trump’s GSA leader tried to buy prime federal propertyThe proposal to buy a parcel in Silicon Valley prompted a complaint to the inspector general. The GSA says it rejected the offer and its acting administrator followed ethics rules. 050
Reposted by ChalinJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Senate Democrats were offered nothing in exchange for voting for a GOP budget and decided it was a deal that was too good to pass up 782332416
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Where is the lawsuit? Why do these people think appeasement will work ? Fucking grow a pair! 030
Reposted by ChalinBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire. 452399697
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025List of historical lessons that Americans insist on learning first hand: 1. Everyone loses in a tariff war (google “Smoot Hawley” & “great depression”). 2.Tax breaks for the rich do not “trickle down”(something -DOO economics). 3. Government austerity leads to reduction in growth (Hello Kansas👋🏻). 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025People from around the world see our courts as a fair arbiter of justice, our banks as a haven of stability, our dollar as the gold standard. We will lose ALL of this if we continue on the current path of open corruption and bullying on the world stage. 000
Reposted by ChalinJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/03/20251. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.muskwatch.comIntroducing: The Musk Watch DOGE TrackerNew tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92% 17666572459
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Dear @democrats: why am I not being barraged w/Willie Horton style ads re: the drug dealer, domestic abuser, pedophile that Trump’s DOJ willingly extended Jan 6 pardon to? They had the option of narrow interpretation and voluntarily sided with the criminals. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...washingtonpost.comJustice Dept. says many Jan. 6 pardons extend to crimes after that dateDefendants who picked up more charges while being arrested for Jan. 6 argue that Trump’s pardon extends to those too. The Justice Department agrees in most cases. 000
Reposted by ChalinMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11/03/2025It’s impossible to express how radicalized I’ve become against the Democrats in the past two months. Just an absolutely worthless political party that’s sold us out to literal fucking fascism. 993480472
Reposted by ChalinAatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 05/03/2025We took a deep dive into what contracts DOGE slashed — and what it left untouched. Most of the biggest contractors were unscathed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 24533189
Reposted by ChalinNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law. 5035231067
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Catherine Rampell is a modern day Cassandra - speaking the absolute truth to deaf ears. How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps wapo.st/41H1uoQwapo.stOpinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy stepsTrump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century. 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Seriously @postopinions.bsky.social ? Joseph Bankman? As in father to the felonious con man Sam Bankman-Fried? A man who not only raised a crook but benefited directly from his fraud? Hard pass. How Trump’s sovereign wealth fund could solve a tax problem 130
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Always telling to see who they think deserves clemency. Youngkin commutes sentence of ex-officer who fatally shot unarmed man 100
Reposted by ChalinShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv 791187283594
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Dear @washingtonpost.com - could you maybe include even one sentence about how this order just names a study group and is not itself “establishing” a crypto reserve (which would require the House as purse holder)? Crypto prices jump as Trump touts national crypto reserve 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025When you see your besties at a party you weren’t invited to. 💔😭 000
Reposted by ChalinMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025What is wrong with Senate Democrats? There is a five-alarm Article I constitutional crisis. No votes. No attending joint session Trump speeches. No normal operations at all until all the illegal stealing of Congress’ authority stops. Why is this so hard? 401024246
Reposted by ChalinChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/02/2025“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.” 642223468613
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025The WHCA will do nothing more than “condemn” the move and then host their little nerd prom in April. wapo.st/41hnyozwapo.stWhite House will decide which journalists get access to it in an unprecedented stepJournalists and media critics warned that White House control of the press pool threatens the foundations of a free press. 022
Reposted by ChalinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a... 7033721291