Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Brad Pitt said it best.media.tenor.comtwo men are standing next to each other and one of them is holding a knife and the other is holding a spoon .ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is holding a knife and the other is holding a spoon . 000
Reposted by ChalinGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/02/2026www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m... 332018576
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. 6474120413895
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Oh MG, the day one says “quiet piggy” back to him! Sure you’ll get fired but people would donate millions to that go-fund-me 1512
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
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The new editorial board is abysmal. They’re just begging subscribers to cancel. 1101
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 09/10/20258?? They’ve been talking about a republican replacement for the ACA since it passed…in 2010! 020
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
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025If by Reichstag they mean a fake emergency used to initiate crack down, they may be right. But what a Freudian slip! 010
Reposted by ChalinBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 434182653328
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
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Yes girl. 😣 I’m from Louisiana and they *still* have prisoners working in the capital cafeteria and governors mansion. It’s downright plantation and utterly shameful. 010
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025What do you think phase 2 of alligator Alcatraz will entail? Cheap labor rented out to local farmers. And everyone will just nod along as black and brown people get conscripted into indefinite servitude. 1162
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 · 02/08/2025Catherine, why is collective action so hard? Surely they see that he’s not gonna stop with any deal they make. The blackmailer’s play is to keep coming back. And Trump has admitted he sees contracts as starting points rather than binding. 140
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Apparently I’ve been mispronouncing “mien” my whole life. #nytconnections 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Monty python!media.tenor.coma man in a suit and hat is walking down a hallway carrying a briefcaseALT: a man in a suit and hat is walking down a hallway carrying a briefcase 180
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 · 27/04/2025And yet Democrats, with their muted and mushmouth responses, still can’t make hay of this. 2101
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
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Rogue radical left judiciary…like a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS. 🙄 010
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025It’s so bad! The acting is terrible, the story is stupid, and yet I’m a completist so must watch til the end 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Not this fucking guy! Can none of these people just die already? Or get a real job? 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Not to mention they’re not just deporting people (i.e., go be free in your home country) but IMPRISONING them, theoretically forever. The “process” due for that kind of taking is HIGH! 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025He had NO process, much less appeals to be exhausted. The answer simply *cannot* be the husband of an American citizen, father to disabled children rots in a foreign gulag forever. 000
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025My friend’s son got a similar order. He’s being shipped home tomorrow 120
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Getting an innocent man out of prison is always the right thing to spend political capital on 110
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025He’s not just been “deported to El Salvador”, he’s been sent to a HELLHOLE prison theoretically indefinitely, no charges, no sentence, no nothing. How can anyone defend this? 120
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I wish more news outlets would distinguish between deportation / removal (i.e., returning an alien to his HOME country) and what is happening - a form of rendition where aliens are sent to prison in a 3rd party country, indefinitely, possibly forever without charges, trial or any real process. 150
Chalin @chalin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025A lot of people today treat the constancy and security of the modern world like it’s just standard background vs something that took years of work and struggle to achieve. 0231
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 · 11/04/2025If I was looking for a lawyer these cowards are exactly who I WOULDN’T hire. If they won’t fight for themselves, how you figure they’ll fight for you? 030
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
