Reposted by pots&spotsMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"You can fool all of the people some of the time and 43% of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln 217028
Reposted by pots&spotsGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you 8980982031
Reposted by pots&spotsEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight. 121752332
Reposted by pots&spotsEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real. 694024541
Reposted by pots&spotsEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'd like cis Democrats to say "We're in a position to win a lot of ground in this election, and we'd never be in this position if it weren't for the trans community's strength and leadership under pressure." 250275
Reposted by pots&spotsDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?" 111094234
pots&spots @clayfeet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The baby bunny who has moved into my tomato patch. Arguably a garden pest, but her cute little forehead wrinkles are hard to deny. #bunny #garden #rabbits 020
Reposted by pots&spotsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.nytimes.comOpinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics. 13676322011
Reposted by pots&spotsBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11/07/2026I for one do not want explosive diarrhea and would like a government who regulates for a society against it. 955774
Reposted by pots&spotsKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this! 676386997
Reposted by pots&spotsMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with. 7066461683
Reposted by pots&spotsElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win. 9268982497
Reposted by pots&spotsDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 26/06/2026they hate the left more than they hate trump, and they admit in this piece. They say they would rather work with fascist republicans over progressives 446856
Reposted by pots&spotsKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/06/2026The profound part of Juneteenth for me is that before this was made a holiday, there was no official celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. When the 13th Amendment passed in December 1865, the legislators who witnessed its enshrinement imagined that the day would be remembered. 102426434
Reposted by pots&spotsOeming @oeming.bsky.social · 17/06/2026World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace 5640391067
Reposted by pots&spotsSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/05/2026If I see one more person say that if people aren't breaking the law, they won't be arrested at protests, I think I may actually dissolve into a puddle of goo. 10633104
Reposted by pots&spotsW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Democrats have a lot of problems: poor leadership, corruption, lack of conviction, weakness against Trump, support for Israel, the age of their members, refusal to support extremely popular policies, etc. A problem they do not have is not speaking in plain language. That's just completely made up. 514731
Reposted by pots&spotsLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially 71542392
Reposted by pots&spotsFANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 23/04/2026IT’S PRONOUNCED “ZINE” – a lovely little badge spotted at the SF Zine Fest in 2015. Made by zinester / artist Amy Burek (aka Awkward Ladies Club). Check out their amazing zines and other work: www.awkwardladiesclub.com 19516
Reposted by pots&spotsSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 11/04/2026Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together. 5925297
Reposted by pots&spotsSeth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Roberts, like many conservatives of his generation, believes enforceable standards to prevent discrimination against Black people in employment, schooling, housing, or the electoral process are an affront to liberty, while the actual discrimination is, if it even exists, the natural order of things 15894216
Reposted by pots&spotsCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments 584147694
Reposted by pots&spotsMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object. 6265661938
Reposted by pots&spotsSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/04/2026Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS. 9076321962
Reposted by pots&spotsDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 30/03/2026articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay 322499803
Reposted by pots&spotsmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 19/03/2026$200 billion could entirely repeal the SNAP cuts with money leftover $200 billion could fund the ACA Premium Tax Credits and help lower health care costs for 6 years with money leftover $200 billion could permanently expand Medicaid coverage to people in states that have refused to expand coverage 9439156
Reposted by pots&spotsjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared 43200178797
Reposted by pots&spotsGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/03/2026If you wish people had come forward sooner, help create a world where they feel safe doing so, where it isn't going to ruin their mental health and haunt them for years. Or, you know. Shut the fuck up. 21268291
Reposted by pots&spotsSarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin 1129801165
Reposted by pots&spotsGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned. 240631451
Reposted by pots&spotsNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free. 332135767
Reposted by pots&spotsPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter. 4784543393
Reposted by pots&spotsNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The bulk of the national discourse is focused on preventing white people from getting caught in the crosshairs of ICE’s violence. And the reason that feels so crazymaking in Minnesota is because we were organizing before Renee Good’s murder to protect people of color targeted by ICE. 5455135
Reposted by pots&spotsDr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 28/01/2026ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended. 439108643527
Reposted by pots&spotsMarcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Almost every reason people have for defunding or abolishing ICE is also a reason to defund or abolish the police, yet many people who are rightly calling for action against ICE would never come close to doing to the same for police. But this fight goes beyond just ICE. ICE represents a larger issue. 5565194
Reposted by pots&spotsDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/01/2026All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people. 293955625
Reposted by pots&spotsMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE 471317127514
Reposted by pots&spotsJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break. 3465101136
Reposted by pots&spotsGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25/01/2026unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time 975352902
Reposted by pots&spotsTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026 I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists. 4633167
Reposted by pots&spotserin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 17/01/2026it’s not for the times when you have armed goons pulling random people out of their cars and busting down peoples doors to kidnap children and the mild mannered lady next door is posting fuck ICE content on Facebook 2969
Reposted by pots&spotserin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 17/01/2026“your tax dollars are being wasted” talk is for times when you want to get people invested in something that they do not see or are not reacting to 19712
Reposted by pots&spotsDanielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS 4351341542
Reposted by pots&spotsJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The speed and manner with which Trump's campaign to expel all LatAm immigrants from the US became a claim of US sovereignty over the entire region shows that the problem was one of status, not presence. Trump II has no problem with a two-tier caste system, whether inside or outside US borders. 315034
