Reposted by Dsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story. 1043994884
Reposted by DDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/06/2026BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals! 528170862433
Reposted by DScott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social · 15/02/2026As a former public defender who represented thousands of people, I can’t stop thinking about the contrast the Epstein files raise. I watched 1000s face swift, devastating punishment for far less serious conduct — poor, marginalized, & presumed dangerous from the start. 111606480
Reposted by DBobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car. 12344841029
Reposted by DCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 27/01/2026There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity. They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability. My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones. 10658561391
Reposted by DSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/01/2026A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020 27469513326
Reposted by DSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026You did not bear the shame. You resisted. You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour. — The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin 112193728
Reposted by DAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/01/2026DHS was created to FIGHT terrorists, not to BE terrorists. It needs to be defunded by congress in 2027, and we should select candidates who run on that platform. 642192475423
Reposted by DCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/01/2026“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.” - John Lewis #RIP 8038571276
Reposted by DGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/01/2026It’s not about keeping us safe from criminals. This is ethnic cleansing. 1012940892
Reposted by DAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I will only say this: the restraint the good people of the Minneapolis area are showing right now, at this very moment, is heroic and very very admirable 851880
Reposted by DWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses. 3358396
Reposted by DMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 492249769
Reposted by Djamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo. 230128833648
Reposted by DAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/12/2025I started at 59k/year when I was at NYLAG as a staff attorney representing trans asylum seekers. This kind of money to target a community like this is unimaginable to me. It's infinitely more profitable to sow hate than it is to help people. 12682168
Reposted by DSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/11/2025And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...theguardian.com‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison systemIn the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help 24473073822
Reposted by DPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich. 541715571
Reposted by DKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/10/2025The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work. 13599673867
Reposted by DMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside. 8498138
Reposted by D"Bat & Ghoul" Russ Hellville @radicalruss.com · 28/10/2025Something those of us in drug law reform have been pointing out, crystallized perfectly in Dr. Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow". So much of the drug war was dress rehearsal for what you're seeing now—suspicionless stop'n'frisk, zip-tied kids, shot dogs, tear gas, flash bangs, testilying cops. 03310
Reposted by DKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/10/2025The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure. 25374901711
Reposted by DAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality. 8453441611316
Reposted by DJoshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude. 381914350
Reposted by DAndy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 20/10/2025ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare. 197107803809
Reposted by DKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/10/2025They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them. If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes. 31860211532
Reposted by Dsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice. 6147901703
Reposted by DSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 15/09/2025horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles 52166322078
Reposted by D🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse. 172937667
Reposted by DJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes. 13044691372
Reposted by DMariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I'm just thinking about Uvalde today. And Sandy Hook. And all the times we've told that the violent death of children was just something we had to accept. And how our society mostly has. I'm thinking about the legacy of gun violence and who I'm supposed to express sympathy for and who I'm not. 230978
Reposted by DPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind 601446748375
Reposted by DKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this: 5252611346
Reposted by DJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/09/2025ok time to reset the timeline 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 BIG BOAT STUCK 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 1135668756
Reposted by DThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Anyway, 72 percent of Americans support universal background checks and 76 percent support extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). Maybe Congress should take those things up 8555591147
Reposted by DIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on. 13904113810190
Reposted by DAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah. 517129174391
Reposted by DWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Let me suggest that if I have tanks invade my city, that if the courts declare me a second-class citizen, that if masked men abduct my neighbors, and I go to you, my rep, and say “help me fight my persecutors,” and you say “shush, talk about healthcare subsidies,” you, too, are my persecutor 393254682
Reposted by DJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/09/2025When you live in a gerrymandered state, you can’t just vote better. That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you. 26094642754
Reposted by DAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature 228204206616
Reposted by Djamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2025he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees 28771511530
Reposted by DBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Orlando has a Democratic mayor and a Democratic city council. Why are they allowing the Orlando Police Department to participate in this? 581268312
Reposted by DDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2025If you actually thought that the president was sending troops into the streets of major American cities and having random masked shitheads disappear delivery guys off scooters to distract from grocery prices being higher, I feel like you'd seem angrier about all that than Hakeem Jeffries does. 1093720624
Reposted by DAmericans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 23/08/2025From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks. That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years. Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees. And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down? 12147101609
Reposted by DAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Sitting on a bench is not reasonable, articulable suspicion of something afoot last time I checked. Just leave people alone. As one of my friends says, “Chatting with police is never just chatting.” 25492140
Reposted by DDean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Every Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 needs to commit to expanding/reforming the US Supreme Court. Absent that the person is full of crap. 1432674574
Reposted by DAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025A literal suicide pact. 1314640
