Reposted by Dan Holtmeyersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21hThe photo sits atop a story about how he’s blatantly exploiting his office for personal gain, corrupting the federal government to an unprecedented degree, and no one is even slowing him down anymore. And this is his only response. 21720134
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Levin: People then said, “Do you think you can take out a fascist just by voting, just by organizing? You think that’s how this works?” Yes, that’s how this works. If they can do it in Hungary, we can do it here. 593047862
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on-site last week at a new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids that’s about to open at an airport in Louisiana. Mullin reiterated the Trump regime’s “worst of the worst” baloney. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...thequeenzone.comNew ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking RisksA new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to... 919495
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10041861460
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that." 11394119
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Newsletter is out! I've noticed some panic over what the government should be doing to regulate AI. I have a pretty simple solution, make the people who put out harmful products afraid of prison link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d... 519432
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe 12761258
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comICE Is Everywhere and Acting with ImpunityICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. 156344
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals 181177303
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The GOP's biggest funder blocked a law to prevent exploitation of women and children on his website Dems should be talking about him and his creepiness. He wants to make fake nudes It's a party of weirdos 01911
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse. 20362762892
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 01/10/2026Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself. 181160262
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right? 1363000524
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerBen D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This KFF headline really gets directly to what's happening todaykffhealthnews.orgUS Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health NewsThe Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ... 27443
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerMicah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026this tracks, since nixon being forced to resign was the original sin that led to the modern conservative media environment that gave us trump 16660143
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's time, friends 16116
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerColin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/10/2026this is completely unhinged, even by Trump's standards. 311953
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.nbcnews.comTennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer saysChrista Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years. 25646158
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all. 443824904
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Only doing this in states that are on the federally-run exchange also makes this another straight up theft from (mostly) blue states. Intolerable 726865
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026oh my god shut the fuck UP 1031897118
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571692054
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys. The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.washingtonpost.comThe Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over. 13347100
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That's a $96,318 fine for being raped. 232017656
Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“We’re helpless and worthless and bad at our jobs. Vote for us!” 39645
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 16211
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyersarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if colleges had to refund the tuition of every student that had been raped during their time there, they would actually fucking give a shit about students getting raped. 127454
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 192036615
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake 121491223
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.aljazeera.comSatellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal warGoogle Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. 21699415
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752441428
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerZander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026exactly this, pretty much the entire story of the right in the past 10 years is "vice is virtue and virtue is vice" 223224
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyerunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good. 341233362
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees. 428897
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerRoss @rossengineer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026OpenAI is tempting federal prison sentences & the corporate death penalty for any more of this invasive horseshit. "An [AI Agent] must not make management decisions because an [AI Agent] is not accountable." No more "Oops, we crimed, tee-hee" from sloppy human management. It's garbage. 36520
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form 392137615
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyer🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123505254
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyerdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12771131698
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 24/09/2026Heavy AI use and being mega-rich both separate you from an essential part of maintaining a grip on reality, which is being answerable to community. 2305
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026All the things everyone pretended were happening on an unprecedented scale during the entire Biden administration, from real wage/income declines to the widespread Suffering From Inflation™️ are actually happening now. 06019
Reposted by Dan HoltmeyerTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 251457343
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434437786
Reposted by Dan Holtmeyersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones 1102651633