Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10hThe amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly TRIPLED since 2020. Meanwhile, Amazon's profits have soared by 550% in the same time frame. Watch this before you shop for Prime Day. 8317991033
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3hTroy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out" 13658641365
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Love2026 @love2024.bsky.social · 2hSomething always hateful & Lies. 423741
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11hTrump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.ms.nowTrump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decadesThe decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors. 24326061624
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11hIf Joe Biden got one word out of place, Jake Tapper would write a book about it. If you’re tired of the double standard- try independent media. It’s free. It’s award-winning. It has swearing. substack.com/@muellershew...substack.comHeadlines for October 6, 2026The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited 8240181099
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 8hIt's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...ms.nowPennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades. 11427751218
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth. 10242331402
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦💫✨🌟Mare🌟✨💫 @utexas-96.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Asking for a friend 5272882041
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.” 277122003726
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4hRemember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy. 6325981109
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3hSUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 827119092742
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 16hThe PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES stood on a stage and said: “Let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.” And people CHEERED. I’m sorry, but what the actual fuck are we doing? 61433991260
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4hThank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability. 15927701172
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5hMore than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th 8326871427
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6hWrongly indicted, charges dropped, and now we learn prosecutors allegedly knew the Reflecting Pool renovation was failing and they charged David Hearn anyway. I hope he sues their asses off. 18664491949
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 9hThis is why the GOP wants to convince you that 'SOCIALISM' is a bad word. 462389654
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5hAlarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.” 20455072684
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 10hFinland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concernslemonde.frFinland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concernsRegulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study. 5926881049
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 11hNorway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05arstechnica.visitlink.meAI glasses face their first major government crackdownNorway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders. 24874293
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22hi should rephrase: incredible republican voters and leaders will not give a shit 39263099
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22hincredible this will get little to no coverage 27366941222
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7hAttn: A FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s targeting of anti-ICE protesters. Jill Fields states the White House pushed the FBI to investigate people in Los Angeles even after agents determined their actions were protected by the First Amendment. 141864657
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 6hThe FCC's sole defense is that its review was required by process. The court appeared skeptical, and rightly so. Threatening license revocation is an extreme step, basically a death sentence over a speeding ticket. I remain confident the First Amendment will prevail here 03815
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14hTrump suggesting he would let Iran take out San Diego or Los Angeles is absolutely absurd. There’s just never a bottom with this administration. 1111703342
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9hYes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .apnews.comSoldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed themSome U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them. 34364102693
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11hShootings are down 11.6%. Shooting victims are down 14.4%. Murders are down 19.8%. Mayor Mamdani credited both the NYPD and the city’s violence interrupters and crisis management teams as NYC expands its prevention-focused public safety approach. 251415226
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11hNEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/ 352144333542
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9hThe richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?bbc.comParamount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood mergerThe merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition 516109514521
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15harstechnica.comOpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with trafficThe reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming. 861008610
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 438264775176
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12hI thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero. 32270332322
Reposted by DesertWillow1 🇺🇦🇺🇦Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16hBarack Obama is back in his role as Democrats’ closer-in-chief. He just cut ads for 24 Senate & gubernatorial campaigns—targeting races where he can help move persuadable voters. At 57% favorability, Obama is the most popular living president. Expect to see much more of him before Election Day. 💙 403130552855