Reposted by Doug RyanKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13hJudge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 492216756
Reposted by Doug RyanMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The bottom 20% spends 17% of pre-tax income on energy... top 20%? Just 2.7% JPMAM 12270103
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No doubt the nonprofit does good work, but 51 affordable units in a fairly dense part of the city near the Glenbrook metro north station is a missed opportunity. 110
Reposted by Doug RyanTom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Every statistic in the state is screaming “WE NEED MORE HOUSING,” but I suppose we could let longtime homeowners who already have theirs continue to pull up the ladder behind them and hold back our state www.ctinsider.com/business/art...ctinsider.com'86,000 open jobs.' CT manufacturers need workers, even with production boomingConnecticut’s manufacturers are powering one of the top-performing state economies of 2026. They still face significant challenges. 031
Reposted by Doug RyanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare. 351242506
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great article, really appreciate this. It underscores how fleeting opportunities are. Great to be reminded of Mike Slivinski in his DC United days. 010
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026More fantastic reporting by @propublica.org . Couple this with other recent pieces, they are really outdoing many traditional iutlets. 010
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The incentive structure for immigration judges, as part of the DOJ, has parallels in those for commissioners who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. 000
Reposted by Doug RyanDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system. 15115911002
Reposted by Doug RyanChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got 31798611564
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Also related, this demographic is a fast growing segment of our incarcerated population, the vast majority of whom will be released, with bleak job prospects, untreated/undiagnosed health issues, and legal and other housing barriers. All of these are policy choices. stateline.org/2025/09/29/a...stateline.orgAmerica’s aging prison population is posing challenges for states • StatelineAmerica’s prison population is growing older at a pace that some experts say is unsustainable. 03925
Reposted by Doug RyanAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud 13775091562
Reposted by Doug RyanCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China. 8527291075
Reposted by Doug RyanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez. 371598676
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Very clear goal. To be fair, the ref was poor the whole game. 030
Reposted by Doug RyanJason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 20/09/2026I watched this replay like 115 times after we got home from the game and all I can say I've already said 1,127 times: I really hope at some point MLS & NWSL get their shit together & give their referees, especially VAR, a Come to Jesus moment about how egregious their performance is. Utter trash. 3135
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026With very few exceptions #DCU shots on goal were tepid as could be. Their GK wasn't bothered at all. Do better with your chances. 011
Reposted by Doug RyanThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026@timmiller.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on the U.S.-controlled system for selling Venezuelan oil and assets: "Congress doesn’t have oversight...there’s just rogue bank accounts out there with Venezuelan money." 18562226
Reposted by Doug RyanThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026Bash: “The teenager who was driving was going to sign up to serve…He's a U.S. citizen.” Mullin: “He wasn't arrested.” Bash: “He was arrested…Do Americans need to show proof of citizenship now?” Mullin: “If you're an American citizen, you have no reason to fear." 175953369
Reposted by Doug RyanDon Gato 🐱🐈⬛🐶🐺🌈🐯 @dongato-1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nueva especie de gato descubierta después de más de 100 años Los científicos han identificado al Leopardus tilcayo, un pequeño gato salvaje encontrado en Bolivia New cat species discovered after more than 100 years Scientists have identified the Leopardus tilcayo, a small wild cat found in Bolivia🐆 911933
Reposted by Doug RyanTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We just launched our new investigative research organization. Please give us a follow! @civildefenseinst.bsky.social We are digging deep to expose the organizations that threaten our democracy and our rights. They are powerful and have plenty of resources. But we aren’t backing down! 46233
Reposted by Doug Ryanbcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fatigue, eh? Maybe a full bench of players to choose from could have helped. 031
Reposted by Doug RyanBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In reporting about how Trump goes after his political enemies and left wing activists, experts have told me Trump's abuses were a natural consequence of sweeping powers given feds post 9/11 — It's like building a road and then being surprised when someone drives on it. Anyway, this is very good. 124087
Reposted by Doug RyanMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/202625 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. 561328427343
Reposted by Doug RyanChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW: President Biden, Mayor Mamdani, and Gov. Hochul attended Archbishop Ronald Hicks’s 9/11 Memorial Mass. Biden’s attendance was unannounced, and the congregation of victims’ families applauded when he walked in. Pope Leo XIV’s appointment invited Mamdani over objections from right-wing grounds.thelettersfromleo.comBiden, Mamdani, and Hochul Join Archbishop Hicks’s 9/11 Mass After Trump and Vance DeclineThe White House declined the invitation from Pope Leo XIV’s new archbishop of New York. I interviewed both Mamdani and Biden, who told me his health is doing well. 28636
Reposted by Doug RyanPatrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 08/09/2026San Francisco's 2023 housing plan “talks a big game about reversing exclusionary zoning. But here we have, as plain as day, a proposal to reintroduce exclusionary zoning near a major transit stop. And it comes from the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.” 27914
Reposted by Doug RyanGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...prospect.org‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago. 11861484
Reposted by Doug RyanTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people. 732312694
Reposted by Doug RyanJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy 62950684
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Schools regularly assign HS students "adult" books in the semester and summer. Not to mention that 14 year olds should challenge themselves and feel empowered to explore. This is nuts and continues the anti-intellectual bent our country is experiencing. 010
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Critically important piece. Two points to highlight: we have for 4 decades+ intentionally blamed people for homelessness and then have dramatically undercounted to ensure we inadequately frame & respond to the crisis. 021
Reposted by Doug RyanSam @samd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“no amount of new builds has ever reduced rent” Meanwhile: Austin (it seems like I have stumbled on the last vestiges of 2015 left-NIMBY Twitter on this app) 1525421
Reposted by Doug RyanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce 9024185980
Reposted by Doug RyanDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.” ~Major General William Tecumseh Sherman to President Abraham Lincoln after Sherman’s U.S. troops entered and secured Atlanta on Sep. 2, 1864. (Sherman’s message was actually sent to Lincoln on Sep. 3.) Image of Gen. Sherman on horseback: Library of Congress. 79615
Reposted by Doug RyanRFK Refugees Podcast @rfkrefugees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Absolute crickets about any #DCU moves... They still have time, but what a wasted opportunity thus window has been truly... 341
Reposted by Doug RyanDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I testified yesterday at a hearing, again about immigrants and crime. Nothing makes the Republicans more infuriated than pointing out that immigrants lower the crime rate. 1123475
Reposted by Doug RyanJuliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Trump Administration has abandoned American families who have lost loved ones in Nepal. Full stop. substack.com/inbox/post/2...substack.comThe Politics of DisasterFrom Nepal to North Carolina, the Trump Administration shows a cruel consistency. 35230
Reposted by Doug RyanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Gonna' have to figure out a way to process the rage. Because these stories are going to continue. And we can't ignore them. 111008273
Reposted by Doug RyanHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...npr.orgTrump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau reportAfter the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned. 23951509
Reposted by Doug RyanMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 30/08/2026the big lesson to take here is that corporations are fundamentally cowards and can be bullied 2437
Reposted by Doug RyanJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Jesus, Google Earth: Have some dignity. Two views just now: 1521511264
Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In the article, our government says this massacre “is another reminder of the dire state of Haiti’s security crisis." Yet, our government leaders deem Haiti safe for the return of vulnerable people. Good lord. 000
Reposted by Doug RyanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board. 13638282012
Reposted by Doug Ryand. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026in 2023 *you* sent over 170 emails asking the Montgomery County Council to reinstate a Planning Board member after Marc Elrich kicked him out for basically doing his job. it happened again, so let the Council know: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board secure.everyaction.com/N2hg_35aQUKj...secure.everyaction.comTell the Montgomery County Council: keep James Hedrick on Planning BoardLate Friday afternoon, Marc Elrich once again vetoed the appointment of a sitting Planning Board member, James Hedrick, who's been a champion for more homes and better transit in Montgomery County. Te... 3106
Reposted by Doug RyanBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation. 440107113484