iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The man is incompetent and unable to lead. Article 25 was written to address this situation.

130

Senator, this issue has not had sufficient visibility. Please enlist your colleagues to support this important issue. We made a promise to these folks and America should always honor our promises.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 07/10/2026

Reposted by Dray Wharton

For over 20 years, civilians in Afghanistan risked their lives to help us. The bipartisan Special Immigrant Visa program was a promise & a recognition of their service. By dismantling this program, Trump is breaking that promise & sending many of these allies back into harm's way.

ms.now

Democrats accuse Trump of stranding over 155,000 Afghans who aided the U.S.

A spokesperson defended the Trump administration's visa ban for Afghans, saying it’s “long past time to move past” the conflict and “look ahead to the future.”

723281

Yeah, jail is where we can send him.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reposted by Dray Wharton

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

12533701870

Reposted by Dray Wharton

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

8436861438

Snagz @snagzsong.com · 05/10/2026

ICE officers seem to think their casual cruelty will have no repercussions. They forget we vote.

030

Reposted by Dray Wharton

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Absolutely the best writer to save our planet. While everything burns - she calls out the horrible actions P2025 called out - and it's happening NOW - which little or zero coverage. Except that of this hero - Sammi is amazing (give her a follow- with my highest endorsement!)

6139115

Dray Wharton @draywharton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Republicans don’t care this beautiful wilderness area will be lost. We need to remove all of them from office.

111

Reposted by Dray Wharton

StoriesbySammi🦋 @storiesbysammi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump cut Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears by nearly 3M acres using a 6-word clause buried in a 1906 law in July & NPCA toured them & the Grand Staircase itself is now outside its own monument. Mining claims were filed within hours. A tribal commission was dissolved. Full story below. 🧵

What will Grand Staircase-Escalante be without its Grand Staircase?

This September should have been its 30th anniversary. Three decades of protecting rock formations found nowhere else, sacred sites, some of the darkest skies left in the country, and a desert river that keeps elk and mule deer alive. Instead, NPCA staff drove through a landscape being dismantled.

Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears are down nearly 3 million acres combined. The Grand Staircase itself, the formation the monument is named for, is now entirely outside its boundary.

Trump did this by way of the Antiquities Act of 1906, the same law that lets presidents create national monuments in the first place. Every president who's expanded these monuments, including the one who created this one, has argued their boundaries met exactly the standard the law requires, because the sacred sites, fossil beds, and ecosystems they're protecting are themselves spread across millions of acres.

But Trump is now using a seldom-invoked, six-word clause buried in that same law to claim the opposite: that decades of scientific and Tribal judgment about what this land requires were simply wrong, and that he, alone, gets to redraw it smaller.

Trump and Burgum can spin that clause however they want. Courts have never said a president can use it to erase a monument he didn't create. NPCA's lawsuit argues he can't.

This isn't improvised. Project 2025 named this exact cut years ago, in writing, calling it a "90% downward adjustment," and criticized the first Trump term for only touching two monuments in one state. This time, they're going further.

Companies didn't wait. Some filed mining claims the very day the land opened, dozens more within weeks.

BLM also tore down Bears Ears' signs, including the seals of the five Tribes on the Bears Ears Commission, the first tribal-led monument management body in U.S. history. It was dissolved the same day, despite a written promise the Tribes would be consulted first. They weren't.

The coalition behind it is still standing. Co-chair Davina Smith-Idjesa: "You can abolish a commission, you can redraw a boundary, but you cannot erase our prayers from this land."

47363

Dray Wharton @draywharton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Perhaps you’d like to clarify whether you think a president who cannot clearly articulate his positions and beliefs should be entrusted to lead the nation?

0161

Dray Wharton @draywharton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m going to try to feign surprise.

000

Dray Wharton @draywharton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think a better way of saying it is they are paying taxes *proportionate* to their income. I also agree it would be awesome to get money out of politics, but first we would need to kill Citizens United and figure out an overhaul of the campaign finance system. I’m all for doing that.

000

Dray Wharton @draywharton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Remember how apoplectic they got when Hillary correctly described them in 2016 as a “basket of deplorables”? My, how times have changed.

Dray Wharton @draywharton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A brief history of the original Antifa:

050

Reposted by Dray Wharton

Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police trying to clear the way but the people of the East End got there first.

514148

Reposted by Dray Wharton

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The @andrewhickey.500songs.com podcast on the 1960s Bee Gees starts to contain so many albums towards the end that nobody remembers, even the Gibbs, that I started to suspect he was making them up.

3192

Reposted by Dray Wharton

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a little bit of sadness not being able to watch Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business this morning try and find a way to lie about another bad jobs report to tell the audience why it’s really great news. It was always pretty entertaining, but of course it’s good she was fired.

782613319

And if you’re concerned about your social security income because you make more than $500,000, please fuck off because you’re part of the problem. Why should somebody in a high tax bracket pay the same as a minimum wage person struggling to get by?

011

If you meant Amendment 87, it is designed to change the State’s flat 4.4% income tax to a schedule: First $25,000 income, 3.7% $25,001–$100,000, 4.2% $100,001–$500,000, 4.4% $500,001–$750,000, 7.4% $750,001–$1 million, 7.9% Above $1 million, 8.4% Facts matter. A87 is about taxing higher incomes.

111

There is no Amendment 97 on the ballot in November.

100

Scary stuff. I already don’t think he’s mentally stable or fit enough to rationally consider options… much less having more at his fingertips.

He admits it… he wouldn’t win a popular vote without tons of outside money. I hope Talarico wins by a mile.

000

Based on this administration’s policies and actions, is this news any surprise?

000

But I should mention he coauthored that book with Ann Druyan.

021

Nobozos @bozoboy66.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of my favorite Sagan quotes. Great book of his from the early 1990s: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.

111

Reposted by Dray Wharton

“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.” ― Carl Sagan

331160379

I don’t have a good term, but you’re right… they’re no longer just “conservative”. White nationalists? Christofascists? White Christian nationalists? Trumpists?

“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.”

I get why the world hates us. The sooner Democrats take Congress, the sooner we can end Trump’s demented worldview.

000

He *is* Patrick Bateman — without the intelligence.

Right. If the idea is to “prevent another murder”, incarceration without parole ticks that box. I think death penalty advocates haven’t thought through the issue or considered the number of people exonerated decades after their convictions because of surfaced perjury or flawed forensic evidence.

020

And maybe there is something terribly wrong with “conservatives”… I’m trying very hard to come up with anything *good* they’ve been responsible for.

210

I think there’s a ghoulish side to our President that should concern us all. I still remember when Trump took out newspaper ads calling for the death penalty in response to the Central Park Five case… before the teenagers were even tried! All five were later exonerated, of course.

Much is broken in our country, including our justice system (particularly under this administration). Without the death penalty, appeals could still challenge the conviction and sentence, but we wouldn’t face the additional question of whether the state should take someone’s life.

130

Opposing execution is *refusing* to give the government the power to kill prisoners in our name. You can be angry about her crime, but justice should reflect our laws and principles, not the intensity of our anger. How we treat even the worst offender reveals what those principles are worth.