Reposted by emartinpedersenMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I am nostalgic for a time when presidents had enough taste, style, and dignity not to wear a baseball cap with a tuxedo. Or to make rapey remarks about smiling to female journalists. 31353791258
Reposted by emartinpedersenScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"His actions continue putting American troops at risk." Senator Tammy Duckworth knows the cost of war firsthand. She is slamming the invasion of Venezuela as a reckless, unauthorized act that puts service members in harm's way. Read more here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/we-will-no... 933193
Reposted by emartinpedersenDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I love this. I remember watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special as a second grader and loving Guaraldi's music A San Francisco jazz pianist made ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ a holiday classic www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...sfchronicle.comA San Francisco jazz pianist made ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ a holiday classicOPINION: Vince Guaraldi’s introspective jazz soundtrack to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” helped make the show a holiday classic, Bill Dal Cerro writes. 79922
Reposted by emartinpedersenDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/12/2025The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.democracynow.orgRemembering Cora Weiss, Longtime Peace & Anti-Nuclear ActivistThe longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war. 520849
Reposted by emartinpedersenElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.comthenation.comPete Hegseth Should Be Charged With MurderNo matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted. 25291802644
Reposted by emartinpedersenBlue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025(NYT: free) Sad for sure. And yet, this wretched decision by Trump is so like him. His singular value is his quality of consistency, as revoting as it is. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...nytimes.comTrump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day 23011
Reposted by emartinpedersenTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope. 261186363
Reposted by emartinpedersenGeorge Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 10/11/2025“Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure” 69635
Reposted by emartinpedersenCheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Veterans who fought and died for freedom and democracy are called "suckers and losers" by draft dodger Donald Trump. He is cutting food assistance and routinely proposes cuts in programs affecting veterans. Trump wants OUR military to invade countries to pirate their resources for HIM. 54922
Reposted by emartinpedersenStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 07/11/2025There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations. 201255363
emartinpedersen @emartinpedersen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025One person protest, Furnari, Sicily, Italy, E.U. 010
Reposted by emartinpedersen🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The image below being used by Oregon Republicans to show Portland 'burning to the ground' is actually from South America. If there is no crisis, MANUFACTURE ONE. That's the Republican plan. They've been lying for years and years. You can NEVER trust them, so don't! 17247147
Reposted by emartinpedersenMonica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov 7602619713456
Reposted by emartinpedersenJim Mason @jimmasonauo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025If people would learn Dr. Goodall‘s lessons of our kinship with animals, we could learn to live better on this planet. Put alienation from nature behind us. Embrace and rejoice all that we have in common with our Animal cousins. 0153
Reposted by emartinpedersenGreenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 02/10/2025Messages of support and solidarity from the Greenpeace activists blocking the liquifed gas port in Zeebrugge, Belgium, to the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla attempting to break the blockade and deliver vital aid to Gaza Standing together for peace, justice and a livable planet for everyone 05115
Reposted by emartinpedersenPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Chris D Jackson In one of his last acts as president, JoeBiden awarded Jane Goodall the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January. Back when these awards were actually given to folks who were worthy.💙💙💙 330176
Reposted by emartinpedersenMike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2025It’s been 10 days since we learned Tom Homan was caught on tape taking a $50,000 cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent. Is anyone in Washington going to do a damn thing about it, or are we just accepting this level of corruption in our government? 38649180
Reposted by emartinpedersenRep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Tom Homan accepted $50k in bribes from FBI agents in exchange for government contracts. The Trump admin knew and covered it up. The corrupt protect the corrupt. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...msnbc.comTom Homan investigated for accepting $50,000 from FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. 17351121
Reposted by emartinpedersenMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787 13705267
Reposted by emartinpedersenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/tani... 251050280
Reposted by emartinpedersenGeorge Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 13/09/2025You don’t become a “Doomer” because you are pathologically drawn to catastrophe. You are one because you have a heightened sense of empathy: for nature, humans, and everything that lives and “is” 213934
Reposted by emartinpedersenMaryinAZ @maryinaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Wow. He went through the 5 stages of grief in record time. 88721
Reposted by emartinpedersenMoveOn @moveon.org · 13/09/2025Billionaires don’t build their fortunes alone. They build them off of OUR hard work. And while they hoard wealth, families struggle. Tax the rich. Invest in us. 415450
Reposted by emartinpedersenMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Why????? 72360842206
Reposted by emartinpedersenDana Knows Insanity When She Sees It. 😵💫🥊 @danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025media.tenor.coma group of girls are sitting at a table in a cafeteria eating food .ALT: a group of girls are sitting at a table in a cafeteria eating food . 1310818
Reposted by emartinpedersenRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Axios: Trump considering stepping back from Ukraine peace talks. WH official: “We are going to sit back and watch. Let them fight it out for a while and see what happens.” Truly a smashing success, that Alaska summit. 2101639358
Reposted by emartinpedersenRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits 734212835902
Reposted by emartinpedersenInclusive Instructor @megundlach.bsky.social · 24/08/2025#BelieveThem 13410
Reposted by emartinpedersenBlue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Beautiful!! SOUND ON... 3436
Reposted by emartinpedersenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/08/2025That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now. 1041232547040
Reposted by emartinpedersenScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18/08/2025DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican” 20684672210
Reposted by emartinpedersenSarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 18/08/2025This is incredibly sad and will affect not only farmers but those who cannot afford food prices. Also, I bet many farmers voted for Trump and would vote for him again. I will never understand this. 1017465
Reposted by emartinpedersenMonica Bell @mgbell54.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I’m really ashamed to be an American right now 😔 2432
Reposted by emartinpedersenJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/08/2025A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror. 9074473199
Reposted by emartinpedersenMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/08/2025We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇 1132441162
Reposted by emartinpedersenBill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Anchorage, Alaska is not fucking around. Fuck Putin, fuck Trump, fuck authoritarian fascism — and slava Ukraine! 🙌💪👏👊👇 33819289
Reposted by emartinpedersenOlga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025You can’t make this up. War criminal Lavrov arrives to Alaska wearing a USSR sweater The Russians aren’t even bothering to hide their bloody imperialist ambitions on US soil 1842195979
Reposted by emartinpedersenAdam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 01/08/2025The fact that Trump’s “Justice” Department met with Epstein’s accomplice for two days, but never met with a single survivor of Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes, tells us everything we need to know. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles 11990348
Reposted by emartinpedersenlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2025I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was 262122071698
Reposted by emartinpedersenGeorge Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 10/08/2025“The ecosystem is not a collection of objects. It is a constant conversation between life forms and resources which humans have silenced via the ultimate censorship: extinction. If the ecosystem was a city, then humanity would be the nuclear bomb” open.substack.com/pub/georgets... 36523
Reposted by emartinpedersenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Our kids are watching. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t... 84738611521
Reposted by emartinpedersenLou Lou 🩶 @theonetruelou.bsky.social · 07/08/2025FIGHT AS THOUGH YOU ARE LOSING YOUR COUNTRY. BECAUSE. YOU. ARE. 011035
Reposted by emartinpedersenGo Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 07/08/2025A wildfire is burning in California even larger than the mega fires that scorched LA in January France has also seen one of its biggest fires ever as World records third-hottest July on record Temperatures were over 50C in the Gulf, Iraq and and Turkey, www.thejournal.ie/wildfire-bur...thejournal.ieA wildfire is burning in California even larger than the mega fires that scorched LA in JanuaryCrews are working in steep, inaccessible terrain to fight the latest wildfire. 26335
Reposted by emartinpedersenGeorge Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The USA 🇺🇸 is a dictatorship that gets more brutal, more ruthless and more terrifying each day. 531131302
