Reposted by Emma VigelandPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.statesman.comAttorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash deliveryA Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody. 25376653459
Reposted by Emma VigelandBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Unethical 1970’s psychiatrist: I have created evil Netflix: hey this sounds pretty fun 642070327
Reposted by Emma VigelandPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW YORK (AP) — At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage. 692945547
Reposted by Emma VigelandKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.nytimes.comWhistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter FraudAgents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases. 13334391493
Reposted by Emma VigelandAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026HOMAN: You can't give me one example of someone arrested at a school REPORTER: I gave you an example of someone arrested at a school bus stop HOMAN: Is that a school? 5502755611
Reposted by Emma VigelandGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 02/09/2026Would Rhodesia have been acceptable if teeny tiny 541152
Reposted by Emma VigelandBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there. 146142242079
Reposted by Emma VigelandMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party. 362474768
Reposted by Emma VigelandMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895864678
Reposted by Emma Vigelandryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/08/2026lmfao youtu.be/oK20wZ0ofwY?...youtu.beDefending the BondsYouTube video by Paul Krugman 715331
Reposted by Emma VigelandPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati... 8336621833
Reposted by Emma VigelandChris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Your latest reminder: Trump's immigration policies are not-- and have never been-- popular. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...politico.comTrump tries to quiet his mass deportation campaign. Voters aren’t moving.New results from The POLITICO Poll show that half of Americans, including nearly a quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters, still say the president’s mass deportation campaign is too aggressive. 311424
Reposted by Emma Vigelandpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026this is an actual problemchicagotribune.comChicago grocers are severely affected by reductions to SNAP: ‘We need to bail out this industry’In Illinois, the implications threaten not only individual households but also the viability of the Chicago area’s independent authorized SNAP retailers. 553030921
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Not a novel concept, but the way "pedophile" is deployed in US politics feels distinct, in that it sublimates class consciousness by foregrounding predation that may be more familiar to say, a church community or small town. Big step up from just blaming Jewish people, though. 171308
Reposted by Emma VigelandThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Rep. @aoc.bsky.social to @emmavigeland.bsky.social: “I think a lot of it was MAHA. Trump focused a lot on women. they’ve had some of the biggest betrayals—glyphosate Ruling, Trump throwing in w/ Big Ag. MAHA’s lack of trust in institutions is often valid. You don’t win that by being condescending.” 17468116
Reposted by Emma VigelandKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo... 37973542
Reposted by Emma VigelandMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."nbcnews.comICE agents in plainclothes handcuff man at Las Vegas airport, shocking onlookersAfter their actions attracted attention, the agents walked away, leaving Phu Nguyen with a handcuff attached to one arm. He was later arrested before his flight left Los Angeles International Airport 472328761
Reposted by Emma VigelandWIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026A statement from WIRED leadership. 255158102997
Reposted by Emma VigelandMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming. 5544441113
Reposted by Emma VigelandAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Chatbots cannot substitute therapy! Thank you, @majorityreport.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social, for having me on! Check out the full video - we covered quite a bit in this one. 15611
Reposted by Emma VigelandAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Where data centers are really going… Thank you, @majorityreport.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social, for having me on! Check out the full video - these are just some of the incentives driving data center development to certain municipalities. 79631
Reposted by Emma Vigelandghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026i have my own strong opinions about this but curious what you guys think this paragraph is doing in the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to nullify the will of the people 2032242348
Reposted by Emma VigelandDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/05/20261. US sanctions are not international law, as much as Western media loves framing it so. Countries only comply because they're threatened by the US, not because it's some binding agreement. 2. China is responding to US sanctions on Chinese firms like Hengli. The US escalates and China responds. 4419115
Reposted by Emma VigelandMr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 03/05/2026China has just blocked U.S. sanctions. This is huge. This is the beginning of the shift in global power. This directly challenges the U.S.’s ability to enforce its "long-arm jurisdiction" through the global financial system. Historically, U.S. sanctions worked because most 20458185
Reposted by Emma VigelandKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Re UAE's OPEC decision Oil has a different role for UAE's economy to Saudi Arabia's. UAE has lower dependence (oil:population ratio is more favourable) versus the high Saudi "fiscal breakeven" - ie Saudi requires a higher price to keep society content. 414642
Reposted by Emma VigelandMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/03/2026United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract. Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified. 352987504
Reposted by Emma VigelandEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/03/2026Free newsletter: The AI industry is lying to you about progress. Only 5GW of data centers are under construction, it takes 6 months to bring online a single quarter's worth of NVIDIA GPU sales, and LLM code is actively breaking big tech. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/wheresyoured.atThe AI Industry Is Lying To YouHi! If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newslet... 511368404
Reposted by Emma VigelandWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/03/2026THE LEFT HOOK THURSDAY SCHEDULE (ET) 1 pm: Dina Doll of @meidastouch.com on The Corruption of the Supreme Court 2 pm: @valinasr.bsky.social Iran’s Long-Term Retaliation 3 pm: @emmavigeland.bsky.social! 4 pm: @jysexton.bsky.social! thelefthook.substack.comthelefthook.substack.comThe Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | SubstackA political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscr... 55414
Reposted by Emma VigelandBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This is what ecocide looks like. 8950541827
Reposted by Emma VigelandDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/03/2026ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i... 262018479
Reposted by Emma VigelandJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top. just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat. 202519485
Reposted by Emma VigelandMajority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Check out @emmavigeland.bsky.social's talk with @davidgriscom.bsky.social about his new book The Myth Of Red Texas orbooks.com/catalog/the-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uNc...youtube.comTHE MYTH OF RED TEXAS with David Griscom and Emma VigelandYouTube video by OR Books 67515
Reposted by Emma VigelandMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Gorsuch also tries to conscript Kagan to the major questions camp in his concurrence, prompting Kagan to write this very funny footnote saying she is not, in fact, a convert to his cause. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 291382214
Reposted by Emma VigelandDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago. 16834163
Reposted by Emma VigelandMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026the story here, which Kornacki gets right, is not exemplified in Mejia leading it's that she's barely beating Malinowski who, while not a leftist, was an anti machine candidate who faced down an absolute money cannon of negative ads from DMFI and the machine the *machine* lost here spectacularly 9815130
Reposted by Emma VigelandBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight. 279104284191
Reposted by Emma VigelandBrian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Fox's Brian Kilmeade at 6:15am: "What I would do is just bring Tom Homan in" to Minnesota. Kilmeade at 7:15am: Send Homan! Kilmeade at 8:10am: Send Homan! Trump at 8:30am: Sends Homan www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/m...cnn.comFox News said Tom Homan should be sent to Minnesota — 20 minutes later, Trump did exactly that | CNN BusinessAs MAGA media frets over the optics of the Alex Pretti shooting, Brian Kilmeade repeatedly floated a suggestion to the president over Fox’s airwaves on Monday. 2620766
Reposted by Emma VigelandMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting. 12268461907
Reposted by Emma VigelandMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants. 744103526016
Reposted by Emma VigelandMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports... 171123922490
Reposted by Emma VigelandCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026The Packers are trying to help the Bears and the Bears are just refusing to take it - very midwest 1233930
Reposted by Emma Vigelandashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 08/01/2026Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.gofundme.comDonate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie WeissPlease support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son 2623521740
Reposted by Emma Vigelandgraham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Crypto can only survive long-term if it gets access to the publicly backed banking system. In one fell swoop, the OCC—the regulator for national banks—just approved five (5) bank charter applications by crypto companies. www.occ.gov/news-issuanc... 89947
Reposted by Emma VigelandNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Tony Dokoupil, he of the Ta-Neishi Coates book in the backpack of an extremist, nabs the CBS Evening News job 36914
