Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence. 26940511187
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years. 14792531788
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/05/2026WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale prices jump 6% as energy prices soar, raising pressure on US companies to pass along costs to consumers. @apnews.com 28427193
ericmlane.bsky.social @ericmlane.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Hi @microsoft.com I'm annoyed by the Copilot Cursor that keeps popping up when I run software updates on Microsoft Word on my MacBook. It's distracting visually and I don't need Copilot for any of the work I'm doing in Word. Is there an option to turn this off permanently so it doesn't show at all? 000
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone. 610251266708
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out 289161003953
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone? 439157736264
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor. 972444807237
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. 657532319335
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/20263/3. This is my summary of why the Hungarian elections matter the world over. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...snyder.substack.comThe Hungarian CandidateIs Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall? 11494147
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I’ve always believed that one of our jobs as leaders is to pass the baton on to the next generation — and to give them the resources and support they need to lead us forward. On National Run for Office Day, check out runforsomethingcivics.net for the resources you need.runforsomethingcivics.netRun For Something CivicsRun for Something Civics is a non-partisan 501c3 that helps young leaders deepen their political engagement and lay the groundwork to run for local office. 12656581697
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes. 334324487614
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Robert Mueller is war hero who once recovered the body of a dead American soldier behind enemy lines. He was shot by an enemy soldier & went back to war 3 months later. A Marine and is in Army Ranger HoF. Awarded Purple Heart/Bronze Star. Trump should be removed from office. 762649852
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files. 941312687808
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026We are a nation of 349M, yet one man decided to launch our nation into a reckless, illegal war without congressional authorization or counsel or the support of the American people. He didn’t think he had any duty to sell it or serve the people’s interests. This is why despotic rule is so dangerous. 719165525316
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/03/2026If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process. 1687301515099
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota. 1454401609075
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/03/2026Iran holds mass funeral for girls, staff killed in US-Israel school attack aje.news/bfjfuy 10237133
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/03/2026Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said. Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties. 75475693224
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2026So he's saying that he knew Israel was going to attack Iran and he believed Iran would retaliate by attacking US bases, so we had to strike first since Israel was going to get US forces attacked. 3311921637
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialLaura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Again, I will be strongly engaged in the primary process for the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2028. But I will support whoever wins, even if it's not my preferred candidate. The stakes are too high to be selfish. 2343454633
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment. 703231966034
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans 267138774616
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something. 361209168097
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. 463174086031
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2026According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing? 16139541563
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous 106204585190
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/02/2026Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too 380201735832
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday. 439151814597
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. 21196402948
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialJoaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack. 25306663615871
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 01/02/2026To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you. 930276585586
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference. 228235945494
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong. 24248380011437
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialRepresentative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record. 6702441010971
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 26/01/2026A little extra love to Minnesota nurses today. 363197652465
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost. 681287045510
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday, was a registered nurse who worked in the ICU at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. “He wanted to be helpful, to help humanity and have a career that was a force of good in the world,” a colleague said. trib.al/0Yb3jXF 26338351147
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 26/01/2026Damn proud of Minnesota. 1679480605250
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no 481159384402
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go. Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go. 33877831757
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage. 13856005218627
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialMark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comFederal agents shoot person in Minnesota, governor saysMinneapolis officials said they are investigating. 1097157776443
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b... 5236701422
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead. 848117334924
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit. 509206976980
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/01/2026"We have seen empires fall and civilizations crumble. But we’ve almost never seen a people renounce their leadership of the world—all at once, in full public view. That is what has happened in the 365 days since January 20, 2025."lnk.thebulwark.comThis Is the EndPutinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs. 581343406
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars 13942539011971
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialPaul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026If Putin had put an agent in the White House, what would he be doing differently than what trummp continues to do? 75930193
Reposted by @ericmlane.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026I am not exaggerating when I say ICE functions as a terrorist organization in the Twin Cities. The goal seems to be to harass and frighten people (the ones who are lucky enough to not be abducted, at least) and it's deeply unsettling when you learn they're in your neighborhood. 717249276421
