Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 421212387197
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Leaving my house with the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag on it, putting on my mask and tactical gear, strapping on my weapon, and roaming the cities and towns that didn’t vote for my favorite candidate as an armed anonymous agent of the state kidnapping and shooting people who I don’t like the look of. 9646021168
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on. 225128971840
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialDemocrats @democrats.org · 08/01/2026This veteran is speaking up for his community after ICE shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday. 34796265
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries 515454789
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 07/01/2026“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...liberalcurrents.comWe Need to Get Off The Defensive About ImmigrationFree movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it. 338396
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025There’s a reason these people don’t all move to Wyoming 000
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 26/12/2025The documentary “Ling Night’s Journey into Day” about the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa is very interesting! It’s on Kanopy 020
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future. 1313302880
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 25/12/2025A big issue I’ve experienced and hear so much from other parents with young kids is the frustration of having your parents come over to “help” or at the very least spend time with the grandchildren and they simply cannot pry themselves away from their devices. 000
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialNotorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 24/12/2025we’re releasing the epstein files. the files are on my desk. actually there are no files. never mind here are some of them. ope there are a million 09215
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 24/12/2025These are concentration camps. Concentration camps can evolve into death camps and even if they don’t, cramming this many people together and neglecting their health and care will lead to many people dying 000
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Ben Sasse will have the best health care in the world as he fights his metastasized cancer. Which makes it all the greater shame how many times he voted to take away even basic screenings from tens of millions of his fellow Americans. 4386
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 21/12/2025My cousin literally could not get health insurance because he was too skinny. No actual health issue but his BMI was very low. 1181
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Pre ACA I needed insurance after aging out of my parent’s plan. I had to answer millions of questions about the fact that I had gone to a PT for my neck hurting. 1336
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 07/12/2025I went to an event with a non-profit that represents immigrant victims of domestic violence and they were clear that men are using DHS to get women detained and deported 011
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 07/12/2025The stasi is here. There’s no material difference other than the DHS thugs seem more brazen 011
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I used to sit in the trunk of the family station wagon facing backwards with just a lap belt in the 90s. It was so fun. I’m sure it would have been immediately crushed in an accident 000
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 02/12/2025This is infuriating. I’m a big fan and former office intern for Markey and it’s time for him to pass the torch. 80 year olds should be executing their succession plan, not running for re-election 000
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 02/12/2025My great uncles created a pre-fab home business in the ‘50s that employed hundreds if not thousands of people. They were Holocaust refugees from Czechoslovakia. 000
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/11/2025It rocks that it took the White House a year to figure out that driving up people’s healthcare spending for no reason by roughly 18million percent would be something they’d have to address politically 1137348
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 24/11/20252 kids in daycare here in Baltimore will easily run you $3000/month 010
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/11/2025We worked hard on this and then a wave of Nuzzi/MTG/Mamdani news hit all at once. But if you’ve got time this weekend I really urge you to check out what we found here, and take a minute to let the scale of these operations sink in fully. It really feels insane to me. 28923
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialS @miriparhelion.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I am genuinely convinced that one of the reasons it used to be thought that most people grew out of ADHD as adults was how common smoking was. 1544353
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialJohn Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 20/11/2025this dude rules 022
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Thankfully my dad naturalized but this literally could be him. Born to refugees after WWII, emigrated to the US in 1949 715877
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I’m dying at the mention of Hunan Lion in @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s When the Clock Broke. My family used to eat there all the time when I was a kid and we called it the “toilet bowl building” 😆 Don’t recall any Shakespeare performances… 050
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Extremely grateful that my kid is being taught the “old” method of learning to read 000
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I’ve been thinking a lot about the parallels to strikes. Strikes cause a lot of pain to striking employees, that is built in. The Dems have zero preparation, concept of their goals, understanding of their opponents’ pain points, credibility from their base 020
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats! 27067732338
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous 355223576337
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now. 722396531
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time. 13444821272
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 07/11/2025BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE TO NEGOTIATE ON HEALTHCARE is absolutely the cherry on top. This is why people loathe the democratic party 000
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/11/2025There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward. 21256921221
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 06/11/2025The Jews are a stateless people. I believe it is a core part of our identity. My family lived near Munkacs which bounced between being Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian… 010
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, was the sign of apocalypse twelve months ago for Democrats. Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.) Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.) Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss. 191026173
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 03/11/2025The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece… It's a quiet middle-class inner suburb, but these guys look like they're in Fallujah circa 2006. The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c... 37692259
Reposted by @genebean3.bsky.socialDenise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US. Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight. He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS. 671178842
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Same with my family and yet I wasn’t familiar 030
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 21/10/2025No. If you gave me a group of skulls and told me to pick out the Nazi ones I would fail 020
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 15/10/2025At Tufts around 2008 there was a conservative student paper that would just print straight up racist “parody” songs around the holidays 000
genebean3.bsky.social @genebean3.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Catholicism practiced in the pursuit of social justice is extremely powerful 010