Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Hope Jake Tapper and Ezra Klein have a fun time chumming it up about how Biden would have been worse. 817535
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915. 272065534
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Again, why do they dress like a band of highwaymen instead of a properly constituted police force? They’re inside the security envelope of a public courthouse. 38548681090
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/05/2025This isn't about whether you like Harvard or not. This is about whether any organization in our country has a right to exist without bending the knee to Donald Trump. 171372287
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country 739182765978
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 19/05/2025They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup. 1008208372665
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The NLRB is effectively closed now. Welcome back to 1935. 1120769
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025So I missed this but it’s actually a bigger deal than it seems. Cruise never promotes stuff. Not even his own stuff. He’s a huge fan of Sinners and is promoting it. Dude just loves the movie. ew.com/tom-cruise-p...ew.comTom Cruise promotes 'Sinners,' prompting Michael B. Jordan responseTom Cruise endorsed Michael B. Jordan-starring movie 'Sinners' on social media. Jordan quickly responded. 3556
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If you're as dumb as Tuberville but know what Odessa and its significance are, it's because the Russians are either your primary news source, signing your checks, or both 56801163
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialMeidas_SocietysChild @societyschild.bsky.social · 20/05/2025God knows what's up. 910834
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialTheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 19/05/2025Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o... 30444752152
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialgreg @mistergeezy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I have no words whatsoever. She is evil. 2116031
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialStacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 19/05/2025And so it begins... 27445189
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialJay Jay @jayjay827.bsky.social · 19/05/202519 pieces of legislation in 6.5 years! I'm a bit sad she won't be running for Durbin's seat, but having her in House Democratic Leadership and leading the DCCC recruitment efforts will help us flip the House and hopefully some red seats. 58522
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialDefinitely Danny @semperwry.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Quote me. 2336594
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 19/05/2025If you ever wonder how indiscriminate cuts affect your life, here's today's example. I consulted on a case of disseminated gonococcal infection. These isolates used to get automatically sent to cdc for testing and nationwide tracking. The lab was shut last month. www.healio.com/news/infecti...healio.comHHS closes CDC lab that tracks STIs, alarming expertsThe Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including g... 19632284
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/05/2025And since they were documented and have all their info with DHS, guess where ICE will show up first now. 3557
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025🚨🚨🚨 The Supreme Court has just allowed Trump to strip as many as 350,000 people of legal status, effectively IMMEDIATELY. Every Venezuelan granted TPS through the July 31, 2023 designation has been rendered undocumented as of now, significantly increasing the undocumented population. 811511839
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025One way to manifest the right-wing fever dream that the country is overrun with undocumented immigrants is to de-document the people who have legal permission to be here. 21507124
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.theguardian.comLawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrestedRuth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago 438147468721
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialKye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 16/05/2025BREAKING: Jacksonville Airport is on fucking fire. The parking garage is engulfed in flames and sources are pointing at a Tesla explosion as the ignition point. You can’t make this shit up. 38858801901
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025we live in the worst fuckin timeline 1756145
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialJoe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 12/05/2025The baseless firing of the Librarian of Congress and illegitimate removal of the Copyright Office Director is an assault on Congressional authority and independence. I've asked the Library of Congress Inspector General to investigate potential improper access to confidential congressional data. 16841201
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12/05/2025NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.rollingstone.comTrump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its LibraryDonald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch. 22625325
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Breaking: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus. Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court. 1931908724
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialDr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social · 14/05/2025 102753292
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialDr. Gabagool and the Salami of Secrets @jimpjorps.bsky.social · 14/05/2025apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer" 226113773030
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant." 311285939
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 14/05/2025Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵 8142642032
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2025the thing thing about the admonition to “not take the bait” is that while it makes sense in the context of an election — where you are trying to communicate a narrow set of ideas broadly — it does not make sense in the context of “how do we make this president as unpopular as possible” 13099731416
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025repeating but: in general i think most people don't understand abuse dynamics well enough yet. never let the abuser set the terms of the debate is a big one. when the media just repeats what he says/wonders as to its accuracy, they've lost. however: it's also vital to pay attention to actual threat. 2236
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The idea that Dems just need to say the magic words in the right order to win is an attempt to put a bandaid on a broken civic system where many voters do not even know how the government or the things they rely on to live work 651980372
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer 29794483845
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025⚡️ A dispatch just in from the Ministry of Truth 352121481
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/05/2025Chris Murphy: "Let's be clear what this trip is all about. This is President Trump's corruption tour of the Middle East. He is going to the gulf to collect tribute. What's happening here is an extraordinary level of corruption. We shouldn't pretend this is business as usual." 23586492759
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12/05/2025As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable. Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good. 819691
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Do we wonder why white descendants of apartheid would be seen as assimilating very easily into the United States over other groups, or nah. 27975171313
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus. But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets. 557245075148
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialRose Fabia @rosefabs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Why can’t the local police arrest people who claim to be part of ICE but they have no badges, no ID and they wear a mask when they apprehend a person? Why can’t they pursue and arrest these kidnappers and detain them? Aren’t these make believe ICE terrorist breaking the law? 52750153
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/05/2025Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency. 6294082869
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialGeneral Strike Tennessee Chapter @gsus-tennessee.bsky.social · 12/05/20252 06416
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Aaaand there it is. 19434793515815
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialpdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025LAWSUIT: Guards videotaped strip searches at Michigan women’s prison. "What these women continue to endure is nothing short of horrific. This case exposes a grotesque abuse of power that directly retraumatizes survivors of sexual assault."michiganadvance.comLawsuit seeking $500 million says guards videotaped strip searches at Michigan women’s prison • Michigan AdvanceBody camera recordings by guards during strip searches at Michigan’s only women’s prison, Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, has prompted a $500 million lawsuit against the Michigan Departmen... 451252507
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025🤷🏼♂️ 471281486856
Reposted by @girrifi.bsky.socialweisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This South African asylum thing is like Operation Paperclip for people who can’t count or spell. 1016322
