Reposted by V. HammondRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.” That’s what the President of the United States is saying to the American people. He won’t be hurt by a retaliatory attack or high gas prices. But you will — and that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make. 28558841803 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Media ecosystems fragment under volume. One constituency tracks immigration. Another tracks tariffs. Another tracks strikes abroad. Shared narrative space shrinks. Division dilutes attention. 000 0
Reposted by V. HammondDittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 05/03/2026Saying goodbye to the bird-legged hoe. #SheShed 33144601631 0
Reposted by V. HammondJohn Lawter @johnlawter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Maybe a president shouldn’t have pardon power. 2373896491 0
Reposted by V. HammondLounge Lizards 🇨🇦 🍁 @colin-dawny.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Bahahaha. 😁😏 #DJT #DJ6T #FDJ6T #PantsOnFireDJ6T 370133553417 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 05/03/2026War without sustained debate changes civic expectations. It normalizes urgency as governance. Urgency is useful in crisis. Urgency prolonged is corrosive. 000 0
Reposted by V. HammondAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do 389213705854 0
Reposted by V. HammondAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay 1174322718268 0
Reposted by V. HammondMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The Trump regime has abandoned the constitution: - declared war without Congressional authorization - ignoring multiple court orders - impounding Congressional authorized funds - ignoring the freedom of speech and assembly It’s a lawless regime that has no legitimacy. 37167261935 0
Reposted by V. HammondAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026WALZ: What a 'stop payment' meant by what the administration did last week is 400,000 children without healthcare COMER: We believe that's your fault WALZ: Our Medicaid error rate is lower than your state 48884872393 0
Reposted by V. HammondMary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The portrait is out of the attic. 4363723803 0
Reposted by V. HammondAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it. 630177945936 0
Reposted by V. HammondAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists? Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy. Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists? Noem: My condolences to their families Raskin: You lied about them. 1046213766354 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The deeper issue isn’t one flight. It’s whether crisis response protects all citizens equally. When people believe access determines safety, trust fractures. Legitimacy depends not on authority, but on visible fairness under pressure. 000 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 04/03/2026A republic is not defeated only by ideology. It can be strained by velocity. When speed, volume, and spectacle outpace deliberation, the constitutional floor weakens. United we stand applies not just to people, but to attention itself. 000 0
Reposted by V. HammondEboneezer Goode - FDT - Trump Broke America. @egoode.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Dear MAGA: Remember when Qanon was going to work with Trump to arrest all those pedophiles in Epstein's files? So... ... What happened there? 02912578 0
Reposted by V. HammondDebra Guckenheimer, PhD @debraguckenheimer.com · 03/03/2026ICE is trafficking pregnant girls to Texas to prevent them from having choice including in cases of rape. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics sayEx-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation 14196142 0
Reposted by V. HammondKathleen @kparent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The thing people should be voting for isn't party, isn't religious beliefs, people should be fighting againist corruptions. 1221034 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 04/03/2026We have mechanisms for removing a president who breaks the law, but we rely on Congress to enforce them. That was our mistake. 010 0
Reposted by V. HammondAllen Anderson @able1954.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I think we should have the right to vote out a president that doesn't follow the laws or rules. 3064642827 0
Reposted by V. HammondJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Justice Department slashes funding for child sex traffickingtheguardian.com‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex traffickingProsecutors say cuts to funding and training limits their ability to bring child predators to justice 148868584 0
Reposted by V. HammondAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026BLUMENTHAL: Wouldn't you agree no citizen working lawfully should be arrested? NOEM: There are times when they may be arrested or detained until identity is confirmed B: Would you agree citizens should not be arrested? N: When there's probable cause ... B: They said, 'Get him. He's Mexican' 12731001054 0
Reposted by V. Hammond404 Media @404media.co · 03/03/2026SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.404media.coCBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ MovementsAn internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t... 5621291401 0
Reposted by V. HammondAndrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Your data will be used against you. 31713 0
Reposted by V. HammondBlake @splashgod41.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I voted in Dallas County today. The texas.gov site wouldn't tell me where to go, so I went to where I voted in the '24 presidential election. They said I was at the wrong place, and gave me the address I needed to go to. That place then informed me I had to go somewhere else. 36629361301 0
Reposted by V. HammondThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... 2419202338416 0
Reposted by V. HammondRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test... McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. That should leave a bad taste in your mouth. 396122603696 0
Reposted by V. HammondMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I have absolutely no idea what Trump is trying to accomplish in Iran, or how he plans to accomplish it, and the fun thing is that neither does he! That's why the constitution does not give the President the authority to launch wars without Congressional approval. 2863817669 0
Reposted by V. HammondThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This is what happens when oligarchs control the *news* 30684003161 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Transparency battles are not only about documents. They’re about who controls the storyline. Control the release cadence, and you influence what stays in public memory. 000 0
Reposted by V. HammondAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly. 581120172936 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026If citizens believe war can enrich lawmakers, self-government corrodes. Life-and-death decisions cannot feel like earnings calls. A republic cannot survive if policy looks like portfolio management. 000 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026There’s a clear pattern: critics tracked via DHS subpoenas, journalists blocked or arrested, press access limited, Epstein files withheld, protesters killed. What’s next? 000 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026A republic doesn’t collapse in one leap. It stretches, tests, and normalizes. And it goes exactly as far as its institutions, and its citizens, allow. 000 0
Reposted by V. Hammondroncrawford.bsky.social @roncrawford.bsky.social · 02/03/2026We need to amend the constitution and remove POTUS as commander and chief of the military!!! All war powers go to congress and congress alone!! 2227354 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Power expands most easily when citizens are busy reacting. The republic endures when citizens can focus long enough to evaluate structure, not just spectacle. 000 0
Reposted by V. HammondRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Cartoon by Tommy Siegel 8566631686 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026They are always looking. And if they aren’t, this is practice for when they are. Silence reads as consent. Calm, consistent opposition sets a boundary.I am against war and massacres. And I am against moral surrender in the name of alliance. Not as spectacle. As standard. 082 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Short-term risk. Long-term legitimacy. Asymmetry would be real. But voluntary constraint binds power. When ballots matter more than bundled checks, attachment strengthens. Representation becomes reciprocal again. 010 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Internal power rebalances. Small-donor models shift influence toward organizers, local chapters, and issue coalitions. Agenda setting decentralizes. Elite insulation weakens. Long-time loyal voters begin to feel heard again. 120 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Policy credibility increases. You cannot promise antitrust, labor reform, climate regulation, and healthcare expansion while financed by industries affected by those policies without skepticism. Financial independence clarifies intent. 110 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Non-voters re-enter the frame. Millions believe both parties are captured. Refusing corporate and ultra-wealthy funding redraws that distinction. It doesn’t guarantee trust, but it removes the most visible contradiction. 110 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Relationship to voters becomes direct, not mediated. Strategy shifts from donor maintenance to coalition maintenance. Town halls over fundraisers. Small-dollar infrastructure over bundled access. “We need you” must replace “We secured funding.” 110 0
V. Hammond @hammond-v33.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Democrats should stop taking money from the ultra-wealthy and corporations. Not as a slogan. As a structural reset. Citizens United v. FEC amplified institutional donors over individual voters. The credibility gap isn’t imagined. Voters feel it. Non-voters feel it more. 120 0
Reposted by V. HammondJake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 02/03/2026maybe it's just me, but peace seems a lot like war. 58714 0
Reposted by V. HammondRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/202610 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch. 13038441376 0
Reposted by V. HammondMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it. 880105712765 0