Reposted by Helen KennedyJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2hImo the next administration should raze every ICE detention facility to the ground except for the two worst. Make the worst one a museum like Auschwitz, and use the second-worst one to imprison these ghouls. 311723
Reposted by Helen KennedyJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2hSetting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws? 544569
Reposted by Helen KennedyAllen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 5hTrump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFrom mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivotAfter switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US 315276
Reposted by Helen KennedyTruthout @truthout.org · 2hFetterman joined nearly every Republican senator in voting against a resolution that would have required the Trump administration to produce an unclassified report on Israeli abuses in the illegally occupied West Bank, including the imprisonment and killing of Palestinian Americans.truthout.orgFetterman Joins GOP to Block Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West BankThe measure would’ve required the State Department to issue a report on Israeli human rights practices in the West Bank. 1510760
Reposted by Helen KennedyDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12hI love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real” 5063129644
Reposted by Helen KennedyJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4hNew: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 8161116
Reposted by Helen Kennedyamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4hReceived a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now. 119673
Reposted by Helen KennedySt. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 4hNEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...sfchronicle.comICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026. 0182113
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 4h"When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped." - Ken Paxton, surreptitiously taped at a donor meeting, according to the New York Times 313223
Reposted by Helen KennedyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17hthis really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 201968591
Reposted by Helen KennedyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h"If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." And the next one probably won't be such an extraordinarily delusional and incompetent buffoon. Disgrace and disincentives on him and his enablers have to be imposed now, while we still can.theunpopulist.netAmerica Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to RomeThe decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable 412939
Reposted by Helen KennedyAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6hDespite his best efforts, Trump isn't going to establish a consolidated autocracy before he's gone, thankfully relatively soon. But it matters how much he's repudiated as a disgraceful aberration. Because if not, he's just setting the floor for what the next wannabe dictator can get away with. 39024
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 6hThe nitwit in Ireland with my name who keeps forgetting that my email address is not her email address has booked a luxury hotel in Cork and now I have the confirmation number. Considering going. 222276
Reposted by Helen KennedyAvishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 8hThe co-pilot seems to have tried to crash it into the ground with a full cabin of (mostly Israeli) civilians. Was stopped by his pilot that got stabbed in the process passengers interfered and another crew on the flight landed it in Saudi Arabia. Israel’s treating it as a terror attack for now. 1020990
Reposted by Helen KennedyThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6hThe United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children: theatln.tc/j6Df5aTI 38855
Reposted by Helen KennedyChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17hThis is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 783181435729
Reposted by Helen Kennedysirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 7hthinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art 4427116
Reposted by Helen KennedyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7hSeems like some version of this runs every day 2331663
Reposted by Helen KennedyCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u... 1251925487
Reposted by Helen Kennedymike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 17hi’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad 17990236
Reposted by Helen KennedyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 38661911709
Reposted by Helen KennedyRichard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There's long been talk about Mullin but it's the first time I've seen it in the national press. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...advocate.comNothing to see here? DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin shares a D.C. home with a Republican congressmanThe homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago. 55640136
Reposted by Helen KennedyScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19hHe had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio! 1142674241
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21hSomeone on IG found video of Smith in the stands at the Maryland game. This guy is cooked. 1128348
Reposted by Helen KennedyJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 21hOfficial monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year! 151114234
Reposted by Helen KennedyBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22hIf we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029. 12821231
Reposted by Helen Kennedylaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 21hIn addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient. 124257
Reposted by Helen Kennedy@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21hThis is how you write a headline about the Eric Schmitt hearing debacle. @rollingstone.com 934673
Reposted by Helen KennedyChuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 23hInteresting post from David Gerrold the other day: "Let's talk about the Fisher space pen. "It's annoyingly common for the uneducated to say that NASA spent a million dollars inventing the space pen -- while the Russians just used pencils. 1325
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22hBut Canada and Europe are "terrible." I hate this man so much. 1213614
Reposted by Helen KennedyJim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 22hThe idea that they think a day of this is a winning pr strategy is just bizarre to me. The American ppl hate these folks 810225
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22hWhat's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her. 351340206
Reposted by Helen KennedyJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22hBoth Benny Johnson and Sean Hannity have now deleted their tweets claiming that Eric Schmitt put Jack Smith "on the spot" and set him up for perjury charges with his faceplant. 33887123
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22hStaten Island judge foils Mamdani's second home tax. Because so many rich globetrotters have pieds-a-terre in Staten Island 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...nytimes.comJudge Orders New York to Scrap Rollout of Second-Home Tax and Start OverA Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani. 75411
Reposted by Helen KennedyMicah @rincewind.run · 23hI appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site 201196139
Reposted by Helen KennedyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23hJudging by a quick look at Twitter, the right has decided just to pretend that Eric Schmitt did not, in fact, just shoot himself in the dick and that he totally owned Jack Smith. 601500213
Reposted by Helen KennedyMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23hScoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee. 2864183911
Reposted by Helen KennedySteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23h#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 941116477
Reposted by Helen KennedyZach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A... 15473198
Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026When your big gotcha moment goes so epically wrong that it’s the other party sharing clips of it. 12670117
Reposted by Helen KennedyThe USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mf’er is like Batman. 316116922489
Reposted by Helen Kennedyjesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Schmitt 100% told a bunch of MAGA influencers and political reporters that he was going to get Smith to perjure himself 622521
Reposted by Helen KennedyPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.zeteo.comFirst Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American TeenagerAbdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans. 8736354