Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025mamdani is the model for future dem candidates and it can work in all 50 states. not the boring milquetoast candidates who refuse to take a position on hot button issues. they inspire nobody but dnc ad makers. 1805981985
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/10/2025Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown. 33868582647
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 27/10/2025So hey, you probably need some New Orleans joy in your TL right now. First up, Glen David Andrews, aka brother of Trombone Shorty, walking the streetcar tracks. 54314
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it. 13764861291
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025the national nuclear security administration! 54424
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 22/10/2025With SNAP benefits ending for millions & the economy shrinking what little resources food banks have, I’m sharing food resource supports & educators/creators. Rebecca Chobat runs the account Dollar Tree Dinners—she educates on how to shop/cook thrifty like $100 budget for 30 days (90 meals) 🧵 18425252
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 22/10/2025⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵Did you know that Black, Puerto Rican, and Japanese American soldiers were subjected to painful secret mustard gas experiments during World War II? Material in this thread is disturbing.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.grunge.com/465535/the-u...grunge.comThe US Government's Secret Mustard Gas Experiments Explained - GrungeWhile many have heard of the horrors of mustard gas during wartime, fewer know about the torturous experiments carried out on "volunteer" U.S. soldiers. 30448282
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/10/2025Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”propublica.orgHow Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police ForceTrump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng... 461994962
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 20/10/2025“We, as workers, have a common enemy that is raising prices and keeping our wages down consciously—and it’s not your immigrant neighbor. It is the billionaire who owns your company and probably owns the property that you rent from.” seiu.co/4heG2O8seiu.co“We Have a Common Enemy—and It’s Not Your Immigrant Neighbor”The SEIU’s Dave Foley and Dr. A. Naomi Paik on how worker solidarity can overcome Trump’s war on immigrants. 0228
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 20/10/2025More than 7 million protested. You can’t forget the millions fighting from their homes. 1705149883
Andi 🏳️⚧️ @helios-or-luna.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Disproportionate use of force again by federal agents in Portland. 050
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 19/10/2025So in western Alaska, thousands of people are homeless due to flooding rains, one person is dead & two people are missing. But yet, the regime hasn't said a word, no thoughts or prayers, nothing. Once again, they could care less about Americans, it's about enriching themselves through GREED. 53799113252
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Orlando Pride on the CS-8 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Damn the band was TIGHT! 💙 And yes, that’s me in the timbales. 🥁 131057121
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/10/2025Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.socialpropublica.orgMore Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near... 14553482969
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing. 1225201637185
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/10/2025LICE 😂 Seattle, Washington No Kings 15547441624
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings 11046821222
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...huffpost.comChicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General StrikeIt was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike. 859259977310
Andi 🏳️⚧️ @helios-or-luna.bsky.social · 20/10/20258.1 million worldwide! We are uniting peacefully against Trump. 030
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...justsecurity.orgThe “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration LitigationComprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity." 8759312221
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 20/10/2025“Bering Sea residents already got a taste of the future in 2018, he said, when winter ice was scarcer than at any time in the past 150 years of records.” 053
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 20/10/2025““We’re not going to be well. Storms are going to get worse, and it’s not going to be livable,” said Mike Williams Sr., a tribal leader from the Kuskokwim River village of Akiak. “We’re past the tipping point, maybe.”” 066
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16/10/2025@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/ 5516364
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2025Trump leaked this story because he wants to you hear it. Let’s be clear :: Trump wants you to blame a shutdown for shit he is planning to do anyhow. If dems cave and fund him, he will STILL wield executive power and slash government programs. He HAS BEEN doing that with the government open. 32868892658
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2025A fuller vision of democracy recognizes that Black women's experiences overlap with everyone else and uplifting us ensures that no one is left behind. This is #BlackWomenBest. This is the Way. 0517
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/09/2025ABOLISH ICE. What more do Americans need to see? 27883286
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2025The other telling thing is when Coates brings up the history of Black Americans. Klein responds, "Trump won more of the black vote in 2024," as if that is some kind of sweeping rebuttal. 1. This history still matters 2. 84% of a very large group backing one party is still a very high number! 514320
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2025This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines 1994570696
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2025This is the same pathology applied to mass shooters and terrorists. This is the beginning of the move to force medical bodies to pathologize trans people as inherently prone to violence and dangerous. 9610164
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/ 1021204487368
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2025“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today! 7251331841
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 18/09/2025The old gods are dying, let's build something new. Canceling Disney +, Amazon and Paramount? This thread has worthy sources of news and opinion you can support, but also sources of joy and entertainment. Starting with Mike and Techdirt. 28532
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️NOCO DSA @nocodsa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Join us on Zoom to plan and participate in making Fort Collins safer for trans people. If you're interested in building power for queer people in Colorado, this meeting is for you! 06816
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Canada needs to extend this analysis. In the meantime, pay attention to WF smoke warnings and advisories. "Cumulative excess deaths from smoke PM2.5 could reach 1.9 million between 2026-2055. We find evidence for mortality impacts of smoke PM2.5 that last up to three years after exposure." 26026
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025You’re about to see a push on the right to designate a bunch of nonviolent people on the left as ANTIFA because they don’t like their rhetoric. Dangerous times. 85482172290
Andi 🏳️⚧️ @helios-or-luna.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Fewer than 0.1% of mass shooters since 2013 in the U.S. were trans. 5 people. 051
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2025corporations fund guys like Kirk to not only spread bullshit, but to keep the plebs fighting amongst themselves, making informed consensus and reform harder to come by. I enjoy when writers center on this fact. 013438
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 18/09/2025In the 1970s, it took 8,000 pounds of pancreas glands from 23,500 animals just to make a single pound of insulin.open.spotify.com100 years of insulin in 15 minutes 34310
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Toastie @btoastie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Thank you CCN for recognizing our @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org investigation into how solar developers use for-profit archeologists to harm Indigenous cultures! 🏆🪶 Read the story here: www.hcn.org/issues/56-2/...hcn.orgWashington’s solar permitting leaves tribal resources vulnerable to corporations - High Country NewsTribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways. 13214
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc 10822028110509
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the United States government. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment. Everyone who values freedom of speech should be outraged — and they should speak out. 455164035601
Reposted by Andi 🏳️⚧️Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 13/09/2025This is a really great video about the history of trans people around the world by @domaindead.bsky.social. If you want to learn more about trans history, i recommend you watch this.youtu.beQueer History: A Brief World History of Trans PeopleYouTube video by Dead Domain 09542