Reposted by Wide Awake 👁mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19hThey started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too. 332971899
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I think it's bad that the mayor of America's second-largest city seems to hate big cities. 333336
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21hso many of us saw this coming (Radley included), from January 2025:newrepublic.comThe Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration SystemThe U.S. immigration system isn’t ready for the havoc and expense this bill could unleash. But the real pain will be felt by the immigrants the bill targets. 51080353
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19hI think even the duller swing voters have a bleary sense that Trump and his goons are fuckin robbing us all blind 341098208
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19hThis is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community. Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power. If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone. 461332411
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17hpet peeve of mine that you see in all sorts of contexts: posing questions that "need to be answered" that have been answered many times. this just mires the debate in an endless loop where one side has to argue and the other just asks the same questions over and over. 3492875
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23hwill try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce. 1783611519
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026it's gonna break my heart a little when Angie Nixon loses 000
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026how much money does the Raycon Corporation have that they can sponsor every single YouTube video ever 010
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Gothamist @gothamist.com · 13/10/2026NYC Council set to ban Central Park's carriage horse industry gothamist.com/news/nyc-cou...gothamist.comNYC Council set to ban Central Park's carriage horse industryMayor Zohran Mamdani has said he supports the ban, and a majority of City Council members have signed on to support legislation that would end the industry 4398
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 14864995611732
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Raman opening a +10 lead in another poll 👀👀 1291
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Just realized shake shack and steak n shake are two different restaurants 000
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it. 482827532
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 09/10/2026"There might be a mine here" minesweeper.mikelacher.com (thanks @alexjaffe.bsky.social)minesweeper.mikelacher.comTriple-A MinesweeperSweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game. 99937
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reactionary centrists treat “Abolish ICE“ as a metaphysical question of whether immigration enforcement is ever justified. But it is really a practical question—how can you allow a fifth column paramilitary that wants to overthrow democracy to continue to exist in your government? 6372101
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Decades of disinvestment and austerity is actually a significant reason why stuff is so expensive! We don't invest in in-house staff, fund projects piecemeal, and do everything as a one-off, so everything costs more. 210216
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nothing drives me more insane than smart boy center/center right commentators who believe that defunding programs will make them more efficient. It’s an underpants gnome theory of good governance. It’s an old story that has never panned out! 524927
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Given how much Los Angeles' terrible governance on housing and homeless affects the rest of the state, it's no exaggeration to call the LA Mayor's race the most important election in California this cycle. 731653
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the thing is that the gang rapes frats habitually commit are key to their function insofar as elites are bound by a system of mutual blackmail en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggateen.wikipedia.orgPiggate - Wikipedia 1335551
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A vegan is vegetables. A vegan is eating a piece of lettuce all day long. 000
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!! 16813161
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026just got $51 dollars from some court settlement I didn't know I was a part of 000
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 06/10/2026New YouGov polls of 7 Senate races TX Talarico 50%, Paxton 44% OH Brown 49%, Husted 45% KS Hamilton 48%, Marshall 45% MI El-Sayed 49%, Rogers 48% NE Osborn 48%, Ricketts 47% NH Pappas 51%, Sununu 43% FL Moody 49%, Nixon 44% (Links in reply) 2934194
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 06/10/2026I'm trying a new thing: Automatically posting updates when new transit lines open around the world. Follow @thetransportpolitic.com if you want to know when new transit lines open around the world. 712126
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't know enough about quebecois politics to know how bad these results are 000
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 05/10/2026it's nice to have a senator who's sincerely committed to taking a buzzsaw to our atrocious public corruption jurisprudence and it's very funny he's from New Jersey 29514
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power. 22824232
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Atomic bomb to the Vermont GOP 89110
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026we need to make this happen to California Memorial Stadium. abolish Cal football 6322
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Harm will be done. But control of Congress can create the paper trail to ensure every act is another five years in jail. 052
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026it's so fun that they nominated Brokeass Crimepervert for Senate in Texas instead of the incumbent 29210
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026just like the Fugitive Slave Act, conservatives demand that they can impose their evil systems upon liberal states, democracy be damned, but if liberal states so much as offer a mild disincentive for evil to make conservative state maybe Suck Less then it's unconstitutional tyrannical overreach 4370108
Wide Awake 👁 @hellomanjpg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm not following super closely but Burnham seems like a pretty significant upgrade from Starmer 010
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham is not ruling out a Labour general election pledge to rejoin the EU, Bloomberg reports. 2425639
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/09/2026Californians: you're going to hear about the Starter Home Revitalization Act a lot over the next few years. In short, it legalizes small-lot infill ownership homes (ie townhomes and cottage courts) by-right everywhere housing is allowed, with strict approval deadlines similar to those for ADUs. 59614
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false 19761148
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 345125044630
Reposted by Wide Awake 👁Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope." 482524716