Reposted by IntergalacticTowelWeedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Exactly one year ago today: 448280359337
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The descent into cruelty isn’t accidental. It’s cultivated. What began as Trump’s instinct has become MAGA’s culture, where dehumanization is a strategy and empathy is treated as weakness. That always carries a cost.thinkbigpicture.substack.comTrump Hardened MAGA Hearts With His Cruelty—It’s Finally BackfiringTrump has trained MAGA to revel in his cruelty, but it may finally be going too far 371061179
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... 485163115367
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelInformed Alarmist @informedalarmist.bsky.social · 30/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 11295118
Reposted by IntergalacticToweljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say 13445118612493
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.nhpr.orgGreen card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detainedFabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court. 19563048012474
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next. 561212850425067
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮 49808536213737
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too! 29656614119494
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout 21866634022946
IntergalacticTowel @intergalactictowel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Congress critters can't be trusted to own individual stocks. I don't care what "team" they play for. It encourages all the wrong things, and it does so right out in the open. 000
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelHermioneIsHere @hermioneishere.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Our power lies in our unity. Those ppl are fighting back Here are some other ways: HIT THEM WHERE THEY HURT👇 13411
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender. 365811623921071
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/02/2025A mirror big enough to expose the hypocrisy, hate, and division being sown by those at the highest levels of our government. 325159213365
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelTed @trom771.bsky.social · 31/01/2025How many 5-alarm fires do we need to experience before we see some firefighters? 21125
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If you voted for Trump, you just voted to raise your taxes by 25%. A tariff is a tax -- the cost gets passed along to YOU. 682096502
Reposted by IntergalacticTowel Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 30/01/2025Secession time folks... 1241773617
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉 359818813141146
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelPotëmkin Spice 🐳🪐 @themontgomery.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Posting in light of ✨current events✨ 115034
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelSome Bloke @elbow-diablo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I just assumed the Gulf of America, was the gap between the rich and the poor. 🤷🏻♂️ 082
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help. 8181854157
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelHermioneIsHere @hermioneishere.bsky.social · 27/01/2025You can help support WHO! 👇👇👇👇👇👇 021
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelShandana Nawaz, MD @nawazshandana.medsky.social · 18/01/2025To any woman who needs to hear this: aidaccess.org will mail reproductive healthcare to your house discreetly and will work with you on prices. woman will donate money to help other women get the care they need. PASS IT ON folks. #Obgynsky #Medskyaidaccess.orgAid AccessGet abortion and miscarriage care, wherever you are. 28780612
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAndreas Preusser @andoreasu-pr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Our new #polynya study (large team led by Igor Dmitrenko) is finally out in Ocean Science! Follow the link to learn more about the role of sea ice openings (i.e., polynyas & leads) for driving the DVM of zooplankton in the Laptev and Beaufort seas - os.copernicus.org/articles/20/...os.copernicus.orgContrasting two major Arctic coastal polynyas: the role of sea ice in driving diel vertical migrations of zooplankton in the Laptev and Beaufort seasAbstract. The diel vertical migration (DVM) of zooplankton is one of the largest species migrations to occur globally and is a key driver of regional ecosystems and the marine carbon pump. Previously ... 074
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 18/12/2024Trends in December precipitation show wetter conditions across the Barents Sea region, such as around sea ice loss. Elsewhere, trends are more muted, at least within the Arctic Circle anyways. Data: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded.... Info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS... 0379
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/12/2024Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025 179203452470
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/12/2024Tuesday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 780,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,270,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,840,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 512252
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelDammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2024 346321714432
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I think the primary thing I found myself really moved by while in south korea was how the opposition party actually wanted to win at stuff 9988681119
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelDr Ally Louks @drallylouks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Should anyone want to read my reflections on causing a stink and going viral, my article with The New Statesman is linked below: t.co/Hnqmzhz2DEt.cohttps://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2024/12/causing-a-stink-reflections-on-my-viral-phd 3233546
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelGuintiger @guintiger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A co-worker and dear friend was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer - we have UHC through our employer. Her doc wanted her in surgery within a week of the diagnosis- UHC has had her "on hold" for over a month now- no surgery yet and she's in pain. Not feeling much sympathy for Brian Thompson atm. 021
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024yeah army was gone when I arrived. now it's furious koreans smoking cigarettes and playing bad music 764347574
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/12/2024My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Kash Patel PrincipleTrump’s choice for FBI director speaks volumes about his real second-term agenda 53087292812
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelThe Afrolachian @theafrolachian.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Shoutout to people whose kindness isn't a strategy, but a way of life. 23212
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelTim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I say this to my students and parents all the time. Want to be a better reader? Read. A better writer? Read. More empathetic? Read. Deeper thinker? Read. 03110
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelCasey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 30/11/2024If you love the idea of gifting a child/family in need but also don’t like leaving your house to shop, please let me introduce you to USPS Operation Santa Surprise 🎄🎅🏻 Sign up for an account, adopt a letter, buy presents, ship presents. Lmk if you adopt/need any help! www.uspsoperationsanta.com 18396239
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelMaggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024FBI background checks for cabinet members are absolutely essential. If you're not hiding anything, what’s the big deal?Transparency shouldn’t be optional when it comes to those making decisions that affect our safety and security. We have the right to know. thehill.com/homenews/sen...thehill.comFormer Senate counsels: FBI vetting of Trump Cabinet picks is ‘a must’Two former Senate counsels agreed in a New York Times op-ed published Friday that President-elect Trump’s nominations for his Cabinet need to undergo FBI checks. Some advisers to the presiden… 43660252
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelProPublica @propublica.org · 30/11/2024When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @maryamjameel.bsky.social (Published Feb. 2023)propub.liDeath on a Dairy Farm: What Really Happened to 8-Year-Old Jefferson RodríguezWhen an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different… 31808307
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 30/11/2024THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has been shown to reduce HIV infections by 96% in a SECOND late-stage Phase III trial. Lenacapavir was 99.9% effective at preventing HIV in MORE THAN 2,000 participants. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️ 5651441436
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the USapnews.comLibraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the USLibraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure... 9876572189
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelNick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Everyday is a good day to watch Jon Stewart obliterate a Republican hypocrite. lol 19947931686
Reposted by IntergalacticTowelAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/11/2024Dear everyone, This person is a conservative Troll. Please stop falling for it. She posts seemingly bold (but pathetic to cons) stuff and they make fun of all the liberals posting. Please stop 122376082111
IntergalacticTowel @intergalactictowel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024My dog really loves Thanksgiving. The look in her eyes when the leftovers come her direction are priceless. 130