iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

797207347843 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

1236303737005 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This flew under the radar, but thanks to Trump's EPA cuts, Energy Star could shut down for good. Energy Star isn't just a sticker on your appliances. It's an important program that saves consumers $40B/year. So much for all that talk about "efficiency."

12257271724 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

why is every easter bunny costume terrifying? how come no one has figured out a better version?

7457019 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

22988192412 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

With Harvard, U Mass faculty, Princeton, Wesleyan, Rutgers faculty and others leading the way, academics are standing up to this lawless administration. Here is a pack of academics, former academics, and organizations worth following on Bluesky who are in this opposition go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw

1012149646 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

6252935810784 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/04/2025

1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington. It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.com

Washington State Passes Bill To Cover 12-Month Hormone Therapy Stockpiles

“The bill will alleviate a lot of suffering,” one Republican lawmaker said.

5767592183 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/04/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

267136886065 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

677392228580 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

23883302410 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 15/04/2025

This is notable from Timothy Snyder's review of 'KL'↑. (Also at archive.md/pnAOU) I'll leave you to mull over the reverberations of these ↓↓ two sentences.

The
camps were about the consolidation of power and then about its allocation.
The first victims were communists and socialists, people who might have
challenged Hitler.

042 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book. www.wsj.com/articles/mem...

wsj.com

Memoirs of the Murdered

Timothy Snyder reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.

441091376 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

104100431254 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

108180924866 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

73146153838 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

6863103111487 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Bellamy Dryden 🌿 @bellamydryden.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Sarah Kendzior's nonfiction is scarier than Stephen King's fiction. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social

110333 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/04/2025

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

26431541576 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Liberals these days do not want to talk about the fact that democracy is how we got to where we are. They blame SCOTUS or gerrymandering or money in politics, etc. All of that is a product of democracy too. Let's be honest with ourselves.

3112 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The 2024 election had conditions in which voters chose between democracy and the rule of law, and the rule of law lost. And now, democracy -- the liberal kind that we want -- is dead and there's no telling when it will come back.

1196 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Of course, the question is: what's the alternative. There is none. Democracy is the best humanity can do. But let's not talk about as if everyone understands what it is. It can be liberal. It can be illiberal. It can be authoritarian.

1203 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I think Democrats should stop talking about democracy, not because voters zone out when they hear the subject, but because democracy is what delivered this hell. It is not the universal good Democrats, all of them, believe it to be.

11389 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The regime is taking a wrecking ball to everything that we have taken for granted since, I don’t know, the 1930s? And what no one is talking about is this: none of us knows how to live like this. A THREAD

36516 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Eugenicists are so stupid.

1345261694335 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA. 😳👏 #FightOligarchy

Enormous crowd of 1000s seen at the rally

An overhead shot showing the crowd in the main square

643329657 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

289107152805 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

13176402214403 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Republicans in Congress can end this any time

1023627854 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

WIRED @wired.com · 09/04/2025

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know with @alanayzola.com. Full guide: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

37797320 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2025

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

728144462553 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/04/2025

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

686169865522 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

303141032646 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

5044209312547 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

256311958706 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hats off to the very strong #HandsOff signage yesterday! Thanks for making your voices heard. 🙏

902504047279 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

810336627194 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

10706252512918 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#HandsOff Santa Barbara! 📷: Society of Fearless Grandmothers

249203063589 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

slapping an “I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE I KNEW IT KILLED PEOPLE” sticker on my handgun

988074 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

slapping a "i bought this before icarus fell" sticker on my pair of wax wings

99112891262 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

meditationsinanemergency.com

Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action

I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...

9251931328 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

204910982623636 0

Reposted by Janet Quirion

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

11445975911597 0